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the thinIinebeiweeR Iife a death
there'saa thin line between life and to reach out his arms as far over the ice
death. it Is called ice. surface as he can and to kick hard with
Every -winter.' people drown because his feet to get his body horizontal. The
they crash through ice surfaces on momentum of the kicking will help
ponds, lakes and rivers. Tiny tots inch his body out of the hole and onto
venture onto the first fragile glaze; the ice surface. You can pull him„ to
adults take' cars and snowmobiles far safety. Be sure he stays flat on the ice
from shore; teenagers become . im- to distribute his weight. Get him warm
patient to start the skating season. as quickly. as possible. Report the
The Red Cross Water Safety Service accident to the policein order to
has some timely tips for winter ice prevent the same thing happening to
safety. Talk them over with your other people.
family at supper tonight. It's a —If you are alone when you break
discussion that could save your life. through follow the same procedure.
—Ice should be at least four inches, Stay as flat as you can while you edge
thick for skating and eight inches thick toward stronger ice and don't stand up
for snowmobiling. until you are sure it can bear your
=Weather conditions with alternate
weight.
freezing and thawing weakens ice 4.
structure. Air bubbles form in the ice —Be sure your children understand
and it becomes "rotten." the hazards of frozen water surfaces in
—Sun shining through ice onto sand your neighbourhood. Until you know
is reflected back up, weakening the the ice is strong enough, know where
underside. they are all the time. Ice is a
—If someone breaks through, stay tremendous attraction, especially to
back from the hole. Lie down flat and young children.
use a pole, tree branch, hockey stick, ` Red Cross hopes you enjoy the winter
rope, or windbreakers tied togethe,r.,to sporting season and reminds you to
extend your reach to'help him. Tell him play safe.
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You may remember the ad which
ran on TV not so long ago featuring a
beaming Eskimo, somewhere north of
the Arctic Circle, admiring his latest
purchase - a brand new refrigerator. It
.,seems the Australian government may
add a new.and far more logical wrinkle
to this chilly tale by using some of the
Antarctic territory it administers as a
giant deep-freeze for storing its in-
creasing stocks of beef. And New
Zea land could follow suitrwith its Iamb,
says an article in The Financial Post's
"Signs and Portents" column.
Ranchers in both countries are
finding it hard to secure sales for their
products. Concerned ' about falling
inco esj"th yl'arthreatfni'r1g.-id`ciJtc
back on raising sheep and cattle for
meat unless somebody comes up with
an incentive for them to maintain herd
numbers,. The problem is that,
although both Australia and New
Zealand are well equipped with meat -
processing plants, they have only
limited' -'capacity for storing carcasses
longer than a couple of . seaso`n's. The
governments of both countries are
hoping world demand for the meats
will improve this year, but there's no
guarantee of this.
Meanwhile, the ranching industry
could run down severely. The feeling is
that, if production can be kept up
through subsidies, 'the recession can at
least be controlled, though not halted
entirely. But this would naturally
require additional storage capacity. So
why not Antarctica? asks The Post.
Apart from transportation costs, it
might be the least expensive
proposition, and offer the chance of
establishing a noriexploitative industry
in -that -del icate erZvironmer t.
And with temperatures down to
minus 40 *degrees C. and 10,000 -foot
thick ice there certainly wouldn't be
any danger of spoilage. Unless, that is,
the Antarctic decides to have an ex-
tended heat wave in response to the Ice
Age we've been told is due in the
Northern hem.isphere ...
Sugar. and Spice/By Bill Smiler
A personal column
Next week's column is going to be a real
smasher, but in the meantime, I'm going to
clear up a lot of Christmas things'most of
them personal. If you don't like personal
stuff, turn to another page.
First of all, thanks _to my Uncle Ivan for a
cheery note. He is now the patriarch of the
clan, on my mother's side. I am supposed to
look like 'him, and<�s.. him. I hope it's
true, and that I 'do. I'd like to he a patriarch
of something. When you are a patriarch, you
are old and wise and everybody pays at-
tention to you. I am old and stupid and
nobody pays attention 'to—me. Except my
wife and gradbahhy and students.
Bless you, Ursula Brady of Vancouver.
Remember how we kissed behind the car
while Bob White and Pappy Warren and
Dinny McManus tried to get it out of the
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Tiia itt' N'orrri Lightford` of Ottawa. You
always remember. Do you remember the
room we shared at college, wiph the bay
window and the fireplace? Cannel coal on
Sunday afternoons, stripped to the shorts,
talking about life and women and stuff. And
do you remember that I left in the middle of
the year, and left you as sports editor of
Torontonensis, and you flunked your year?
George and Elda Cadogan. Do you
remember the night you had a party for all
the sharp young editors and their wives
whom you had met at the newspaper con-
vention? And it was the night of Hurricane
Hazel? And only about four of us made it?
Hello out there to a couple of characters.
First, my "TV repairman." Six times a year
I get" a pungent commeyht from him, but
there. is no identificat' n beyond that. He
lives in WeE ,port;—"Ont.—ft is always signed
-A'- the same way. "Your TV repairman."'
Here's his Christmas card, in part.
"Merry Christmas, Smiley, and the -biggest
surprise of all, I like your column. You, I'm
not so sure about. Are you trying to make us
think you are old. with that grandpa bit? My
kids are in their 50s and I'm not old..' And
more of the same. How do you deal with that
old reprobate?
Ana hello to another nut: Lt. Col. John
McEwing, who sends an annual picture of
his pipe band in, of all places, Spokane,
Washington. This year's card is a splendid
thing with four brilliantly colored quarters. I
wish I could include the description of the
coat of arms, but space forbids.
Here's a sample: "The parti-colored shield
Azure (Blue) and Gaies,.,.(Red)„isr.civartered
saltire -wise by a St. Andrew's Cross, Argent
(Silver), taken from the old Flag of
Scotland.”
..-That's the essence. By some wild reach of
logic and probability, the remainder' of the
coat of arms drags in such disparities as the
United States Air Force, the Cairn of the
MacCrimmons, and Canada, "the home of
many fine pipers."
The Colonel winds up his message with: "I
continue to greatly enjoy your writing. I
have been told that whiskey improved with
age." Thank you sir, and if you are correct
in translating the Gaelic mug. "Suas Leis
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Highland •Bagpipe,'; I couldn't .agree wi
you more.
You might fie interested, sir, in knowing
that our local pipe band, including our
favorite paper -hanger, Alastair Milligan,
who sounds Irish but doggedly avers he is a
Scot, is off to Miami with a pipe band,to
play at some football Bowl or other. Perhaps
the last Bowel of the Scots. Or the last Bowel
of the Smileys, if he reads this.
But I wander. •I` wanted to say that..1..ani
pretty disappointed in some people. Not a
word from Dutch Kleimeyer. He usually
asks me to the LAM -Reunion of the• Last
Fighter Pilots. Not a word this year. Maybe
I'm the last, and they're all gone. I wouldn't
he surprised. Last time I went to one, I
returned on my last legs.
I'm a little piqued that I haven't heard
from- Gene Macdonald, the man from
Glengarry, last of the big-time spenders;
and Pete HY,idsten of Uxbridge, last of the
vital virile Vikings. These are old newspaper
friends., Probably they both think I'rn dead.
Maybe I am, and I'm typing this in heaven,
God forb)d.
Finally, thanks to Mary and Alan, George
and Win, John and Helen, Bill and Joan,
Karl and Michelle, and a host of others.
By the way, the Acton Free Press is about
to be a hundred years old. A hearty to Kay,
Dave and Kathy Dills:
And to everyone, fight a good fight in 1975.
It's the only fight in town.
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The Jack Scott Column
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Rolling stone
A columnist can't really claim to be close to his readers
unless they feel they've the right to abuse him. That's
why I'm particularly happy with one of the letters that
was waiting for me when I arrived home yesterday from
a trip.
It's from a man who thinks I travel too much.
""Your repeated forays, which have made you King of
the Will 0' The Wisps, strike me as a waste of time," he
writes. "You seem to -spend your life restlessly searching
for the greener pastures on the other side of the hill.
Surely you don't believe that a man can come to grips
with life by rushing over every beckoning horizon?"
On one point only I agree with my, correspondent.
Travel is no automatic escape. People who try to run
away by taking a swift airplane er a slow boat are
doomed to disappointment. You cannot run- away from
yourself which, in the end, is what every escapist has in
mind. .
But that's a shabby interpretation of the urge to roam.
For myself I like to believe the urge is something finer,
that its bound up with every man's appetite to broaden his
interests, to re-examine himself and his ideas in the light
of a ney+.lindscape * t .ne Re ,ppniotiis, to, look down _on
his o4i .mw f ,o ' ," lief , ►'ore lofty than his
''rbwn.!uP:iae Y'f"(:= n 4,.
The curse of the world today, it seems to me, is that the
mass of people are chained to tike concepts and false
values determined by the niche they occupy. Travel is the
only sure -Way to their enlightenment. s
There are two types of men I pity.
One is the man who has a burning desire to make these
discoveries for himself, but who, for one reason or
another, is compelled to stay at home. That's the cruellest
form of claustrophobia. I know. I lived with it many
years. '
I pity more the man who has reached a, status where
travel is within his means, but prefers to vegetate in his
own comfortable precincts. I know many of them.
They're lost outside their own well -insulated environment.
Their sense of importance, their sense of belonging, is
jarred by foreign lands and foreign faces.
Travel as a steady diet does not appeal to me. The older
I get the more I recognize the need for having roots. I'm
always glad to be home. The wanderers of the world
whose pursuit of happiness takes them ever onward are
almost always lonely men on a long road without an
ending. They are.' not looking for something. They're
running away.
`, But the 'traveller who rides from his fortress in the
interests of exploration and who returns tore -assess his
prejudices and to grope ahead for a bit of truth is a better
man for it.
Only recently I wrote about the boobs you meet in
travelling, the people who do go out to look, but so well
buckled in their armor of preconceptions that they're
immune to any new experience. These, as I said, are the
exceptions. For the most' -part the tourist is` a marl to be
respected and praised.
John Steinbeck once wrote: "Being tourists means that
they hove the curiosity, the interest, a, d.:.e acumen to
-11gave their t' wn •`do able hon1es thielfOkk oVbn known
language and people o learn something outside them-
selves."
This is the real virtue of travel. Indeed, it could be the
saving of our world. I believe that 'if there could be a free
inter -change of tourists every tension might -eventually
roll away. Certainly in the war of ideologies I think both
sides forget that they areaiming at identical goals. And
that discovery is perhaps the most refreshing of all for
the man who goes across the horizon.
So I've no apology. A rolling shone, so they say, gathers
no moss. But who needs moss?
From our ear
y files....
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10 YEARS AGO procedure.
Jan. 28, 1965 Imagine a temperature of 60 during the long winter season.
By special permission of the degrees in January! But that's
Military Bishop the Catholic how high it went in Clinton 75 YEARS AGO
Chaplain at RCAF Clinton has yesterday according to the Jan. 26, 1900
been allowed to have a Mass in government thermometer and A lime -light stereoptical en -
that's somewhat of a record. tertninnnent illustrating the
English. This Mass will be the
first in English offered at any The annual business meeting Lowlands of Scotland was
of Clinton Pentecostal Taber- presented by Rev. Thos. B.
Military Base in Canada or
overseas. It precedes the nacle was held on Thursday Coupland in the Methodist
general permission which will evening, January 12 in the church last Thursday. A number
extend to all churches in Canada church on Matilda St., with a of cinematograph pictures, the
beginning March 7; 1965. very good attendance. The latest invention in the
No early action is indicated in group raised $2,219 in 1949. potographic line were shown.
regard to regional jails, Huron District farmers were pleased Mr. Joseph Wheatley having
County Council was told Wed- to learn that the Federal leased his farm on the 13th
nesday by Reeve A.D. Smith of Cabinet has approved the concession Hullett to hiss neigh-
Turnberry, chairman of the principle of a guaranteed floor bour Mr. George Paterson,
r c o e s. intends occupying his property
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property committee. lapse fqr., -zg
A 75. -bed wing for Huronview Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Gibbings at Harlock corners where he has
Home for the aged at Clinton are spending a few days in erected a neat store and
estimated to cost $550,000 was Stratford with their son and blacksmith shop.
approved Friday . by Huron daughter-in-law, Mr. and .Mrs. Mr. Josiah Tyreman, of
County council. John Gibbings and family. Market Street, Seaforth has in
The . unseasonably mild 50 YEARS AGO his possession a Bible which is
weather which has infiltrated Jan. 22, 1925 certainly a callosity. It lacks
the Clinton region in recent days President McMurray. and only two years of being 300
has made for hazardous driving secretary Stothers are advising Years old, weighs 14 pounds, has
in many areas which road crews the citizens—of town and com 1,330 pages and contains 14
have been unable to rectify. munity to get behind the coming books not in the revised edition.
_ >w.1/n�'„ on a.y v. .i.t1 .dast:,.1,•.a of the, time with a very strong
v. .,ie 4.N'/N •. •ciYF" .,,4%7.M..4+.• dML �.xva. _ kyol..,, .`�T.iWre n ii.- 1 / » iN.�M �,ay�M � T'� �•Y «MA ..F:'.'....11L87
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.. ,._ 1 e-nuxxrbera.,oi .xatepaye.rs of----_wrnd, , render t �r►latiy. c3 h
teachers, Welham MacArthur push them as much ps possfbfie:- ' the townshipof Turnberryroads iM this neighbourhood
and William Cook in co -Supt. H.B. Chant, Dr. H.
operation with the Ontario Fowler and T. Hawkins have all assembled at the home of .M r,. almost impassable.
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Department of Education wi1I been under the weather, having Wm. McPherson �x reeve of the Jos. Whitehead Esq of this
again sponsor the Planning for had a bout with the flu. township to da honour to him for town; is in Ottawa on business
Profits course for this corn- Mrs. B. Cole's residence, his long 'service to the township. connected with the Canada
munity. Joseph St., occupied by Mr. and Dr. Turnbull, formerly of Pacific Railway.
Mrs. Frank Pennebaker has Mrs. F.A. Plaskett, was com-
returned to her home on Isaac pletely destroyed by fire on TILE 'CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated
St. after spending a month in Friday morning last which had N,stcrlrl c d 1865 1924
Vancouver, B.C. where she been caused by overheated , r
spent Christmas and New Year'!; pipes.
with relatives. Owing to the fact that the
The Clinton Legion Branch 140 government will strictly enforce
'draw on a trip for two to Nassau the egg -grading regulations and
held New Year's Eve was won by that they are not equipped to
Ken Farquhar, RR 1, Clinton. carry out these regulations, the
He selected to accept cash in- grocers of Clinton will not after
stead of making the trip., Feb.. 1st, ' 1925 purchase eggs
from producers.
25 YEARS Aro The new smoke stack has been
Jan, 26, 1950 erected on the knitting factory
Dr. W. A. Oakes, chairman of and '.hould stand against the
Clinton Public Hospital Board, wintery hlasts of a good many
stated today that the new wing years.
is not yet free of debt, 'thus it is not correct any more to -'
�►\ Pubfsl'ted *vary Thursday
correcting an impression left in Speak of the "Molson's,Bank" it
a story published in last week's is the "Bank of ,Montreal". A at Clinton, Ontalto
News -Record. _ now sign has been placed on the +
The annual congregational local bank building. 915 4 Editor - Jamas E. F+17t0•r/Id
meeting of Clinton Presbyterian , A "snowmobile" from London ,
Church was held on Wednesday made a trip through Clinton onge *1yQMtlral Managir,
evening, January 18. The Tuesday and one of our medical ' P J. Howard Aitken
minister Rev. D.J. Lane. con- Hien took .a little ride in it. It • 4 Mall
cording to Presbyterian we shall no doubt see them quite
ducted a brief diet of worship, Seemed to "go' very well, with -- Second Class
and thus constituted it, ar- case. After some experiments, HUB OF HURON COUNTY rSecond/QiStratlttn n0. 0011
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commonly about our snow roads.
Clinton who has just returned
from a year's course of study in
the hospitals of London, Berlin
and Vienna has decided to locate
in Goderich.
J. Cantelon, who has been in
Detroit for some time, is now
visiting relatives in Clinton and
may remain for some time.
R.H. Chowen has purchased
the house of Thomas
Smallcombe on Victoria Street.
He will move to it shortly.
100 YEARS AGO
Jan. 21; 1875
Mr. A. Straiton, station agent
of the railway at Clinton was the
happy recipient of the sum of
$50 a few days ago, with a
testimonial letter, Frorri ''`a"�' of- the town and for the town.
number of the shippers of this Their actions and efforts provide
place as a token of the esteem in an image of Clinton when they
which he is held and the are playing away from home.
assistance he has rendered in Yet, there are many examples
endeavouring to facilitate the which support . the fact that
we get
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Support
Dear Editor:
Many people around here
seem to take pride in the fact
that Clinton has a reputation as
heing a sports town. If this
assumption is true, I ' believe
that nothing could be further
from the truth. The greatest
reputation the Town of Clinton
possesses is that which center's
around the Truscott case. More
recently, the town has gained an
incredible amount of publicity
concerning the problems of- the
Police- Department and a
terrorist group of to agers.
Outside of this coun Clinton
clgfinitely, does , not; ,,err. a
reputation for heing ein-
thusiastically engaged in sports.
The only exceptions would he
the Kinsmen Raceway and
possibly the Bantam Hockey
Tournament. -
A reputation, good or bad, is'
the direct result of active
participation or involvement. In
sports, people may become
involved by either heing a
player or by becoming a fan
who supports 0 particular team
by his attendance at the games.
Now, in order to have a
reputation as a sports -minded
town, I believe that these two.
criteria must he satisfied.
It is quite obvious that the
town of Clinton satisfies the first
,of these two requirement-
s.Within the tc;wn, a great
variety of programs` are
provided, such as baseball,
softball, soccer and hockey for
both girls and boys. The
Secondary school provides
opportunities in many other
team sports as well as a great
many individual activities.
However, the problem does
not lie with the opportunities
which are available, but rather -
with the lack of support given to
the teams which exist and play
under the name of Clinton.
These teanis are representatives
shipping of produce.
During the latter part of last
week, and the early part of this,
considerable snow ,has fallen
which being accomanied part
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