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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-02-06, Page 4ORD! THURSD A Y PE RUAR 0, 1'010 f , e t . - n. • Another sucker It looks like the Canadian people have been "sucked in again" with the announcement on Tuesday that the Federal government will pour $600 million of our dollars into the Svncyudg project to extract oil from the tar sands in Alberta. Our money will be used to finance American Companies to take our oil out of our ground, and then sell it back • to us at the very much overpriced world . price, so the American com- panies can show •a profit. Now how's that for stupidi jy ! ? Time to talk Huron County, to the surprise of the bureaucrats in Toronto, is putting up the strongest protest to the recently released Mustard Report of health care. Although we can't argue with the one finding of the report that health care costs in Ontario in recent years have soared into nightmare proportions, we can't agree with the "we don't have to consult you hicks in Huron" attitude that the Provincial government has possessed in the last five years. Tne protest has been long and loud from Huron, from the County govern- ment right down to the local Women's Institutes and Auxiliaries, and as a result, Frank Miller, the Ontario minister of health, will be i n, the County and in Clinton on Friday to try and mend a badly broken fence. We admire Mr. Miller's bravery to jump the fire, but unless he and the government listens and acts on some of our recommendations, then he is wasting his time here. We are sick and The Alberta and 'Federal govern- ments would have been much better off to let the whole project collapse &id' die, after all, the oil won't go away. And then when the proper technology was developed to extract the oil, or when the price of recovering it was cheaper than oil from other sources, the project could be fired up again. The way things are now, we use up the oil now at costly prices, while the profit on it goes into American pockets. And you thought you had to have brains to run for the Liberals! tired of being told what to do by a bunch of Toronto bureaucrats, who are overpaid and underworked. Some show • Congratulations to the . Willter_-._.. Carnival Committee and those few workers who made so much possible. They have worked Tong hours to put together a good show, but like many things anymore, public support each year is getting smaller, and smaller. It seems, for instance, that people would rather stay home and watch 'some insipid, inane television programs than attend an excellent band concert by their -town Centennial band, and Sing Out London. Only 50 persons showed up Tuesday night' for the affair, a real disap- pointment for the organizers, . and especially the kids who have worked hundreds of extra hours to be ready. Saggar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Now I'll point straight, Cliff ���cc �r�l Came across a new party game recently, me I have a map,. showing this unusual and thought you might like to try it on your world, drawn by an excellent cartoonist who guests. became involved.. It all began with some friends of ours who On that map is an island called Nomanison like to play with words and create wild puns. Islnd (the poet ,Donne), on which is a They had a� bit of a problm and one said,to lighthouse calledGotta Light and a cape the other. We seem to be in din .:straitscalled Cape 'Waukin. Afl we need is :..a The other replied solemnly: "Yes, Dire Bullfighter's Cae: Straits separate 'Tierra Del Freakout from Someone drew cities, so that on the map the Cape of Good' Dope, I believe." , we have Greater Kappa City and, in small Or something like that. And they were off. print Lesser Kappa City. In these cities may They tried it on some of their friends, and be found such things as the Pubic Library, the result was a collection of puns that even Brut Al Copse (a small wooded area,) and a Shakespeare would have blushed at. narrow street labelled Gunman's Mall. All you need is a knowledge of On the map is a kingdom called Kingdom • geographical terms and a total inability to of Kum (ruled by King Klimact Eric) and blush at the atroious puns you produce. above that is a smaller" adjunct called Some of your friends will undoubtedly try, Higher In Kum, and below it another called if I know people,• to turn it into a por- Lower In Kum. nographic geographic game. This is almost Just off the State of Nymphoma'hia lies unavoidable,because there are a lot of Kumin Sea, in which are found a Fast Eddy people with dirty minds, unlike you and me. and a Current of Ents. These excrescences on the face of our pure Then there are the great blank spaces on and bland society will come up with filthis" the map. One is entitled Ara Plain, and the like Sunapha Beach, the State of Nym- other Just Deserts. phomania in which we find a mountain And there are hills and mountains. We called Mons Pubis and a wood labelled have Kitchen Range, Ovatha Hill and Duty Shewor Forest. Pay no attention to them. Cols.They'll suffer enough in the next world for Nor is mining left out. There is an ancient contriving such monstrosities as Taka Peak, mine, begun by the Incas, called Old Pala Itsa Butte, Para Buttes and Maka Pass. Oh, Mine. Another, Owtafya Mine. they'll suffer. There, are huge forests dubbed I Never But not as much as you'll suffer when your Wood, and Yew Wood, and She Wood, and guests get• into the swing of things, and start Hee Wood, and of course, the biggest of all, producing such items as Melon Coulee and Y'all Wood. Sherbet Shore. There are points, succinctly titled Getthe Perhaps what you should do is partition Point and Point A Forder. your guests into groisgive ea0i group a There are dangerous, dirty great rocks geographical term, and see what happens. looming just off Dire Straits. They are Thus, you might say to one group: "O.K., fearsome to sailors, and no wonder. Theyyour topic is bays. Let's hear some bays." are known as Acid Rbck and Country Rock. So you get such items as Hound -dog Bay, There are a couple of sounds, one called and Stagat Bay and Brought To Bay. Mersey Sound, another Safen Sound: To another group, you submit streams, There are a couple of depressions, or and they supply such doozers as Uptha faults, in the map. One ofthese isKroni" Niktha:,—C.reek:_an._ S,leau....K.urn,._ if. .L7.epressti„ thotheris.:itzer.Fault. ,....-.W�� dubbed .Base Cliffs, Treble Cliffs, and the Hi h Coast of Livia . Ontario Aberdeen -Angus to be erected on the station companied to the city by her Era. Tt Is ® pureilirg g ssocaoBanquet and closed recently, and the sister, Miss Dora Got the idea? Try itout.-i guarantee you'll annual meetingin London contract will be awarded Schoenhals.be ill in twenty minutes. But dont let them last Saturday. David Mid- shortly. The vote begins to -day in pawn off on you such junk as Generation dleton was appointed one of Mr. and Mrs. James Willis Presbyterian Church Gap, Parr Gulf, and Cape Porn. the directors of the society Ferguson returned home on and continues until Satur- for 1965. Friday of lst week after day, Feb.. 21, as to whether mutrdSeventeen year-old.Grade spending the past six weeks or not this Church will enter 413 student, Lorraine Deveau at London. the proposed Church Union. Wolerepresents Central Huron Mr. and •Mrs. Lewis The results will be an- NSecondary Shool, Clinton, in Tebbutt, well-known and nounced Feb. 24. NAThe London Free Press highly -respected citizens of Bayfield by a vote of 100 to School Queen's Cluh. She is Seaforth, marked the 44th 64 decided on Tuesday to 100 YEARS AGO the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. anniversary of their wedding remain an independent Feb. 11, 1875 • Joseph E. Deveau, RCAF on Tuesday, Feb: 7 at their corporation, rather than to Mr. Cole, of Co1e's Circus, Station, Clinon. home. merge itself into the town- was in town on Tuesday last, Many basements and 50 YEARS AGO ships of Stanley anbd on a prospecting tour ., throw h this section=, making �living quarters in Clirtton .. _ eb..t2`; 1925. ...... _._..... _Goderich........._.... 'gwre flooded Tuesdayy night Harold Lawson has gone - preparations for the' circus, in the all-night rain which to Ottawa where he--1ties 75 YEARS AGO which he plans to travel also melted most of the huge accepted a position with E. Feb. 9, 1900 through with next summer. R. Fisher. Mr. Fisher is a The Directors of the Mr. J. Carter has erected brother-in-law of J. W. Londesboro Creamery Co. a new shingle mill on lot 30, Stevenson. have decided to make the con. 2, East Wawanosh, two Rev. A. A, Holmes, J. A. butter. during the present miles from Manchester and Irwin and A. T. Cooper at- season at 3/2 cents a pound -is in a position to supply the tended a temperance instead of four cents as very best shingles at the meeting in Seafrth, heretofore. lowest rices. The Pastime Club had a The railway authorities I cequence of , the very pleasant farewell party realize the importance of change in the Postal Lawvin honour of Harold Lawson having better terminal between Canada and the rtlnited States. there will be NO- WE DONT G1v E. MOUES r DMun N 3ou\Tr.- The Jaek Scott column - Ell M - OM Bores Unlimited The single aspect upon which I'd disagree with H:l~. Ellis in his masterly work titled Mediatrics or The Importance and Proper Care of the Middle Aged concerns the detection and treatment ofbores. The famed authority has performed a service to humanity in publishing these papers on the problems of our forgotten and neglected generation, the Excluded Middle as he calls us, but he is, I believe, overly sensitive in his chapter on Boreism. Even in his remarks on extreme cases, readily recognizable physically because of their "protuberant eys and a rather loose, wet lower tip," Dr. Ellis errs, in my opinion, in cataloguing this with other widelyprevalent diseases of middle age and in suggesting that means should be sought for its prevention and cure. I would go so far as to say, indeed, thatthe treatment might be more deadly than ' the disease which, as he concede, may.often be incurable, in any event. - • A middle-aged bore, following Dr. Ellis' advice, might lapse into hat, permanent silence for the balance of his days or, worse, might burst forth frantically into a desperate attempt at erudition, brilliance and blinding wit, thus alienating the last of his listeners, young and old alike. On the surace, Dr. Ellis' contention that borishness, "tlmtgh almst in�'i't?aod° detetble in another, is ,extrmely difficult to recognii4 $iii 'oneself" migt seem reasonable enough, yet I think I speak for many of the Excluded Middle in suggesting that quite the opposite may be true: I am, myself, inwardly appalled, almost constantly, at my capacity to inspire yawns, .emptying rooms and nodding heads with any dissertation longer than 50 words. People. actually flee when I begin to speak of Canadian bi- lingualism. Yet I seldom recognize Boreism in others. Fully accredited bores, even renowned bores, nearly always find me an attentive audience and, 1` need hardly add, nearly always f ind me. My theory here is that I have built up a sub=conscious tolerance, a form of immunity, and yet I fancy it goes deeper than such purely negative responses. For one thing I actively enjoy cebores, some with lower lips wetter and looser than Dr. 'Ellis could credit, and confronted with. a sonorous, reminative type, I give myself up to a langorous, restful drowsiness that is not at all unpleasant. Conversely, on those increasingly rare occasions when I find myself in a room full of conversationalists reputed to be notoriously intellectual or entertaining, often corn- pulsively dazzling, I generally feel ill at ease. Profundity makes me particularly nervous. Dr. Ellisspeaks, in this connection, of "an inner conflict between the desire to speak and the fear of talking too much or to no effect." This suggess.that there may be a choice between contentment in the any of bores and anxiety in the company of others. fn middle age the fornier surely seems the wiser. The author notes several forms of therapy, including the shok treatment of playing back to bores actual tape - recordings of their conversation to induce a shame comple. The` trouble with this, of course,s that'it might cause the invlid, if such he be, to retire in complete sho' from the human race. A much simpler solution, in my opinion, is to recognize the root cause of boredom, itself, which usually is induced by an incompatability of interests. or, to put it in non- medical terms, not caring a hootsut what the other fellow finds so absorbing. Clearly the answer then lies in avding all contact except with those who share a mutuality of subject matter. In other words, if you don't bare me I won't bore you. From our early files.. • • • • c. d 10YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1965 Due largely to the work and enthusiasm displayed by Mrs. Sara Rafuse, a new school has been opened at RCAF Station, Clinton. The Nrsery School has 17 children under the super- vision of Mrs. Lynne Warren. Mainly through 'the initiative of Clinton Coun- cillor Cameron Proctor, Clinton will participate in the national ceremony of the raising of Canada's new flag on Monday, Feb. 15. Town Clerk John Livermore is ordering the new flag to be raised on the flagpole on library park at 2:30, Mon- • day. Stewart Middletonand Mr. town streets. It was pur- chased from the Township of Hullett. Tenders for the gravelling contract were opened and George Radford was hired to crush and deliver ap- proximately 12,000 yards of gravel on the Hullett Township roadA. Grange, Huilett Township was elected chairman of Goderich District Collegiate Institute Board at the inaugural meeting. The RCAF station at Clinton, Ont. has turned the former photographic laboratory and a lecture room into classrooms for 21 children. Their lessons are given in strict accordance with regulations of the and Miss Vera Dodds who are leaving town. Miss Rena Pickett is assisting at the Post Office during the absence of Postmaster Scott, who is vacationing in Florida. John Nediger suffered a broken jaw while playing hockey on Friday evening. Miss Marion Irwin was presented with a handsome wool comforter by the Ladies Aid of Wesley Church in honour of her approaching marriage. Mrs. W. D. Fair is opening her home for the WMS meeting, .. of Willis Presbytin Church. Miss Eleanor McKenzie is visiting relatives in Toronto. Miss Olive Schoenhals has accepted a position in the facilities at this point, and have decided on the erection of a handsome new station next summer. W. J. Biggins of Elmhurst Farm, leaves to- day for Toronto to attend the annual meeting of the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders Association of which he is a director and will also attend the Canadian Horse Breeders meeting., James Connolly, the well- known sales.rnan of the Holmesle .Cheese Factory, is this week attending the meeting of the Dairyman's Associat•ion at Ingersoll. The first Fenian Raid medal was shown in Clinton, on Thursday last. It was shown iv W. R. Lough, Principal of the Public suggest Live R. At the basis of this body of water is Font of Life, and running off from the main river are Minna Rills. In there somewhere you will find Compression Springs. Don't go away. it gets worse. In front of THE (:I,INTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Member, Canadian As.00latlon 1 Amolgy192 p1AN C p APFR 1U THE 11 RON NEWS -RECORD Estahlished 1881 wn 4P gf�t lPttf�iS Winner Dear Editor: Once again the Clint()Recreation Committee hcome through with "winner" in their 7th Annul Bantam Hockey Tout nament. We at CF Kingston were fortunate 1 be on the receiving end much gracious •hospitality, as extended by Len Fawceand his hard workin committee, ..and in retur can only pass on a `than you, and well done'.Too often, in today' modern world of hustl(bustle, the statisticreporting of goals, assistwins and losses, take precedence over the remeaning of these ge togethers. Who can put statistical value on th `making of a man'? or th physical agony (but al terward satisfaction) c reaching for limits, in th elusive pursuit of a rubbe disc? Who can put a value o the making of a friend, o the eye opener of a city bo meeting a country boy? On behalf of our militar: community (Fort Henr Heights), I extend ou deepest appreciation to thos who made it all possible George Divok, John FlynnButch Fleet, Dean Ryan David Fawcett ani numerous other volunteers to the ladies upstairs whserved meals upto 14 hour, a day - Betty Fawcett, Do McLean, Lynn Armstrong Heather Hart, Lori BlairanDebbie Fawcett. Next year. we hope ai invitation will again bextended our way. But in th1 meantime, 'pitch a tent' because a substantia number of 'old airforce guyand their families' will "binvading the town durinmilitary week of Clinton'100th Birthday. John Jordan, Kingston, Ont. Protest Dear Editor: I have just finished writing two letters to the CRTC anBluewater Cable voicing mdisapproval of the raising o their rates. I followed thdirections given) in thnotice in your paper on p16, Jan. 3O'175It seems to me they. makthe matter of opposini rather difficult, and I believthey will receive very littlfresponse to this notice. This is just ,rinder tc anyonew does disapprove t ave until February o do so. Yours truly D. Flagg, Clinto; eMas-cord r••d•r•are on- �-c•uraged to exprss their inon in letters to the edit, he xer, such opinons do nel necessarily ►epresent the opinions of the Ns-ecord.Psmsmay b• used by tetter writers, but no letter willbe pulished unls H can be verified by no postage to pay on the"'h-th,�"sido Ins.Mr. J. H Belfrey hadisposed of his salt factorto Messrs. Stephenson 8 Wheatley, who are 'converting it into a copper shop, and we understand that they intend shortly to put in machinry for the manufacture of wash tubs The salt grinding part of thestablishment was purchased by the Messrs. Ransford, who intend tc commence the manufacture of fine salt. about the size of a half -dollar piece and Mr. Lough's name is stamped on the rim. Every person whoneeds ice during the torrid season is busily engaged now filling in supplies. Some of the hotels have their ice houses filled and a general drawing and cutting will be kept goingnext week. 0 (Tinton News 7875 1073 .44) HUB Of HURON COUNTY Published every Thursday at Clinton, Ontario . Editor - James E. Fitzgerald General Manager, J. Howard Aitken Second Class Mall Istration no. 0.17 6 Ma ober, Ontario weakly ySON stn $U88Cl1IPTION' RATh•t CANADA t10AO U.S.A. ri1.eO 1IN01.1 Cow .Mo .:»-.A. •• ,. 'MI HOW Do u►OA• rM CAi AOA • snowfall Clinton had last 'week. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1950 Previously lacking such an implement, the Town of Clinton now will find itself• the owner of a new grader which is expected to do great. things in the maintenance of e 1•