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&itoriai Comment
A first. step
Stanley Township Council's decision
last week not to allow anymore cottage
growth on prime agricultural land in
the township will nodoubt run up
against some opposition.
Speculators and developers will call
"foul" immediately, but in the long
run, Stanley's decision, even though
it's a tough one to make, will go ;own
as a landmark decision in Huron
County.
'Stanley, which is in the heart of the
white bean producing area in Onta *ri
o,
wants to remain agriculturally in-
clined, and notget t into the residential
business and all the headaches it
brings with it.
The' problem is really more deep
rooted than that however. The real
crime is that excellent food producing
land is worth more covered in houses
.and asphalt than it is worth in growing
our food.
And the problem is the same all
across Southern Ontario, where far -
rate of 60 to
mland is lost torE
100 acres per. hour. The land is in a
climatic belt that is unique in Canada
as well, and if the trend continues,
we'll end up importing our food from
another country and paying whatever
they want.
• step
s in' and
So until the provincep �.
one of in wast
takes a firm stand on 9
our most valuable natural .resources,
and makes farmland worth as much in
crops as it is covered in houses, then t"
our future and that of our children is in
dire straits.
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The next time someone complains
that they can't afford to feed their
family with today's food prices, point
out that the cost of destroying your
teeth has also risen.
A recent survey in Toronto shows
that ounce for ounce, Coke is now more
°expensive than beer, and more than
A bouquet to you
Like a blushing bride, we'd like to
toss a bouquet to all those who worked
long and hard hours during "the recent
snow storm that battered the area, and
indeed, most of Southern Ontario.
While most of us can stay snuggled
up in our warm homes during the
blizzard, road crews, hydro , linemen,
' police.' artdv-other, tl§uodry -repairmen
- twice as expensive as milk. Moreover,
it contains not a cent's worth of food
value, except calories. g n "� �' tip `7 v U • w.r . w - - _ - _
Strangely enough, despite,,the hard "
ties at the supermarket sales of soft L tf e aloft
m
Airliners have a•curious effect on the natural reserve of the
race. They're sort of flying psychiatric couches. In the bank of
seats, cradled between the. thunder of engines, riding two or
three miles in the` sky, at this very moment, strangers are.
babbling their shabby secrets.
I rode earlier this week with a sharp -featured Englishman.
drinks last year were up over the
previous year. Makes you wonder
about making ends meet.
were out working in the cold and snow
trying to keep our roads open, or our
hydro on.
We take them for granted most of the
time, but once in awhile a situation
arises where we' depend on them,.
sometimes 'for our very lives.
We doff our hats to you, wherever
yotr re:...
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Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley
-,My trip to the city ,
This seems to be a good week to clean up some Since 1 had expected to greet a worn-out to
loose ends, so, if you happen to have a loose end, woman, full of recriminations weary dispirited 10 YEARS AGO have recur have Cl purchased
nton from
join me. - and empty-handed, I got carried away. Apr1122,1905 the residence and Albertpchased
Me and the Old Battleaxe spent a couple of "Hey! This must be your day. Why don't you
citySt. for-
duringour winter break holiday. buy a little something for' ourself in that The Clinton Junior Colt hockey merly occupied by Charles W.
days in theyBrown. Mr. Brown is engaged
And "spent" is the word. It would have been women's store? It will give
bought a stitch of Ontario asHockey eriAssociation with his brother Lprne at Lorne
cheaper to fly to Mexico and pick up Mon- "Well, as you know, � Junior "D" championship. They Brown Motors.
put out Bobcaypi on in four ey An Motos over expenditures
tezuma's curse, as they call it there, or the dire anything new since I don't know when. Maybe for the town of Clinton was
rear, as we call it here. This remark has no I'll,ot tok up a new spring fogey, I or something."the'first Ontario series. champThis ionship $721.85. All departments showed
connection with the opening sentence of this Not ,bean old- I decided that, by $surplus this year and the books
column. George, I'd get a new tie, myself. since Clinton Lions Juveniles won
I guess I got a little carried away. I the OMHA juvenile "B" title in of the town are in good order,
We went 'out shopping to buy a "little Well, 1941 • stated the auditor•
something" for Pokey, the grandson. Just a little walked out of that men's shop with two ties and
shirt, or a toy, or some other trifle. Fifty dollars two turtle -neck sweaters. I am not exactly the Squadron Leader J.A. (Joe) Fourteen new members were
welcomed into the Presbyterian
later, I staggered out of the department store, turtle -neck type, but 1 in a devil-may-care Spano, Chief Technical Services the largest communion
er ion
RCAF Clinton announced
toting two large toys, six little shirts, four pairs moment, I tried one on. It was white, made in today Officer, Station Clinton has service in 8 years. Rev. D.J. Lane
of overalls, a full-dress suit for the kid, and a .• Italy, and I swear,I looked just like Fred Astaire, receivedthat "Honourable Mention" service in at sRev.
plastic shell windbreaker with a lining and a just in from Acapulco. Fred's a goo -looking 72. in an International Fire
Members theof service.linton's younger
Prevention Conte§t• The contest generation hood to "keep him warm when he comes out These sweaters had extra -high turtles. They J Fletcher, specie a al constable
from swimming."At 15 months, he's going yourwattlesd push your dewlaps out ed by the National
hang -dog. t n Association at by
He looked, I thought, as I sat beside him, like a man who would
ask you not to quote his views on the weather. Reticence was
etched sternly in every line. "Nice day," he said, giving away a
sWtsecret.t
And yet we hadn't gone
50 miles before he had his hair down
like a school girl after her first date. He had ill-fitting dentures.
They clacked like castanets throughout our flight.
You never know about people. They're rarely what they
seem. This fellow; for examplea-had mrn'igr-ated.to_C.anad.a oar_
a curious reason. He'd been divorced. His ex-wife had married'
again and — but here he is talking:,
"One day my senior came to me and said I Would be having a
-new supervisor. He told me his name. My wife's new husband!
It bowled me over! I'd pushed her out of my mind, you see. But
now, every day, I'd be reminded of her. So I decided to come to
Canada."
We. went our; separate wa rS at oug,Iieati iQn$ i e grgpnd
once more he was a model of British reserve. He'd think twice ,
about telling you the time. But in the air, he's sure to sing
again.
There'd been a prisoner in the plane. He was handcuffed to a
plainclothes policeman who tactfully kept his overcoat over the
bands of steel that joined them. A stewardess told me he was
headed for a sentence of 10 years in a cell. Armed robbery.
I've no sympathy for any man who uses a gun, but it was hard
not to feel unhappy 'or i,ii�� Liman. He looked about as dangerous
as Archie Bunker. He was quietly dressed, spoke pleasantly to
the big man beside him, and might have been just another
travelling salesman. It was impossible to imagine him
menacing, brutal.
But my feeling of sympathy, I decided, was inspired by the
scenery. It was a fine, bright, April day. The fields far below
were green and fresh with the Spring. I felt the delight I always
feel when I' m flying over that kind of country, the sense of bird-
like freedom and limitless space.
The prisoner gazed out upon this scene like a man hungry for
greenery, devouring it. And why not? It will be many years
before he'll come this way again. It surprised me only that he
was not weeping.
At my destination, having foolishly neglected a reservation, I
Poetry
Dear Editor:
One thousand dollars will be
awarded as grand prize in tile
First Annual Poetry Com-
petition sponsored by World of
Poetry. Poems of all subjects
and styles are eligible to win ..i
the grand prize or any of fifty
other cash or merchandise
awards.
According to contest
director, Joseph Mellon, "We
are ,looking for poetic talent of •
every ry kind, and expect 1975 to
be a ,year of; exciting ',w
discoveries."
In addition to a prize, each
- ning poem will be included
in the prestigious World of
Poetry Anthology. The contest
will be judged by an in-
dependent panel of . the
Chaparral Poetry Society.
Rules and official entry forms
are available by writing to
World of Poetry, 801 Portoltt
Drive, Suite 211, San Francisco,
California 94127. The contest
closes June 30, 1975.
was turned away from two good hotel's an tittiaitrgut--m-an—
ancient flea -trap, a h&me-away-from-holne for locusts.
Here was a room with a mood all its own. A bed of iron,
painted white; a wash -bowl in the corner with rust around the
drain -hole; curtains of cheese -cloth, once white now the grey of
mice; a window looking on a tarred•rooftop littered with empty
beer and liquor bottles; a box telephone on the wall and, beside
.it q� the faded waal1paper, the pencil scrawl of names and phone
numbers.
Who is Mary, who is Joe, who is Alice? Who are the people on
the wallpaper of rooms like these?
There was one other prop in this room that I found completely
incongruous: a full-length mirror! This must surely be the final
blow to the morale of wanderers who know only such rooms -as
these. For wherever you moved about this small room you
could not avoid the full-length reflection of yourself, a portrait
set in squalor.: •
From our early fites.... • •
��' 'n to be conceal an was sponsor
Fire Prevention the Public Sc sol
doing. a lot of swimming, you see. so that you look jolly, rather than justBoard employed act ast safety officer n
Then, of course, we had to deliver the stuff. So Fifty bucks lighter, I left the .shop with a red Boston, Mass. busy Ontario Ssa, which forms
we invited ourselves to dinner with daughter and plastic bag containing my goodies. I felt guilty For -the first time in Seaforth apart of King's Shwa 8 through
woman has been named to the g Highway told her not to fuss that we'd bring along an old but jaunty.
d unt•when I went town council. Mrs. N.C. Cardno's the town.
}horse in the mouth, she agreed with alacrity. councilwas confirmedApril l
My wife's idea of a couple of items to help out picked up a new spring blouse. And a new springA few people did do a little
' And a casual outfit. And high land in the Misses Annie Bartliff
chunk of meat orsomething• Never one to look a I lost both my guilt an my jaunt
appointment to fill a vacancy. on 50 YEARS AGO
giftto theladies shop to meet my wife. Yes, she had ill a last week 92g
plowing on early and Cleta
with dinner turned. out to be five dollars'worth a df suit. And another suit.past week. No other work on the Ford sofeethe staff of Alma College
steak, the equivalent in pies and stuff, and some more blouses. She was snatching things off' land as yet. In past years,
assorted groceries running to -another 10, my the racks like a two-year-old opening Christmas. ' mere have been on the Janda n dutier- s returned
afterturne a to take up
Easter
daughter supplying the potatoes and water for presents.
the coffee. Ah, well, what the hell. You can't take it with' mid-April. The weather is mostly vacation in Clinton. Portrait, Studio has
However, it was worth it. We each got to hold you. Especially if there'sn shemodelledall her snow on the ground• a� �Col"d with •, "opened in Clinton and will be open
the baby for about 10 minutes, in one -minute Next day, back home,John Cochrane," principal for every Tuesday aftdr
snatches, between bouts of trying out his toys array for me. It was then that I learned none of CHSS, was Cochrane,
principal
i at May business• Burgess comes to this
and having clothes tried on him by the women. heir shoes or purses "went with" the new clothes. favour." of a suggestion from the area from Mitchell where he was
After many years, I finally realize why I hate The rest is history. Secondary School Head Masters 32 years in the photography.
lathes form wife's surveillance. Two good things did come out of that holiday, of Ontario that examinations The Government is bringing
°' i in 2
trying on new e Y M f told me she wanted to see me results should not be published That baby despised every minute of the
modelling session, and bellowed lusty pro Mrs.
his mother and gran gulled his limbs into all finally gave in with bad grace.R.A.r r
to stuff him into his "Where are they? They're in a red plastic bag. Daniell Ottawa,e in sBaypent Easter
Visiting seAlems
sa Ontario
and it would seem it Established 1865
sortswof gymnastics, trying Where did you put it?" their new pants and shirts. on Sunday were Mrs. Simons should be a profitable business of
obabl ha ens to all males in childhood, "It's with the rest of the stuff', retorted. It dalaghter and family, F -O and shipping it to the East.
5 000 tons of Alberta coal into
75 YEARS AGO
April 20,1900
Mr. Wm. Stackhouse has
purchased the Buchanan farm,
lately occupied by Mr. C. Arm- •
strong, John Wightman has sold
his farm adjourning the
blacksmith shop to W.J. Parks,
for a good sum.
Wm. Taylor of Loyal formerly
of Manitoba has purchased from
Robt. McMillan his herd of sheep.
Wm. is known here as a suc-
cessful man and no doubt'he has a
keen eye to business.
Mr. John Hart, blacksmith, has
bought out J. McKie and has
moved in and started, he is well
known in this locality and we feel
satisfied that he will secure a
large patronage.
Mrs. Jas. Sparling, who resides
with her daughter, Mrs. J.S.
Welsh of Seaforth, has just,
completed a quilt containing 1,375
pieces and she is now in her 82nd
year, although quite smart for
her age.
Mrs • W. Taylor has moved
back to her own house on Rat-
tenbury St. and R.H. Chown has
moved into the house vacated by
Mrs. Taylor.
The "raising" of the frame
work of the new Doherty saw mill
took place on Friday afternoon
last, and was the occasion of
considerable sport and hard
work• The timbers were very
large and heavy but the man
worked with a will, and soon had
it all put together.
411.
...
J. Wigginton and J. c ar
shipped 30 shropshire sheep to arts at the University of
Hammer Bros., Brantford, on Toronto for four years, is
Tut,sday. The price realised for . presently head of the Arts
the flock was about $400. Department at Banting
Secondary School in London.
100 YEARS AGO She has had exhibits of her
April 22, 1875 own work, which is in weaving
After a couple of weeks of
delightful weather, a second and pottery, in such places as
edition of winter set in on the Japanese Cultural Centre in
Thursday last, on the evening of Toronto, the North York Art
which a' slight fall of snow .took Centre, also in Toronto, and the
place, and the cold increasing till Art Mart in London. All of her
Saturday and
the thermometer shows have been given a warm
fell to zero. If the ground had not reception by art lovers.
been covered by a few inches of In the past years the Granary
snow the injury to the fali;wheat has presented the works of
may have been serious.
Another step has been taken artists such as Helen West,
towards the completion as far as Grand . Bend; Karen Batten,
Blyth, of the L. H. and B. Exeter; Mona Mulhern,
railroad. The contracts for Goderich; Jense Boyd, Kit -
bridging, grading and fencing cliener; Art Laduick, --
which have been tendered for by Waterloo; "Arnheim Walters,
a large number, were let on London, and Charles Sharun df
Wednesday last. The rose] had London, along with, of course,
been divided into four sections, ,
the first two being awarded to Ms. Merner's work.
Mr. Steele, of St. Johns, This year, Ms. Merner hopes
Michigan, the others by Mr. L.J. to be able to present the works
Burbank and Mr. C^C...Smefts, of of many_ other regional artists.
LaCrosse, Wiscbnsin respec- She also hopes' to be able to
tively. The road is to be finished present an exhibit of out -
by the first of August next. standing art work from area
Messrs. Wright and Foster .high schools.
have just finished the Altogether, Ms. Merner
enlargement of their establish- hopes to be able to provide a
ment, which was found to be too P
small for the carrying on a their full season of fine art exhibits in
increasing business and have a Gallery that is just beginning -
filled it up with new goods. _to make a name for -itself.
Thank you,
Sheila Smith.
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N.wsdiscord readers ars en-
couraged to express their
opinions In Istters to the editor,
however, such opk one do not
necessarily represent the
P�� n� � by •
letter writers, but no letter will
bs published unless 11 can be
verified by Mme.
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Playhouse names
new curator
.
James Murphy, Managing
Director for the Huron Country
._Playhouse _announced recently
the appointment ~of Rutai Ann
Merner, of Dashwood, as
curator for the Granary, the
Playhouse Art Gallery. As
curator, Ms. Merner will be •
responsible for the general
management of the Gallery as
well as the booking of exhibits,
which are held in conjunction
with the regular Playhouse
Summer Season.
The Playhouse Gallery,
located in the Great Barn, is
aptly named, as the space
previously functioned as a
storage bin for grain. The
Granary has had outstanding
exhibits of Ms. Merner's own
work each year since the
Playhouse inception in 1972.
M Merner who studied fine
clothes- however. y wife • AmulKumur�i/
g newspapers. Ontario as an experiment -
tests as in one pf my turtle -neck sweaters. I fought it, but4
Randy and already orders are in for experiment
It 111E CLINTONc:I.IN:i'c)N NEW ERA
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Next day was even worse, financially. My wife After going back over the day' before, we
was determined to buy a rug, bedspread and agreed that I'd taken it into the dining -room, put 25YE•2 S A5 O
drapes to match some new wallpaper in a room it beside my chair, and had walked out without it.April
,19
shed .decorated. As any woman knows --and 'Of all the stupid,.. Lost -and- Hydro conversion in the area to
most husbands, too —this is a three-month, nota Phoned the hotel, long-distance. No, 60 cycle Will take place in May
three-hour quest, _it's usually about aseasy as Found had no trace of it, but, (earning my name, and June 195'1 • This was an -
looking t kn f the Lost Chord the lady there said she read 'my column in the nounced by A.E. Rumball,
step, sagging mien and built1in frustration. She Well, there goes fifty bucks, plus a L.D. call. Utilities Commission.
looked so depressed my heart went out to -her, Went out morosely to put some empties in the car Clinton suffered a 40 minute
ff d uhk Th was the little old red devil plastic black out on Wednesday evening•
d they resent ever
t
after. fter wasn't.It wasn't anywhere.
an
Mrs. M. Barker, Denfield.
Consequently, the old girl went off with leaden Blenheim paper and we had a dice chat. Superintendent of the Public
and in a moment of madness, I o ere to ac- tr ere G.E. Hall, former publisher of
company her. Unfortunately, she was in the bag. With sweaters and tie. the hotel on
this paper informed us that 20
bathroom with the door closed and the water The other good thing was gypping years ago the power went off on
i d I was so emotional that I was breakfast We ordered breakfast for one. I drank Wednesday evening and
whispering, so she didn't hear
tonishment she burst into the hotel ate the toast and jam, and we shared the coffee. News -Record was set by hand as
i
Second Clash •Mall'
running,
an
• me.the orange juice, she ate the buckwheat cakes, r
emained off until Saturday. The
Wm. Black, member of
Parliament for South Huron,
claims that Daylight Saving
Time from the standpoint of the
farmer is Of no use as the farmer
is up before it is light and it
means longer ,hours for him.
However for the person who goes
to work at nine o'clock it will
mean more time for sports or' -
gardening. $U$ CRIPTION RATES;
A suggestion has been made . CANADA 11.10
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that all members of parliament at Clinton, Ontario MUM COPY Zea
should be responsible for the cost
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Editor • Jamas E. Fitzgerald Fc6"31.4::raa0A
GeneralManager, "
ti Howard Aitken
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of printing their speeches in
Hansard if they exceed 20 pages.
Perhaps if they were, speeches
could be boiled down and it would
room two hours later, eyes sniping, looking like a Two breakfasts for the price of one. I 11 bet they in days of yore and not put out �
lease all.
She had haven't caught on yet I saved $1.80 on breakfast, until Saturday: please
experienced a snow f
omyas
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