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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-10, Page 4liberation and i inghavebeen pqpula rer sex in recent �ars everyone around here knows that .cows..have been liberated for years. But, according to a recent news" article, cows* area dairyfarmsrnay be $1.Virt up :their Illwation:lp wear giant bras._ . Sound wooly ridiculous? Not so. *cOrding to thtiiews item, a company -tn Conover Wisconsin is in the lingerie • business for: .cows. . :the company-FiankSville Specialty Company makes giant brassieres for Milking cows and the cows, ap- parently, lust tove wearing them. , President of the. coMpany, Mrs. Dorothy Rice, whose father William ,• • • Tarot*, invented the brasA says itie: bras keep the udders ,ip,farrn and help *event them from becoming hardand congested. A dairy science -profess.* at Michigan State University -says a fufl- 49. udder can weigh. is Or SO P009.4:4 ?14 is suspencipti by lust a few ligaments and skln The bras, which': come in bask barnyard brown, make •cows• More gQtrfortablet inducp threm to give more milk. and help prevent Injuries to sagging udders which are often stepped an Directors of area fair boards/should take note, and add anotherclass to the* dairy herd competitions -best. dressed herd. .• Atcidents don't lake vacations One of the most dominent things in your mind right now is that rcation.. • Sitting around the cottage,. or camping in that great Wilderness, or going to 'another part of the world. But there should be one more thing on your mind, and that is your regular b‹, blood donation. You probably forgot about it. Thousands of people, lust like you go away on their vacations ' during he • seer months and forget to give blood. Because of this time of year, highway traffic increases greatly, and. with it the number of accidents. The Red Cross reminds you that this increases the need for blood in all the over ifis hospitals the Red Cross in Ontario supplies free. The Provincial daily requirements is 1,500 units. For the months of July and August 93,000 units are needed. It takes only takes 30 minutes of the donor's time to give blood, with the actuardonation time taking 5 minutes, 'The remainder of the time is occupied 'by taking a brief medical history of the donor, performing simple tests, a short rest period and some refreshments. • Vacation time takes a heavy toll on the Red Cross blood supplies. At a time when the need is highest, supplies are lowest. Before you go on your vacation, attend your' local god Cross blood donor. clinic -someone. will be happy you did. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Progres s? 1 ha te. it.! Many people have • a peculiar.. idea of "progress. They confuse it with change or growth for their own sakes. All too often; these things represent regress, rather ,Than, progress. I try not to be bitter, but I have a perfeet example of that kind of "progress" right • outside my front door. . When we moved to this house, it was on a °quiet, • residential street, a leafy tunnel of voluptuous maples and stately oaks, with a green boulevard on eackside of the street, It wa gentle andOleasant. and safe for children. e town council, in the name of progress, tore out the bOulevard, cut down some trees, and widened the treet. • Results? We now have a speedway out front, and you can scarcely risk crossing the street to the mailbox. The squeal of tires makes the nights hideous, as the punks try to proclaim their dubious • manhood. The remaining trees are dying because. their natural environment has been disturbed and • becatise they get a heavy dose of sprayed salt from the snowplow each winter. • Much beauty lest, and the only ugly things • on the street, dead cedar poles for telephone and hydro, left standing in their nakedness. Just to'complete the picture, there has been • a "development," which is synonytnaus with , progress in many small minds, at the end of our street. What was once glorious bushland is.. now an asphalt wasteland inhabited by supermarkets, a gaggle. of gas stations; and the inevitable- hamburger joints and Milk stores. Because of the "development" and its • accompanying "progress," traffic on our • street* has quintupled about five times, with the accompinying multiplication of stink and no isq. Toagh luck, says you. Right, says I. But this is not just a private beef. I've seen this sort thing happen so often on handsome old streets • in pleasant small towns that it makes me sick. First move of the progress -happy morons is usually to cut down the trees, some of them 70 years- old, so.....that they can widen the road. Grace and shade and dignity are sacrificed to • the number one god of North America the car. In the cities, the same process herds. Potential parklands are lutned into instant •.parking lots. Thruways, slaughter miles of greenery. Ranking high among the villains ,are the "daietopers." In more enlightened cultures, they wouki be called ecological rapists. They take a section of beautiful bushland, fertile farmland, or Iushirultland. They send in their bulldozers to ensure that the property will look ince no-man's-land. They 'then nava it . vat*. 441,1,11,4111.406•4 ••••••••••• • e TnE CLINTON NEW- Elth, Ettablauul 1865• into 50 -foot lots and jam in the jerry-built houses, cheek by -jowl, give the whole thing a fancy name, spend a fortune on advertising, and flog the swollen -prided abortions to poor suckers who are so desperate for a house of their own they shoulder a mortgage they can never possibly get out from under. _ This, when Canada has more -land that is useless for anything else but building than it • can ever use. That is "progress." Oh, "progress" has many faces, and many and not a few smells. • Far below the roar of the over -sized, over- priced cars burning up precious energy , as, they whoosh down the superhighways may be heard the whimper of starving children. Behind the smiling face and honeyed words of the Public Relations Department can be seen something net unlike a mountain range — huge, ever-growing piles of non -returnable bottles, rusting cans, and indestructible plastic garbage. • And the stinks! "Progress" will take a cool, clean, sweet trout stream and poison it with chemicals and detergents and other toxic elements, because "We need the industry." And the big, belching smokestacks go right on belching their nauseous gases from their rotten stomachs, laughing hilariously When, the government slaps them on the wrist with a staggering 525 fine. "Progress" hoists, again and again, the. taxes on booze, because governments 'would fall without that revenue, and sets up a cheap and panty -waist program barely hinting at the evils of drink. - . _ "Progress" produces bigger cars that ,go faster and burn more fuel on bigger highways, the vehicleropelled, in .many cases,. by drivers who couldn't handle a crisis in a kiddie -car race.. "Progrees" taxes everything but the living breath of the working stiff, but encourages the plumpies With the expense accounts and the credit cards to go out and bye it up and lie and cheat on their taxes. Medical "progress" means turning a great number of adult. neurotic into drug addicts by socking the pills -to them, and with the other hand 'giving a stiff -arm in the face to the dirty,, sick. frightened kids of the drug age. A pretty dim view of progress? It is, as many people look on the word. . But surely there are enough of us left who believe in the 'real meaning of the word -- moral, social and intellectual progress — to try .to do something about the, spreading sickness. Same time next Sunday, please. In the 'meantime, on guard against the -progress" People - - THE HURON NEWS,RECORD Established NH . • ., • • *rt., ,.„ • 4r, ' a -14, • 4 t . • TAVRE C AILED BOOK S. ! The Jack Scott Column - • Another farmer gone - It was a fine party. Flinn parties generally are. Vet the host wasn't able to conceal his melancholy. -Mike is the third and last of his suns to make the decsion to , seek a city career. It wittbe no surprise to any Of 'us if the fa.rm • upthere in that pastoral valley doesn't go on the market very sten. Out in the enormous, comfortable, old-fashioned kitchen the men gravely asked each other those questions that are to be heard, I suppose, whenever there's this sort of farewell. • Why are they going? How can they be encouraged to stay? What will happen to the agriculture in the future economy of this ntry if the young Mikes continue to turn their backs on the I ? Always there arithe questions. No one seems -to know • the answers. There is, too, the deeper wondering if this trek away to the • bright lights doesn't represent the end of a rugged, in- . dependence -loving Canadianism, the twilight of the pioneering spirit. A correspondent in one of the farm magazines put it pretty well, I thought 'The question in tity‘iiiitel:,44*** wrote. -is this: have the young people of today deVeloped the idea that to serve others is a better way of life than, having to assert their own natural ability to succeed on their own iratiativer ' I could give you the case' histories of a dozen or more far-. mer's sons of acquaintance who have made that jump. • It isn't_mind you, that they're running away from.a grim or ,primitive existence. In our own, neck of the woods, farm life offers most of the advantages to be found in the city. There ie the television set in the living room, the station wagon in the garage. The community life is, if anything, even more varied than it is in the city. The culture or the pleasures of the city are, , in fact, within easy reach since we have become in effect, an outer suburb. The work: itself, though it still requires a strong ,•0 back, is highly mechanized. It is thus hard to excape the impression that the reason they go isluescape the -challenge, not the drudgery. When they come home for visits and you listen to them you 'wonder at their contentment. They become cogs in the wheel of the city. The long view of the meadow is replacedby the short view of the identical house next door. Yet they somehow find it comforting, even purposeful. They've abandoned the personal freedom which, itetheir fathers, seemed the greatest.rewardof the farmer, for the regular, reliable corporation paycheque. If they were burning with ambition. out to set the world afire, their fathers could understand it. But even with Mike and his brothers that does not seem to be the motivation. 1t• ' es the security they relish, the predictable, orderly life in which the seasons of the year, the drought or the torrents or the fluctuating market price, play do factor. The values their fathersheld dear. the feeling of being master of their own destiny and self-reliance, are the very values they seem anxious to leave behind. "The trend in agriculture today," writes the farm magazine .correspondent,"appears to be following the trend in business. We see farms getting bigger andfarmers gettingScarcer." Perhaps if the tradition is to live at all it may have to come from the' immigrant, as, in fact, it originated. If yqy look into the history of almost any Canadian farm you'll find that it began with men who came from the old worldearid who turned to the land to satisfy a hunger for freedom where, as someone has written, "men had not yet built fences around their fields or their I ivee." "It's u'filikely. of course, that there's an great significance in the number of immigrants you find these days on the land. But if. as 1 suspect. they represent those pre -automation spiritual values of the homesteaders who built this country then they may be the necessary substitute for the boys who are From our early files • • • 19 YEARS AGO • :July 15, MI5 The dream of a committee from the town's four service clubs, and the Clinton Recreation Committee - officially formed in February 1964 - to investigate possibilities, of a new arena for ..the commuiliV. became nearer realization this week. Two Manitoba youngsters, who will be entering their fourth -and final year of secondary schooj in that province in September. were the guests of two Grade 12 CHSS • students and their parents last week. Laura Carefoot of Virden. Manitoba is staying with Grace McAdam, daughter of Mr. add Mrs. Mitch McAdam, while Jim Elliott of Minto Manitoba was billeted WitliMr. and Mrs. Harold Yeo and their son Douglas. Miss Eileen Garrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Garrett. 154 Rattenbury Si. East. is the 'winner.of the Auxiliary's annual bursary to the, most deserving student planning a career in nursing. .Wait crews were busy the early part of this week cleaning up the debris left by the violent wind storm that ripped through the area just south' of RCAF Station Clinton to Brucefield last Friday. Sandra Garrioch,- Windsor, graduated recently from .Queens University at Kingston with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She-is-gi granddnughter of Mr and Mrs: G. -Wesley Nott. High et. Clinton. 23 YEARS AGO . July 13.1950 • Monday evening. . Principal E.A. Fines; in flgtires presented to !-?Clinton • District Collegiate Institute Board. at its July meeting. estimated that there would be a slight increase in attendance in the 1950-1951 acedemic year over the year just closed. --- Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gitibings and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Gibbings were in Stratford on Sunday visiting with the foragers son-in- law and daughter.. Mr. and Mrs. William Tasker. The occasion was the 48th wedding an- niversary ,of -Mr. and Mrs. Gib- bings Sr. The same day Mr. and • Mrs. Warren Gibbings visited the formers brother-in-laand. „sister. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Tasker Stratford. Who on Saturday celebrated ,their 24th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sloman Capreol are spending their vacation in Clinton. • Haying was held up for the Weiler part of Basi week, by in- termittent showers. Some hay is quite badly bleached although the =mount is not as large as it might bast: been since a member of farrentrq choqe to leave thr' hay t scantling and wnt nr the weather to clear A written request from Clinton Public tJtiii0 Committee to issue debentures totalling S20.690 for hydro conversion and from IMOD to 517100 for a new water well nut pump featured the Jolly n Cinontil 4•• ' 50 YEARS AGO ' July 16.19n The home of Mr. and Mrs. L .E. • Weir. Dunnville recently moved from Clinton. was saddened when their daughter Mary Isabel passed away en her 13th year. Prizes awarded to the most gracefult dancers in a contest at Bayfield Pavilion were *ken to -Misses Annie and Mary Stewart and Dr E. Ross and Weldon Hovey David Beacom. 98 years young. took, part- la the Orange Wall( in Brussels on Saturday. He was ge% ena--seat of honour on the platform and aiso wore the prize for being the oldest Orangeman at the celebration Ile has been a member of the Order for 77 years , and es probably the oldest Orangeman in Canada . Clinton defeated Stratford at lacrosse., A innitagAthe graduates of Clinton ollegiate Institute who have been peccessful in their NOrmal, Sc.:tool ei'caminat It) Fee res C Cant cloth 1-. Hall Farnham. Wilfred b Gram. Jean 1 Hogg, Plounce 14 Johnston. Hilda E Lovett. Muriel I'. Pot ter Gertrude fl Snyder. Genre trientier. Margaret •e . Mcconeelljtuth 1.. IF van b • Fred W. Lawrence, John Eric 'Reid, , Elizabeth R. Stewart. Mary E. Stewart, Jean -M. Woods, Marion Gibbings. Rev. A. MacFarlane was in- ducted- into the charge of the Clinton Continuing Presbyterian Church on TeSday evening last. - Rev. MacFarlane has many firm friends in this area and will not be a stranger in the town. 75 YEARS AGO July 13.1900 During' the past week. Ben - miller's genial storekeeper and postmaster, A.S. Gledhill has disposed of his business. in - eluding house and lot to Mr. Redmond of Hensall. Mr. Gledhill has given good satisfaction on both departments and the people. of Benmiller and vicinity are sorry to lose him. W. Sturge -on and W. Edwin. who have beenfishing in South P v. arrived home Monday, Last week was a busy one for the farmers. a number around here have finished haying; perspiration running freely so they say. A few fields of golden wheat will be (Mt this week; the warm 'weather having hastened the growth a little too fast. The oat crop will be a little short by all appearances. Joseph A. Killough paid a visit tet,„liAsbrother-W.A. of the organ factory one day last week: lite is quite an expert at composing and singing music. T. Jackson jr.. returned oh ruesdak,from his tttp to England .and Mini Exposition. having had a very enjoyable time; he 'states that the people of England are most enthusiastic abnut Canada and Canadians. • On Tuesday the -annual sum- mer business trip will betaken by him tithe NarthsWest and he will go as far as Editonton. ieleYEARS AGO July 15.1875 According to the assessment roll of Clinton, there are -abant five hundred and seventy qualified vows. C Cartwrieht. donna. ha9 clrd an office le t ie*, bowie next nets tank InkitilOg market square.. which helias fitted uPih' first class style. The Brussel's Post has passed its second milestone and is now in its third volume giving evidence of increased vigour. Haying has commenced in the vicinity of Porter's Hill and is a better crop than at first an- ticipated. Lucknow Council has pur- chased a lot for a Market square but the bylaw to raise the mopey wits defeated, •-researched by Lynn Flowers. - • By Rena Caldwell Kippen East W.I. Members of Kippen East W .1 :- enjoyed a bus trip with the Hensall W.I., when they visited' the Elmira area. MacKenzile King's Home and Gay Lea, Seaforth. They were Margaret Hoggarth, Mary Connolly, Mary Broadfoot, Ruby Triebner, Ruby Bell and Grace Drummond. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ashard, London England , WC! visiting with their daughter and son-in- law. Mr. and Mrs. Al Hoggarth. Mr. and Mrs. Ken McLellan and Robyn McLellan are holidaying in the Canadian West. - -Ruth Dickert of Harriston is visiting her sister. Mrs. Norman Dickert. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper and Billie John of Detroit are gpending the American Holiday with Mr. and Mrs: -.Vivian . Cooper. Robert 'Morrison celebrated his 98th birthday on June 24, 1975. Congratulations. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Pine and Sheri Lynn of Sault Ste Marie are pests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed McBride. • Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brownlee, Salem, Oregon are visiting•Miss jean Ivison. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner and family of the Parr Line are. holidaying in the West. * e0.L1011 DearEditon, . • The reject.idn by the CRTC of any increa5e in R1uew*te- Came TV rates "lantil such time as significant technical, iniprovements have been - made is a complete yin, dication of tho action take the citizeni • of Goderich.. Clinton. Holmesviile, and Vanastra in ,apposing any in- crease on the grounds of Poor picturoquality.' The CRTC has thus placed the ants of producing a better quality picture squarqy on Bluewater Cable T V 4' In a recent press - release (not carried by the Goderichor Clinton newspapers) Robert C. Short, P. Eng. President of the 'Canadian Cable Television Association, said "Cable subscribers have rights -the right to receive a good clear picture, a wide choice of programs, and the right to buy •new. services as they become available." We intend to continue to demand these rights and will oppose any. requested r rate increases until Bluewater Cable T.V. has supplied them. In the meantime, we suggest that all cable TV subscribers who an unhappy with their reception, continue -to complain to Bluewater Cable T V and insist on goad picture quality on all channels as their right. Sincerely, A.G. Coombs Chairman Consumer Alert Committee, RR5, Clinton Toot Dear -Editor, In a recent -edition of the News -Record there was an article about the school band of- Holmesville Public School with credit given to. the school board and the Goderich. Lions Club for supplying funds and equip- ment. I am a member of Goderich Township Womeit's Institute, and since we are asked --by non- members what we do, I thought this was a very good op,. portunity to toot our HORN*. The Goderich Township W.1 gave 5202 t Ow a rd nibs i e stands and a drum for Holmesville School -Band. Sincerely. Alice Porter, sec'y -Weds Goderich Twp. W.I. Burglar kit Dear Editor: • We . have received the following memorandum from the Canadian Cable Tefevleion Associationpivhieh we thought might be of interest to you. • • "It has recently come to our attention that Budget Elec- trimics Limited of P.O. Box ,97, Weston. Ontario, M9N 9Z9, so- called "Extra Cable Outlet Kit." This appeared in the June 21 issue of the London Free,Press. The advertisement advocates cable TV subscribers to avoid rising costs and extra monthly charges by purchasing from them for 524.95 a cable . ex- tension kit for a second TV set or FM radio. Unfortunately it is not an offence to sell this equipment. However. it is of course an of fence undemthe Criminal-. -- Code for a subscriber to use such a kit without permission of thecable conipany: The • Association has arranged for counsel, to serve notice on both Budget Electronics Limeed, and the newspapers publishing thr advertisement Gat the advertisement appears to counsel its customers to a breach of the Crimial Code Sections 287 anfi 21(1). There has in the past beerr a number of successful prosecutions involving theft of services through illegal con- nections. The Association wilt' keep all members fully in- formed of progress toward the elimination of this type of advertising for what is very aptly described by one of our members as a "Birglar Kit." Y•lars truly, B. Davey Secretary -Treasurer, Bluewater TV Cable Ltd. . * Hot mesvill a, Ont. -4