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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-07-17, Page 4n rl Clinton ,a, 'Centennial every Throughout the whole town, ClIntot)ian$arepainting- their h : w. cleaning. up their properties and planting flowers and many of these i operties havepct been beenrcteaned op' for years. Uptown, businessmenare- sand blasting fronts of buildings,* painting upstore fronts and sprucing noup buildings tike there wa tomorrow. and the result is beautiful. The Clinton Horticultural °Soelety radar t angle- a' and the Clinton improvement �onnlitfl'wwith the generous, et;es# has of a motion froom: The i,n. t 't up- planters alb the whole main' street Added up, tlle'811ihole 10b.e along with the° Centennial t;„ coratiorls has resulted in a face lift for_the Whole town as never before, and ourmany visitors have noticed.. _and Zorn - p i.mented us to no.,end. tf this is what it takes to get the town to clean up, then let's have a , Cetenniai every year. toe lied for pIiuiii There are grim warnings frequently, says the United Church, about the prospects of living in the' c-itie s of the future. But rarely they come from such a distinguished Verson as Maurice Strong, the-- Canadian who is the Executive Director of the United °Nations Environment Program. Mr. Strong warned recently of the possibility of a global epidemic disaster because breakdown of city life' within 10 years unless remedial action is taken soon. r Doubtless, many will scoff at Mr. Strong, and accuse him of painting the kind of devils -on the wall, that environmentalists have been using for years in an effort -to mobilize public opinion. And indeed the concept that contaminated water in one country could trigger an epidernic on a world-wide scale - an • idea Mr. Strong puts forward - may be difficult to.accept. But in view of air travel by lumbb jets, and given ever increasing movements of people around the world, such a notion shouid not be dismissed. And meet important of all, ;we should realizelhatalready overcrowded cities that are allowed to grow too rapidly are the real danger Spots. - It is 'becoming impossible for too many urban authorities to supply. bulging populations with vital services such as .clean water, sewerage, trash collection, elec- tricity, transport, schooling and housing: What is more, the rush to the cities is not being stopped. Calcutta, with already 8,000,000 people, will become an Indian nightmare housing more than 20.000,900 by the year 2,000, ,according to UN projections. Clearly we must do more planning in our cities if we are to avoid health and other disasters in the future, All about money • Welhot 80 cents a. package? Did • you stop drinking summer, er, it looks like. Canada's in goad drape for a ton 8' when beer crep' up from about 12 cents a Don't be surprised, even in these slays of bottle to 30 cents? to stop drivilag and get off women's liberation, if You hear sonic time this Are you g�� aid walk down to the store for a summer that a member of the male s has pack of cigarettes or a pack of beer? given bitch to a child. Mayor Those, of course, are rhetorical questions. The figurative father., would be We're• .smcrking� more than ever. drinking Drapeau of Montreal, one' of the great: con more than ever, andwe'li'probablY burn more artists of the 20th century. than.ever, tY°ic► prove how irratitnns'l'we Asked near the beginning of the fiasco gas_ whether there was . any Chance of the are. one thing that is going to .cut Canadian Olympics being a financial disaster, There y one His Worship replied something like this: away back on our wastage Of fuel. That is There is as much chance of the Olympics when some politicians (they'd have to do it in •. • losing money as there is of a man having a concert, because no individual would have the babyguts to do it)'decree that the speed limit will Well, hi there, Dad! The 1976 Olympics, to promptly be reduced to 40 miles an hour, in be held in the Canadian city with the 'worst Canada - slums, the worst schools the worst sewage If we did that, and at the same time cut by problems, and the biggest crime rate in two-thirds the amounts spent on superhigh- Canada, is nom approaching $300 million over - 9 wayswe'd almost pick up the amount-J't. estimates. But don't sell M. Drapeau short. He has putted so many rabbits out of so many hats in the last decade, baffling his audience in the Drapeau is flushing down the dram. I can see that you're wondering why y isn't Minister of Finance, if he has all the answers. proceedings, that it's not at all impossible that well. I can tell you. I have the big, broad he will prevail upon one of his stooges to concepts will in hand but sometimes the produce. - niggling little details escape me. I can see the headlines now: _Drareau Aide Recently, for example, I had my wife Bears $shy*.medics Baffled. The kid will be eraiavins�tha't if I paidupf�r my war service. born with an Olympic�� in his. mouth. arid and taught for another year, I �could retire at a 1 be hustling lottery tickets from his pTetty good pension. die. Not that she was in favor of it. She wants me But you and I will still be stuck with a tax to work until I m so.otd and sick and tired and .O"` bili that would have made the Fathers of stupid and useless that nobody will have me, Confederation have a simultaneous group - • rth th tt except hers Then she plans to cart me -off to T Don't be surprised t The �aek Scott Columfl - , Let thee: -be- Our fifteenth summer in theresort ckward and forward. in a business is well under way and I , find myself again looking of mellow, exhausted way, on this year'scrop W. egistsguests. ` . •.siness", perhaps, isn't quite the word don't make a... profit. We don't advertise. It's just that in the winter months we seem to say to a great many people, "Crime and see us sometime" and suddenly about the first week in June. they do - by motor cavalcade, boat flotilla and squadrons of airplanes. We are vulnerable toevery mode of transport. That first summer nearly killed us,' c did not know then the secret of handling the good weather visitor. We worried about keeping them .entertained. We went from dawn until midnight at full lope. When Labor Day rolled` around and the last of them had '-departed, we sank into a kind of comaahat lasted all through the autumn. It was as close as I've ever come torenouncing the human race. . But since then we've Learned that the summer guest need s be a burden, that all it takes is a tittle basis psychology. It worked so well, in fact, that I often think seriously of selling my typewriter, putting up a half-dozen cabins back in the woods and making an honorable career of letting people enjoy thern.vives in their own peculiar ways. of summer Broadly speaking, there are two general typeswho hurl guests. There are the athletic, or self-winditlg, types there are thgmselves into a ceaseless schedule of activity. the sloths. after that The self -winders are the ones who left us so gaunt first summer. We made the fatal mistake of trying to keep pace with them.' Why, I remember one athletic type who leaped from his car and made directly for the badminton court which I'd just finished constructing. This man turfed out to be an in- credibly adroit badminton player. He wentsat it as if it were a gemon Dear"Editl�rg a 1 was told that an Pam was to march duwtt the main streets Clinton Saturday. 11 the pmt. take place I sure didn't did see a funeral °though, .and it was th+ lC excuse for a parade I have e'Ir seen, Four hundred o me and Women marching s11knt1y, • down the street to the wailin notes of bagpipes are. not my. - idea of a parade. And Who would -have -believed that the - `-Zombies" -were .celebrating' the 285th anniversary of some obscu�ttle that bistory.has catalogued for poterity as the Battle of the Boyne! To briefly familiarize you with what the battle was -1 about, it was a single incident in a religious war between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants which was won by the latter. Alt Orangemen explain that die batty was the turning point in preserving Protestantism in Ireland and proceed to recite the slogan that it gave ..equality for all and special.. privileges to none." Obviously, these fellows don't know their history. The Irish Protestants might have found equality after th Battle of the Boyne .lit IP Catholics sure as hell didn't. The honourable Orangemen should read the history of Ireland which points otrt the persecution and hardships that the Catholics were subjected to by the victorious Protestants. ` History also points out that after the Battle of the Boyne. an act of • British Parliament prohibited Catholics from ever II coming to the . throne er marrying into the royal family.. If that's an example of --"=`equality for all," then our definition,. of democracy is all `wrong. As 1 see it, Orange Day and— the nd-the damn Orange Day Parade may mark the defeat- of the Irish Catholics at the hands of a the Irish Protestants. but more importantly it . celebrates the tyranny that Catholic peasantry was subjected est after the Battle of the Boyne. However. I gain solace in knowing that." Orange Day is slowly dying and That within the next decade should become a part of history itself. Th+e children that marched in last Saturday's parade didn't even know what Orange Day was, never mind the Battle of the Boyne! I thank God that. this hideous celebration known as Orange Day will slowly disappear through the ignorance of these young' in- nocents. n nocents. vsce. I lost count sorneethere about the third day, but I think we played'8.000 games. He was the kind of player who would hit one just over the net and then slam one far back to the base line, a complete sneak. ' I could still hear the sound of his car going up the road on the day of his departure when I began taking down the net. The .court is ail grown over now and it will remain that way. As soon as I see that We've a self -winder on the premises these days (1 study the luggage for evidence of golf club, tennis rickets, bar bells, etc.) I make a litttespeeeh. - "The beach, if you care to jog, is just down that path.", I say. -The golf course may be reached by following the canal road, mountain climbing is -available by walking due south -and now I _must hurry back to ray desk." li e had •oite''of this type only last week. I saes him for five minutes when he arrived and five minutes when he left, Hike to think of him as the perfect guest. The , sloths, however. are my favorites. It is a rewardiOg...• experience to know that a guest has had some fun. it is even more rewarding to know that one has increased his life ex- pectancy by utilizing to" the hill the therapy of doing exactly nothing. My friend Himie is the classic example. Himie invariably arrives looking like imminent death, pale and nervous from the grind anhis high-tension job. . He staggers across the yard, shedding clothes en route and falls heavily on the first vailable garden cart. Willing hands annoint him with sunburn lotion, place a tall, tinkling drink in his palsied hands. Then everyone tiptoes away, their faces • wreathed in,smiles, leaving him to Mother Nature. Such experience, as you can see, is going to be of immense value when I turn professional. I can think of no more enjoyable way of making a living than simply pointing at things for people Us do- or not to do - and then keeping out of their way. 10 YEARS AGO ° July 22.19115 An emergency meeting of Stanley Township School Board with their Tuckersmith coun- terparts was held last Friday t view . plans of the proposed 16 - room Cents -Al . School to be situated at Brumfield. ,A -' new Progressive Con- servative association was set up Monday to administer the executive affairs of the provin- cial riding of Huron. Doug Freeman, Mary. Street. Clinton waselected president of the n. 1 meeting o Town Council. 513.200 in building authorized. n' Allan Graham, sun - porch: OrlandJohnston. t - porch: ,Beatty . Centre. (ficial o • ninpr ofthe Point Farm Provincial Park - namesd after private ata which the park is ova . office By 1950 it had again 'been on the ' upswing with 2.500'ceported: Miss Pauline Holland has accepted a position' with the Bell Telephone Co.. Clinton. E.A. Fines and Robert Fines are spending a __vacation with relatives in the Orangeville district. Mrs. W. Seeley' leas had as her guests at the Take. Lieut. and Mrs. Roger Dickenson. Lieut. Dickenson was stationed at RCAF, Station. Clinton.ip 1941. and is , at present in washington.D.C. attached to the U.S... Navy ie Laurie Colquhoun spent last reunion u ilsat5.5.No.5. i Perth former p • eoIquhoun visited at Cromarty for the weekend. Association convention in , Win- nipeg. 75 YEARS AGO July 20, 1900 Geo. Mann A of Hullett has brought a new Monarch separator from Mo. -Pherson & Hovey Co.. of Clinton. with all the L L ne-w improvements and at- Seeks,, Doherty history €achnte:�nts. Mr. Mann considers The _ Monarch the best separator Dear Editor : or on the market. in will materially add to the ap- pearance of the place. In 1931, an Ontario court ruled that under Section 98 of the Criminal Code, the Com- munist Party was unlawful. Yours truly, Green • two apparently in and tune. It must be The June make of cheese of the I am trying to obtain some g and s�metvherc over 100 years old. ' factor•y. in HolmesVil{e . was information of W. Doherty l '*Quid appreciate any.help *shipped „from Clinton last week. Co. of Clinton who manufac- you can give me. ate you. Lured reed organs. some years Y Ballantyne of Stratford, was the reeds. stroke. Thawhole country wasn't wt, that! Golden Glow Haven or such. One of those Chief of Staff buyer. age... particularly the dates o ed '# M Drapeau starts a awful places where couples can retire 'association. Departanent possibly co 'letei ' mato tottery. with the winner (men .. .... At the Ju y i g f Clinton Mrs E w Colquhaaan and Oats will he far behind the rnariufacture, and: Po y • mp y together. average, the stalk being Very sorncone t rraighi ite to to find only) chosen as the first man in Canada m permits was They P out the age of the unit i have_ split when we of former short. Hay has come u over I know lot f omen who would My ,idea is that we should h Friday at timatcs and is fair. Same Y finally decide included: teachers and p P say the cars are full and g Inctdcn y the house the car (1967Dodge),theadd Hibbert Towns p and sound others y interesting note rugs, the $147 to � Both are all not be up to average. organ built n have a baby. ocy a o o w we are mature. She can have early the rain • .tl it might mak�e:.al?-. buY tickets. piano, - D F l�etwland loo h' County However. that's peanuts, only somethingfor you that an . Fan- porch large rs sm • it in , . . stocks and bonds, the ust ogres Mrs like one tenth of -the national debt. �13 •e , �, vera e. i Clinton, served veryserious problem of the lawnmower and the snow shovel. 1 wont need Bron Far Last week S. Smith made a some 50 years in a 'Catholic Ther.e's the of that. • Service Cent • incr�S�'Iit the -price of gas. Dear _me, if they any just take my graltdbahy. Pokey, and The o Pe h , 5hipa•pent of two certjoads of stock Chua•ch in Forest. Qntario.:(t'� {tee, putting�up the Price of gas. it will soon be I'll 1 for the Don on Monday I don't have the name of. es, It has soon by we'll go off somewhere and make a good life t d an Watson, 5 carloads; Chas. Reid,, I_ sorry now in more than a pack of cigarettes. t located was SQ V. E,,1RS AGO carload: : on Thursday Charles the Church) and is for ourSeid�es, with no'voraen. 0, d sheep Metairie Lar (a su•.4f -.EV,ew h f tit f beer. What calculations 23 l V 10 I carload ? jNy work f attended y y 1 I t real storm swept over ting A fame piano -used Doh 9 Orleans) soared past the cost o a, o e o inns were out about 400 percent yesterday by about 150 JUL) a ace m this.country corning to art It is opera persons. The park,, tour miles An electrical r' a hutch organ has been P beautifully sand except for one Fearless John Turner, with about as much on the pension deal,o I have to wo or Ontario this past Thursday• laced in �r north of Grxlerich on Lake Huron. {•rbcs and choice tis ' lady Who is eight month another s0 or 3t1 y is about 75 per p putting p Hr�.tas�es6°ills Methodist Church by in pregnant. has produced, again. with a budge levelling groan. Hamilton area (' Hoare, dasst�rict agent. ' 1 't the big world and-© •ors* with Albert Seeley has purchased crick united that � go ora in an a cot •n e repairs works carr. And perhaps that is the reason,' ant a very astute financial critic in s failure in m) own. ".�• *visit; stilldriving• • * not than guys left °a . ..s o Elder there are not many guys my age who could still make goo • So, watch it, John Turner • Lyle S. Wall, P.0. Box 73557, Metaire. Louisiana, u .S -A.. 70033 i�f+r+tto• d rowlere ere At- ceruaaM le series their *Moms IN 0 *dews ct0i1etiarnee et t 1 escesserlly moment ft ler0rteian m he mead iy *tier writers. 11 �A haw Mverified by plow sdalleheil Woe will do tory with the sortie f 400 complete y d beach. Colson; Keta d ks from On the other hand. there. �n� not many guys Mr and Mrs h Idly daai�nage Old Home ti4 Downs :and will run in the The 40th annual ' Cr'ich they showed in allowing .and Flossie Snail. � I)exi t� that runs lilzC a All i4 an readiness for' prr*t•rlt' place for the meanwhile rice o as gone up. was held at Seaforth -Crich reunion, which So the gas is 1�9r. Seeley. however. � � oy w-? Did We all expect it to Ea down? f Mines And Sunda ,July .➢ tt� 1 Rick Clarke 'tt starts on August soon as an opening home.''. ase stern, new rices are going to cut who still have 1 shares holidaying y Many tetters with an attendance of 78. s lemic And these P d Lake O eongo to to combine big blacksrr�itl shop After last Sunday' P way d t"rom those repairs. works. Mr. • During t ie afteruoan a sports ort business Dural resciusl My foot! t& i living in a ixtn room. program wasn the nsby thewasstopch. The y- the cottages .the andwas r e W. on ll door impact as the 50th anniversary of Joey Crack the bicycle young supper a short THE CLIFTON NEW ERA Estubleihed tt 65 THE Ittlftt)N NFWS•$IEC • 1 stobleilied• 111411 • forDistrict 23 VI:. ARS AGO July 211. 1930 1*olrtye ('htef Jaai La 1' Hio ehtierg°e . ,Alta has tuten -Chief of Police %int e April ' 1. 1930. .has rt'stgaaesd and a special meeting of council h.t' i►NVia '011'0 ho' *Mayor 12 V Il.rtim 111 draft up an ,ad for the paper to hare,a new chief I3 (N ilt•nnett, aa1Zrtctaltnre ire•presentatt�i e• for 11ur•on County s,rtys thorn ,ire mot haari. e4t jobs .00,nlsable• en the area than he're .bre nie•n to fill them In .r linnet from ( A�9trrttmer sneak'. hitt twtu'r. ne roo9Q that the feral relna°tat iidt•va .alta ox. *slice in front of the Tiotvn Ihall Ing, 110111(4 110We about If94 Mr Ileneot.a's tenter hint �stsatt°s that the pctat)ril,atIon of ('tliitaan m l+?l4 b 2 SO4 d til 114 010.4 lice° VOL was .(isle and Shawn .McClinchey; girls 6 10Q YEARS AGO and 7. Bonnie Turner: boys 8.to July 22.1875 10. Barry Turner ; ladies kick Mr•. S Malcomson. of Clinton. the slipper.. Sandra Johnson; has taken in a partner. in the lucky spot, Pearl Cummings. person of Mr Watson. They will spoon water into glass relay, carry' on the bu �lines of Attar- Pearl Gtttnrtraings' team; straw ney� Re co, at 'thew office on and paper. Cathy Brown's ItattenQ$ur street soon and mar - Mr. O. Wright. of the firm of team; spoon Cathy Brown's Wright 8. Foster left on it'lotndany shmalltaty.persons, Elmo wi'tl3 several Seafeirtln team: oldest p tlu'• neat tlttu - last, beans. for Lake Couchiching pepper • guessing h,A,l hartt ltrrmball has received a pi itnrtit ton es - oil the 1,.lrpla,tr�e• t'nniparny and now tro, Y roue tile* riot superintendent „t relar►prtga•aat co ath heaadgtcaartet' ,11 1 ttntlnn • qtr and tits. (n 1' HaII and Moss 1',%elyn h ti.t? returned airier gvenrting 'o raiyiattl° § a tc0tlatP 16 ltendi¢ag the C4 oaf 6Ea 1101 ' ,,. and t ' 'v a p ttlnlalatai l 12 d cltsttlpl�1 *l tri ' 4l t �aaa�nati.aiv t re�kty Newspaper Da - gentlemen o , where "the,' intend to spend a few Margaret Ball: largest family. days` in boating. fishing. etc. to ruck Patcttner. Never .t' the memory of tie Before the picnic supper- a oldest inhabitant were the crops looking Etter in this locality than *moment's' silence was held for at kuttent Hoose who had passed away. A M Ii 'apace our" anffaahto gift of the Crich coat of arms Connell, Margaret Batt, and e 'Istria Beaker. secretary ; Gerry and Sandra Johnson, George, and Ruth TMeClin�chQy� � and Janet - committee ; and Nancy Turner. eraidine • Brown. Phyllis o' was presented to Mr. and rs. lzaisinc�sstaaann• is erecting a Pearl Cummings, lunch dwelling las opposite t rich toad tinnily ce house she o h urra ° cornt»ittee. 1eh twileaa 6atti�l�cst. RR2 Cargill for' the hospitality