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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1975-09-10, Page 4tit, MIA .'41kH'MiN .✓ArM+.xYwwrIReNS MM1WI'NIe 'd- like to ask er few qu tl s* 'Its mip survival to me as: as t+ millions' of other "little "le` who have small stores. do you ask ' to cash your ? Who do you ask for credit things are tight? Who dd you ask. � . Mo fhe news Robert Fa/rrish, chairman of the Listowel Public Utilities Corn- -mission, has added his name to the list of public officials who seem to think that ,banning reporters is the best way to handle public relations. He threatens in future to bar the door to two members of the editorial staff of The Listowel Banner, the town's weekly newspaper. Most news media have faced the same threat from time to time, but that of Mr. Farrish is unique in that it. is directed only against two in- dividuals, Banner editor Marion Duke and reporter Pearl stay. He demands their replacement if The Banner is to be present at future meetings of the Listowel PUC. He is unlikely to get his wish and certainly shouldn't. in the first place, editor y But chase, how f *n p y,h piece of busitMlend + t Tint stor lng you t'nl I'.s ye few *nt without nonce or y We campefliive with stores price.w se end, our seryict often better. But we cont survive much Longer. When we go, you'll miss us - TOO MANY TO NAME. Duke is untikeiy to bow to his demand. In the second place Mayor David Hay and Ken Lawrence, two other commissioners, do not share his view. Some public officials want it both ways --they want coverage of their activities . ;but they also want to influence the kind of coverage they get. Media reporting should, of course, be balanced, but it is cer- tainly not in the public interest for the media to report only those hatters public officials think should be published or to adjust coverage to public officials' notions of what constitutes satisfactory reporting. Mr. Farrish should heed the calmer counselling of his colleagues on Ustowel's PUC. From The _London Free Press DetttEdittst; • 141-101ted'Ott writing, hist we have been busy etc.., some we retgt Saskat+hewan after atteni?f the Clinton Cent+nniat. We- wish to, congratulate chairman and the coalmine on,a job "well done". We (my husband and t.t, eldest daughters) thoroughly enjoyed the festivities, wonderful parade, dances an the other programs we a. tended. .. The slides Verde took ace very good and we will enjoy them in the years to come. It was a pleasure to show my . husband and family the town I grew up in. Thanks everyone for a job well done and for making tats feel so welcome. P.S.--My father subscribes to the News -Record for us and we realty enjoy it. Keep up the good work. • • Sincerely, Geraldine Mattoon (nee Denomme) Nipawin, Sask. Now that's a convenw on "Boy, dat's wan big countree" ` was my bilingual thought as I winged across the Great Lakes, over the wild lake -and -rock terrain of Northwestern Ontario, and then high above the prairies, as' I headed for the weekly newspaper convention in Saskatoon. That's about the essence of Canada. It's so big, so beautiful, and so varied that it's almost frightening. Perhaps only a well -travelled Itussian.suld feel the sense of awe that I felt, after a brief look at just a small piece of this fantastic land of ours. In seven days I covered about 40,000 miles by almost every, mode of transportation ex crept ox -train, and I saw only the most veritable nook, the smallest cranny of this vast, fascinating country. It's quite an age. At 6:30 on one of those wickedly hot days for which the past summer has been notorious, I'm kissing my tearful wife goodbye. She was crying because we were going to be separated for a whole week, and because I might fall among evil com- panions, which I did. At about 11:30 the same morning, with a couple of time changes thrown in, t' m walking into the Bessborough Hotel, some 1,500 miles away on a lovely, cool, Septemberish day. A week later, after a reunion (we were almost- shy with each other) in a Toronto hotel, we are pounding up the three -lane high- way in my old road -schooner, headed fir home: The hours l tweee .Lha. deorture and the homecoming seemed .to flash by, and yet I felt that I'd been away for a month, I'd seen so much and covered so much ground, not to mention air and water. I. had eaten everything from those awful, frozen airline meals, where you almost rupture yourself trying to get the plastic top off the pat of butter, to haute cuisine, fowl stuffed with -wild rice, to fresh pickerel fillets straight out of the. frying -pan at a shore din- ner. . I`d heaid some good speeches. John Diefenbaker, on home ground, with no need to politic, is unbeatable as an entertainer. Otto Lang, also in his home province, gave me some assurance that at least one of our federal ministries is in cool hands. And most awing of all was the high official from the postal service, standing up there and trying to tell weekly altars .that we have good postal service, and udhl have a great one. its a Wonder he wasn't stoned to death. But his homework had been done, and hisfobtwork was excellent. He almost convinced me. Essence of his message was to get that postal code on yau il. When ' cci to holdinga convention. those Saskatchewan weekleditors don't have to play second fiddle to anyone. This convention was well organized. varied and coktrhul. It included a side trip -to the battlefield of Batoche, where Gabriel Dumont's metis took on the regular army and gave it a bloody nose, during the RieI Rebellion: Another exceptionally interesting evening included a visit to Pionera. If you are ever in Saskatoon, don't miss it. There is a complete Construction of a pioneer village, containing everything from a ' barber -shop to a bank. Along with this goes a huge exhibition of old machinery, used in the early days, and a display of handsome old automobiles that would make an antique car huff burst into tears of joy. Another colorful bit was the piping in of the colors at one of the banquets, and their formal presentation to the new President, Ernie Neufeld, of Weyburn, Sask. And as an added fillip, there was a post - convention fishing trip into Northern Saskatchewan, one of the greatest fishing areas of the world. More about that later. For me, the best part of the convention was meeting old friends and making new ones. To the old ones, I am here to testify that you never looked better. To the new ones, I can only say there are some nighty nice people in this country, and you are among them. One thing that warmed my heart was the number of families in which the children are involved in their parents' newspapers. In this age. most young people, for some reason, spurn the occupation of their parents, and want to strike• out on_ their. own. derstandable. But the number or second, and even third -generation people sticking with the business shows that running a weekly newspaper still holds a lot of attraction for young, bright people. Some of them are the Derksens of Estevan, the Cadogan of New Brunswick. the Dills of Milton. the McCon- nells of Tilbury. There are many others. On the other side of the coin, of course. weekly editors and their wives are just like other people. Some of their offspring disturb them deeply. I must have a national reputation as an expert on "rotten kids," because I had both ears bent badly out of shape by mothers and fathers who would corner me and tell me almost in tears, of the latest "terrible" things' their youngsters were up to,. After my own experience in raising kids. nothing can even raise one of my eyebrows, but I hope I,brought some comfort to the af- flicted. Don't worry chaps. Your kids,w:ill turn out all right, or all wrong, or somewhere in the middle. like most of us, there's not a darn thing you cath do 'about it. exorept to bite off the umbilical cord. A good convention. And next year it's off to Halifax and into the sett food. Already I can feetthe juices dripping down my chin. 7f1�` .t.tsr DN NEW E1ir4 Established 11163 THE- IiURON NEVI S.AECORD Established ISO Those who 'rated Well, sir, it's good news for us Watchers that the construction industry is getting back into gear. There must be thousands like me who've spent a mighty doleful summer without being abbe to supervise, from, the sidewalk, the usual jobs of excavating, steam -shovelling, bulldozin scaffolding and the rest that attract our breed like flies to the•bnney pot. I am so rusty at my high -steel work that it may ba weeks before 1 can take over a job with my old coil competence. Watchers are non-union,, of course, but not altogether unorganized. . While I was consultant to the contractors at a certain office building hereabouts, my last really big job, I noticed the same speculative faces day after day from oour,vantage point. It kind of gave you confidence to have thein there, veterans of many another skyscraper, ever ready to voice an opinion here, make a suggestion there. We threw her up, by the Lord Harry. Some of the contractors, I'm bound to say. are just a little ungrateful for the loyal support we give them. There have even been a few who calloosly neglected to leave peep -holes in the fences, keeping us from our sell -appointed duties until the framework rose above the barricades. Heaven onl o what - faulty toundat ns have. gone in without our . - It to be hoped that this attitude will have been softened by the relninder, as the result of the slack times of the con- struction industry. that they need all the friends they can get. Any comment on the disrupting effect of sullies would be superfluous here, but it . seems to me there's a forgotten man when such disputes lead to lengthy idleness. In two recent strikes, for example, certain friends of mine were squeezed in the middle, the innocent bystanders who invariably suffer -- and, often, the hardest - when labor and management reach an impasse. These are the self-employed, independent operators or suppliers, owing allegiance to neither side, whose small businesses face slow bankrup cy when there's a shutdown. It's often said that nobody wins from a strike, but over the lnog haul that isn't altogether true. The unions "are usually' able tostick it out by emergency funds, eventually win sizeable gains and improved working conditions. Management, . in turn, may absorb its toss by the inevitable, almost automatic, increase in its charges for ser- vices or products: - Every strike, in fact. results in a retroactive charge to be • shouldered by the public. But the middle -man wins neither sympathy nor support and may, in fact, go under when the agony is prolonged. Oh, yes, and speaking of significance an the contemporary scene, we must acknowledge, with a sigh. the return of the song, "Mairzy Doats." This is a cruel blow to fathers of teen -aged boys or girls who. as part of their growing pains. have cottoned to the stuff they call rock 'n' roll_ Like most parents, I've been mildly con- temptuous toward :this kindof music. Allthat is now irithepast:' "'Maim y Doats", which is.a song of my era, has been revived and the young disc jockeys are making a point of telling the kids that this is what their parents adored. Only last night one of the snippiest of them introduced the new version by remarking. "This is the rock of your parents' day.': ' . Now that this horrible thing has happened there's no telling what they'll dredge up from our past. Maybe even a little ditty called "'Three Itty Fishes.'. • 1a YEARS AGO September 9;, 1965. First game of the Ontario Baseball Association juvenile "B" final series is scheduled for Clinton Community Park on Sunday afternoon. Sept_ 12 at 2 p.m. Clinton eliminated Petrolia last -weekend and Milton ..put• Stoney geek out this week. Second game is . in Milton the following Sunday, Sept. 19. also at 2 p.m. Sketch plans for another ad- dition to. Central. Huron Secon- dary School were • approved by the GDCI Board meeting last night. Wednesday. The new 19.060 square foot addition and classroom equipment will cost an estimated $471.530. When the doors of the four schools in the town of Clinton opened on Tuesday morning. a record number of students rushed in. Central Huron Secondary School, of course. accounts for the grentesegrowth in school population but enrollment is higher; p. e11 at Clinton Ptablie School and at Carvin Christian School. Tabulations at CHSS late Tuesday afternoon showed that 1.30.7 students were enrolled at the school with the average number of students per classroom now standing at 27.,5. 2.056 pupils enrolled in the four Clinton schools. Air craftsman Raymond Harquail recently graduated as the top student from the School of , Food Services at RCAF Station Clinton Ontario. During the first day at school. teacher informed all the students that i! anyone had to go, to the washroom. he should raise two fingers. One little boy seemed puzzled, and asked. -How's that going Whelp 9 " Donald G. Milts will return to the University of Toronto on September 17 to register for his second year at the College of Pharmacy: Nis sister. ,loan E.. enters the University of Western Ontario at London on September 15 in the .first year Arts course. Both are the children of Rev. and Mrs. Grant Mills. Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gibbings have just returned from a very pleasant 7.400 mite motor tour of the, Western Provinces. They went west to Victoria and north to Dawson ,; Creek calling on nunierousrelittives and friends itt those areas, .EAiS AGO seems I tl Harold Turner. son of Mr. and Mrs. George N. Turner of Tuckerssnith has been -zippointed to the position of Collector of Customs at Clinton. a position left vacant by the -resignation of J. Wiseman about six months ago. Miss Cora Jervis spent the • weok€ndat.her. home on the_B,ase Line. Miss Jervis is the principal of the nine -room Public and Continuation School,. at Palmerston. Women have always had to choose between luxury and economy in matters of dress. If you buy Htileproef Hosiery at Plumsteel Brothers, you can have both Pure Silk $1.50 and Hoteproof silk and lisle and silk and Art Silk plaited 51.00. , Clinton Hardware and Fur- nittire suggests that you get your barn painted now while the good weather lasts and also the supply of barn paint at $1.75 per gallon. A quiet marriage took place at the Ontario Street parsonage on Monday when Miss Hanel Viola. daughter of Mr and Mrs. Isaac Carter, became the bride of Mr Donald S. McDCugali of Goderich township. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C . J Moorhouse Thursday last was '''Grand- mother's Day" with the Local Women s Institute and a pleasant afternoon was spent at the home of Mrs. S G Castle. where a 'number of grandmnothers were the guests of the Institute Mrs. Stoman won the prize for being the oldest grandmother present. her age being ninety-two. and Mrs E Herman was awarded the prize as a great- grandmother, she having twenty- two great-granchildren Nass Lottie Livermore has guns; to St•. Catharines where she will take a Collegiate and Voeattna'ial course. She will make her home with her sister. Miss Mildred. who has been living in St Catharines for some throe. 7S YYE ►RS AGO September S. 19119 A novel idea struck A . Carper and he carried it out. Fear the opening day of school on Tuesday he used the sidewalk for his advertisement, by having sup- posed footprints Of scholars in- dicate that theywere wending their way t Cooper's for their school supplies. It was the -nese est , way to the newspsper we have seen yet ter an iittractiVfe and drawing advertisement Our own Jas. Smith. tot Ontario Street. is the owner of .a stylish. well-bred Kentucky driver which he got when over visiting in Indianapolis. lnd., a while ago. Mr. Smith is considered to be a horseman. and has owned some pretty good steppers. The present one is a goer and is sere_to get a mark which will make our fast horses g� some to beat. It is a valuable animal for which a handsome figure was paid. To keep, in line with this driver he has a handsome phaeton with rubber tires, ball bearings and a fine upholstered seat. and harness in keeping with the turnout. I he horse may now be seen on the streets and ad- mired by all. Two smart young lads who had been using ton much spirituous Liquid were driving around town at a late hour on Monday night but d is is net all. The new walks in front of Hiil's grocery and McCiacbety's restaurant bear marks of their manoeuvres From wilfulness or un - manageableness of the horse. the buggy was driven along the walk m front of these stores and the horse had evidently slipped the shoe . on the hrndtoot sera tchin tai the pavement badly Several in town are witness of the affair while Constable Welsh :s in• vestrgatmg to square matters up Horseless wagons and carriages are now all the fashion, and ere tong we titay expect Jo see a number of horsetess con- veyances m these parts Arthur Couch has introduced a horsete*ss delivery cart but his differs from the orthodox conveyance in the fact that it is drawn by a mule, -bought of Mr Murray of Strat ford 1 The.; Hub grocery carried on by F Melville* has been sold to W. (Med, late with J W. Irwin. Mr. M Mehl+ having been offered good positions by several wholesale houses to go on the road has decided to -.do so. Stock taking has been finished and Mr. O'Neil will be ready for business on Saturday, September Sth. 1 -le wishes to secure a share of trade. and ijeing courteous and obliging. every attention will be paid to customers. 1» YEARS AGO September,. *873 The ploughing thatch of District No: 4, under the auspices ot- the Agricultural and Arts Ass t htrti ofatiario. apt~n to all ughmen in the Province, will take, place . on Wedrieiday, Oct. 29th., at nine o'clock, a.m. sharp. an the farms of Geo. Stanbury Esq., and Jno. Avery. Esq.. 2% miles south of Clinton. on the London road. The present season seems to have been an exceedingly favourable one for the, production of almost all growing crops. We. have been' noticing large onigns. productive peas. and now we come to a targe yield of potatoes. Mr Geo. Sheppard. of this town. recently dug from a piece of ground about limb feet square. over two bushelsf Early Rose potatoes. many of which weighed over one pound. This is • a - tremendous y raid A good deal of fruit pilfering is now going on. and so long as little boys and orchards are reared within walking distance of each other. it is likely to continue. The law is very stringent on, fruit stealers. and it would be well for thee boys to recollect this. and confine their depredations to as small a taunt as their natures will allow It is not so -much the loss of .the fruit' as the damage co trees that most people complain of The regular Monthly meeting of the Town Council was held on Monday everting Last,, the Mayor in the chair A petition was received from nine rate payers. . . in reference to watering the streets It was moved that the watering be discontinued from this time. for the season; but on a division that motion was lost. It was also moved and carried. that the Bandstand be improved to make it more suitable for playing on. the cost not to exceed $12. The Council then ad ourned. To the Editor Scotlane-Dakota Territory Dear Sir Sept 1. 1875 I have received a copy of your paper. dated Aug. kith, in which you announce tlnit I am dead. recently killed by Indians, as a result of an altercation with them about some • stock and the sad news is copied into other papers, and widdly circulated. so that all of my .'many* Wends" are in possti►ssion of it, and they in- 1-structed that the information is reliable .• In conclusion. the writer wishes to send kindly greetings to alt the friends back "breve- and requests that other papers that circulated the statement contenting his death would please cop9 this kltter as a correction. Very respectfully yours. Alfred tir-own. (researched by i Iichele Flt wers) Swear Dear Editor: I wonder how many people watched the program "Per- formance"' Sunday evening, or how many people turned it off like we did? I am all for thinking Canadian and buying Canadian. I think it is the only place to live,, but if this is Canadian. I want nothing. to do with it. . You can always tell ' when' a Canadian production is on television or more properly perhaps a C.B.C. production. Every other word is a swear word. I am not perfect and 'neither is my family nor do we pretend to be. Every once in a while an Tadd swear word could slip out Of any of its. but we certainly'don't make a practice of it. This program was educational, in the fact that the children are learning the history of our land. If you want 'your child to think that this is the average Canadian way (every other word a swear word) let them watch - if you can stand the language. My ,husband and I were most offended. We don't subject our children to this type of language in our everyday life and certainly are not going to let them listen to it on TV Fotkget the children, we wouldn't listen to it ourselves. Certainly the people in the time of the Winnipeg strike had it rough, but I think I. can assure you that the i it -tie bit we did watch was certainly not a typical Winnipeg family scene. Maybe the C.B.C. wants to drive home how tough things really were. but the toughest thing about any scene we saw was the language • tin did the producers of these shows gr v., up? Were their homes lifeones portrayed- last night on the C.B.C.' 1 have my douubts. 1 think sometimes' I would rather take my children into a bar for entertainment„Granted this is perhaps no place for` children or a lady either perhaps. but I have been in the Tadd bar. and if a man happened to say the odd swear word. he immediately apologised. to any • d lady present 1f it should happen that a person did get a little inebriated and offend somebody the management saw to it that they left or were repri rnded Who is going to reprimand the C B .0 _ for their of- fensiveness' Wedi'd. we turned our TV off. Yours truly. Kay McGee...:- Clinton. Fact Dear Editor: In "The Jack Scott Column” of the September 4th issue .appears the following statement : "Nothing is " as stimulating as giving the lie to some blandly accepted "fact". (continued on pa : e5)