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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-03-18, Page 4}I'}•J'T��I; as ?.�," 11 t ft if I 1, this rte pia that arra .00 in .print, what they are .,e 'p;.'e t' *,trOINly+oth soethi, al really has the der' of his canv!tlans surety he 't care if his name .14Used, in fact ea we a o� jdh name: . puhiis' n►+►,l, P i,t :+fin' A iId insist his: with h, J1 seto ' eally be rued he ! re he would went' pe pl t+l know that he stands firmly in his &let, no caring what other people thinkof his opinion,. So, although this � r doespintis Publish lett s. with pnynIs, allcredibility , is lost When the reader notice • the writer is too scared to . sign his -own name. divided we fall The actions of the hospital boards of hospitals in Goderl h and Wingham of refusing to make cuts in order to help Save Clinton hospital are at best short sighted, says the Blyth Standard. The two hospitals have shown an attitude to "thank goodness it's not us" end said to heck with Clinton.. It seems hardly a fitting attitude for a profession that is supposed to act es a good samaritan. In addition it's a downright stupid attitude: As Huron -Middlesex M.P.P. Jack Riddell pointed out recently, Health Minister Frank Miller has still only closed 10 of the 24 hospitals he had earlier talked of closing. He'd promised no more closures in Huron this year. But after he's ,saved his $50 million this year, what does he do for an encore next year? isn't it possible he may be back in Huron on his messenger of death voyages to break the bad news to another hospitafr If that hospital was Wingham or Goderich, just who would feel very sorry for them after the ' cavalier ap- proach they've taken to helping Clinton.. It's been pointed out time and again that beds closed now can easily be reopened again, if the Clinton Hospital is completely closed, it will never reopen. Vet despite the common sense, despite the fact it may be long range insurance that group action would give their own hospitals, the Wingham and Goderich boards continue to offer sympathy but tittle else. Mr. Miller would be proud. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Those Tories! These Tories are something. This column Will not appear until after their convention, but I'm still going around shaking my head in amused perplexity. Theme of the convention seemed to be "Healing old wounds." This phrase cpme up again and again, as the blood from the old wounds oozed steadily, paying no at- tention. Tone of the convention, aside from the theme, seemed to be, "Open new wounds." And they were visible, pouring forth fresh blob&. Not all the pious proclamations of solidarity, working together, and we're -all - brothers -in -the -grew Conserv tive-party could hide from any viewer Oka '". ying a chiv was the order of the day.' By the time this appears in print, I have no doubt that Joe Clark, the new leader, slick as a seal when he took over, will look more like a porcupine, with all those daggers sticking out of his back. It's a good thing he weighs only 145 pounds: At least a skinny guy is a smaller target for the knives. What a scenario! Their leader, Robert Stanfield, was stopping down after eight harrowing years trying to get a crowd of mavericks to make sense. He's the best leader the party has had since Robert Borden. So what do they do as a zippy opening for the convention? They hold a laudatory dinner for John Diefenbaker, , who has made things as difficult as possible for Stanfield, since the latter beat him out for the leadership. Mr. Diefenbaker needed that dinner like he needed a hole in the head. He has been honored quite often enough as the Grand Old Man of the party. And with his ego, he doesn't need anybody to tell him how great he is. Oh, Stanfield was given a dinner too, but sort of second banana, if he'll pardon the expression. He laid it on the line. Told the Tories present they had to stop the in- fighting, and get together if they were ever to form a government. That was about as much use as me telling a class of students that if they didn't do their homework, they would fail. Totally ignored. Next day the cats turned up for the farce. The actors did everything Shakespeare warned the players not to do, in the play Hamlet. Reward- Graftey and Patrick Nowtan sawed the air violently with their hands, shattered it with thel ri months, cast their appeal- ,entirely to the groundlings. This after, like Leacock's hero, leaping each on his horse and riding off in all directions. Jobn Fraser, a decent -looking chap with about as much charisma .as Fred Flint- stone. lintstone. read a speech that would have put to sleep the annual convention of the Women's Institute. Pretty Boy Mulroney, batting his eyelashes at the cameras, smiled and spilled and made a speech that might have gbt him a 5"5 fee on the banquet circuit. Sinclair Stevens, an oldtime image of a Bay St. Tory, bald and rich, made the only attempt to inject a little humor, and it bombed with a crowd which seemed able to applaud only platitudes. Richard Quittenton from somewhere quit before the balloting began. Jack Horner should have stayed in a corner, instead of trying to ride the herd back into the 1940s. Paul Hellyer, defeated for the Liberal leadership, hotly attacked the Prime Minister with vague innuendoes, and completed making an ass of himself by savagely attacking the press, of whith he is a working member. James Gillies, an economics professor, sounded like one, but had the good sense to get out early . Claude Wagner, formerly beaten for the Liberal leadership in Quebec, and lured into the Tory party with a 5300,000 trust fund, .proved a master orator, but said virtually nothing. Joe Clarke, the eventual winner, made one studied joke, then launched into an earnest, dull speech which managed to cover most of the diamond without touching many bases. Flora McDonald, to my mind, made the most honest speech .of the lot. She was simple. but eloquent, warm but strong. Next day the blood-letting began. Diefenbaker, never ane to forget or forgive an insult., real or fancied, remembered that Joe Clarke had worked against him in a leadership campaign, and went to Wagner. Little Jack Horner followed him into that corner, after taking a swing at a reporter. Hellyer, looking as though he'd been sucking a persimmon, joined that middle- aged crowd. Flora, obviously crushed by the knoiMedge that hundreds of blatant liars had promised her second -ballot support, went to Clarke, as did most of the others. Quebec media people claimed there was a gang -up against Wagner. Ridiculous. He got just under half the total vote. It was scarcely high drama. More like low comedy. But the party lfas a new leader., He looks like a live„ Arte, and his smart (in both senses) young wife should help. But he's .going to need a lot of ban- dages to staunch the old wounds, and the - new ones. I -don't know Mr. Clarke, but we have both appeared regularly in the High,River Times. Go get 'im, Joe. y� Sleitihrr. c)ntari. Weelity NeespapetAtsatiatitut The Mute% heirs-ttecant Is published each Thursday at P.O. ties 31„clietsa. Ontattar t'ansdr, Ha. is M registered as sealed etas* mil by the past attire eerier the penult immber M$3. The News.11ecurd lacerthsrated la Ina the flume Nehrs•ltteerd. Needed is 1*1. ani the neaten Nevr Eva: flooded WINS. 'Nal nen is VAL air Wag rates !totar.t Oct 1. Editor • James E. Fitzgerald Advertising director Gary L. 14aist General Manager - ,l, Howard Aitken News stilt - Bev Clark e t ar �: ubscriptisn Rates: Canada • Sit per year ,l.S�+II. • $12.S$ Single le to • .25 � pY »1 p ‘‘But Your ;if fliaktailuu I thunk they, dust expect you to OPEN the Olympics The Jack Scott Column - Coming, going Nothing is as 'stimulating as the study of human behaviour and perhaps no locale offers such rewards for the study as a hub of transportation. Give meq seat in a bus depot or a railway station or an airline terminal and that's my lollipop. I tell you, it's better even than bird -watching. There was a young wife who cried yesterday at the air- port. Oh, say, it was a satisfying sight. I was sitting in a corner of the sandwich shop, stretching a pot of coffee between,planes and observing like mad, and I watched this particular farewell. The metallic, dispassionate voice over the public-address system anndunced the immediate departure for Toronto and Montreal. The young couple embraced, clutching pathetically at each other, and the Iittle lady cried! "The Little Lady Cried" — gosh, it was all I could do not to write the love song on the spot! It was entrancing. There should be more farewells like this. All around them other couples were parting awk- wardly, shackled in reserve. Lord! We Canadians are a grey, conservative, unsentimental bunch! But this one tremulous twosome made a shining sight. ' The man turned and walked down the ramp and `odt into the March rain to the big, silver -winged cigar. He walked with pride. Nothing sets a man up quite so much as a woman's tears. The young wife stood there, very straight. very nice legs, dabbing at her eyes until the great plane snarled into the air. It was a splendid sight. Most of us are ill-equipped for these emotional ex- periences. You see it demonstrated at any airport by the curious pattern of the greeting or reunion. - The passengers who expect to be met at the airport step out of the aircraft door with a look of expectation. Then, sighting the friend or relative, their faces break into an electric, radiant expression of gratitude. If you pan your vision quickly across to the crowd of waiting people you will see the expression met and acknowledged. I say quickly because it is a fleeting, transient contact. Both parties instantly lower their eyes. The man or woman who has arrived concentrates gravely on getting down the steps. The greeting party may busy himself with the lighting of a cigaret. As the gap between them closes they contrive to avoid each other's gaze until the last possible moment. Why is this? Well. I think possibly it may be that people feel that it is an invasion of privacy to gaze too openly at another person°s,bared emotions --the reason, perhaps, that people at funerals elevate their eyes from the,tnourriers. It is purely Anglo-Saxon, of course. At LeBrourget or at the airportin Rome you will see the Gallic or Latin contrast. The tears flow like rivers. Men and women hurl themselves with glad cries upon each other. A departure is an excuse for flaring passion. It is all much more satisfactory for both participant and observer. Watching, alone, is an interesting way to pass an hour. It is even better to play the role of eavesdropper. And here, the remarkable thing is the inconsequentials that bind people together. Here, for example. is a man who. I gather, has just returned from a two -months' business tour in Europe. We have watched him disembark. We have seen him kiss his good; stout wife and his two little boys and now they are all sitting waiting for his baggage. Right? . Now. What deathless words of love and devotion pass here? Well, the wife had just told him, "We had to get the new furnace part afterali.." One of the little boys has said. twice, "I've been in bed every night at 8:30." If you guessed that the man might yearn for more memorable words you would naturally be altogether wrong. This is precisely what he wants. This is home. He looks happy. The news of the furnace has plunged him right back into domesticity where he belongs. Oh, I tell you, there's nothing like people. From our early files a . 10 YEARS AGO March 24, 1946 The Huron Fish and Game bantams, managed... -by Don Jefferson and coached by Clarence Neilans. have won 23 games in regular schedule, playoffs and exhibitions. They have been tied twice. The team has scored over 200 goals. The Bantams are now in the midst of two playoff series. At a special meeting on March 15. thre Hullett Township School . Area Board a$cepted the tender of Gordon Radford for the transportation of the pupils to the new Central School to be built at Londesbora. In other business, the board engaged Donald Miller as principal for the school year starting September. Construction on the new 11 class room school is to start in late March and the completion date is September 1. The Logan Contracting Co. of Stratford have the building contract at the price of 5330,000 and the firm of Dunlop. Wardell. M'atusi and Aitken of Islington are the architects for the protect Frank Van Bussel and Sons Ltd.. who built Goderich Township's public school at Holmesvi'ile. Clinton's federal building and is' no* completing aaddition to the Zurich public scJiooi, has been awarded the contract for the new sixteen room school being planned at 8truceffeld.; The Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society will undertake a 519.000 campaign in the county during April. Technicians from the Northern Electric Co. are. practically finished with the installation of dial equipment in the. new Tuckerr:smith Tr►lephone ex- change building. "the changeover to dial telephones is being made at 2,11 ctn. ' May 15 • and the majority of homes already have their phones in�yreadlness for the great "switch over". Canada** national income in 1964 was 3,100,000000 of which taxes collected by the three levels of government took $12,1114.000.000 or til..? percent. ' Firianci*l details cooncernin the ISO Intewtlon;al• Plowing Match, scheduled +edi for HuronoHuronC arty in Octautt, were rked' ottt wok/. who' tor if* tatives of the local committee met in Toronto with the executive of the Ontario Plowman's Association. The event gets under way October 11 at the site in McKillop, north of Seaforth. While details were not released. the. budget for the big match is expected to exceed S30.000.000. 25 YEARS AGO March 22, 1951 Fire of unknown origin caused heavy damage at Huron County Home. south of Clinton. last night, completely destroying a large shed and contents. Through plucky efforts on the part of the Clinton. RCAF. and Bayfield Fire Brigades. the fire was kept from spreading to the main building of the Home. The police are on a strict lookout for the culprits who made a forcible entry to Murphy Bros. Garage, Clinton. between 9-30 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a . m Saturday last and stole ap- proximately $15. Property owners of Clinton go to the poles on -Monday May 14, to decide the future of the town's elementary educational facilities. "Are you in favour of the Town of Clinton issuing debentures in the amount of 5300,000 for tate erection of a new public school?" is' the question which will appear on the ballot. Arising out of the proposed annexation of a portion of the township of Hullett to include the site of the proposed new public school and its environs. the proceedings of Clinton town Council. at a special meeting Monday evening. naturally gravitated into a discussion of town council. In our humble Opinion the Town• Council made one of its best moves in a long time when it took the first 'step toward a town planning bylaw Mondaiv evening. Iluron County Health Unit. with Chairman Frank Sills, Seaforth presiding. held its regular meeting at the Health Centre, a v Clinton, with favorable reports received. Dr. R.M. Aldis, MOH. and director stated that of the 592 students in the Count high setiool5, tested for T.B., 4s were positive or approximately eight ,.porcelt. 50 YEARS AGO March 25. 1926 Messrs. Luke and Gordon Lawson have bought out the Watsbn grocery, south side of Huron street. which Messrs..D.N. Watson and Frank Watson have been conducting for the past year. and are taking over this week. The following item is clipped from the Malden correspondence of the Amherstburg Echo. The Mission Band is no doubt named after Miss Sybil Courtice of Clinton,' now a missionary in Japan. It seems to be a flourishing state too. an honour to its namesake. The river at Bayfield broke up on Tuesday. March 23rd, the latest that has been known for years: There is quite a jam between the piers. Mr. W.A. Crich of Seaforth and Mr. H. Bartliff of Clinton have purchased the Bluthner bakery and restaurant business. corner of Albert and Rattenbury and are taking over this week. Mr Bartliff will be in charge of the business and he ought to know how to run it all right as it is his old stand. This issue curried a picture of the Canadtcris. PtAnirr 01 the trophy donated to the local hockey league by the News- Record- included in the picture were F Match. R.McEwan, P. Livermore. L. Pearson. W H Mutch. C. Cooper. W. Jervis. J L Heard, G.E. Hall. W.J. Mutch and G Roth. Absent from th+ picture were E. Tuiford. B. Tasker. J. Carter. 73 YEARS AGO March 22, 11 J . J. Fisher can be considered in a class with the best of decorators and fancy painters judging from the pretty cards got out to advertisie the Doherty organ at the Glasgow exhibition. Ile showed us some eight dif- ferent styles but a dozen orrso will be made just as handsome. The weather has decidedly been unfarourabte, interfering considerably' with local markets. The supply of wood is not as plentiful as in bole of good sleighing. het prices keep up as usual. The supply of eggs being plent.ifrll, the Ogee* Iiia a cti`on. ped. The produce men. Cantelon Bros., shipped to the eastern market about 4,000 lbs. of butter and 2.500 dozen of eggs; butter rules_at from 15c to I6c a pound and eggs Idle to llc a dozen. Mr. B.P. Sibley wasgreeably surprised on Wednesdar evening last after the prayer meeting at Rattenbury street church. Rev. Mr. Howson. on behalf of the congregation and choir. presented the leader of the choir with a beautiful marble clock as.a slight token of esteem for his faithful and generous services he renders to the church . in many ways Mr- Sibley was taken unexpectedly. but replied in a very fitting manner for their kindness extended. Veterinary G.H. Gibb of Seaforth. takes his father's practice in St. Mary's and has sold out his .practice in Seaforth to Dr. W.J.R. Fowler, formerty.of Clinton. who takes ' possession about the first of April. The first wheels were seen on our streets Monday. The prospects are favourable for good maple sugar season. Crows, the harbingers of balmy spring have made their first ap- pearance. Two weeks from today (Friday) is Good Friday. (researched by Michele Flowers) Slur Dear Editor: , .o The announcement that the Clinton Public Hd�spital wt to be closed came as, a shock, to say the least,to all Clinton and area residents who use the hospital. The first reaction to this statement was to fight the decision in the best way we know to keep it open. Why the "decision" to close was made in the first place, we don't .understand. Some, have said "for political reasons". Hardly. We are just recovering from the closing of the large air bases in Huron County. Many of the people who worked or trained at CFB Clinton, went to other positions in all parts of Canada. Many would return to retire in Clinton but will think twice about it if the hospital is closed. Was the "decision" for financial reasons? If so. then the people should know the facts as we expect you would be hard pressed to find a more efficient Board than the Clinton Public Hospital Board. We understand that the patient cost per day in Clinton is less than the average and if so, it hardly makes sense to transport people from Clinton for the same care to another hospital, at a higher cost per day , to save money. The -"'decision" could not have been made simply because Clinton was in the wrong place on the map. Well-educated people with the citizens' welfare in mind don't do. things that way. We really don't like the word fight as we would rather work things out co-operatively and it is easy for us to say "pick on somebody else". We know 'hospitals are needed, and the Clinton hospital has been efficiently operated for many years. Many local citizens have donated large sums of money and many hours of dedicated time to an institution we are not going to see closed. Clinton has recently up -dated the sewage system and Clinton has been a good place for people to live. Let us keep it that way and keep our hospital . Find enclosed our con- tribution of $50.00 to the Save The Hospital Fund. Board of Directors. Clinton Community Credit Union Limited Dogs Dear Editor: What I am about to say is that I think something should be done about the dogs that run loose all the time. We put the garbage out at night and the nelsit day, we have garbage half way up- town. If I had anything to do about this matter. I would see that any loose dog would be picked up and taken to the dog pound Perhaps then. the people of Clinton would take better Care of their pets. right or wrong , I would like to see a piece put in the next edition of the Clinton News Record. Yours truly. The Smiths. Clinton. News -Record readers are encouraged to express their opinions in letters to the editor, however. such opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the News - Record. Pseudonyms may be used by letter writers, but no tetter will be published unless it can be verified by phone. Comments Dear Editor In last week's "Letters 4o the Editor," G. L. Hollingworth. M.D. made some comments that merit a response Doctor Hollingworth's Statistics that reveal the Ontario Health budget is only 4,4 percent of the Grass. Provincial Product is most reassutripg. It is also refreshing to know that Canada is one of the world leaders in reducing the rate of overall health expenditures. The . arbitrary closing announcement concerning Clinton's Hospital is totally inexcusable and irrational. Mr. Miller is obviously not aware .. that the health, authorities in the United Kingdom went through this process of closing small hospitals two decades ago and soon recognized their mistake. Since that time the) have made every effort to decentralize hospital facilities. Doctor Hollingworth in- dicated that alternate ways to save health dollars would be to eliminate health benefits such as podiatric, optometric and chiropractic services. The government does recognize that the medical profession cannot provide every ' type of necessary health cdre. Chiropractic benefits f conlift0Nf on page 7