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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-05-06, Page 4rtd� orii nston `its da' ,111rk tib ger o kingi and t , high In r sire t press�uri " +ot our dollars to 11 Wal Y r of the: wo 'id would' -hardly n surprised for their empty bo!:MIS and their marginal eastence he bn toiling them for yearsthat something 'IS not working; But that Semething is More than the Mere fluctuations of -an out -of -whack :Marketing system. it is a basic flaw In the system of economic and social distribution of wealth. Their predicament -- which Is, really our predicament too -- is rooted in unjust economic and social structures and outmoded behavior between and within nations. A.new global ethic based on justice and equality called the New In- ternational Economic Order is a strong A disappoiatmeat Junior members of Huron Country Playhouse came to Clinton toentertain the pre-schoolers and grade school children as well as their parents in a play entitled "My Best Friend is Twelve Feet High". Unfortunately, the play, written by Canadian playwright Carol Bolt was not accepted by the audience as much as was expected. Perhaps the reason for this was the fact that although the play was billed as appealing to pre-schoolers and grade school children, it was more entertaining to a select adult audience who could appreciate childhood fan - M rgy a1 T • �. ' ie ,orde 1ncreasingl espi us+ d til Ohla. aid ±ether ncer d groups. is Lynn attempt t ► v• l a M R'Jt I t 7 hlc d a e u h toed shelter and Othinq clothingfor awry 4 an In an earth, as well 8s tl ! : opl ► !nity. for each per5On to live, iii .:self-tyltlt ! ►t; while a n, ..r mentality.. must be developed, 'flirt t►ithin the pt lrers> of go' rnment to Bhang the existing system based ort greettiq One of caring e are.tWa basic ways and sllarin ��• Thar ... to change our outlook: Resources .should be used -only for essentials, not luxuries; there should be a move to global solutions rather than national reactions; there should • be unity in the push towards trade. rather than merely aid for Poorer nations and more public. support for development and world government to enforce all this. The marketing system might then start to work. tasies,. having experienced them, rather than a child who still lives in a world of make believe. The cost of the play was, also disappointing. The Clinton group sponsoring the show paid $200 for .30 minutes which comes to $6.67 a minute. The quality of the play was noteworthy of that much money. "My Friend", did not meet the usual standards of Huro.un Country Playhouse, but maybe we were ex- pecting too much. , Fortunately we didn't know how much or how long the play was going to be before we saw it, or we would have expected even more. ,B.C. Suqar and Spicc/By Bill Smilcy French with tears You ch r : e ad a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can't teach an old dog new 'tricks. You can't make a silk purse out of d H . ear. 41'o these oid 4 iges might be. added another, closely r ,ated. You can't create a fluent, sparklin.g. bilingual cosmopolitan out of a dull, middle-class. middle-aged civil servant. I'm glad to see that some semblance of sense has .peeped into the senility surroundinf, the approach to bilingualism at Ottawa. Keith Spicer, the grand poobah of bilingualism, appointed by the Trudeau government to wet -nurse one of its favorite babies; has finally reached a conclusion that an average 12 -year-old could have arrived at, without undue mental strain, in about 15 minutes. He decided. and had the courage to ad- mit, that the government program for creating bilingualism in the civil service was bass ackwards. Some unkind people might say that Ottawa civil servants have always spoken with a double tongue, even when they had only one language, and why have them speaking doubletalk in two? Instead of pouring millions into con- verting stodgy civil servants into cop= noisseurs of French language and cultute, Mr. Spicer concedes, the money should be spent in the schools, teaching French to children. Great thinking, Keith -......Anyone with any knowledge of learning a second language could have told you that two years ago. Oi-dinary, every -day common sense and experience shows us how true this is. Take an average family of immigrants to Canada, German, Italian, whatever you like. The parents have great difficulty in learning English, and retain a strong ac- cent all their lives. Their children. even though their only language is their native one when they arrive here. and even though it is spoken almost exclusively at home, are completely at ease in English within a year or two. To hear them chirp and prattle away Tri idiom, you'd never know that they weren't. born and bred in English-speaking Canada. For an adult, learning a new language is horribly hard work. And for a bureaucrat or civil servant, it must be doubly difficult, because their minds are constitutionally unable to admit anything new. French-Canadians who Want to get somewhere in Canada, - whether it's in business or politics, learn English because they have to. Whatever the pundits say, this is primarily an English-speaking country. Most French-Canadian cabinet ministers are at least adequate in English. Some politicians, like Pierre Trudeau and Claude Wagner, speak English beautifully, far better than most of their Anglophone peers and opponents. But when an Anglo politician speaks French, however atrociously, we look upon him .or her with amazement, as though it were a sign of genius. What hypocrisy, in a country that is, theoretically, bilingual. (I still wince every time John Diefenbaker strays into what he fondly believes is French.) I have strong As you may have gathered, feelings about bilingualism. Unlike a great Many Canadians, I am all for it. But the government's approach to creating that blessed state has been at best a farce, a nharade, at worst a swindle of the tax- payers. Of course the beginnings must be with the children! On the surface, the study of French in our schools has been encouraged by government. In fact, the moneys for a practical, realistic approach to learning French have been held back from the' schools and poured into that bottomless! pit at Ottawa. French has practically been abolished as a .prerequisite for university entrance. Asa - result, and because learning it requires some real effort, students shy away from it and look for "bird" courses. Result, French classes in our schools have shrunk deplorably. This, despite the fact that French is being taught better, and in a more lively, interesting, and realistic way, than ever before. (I studied French for five years in high school, three in university. and can barely proposition a girl, let alone order a meal in French.) O.K. Let's start all over again with our bilingual program, and forget that painful failure in Ottawa. Start teaching it to kids in Grade 1. Keep it up. Make it a prerequisite for university. Mambo" fistula Weekly ''ewspaper Association The,Cilnten News -Record is published each Thursday at P.O. Sex Clinton. °Mari*, Canaids, ILS. , it is registered as second cuss me icy the past office under the permll n*mber Mit. The Sewn -Retard lncarperated N OM the lbw* Newns•Recerd. temsded its tlilti. ;Ind the t"tltiterr New Eos. fewedtd in 1865. Tidal xu( b2.16. Th.mh, r. i `anadlae Coro town its Niro %paper Vss dation Otsplsy advertising rates *suitable en request. Alit for *ate Card No. 6 effective Oct. 1. 1613 Editor • James E. Fitzgerald - Advertisitig director - Gary 1. Hoist General Manager - J. Howard Aitken News staff - ev Clark 6•. Subscription Rates: Canada - 811 ler year U.S.A. - 512.50 rsirillsr talFll>r s 4111.4", �t. dt .n� 41, mins t'.1 1;14ureik. "rT 11 01"+A• tag, Odds 'n' ends by Elaine Townshend Cram calls �. The lady's phone rang about 11 p.m. She sounded a little startled when shepicked up the receiver and said hello. "Is your frig running?" asked a cocky young voice. "Who's calling?" the lady inquired. "Is your frig running?" repeated the voice. "Who is this?" she demanded. The only response was, "Is your frig running?" She finally gave in and snapped, "Yes, my frig is run- ning," "Then why don't you catch it?" came the punch line with a snicker. In disgust, the lady slammed down the receiver. During the next hour, she received three similar calls and was driven to leaving the phone off the hook. Some kids thought they were having a good time. Maybe they didn't realize the anxiety their crank calls caused, or maybe they didn't care. Crank calls are an abuse of an otherwise vital con- venience, and kids aren't the only culprits. Some adults, when they over -imbibe, do things they wouldn't ordinarily do; others have a warped sense of humor that convinces them crank calls are jokes. Sometimes the numbers afire chosen at random from the phone book; other , iines the callers choosesomeonesomeone they know will be most affected: The targets are often women who live alone, and.the favorte time for such calls is late at night. New Year's Eve is a special night for the pranksters. After the midnight horns subside, other bells begin ringing and continue until dawn. Anyone who thought they'd sleep the New Year in is rudely awakened. Because it's a holiday, though,, most of them take it goodnaturedly. AIthough some crank calls are harmless, they are nevertheless an abuse. Other uses of the telephone may not be classed as abusive, but they are irritating. For example, have you received a sales pitch lately via the telephone? "Congratulations!" bubbles a cheery voice. "You have µ �t been selected as one of the lucky winners in our draw. Dial this number inimediately - 432-1122 - to find out what you've won. That number again is 432-1122. Call now ! A wonderful surprise is waiting for you ! " What is probably waiting for you is another smooth -talker selling magazines or encyclopedias or cookware that you don't want. My sister has received several of these calls. Considering she has an unlisted number, it's difficult to understand how the agency obtains it. By the way. she hasn't been curious enough to dial the number the bubbly voice gives her. - Wrong numbers are also annoying, . but they're as frustrating for the caller as for the person who answers. We all dial wrong numbers now and again; they're excusable because they're unintentional. A Goderich lady recently received a call for a Windsor radio station. CKLW. "You're a long way from Windsor when you reach me; she told the man. Like many of us, he hated to give up. He persisted in dialing the same number and continued reaching her. Each time she advised him to dial "0" and ask the operator to place the call, but her advice almost became a threat before he obliged. Wrong numbers. sales' lines and crank calls are an- noying, but obscene calls cause more than irritation, They're the worst kind of telephone abuse. If you receive an obscene call, Bell Canada advises you to hang up immediately, and -if the call is repeated, contact the business office. The company is authorized to remove the phone service of anyone making such calls. Furthermore, Canada's Criminal Code provides prison sentences up to six months and $500 in fines for placing indecent or repeated harassing calls. Using the telephone to dish out obscenity and harassment, points out another quirk of human nature - the tendency to abuse agood thing. From our early files . • v 10 YEARS AGO May 1.2,1988 As a centennial project and to help beautify the town. the Clinton Citizens' Horticultural Society Will give a Rose of Sharon shrub free to the first 20 persons who apply. . An official at Canadian Forces Base Clinton says we are in a "happy position" at present concerning the status of the Clinton base. Studies are still being carried on at Canadian Forces Training Command headquarters in Winnipeg concerning the role giaton base will play in training for the integrated armed services. --The study of Clinton base has disclosed the following: "It is known that CFB Clinton is not using its facilities to full capaticy, and in this connection. studies are under way to determine what ad- ditional commitments could be handled atCFB Clinton." Three grade 13 students presently at Central Huron Secondary School here. have been unconditionally admitted to the University of Western Ontario for the 1966-1967 school year. This is the first time Western has guaranteed admission to highly -qualified students before grade 13 results have been announced. Their final grade 13.marks will have no effect on their admission to Western. The students are : Francis Ann Blacker. Murray Moffatt Blackie. Robert Elwin Cooper. Another CHSS student, Sandra Middleton. also,qualified for unconditional admission. but she declined and will enroll in the university's honour music Bourse. Rev. Andrew 3. Mowatt. C.P.. B.A.. B.D.. D.D., has accepted a call to the Wesley-Willis-Holmesville charge of the United Church of Canada, at Clinton and Holmesville. He will succeed Rev. Clif- ford G. Park who will retire to live in Byron, Ontario. where he will have pastoral responsibilities for Glendale United Church. At the end of April 1966. 292 persons were actively registered for employment with Goderich National Employment Service. com- pared to 389 a year ago. This decline in unemployment applied mainly to male applicants. with 98 fewer. Clinton area residents whohaven't yet -applied for membership in Ontario Medical Services Insurance Plan will have until May to do so, as a result of a two week extension of the open enrolment period announced by Health Minister Dr. Matthew B. Dymond. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday. May -10, 1951 Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Cooper have received word from England that thea: oldest granddaughter. Miss Elizabeth Cooper. 18 -year-old daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Cooper. London, England. is among those who are being presented to the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. John McKenzie recently received word that he had been ap- pointed a Commissioner of Affidavits, etc.. for the county of Huron. Mr. B.M. Ross. B.A. Sc.. Registered Professional Engineer; Ontario, Land eyor, announces the opening of his practice as a consulting Engin er and Land Surveyor inGoderich, Miss Catherine Kit) Pingland.. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fingland, Linton, received the high honour of being crowned "Queen of the Bali" at London Normal School Friday evening last. Remodelling of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Hall. recently completed with the installation of a floor of e- 1 Ui concrete. received a considerable financial boost at a large bingo and draw held in the town hall, Clinton, Wednesday evening last. With manager Bert Gliddon officiating. the executive of Clinton Colts Hockey -Club formally presented a cheque for $200 to Clinton Lions Club at a sports dinner meeting of the Lions Club in St. Paul's Parish Hall Tuesday evening. In making the presentation. which came at the close of the meeting when members' of the colts. players and executive, were guests of the Lions, Manager Gliddon paid tribute to the work done by the Lion's Club in past yeses in developing hockey and other sports. {1 50 YEARS AGO May 13, 1928 Early Sunday morning. Mrs. Walter Westlake's garage was broken into and his stock of tires and cash in the till was taken. Yale locks seem to be of little use. the robbers cut or sawed their way into the fire room. - Mr. Douglas Ball. second son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Ball, who has been with the International Petroleum Co.. Toronto. sailed yesterday from Now York for Peru, where the company has a branch office. On Saturday night, the peaceful village of Varna was visited by sneak thieves. The garage owned by Mr. E. Epps was broken into and tires and batteries valued at 5100, also 820 in cash was taken from the till. One of the pioneers of Huron County. in the person of Matthew Floody died in Toronto last week. Surviving as well as his widow. the former 011ie Crocker, Exeter. are one daughter, Miss Lily. mathematical teacher at the Wingham Collegiate Institute, and .three brothers. Edward, Toronto: David, Blyth; and William. Albany, N.Y. Elgin Mason is in town for a short while and since arriving bas been busy organizing a dance contest in aid of the Kilty Band. Markets were: wheat. 51.35: oats 40c to 45c; buckwheat 60c: barley 60c : butter. 35c to -36c : eggs. 20c to 28c: live hogs, 813. Never have. there been known to be so many cars on Clinton streets, especially on a Saturday night. It is quite difficult at times to get across the street 75 YEARS AGO May 10, 190J The following is the reason given byt a minister in a neighbouring town why women should take their hats off in his church: "No human being can get much good out of the sermon unless, he can see, the speaker's face and studies its expression. No sermon can in- spire a man who is looking into a lopsided aggregation of dead birds, stuffed weasels. chameleon skins. ribbons. jets. beads, s ick straws, paper flowers, corn tassels. and thistle down. it es the sinner feel lost in this wilderness". - Kingston Freeman. The railway companies have agreed upon rates to be charged to the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. The rates for return ticket from Clinton during the Exposition are: 3 days. 84ib: 15 days 86.70: month 57.85. Single fare tickets will be sold daily during the Exposition from points within a radius of three hundred miles of Buffalo with the following limits : One to a hundred mites, two day; 101 to 200 miles. three days: 201 to 300 miles. five days; 301 and over eight days. Special excursions may be run at points distant from Buffalo. 101 miles or less. at one cent a mile each way, and more than 100 mites. three quarters of a cent. The minimum price is to be 82. and the limits on the tickets are one to 150 miles. go and return same day ; 151 to 275 miles, two days : 275 to 400 miles, three days. The ice cream season has opened and the parlors in town are doing a thriving business. The G.T.R. will increase the speed of freight trains as the double heading of trains will be abolished and short trains with only one locomotive will be run instead. This is said will be done to ac- commodate passenter traffic, to the Pan-American. The local agent informs ns that three new phones are to be in- stalled, making 98 in all. On Saturday last the officials of Ratienbury Street church were staking out the ground for the new Methodist church. Hisam Hill who has the contract for the foundation will have the sod turned soon. Perhaps some people do not realize to what extent the long di tancc phone can bre u'sed. The other day R. Contine used it from Zurich through Clinton offices to a place on the other side of Chicago and it was as distinct as 0 speaking over two local phones. It was not cheap talk either. for the few Minutes' conversation it cost over 55. 1 U dear 1ditor: - n reply to Barbaro Graham's letter, which ep. peared in our April . 23t'd edition, criticizing 1 Fans. Allow- me to sto saying We do ants° don the people who do such things and, they are removed from the Arena when caught. Thereisn't a city or town, including NH I,, cities, who do not have such idiots., ' However, in defence of oar a . ^�(lAR: town and a counter attack- You neglected a few , thing;f" done by Clinton fans, which 1 think, you should have been fair and told the whole story. Let's start in Clinton. The Essex players sitting on their bench, waiting their shifts, put u,pp, with garbage from your c rnteen being thrown at. them. They hardly had room to put their feet. Then they had to put up with your MEN fans, spitting and swearing at them and some even grab bing them when they were close enough to the boards. (Hardly fair play.) Then you come to Essex. The only game all season, that eggs showed up at, and you people had them too. A school teacher was hit. That egg -came from a Clinton fan, he was pointed out. Then we have -two Clinton fans make their way down to where the Essex players. retire to their dressing room to take on the whole Essex team. One of the personswho spit and used foul language in Clinton. Brave. but stupid. Last but not least. You should be pleased with the drunks you brought with you. One man didn't even know where- he was. Your bus driver refused him on the bus, saying he didn't come with him. In all the time I have lived in this town and, followed our son in hockey, I have never seen another' Essex' fan go into anothe Arena smashed out of their minds. as some Clinton fan were. Even to go as far a trying to sneak their booz into our Arena as som Clinton fans attempted. I agree, our boys and yours should be able to go anywher and play a game of hocke without harrassment fro fans. But until security i tighter and charges laid. thi will not happen. I do feel, the Essex Police do a good jo here and perhaps. had you not. been so vocal. you wouldn't have run into problems. . It's too bad people like you don't go to Arenas to make friends instead of enemies.. It just might change the face of hockey. A smile goes farther than dirty digs thrown at a player parents or friends. Let the kids play hockey and get your moneys worth by watching them. not mouthing off at them. I remain, Shirley A. Mills, Essex letter bye'. (Editor's note: this was printed as is). Help Dear Editor, Re: The Seaforth Memorial Community Centre Fund. The Seaforth Memorial Community Centre has been the centr of organized recreational and cultural. activities since 1950 for residents of the Town .o Seaforth and` surrounding area. This has become in creasingly so since the a pointment of a Recreatio Director for the Town 0. Seaforth. In the intervening 25 years, however. needs expectations and standar have changed with respect such facilities used by the general public. The Seaforth Communi Centre has not escaped th effects of these changes an so we find that we are now l a position that we must u date the present facility. The necessary an desirable changes a estimated to cost a total approximately $279,000.00. t this work, 579,000.00 wor has already been done bring the arena portion up the required engineet'i standard and • the town h been authorized to debent this amount. It is estimated that, 5100,000.00 can be raised public contribution, gen and subsidies will provide remaining $100.000.00. continued on p*..