HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-08-26, Page 4from a News-
y
:y that there is a
municipal tax
living, in town,
my lPaY dearly
It *ice asmuch
ownshipc.
r
taxpayer, who
Public sh o, and has a
dAlar essesSMent, living in
t h would cost him the
light in the county' where the same
wouldonly ty$2.50:for the
Intivilett and West
awano T ? sh:1. r,
The surpr!Sing thing: of, the whole
survey is that God*Ich, with the mast
industry in the county, hes the highest
tax rate and of h, which has
almost no industrial assessment, has
the lowest elf all theta/out-at $452. That
shatters the ancient myth that more
industry lowers the tax rate. Maybe
the taxpayers of Goderich should have
a talk with the politicians who spend
their money.
If paying tower taxes is your aim in
life, then moving out to Hullett or West
Wawanosh—would be the quickest
solution, or one of the other townships,
with the exception of the villages of
Hensail and Brussels, where taxes are
lower than a half.dazen townships
including the highest, Hay at $471 per
year.
Someone's Iisiefliog
Last week's announcement by the
ministry of health that they wouldn't
be cuttingthe budget of the Clinton
hospital so drastically, is being greeted
with broad smiles in this area, and why
not.
The little tiny; insignificant (to
some) community of Clinton and area,
and its several thousand souls has
fought the big bad government in
Butiif r V11place to live,
at
a 1 are
rurkhi +a"4414 and
most expensive
viii ons r as taxes go.
o, Hur #, �' x
eve longpaid
highest twee I over the
years, have slipped to second spot
ehil d lch this year, much to
their happiness, with the average Joe
shelling outm.
Of abo rates
course none the
takes into consideratiOn ,Such things as
water and sewage charges, or extra
d
hiddenlevieskp"M tnique to some villages,
such as Lo o where there are
charges for garbage collection and
streetlight►.
But what thervey does show is the
inequity of the ditferen; tax rates
across the county, or maybe it shows.
the -financially sharper municipalities
are not in town after all. Another myth
shattered.
Actually, to:Wnships don't pay for the
most part, for recreation and police
services, and this accounts for some of
the differences In tax rates.
-Of course tax rates are only one
consideration to be taken in mind when
seeking a place to live, but with the
wide variations in Huron, many people
will be paying more attention to it in
the future. -by J.F.
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round two, and scored a TKO
(technical knockout.)
And we at the News. Record can't
help but be proud that as part of the
media who .publicized and criticized
the cut, we may have been of a of the
reasons for the government's retreat.
Even in Queen's Park they read the
News -Record! -by J.F.
Sugar and Spicc/By Bill Smiiey
Second chances
Now that the Games are over, and all th
tears have been shed, it's time to lo
ahead to the. 1980 Olympics.
What the International Olympic Co
mittee needs like a hole in the head is ne
ideas, but .I'll give them one anyway. It
simple: give everybody a second chance.
I'm sure people like Debby Brill an
Bruce Simpson and Yankovich Strm
zlwvzlski wiltagree with me.
Most of us get a second chance in lif
whether it's falling down on the job, im
paired driving, or being married. Why n
the Olympic athletes?
I got a second chance once upon a tim
and I was ecstatically grateful for it. It wa
a long time ago, and the Olympics had bee
cancelled for The Duration, but there we
some pretty serious games in progress, jus
the same.
It is one of the great ironies, and m
students simply can't understand it when
try to explain, but yours truly, and a lot
others, were involved in a bitter com
petition: We were trying to become Rene
pilots, so we could be killed.
Isn:t that silly? But it was so. No Olympi
athlete suffered any more tension, anxiety
ole frustration than we did when it came t
the big day, thermal event, our wings test
Long before that, of course, were th
eliminations. First one was the physics
examination. It was tough. Many a you
with dreams of dicing through the clouds i
a dogfight was shot down in the M.O.s offic
because he had flat feet or was color blind.
Next came the preliminary heats. 'rhes
were known as Elementary Flyin
Training • -yt 'Y - th i °ugh about 60
hours of flying training without bein
terribly air sick, without bouncing more
than 40 feet on landings, and withou
running into another aircraft and killing
yourself, you made the semi-finals.
We lived in constant fear. Oh, not off
killing ourselves. Nobody was concerned in
the least about that. The dread phrase was
"washed out." That meant that yot weren't
going to be that dashing figure -- a fighter
pilot -- but that you were going to be
retrained as a mere navigator, wireless op
or tail gunner. In other words, sent to the
minors.
If you survived the heats, off you went to
finishing school, known as Advanced
Flying. This was like making the Olympic
team, but knowing you'd probably finish in
31st place.
I was sent, with a lot of other young idiots
dying to be killed, to Camp Borden. It was
quite an august group. including one Jake
Gaudaur, the large, jovial gentleman who
is _ now the cotrimissa�r of the Canadian
Fdatball Lague. Hi. Jake.
Despite the�4 ugustness of the group, we
trained in mid-wirttter. We flew in snow, we
landed on snow, we crash-landed into snow.
and=occasion/Ally an intrepid student.
usuallyan A
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penetrate the ice of Georgian Bay. The
whole deal was not unlike Napoleon's
retreat from Moscow.
And all the time, leering over our
shoulders, was the ugly face of that thing
called Washed Out.
It seems incredible, looking back, that we
were in such terror of that creature. If all
the young fellows in the world had
managed to have themselves washed out,
there wouldn't have been anyone to fly and
kill`and die.
But we suffered all the palpitations of
Olympic contestants as we edged closer
and closer to that triumph of sado-
masochism, the Wings Test.
This consisted of about one hour of
psychological torture in which the student
flew the aircraft through a number of
uncomfortable and alarming exercises
while an instructor, sitting in the front seat,
snarled imprecations.
Came my big day. Everything was great.
I was shaking like a wino. It wasn't quite
snowing, but it wasn't quite not snowing.
And the intercom wasn't working.
Normally, this isn't a'big deal. The in-
tercom was just a little sort of telephone
nto which the instructor shouted ob-
scenities and the student ground his teeth.
But on a Wings Test, it can be something
more than a minor nuisance. My instructor
would shout at me to do a steep turn to the
eft. 1 would guess at the muffled in-
tructions and do a loop. He would yell at
me to do .a loop, and I'd do a slpppy slow
roll.
1.l`fter.,�.l a1L • hour of this .phnd, st';s
tuff, he indicated with a ferocious gesture
f his thumb that he was taking over and we
ere going to land. We did. He climbed out,
peechless. I climbed out with my tail well
between my legs.
He just looked at me, and shook his head.
just looked at him, and wagged my tail.
e both knew that I was Washed Out. He
alked away. I looked around for some
mmediate means of committing suicide.
The only thing I could see was' a whirling
ropeller and that was a bit too messy.
There must, of course, be a climax to this
ascinating narrative. And there is.' Next
orning I was moping about, feeling as
hough I'd just learned my mother was a
rostitute and my father a quack abor-
onist.
A voice: "Smiley, get your gear -on f"
pother .instructor, widely known as a
can Bastard. We took off. 1 hate to brag.
ut with. the careless abandon of a man who
ows he is off to the galleys anyway. 1
ang that aircraft around the sky in a
dream Wings Test.
Two days later. I not only had my wings,
but had suddenly become an Officer and a
Gentleman.
So. Everyone deserves a Second Chance.
And
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s�. to y d ontrihution to the Iso
Olynics. I II let the committee figure out
the details.
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"Want to bring him back tater? — . I'm in the meddle of 'Edge of Night'!"
Odds 'n' end
by Elaine Townshend
Moving
My family and friends feel right at home in my new apar-
tment. Why shouldn't they? Three -parts of the furniture
belongs to them.
Whether the furnishings were begged, borrowed or stolen,
they still had to be moved, and that's when the fun began.
(Please don't take the preceding figure of speech too
seriously ; nothing was stolen.)
*Odds and ends of furniture plays tricks on a person. It
doesn't seem to amount to much until the time comes to pack it
ani'&ransport it. Then, after it's unpacked, it doesn't fill as
much space as was hoped.
The major portion of my move was achieved in one day with
my father's pick-up truck carrying the larger articles, and my
car and my sister's car being crammed with the smaller
boxes.
The "moving men" consisted of my father. my oldest
nephew and a friend of my nephew,who just dropped in to sa
hello., Maybe he thought his timing was poor, but as far as
we were concerned, it w fect. instead of being greeted
with a "Hi! How are you?" he was told to grab the other end of
the couch. Then he was either coaxed or bribed into riding to
town in the back of the loaded truck.
My apartment is located at the top of 19 steps - a fact which,
was mentioned several times that day..
While the others unloaded the vehicles. I assumed the
demanding chore of supervision. During the procedure, we
endeared ourselves to the neighbours by setting a dog barking
in the next yard and by waking a baby across the hall from my
apartment.
The work went smoothly until the davenport lodged in the
living room doorway. The movers decided to back up and try
again, but the davenport refused to budge. With one fellow in
the kitchen and the other in the living room, communication
was difficult, but they finally removed the legs and wiggled the
frame until it slipped through.
During their job, the workers remained jovial until I asked
them to rearrange the living room furniture.
A week, later I held a birthday party for my sister, and after
dinner, my brother-in-law offered to hang some pictures for
me. Actually, my sister volunteered for him, but that's beside
the point. His only complaints were that the nails were either
too long or too short. that my sister gave too much advice and
that I changed my mind too often.
Unfortunately, Iran out of nails before all the pictures were
hung, and my brother-in-law hasn't been back since.
After more than a month of apartment living, I'm almost
settled. I found a place for everything, and everything is in ,its
place. The only problem is I forget which place I decided was
right for which thing.
A sugar howl and a couple of knick-knacks have disap-
peared, but 'i 'm sure they'll turn up somewhere: sometime.
Searching for lost items is just another part of the moving
experience.
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1O YEARS AGO
September 1, 1958
CFB Clinton's new Personnel
Administration Officer is Flight
Lieutenant "Bob" Furneaux, a
native of St. Catharines, Ontario.
He replaces Squadron Leader
"Bud" Lingley who was tran-
sferred to Ottawa earlier this
year.
F -L Furneaux served as an air
gunner during the period 1943 - 45
until leaving the service at the
end of the war.
The judge at Clinton Citizens
Horticultural Society annual
flower show. Mrs. . D.G.
Moorhead. RR 2, Clinton, added a
little more colour to the show
when she attached her comments
to some of the top exhibits.
Mrs. Moorhead, who had
judged at many of the area's
flower shows, said "this show 'is
as good or better than most of this-,
year's shows." The weather has
not been ideal for..Aower growing.
but "this show is very good" she
continued. A sample of . her
comments was attached to .Miss
Luella Johnston's exhibit of a
display of garden flowers in a
container the same colour. as
follows: A delightful
arrangement rran
g eat showing lovely
colour harmony."
_ , --Many Clinton area boys-1W-
enjoying
oys-W'enjoying their last fling before
school opens Tuesday at Huron
Presbytery United Church Camp
at Goderich. This week's camp
for junior and intermediate boys
at the Goderich Summer School
is called Hiawatha and at the end
of the week-long camp on Sun-
day. the camp newspaper
"Hiawatha Herald" will be given
to all the boys.
Gary MCAsh, Varna. is in
charge of 90 junior age boys and
Rev. R J. Tschanz, minister of
Londesboro United Church. Is in
charge of .the intermediate carr
of 45 boys.
. Besides camping, swimming
and Bible study. the activities
include bo making and camera
club projects for the in-
termediates and archery and
various craft instruction for the.
juniors.
Clinton midget and peewee
baseball teams start into Ontario
Baseball Association ptaydowns
this weekend. Both local teams
won Western Ontario Athletic (
Association championships in;
"13" classification
many miles around told the story
of a fire in Stanley Township
Friday evening.
The blaze completely
destroyed the barn and contents
on the property on the east side of
the road owned by Gordon Hill.
Goshen Line, south of Bayfield
and Vat na. The farm is known as
the Norman Stephenso.i farm and.
is located on RR 1, Varna.
Barn and contents were
covered by insurance, but the
loss was heavy.
County engineer T. Roy Pat-
terson, Goderich reports that
considerable work has been in
progress on the 400 miles of
county roads of Huron this year.
At present. there is a scarcity
of cement needed for the con-
struction of three bridges. one at
Dashwood and two north of
Clinton. Mr. Patterson stated
that the county Roads Com-
mission ,has plenty of steel on
hand.
Three cases of poliomyelitis
have been reported in the County
of Huron this year. but in none of
the trio was paralysis present,
Dr. R.M. Aldis, director of
Huron County Health Unit. in.-
formed the Board of Directors at
the August ming held at the
Unit. Thursday ajtertlt,�op,
- Expansion of the -14eaxltir Unit
tuberculosis -prevention program
is planned for next year. Though
a certain amount of screening for
T.B. is done at the elementary
school level, where indicated.
this age group has not been found
locally to be as significant for
T B. as the teen-age group.
it. therefore is proposed for
next year to extend the tuberculin
service from grade 9 and final
years to all students at high
school whose parents so desire.
Local and provincial police are
(conducting an intensive in-
vestigation in connection with a
hare -faced robbery of the knit-
ting factory of Par -Knit Hosiery
Limited. Albert Street. Clinton.
some time between 9 p.m. Sun-
tay and 7.30 a.m. Monday. They
ire leaving no stone unturned to
find the culprits.
John S. Parker, proprietor of
he firm, reported that at least 10
dozen pairs of new ladies'
Pollyanna" nylon stockings. till
ready for shipping, in 15 small
-artons, had been stolen. Value
wait plated at $1.136.
Five hundred tobacco plants
are now full grown on the ?armor
Mayor J.E. Iluchins, concession
4, Goderich Township. and plans
are prngressing torr ih ge'ii+srlttg
3S TEARS AGO
Septembers, Hai
A ruddy glow in the k
of leaf tobacco on a larger scale. confirms the report of a short
Miss Barbara Wright. 17. crop. but says there is a full crop
Crediton. was crowned "Miss of plums and pears.
Huron County 1951" at Zurich G. Cooper and his_wife. of
Labor Day Celebrations, taking Goderich Township returned
the laurels from eight beauties. home .Wednesday from their visit
Harvesting is now completed in to Port Huron. they enjoyed their
the southern part of the county. visit very much. Miss 1. Worshall
but there still is a considerable also of Goderich Township starts
acreage of grain to be combined off to Toronto, Thursday. She will
or threshed in the northern take in the fair and visit for some
section. However. rainy weather time
the latter part of last week fur- There is some talk of a brewery
ther delayed harvest operations. being started in town.
Sugar beets, beans and corn Seeley and Turner have no
were suffering from . lack of reason to find fault with their
moisture. bicycle business this summer and
As yet there has not been too they still expect to run off a
much preparation for fall wheat. number wheels which they have
however. indications are that on hand. A good business has
acreage will be down con- been done in renting.
siderably. A special meeting of the Hullett
council was held in Londesboro
75 YEARS AGO on the 21st. called for the purpose
August 30, 1901 of meeting with the promoters of
The reports ,being received the Huron Electr'c Railway.
from those wh.o are supposed M.G Lameron. A. McD. Allen.
to know seem to indicate that the Mayor Wilson. W T. Goldthorpe
apple crop in the province will be and Major Beck were all present
much shorter than last year. The in she interests of the proposed
shippers put the crop at 35 per- railway Mr Cameron made
cent of an average, others some explanation about the right
estimating it as high as 70 per- of way and other conditions of the
cent while others say the yield project. After consideration. a
will not exceed 10 percent. 1.t is resolution was passed granting a
said the yield will be sntall uA14 .oils. yr .the building and
over the United States, except in operating of an electric railway
a few districts in the West. upon certain of the highways of
One of the best in ,Ontario and the Township of Hullett
known as the apple king is D. The franchise is granted on the
Cantelon. of town, who has lately condition that the company is
been around in all parts of the formed according to the statute
counties of Huron, Bruce. Perth. and operations commenced
Middlesex. Halton ana others. within one year -
ehall
Pear Edlitorlt,
As ,you, stated Inlast wool~'s
paper, we are in for some rent:
good ball games with both the
Senior and Junlur teams
advancing pato the ODA
playoffs. 'rho one thing that is
laekir is the fans.
Some have told• me they
never know when .a game is
being. played. Another couple
said they came over when'
they saw the lights on.
Surely there is a better way
of advertising than this.
Where is the bulletin board
that used to be in front of the
radar screen? Someone. 1 am
sure would see that the games
were posted on it.
Yours truly,
Betty MacDonald,
Clinton,
-flockey
Dear Editor:
Stectal Bulletin:
to all O.M.H.A. teams.
Your executive is well
aware of the problems many
of you face regarding the
closing, or possible closing. of
your arenas_ We have been
advised that some of you are
making tentative plans for
restricting your own hockey
programs and letting your
players find other places to
play.
We have made approaches
to the appropriate govern-
ment
overnment departments for help in
solving our mutual -Whim.
We expectsome answers
immediately and would
advise you to make no plans
to curtail your program until
you have received further
advice from the 0.M.H.A.
office. DO NOT let your
playerssign with other
communities unless notified
by the WOAA.
Vern McCallum
secretary -manager, OMHA
Toronto.
persecution
Dear Editor.
The persecution of
Jehovah's Witnesses In the
East African Republic of
Malawi has not stopped. In
spite of all that has been
printed or broadcast exposing
it. in spite of hundreds of
thousands of written appeals
by private citizens and public
officials. it continues.
You are undoubtedly
already familiar with the
story through the wire ser-
vices to which you subscribe.
as well as other news sources.
We would like you to be
familiar with what is
presently happening in
Malawi according to reports
and letters which we have.
received from inside Malawi.
Therefore. we have asked our
local representati%e . to
deliver to you. along . ith this
letter. a copy of the August 8
issue of Awake' This
magazine contains not only
that information but a -iso the
international reactions which
are beginning to take shape.
You may make use of this
information in any way you
choose. We are certain that
you will agree that the con-
tinued inhuman treatment'
meted out a>a�.yh s.
Witnesses should not go on.
No one deserves the treat-'
ment being dealt Jehovah's
Witnesses in Malawi for any
reason.
Sincerely yours,
Watchtower B & T Society
of New York. Inca
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