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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-09-09, Page 4Elpg teator ent In- , tell uss, 1t enricheS enrichour offers y Via, half bijlien dollars -a- r t"oar such good things as sport and Ncuit+ re. something for nothing, The age-old stuff of which dreams are Made. Out a so the age -olds stuff of which greed avarice aremade, And yet to ck these governnment.run lotteries - which is what we're about to . d �! is a little bit hike .knocking flu- ...o n andhuman :nature, What's wrong with dreaming? What's wrong is that lotteries are Immoral, wasteful and degrading to the society sponsoring them, Having Said that, we stand back while we are canted stuffy, square and a killjoy. Lotteries are immoral in that they legally tell people that their hopes for • material wealth are based on chance. They exploit the dreams of the poor to • pay for the pleasures of the rich. Sirloin or sludge. Beefsteak from sewage sludge? What a disgusting thought says the United Church! But in Australia, an enterprising cattle -farm manager matter of factly recycles into food nine - tenths of the sludge produced by the city of Melbourne (pop. 2,200,000). This is the sludge that feeds the land that grows the grass that fattens the Herefords that puts steak on Australian dinner tables. At a study day held recently in Burlington, Ontario, James Mc- Pherson described to 50 ertvlronmental scientists how on the 27,000 acre Werribee Farm just outside Melbourne the local Board of Works raises cattle and sheep on sludge -fertilized grass --a two -and -a -half -million dollar a year operation. The sludge goess directly onto the land without requiring costly treat- ment. But. . . is the meat produced really fit for human consumption? "Certainly", says Mr. McPherson, showing color slides of beautiful fat - marbled T-bone steaks to 'reinforce his grants tc (t cultural icr $Pe1ng saPerCent" Pr1415,0. promotion and ad- rr inistratter A straight canvass or tacatL would ge further and not be an unfair burdrn ofk The m, Lotteries are degrading because they Pato nder g��+ social evil our. i hidolatry its of material tings, Win today— money to buy more things and you'll achieve everlasting happiness. But what is most disturbing about this phenomena is the almost tacit approval of the great majority of those who ought to be most opposed. Those who call themselves Christians may very well belong, to churches which officially oppose gambling on the very Biblical grounds that gambling fosters greed and greed, along with avarice and covetousness, is a sin. Lotteries are legalized gambling. The churches must oppose them becauseit is wrong. It's that simple. (from the United Church) opinion. True, there was that brief unpleasantness back in the '30s when Warribee cattle developed human -type tapeworms, but nobody's perfect. Today the cattle meet all health safety rules. But ... What about cadmium in the sludge? Environmental scientists know there is cadmium in human waste and strongly suspect it's a threat to health. Might not cadmium be taken in by the grass and concentrated in the beet? "We're beginning. to look at that", says Mr. McPherson, adding wistfully, "In the early times, everything went so well and nobody was worried." Still,.- if sludge -fed sirloin should catch on in Canada in a big way, one can only hope that Australian studies will give a green light on the effects of cadmium oh humans. As it stands, some Canadian farmers empty their septic tanks and spread the human waste on their fields as a huge saving on fertilizer. Perhaps we should not I2ave it to the Australians to find out about the cadmium. Sugar and Spies/By Bill Smiley The folks next door LAST WEEK I mentioned neighbors, and after I'd finished the column, I thought some more about mine. If you live in a city apartment, you'll probably never know your neighbor two doors down the hall, and will take two years before you are on nodding acquaintance with those next door. That's fine for some people. They ac- tually like to retreat into .their cells, and resent any encroachment on theirso-called privacy. But if you live in a small town, in a house; you have neighbors, for better or worse, and you might as well relax and enjoy it. Neighbors are not an unmixed blessing. They can be a terrible pain in the arm. When I was a kid, we spent our summers at a cottage. Next door was an old bat who was the quintessence of a bad neighbor. Everybody else at the lake was part of a big. happy family. Not so this one. She sneered and snarked and caused endless trouble. Finally, she put up a fence between her property and ours, so we couldn't walk on her lawn, which was nothing but pine needles. We solved this by jumping the fence and walking across her pine needles, while she peered from behind the curtains, calling down curses on the brown, bare- focited vandals. That was a nasty one, and caused my mother. I'm sure, some anguish. Bet there aren't many like that. Most neighbors, like yourself, are pretty fine people, if you treat them as you wish to be treated by others. There is one thing about neighbors. They are like relatives. You can't pick and choose. You takes what you gets. You don't buy a house because of the neighbors, though it might be a good idea to think about it. I've been lucky all my life, and I've been ' lucky in my neighbors. In the last town we Lived in, they were the salt of the earth. One of them was even decent enough to have his house burn down one night, in a spectacular fire, which I got my kids out of bed to watch. Something they'll never forget. I don't expect that kind of service from all my neighbors, mind you. That was being neighborly to the point of no no return. But we've been in this house going on 20 years, and I couldn't have done better for neighbors if I'd handpicked them.. On one side lives a carpenter and contractor. For a guy like me; who can't hammer two boards together without making a hand sandwich, it's better than having a fairy gedinother. He is the soul of enerosity when it comes to lending advice d trolls. mkt when. I'm standing; looking stupidly at some project that would take me a week, he comes over, does it in eight minutes, and when offered pay, says : "Forget it." He also has a warm and pleasant wife and a son who has grown into a dandy snow - shoveller and lawncutter. On another side, my neighbor is a sailor. Don't see much of him in the summer, but in the spring, he, whistles over the fence and holds out a big newspaperful of fresh smelt or perch fillets. Had to cut' down one of my oaks the other day that was threatening to fall on his house. It cost me 5300. But who in his right mind wouldn't trade mere money for a panful of fried smelt, and the spirit behind them? Up the street a couple of houses lives Gabe. He is a former plumber, and still has . the .toots and the skills of his craft. When you have guests arriving, and the sinkis plugged, and the regular plumbers are • having their four-day weekend, Gabe comes to the rescue. In 10 minutes the sink is slurphing water again. And Gabe doesn't want an arm, a leg, and your liver. Across the way lives, John, a teacher, a mathematical whiz, and a delighter in the solving of problems. For example. My wife is away for a week. I want to do a washing. I can't get the washing machine going. Call John. He whips across the street, through the snow,-and:in4jve minutes the washing is thunking away. And when my wife is away, his wife nips across and puts a jar of home- made soup inside my back door. When we go away for a few days, the neighbors keep an eye on theplace, as though it were their own: pick ep the newspapers, feed . the cat, make sure the doors are locked, cut the grass if it needs it. Perhaps' best of all is the knowledge that they are there, if you need them. A sudden emergency, a minor calamity, and they'll be there to drive you, phone a doctor, bring food, whatever. This closeness might seem appalling to city folk, with their preoccupation with privacy. But good neighbors don't live in. each other's laps: They have their families;` we have ours. We ;don't encroach on their lives; they don't on ours. They have their friends; we have ours: 'and they're not necessarily the same. Poet Robert Frost summed it up, as poets so often do. when he intoned: "Good fences make good neighbors." And he wasn't just talking about f+nces. So there you are chaps. Let's see you come up with a fisherman, a carpenter, a plumber, and a trouble-shooter. and I'd say you're as lucky as I am, when it comes to neighbors. "Remember the days when we used to tell lies about the federal government — now. the truth is bad a ou h." Odds 'ri' ends . by Elaine Townshend A tight squeeze What can happen in a 52 -second elevator ride? Plenty! My girl friend and I visited the Skylon in Niagara Falls on a Saturday night in mid-August. We would have preferred to, go at a less busy time, but we had no choice. Besides, we thought the magnificent view pictured on countless post- cards was worth battling the crowd to see. First, we lined up to purchase our tickets, which cost 52.75 each. Then we joined another long line waiting for the elevator. Like most waits, -this one seemed interminable, and our only entertainment was watching other, tourists have souvenir photos taken. In a simulated setting, they ap- peared to be hanging by their fingertips over the edge of the tower -proof of their daring to show all their friends back home. When the elevator finally arrived, I thought it must have been an extra -large one because so many passengers filed ' out. However, when I stepped inside, I realized it wasn't as big as I expected. The operator instructed us to go to the back of the car. As the crowd poured in behind,us, he repeated "Move to the back. Right to the back. We cin take three more. Move back." The scene resembled#tie, loading of cattle into a truck, and I almost feared that, if We didn't do as we were told, we'd feel a.shock from an electric prod; I moved back. Suddenly a fellow behind me announced, "Those are my toes you're on. Those are my toes you're on!" (He saf8 it with much more feeling the second time.) While I pondered how to vacate his toes without stepping on someone else's, another man stepped back and bumped me. From somewhere in the pack, my girl friend tried to rescue me by hollering, "You're knocking someone over!" She lied. I couldn't fall over. There just wasn't room. Instead I swayed to the right against a lady, who was pleasantly plump. The operator finally decided the car was full. The door closed; the lights dimmed; the elevator began to rise, and several of the passengers "oohed" and "ahed". I had been forewarned that, as I watched the neon signs and the street lights become pin -points. I might feel an uneasiness in my - stomach. I needn't have worried, though, for I couldn't see any lights. Instead I got a close-up of the back of a girl's brown and beige checked blouse sewn with gold thread. ' The elevator suddenly stopped, but before letting us off, the operator mechanically announced, "This is the ob- servation deck. You havf, just climbed 520 feet in 52 seconds." I suppose. if I repeated that information every 52 seconds for eight- hours I'd sound mechanical, ton. The crowd surged from the car. The glass -enclosed observation deck was hot and crowded. We followed the first exit to the outside deck, where a brisk breeze blew the mist from the Falls onto our faaes,,Tite coloured lights shining on the Falls and the city lights twinkling below us presented as spectacular a view as we had anticipated. It looked just like a posteard. After walking halfway around the._..platform and en- countering a mob of sightseers and photographers too dense to penetrate, we retraced our steps. The second wait for the elevator seemed as long as the first, but the ride down wasn't quite as cramped. In fact, I glimpsed the sky through someone's bent elbow. For 52.75 and two 52 -second rides in which I felt like a sardine, was the view of the Falls worth it? I'll take a postcard, thank you. From our early files • • • • 10 Years Ago September 15, 15$8 The Hon. Paul Hellyer, MP; Minister of National Defence will visit Canadian Forces Base Clinton on Thursday, September 15. He will be accompanied by Air Vice Marshal R.C. Stove!. Commander of Training Com- mand. and --Flight Lieutenant Eric Boyd, the minister's Military Secretary. A rule change will allow the Supreme Court of Canada to hear new evidence in the Steven Truscott appeal, according to a Canadian Press announcement from Ottawa yesterday. Judges made the change last week with the Truscott case in mind. It allows them to hear witnesses when criminal cases already disposed of by a court of appeal are deferred to the Supreme Court for an opinion. The cabinet last April asked the court to releiew Truscott's con- viction of the strangling of 12 - year -old Lynne Harper. ' near Clinton RCAF Station in 1959. He was 14 then and has spent the last seven years in prison serving a life sentence. Until now, Supreme Court judges have been confined to consideration of existing evidence in such cases. Proceedings in the Truscott appeal are to open Tuesday. The court will sit briefly to determine what new evidence may be in- troduced and to set a date for the hearing of witnesses. Both the Crown and the defence are expected to seek permission to introduce new evidence. The court resumes its summer session September 26 and the fallowing week begin4 its fall term. It is understood that the Truscott appeal will have firiority and will be heard as soon as lawyers are ready to proceed. The Chairman of (Wart° Hydro, George -Gathercole. will be a special guest at the annual convention of the Grand Valley Municipal Electric Association in Clinton next Wednesday, Sep- tember 21. H. E. "Hal" Hartley, chairman of Clinton Public Utilities Commission, who is one of nine directors of GVMEA, was in- strumental in bringing this year's convention to Clinton. It is being held at the Elm Haven Motor Hotel, with registration tut p.m. George Cull, a vocational teacher at CHSS in Clinton, believes in action where Canada's 100th birthday celebrations are concerned. Mr. Cull announced this week he will begin to organize a Huron Centennial Youth Choir which he plans to direct. Not a new -comer to the field of music director, Mr. Cull's school choir at CHSS earned .a fine ovation from parents and friends who heard, the group during the school's award night program last fall. Chief of Police H.R. Thompson would like all persons with bicycles to come to Clinton Community Park on Saturday. September 24 from 10'to 12 noon to have coloured fluorescent tape put on their bikes. 25 Years Ago September 29, 1951 The problem of annexation of a part of Hullett Township to the Town of Clinton in connection with the erection of a new public school by Clinton Public School Board, still is not com- pletely solved. Briefly. the Township of Mullett is in favour of annexation by the town of approximately seven acres of vacant land for the site of the proposed school. but is not in favour of annexation of a strip of land and buildings, olying im- mediately to the south side of the school and on the north side of King's Highway 6. Huliett Township Council held a special meeting in the Com- mueity Hall, Londesboro, Monday evening with Reeve W. J. Dale presiding and Councillors George C. Brown. W. R. Jewitt, Thomas Leiper and Archie Young in attendance. Clinton Lions Club held its opening meeting of the season in St. Paul's Parish Hall last week with a fair attendance. President , Lorne Brown an- nounced that the directors had appointed Dr. R. N1. Aldis second vice-president to succeed R. C. Bennett who has gone to Toronto and R. S. Macaulay as third vice- president to succeed Dr. Aldis. The directors "also named L. G. Winger, a two_ year director: to succeed F -L J. 11. Lynch, wino has moved to Trenton. It was decided to call for ten- ders en-ders for painting the roof of Clinton Lions Arena with some of the profits of recent bingos. Heavy ram fall /As reeorded in Most sections of ills County thls week, which will considerably delay the harvesting of white beans, G. W. Montgomery, agricultural representative for Huron County, reported today. There still is considerable acreage of stocked grain to be harvested in the northern section of the county. The extra moisture, however. will be quite beneficial in after - harvest cultivation and in the preparation of fall wheat ground. Dr. and Mrs. T. E. Hull and little daughter Diane, who have been summer visitors of the lady's parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cunninghame. left last week by motor for their home in Vancouver, B.C. Huron County Temperance Federation called for strict en- forcement of the Canada Tem- perance Act in Huron County. Meeting in Wesley -Willis United Church. Clinton. the executive stressed backing for the Canada Temperance Act which has been in operation in Huron County since 1913.. 75 Years Ago September 13, 190i The London Fair is attracting a number of Bayfield villagers this week. Miss Wilson is the guest of Miss Rouatt. Mrs. Buchan is the guest of her daughter. Mrs. (Dr.) ' Woods. The Huron Old Boys Association of Toronto extended every courtesy to visitors from Huron county to the Industrial Fair. A pretty and commodious tent was placed on the grounds for the conveniences of the visitors and a book was provided for visitors to register their names. It was very thoughtful on the part of the associaton to have such a resting place for the weary sight seers and was taken ad- vantage of by many a Huronite to have a chat with the official in charge or a cool refreshing glass of Lake Ontario non -microbic water with no stick in it_ A representative of the New Era had the pleasure of being at the Fair and calling at the tent where secretary, E. Floody and president McMath were in at- tendance with smiling faces to greet all callers. Rev. Mr. Coupland was at Buffalo last week, and heard President McKinley deliver his magnificent address, an address which Mr. Coupland says was one of the finest he ever listened to. He got as far as Niagara FaIis, on his way home to Londesboro when he was astounded to learn of the attempt on the President's life. An entertainment will be held in the school room of SS No. 9, Hulleit (commonly known as Sprung's school) on Friday. The following will be taking part: C.J. Ramsey, banjoist and comic singer: W. McPhee, violinist: Miss E.M. Patterson, vocalist and W. Smith, gramophonist. ' Dear BdIter. Beingole of town Since 27, your "We get le. column of July ► b onl recently come to ,>?n tention. Let me u . first of all that my purpose in writing to you for publition is not to win arguments, ents, but to help 'Sincere believers in the Bible to knowledge that may mean their life. in the letter of July 29. eight times the dogmatic statement: "Jesus is God" appears, "the Biible says so" being the only "proof" of; fered. This helps to appreciate what Paulsaid at Romans 10:1,2: "My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge." Continuing his argument. Paul said: "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shaft believe that God Hath Raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Rom. 10:9,10) Peter is reported to have said: "The God of Abraham, and. of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers (Jehovah, Exodus 6:2,3) hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But you ... killed the prince of life, Whom God Hath Raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses." (Acts 3:13,15) Lack of knowledge of what the Bible says, and too much dependance upon "the Bible says so" have led multitudes to believe, as your correspondent states, "Jesus is God". (Revelation 12:9) Jesus himself laid down the requirements for life in his prayer recorded at John 17: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee, The Only True God, AND Jesus Christ, • whom thou hast sent." Sincerely yours ° C.F. Barney, Clinton. 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