HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1976-10-14, Page 21De
ern,
r oaf
point
much we
purposes, says
ometirnes four levels of
t compete for 'the fax
control and
ate his life and tax his personal
Yet - the overlapping
�cracies of federal. Provincial
�tleipal
administrations have so
the respot tb.l ifi of each that
the faxpYer —who is also theavoter —
004 little idea for what each level is
sponsible.
Wgrse, the Citizen -taxpayer no
lamer has any standard by which to
priorities, or measure the ef-
lve u.,se of his money. We are over -
governed to coin a cliche..
Granted thatmost of our money goes
to 'provide services which the
politicians would argue we have voted
for, it would be refreshingi, if the
v'arlop. s, 71 iihrR l RA+fi
to tackle' theh' pr ►bleina alp. of
+ef #i'+len!ythy` we
often are treated' to the tiresome
display ctt each trying, to grab the
biggest share of the cornfro nal pot.
. For instance we have federal and
labor,
natural
provincial Ministries of
resources, health, social security,
environment, ca►nsurner protection -and
Pius:ln1ess. rwiation. Add to this
municipal js yolvernent in health,
soclal security, environmental
pro'tesction,
transportation' and
education and you find how the tax-
payer supports enormous
bureaucracies which overlap in
dreadfully wasteful manner.
How does the -beieagur. ed taxpayer-
citi.zen choose within three Iurisdic- •
tions? Surely the time has come for
'governments to co-operate rather than
compete for the .privi:iege. of spending
fax dlliars and free the financial
resources needed for one level to do
things well..
w _yo
y+Dur !il
to obey lis g
tell someone tip
eep ,Confesgf
Seep tl Fina
0 for you,
you ave
accepted Him, etis
called being 'Urn easing,
"saved".
You also keep reading the
Bible. It is easier to un-
derstand every time yea read
it. By reading three or feitir
chapters a day. it can be read
once a year.
Saved pdople go to heaven,
when they die.
The world will end soon.
Many. people think that this is
the last generation. Before
the world ends, Jesus will
take His people to heaven in
the "rapture" to escape from
the hardships. We will be
caught up with Him in the air.
Accept Jesus now , and be
ready.
Jesus ,said: I am the Way,
the Truth and the Life. No
man cometh to the Father
but by Me.
and: Behold, I stand at the
door and knock. If any roan
shall hear My voice and open
to Me the door. I will come in
to him and sup with him and
he with Me, and: Him that
cometh to Me. 1 will not cast
out.
Praise God, for He is
worthy.
Sugar
nd Spice/By Bill Sm
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r
Football and sanity
Now that the hockey hysteria is over, we
armchair athletes can settle into the
football season, and lend our expertise, so
lately freely offered to Scotty Bowman and
the Canadian team, to those who really
need it, like the hapless Russ Jackson and
the hopeless Toronto Argos.
I roust confess that I'm not as keen on
football as I once was. When I was a young
buck, 1 was crazy about it. I knew all the
players in the big league, all the standings,
all the records.
When 1 was a kid, we lived not too far
from Ottawa, and I saw some of the greats
in action -- Dave Sprague, Bummer
$iittl><ug,
T.90,lab, yPo.. , g __
When I was afloat 14, my big brother` took
me to °a Grey Cup final, a classic between
Winnipeg and Ottawa, with the great little
Fritz Hanson, one of the first American
.im�ports, scampering around on the field
like a waterbug on a, pond until be was
finally crushed by some huge homebrew, a
behemoth like Bunny Wadsworth of the
Rough Riders.
Those were the days when people went to
watch football games because they loved
the game, not because it was a status
symbol to have a ticket, and also a great
occasion for a weekend binge. _
My first Grey Cup game was • also my
introduction to rye whiskey. I sat between
two French Canadian gentlemen:
aknowledgable about football. They had a
mickey of rye. After a particularly great
play, they'd have a polite swig fe*i h to
keep out the bitter November coil 10th
Gallic grace, they offered me a Slag; qty
Methodist background and teetotal parents
made me exclaim with horror. But my 14 -
year -old spirit of adventure made me wet
my lips, with one eye on my brother. I've
had a warm spot for the combination of
football, Ft inch Canadian gentlemen, and
rye whiskey ever since. My mother would
have killed me,if she'd seen.
pNowadays, a kid like that would
robably have a ,rnickey . of his own. Or
worse, he'd be bludgeoned to death by some
drunken woman behind him, pounding on
his head and screaming: "Go, Stamps,
Go!" even though she didn't know the
difference between a wide end and a big.
bum.
In high school. I played- junior., then
senior football. My best friends were the
jocks on the football team, rather than the
academic types, the boys in- the school
orchestra, the members of the students'
council.
Autumns were not school work. They
re long months of crisp fall afternoons,
ckling, running, throwing. passing. Then
the hot shower, and the painful limp a mile
home through an October . dark, with a
sprained ankle or a loose tooth. And the
occasional day of glory, when we stuck it to
Smiths Falls or Carleton Place, and the
cheers were like manna.
In those . days., there was no . y for
fancy uniforms and buses to out -own
games. Most of us wore home-made pads
with felt from the local felt mill. There
were about half a dozen helmets forthe two
teams. When we played out of town,
parents and teachers transported the team
in their own cars. When we played a home
game, every student and lots of town-
speople were out to cheer. The coach was. a
volunteer.
Times change. In the high school in which
I teach, with a student population of 1,600
(my own high school had 400), it's . im-
possible,, this year, to# muster two teams,
,,senior ane junior. Well be tacky hhave
one. Because of education cut-backs,
there's no rnony for buses to transport the
teams. When we do have a. home game, the
students leave in hundreds to walk the
streets, or just goof around.
It's sort of sad. Football used to be
character -building, even though you wound
up with a tooth or two missing, and a gimpy
knee. But if you weighed. 140 and tackled
some brute of 190. you knew you were on
your way to being a man.
In my day, the emphasis was on offense:
running, passing. _-trick plays. But with the
massive influx of the American game, the
emphasis on defense, and television to
show it all, the game has become almost
dull, except for the odd brilliant outburst of
speed by some guy who is being_ paid a
phenomenal sum for his skill.
And the main idea now is "hitting." That
is. the player tries to collide with an op-
ponent with such force, and in such a way,
that the latter will be injured. And if it
requires breaking the rules deliberately, as
I've seen it done, for example, on kick
returns, then go ahead. Take the penalty,
as long as you can "hit" and injure the kick
returner when he's not set for a collision.
It's dirty, dirty.
I went to university, and I played there.
And I watched Joe Krol and Royal
Copeland and company, and it was still
great.
But after the war, the Yanks took over.
Now it's mechanized. You have an "of-
fensive" and a "defensive" team (we used
to play 60 minutes, both ways), and the
chief aim seems to be to disable the op-
position.
No wonder it's losing its popularity with
today's students. They are not so dumb.
One of our high schoof coaches revealed
the new attitude. When he remonstrated
- with one of his rookies, "Hit 'im! Hit 'int!"
the kid retorted: "Why should I hit him?
He's my friend."
Another kid started walking off the field
in the middle of a play. “Hey! Where you
going?" the coach wanted to know. The kid
said: "I'm gonna have a rest." '
It may not be football, and it may make
coaches grind their teeth to the jawbone,
but it's sanity.
or I doh
believe it violence."
Public speaking
A„ fere years ago I studied English at Conestoga College in
Vanastra: Part of the course req ed the preparation and
presentation of four speeches. Oftliturse, I complained, but
my instructor insisted the publi# speaking lessons were
extremely important.
-"You never know when you'll alive to speak to a group of
people," he reasoned.
Meanwhile, I muttered to myself, "If he thinks I'd put
myse;rough thik again., he's crazy..'
Two weeks ago I spoke to 134 persons attending a con-
vential of the Cerebral Palsy ,Associations of Ontario. I
guess my instructet wasn't era,* after all.
Was 1 nervous? Surprisingly, no. As I wrote the speech. I
felt jittery, 'and my pulse quickened when a friend ex-
claimed, "Oh Elaine! You're not going til get up in front of
all those.people? I couldn'tdo rt; I'd be too nervous."
Nevertheless, when the time arrived to deliver my talk, I
became an azingty• calm. My ;knees didn't buckle: my
stomach didn't churn; my voice didn't tremble. I must have
been in estate of shock.
A few complications arose. Arita. I was sc% edultd" to
speak after the noon luncheon. No (Me was more surprised
than I to hear my introduction before lunch..
My notes were in my purse. Anyone who has seen my
purse, knows I don't extract articles from it in a hurry. My
throat felt as dry as sandpaper, and the gum. which my
brother-in-law prescribed for avoiding a raspy voice while
speaking, was still in the wrapper.
I didn't panic -Instead, I suggested we eat before I talked.
The alreteie Nesee4teeieir
thenotaj 8s* 3t
caustic M" & ttAi.
ti
k rgtit mint he CIH$ nonoili liy the
pest et`rke away the wok estetber hitt
the Nevis.litteetil loam Its tot the
thetas lie *Ret r.t, heni1t+t# Ila tall 'archil
the Cliaterif.41ew tikeiikit to toil. Tout
�a�tf
aMal
nth
and the audience applauded with approval: Saved by 134
empty stomachs!
After lunch, I moved to the extra platform that was
provided for me because the podium was too high..I laid my
notes on the stand, and they promptly began to slide.
Luckily, I grabbed them at the edge and shuffled them to
another spot.
The fellow seated to my left whispered comfortingly,
"They'll stay there, with any luck."
From my lessons. I recalled the advice: "If your topic
and the occasion permits make the audience laugh at the
beginning of your talk. The laughter will help both you and
your listeners to relax."
"But what if they don't laugh?" I wondered.
I contemplated sneaking my mother into orae part of the
crowd and my sister into another. At the proper cues, they
could chuckle and hopefully lead the rest. The plan seemed
unethical. though. Besides, they wouldn't do it.
I opened with a clever quip, that was greeted by dead
silence. he mike wasn't on. The fellow to my left made a
hasty adjustment and Itried again. This time 1 received the
rail (gee ti al tided.
During my speech I tried to adhere to the other rules I had
read in the English text, such as: "Don't sway back and
forth, and don't pace the platform like a caged lion at
feeding time. Talk to your hearers, not at therm: face your
audience squarely and look them in the eyes. Think of each
member of the group as a friend. Be. enthusiastic."
It worked! The audience didn't shout hallelujah during
my speech. but they didn't go to sleep either.
Fro
our early fifes
10 YEARS AGO
October 20, 191111
The Huliett Township Public
School Area Board has sold the
contents and property of 10
schools on the past three
Saturday afternoons.
A new central school opened in
Londesboro in September:
Harold Jackson, Seaforth
auctioneer, officated at the
auction and Harry F. Tebbutt,
secretary treasurer of, the area
board. has released the names of
the purchasers. Glen Carter.
Londesboro is chairman of the
central school board.
The council of the town of
Clinton will rent the Lions Club
Arena on Mary Street for $I and it
will be operated for the next year
by Clinton Recreation Com-
mittee.
This was the outcome of a
combined meeting of council and
the ... rec committee Tuesday
evening. Each group had held
cote i e)of the whole meetings
beforeb,a
After an hour of discussions.
rec committee chafrmann Douglas
Thorndike requested a 10 minute
recess so his group could discuss
the matter. in less than the
requested tilne he returned to
council chambers and said the
rec committee w uld undertake
the operation of the Lions -owned
arena with financial backing
from council.
The Lions Club will retain
ownership of the building and
property on which they have a
12,500 mortgage.
Clinton and district persons
were much in evidence' ~at the
banquet in Staforth. Arena on
Friday evening to wind up the
63rd international Plowing
Match held on the Scott arms
near Setiforth, gxhibits and faran
Machinery dispiays • were also
open on 'Saturday~ due to the
inclement ' weather during the
previous four days.
Co s my honors for. the most
improved Perm homestead in
Hur lot` County since the fall of
1945 went to William G040, RR'
1 Clinton. the Goderich Township
champion.
The project sponsored by the
Federation of Agriculture, was
designed to encuy� ge farmers to
faint up, pick end finup in time
yrtb�ey�y �Centennial celebrations
IIMt yea ir.-
ranti* Coleman, RR 1
forth, Who Was WO' *hater in
McKillop Township. placed
second followed by J.L. Stafford,
Wroxeter. Fourth place is held by
Wilson McCartney. RR 3,
Seaforth. Tuckersmith Township.
25 YEARS AGO
October 25,1951
Swerving to avoid a collision
with a car approaching from the
east. a light truck driven south
toward Exeter by F.J. McKay,
Clinton contractor, completely
overturned once into the east
ditch of Highway 4. just south of
the RCAF Station gate on
Tuesday afternoon: '
Both the driver and a
passenger, Jack East, RR 4
Clinton. were thrown out of the
truck, and were badly shaken up
but escaped serious injury.
Plans are now under way for
holding a mass x-ray chest clinic
in Huron County early next
summer under the auspices of
Huron County Tuberculosis
Association and the Ontario
-Department of Health with the 10
Lions Clubs in' the County as
sponsors located in Goderich.
Clinton, Seaforth, Wingham,
Blyth, Brussels, Zurich. Bayfield.
Exeter and Howick.
The Huron County Burasaries
far 1951 have been awarded to the
following students at the
University of Western Ontario:
Miliaria A. Andrews, Clinton;
Elmer A. Campbell, Hay
Township. Exeter: Shirley H.
Campbell. Grey Township.
Bluevale; Phyllis Dougall.
Hensel'; John G. Wallace.
Scaforth.
These bursaries of 1100 each.
are awarded annually to five
students of Huron County in
attendance at the University of
Western Ontario. The purpose of
the bursaries is to assist students
whose scholastic record warrant
it. The students selected this
year, have excellent records at
the University.
"Harvesting of sugar beets is
the order 'of the day in the
southern part of the county," G.
W. Montgomery, `agrtcuitit't'a1
rep !Wren County.
reseritatki'�vte� tor H't
stated today. Yields Per acre are
down considerately as the run of
beets are slightly below averate
size.,
Sr, Montgomery reported that
silo tilling lie now practically
completed, and :a starthes been
Made en the pickingi of husking
"Fall plowing is quite general
throughout the county and has
been made much easier with the
recent rains.
Weekend speicals at Rumball's
IGA 10 lbs - white sugar, 11.15:
seeded raisins, bulk, 30 cents per
pound: seed rosins, 12 oz. pck, 28
cents; sockeye salmon, 45 cents.
Warm Jackets for fail and
winter. choose your new jacket
now from our large selection of
Bomber jackets, Stadium coats,
station wagon coats. warm
quilted lining s and fur collars.
priced from 513.95 at Herman's
Men's Wear, Clinton.
Hitherto winless. the CDC'
rugby team turned on the heat in
the rain yesterday afternoon and
trimmed Goderich District CI 11-
2 in a well played match on the
Clinton. RCAF Sports Field
gridiron. it was the first game of
the second half of the schedule.
Previously. the Clinton kids had
been defeated by Wingham,
Seaforth and Goderich the score
at Goderich being 11-0.
50 YEARS AGO
October 28,1!21
John Gibbings, who sustained
Severe injuries from the fall from
an apple tree early this autumn,
has so far recovered that he is
able to walk around a little.
Col. H.T. Rance is ill 'flits week
having . undergone an operation
Sunday last.
Charles Shanahan, has pur-
chased Mr's. Carrie Jervis'
cottage on Albert Street and will
get possession next Month.
Miss Bessie Sloman returned
this week to New York City, after
a visit with her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. J.3. Mitchell and
four sons of Mission City. B.
,are visiting the f+ rmer's manner -
and brothers in town. ,
A pleasant attic Was spent
when 20 metnbers of the AYPA
and of St. James Church Mid-
dleton, gathered at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rowden and
presented theft with a handsome
rocking chair. the presentation
being made by Stewart Mid'
dieton. Musical selections were
given by Mrs. Paull and Mill.
Rosiden. Rev. Mr. Paull rte-
dcred a WO. ProgreStiVetlUdite
was then etitbyed.
On Friday l'tist. a., WW1:
given Mr. and Mrs. NOTE
floliand at their Minton*
when neighbours ....t►'
about ` in aartib r.
God bless you,
Betty McPhee.
TOrO ito.
P.S. Kenneth E. Hagin is a
U.S. clergyman who saw
eight visions of Jesus and
wrote "I Believe in Visions".
bid them welcome to the com-
munity and to present them with
a kitchen shower. G.H. Elliott
extended good wishes. Music and
chat an dainty refreshments
filled the evening.
Harold Kilyty Toronto, visited.
his wife and baby in town over the
weekend.
75 YEARS AGO
October t8, 1901
For some time the town has
been troubled by a certain family
whose chief and only occupation
seemed to be begging and
makingthemselves a nuisance
generally. Patience ceased to be
a virtue, and this week Messrs.
Wheatley sed Welsh ordered
them to leave town. which they
did.
On Tuessday a young man. well
dressed and well able to wor4.
was begging for small loans, and
secured several; a threat of
committing him to jail induced
him to depart. It would be better.
in cases of this kind, to notify
someone in authority at once.
rather than render assistance to
undeserving applicants.
On Monday Mr. Brydone. ion
behalf of Mr. Andrew Taylor.
effected a settlement of his'claim
with the insurance. companies,
for the lass of - his feet. The
amount rce:erved-is considerably
more than that of first offered by
-the companies. being in the
neighborhood. we understand of
something about $7,000. Mr.
Andrew Ta jrlor was walking
around town on Wednesday. and
succeeded fairly well, being
aided by a couple of sticks. This is
the first he has been able to walk
since Pais unfortunate accident,
and proves his new feet are quite
atistatttery: _
Sevtkt`ai ratepay'�ers a far-
nxart ers hco to u otj
the condition'of the town roads,
and the members of the town
council do not need tobit. told they
are not in the condition they
might be. The mainroads east
west, north and south have some
nasty holes itt them, ttod needs a
good coat of gravel in placer. The
longer they are neglected the
Worse they btcome. and they
harms' been neglected tom long
now.
fay Allen underwent an
rltl► at the hospital on
and tive are glad to
is doing -as well as can
Martian T '
Dear Editor:
A couple of weeks ago, the
editor of the Clinton News -
Record tried to set people's
minds at ease when he ex-
plained that the presumed
UFO that was sighted in this
area was only a weather
balloon. The explanation was
somewhat inaccurate
however, as it actually was a
Martian Space Ship'
You see, a Martian Space
Task Force was sent here to
investigate numerous reports
that the green and blue and
red and variegated people
seen on Bluewater Cable TV.
were actually captured
Martians with a few Purple
People Eaters thrown in for
good measure.
After assessing the
situation from all angles, the
Martian Commander ap-
parently remarked that.
while the colorings were out
of this world. they were too
far out for the images to be
Martians,, and besides. no
Martian could withstand or
survive the distortions and
smearings which he assumed
was a form of torture devised
by Bluewater Cable TW
He concluded' his report
with the statement that. it
was purely an earthling
problem correctable only by
Mr. Ron McIntosh. and
disguising his spacecraft. as a
weather balloon, set off for
home.
And so we stirI wait for
Bluewater Cable TV to im
prove the quality of its
transmissions up to a
viewable standard. How nice
it wound have been Mr
McIntosh,- if you had given
your viewers, good viewable
pictures 'and color for
Thanksgiving.
We're not asking you for a
giant step forward for
mankind in space -- just one
small step forward here for
your viewers. How much
longer do we have to wait '
Art Coombs
RR 5. Clinton
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