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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-02-24, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY:24, 1977 What . • we think Thank -you. 4-H'ers There aren't very many people in Huron County whose lives haven't been touched in _-some way be the 4-H "programs for young people that's run out of the aq office in Clinton. Quietl,r, capably, hundreds of people in Huron have given up time from their private ,lives to lend 4-H clubs of all sorts in Huron County. Some of the current leaders got together at a dinner recently to mark the 25th an- niversary of the Huron 4-H Club Leaders Association. Some of them were at the group's founding meeting in 1952 and have been working with'4-H ever since. They don't get paid. They get satisfaction and true, respect of our young people. •^ As well as teaching concrete skills . related to agriculture, homemaking and recreation, 4-H clubs help train our kids to be responsible, take leadership and practise good citizenship. Those are just words, but 4-H kids know what they mean. Those who lead 4-H clubs, and the kids who take time away from home, farm and school work or just TV watching to join them, deserve our thanks. 'The professionals at the ag Q., office who advise them deserve thanks. too. It's not trite, it's a fact that 4-H programs in this county have done an immeasurable amount to keep Huron progressive. Many of today's leaders in the farm community and in political life were 4-H members and leaders. Many of the .bright and hard working leaders of the future can be seen right now, getting experience in 4-H work 4-H activities are great match makers too. And that has ever wider implications, now that cross Canada and into. the U.S.A. exchange visits are becoming common. The club leaders' association, along with 4-H members, is planning a 25 year reunion for all former members and leaders who are interested, this summer. When you think about it, that could involve most of the people in rural Huron County. There isn't another group in the province that is looking at prospective attendance of that size at one event. Yes 4-H people are important to Huron. And for once we'd like not to take them for granted. Instead we'd like to let them know we appreciate the work they do. — from the Seaforth Expositor. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiley Oh Canada! We have such a crazy climate in this country that by the time this appears in print some dingbat will have spotted the first crocus peeping its,dainty head through the snow. - Butright at the moment, any such crocus would have to come from the garden of King Kong. This winter has been not a little unlikea, sort of arctic King Kong — a vast, un- . controllable monster laughing with fien- dish glee at the prospect -of puny man tr`jing to cope with his .whistling, frigid breath, his frosty and fickle fingers, and his 'extremely bad case of.dandruff. Aroundthese parts we've had 13 to 15 feet of snow, depending on whom you are conversing. with. If you are talking to me, youll'learn that we've had 18"feet. My wife would say: "About twelve and a half feet," in that sickening, righteous tone of hers that has made me hurl thehatchetand the butcher knife deep in the 16 feet of snow right behind the kitchen door, to avoid temptation. Though we have a pretty good running parry -and -thrust on everything from pea soup to politics, from golf to garbage, we just don't fight about the weather. Until this winter.. Now .it's hammer and tongs almost every day. And I seem to have wound up with the tongs. I stagger out through the blizzard every morning, brush the snow off the car, scrape the ice off the windshield with my finger- nails because she has lost the'scraper, and sit there freezing my poorly padded bum for 10 minutes, warming the beast up. Then I bomb the vehicle out of the driveway, risking my life every morning; • because I can't see anything coming, from any direction. I park it on the street. On the odd occasion when she decides to shop, she minces out to the car, heavily garbed, climbs into a warm wagon, parks behind the supermarket and walks 40 feet to the door. Every time she goes out, it has stopped snowing for, one hour, the wind has dropped for one hour, and the sun gleams palely for one hour. She leaves the car out on the street when she comes home. I clean it off again, buck it through a drift into the driveway, climb through more snow that goes ,in over my boots, and totter, breathless and forlorn, into the house. ' "Why do you make such' a fuss?" she, queries. "It's been a beautiful 'winter day."wakes up on the first 'day of the March I don't mind scoffing at thy golf game, . being able to ski twice as fast and far as I, but this winter she's gone too far. One of us has to break: either the weather, or me. She won't be so dam' smart when she wakes up on the first day of the M. "arch break and finds a note pinned to her pillow: "Off to the Canary Isles for 10 days. Hear they're loaded with -Scandinavian girls in bikinis or (gasp!) topless. Why don't you go and visit Grandad for a week or so. Love Fahrenheit Bill." She's a Celsius and it drives me nuts. But it's not only my wife Who has helped, with the aid of this atrocious winter, to depress me. It's the cost. This is . rough reckoning. but close enough. From last November the first, it has cost me, approximately: $420 for fuel . oil; $120 for driveway plowing; $50 for the kid next door, snow -shovelling; $60 for battery boosts, tow trucks and other winter items for cars. That, my friends, is $650 bucks for the - privilege of spending the - winter In -the true - north, - _ and freezing. Oh, •Canada! You can well say that I didn't need to spend all that. Well, I dang well did. I could have saved a bit on the oil bill by burning the furniture. And I could have saved a bit. on the plowing and shovelling if I had been able to quit my job and shovel about four hours a day. But it seems rather a peculiar way to save money. And of course, by now I'd be dead of a heart attack, so where's the -percentage? • Tell rre,` some of my friends who go south every winter. Does it cost more to eat down there? Less, you say. Does -it cost more to drive a car down there? Less, you say. Does it cost more for accommodation? Less, you say, and you add that it can cost $52 for an ordinary double room in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. But don't you get sick of all that fresh orange juice, and those crispy salads twice a day? No you say. Don't you feel you are deserting the ship, somewhat, when your country needs you, when it is the duty of every man and woman to put his and - or her shoulder to the ear that's stuck in the drift? No; you say. Have you no thought, no slightest sym- pathy, for the pensioner who tries to peer -through his frosted windows, who is scared to venture forth because he might bust his back in a foot -skid, or freeze into a statue on his way to the liquor store? Definitely not, you say. O.K. O.K. I haven't figured it out yet, but I'll devise some way of some day getting even with all you rotten rich who are loafing around in the sun while I battle with the Old Battleaxe about the windchill factor. In the meantime, it's the least you could do, somebody, anybody, to ask me dowt for a long weekend. From about thefifteenth of February to the Ides of March would be just right. • Member, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association The Clinton News=Record is pUblished each Thursday at P.O. Box 39, Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM ILO. It Is registered as second class mall by the post office under the permit number 0817. The News -Record incorporated In 1924 the. Huron News -Record, founded In 1881, and the Clinton New Era, founded in 1885. Total press run 3,100. Clinton NewsRecor(1 A - Member Canadian - Cotiontelty Newspaper Auodatisa Display advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rat. Card No. 7 effective Oct. 1, 1W11. tieheral kitioti1gEr - J. Howard Aitken Editor - ,1 mea E.ser O Avertisiti�r Dlt'w'tor- Gary L Mist Assistant editor - CRirip Zdeb Office Manager - Margaret Gibb Citenlalkn FredsMcLeod Accounting- Marian VirObop„__._ Subscription Rates: Canada -$17 per year u,s.A.-$15.so Other - $le Single Copy - f:5e "Let's hope all this unemployment's not contagious." Odds 'n' ends,a- by Elaine Townshend What kids say! Kids say the darndest things. A five-year-old boy listened to his father trying to sell their house to a young couple. The prospective buyers decided they should think it over. The father was prepared to• wait, but his son piped 'up, "You'll have to make up your minds, you know!" How much would you like to bet that in 15 or 20 years that kid is a first-rate salesman? Another man put his car up for sale, and a neighbour came to talk about a deal. When he left, the car owner went into the house to tell his wife how much the neighbour had offered for it. His young son obviously wanted to get rid of the car and wasn't at all interested in the price. He pointed out, "The question is, Dad, 'Is he going to buy it?." My four-year-old nephew has an obsession for Corvettes, mainly due to his father's coaching. Every time he spots one on the street, Brian exclaims, "Wow! Look at that cool Corvette." He urges his dad to catch up to it, but that's difficult to do in a '67 Ambassador. Anyone, who takes him for a drive around the neigh- bourhood, has to pass a certain driveway in a certain crescent because that's where a certain green Corvette lives. One day last summer my sister pulled up beside a sporty Corvette at 'a stop light: The windows were down in both cars. Brian leaned out 4i side and shouted to the driver, "Cool car, man!" 0 " a The driver grinned,' 'straightened his shoulders and raised his chin. A little boy with a passion for Corvettes had just made his day! The older the kids grow, though, the less innocent their remarks,become. , For example, my 12 -year-old niece, Janice, has become calorie conscious that is, she's conscious of the calories I eat. When I reach for a piece of pie or cake, she tut -tuts, "You'll get fat, Elaine." " Nevertheless I have no worries about my future, thanks to Janice and her cat Corky. You, see, Corky is going to become a movie star and will be even more successful than Morris. When he becomes rich and famous, he and his mistress are going to move into a mansion in Beverly Hills. I convinced J.an that an estate would be too large for she and Corky to live in alone. Then I added that surely she could make some arrangements for her poor old Aunt Elaine. "Sure," she answered, "you can have the maid's room." Her fourteen -year-old brother Dave, seems to have only one description of his sister: "She'ss crazy!" One evening my sister, mother and I were discussing my plans to move into an apartment and live alone. Suddenly, from his chair in a corner, Dave bolstered my cause with this reasoning: "Why shouldn't she be on her own ? She's almost 40." Some teen-agers tend to exaggerate, and that stretch of Dave's imagination brought him a dirty look - among other threats. Kids do say the_ darndest things! From our early files . 10 YEARS AGO February 23, 1967 oft Commerce now has a 1952 paid-up membership of 100, it was reported at an executive Two very proud gentlemen meeting held in the Board Room, were honoured at Huronviewlast Town Council Chamber, Friday afternoon by Robert E. yesterday afternoon. It is ex - 'McKinley, MP for Huron County. pected that the next general Mr. McKinley. presented meeting will be held on Wed, Duncan Stewart and John Mit- nesday evening, March 5. Directors of Huron County -�helr .with. century plaques on Federation of - Agriculture _in ' behalf of the Canadian govern- session here Tuesday, decided to ment which is awarded . all 1967 take no stand on the question of centenarians with the bilingual, establishing a hog marketing remembrances. •4 Mr. Stewart and Mr. Mitchell agency.A report submitted at the celebrated their 100th birthdays meeting indicated some .700 earlier this year. Both men are poultry producers in Huron had from Rodgerville, a settlement py signed a circular which requests a vote on a proposed marketing scheme. Several townships are still to be heard from. Clinton Hospital Association, which operates Clinton Public Hospital, experienced• a very successful year in 1951, it was indicated at the annual meeting in the Board Room, Ontario Agricultural Office, Thursday evening last. The financial statement showed a net profit after depreciation, amounting to $8,965 as compared with a het loss the previous year, after depreciation of $1,051. It was pointed out, however, that accounts receivable, less reserve for bad debts, totalled $11,829. Another financial highlight was that the mortgage on the property - originally $25,000 - had been reduced by $10,000 during the year, and now stands at $5,000. Revenues, including grants and donations, increased by $16,000, while expenses increased by $6,000, which accounts• for the improved operating result, the. auditors said. near Hensall which has vanished in recent years. The men were classmates at SS 1 Usborne ToWnship (Hurondale) elementary school. A third classmate, Mrs. • Helen Dalrymple will celebrate her 100th birthday at Huronview in November. Clinton Kinsmen Club capitalized on ,.its celebration of Founder's Night by honouring three of its charter members at the dinner meeting in 'Hotel Clinton dining room Tuesday. Mait Edgar was presented with a life membership in the Clinton • Kin Club which was formed in 1952. This is the highest award a club can bestow on one of its members. Two other charter members, Don Kay, a past president and Ken Scott were presented with honourary membership cer- tificates. Twenty junior and senior public school children competed in Clinton Branch 140 of the Royal Canadian Legion's . public speaking finals in the Legion Hall Tuesday evening. This year's chairman of the public speaking committee is Robert Burke, who was assisted by Garnet Harland, prihcipal of the Department of National Defence public school at CFB Centralia. Winner of the senior division, which takes in grade 7 and 8 students, was Miss Christine Hartley, daughter of Mr. •and Mrs. H.E: "Hal" Hartley, North Street, Clinton. She is a Grade 8 student at Clinton public school. Junior division winner was Patricia Cummings, a Gfade 6 pupil at AM Hugh Campbell Public School at CFB Clinton. She is the daughter of Flight Lieutenant and Mrs. R.S. Cummings, 14 Winnipeg Roaa, Adastral Park. 25 YEARS AGO February 21, 1952 Clintotr-'and District Chamber Girls' Hockey team journeyed to Stratford and played an in- teresting exhibition game, which resulted in a tie, 1-1. The Clinton girls put on a smart team. The forwards kept the Stratford goalie busy, while Clinton's goalie turned in a brilliant game and was well supported by the "Sturdy Streets" defence. - Clinton's goal was scored by Mary Grealis on a perfect pass from "Short" Schoenhals. Mrs. E.G. ,Oker,strom of Archive, Sask., writes that her family has taken The News - Record or Tfie New Era, which was amalgamated with The News -Record some two years ago, or- both, since July 1887, a little matter of forty years, and she doesn't seem to be tired of it yet, as she enclosed a postal note for renewal up to October, 1928. 50 YEARS AGO February 24,1927 The Bell Telephone Company has been granted permission by• the Railway Board to raise their rates, the change affecting business phones, and in Group 8, in which Clinton•is, the rate for a business wall phone will be $2.75 per month as against $2.05 in the past. For a, desk phone we shall pay $2.96 as against $2.26. Residence phones are the same. In some of the cities the rates for residence phones are reduced but here they remain the same. If you want harmony in the orchestra of matrimony play second fiddle - Judge. But suppose both parties to the contract insist on playing second fiddle - what then? On Saturday last the Clinton 75 YEARS AGO February 21, 1902 'The manner in which the great majority of the people of Clinton have cleaned the sidewalks in front of their residences is a credit to the town. The street committee are also to be com- mended for the efficient way they have looked after the walks by having the snow plough going around early in the morning during the recent snow storms and flurries. Lent has deprived those in connection with the English church from indulging in festivities but still there are a number on the go. Last Friday night Dr. and Mrs. Gifford en- tertained , a number of their friends and Mrs. J.E. Cantelon gave a St. Valentine's party to a number of young friends; on Tuesday evening Mrs. S.S. Cooper entertained some friends, by a pleasant evening in honor of her sisters and brother. The London Imperial „Moving Picture Co., will appear in the town hall un Monday . and . • Tuesday, Feb. 24 and 25, with the most elaborate- collection of pictures ever seen in this part of Canada. Speaking of the above the Harrison Tribune of Jan. 30, says:. A splendid entertainment in the mobile pictorial direction 4 was given on Saturday night and Monday night in the town hall here by the London .Im'perial Moving. Pictures." These pic- tures Were away ahead of any that have ever.appeared here for clearness and steadiness on the screen. It is hard to individualize, for one scene was almost as good as another, including the South African war scenss, and the funeral scenes of Queen Victoria What yo think +' • :•:i••' : } :�?::+. r{%r,:S r{� ..rR :r,?f %'•if�r f J Y•tivrz Wrong Dear Editor: I have just read your story of your February 17 edition concerning the approval granted by the Huron County board of education to the students of CHSS to build tennis courts. I am frankly appalled at the nearly tot inaccuracy of the story. The story states that there were two quotes for the project 19,450 and $32,000, and that we at Central Huron picked the more expensive one. The story is wrong on both counts. There were only two written quotations for the project, one at $19,450 and one • at a little over $26,000 for the same work; there were in addition some verbal quotations received. The major error, however, lies in the fact that the Students' Council picked the lower price of $19,450 and actually handed around over two , dozen copies of this particular proposal for Board members to read. The reference concerning my statement that we picked the more expensive proposal is out of context. The con- tractor Mr. Ray Mitchell (not mentioned in your inaccurate .A article) stated that his price of $19,450, could be reduced if his sub -contractor Mr. Lavis applied only one rather than \ two layers of asphalt. Your reporter apparent could not be bothered readin the proposal which was available - I would have given him one if he had requested it. Your reporter also ap-V parently thought it a waste of , time even to spell Miss Divok's name correctly or to find out that my name -is not Tim. This type of sloppy reporting does no service to your paper -or its readers. It also will not make it any* • easier for our students to raise the additional money y1 for a verybeneficial com- munity, project because it appears from the article that they have irresponsibly opted for a far more costly proposal. Please, in the future, have your reporters check their facts before going to press. and President McKinley. The great Spanish Bull Fight, recently taken at Madrid, was exciting. Perhaps the best of the "specialities" introduced was the grand spectaculr pantomine 'of Cinderella and the glass slipper. Wonderful crowds of children turned out at both performances, and every person found thorough enjoyment." Admission -25 gents; reserved seats 35 cents; plan of hall at Cooper's Book store. • 100 YEARS AGO February 8, 1877 This place and neighborhood, appears to be undergoing an unusual religious awakening, judging by the special services that are being conducted. For several weeks both the Methodist and Bible Christian churches of this town have been holding revival meetings, ,at which large numbers have at- tended, and many have acknowledged themselves as converts. Rev. Mr. Davey is at present conducting similar services at -Kinburn, and, we understand, contemplates starting also at Londesboro, Services' have been com- menced at Blyth, by the Rev. Mr. Philp, are being held at Goderich, • by the Rev. Mr. Henderson, and will soon be started at Holmesville by the Rev. Mr. Milliken. Exercise regularly. Give Heart Fund News -Record readers are encouraged" to. express their opinions in letters to the edit9r, however, such opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of the News - Record. Pseudonyms may be used by letter writers, but no letter will be published unless it can be verified ,by phone. Yours truly.,-. _. Tom Fox*. CHSS teacher_ Justice Dear Editor : On November 14, 1976 you published a long letter "On Justice" by Ivan Jensen, of Innisfail, Alberta. Complicated an4i distressing as the modern problems with justice are, -- these is reason for hope. Have 'you noticed that many, of the obstacles to justice could be overcome if God's counsel in the Bible were followed? The Most High (Psalm 0 83:18 RV) loves justice righteousness. (Psalm 33. His servant Elihu declared: "As for the Almighty, we have not found him out; he is exalted in power, and justice and abundance of righteousness he will not ,belittle." (Job 37:23) Because of having the highest regard for justice, Almighty God does not overlook oppression. ._....... Oppressors cannot escape the outworking of God's un- changeable law: "Whatever ; a man is sowing, this will he also reap." (Galatians 6,7) At times Almighty God has maneuvered matters in such a way that' practicers of in- justice experienced calamity. So that they would know for a certainty that the judgment was from him, the Almighty announced it beforehand through his prophets. Truly Jehovah God had not. overlooked injustices that had been cgmmitted in the Kingdom of Judah. He being a God of unchanging moral standards, we •can rest assured that he wilrant in- definitely tolerate lawlessness and injustic today. In the meantime, the words of the prophet Micah are goods advice for us: (Micah 6:8 ASV) : "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy. God." Sincerely yours, C. F. Barney, Clint%