HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-11-10, Page 4PAGE 4--CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, NOVEMRER 10, 1977
Forgetnrigto rernember
It's funny how remembering and
forgetting are thought to be such op-
posite meaning words, but so often
they coincide with one another.
One evident example of this is
Remembrance Day as it is celebrated
in present times. Today, it seems, it is
not d day of memories and paying
tribute to those who fought for us in two
wars, but it is now a day of forgetting.
School children can forget their
studies and spend the day playing
outside or watching television.
Business employees and workers can
forget to set their alarms in the mor-
ning for work and instead sleep in
At seems that peop,le's short
memories have let them forget how to
remember and November 11 is just
considered by many to he another
"holiday", not the day that was set
aside to allow people to pay 'heir
respects to those living and dead who
gave their 1-ives in the •war for our
freedom.
Although the Legion annually holds a
lovely and loyal service in honor of
Remembrance Day, to the uneducated,
the apatheti - and the young, this often
means nothing and isn't understood.
Perhaps part of our forgetfulness 's
based on the fact that many of us,
especially the young, don't really know
what they're supposed to be remem-
bering, for,they've never really known
war, its effects and its results.
Remembrance Day might not be
taken so lightly if our government, our
schools and other institutions helped
Legion members and other concerned
people teach us what the day stands
for.
A young child cannot appreciate or
understand the meaning of the day
when he is merely told to stand and be
quiet for a minute, or given a day off
school.
Instead of closing the schools for the
day, perhaps attempts should be made
in the future to allow the children, as
classes to attend the town's Cenotaph
Service as a group, and spend the day
learning why it is important and what
they are supposed to be remembering
and honoring.
Although a small group of students,
like the Brownies and other clubs,
participate in the service, this only
covers a small portion of the children.
It is important to teach the children
the facts about Remembrance Day, for
it is they who will decide its future. If
they forget about it now, where will it
be in the next generation.
Do we need Block Parents?
If your young son or daughter ever
needed a place to run to, a refuge from
strangers, or a place to turn when
feeling ill, would he or she have one? A
Block Parent Program could provide
this refuge, but does, Clinton need a
Block ,Parent Program?
The Block Parent Program is a
program which provides a place for
'children to run to -in an emergency. It
provides white cards with day-glo red
lettering picturing a child in hand with
an adult, which are clearly displayed
in front room windows in at least two
homes in each block.
The sign advises the children that
there is a place of refuge .if they are
alarmed by strangers, or hurt in an
accident or sick, or if they are being
chased by bullies or vicious dogs.
Thetprogram is a community effort
involving the local police force, local
school boards, and the volunteer Block
Parents.. It is under the auspices of the
Canada Safety Council and supported
by the Ontario Safety League.
If you think incidents such as child
molesting are not about to happen in a
small town like Clinton, consider the
words of Margaret McGee, chairman
of the Ontario Block Parent advisory
committee who said, referring to the
claim that rural areas do not believe
there is a need for such programs:
"But it is a false sense of security, and
it is time they realize it," she said,
pointing out that Harrow, a small town
of 2,000 had three attempted pick-ups
in the last year.
Wingham has just started a program
under the guidance of the Legion, but it
is too early to tell how effective the
programreally is.
But consider the facts, and decide, if
Clinton would benefit from such- a
program.
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiler
Give us a break
Ok, God. We get the message. We give
up. You may stop weeping any time over
the silliness of your favorite creation, man.
Although at times I'm not so sure it's
weeping You're up to.
I guess You tried to give us a little
warning last winter, when you dumped
more than 16 feet, of snow on my humble
abode.
But wayward children that we are, we
ignored Your broad hint and went right on
sinning the sins of pride and presumption,
as we have done through thousands of
years of floods and plagues and droughts
and famines.
So You decided to sock it to us, beginning
about the middle of August. The wheat is
rotting in the fields. The vegetables liegleep
and putrefying in the mud. And the over-
cast is so bloody low that even the birds are
walking.
Enough, Your Heavenliship. Don't let it
rain no more.
I've been searching my own soul to see
where I went astray, and for the life of me
can't admit that I've been more sinful than
usual, to call down Your wrath in the form
of 40 days and nights of rain.
Maybe it's nothing drastic, but just a
sort of general slippage over the years,
throughout Thy people.
Let us now undo our shirts, contemplate
our navels, and meditate on our sins, and
perhaps You will stop the sluice and turn on
the juice.
Personally, I've slipped a bit, and I don't
deny it. Oh, I haven't lusted after my neigh-
bor's wife, I haven't stolen anything except
that pumpkin out .at Foster's Farm the
other day, as a Hallowe'en treat for my
grandsons, and I haven't murdered
anything larger than a mosquito for years.
-I haven't borne false witness, except to
the Department of Revenue, which doesn't
count. Maybe I haven't honored my father
and my mother, but there wasn't much
point, since they've been with You for
years.
Well, that takes care, rather roughly, of
the Commandments. But what about the
Seven Deadly Sins. Maybe that's a horse of
a different hue. Let's see. What are they?
Oh, yes, I remember what the rector said
one day in church. Pale Gas,
Now, I am not suggesting for one moment
that the rector was emitting from the pulpit
colorless hot air. No, it was his way of
remembering the Seven Deadly Sins. This
"might be useful. for my readers, if they are
still with me, contemplating their navels
and wondering wherein they have erred
and are like lost sheep. Wet lost sheep.
PALE GAS. P for pride; A for Anger; L
for lust; E for Envy; G for Gluttony; A for
avarice; S for Sloth. Now if we can just
prove that we are scot free on those counts,
I don't think, God, that you have any right
to go on watering us like so much
asparagus.
I can vouch for myself, and I'm sure for
most of my readers, if I deny the first sin,
Pride. What is there to be prideful about
when you haven't done anything to be
proud of? Does it count if you're proud of
your kids for coming first in the music
festival or growing the biggest squash for
the Fall Fair?
Anger? No way. Well, maybe a little
peevishness, like that litany of damnation
hurled at the turkey in the blue Pontiac who
tried to cut in front of you in traffic. Or a
, few barks at the old lady once in a while
when she presents you with a $60 long-
distance phone.. hill. Or a slight, scream of
rage at the kids when they calmly say they
are quitting school and going to Europe to
find themselves. But real anger? A firm
"no". there.
Lust? Most of us over the age of 30 don't
even remember what it means. A fig for
lust. Or 'a fig -leaf, if you want to be prim
about it.
Envy? Not a chance. Not among me and
my readers, at any rate. Oh, we may turn a
little green when we see someone smarter,
more handsome, better dressed, or richer
than we, but there is assuredly no envy
involved. We enjoy being stupid, ,ugly,
shabby and poor.
Gluttony? Out of the question. What do
you think we"are, pigs? Oh, there might be
the odd one of us who has one or two or
three over the eight when it comes to
drinks. And I did hear that a few of my
readers had to be hoisted from the table to
the chesterfield by a block and tackle after
Thanksgiving dinner. But you'll find a few
bad apples in every barrel. And by the way,
McIntosh apples are only $6 a bushel this
year, and you can get through a bushel, the
pair of you in about three nights before the
TV set.
Avarice? Ridiculous! There isn't an
avaricious soul in this fine land of ours.
Except the doctors, maybe. And the
businessmen. And the lawyersand the
teachers and the union workers and the
dentists and the politicians and the civil
servants. But I can't think of one avaricious
three-year-old. '
As for Sloth, you can scratch that one off
the Canadian list right now. Migosh, you'd
think we were lazy or something. 'It's
common knowledge that the gross national
product of this country is only slightly
behind that of 14 other developed nations
and well ahead. of one of them. Lazy
bedamned.
Well, God, I think you've got Yourrsignals
crossed somewhere, and it's time 'you
stopped wetting on us from a great height.
Knock it off. We are beginning to get peed
off as well as peed on, and if You aren't
careful, we might all go to the Devil.
I wonder if the rector was right about
that Pale Gas? Maybe the letters stand for:
Promiscuous; Asinine; Lazy; Epicurean;
Greedy; Apathetic; Silly.
Boy, if they do, we're in trouble. and I
apologize, God.
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counterfeit dollars for Canadian dollars?"
Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend
Why wear a Poppy?
When I was attending elementary
school, November 11 was a day on which
we could put our books away a few
minutes early. The teacher read to us or
we recited "In Flanders Fields." I
memorized the poem but gave little
thought to what it meant. I wore .the
poppy Mom gave me, because it was
pretty and because everyone else had
one.
How could a 1:' -year-old member of the
post-war generation 'understand the
purpose of Remembrance Day or the
significance of the poppy?
War was something shown in the
movies. I watched the hero, a young,
rugged, good-looking soldier. risking his
life to save his comrades and winning
battle after battle almost single-
handedly. He lost some of his buddies,
and sometimes he lost his life: That
made me feel sad, but I reminded
myself it was only a story.
How 'could I realize that, not so many
years before, the atrocities of war were
real and they happened to real people?
The only prisoner of war camp I saw
was the one on TV run by "Hogan's
Heroes." Colonel Hogan and his.
American, English and French cohorts
manipulated the gruff but lovable
German commandant and the Sergeant,
Who saw nothing, "Nothing!" The
results were hilarious.
How could a young television viewer
know the difference between this fantasy
and harsh reality?
The truth came to me slowly. My
"mother talked about the sugar sub-
stitutes they used when sugar was
rationed during the second World War.
Dad was a, dairy farmer; he and Mom
made their own butter and traded it for
sugar.
My grandfather talked about his
younger brother, who went overseas and
never returned. He recalled the crews of
the sinking of the ship, the hope that his
brother had survived and the slow,
painful acceptance that he had not.
Grandpa often mentioned the
Japanese man, who came to work for
him after the war. "Dick," as he was
nicknamed, hada prosperous business
on the west coast before the war. After
the bombing of Pearl Harbour•, "Dick '
his family and all otht Japanese
Canadians were rounded up and shipped
to inland camps, that had previously
served as P.O.W . camps. Their property
was confiscated, and when the war
ended, they had nothing.
A German Canadian related that, as a
young girl, she lost her parents, her
brothers and sisters and her•home. She
fled to West Germany, having time to
gather only her hank -notes. In West
Germany, she was told they were
worthless. -
War left its mark .on all people.
Canadian soldiers fought to protect the
freedom of their country and their loved
ones. Many never returned; otherscame
back bearing' physical and emotional
scars that would remain with them for
the rest of their lives.
I am 'grateful that my generation has
been spared the tragedies of a World
War, but I think it is imperative thatwe
understand what our parents and our
grandparents went through. On this
Remembrance Day, I wear a poppy to
show respect and. gratitude.
From
our early files .
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5 YEARS AGO
November 9, 1972 ---
Repairmen from Bell
Telephone worked for seven
hours last Thursday . night
splicing a cable that was
severed when workmen were
excavating a hole for a sewer
at the Huron County board of
education's new building on
Albert Street in Clinton, The
break put 75 phones, out of
service in northeast ' Clinton
and customers were still
experiencing difficulties with
their phones on Sunday. The
main feeder cable to Blyth
and Wingham was missed by
inches.
More than 50 people en-
joyed an evening recently in
Bayfield when Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Poth showed their
slides of a trip to the Fiji
Islands and Hawaii.
Dr. R.B. Treleaven used
the new .$54,000 X -Ray unit at
the Clinton Public Hospital on
patient Eric Collins. The unit,
built in Holland, is the best in
South -Western Ontario and
patients wilt no longer have to
go to London to get X -Rays
taken. The unit was paid for
out of hospital funds,
donations and bequests.
Karen Tyndall was chosen
princess of the Western
Ontario Zone of the Hereford
Breeders Association at their
annual banquet in Harriston
recently.
She will compete in the all
Ontario finals to he held in
Peterborough on. January 20.
Karen is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Kent Tyndall, RR 4,
Clinton.
The Ausable-Bayfield
Conservation Authority has
received final approval and a
grant of $5,700 from the
province for the establish-
ment of a park on the
Bayfield River, east of High-
way 4 at the Ci-inton town
limits.
ry The Authority had pur-
chased the 12• acres from
Maynard Corrie last August
and a SWEEP crew spent a
couple of weeks in the new
park cleaning it up for°
seeding next spring.
This year, the Students
Council executive at CHSS
includes: Gary Cummings,
president; Peter Walden,
vice-president; Sandra
Graham, secretary; Sally
Walden, treasurer. R
The council has sponsored
three dances with bands
named "Fludd", "Bramble,"
and "Steel River" and more
dances are expected in the
near future. Red and blue
jackets, crests and tee-shirts
are being sold to sponsor
school spirit. -
10 YEARS AGO
November 9, 1967
Mrs. Myrtle Robinson,
proprietor of the Albion
Hotel, petitioned the Bayfield
Council to request the Liquor
Control Board to authorize a
plebiscite; she requested that
the vote be taken to
ascertain the views of the
electorate as she wishes to
serve drinks with meals.
A women wearing a nun's
habit and claiming to be
"Greek Orthodox" reportedly
made the rounds of Clinton
stores last Saturday but had
little success in soliciting
funds for the "St. Anthony's
Boys Town of Canada for
Homeless Boys."
Among those contacted in
town 'were Pickett and
Campbell, Anstett Jewellers,
Lovetts Specialties and
McEwans Book Store.
According to Miss Sadie
Lovett, "This person dressed
as a nun came into the store
and asked for a donation for a
boys home. I had heard that
nuns always travel in pairs.
This lady was alone and I was
immediately suspicious,"
Miss Lovett said she refused
the woman money and she
immediately left.
John Anstett said he grew
suspicious of the woman
when she told him she was
"Greek Orthodox", "We
don't have Greek Orthodox
around here," said Anstett,
"and I told her that I donated
locally."
News of the woman's ac-
tivities came to light
following a report of an arrest
in Seaforth of a woman
claiming to be a nun. The
woman was arrested in
Seaforth on a theft charge
after she had been soliciting
funds for a boys home.
Students at CHSS took part
in 0 tree planting ceremony
on the grounds of the school
last Friday. Helping in the
planting were Cheryl Clark,
Donna' Hoggart, Janette
Marill, Nancy Pickett, Pat
Ball, Joe Milner, Denis
Fleischauer, Paul Swan,
Steve Kennedy, Dave Car-
michael and Terry Sewell,
The Clinton Ministerial
Association enlisted the
support of some 250 children
from the district on
Hallowe'en night to gather
aid for sick and starving
children supported by the
United Nations.
25 YEARS AGO
November 13, 1952
Clinton Public Hospital will
hold its graduation service on
December 5, in the Ontario
Street United Church with
Miss Edna.. McDonald and
Miss Irene Howatt, both of
Blyth, as graduates.
According to Miss A.B.
Sinclair superintendent of the
hospital, these graduate
nurses, who have trained at
the hospital for the past three
years, will be the last class to
graduate from the hospital.
Mervyn Lohh, Goderich
Township farmer who has
been a patient in Victoria
Hospital, London, since June
11, as a result of a tractor
accident, returned home on
November- 3. A walking cast
and crutches allow him a
measure of freedom.
During the summer his
ncighhours found time to care
for Mer'vyn's harvest,
threshing and silo filling.
November 10 held a special
thrill, He was able to see the
whole season's plowing
completed in a few hours by
17 neighbours. Among those
turning up with tractors and
ploughs were William
Jenkins, Graydon Neal, Allan
Neal, Charles_ Merrill, Harold
Lobb, Clayton Ellis, R.G.
Smith, Clarence Ball, Harry
Watkins, Grant Snell„
William Lovett, Irvine
Tehbutt, William Lobb,
Stewart Farquhar, Morgan
Jones, W,R, Lobb, William
Reuger, I)on Jervis, Leslie
Pearson, Robin Thompson
and Carman Tebhutt.
50 YEARS AGO
November 10, 1927
The marriage took place on
Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J.G.
Chowen, Townshend Street,
of their daughter;' Elizabeth
Dorothy and Mr. Franklin
Fingland BA LLB, Toronto,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Fingland of Londesboro.
What you..
think
Challenge
Dear Editor:
A highly controversi4l book
published in England
challenges (along with many 0
others) the traditional
Church teaching that Jesus is
God. Entitled "The Myth of
God Incarnate", the book's
authors, seven noted British
theologians, argue that
Jesus was not God in human
form but "a man approved by
God" for a special purpose.
"There is actually nothing
new about the central themes
of this book" says John Hicks
the book's editor, who is
professor of Theology o
Birmingham University.
"That the historical Jesus did
not present Himself as God
incarnate is accepted by all
(theologians) . . . Christian
laymen today are not fully
aware of it."
Jesus, says Hick, "did not
teach the doctrine of the
trinity." In a section of the
hook, Frances Young, lec-
turer of Birmingham
University, suggested that
the doctrine of the in-
carnation of Christ was
adopted by the early church
through r fusion of pagan and
Jewish traditions.
Though the theologians who
wrote this book do not present
Jesus Christ as the Bible
does, as truly 'the Son of
God', they have drawn at-
tention to the falseness of the
Trinity doctrine, as taught by
Christendom's churches.
Jesus himself never claimed
to he God but said: "The
Father is greater than I am."
(John 14:28) see also Luke
1:35 and John 20:17.
Since Jesus stated "And
this is life eternal, that they
KNOW THEE the only true
God, and Jesus Christ whom
THOU hast sent." What hope
for eternal life lies in only
recognizing Jesus? John 17:3
RSV
In all sincerity,R
C.F. Barney,
Clinton.
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The 'ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. J.E. Hogg,
assisted by the Rev. W,
Fingland of Mimico, brother
of the bridegroom and was
witnessed by about 40 guests,
relatives and intimate friends
Df the two families.
The Brussels Post is
complaining bitterly that the
account for printing in the
past election has not been
paid. The account should be
placed in "other hands for
collection."
John Leith was driving his
car from Auburn to Blyth on
Friday when there was a
flock of chickens on the road
and to escape them, he turned
out and went into the ditch
and through a wire fence. The
car turned over a couple of
times and was damaged
considerably; -jut luckily, he
.escaped with only a few cuts.
A dance was held in the
town hall on Monday evening,
the Harold Skinner Blue
Water Orchestra supplying
the music.
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The schools reopened on
Tuesday after the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Playing at the Star Theatre
- Bebe Daniels in "A Kiss In A
Taxi". A man - a miss -acab-
.a kiss - began a feast of fun
like this. Admission 25c and A
15c.
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