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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1977-12-22, Page 4PAGE 4 oCLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1971 What we fhi.nk IIIIIIIIIIIIIIuII111II1I111I11I111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111 11111l111111I1II111111111I111111II1III Doesn't make sense It has been said that English is the most difficult of all languages to read, speak and write. If you have ever felt how annoyingly true that statement is, have a smile at the following, ' taken from "Now and Then", Conestoga College's newsletter. It may make you feel better -- because there's nothing you can do about it! We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not h i ce. And I speak of foot and you show me your feet, But I give you a boot - would a pair be called beet? The cow in the plural may be cows or kine, But the plural of vow is vows, not vine, If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If one is atooth and the whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth. If the singular is this and the plural is these, Should the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese? Then one may be that; and three may be those, Yet the plural of hat would never be hose; We speak of a brother and also of brethren But though we say mother, we never say methren. Cold and dangerous What is an accident in summer becomes certain death in winter. It's a cold fact. The Canadian winter is beautiful; cold and dangerous. Each year, more people die a cold death ice fishing, snowmobiling, winter camping, or even while on an afternoon snowshoe hike. The circumstances vary, but all the victims had one common enemy: the cold. The temperature maybe a relatively balmy' 10 degrees Celsius, but cold can still kill. If the ice is thick enough, by all means walk, ski, snowshoe, or ice fish on the lake. But forget -the snowmobiles. The average snowmobile weighs 375 lbs. — three or four times as much as an average person. Can yob imagine how thick the ice must be to support that? Should a person fall through thin or weak ice, 'the extremely cold water below can, within minutes, cause death by hypothermia — the loss of body heat. Red Cross branches across Ontario teach survival positions Ito enable some of that body heat to be retained. 'The Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) and the HUDDLE can increase survival time by as much as 50 per cent. They're worth learning, as are any other tips and techniques you can pick up about outdoor survival. Learn how to handle an emergency or save' a life. If -doesn't take long, and costs little or nothing. Then go out and enjoy winter. Use it wisely. Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiler Christmas, Christmas Do you find it harder and harder each year to get 'revved up for Christmas? You have company. When the advertising begins right after Thanksgiving, and the Santa Clauses become ubiquitous by mid-November, and the carols are mere cliches by mid- December, it's hard to reach that peak of emotion that combines Christian joy for the birth of Christ and pagan revelry to celebrate the equinox, by the time Christmas itself rolls around. One of the trite remarks of modern life is that Christmas has become com- mercialized. But don't blame the mer- chants. Blame'ourselves. We can call this a plastic age, but it is we who use the plastic, whether it be in the form of goods, ideas or entertainment. It is we who scurry madly through those overheated stores, going slightly paranoid over the business of buying gifts for people who don't need them. It is we who eat and drink, too much at Christmas, which, if the truth were told, should be a time of fasting and purification, until our heads were as light as our hearts. Wouldn't it be much more appropriate if, on Christmas Eve, instead of having people in for eggnog and goodies, we threw out that pagen image, the Christmas tree, turned off the lights, except for a candle or two, turned the furnace right off, and sat around in the cold and dark, transferring ourselves to a stable in Bethlehem on a winter night? No? You don't think much of that idea? Neither do I. It's like saying that in the face of the coming energy shortage We should all blow up our cars, stop using hot water and deodorants, grow our own food in the back yard, and chop down all the trees in the park for firewood. Whether we like it or not, we are caught up in the headlong ,race of the human species toward its goal, whether it be suicide or glory, and there's no turning back. So get that tree up, buy a fat turkey, spoil your children rotten with an overwhelm of gifts, and stuff yourself silly as a Roman senator at an orgy. This year it's the 1Viounties. Next year the government may do away with Christmas altogether because it cuts too deeply into increasing our Gross National Product. My old lady and I almost gave up on Christmas this year. We thought of all the work to get ready and flinched. I suggested going south for a week to play some golf, letting our daughter and her brood take over our house and have their Christmas here. She was all for it. Then we had The Boys for a week, and hastily revised our plans. We realized that if those two were allowed to run unchecked for a week, we might as well put the house up for sale when we got home, or set fire to it, if there was enough left standing to make a blaze. if it weren't for that mob, going away would have been easy, both physically and emotionally. .I could enjoy Christmas dinner in a hotel in Texas just as much as I do at home, where I have to stuff the bird, mash the turnips and wash 8,000 dishes far into the night. I. think I might just possibly be able to forego having to find a Christmas tree, dragging it in covered in snow, and spen- ding four hours trying to get the dam' thing to stand upright. It would be a wrench, but I might even be able to stand not watching my grandboys rip the paper off 48 gifts and go right back to beating each other on the head with a couple ,of drumsticks. Real ones, not the turkey kind. It's one of their favorite games. However, as the hired man said in Robert Frost's poem of that name, "Home is where, when you go there, they have to let you stay." And it looks as though that's the way Ty daughter feels. We. tried to fill up the house with other people. But"my son is in Paraguay, one brother and his wife in Costa Rice, the other brother way up at James Bay. So we're stuck with the kids, and I'll be `happy if I see the New Year without being on my hands and knees. With that wrapped up, there's nothing left to do, but send my best wishes for the holiday season ' to all sorts of people, through this column. To my old friends in the newspaper business: hope you all got that big Christmas issue out without being hospitalized with total exhaustion. To my teaching colleagues everywhere: hang in there; it's only six months until June. To the prime minister: dear Pierre, hope that other turkey doesn't turn up and spoil your Christmas. To all the people to whom we used to send Christmas cards: it's the thought that counts, and we think of you every six or eight months. - To all those people who want a baby so badly: hope you get twins twice in the next two years. To all those people who don't want a baby t all: hope you don't, get pregnant, not even a little bit. And to all the people who bother to read this column at all, whether you agree or not, a merry, merry Christmas, with a special thanks- to those who write. God bless us, one and all, "Get lost — this is MY corner!" Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend Merry Christmas Isn't it strange what one day in the year, like December 25, can doto so many people? We even have a name for. those who pretend not to be affected by the season - Scrooge. Dieting is always difficult, but at Christmastime it becomes mission impossible. Even the most calorie - conscious person gives way to the temptation of hot turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, pumpkin and mincemeat pies, pudding, fruit cake, chocolates and fudge. Suddenly, many of us have the urge to get in touch with old friends. We thought' about them during the year, but for one reason or another we put off writing to them, Now Christmas is coming; we have a deadline, and it can't be put off any longer. Shopping changes from a.„*chore to a pleasure. There's a certain air of ex- citement amid the crowds that meander around the brightly -decorated stores.. Sure we complain about the rush and the bother, the expense and the com- mercialism, but we still spend hours searching for the perfect gift. We want to give something meaningful, because it's Christmas. We appreciated the thoughtfulness of people all year, and Christmas gives us a host of ways in which to say ["thank you." Now and again through ti year, we thought about people less fortunate than us. Now we want to do something for them - cook a hot Christmas dinner for a needy family, give a toy to a child, visit someone who's lonely or send a letterto someone far from home. Some of us are lucky enough to live close to home and to be able to ,visit regularly. But now we're going home for Christmas and that's special. My family is a small one and we see each other fairly often, but our Christmas get- together is an event we plan for and look forward to for weeks. Family becomes the number one priority for most people at Christ- mastime. Unfortunately, for those separated from their families, it is the loneliest time of the year and in the midst of our own celebrations, we should give a little thought to them. One girl recalls her first Christmas away from home four years ago. Six displaced Canadians in Pennsylvania spent the day together and learned how much their families meant to them. Of all the holidays in the year, Christmas has the most effect on the most people. It is characteristic of our times that the meaning of Christmas should be aptly summed up in the words of a TV commercial: Christmas is a feeling. Family, friends, food, sharing and . caring are all part _of the feeling. Everything takes on a special meaning at Christmas, from the laughter of children to angels in the snow. 'For many of us, there is even more. Perhaps we went to church almost every Sunday through the year, but on Christmas Sunday, there is a special reason for doing it and a special feeling in it. From our early files . . . . 5 YEARS AGO December 21, 1972 Clinton finally has• a complete council following a second municipal election on Monday that saw only 23 percent on Clinton's eligible voters turn out to cast ballots for three council seats. Ruth E. Roy, a Clinton widow and mother of three children, topped the polls with a 434 vote total, while Roy Wheeler an Ontario Hydro employee was second with 357 votes and Bill Stauttner, a Clinton businessman got the third seat with a 223 total. Terry Maguire received 156 votes while Norm Lacroix received 151. The .second election became necessary when only three people were nominated for the six seats on council when nominations closed November 13. The three, Ernie Brown, Don Hall and John MacFarlane were acclaimed to their posts. Ontario Development Cor- poration will provide funds to assist with the expansion program of a Goderich firm and the establishment on a new manufacturing operation in Vanastra, near Clinton. Huron Acoutics Industries Limited will receive a $15,500 performance loan toward the establishment of a 16,000 sq. ft, plant at Vanastra, the former RCAF base near Clinton. The company manufactures wooden ' enclosures and assem- bles hi-fi speakers for the domestic and export markets. Hurpn Acoustics began production in October and is employing about 10 people at present. Further staff will be required as production increases. The first blizzard of the season greeted Christmas shoppers in Clinton last Saturday as high winds and heavy snow created bad driving conditions and poor shopping weather. Clinton has received 19 inches of snow and 1.3 inches of rain in the past week. 10 YEARS AGO December 21, 1967 Hector Kingswell, prominent Clinton businessman Was elected president of the Clinton Com- munity Credit nion Limited at a recent meet' f the board of directors. a succeeded A. "Red" Garon, who was president since February 8, 1956. Ties seemed to highlight the annual Detroit -Clinton event at Clinton arena Saturday evening. After the Midgets tied 5-5, the Juvenile team proceeded to tie the visitors 6-6. The tie carne with the assistance of three over age juveniles in the persons of Cam Colquhoun, Don McDougall and Larry Pickett. To complete a successful year for the Legion Ladies Auxiliary, the outgoing president, Mrs. Don McLean presented past president William Chambers of the Legion with a cheque for $700 to be ap- plied to the Legion's building mortgage. At the final meeting 'of the Bayfield Council, the village dump was a main topic of discussion. The Reeve pointed out that at this time of the year many other townships and Villages close their dumps and consequently trucks from Seaforth, Goderich Township, Hullett Township, Hay Township and as far away as Kincardine have been observed using the municipal dump to tip their refuse. Council expressed con- cern at the cost of keeping the entrance and exit clear and' the reeve suggested a joint meeting of Bayfield and Stanley councils early in the New Year to discuss the problem. The December meeting of the Bayfield United Church Women was held at the parsonage at Bayfield with Mrs. Beck as hostess. The president Mrs. E. Cox had charge of the meeting. Mrs.' Beck took charge of the election for the coming year. Officers are: president, Mrs. Elgin Cox; first vice president, Mrs. A. Betties; second vice president, Mrs. W. Riddell; secretary, Mrs. B. Townshend; assistant secretary, Mrs. A, Lockhart; organist, Mrs. Bill Cox; visiting committee, Mrs. Riddell; Mrs. Chester Sturdy; buying committee, Mrs. A. Bell, Mrs. T. Sowerby. 25 YEARS AGO December 25, 1952 Rev. George J. Hoytema was inducted as minister of the Christian Reformed Congregations which worship in St. Andrews Church, Clinton and Cavern Presbyterian Church, Exeter. The minister, his wife and their family, Miss Francis, John, Charles and Jerky are living at the corner of North And Mary streets in a home recently purchased by the congregations. The Auburn Horticultural Society held a door decorating contest during the past week. As a result many attractively decorated doorways and doors can be observed, all heralding the approach of Christmas. Certificates for attendance in Sunday School in Brucefield for 40 or more Sundays in 1952, were presented Monday evening by Norman Walker, superintendent to Inda, Barbara and Mary Lou Taylor; for 40 or more Sundays for two years in succession, red seals were given to Gerald Baird, Orrin Baird, Helen Broadfoot, Jean Rathwell; blue seals for three years, Gaye Elliott, Janet and Barbara Henderson, Carolyn and Betty Ross, Jean Broadfoot, Doris and Joan Walken, Olive Aikenhead and Bob Fotheringham. 50 YEARS AGO December 22, 1927 You can cable a Christmas greeting to your friends overseas now for the small sum of one dollar. Ask the CNR up -town or station agent about it. The local office of the Canadian National Express has been altered somewhat, an- upstairs office having been built over the centre of the main office, where desk work may be done in war- mth and comfort and free from interruptions from callers. There was not enough floor space below for both the express and the florist buisiness, but this gives space for the work of the former to be carried on without in- terruptions. Several rumours are going the rounds about the possible aspirants for the town council for the coming year. Nomination night will bring aspirants out and the next day will show how many are really candidates. Citizens who are interested in the welfare of the town should attend the meeting Monday evening and see that the persons best fitted to fill the several positions are nominated. And the positions should not have to go a - begging for men to fill them in an up-to-date town like Clinton. The schools close today for the Christmas holidays. What you. think 1111111111111111011111IIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111IIIIII11111I11I111111 Nurses Dear Editor; We enclose a pamphlet explaining the role of three nursing organizations. These organizations are sometimes 410 confused by the public. The primary function of the College of Nurses is protection of the public, i.e. in order to practise as a registered nurse in Ontario, a nurse must be registered with the College . of Nurses and hold an annual certificate of competency. The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) protects the profession's interests and integrity. The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) is the nursing union which bargains on behalf of those who are employed in agencies which are certified as ONA bargaining units by the Labour Relations Board of Ontario. We would be very pleased if you would keep this material for future reference, as it may assist in clarifying any confusion regarding these bodies. Sincerely, (Mrs.) Myra Henry, Secretary, Huron Chapter, RNAO, Goderich. Wood Dear Editor, W We are requesting your co- operation in policing of ad- vertisements placed in your. • ., newspaper under "Fuel for Sale The following information will assist your • advertising staff in giving the proper requirements for persons with "Fuel for Sale" ads. The "Cord" is the only legal unit of volume for the measurement of firewood and contains 128 cubic feet (4' x 4' x 8'). • It may be subdivided into "1/4 Cord", "/2 Cad", "3/4 Cord" or subdivisions of 128 cubic feet. "Face.. Cords", 'Stove Cords", etc.`, are not legal units of measure in Canada. Firewood must not be ad- vertised or sold by these terms. Firewood may be sold by. size (i.e. 4' x 8' x 16") without using the word "Cord." As you know, Canada is involved in converting to the' metric system, and it is our presumption that once conversion is effected, wood will then be sold on the basis of a stacked cubic meter. This volume will be (ap- ---iproximately) less than one third of the full cord and once this changeover is im- plemented, this cubic meter will no doubt correspond to the volume actually being sold in the case of firewood. Cordially yours, J. Moroz District Manager Weights & Measures, Consumer and Corporate Affairs. Aid for metric tools A new Program entitled "Assistance Program - Workers' Metric Tools", will pay 50 t percent of the pur- chase cost of metric measurement sensitive tools such as sockets, non- adjustable wrenches, taps and dies, nut drivers, drills, bits and measuring in- struments. Also eligible for compensation are tool chests and cabinets and reasonable delivery costs and carrying charges for credit purchases. Tools which are not measurement sensitive, e.g. rackets, speed handles, U - joints or adaptors are not eligible for assistance. To qualify for assistance employees must live and work in Canada and be required as 'a condition of employment to provide their own tools. Tools must be purchased in Canada by the employee for his or her own personal use in the job. The program is retroactive to April 1, 1977, and will last until March 31, 1982. A claimant may make only a single claim during each calendar year and may claim only once for an eligible tool. Claims use application form provided by Metric Cotn- mission Canada. The Clinton Nows•Rocord Is published each Thursday at P.O. Box 39, Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM 11.0. Member, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association ' It is registered as second clan mall by the post office under the permit number 0017. The News -Record Incorporated In 1924 the Huron News -Record, founded In 1001, qpd The Clinton New Ira, founded In 113. Total prep run 3,300. Clinton NewsReco 1 Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Display advertising rotes available on request. 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