HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-06-22, Page 4PAGE 4--CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1978
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Treat them royally
Many in this area tend to ignore
the tourist. Even though many
persons in Huron County make
their living from tourism, few
others are willing to concede that it
is our second most important in-
dustry, and we should be giving it
the time and attention it deserves.
The provincial government has
been trying hard in recent weeks to
make us all more aware of the
important part it plays in our lives.
They have given us some star-
tling facts that we can't ignore. For
instance, tourism is our number
two export industry, after
manufacturing, accounting for $4
billion in income, or 10.8 per cent of
our gross provincial product.
Tourism accounts for 11 per cent
of Ontario's workforce, generating
405,400 directly and indirectly
related jobs.
In addition to Ontarions
travelling around the province, in
1976 20,853,000 visitors came from
the United States, 9,900,000 came
from other provinces, and 933,000
came from other countries.
The money all those people spend
filters down to nearly every
segment of our economy, so it's
important that we treat tourists
with the respect they deserve.
The provincial government in
their campaign has offered a few
obvious, but often ignored tips:
Smile, it's the quickest way to win a
friend; listen, some visitors have
different languages or accents; be
polite, thank -you may be your most
important word; be prompt,
tourists are usually only with us a
short time.
Be helpful, try to know your area
so you can help visitors find their
way; and be clean, nothing turns
off a visitor faster than grubby
people and dirty places.
And probably the most important
advice available is to respect their
money. A visitor's money
represents his country, his work
and his worth, however much or
little it's worth in terms of
Canadian dollars. So don't treat it
as funny money, and always give
the visitor the best possible rate of
exchange.
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"Each year, I spend half my time getting the lawn to grow fast and the other half
cutting it, because it grows so fast!"
The getaway
With luck and a tail wind, I'll be in
Calgary by the time you read this. For
several months, my girl friend and I
have planned our getaway - two weeks
of exploring Alberta, British Columbia
Crazy wives
Quick now. What is exactly like a
Quebec politician: always wanting a
bit more than there is in the kitty ;
quick to assumed anger; deliberately
misunderstanding feelers of
amiability; vaguely threatening
separation; charming one minute,
abrasive the next? Give up? I thought
everyone would get 100 per cent on
( that.
'Answer: a wife. Sometimes,
although not often, I wish I had been
married three or four times. Not
because I am a sex fiend, or because I
want a change of cooks every few
years, or because I don't like the way
my socks disappear in the dryer. No.
Just to find out if other men's wives are
as crazy as mine.
Back in the good old days before
women's lib, men just heaved a
universal, brotherly sigh, and groaned:
"Women..." Everybody vi*ho counted
(all adult males and small boys), knew
exactly what was meant by the big
shrug that accompanied this am-
biguous two -syllable lament.
Even the women knew what it meant,
and smirked slyly, tacitly admitting
they had us by the short and curly, and
there wasn't a dang thing we could do
about it except endure.
Nowadays, if you get some guy in a
dark corner in a bar, and try to tell him
your wife is crazy, he's probably so
house-trained that he'll look at you in
horror, glance nervously over his
shoulder, and blurt: "Oh, no! Perhaps
a little volatile, a trifle mercurial, but
that's all." Then, casting a swift glom
around, he might whisper: "No crazier
than the sea, which is also affected by
the moon."
There's no comfort in people like
that. He's the type who probably scrubs
the kitchen floor every Saturday
morning, delivers his kids to their
music lesson,, and mows the lawn
himself, even though he kflows these
are a wife's prerogatives and
privileges.
I don't for one minute suggest that
my wife is crazier than other wives. I
couldn't in all honesty, and without
prejudice. I've seen some pretty crazy
wives in my day. But I think I'd put
some money on her if it came to a
contest. And I'm a cautious bettor.
Perhaps the only way I can describe
her is in sports' terms. She is like a
boxer with a long left jab that keeps
you off balance, and a mean right hook
that can come in out of left field at any
time. I trust I am being obscure.
Obscurity is what I have need of, when
this appears in print.
It's not that we don't get along. We
get along and along and along. Thirty
years is a long time to be married to a
strange woman.
Perhaps it's the fault of The Lord. He
made man in His own image: decent,
upright, honorable, straight forward,
sense of humor. I can just hear Hirp
saying: "A poor, forked, naked thing,
but Mine own."
Then His sense of humor got out of
hand. He took one of Adam's ribs (note
it was not a tooth or an ear or a toe) and
made Woman. Notice the connection. A
rib is both concave and convex, just
like a dame. Imagine what women
would look like if He had taken a toe.
But He wasn't satisfied with con-
demning men to heart attacks because
they were missing a rib, and things are
inclined to cave in on a chap. I can
almost hear Him giggling as He took,
not one of Adam's regular, run-of-the-
mill ribs, but his CRAZY rib.
This was the rib ,that Adam couldn't
seem to control. Sometimes it made
him pant breathlessly. Sometimes it
grew a sharp end, punched him in the
guts and gave him an ulcer. Sometimes
it seemed to float, and when he put out
his hand to grasp it, it wasn't there.
Sometimes it sang the sweetest of
songs, all by itself. At others, it gave
him a pain in the arm.
Well, that's what my old lady is like. I
don't know about yours, but I suspect.
We head out to a party with friends,
arid she tells me I , have the most
beautiful blue eyes in the world, after
Paul Newman. I tell her she looks
pretty good, too. Five hours later, after
I have delivered an extremely lucid
lecture on sex after death, polygamy
among penguins, or the iniquity of high
school principals, she tells me that I
am a rotten father, husband, and
grandfather, that she's sick of hearing
me click my "partial lower plate," and
that my eyes look like those of an
alligator crossed with a sleepy parrot.
We used to go to church on Sunday
morning, and have our sins washed
away, or at least slightly rinsed.
Nowadays, we have a Revival Meeting
on Sunday mornings. From a long list,
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meticulously hidden in that floating
rib, she produces sins of omission and
commission that make me a com-
bination of Attila the Hun and Henry
the Eighth, with a little dash of Richard
Nixon thrown in.
Absolutely adamant, she says: "And
not another nickel to that daughter of
yours." Two days later, she sends her a
cheque for $200 to pay the ever -behind
rent. I've slipped the kid only a lousy
hundred.
Then she rages: "And no way are
those boys going to come and destroy
the house! Just look at that — you
name it, they've done it."
Three hours later, on the phone: "Of
course, darling, we'll take the boys for
two weeks while you sort out your
psyche."
Women is crazy.
and Vancouver Island. We are hoping
to miss some of the summer crowds
and some of the summer prices.
We've both been west before and fell
in love with it and couldn't wait to go
back. As the trip drew nearer, I found
myself wanting to pour over a road
map of B.C. rather than to pound on the
keys of a typewriter.
We decided to fly to Calgary to save
time and to cut down on driving. A few
weeks ago I remarked to a day that I
was impressed by Calgary three years
ago because it was such a clean city.
"It's not clean now," she replied.
"The garbage men have been on
strike for weeks, and there's no sign of
a settlement. There's garbage
ever where!"
If the strike isn't over by now, Joan
and I will be passing through Calgary
as quickly as possible.
I voted to take the train from Calgary
to Vancouver, but Joan wanted to rent
a car. Driving will let us take -our time.
She had flown over the mountains, but
had never driven through them. Maybe
when we get halfway through, .she'll
wish we had taken the train.
We were surprised to learn a "drop-
off" fee is now charged by car rental
agencies when a car is left in a dif-
ferent city. We were even more sur-
prised when we heard the amount.
One place we both are anxious to re-
visit is Vancouver Island. We'll
5 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1973
Most of a life spent within the walls of a
school as teacher and principal came to an
end this month for J. A. (Bert) Gray of
Clinton.. Mr. Gray's resignation, which is
official August 31, comes after' 42 years
service in education in Huron County, the
past 17 of which he has spent as principal of
the Clinton Public School.
Saturday evening close to 150 persons
turned out to a retirement banquet and
dance in his honor at the Clinton Legion
Hall, with J. M. Coulter, Goderich,
Superintendent of Program and Planning
for the Huron County Board of Education as
chairman.
A family dinner was held on Sunday, June
17 in St. Andrews United Church, Bayfield to
honor Miss Josephine Stirling on her 90th
birthday.
10 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1968
Sunday, June 16 saw the official closing of
Turner's United Church in Tuckersmith
Township.
Guest speaker for the service was Rev. C.
M. Jardine of Wingham, chairman of the
Huron -Perth Presbytery, delivered his
message to a large congregation.
Special music was provided by the former
Turner's quartet - Gordon Johns, George
Turner, Stanley Johns and Bert Pepper,
accompanied by Mrs. William Rogerson,
organist. •
An early morning fire Monday destroyed
the barn of Peter Bos on his farm north of
Clinton. Two milk cows, 13 sows and a
quantity of small machinery were destroyed
in the blaze. Mr. Bos estimated damage at
$13,000. It was partially insured.
Federal agricultural minister J. J. Greene
unveiled a six million dollar export trade
permit for the supply of road graders to
Argentina during a campaign speech in
Goderich Saturday afternoon.
The minister who is a candidate in
Niagara Falls for the next general election,
was in Huron to support Liberal candidate
Maitland Edgar.
William A. Stewart, Ontario Minister of
Agriculture was guest speaker at a mam-
moth chicken barbecue in Goderich ori
Monday in support of Huron Progressive
Conservative candidate Robert McKinley.
25 YEARS AGO
June•25, 1953
It was the birthday of A. Y. Mcl.ean,
MBE, MP, who is the Liberal candidate In
the new riding in Huron, the publisher and
editor of the Huron Expositor and the reason
behind the Prime Minister's presence in
Clinton.
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, spoke
to an enthusiastic audience•at the Clinton
t
probably take the ferry across rather
than try an Evel Kneivel stunt in our
rented car.
We want to return to some places
that are particularly vivid in our
memories, and we hope to see some
sights we missed when we were on the
Island before.
Of course, there is always the danger
of disappointment. It has been three
years since I was there and longer for
Joan. Time has a way of changing
things, and memory has a way of
playing tricks on us. Things may look
different from the way we remember
them.
I will be pleased if one of my
memories proves- false. Surely Van-
couver isn't as easy to get lost in as I
remember!
Nevertheless Joan and I are deter-
mined to enjoy a funfilled interesting
two weeks of revisiting • old sites,
discovering new ones, looking up old
friends and finding new ones.
But there is one more little problem
that has been bothering me. Joan
announced she will do the driving and
will expect me to do the navigating. She
doesn't know much about my sense of
directions.
So... if you hear that two gals from
Ontario ripped off a car rental agency
in Vancouver, don't believe it. I'm
probably just navigating Joan around
in circles looking for the place.
a look through
the news -record files
Community Park yesterday afternoon. It
was a special day for Clinton, because in
over 45 years, it was the first time that a
Liberal Prime Minister had visited the
town.
Funeral service was held on Monday in
the G. A. Whitney Funeral Home, Goderich
St• W., Seaforth for Miss Jessie Grainger
who passed away in Clinton Public Hospital
on Saturday, June 20, following an illness of
two years.
Miss Grainger was born at Brucefield in
1882, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
James Grainger. She received her public
school education near there, later
graduating as a nurse from Clinton Public
Hospital.
For 27 years, Miss Grainger continued her
work as superintendent of Clinton Public
Hospital, a work which she began in 1919 in
the hospital located where the Commercial
Inn Hotel now is. At that time with the three
inexperienced girls which later here her
first class of nurses, she began the heavy
task of setting up a hospital which had been
closed for four years while Dr. Gunne was
absent overseas in World War One.
50 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1928
Wesley -Willis United Church was
destroyed by fire at an early hour this
morning. The fire which was of unknown
origin, had got such a start before the alarm
was given that it was impossible to get it
under control and the whole inside of the
church as well as the pipe organ and all the
furniture and equipment, was rendered to
ashes or charred heaps. Only the wall and
the front porch are left standing.
F. F. Gillies of Kitchener had his airplane
here Friday evening and Saturday last,
when a number of citizens took a little ex-
cursion into the upper air and took a look at
the town from that angle.
The following Clinton students have been
sucressful in passing their year at the
University of Western Ontario: Jack Gib-
hings, Misses Ruth Ball, Elinor McEwan,
Melda Mclllroy, Jean Plumsteel, Eleanor
Plumsteel and Eileen Atkinson.
75 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1903
Mr. James McQuire, formerly of the
Claredon Hotel but now of the Union House,
Toronto is in hard luck. A year ago he was
robbed of $600 and deep mystery surrounds
the disappearance on Sunday night of a cash
box containing $400 from the Union House.
The box was taken from a safe which stands
in the sitting room and the theft is believed
to have been the work of a clever thief who
waited around till he got a favorable op-
portunity to perpetrate the robbery.
On Saturday morning while Mrs. Ralph
Stephenson of the Parr Line was driving to
the station with Miss M. Stephenson and
Mrs. W. Hart intending to take in the ex-
cursion, some parties started racing horses
and drove past Ahem at a furious rate
causing their horses to ruh away, upsetting
the ladies into the ditch opposite the mill.
The horse broke the shafts and got clear of
the buggy. The ladies all got a severe
shaking up. Mrs. Hart is nursing a sore arm
and Miss Stephenson a sore knee, while Mrs.
Stephenson has been under the doctor's care
since. We think people who race horses on
the public highway should pay all damages
they may cause.
The scarcity of help which has long been
felt by the farmers of the Londesboro area
has been overcome by the arrival of a
number of men and women from England.
The newcomers have had previous farm
experience and are of superior quality.
Farmers are ,eating Force, "Thanks for
Force. I eat it three times a day. Folks call
me "Sunny Jim". Took some to the country
with me on a visit and the farmers out there
are eating Force now." - Will Ruff.
100 YEARS AGO
June 27, 1878
The Mayor of Stratford will get a salary of
$200 a year in future. (All that the Mayor of
Clinton is likely to get for some years won't
make him a millionaire.)
Last Thursday a young Man with a pair of
light grey pants on come into our office to
view the workings thereof, and while looking
around sat down on the ink keg. Most people
can imagine what followed.
On Friday a person attracted con-
siderable attention by coming into town with
two dogs harnessed in a small wagon and
himself pulling on the pole. He is a vendor of
medicines and takes this unique way of
travelling through the country.
A few days since a lady in town was
presented by her husband with a pair of
handsome birds. These were placed in a
cage and left standing in an open window,
while the lady of the house performed her
household duties. Shortly afterwards she
was surprised to find that a strange cat had
knocked the cage over, killed one of the
birds and was in the act of eating it. A few
days after this, with the assistance of a lady
friend, the cat was captured and they
determined to prevent it doing further
damage by ending its existence, so a slip -
noose was quickly made, passed over its
head and pulled sufficiently tight to strangle
the animal.
Mr. Frazer, who this year has rented the
cheese factory in Londesboro, is doing a
good business, many persons' now giving
their milk who formerly made butter, the
low prices for the latter article being the
reason of this.
Biased
Dear Editor:
We, of "CHRISTIAN CONCERN"
are quite concerned; concerning the
biased coverage you gave the
educational meeting held in Clinton
high school last Tuesday evening, June
13.
We feel that by far the most im-
portant product we raise in our country
is our youth. There is nothing, ab-
solutely nothing that will make our
country, as virile, as noble, as healthy,
as CHRISTIAN, as a generation of
young people that have been trained
and moulded by us of the older
generation in the ways of morality,
unselfishness, Christian love (which
includes both love of GOD and man),
and good clean and honourable in-
dustry.
Of the 500 people present at this
meeting, we of "CHRISTIAN CON-
CERN" represented 80 pgrcent of the
school -tax paying parents; and it has
been said that 'the one who pays the
piper calls the tund'; yet in your
coverage, you almost completely
disregarded the feeling of the 80 per-
cent school tax paying parents, of
Huron county, so forcefully and clearly
put forth by such speakers as Mr.
Paul Steckle, and Mr. Art Haverkamp.
It would seem that you have pur-
posely given your story a biased slant;
not that in keeping with the will of the
people.
Yours truly,
W.L. Barth,
RR 3, Blyth.
Objective reached
Dear Editor:
The following would be of great in-
terest to your readers.
Mrs. E. D. Fingland
Dear Mrs. Fingland:
Thank you very much for the cheque
in the amount of $2,102.75, which we
received 'from the Bank of Montreal
this morning. (The objective was
$2,000.)
We are deeply grateful to you per-
sonally, and to all those whoassisted in
raising these funds in the Clinton
district. It was a magnificent effort,
and all concerned may rest assured
that the funds will be used to assist
others in this country and overseas who
find themselves in less fortunate cir-
cumstances than we enjoy.
It was a great pleasure for my wife
and I to meet you earlier this year.
Kindest regards,
Yours sincerely,
K. A. W. Davis,
Executive Director
Vanastra nice place
Dear Editor:
Let's say something nice about
Vanastra.
I have lived here for five years and it
is a lovely place to live. The people are
very nice and are fixing up their
homes. Just because it is a small
community, some people have to
exaggerate on anything that just
doesn't go right.
All the time that I have lived here, I
haven't seen one thing that has been
out of place. So it must be a very few
that aren't fortunate enough to know
what is right from wrong.
I haven't met one child that isn't
sweet and precious. They are a credit
to any community.
People are the same the world over
and I'm sure there must be a lot of
people that talk and run a place down
and they really don't know what they
are talking about. So, please don't run
Vanastra down, it is a good place to
live.
A resident of Vanastra
Books need study
Dear Editor:
As a graduate of Central Huron
Secondary School, B.D.B. (before dirty
books) who is now an English teacher
teaching many of these same books, I
have followed the questionable
literature debate in the Clinton News -
Record and the London Free Press
with a great deal of concern mixed with
not a little amusement.
In the idyllic late '60's my classmates
and I received instruction from
bowdlerized Shakespearean plays,
wrote essays on novels free of profanity
and found that sex education consisted
of the technicalities of reproduction
taught in segregated classes. Con-
sequently, never did we curse nor did
we entertain unclean thoughts. Ha!
Almost to a man we furtively read
literature of a far seamier quality than
those titles that the defenders of
decency wish to see banned. Freely we
recommended books to each other and
our discussions seldom, except in the
few cases where enlightened parents
felt comfortable discussing such
subject matter with their children,
gained the benefit of mature, adult
guidance. It should be noted at this
point as well that we were , largely
ignorant of anything called "Canadian
Literature". I was in my second year of
university before I discovered, to my
unending delight, that Canadians wrote
books that were relevant to life as I
knew it in Canada.
Teachers are well aware of the
profound influence of their opinions on
those students entrusted, to their in-
struction. Today £he average child has
been exposed to at least ten years of the
most explicit violence and sexuality via
the television by the time he reaches
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