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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-09-28, Page 4PAGE 4.—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY SEPTEBER, 28,1978 Truly amazing show It's truly amazing when one looks at it close up - the thousands of hours of work invested by a few dozen people for just a few days enjoyment. There it is, the In- ternational Plowing Match, right here in Huron County, whose total population is only 50,000, but is having that many visitors in just one day! The local Huron committee of the Plowing Match are to be congratulated for the fine show they have assembled. It doesn't have to take a back seat to any exhibition or fall fair in Canada. It's been four years since, the Huron committee was awarded the Match, and it's been hard work and at times heartbreak ever since, but now, with the weatherman's co- operation, everything is proving worth it. Thanks to the help of many Clinton area people, like Raymond Scotchmer of Bayfield, Fred Lobb of Clinton, and the irreplaceable ag rep Don Pullen, this year's Plowing Match has the makings of being the biggest and the best ever. If you haven't already been, and can get away, slip up to Wingham and see what all their work was about. Huron County can be prqud of itself, and its people. Gift helped him Sales executive Jim Wexler dates everything from January 21, 1969 - the date of his open heart surgery operation. He was 48 years old then, a man with 80 percent of his main arteries blocked. Nine months before he had buried his older brother who died of the same condition. Some years before that his father had died at age 57, also a victim of blocked arteries. Yet Wexler wasn't afraid for his own life. A businessman who "thinks positive" like a businessman, he was confident the operation would be a success. Not everyone shared his calm. The night before his operation some friends from his local B'.r.sai Brith chapter donated blood at a Red Cross blopd donor clinic to ensure there was an adequate supply for Wexler's open heart surgery. "But I never worried. I knew the blood would be there for the operation," Wexler said. "Hospitals know the tools they need. Blood is one of the tools. I didn't even question it wouldn't be there." He's 57 now, plays a full round of golf, swims, and sculpts in his spare time. He says he feels 39 and is convinced he has another 30 years to live. "I've been closer to dangerous ground than most people," Wexler said. "And I know that while I was in the hospital I never worried. The blood was always there. But it's not always going to be there unless people come through and make sure there's always enough" sugar and spice More boring talk There's probably only one thing more boring than being ,forced to watch slides of someone else's holiday jaunt, and that is having to listen to them tell about it. But if you think that you are going to get away with only two columns about "OUR TRIP" you might as well turn over to the real estate ads right now, gentle reader. , Not after I spent all that money. I've had two long-distance calls and a letter in the past 10 days from the Chargex people. Seems we went over our limit by about double and the bills are still coming in. Oh, well, that's inflation. On a trip like ours, it's probably a. good idea to take notes, or keep a diary. I never do this; too interested in people and places to try to put them down. Tried to keep it all in my head, in pictures. Result: for 10 days after we got home I couldn't sleep, with all those pictures hopelessly mixed, flashing through my mind. When you hit eight countries in 14 days, it's more like low-flying than an in-depth study of the treasures of Europe. But it's amazing what you can do and see and experience. ' For the average traveller who is not an art expert, there is'serious danger of picking up a couple of diseases, cathedralitis and basilicatis. The symptoms are similar. If you see a person with head cricked right back and mouth open, he's probably just back from Europe. While the cathedrals are awesome in their structure and art work, they tend to make you feel like a very small minnow in a very large ocean. And probably that's what they're supposed to do. We were in the largest and third- largest in the world, in Rome and Florence, both designed by Michelangelo and I don't care if I never see another. They make you humble in the face of the patience, the reverence and the genius that went. into their creation. And we saw a lot of famous works of art: the Venus de Milo, a stocky broad with no arms; the Mona Lisa, looking NEWS ITEM: Ford owners warned over gear risks "Other than that, how's your Ford?" Battleof tongues This summer I conducted a one - woman campaign to clean up the speech habits of my 16 -year-old nephew, Dave, and my 14 -year-old niece, Janice. They didn't swear, at least not within my earshot,, but they abused the English language in other ways. For a long time I ignored them. anything but enigmatic behind six layers of bullet-proof glass, It was no more thrill than looking at a good color photo of them in an art book. But that's not the sort of thing you remember from a trip. You remember the highlights and the human relations, the bad moments and the exalted ones. Like going through the Dolomites, a range of mountains so forbidding they make the Rockies look genial in a rainstorm, the driver inching around hairpin turns. Or a magnificent summer evening with good wine, good food, good music, good friends, on a balcony overlooking the beautiful Tivoli gardens, outside Rome. Or wandering around the Mont Martre in Paris, haunt of famous writers and artists over the years, watching the painters at work, haggling over a picture, maybe having your portrait done in 10 minutes. Or being kicked off the grass in Monte Carlo by a surly Monacan cop. Or hustling through 'the rain in Heidelberg, trying to buy suppositories with your scanty German. Or sitting on your balcony in Lucerne, wondering what the poor folks were doing, as you looked over the lake to the mountains. Or admiring the lady of the streets, who saw us gawking at her as she leaned against a building, turned her back, flipped up her skirt, no pants on, some of the bolder spirits told me. I, of course, had covered my hand with my eyes, or something like that. Or discovering in your room a small bar -refrigerator stocked with everything from Coke to champagne. All you had to do was help yourself, mark down what, you'd used and pay for it in the morning. Can't see a North American hotel trusting anyone that much. Or watching your wife, the insotnniac at home, sleeping: on the bus, on the ferry, in a boat in the canals of Amsterdam, on a boat down the Rhine, On the Seine, on the train. The only place she didn't sleep. was in the hotel rooms, worrying about getting up at 6 a.m. and on the Hovercraft from France to England which took only 35 minutes. The Clinton News -Record is published each Thursday at P.O. Bost 31s Clinton. Ontario. Canada. NOM ILO. Meander, Ontario Weekly Newspaper AMoeiafion It is registered as second Class magi by the post office under the permit number 0817. The News.Record Incorporated an 1924 the Huron News.Record. founded In 1001. and The Clinton New Era. founded In 1805. Total press run 3,300. Es Med$ber Canadian Community tat AssociationNe 1 Display adverthlna Arte° rwriisrhl. 06 rerae.t. Ask for Pit. Cad eget. t offadty Oct 1, 1dfl. . tieraeral Mbrttae'r • J. I ow.rd Aitken SOW »Ja . If. MItrS�rvrtat Adrartiiin) ,d ':#41 1. Habit Wilt* Monist sit • ids Trail Gilds Ctrtukttiott • Portia Mete 00,1tb • 0 a` 0( • Subscription pates Canada .'13 par poor U.S.A. •'heti Otho'.'2 .1.1► Perhaps the best part of a group tour, as I mentioned, is the relationships you form. We had Canadians from a§ far apart as Dawson City, the Yukon, and Nova' Scotia, the whole breadth of thel country. We had Americans from California, Texas, Illinois, Oregon and Iowa. And we had five Australians. Have you ever heard a lady from Texas trying to talk to a middle-aged French-Canadian or a young Australian? It's a riot. At first we were all a bit stand-offish tending to huddle with our own. But after a few days we were helping each other with language, funny money and Turn to page 16 C reasoning that it was their teachers' probelm and not mine. But when I noticed they were beginning to in- fluence their six-year-old brother, Brian, I decided it was time I did something. ,curing the summer, I filled in for their English teachers, correcting their mistakes and trying to set a good example by using proper grammar. The following are a few of the con- versations that ensued. Dave: "Me and Paul went to the show last night." Myself : "Paul and I went to the show." Dave: "You were there too, eh?" Myself: "How does your English teacher put up with you?" Dave: "He don't care. He thinks I talk good." Myself: "How do you make people understand you?" Dave: "My friends understand me, so do other people. It ain't hard." Myself: "You shouldn't say ain't." Dave: "Oh, yea, ain't ain't in the dictionary, so I ain't gonna say ain't no more...but ain't is in the dictionary, you know." Myself: "No, it ain't." Dave: "Gotcha!" Meanwhile, Janice and Brian taught me a few slang expressions. Myself: "Jan, just think, you're in remembering our past 25 YEARS AGO October 8, 1953 The weatherman favoured the Bayfield Agricultural Society this year and the fall fair lived up to the slogan "Better and Bigger than ever." Well, at least the inside exhibits were bigger and better and though the horse and livestock entries were down, the 4-1-1 Calf Club, Swine Club and Holstein Club entries made up for it. Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Snell, Jayne, Mary and Richard moved into their new home on Highway 4 on October 1. This home is just east of the homestead now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Snell (nee Marion Jones). The Snells were all settled down for a comfortable night's sleep when outside a terrific tumult started. Bells rang, horns honked, whistles blew, yes, the chivaree gang had arrived. After being so suddenly and unexpectedly awakened, the Snells gathered their belongings (Eph, had a little trouble) and threw open their doors to the 25 or more well-wishers. A bountiful lunch was served by the gang and' after a sing -song the friends departed leaving pleasant memories and a quieter 'night. Clinton District Collegiate's rampaging Redmen stepped into Goderich yesterday afternoon and recorded their second straight win by a score of 17-6. The gilme was all for Clinton from the opening kickoff. The Redmen completely dominated the play throughout the game. Nine Clinton cheerleaders and four from Goderich added color to the game as they urged their respective teams on to greater effort. 50 YEARS AGO October 4, 1928 A window in memory of the late Sir John Willison was unveiled in St. Paul's Anglican Church, Toronto on Sunday. Sir John Willison was a native of Stanley Township and was very well known in Clinton and vicinity. The Clinton Kiltie Band furnished the music at the Bayfield Fair last week. There are Complaints of racing on the new London Road pavement. If this continues somebody may get into trouble. The new pavements were not built for race courses. A representative from the Lorne Fire Engine Co., Mitchell met with council in regard' to the purchase of a new fire truck at the cost of $1,450 or $1,400 with the old hose wagon thrown in. Chief Tasked pointed out that on more than one occasion the firemen have been delayed in getting the hose to the scene of the fire. Messrs. Watts, Cudrnore tnd Scribbins received word the other day that samples of their honey had been chosen by the Ontario Honeys Producers' Co-operative to be high school now. Isn't it exciting?" Janice: "Cross me right out." Myself: "Look at that new corvette over there, Brian." Brian: "De-ee-cent! Myself: "Let's go for a ride in my car." Brian: "Gross!" • I don't mind teen-age . slang, but "gross" and "decent" don't sound as expressive to me as the slang I used when I was a teen-ager. "Groovy" and "cool" were the "in" words in those days. The following confrontation is one of Dave and Janice's favourite. Dave : "I don't got no money." Myself : "I don't have any money." Dave: "That's what I said." Myself: "No; you didn't. You said "I don't got no money." At that point, Janice glanced away from the tv set and piped up, "Don't got! That's poor grammar, Elaine. And you call yourself a writer?" After two months of continuous battles of the tongues, I gave up. Dave: and Janice were now the problems of their high school teachers, and Brian was being influenced by his grade one teacher, hopefully, rather than by his older brother and sister. I was tired. I'm not sure how in- fluential I was, but I did my best. I don't got to tell you folks how hard it was on me, and I don't got no strength left to try no more. Gross me right out! a look through the news -record files exhibited at the British Dairy Show, London, England. Here's hoping it gets first prize. The third annual WMS.Conference for the Centre Section Huron Presbyterial was held in the Ontario Street United Church, Clinton, on September '27. Mrs. Lane of Seaforth presided and notwithstanding the inclement weather, was well attended. Congratulations to -Mr. M. Showers, butter -maker at the Holrhesville Cheese Factory, who on Saturday last, took unto himself a life partner. The bridal pair returned on Sunday evening and have taken up their residence in this community. Clinton Collegiate students will attend the Inter -Collegiate Athletic Meet in Mitchell tomorrow, Friday, when Seaforth, Clinton, Goderich, Exeter and Mitchell will compete for the McMillan cup and other trophies. -Our Chinese citizen, the proprietor of the Cafe, has lately received word that his former assistant, John Tung, who left here last fall, died a few weeks ago in Toronto. While not of our race or faith, John Tung, nevertheless, had all the attributes of one we describe as a gentleman. 75 YEARS AGO October 1, 1903 The entertainment given in the Baptist Church on Monday evening by the Young People's Society was a very well attended and successful affair. Pastor Dunlop presided in his usual pleasant manner. He has a happy way of making everyone feel at home. The chief event on the program was a debate on "Resolved' that in the best in- terests of Canada the Chinese should be excluded." Shut them out entirely argued Mr. 3. B. Hoover and Miss Murch, admit them contended Postmaster Scott and Mr. W. Dunlop. The committee decided that the friends of the Celestials, for argument's sake, had the better of the controversy by one point. Mr. O. Crich, the efficient superintendent of the cemetery, informed the News -Record yesterday that in the 13 months ending on Tuesday there had been 51 burials in the Clinton cemetery. This is a larger number than in the previous 13 months and in March there were twice as many as in any other month and since the first of January last 12 men, 16 women and 10 children had been interred, Mr. Crich says the population of that particular God's Acre runs up pretty close to 5,000. Rev. Mr. Searle, a missionary from China delivered a very instructive address in the Methodist Church on Sunday in Varna. He dwelt particularly on the Boxer rising and his experience in connection with the same. Mr. Branderiburger, the new landlord of the Mason House, is transforming the In» terior of that hostelry, making such a Block Parents Dear Editor: Across the province of Ontario and Canada, in over 300 communities both large and small, children, indeed all citizens, are enjoying the benefits of a program which provides a network of safety - the .BLOCK PARENT PROGRAM. The Ontario Block Parent Executive Committee would like to see all com- munities in Ontario with Block Parent Programs. Clinton is one of those communities. We would be pleased to send , information or talk with con- cerned citizens in your community. The measure of the need of the Block Parent Program in your community is not whether your community has problems with child molestations, assaults, indecent exposures and bullying, but rather what the Block Parent • Program can do for your community in the future as the com- munity works as one, citizens, police, teachers, service clubs, municipal governments, to provide safety for all your citizens with every child receiving basic, common sense instruction on how to deal with strangers, whether that incident may happen in their own community or when they are visiting or vacationing. There are 125 Block Parent com- munities in Ontario, including our great city giants right down to tiny villages. It is estimated that there are approximately 65,000 Block Parent homes in Ontario. I have included basic Block Parent information in this mailing as well as sending information to the Clinton Police Chief. Is Clinton a CARING community. Yours in Block Parenting, Mrs. Margaret MacGee , Chairman, Ontario Block Parent Executive Committee 519-471-9156 London, Ont. change, in fact, that the old' patrons hardly recognize it. Mr. Brandenburger is aiming to still further popularize the House and it looks as if he will succeed in doing so, dif- ficult though it will be. The invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Olive Manning, daughter of Rev. H. M. Manning to Mr. Albert N. Milner. 100 YEARS AGO • October 3, 1878 The farmers surrounding Seaforth talk in a very discouraging manner of the potato crop this season. They give the wet weather as the cause of the failure. Mr. Thos. Robinson, of the Goshen Line, Stanley, one of the earliest settlers, died a few days since. We regret to learn that a son of Mr. Daniel McGregor, of Hullett has died of diptheria. The child was about five years of age. A few Sundays since when the water on the Bayfield River was pretty high, a party of Clinton youths determined to amuse themselves by a sail on its troubled bosom. A raft was hastily constructed, launched and livestock cargo "all aboard" when its moorings were loosed and away she floated, occupants being in high glee of the apparent success 'of their venture. For awhile the craft went smoothly on but as it followed the twistings and turnings of the river and entered more turbulent waters than at fist, the pleasure was turned to vexation when they found they Could not control it and when it met a sudden obstruction, causing everyone of its passengers to tumble into the water, words fail todescribe their feelings. "We'd not have cared, only we'd on our Sunday clothes." During the past year we have worked very hard in the endeavor to make the New Era a paper worthy the support of all and believe that we have succeeded in making it second to none. But to do this we have been put to considerable expense and thus far the returns have not been in proportion to the outlay. We do not like to be Continually asking our subscribers to pay up, and would much rather not do it, but as we very much need money to enable us to carry on our business, we must. We have many hundred dollars of sub- scriptions on our books arid as we only ask for that which is property our own, we trust our subscribers will Ett once see the urgency of otir case and pay up. The harvest being over and farmers being now in a position to sell their grain, We hope those who are in- debted to us will have a portion of, their proceeds with us. Strath and West of Seaforth offered a prize of $10, at the late show, for the beat looking baby. A^ child of Mr. Samuel tounsberry, of Sgaforth, bore the prize against all com- petitors. Fishing Dear Editor: One of the high priority tasks of Fisheries and Oceans is to promote and assist the marketing of Canadian fishery products, particularly as we move into a period when our improved resources will permit a large increase in production and marketing. In recognition of the growing im- portance of fish in Canada and to provide a focus for its continuing ef- fective promotion in the domestic market, the Honourable Romeo LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans will shortly be proclaiming the month of November as "Canadian Fish and Seafood Month". My purpose in writing is to invite you to participate in this national promotional program. As part of the observance of "Canadian Fish and Seafood Month" we are planning a complete information program to focus *the attention of the Canadian public on fish. Various commercial features for the fish, month promotion will be for- warded to the media and retail stores during the last two weeks of Sep- tember. The attached "flyer" is to let you know that the promotional cam- paign will be on shortly. I sincerely hope that you will actively participate in this exciting national event which should be of wide interest to your audience. Yours sincerley, Donald D. Tansley Associate deputy minister Ministry of Fisheries Ottawa. • Incarnate Dear Editor: Seven noted British theologians would seem to disagree with the idea expressed in recent ads in support of the "trinity". They have written a book "The Myth of God Incarnate'', challenging the traditional teaching that Jesus is God. "There is nothing new about the central theme of this book," says John Hick, the book's editor, who is professor of theology of Birmingham University. "That the historical Jesus did not present Himself as God in- carnate 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 book, Frances Young, lecturer of Birmingham University suggested that the doctrine of the incarnation of Christ was adopted by the early church through fusion of pagan and Jewish traditions. Although the theologians who wrote this book do not present Jesus Christ as the Bioble does, as truly the 'Son of God', they have drawn attention to the falseness of the Trinity doctrine, as taught by Christendom's churches. Jesus himself ' never claimed to be God but said: "The Father is greater than I am." And at John 20:17 He told Mary: "I ascend unto my Father and to your Father; and to my God and your . God." Also, it is recorded at Revelation 3:12 "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of MY GOD...and 1 will write upon him the name. of MY GOD, and the name of the city of MY GOD..." •--- The resurrected and glorified Jesus Christ speaking: "And declared to be the Son if God with power, aceordipg to the spirit of holiness, by .the resurrection from the dead." Romana 1:4 Sincerely, C. F. Barney Clinton • • • • •