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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-11-02, Page 4PAGE 4 --CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY,, TQYgMBE# 2.1978 That's restraint? Deciphering the wheat from the chaff in government promises has never been easy. But you really have to wonder about the federal government's commitment to financial restraint. According to the most recent Statistics Canada figures, the federal government employed 16,594 more people in June of this year than one year earlier. That represents $2,292.8 million for payroll payments in the second quarter of the year or an increase of $33.3 million fron last year. If that bears any evidence of restraint it is a lucky thing for Canadians the government didn't decide to go on a spending spree. It's all well and good for the federal government to slash budgets and things like the Com- pany of Young Canadians, The Consumer. Protection Association and other high profile areas of government spending. That gives the impression the government is serious about keeping a lid on spending, but we have the sinking feeling that the government is more interested in appearance than substance and in fact, groups like the Company of Young Canadians and the Consumer Association are sacrificial lambs. Even with those cuts one could conclude the federal bureaucracy is so large and so far out of control That the government ends up spilling more than it spends on services.—from the Exeter Ti mes—Advocate. Ourmistake In an editorial in last week's paper, it was incorrectly reported that $60,000 had been set aside in a reserve fund -to restore the Clinton town hall. Clinton council put $30,000 into a reserve fund for repairs to the hall. We apologize for any in- convenience this may have caused. "The burden of responsibility, urgent problems to overcome, decisions, pressures . . thank goodness Parliament's back in session so I can get away from all that!" Promoting Macleans IF. you have ever bought, or borrowed, a copy of Maclean's magazine, you have probably been subjected, in the past month or so, to the same treatment I have, a variation on the Chinese water torture. Every second day I have received a -card, or a phony -looking certificate, or a sincere letter, telling me of the fabulous bargains in subscriptions I can receive if Y signup right now. Heck, for only $19.95 ($52.50 at newstand), I can receive 70 issues of Maclean's, PLUS a 10 per cent guaranteed lifetime savings, PLUS a full-color 78-79 calendar. It's a great piece of hucksterism. And with a good reason. If you don't get them sub- scribers, you don't get ads, and ads is what a magazine gets rich on, not readers. And I can understand the slight note of desperation in the mail campaign. The first few issues of "Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine" were not exactly swollen with advertising. There were six to eight full-page ads, mostly liquor and cigarettes, a few half and quarter -pages, a couple or three self -promotional pages, all this out of 57 pages total. Not enough money there to pay for the coffee breaks of about 40 - odd editors, a gaggle of researchers, correspondents, photographers and editorial assistants. It is to tremor with fear. Not that it would bother me for more than one minute and a half if Maclean's went belly up. It's a fat, rich cor- poration, with many irons in the fire, most of them highly profitable. Through a judicious combination of whining and poisonous nationalism, Maclean's managed to convince the Canadian government of the necessity to kick out of the country its only real competition, Time magazine and Readers' Digest. Nor have -I any reason to wish the new weekly newsmagazine ill. I have an old and honorable association with the magazine and its sister, buxom with advertising, Chatelaine. The latter has become, from tenuous, wispy beginnings, about as good a magazine as a women's magazine can get. My association with this pair began at a tender age, about 10, when I received a contract to go out and hustle up subscribers to either or both of these mags. I was a lousy salesman then, and still am, and it was Depression years, but as I recall, I sold two subscriptions to Chatelaine and one to Maclean's, to friends of my mother..I received $1.50 in commissions, and that was the end of a potentially great career in publishing. Of course, in those days, a kid didn't have a chance against the pros: Maclean's, and.. other publishing chains, would send into a small town a highly -trained team of hustlers to sell subscriptiong. They were personable and fast -talking , much like the en- cyclopedia salesmen of a couple of decades later. They'd hit the town like a hurricane, about Tuesday, and depart Friday afternoon, 1'aughing like open drains, with a lot of loot, leaving behind them a host of housewives wondering vaguely why they had signed up for eight years of Maclean's and sixteen years of Chatelaine, evenithough it hadn't cost them a cent, ha ha. However, I am willing to let -old business animosities lie. If Maclean's leave me alone, I'll do the same for them. Let's take an objective look at their newsmagazine, the non-pareil, ac- cording to them. It's not bad, really. There is a strong tendency to be smartass, as in this opening sentence, "The CBC is the oldest whore on the block." Somebody trying to imitate Time magazine's style. But, on the whole, the mag isn't bad. Considering the tribulations of putting out a weekly magazine in an age in which everything is instant dead two minutes after it's been seen on TV, there is a fairly good analysis of provincial and federal news, and adequate coverage of international news, and a few good features. One of them is interesting enough, visually and verbally, but bears the dreadful cliche "People" as its heading. There's ' a lot of cutesy business of printing over yellow and purple and orange, which is juvenile and slightly annoying. But there is some first-class writing. People like Barbara Amiel and Mor- decai Richter and Allan Fotheringham seldom put a foot wrong. The last of those is an abrasive columnist from Vancouver who recently suggested that. the Toronto Argonauts and the Federal Liberals were utterly interchangeable, and that if the Argos backfield were running the country, nobody would The Clinton News.Retord Is published oath Thursday at P.O. los 31I, Clinton. Ontario, Canada. NOM 11O. Member, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association N Is registered as second class mall by the t office under, the permit, number 111111. NiiwwRecord incorporated In 1/24 the rah News•Aecord, 4ognded In 11111, and The Tinton kids* lira, founded In ISMS. Total press run 3,310. Clinton News -Record A %1 1 Member Coned.** tlNewspaperAisecte bi.pkiy advertiilnd rates avellIwlo on request. Ask for OMNI Card Na.1 offettive 00. Oenetal Manage?+J. Howard Aitken leiter • Jam.e I. rlN+icrald Adv 041/Ifiiiiii Oerl+1. HEW . News edit±ur.illrell+y Metre. r Manager•MegeraOlbb Clrtr!atlorr -10440 4 d e liul�riril►iFion ilMii�e! re kret&&r 111,10 .roaryrlat !'r. iti�jitJia cif ire le.w'r notice the difference - a nice com- mentary on both. Perhaps the magazine is happiest, so far, in its comments on the arts and entertainment. This is where Canadians shine; we are a nation of critics, whether we know anything about the subject or not. It is rather weak on sports, but then sports are awfully dead, .except for color stories,, once .the hurly-burly's o'er. On the whole, let's give the thing a chance, for a month or ,two. But no way am I going to sign up for 70 issues. How do I get my money back if I die or they. go broke in the next two weeks. Sharing I feel guilty. I let leftovers sit in the frig for days, and they ended up in the garbage because I' didn't feel like eating the same dish again. Most people in Third World coun- tries, like Bangladesh and Vietnam, can't afford even one meal a day. Each ,, iinorning they line 'up for a cup of milk '4113rovided by an overseas relief agency, and for most, it's the only sustenanlre of the day. I also feel a little guilty because I bought two new sweaters for winter, not because -the old ones wouldn't have remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO November 1, 1973 Fire on Tuesday caused between $100,000 and $150,000 damage to Huron Acoustics Ltd. at Vanastra, the former CFB, Clinton. The firm which manufactures and assembles speaker cabinets had set up operations at Vanastra about a year ago and employed about 35 persons. The fire is believed to have started about 12:30 in an exhaust fan in the paint room in the east wing of the H-shaped structure. In the eight hour blaze, 30 firemen from Clinton, Seaforth and Blyth assisted. The Blyth department using a special Stihl saw, which can cut through anything except concrete, cut the building in half to isolate the flames. The new Signal -Star Plant on Highway 21 south of Goderich is fast nearing completion and officials expect to move into the new plant next week. The News -Record is composed and printed by the Signal -Star. The CHSS senior volleyball team finished first in Huron but met tough opposition in the' Huron -Perth finals and' finished third, Team members included Don Reid, Brian Jewitt, Geoff Gibb, Ray Mair, Rod Camp- bell, Keith Crittenden, Bob Riehl, Don MacDonald, Dean Ryan, Paul Johriston, Jim Amsing and Coach Allen. • A mural painted by Rosanne Middleton of Bayfield is now hanging in the hallway at CHSS. The mural depicting the history of Benmiller, was painted as part of an Opportunities for Youth project by nine Huron County students last summer. A written history was also compiled. 10 YEARS AGO October 1, 1968 Skaters will have to wait a little while longer for ice at the Clinton Community Centre this year. Despite continuing efforts by local of- ficials, only slow headway is being made toward solution of problems which caused the arena floor to crack last winter. Consulting engineers retained by the town attribute the cracks to frost -heaving. They recommend, as a corrective measure that drains be installed in soil around the arena's foundation or footings. Bell Canada's Clinton building - a centrke for long distance calls for much of Huron County was opened to the. public this week. Several hundred persons toured the telephone facilities at open house held Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. A new $60,000 Agrico fertilizer blending plant is being built in Brucefield to replace the company's bulk fertilizer building which stands near the CNR tracks. Charles L. Walkom, district manager for Agricultural Chemicals Ltd., said con- struction is underway on the modern building plant which will handle both bag and bulk fertilizer. The old building will be torn down he said. '� 25 YEARS AGO November 12,1953 William t, Morlok has been tiippointsd tit* kept me warm, but just because I wanted a change. If people can't afford one meal a day, they certainly aren't going to be able to buy clothes even though what they're wearing may be turning into rags. Some people receive one used article of clothing a year from a relief organization, and it must stand up to 12 months of constant wash and wear. I saved money to buy a carpet for the, living roomy not because the floor:was_, o. bare or cold but because I wanted a colour more suitable to the furniture. Many people would feel extremely fortunate to have a floor to sleep on. They sleep beside railroad tracks a look through the news -record files manager of the Bank of,Montreal's Clinton branch. He succeeds William H. Robinson, who retired on pension at the end of the month. Miss Iris MacNeill smilingly accepts the gift of silverware which was the reward offered by J. A. Anstett in a country -wide search for a piece which would complete a jig saw puzzle in his jewellery store window. Miss MacNeill was thrilled with her gift, a 44 -piece service for eight in the White Orchid pattern valued at $79.95. When Friday night rolls around this week, Teen Town will have something really special on their agenda. That's right folks. This Friday dancing instructors from Arthur Murray's studios will visit Teen Town in the CDCI auditorium. Representatives of the urban municipalities of Huron County met in the old public school on Tuesday and passed a resolution urging that Huron County ask the department of planning and development and the provincial government to take up with the. federal ,government the matter of reducing or removing the minimum population requirement for municipalities to enter into the rental housing field. At present, only towns with populations of 5,000 or over may enter into rental housing agreements. In the county, Clinton, Seaforth, Wingham, Exeter, Blyth, Hensall and Brussels all fall into the under 5,000 population class. Goderich is the only urban centre that has,been able to take advantage of the rental housing scheme. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Turner celebrated their anniversary on OctolSer 21. . 50 YEARS AGO November 8, 1928 A fund is being opened in Clinton for Mr. W. Pickett of Goderich Township, who recently lost his house by fire and who has had much illness in his family. Friends in town and surrounding community who wish` to make contributions, large or small, to Chief Strong or to the News -Record may do so and amounts will be acknowledged In the paper from week to week. A dance will be held in the Girls' Club rooms, over the Bank of Montreal on Friday evening, Nov. 9th. Stratford Orchestra in attendance. Admission, gentlemen 75 cents. Ladies 25 cents. Everybody welcome. Rev. J. E. Hogg, Dr. J. C. Gandier and Mr. R. E. Manning were in Toronto yesterday inspecting some modern churches for in- formation in regard to church organs and fittings for use in Wesley -Willis Church, which is being rebuilt. 75 YEARS AGO November 12,1903 The change which the progressive firm of W. Cooper Co., has just completed in their store has vastly enhanced its appearance. They have now an immense plate glass front, bigger, we believe than has any bookstore in Ontario, outside Toronto. It will enable them tb display their stock to still better advantage. A disgraceful thing happened on the � n streets of Auburn on Sunday night just as the service in the English Church was con- cluded, when some young men from Blyth hooted and sang songs on the streets. If this is repeated, they had better beware. Mr. T. N. Hayter, father of Mrs. James Mose, who has been postmaster at Harpley in Stephen Township for over 30 years has resigned. Like the majority of country postmasters, Mr. Hayter held office for the conveneince of his neighbors, for certainly at the trifling salary paid there was no money in it. Mr. Hayter often comes up to visit his daughter and is known by many in Goderich Township. 100 YEARS AGO November 7, 1878 Ice an inch thick has formed here this season. Anyone wishing to get an excellent view of the town should ascend the Hose Tower in rear of the market building where they will be able to take a survey of the surrounding country. A few days since, a lady in town went away from home, locking up her house, but unintentionally, leaving her cat therein. It was discovered after it had been removed by a neighbor, who found that in its efforts to get out, the cat had torn down lace curtains, torn blinds and otherwise done considerable damage. A child of Mr. Samuel Beatty of Tuckersmith. got badly scalded a few days ago by upsetting a teapot off the stove. Miss Sofie Patton at present engaged as assistant teacher in the school at Benmiller, has been engaged to take charge of No. 7 Colborne at the salary of $265 for the year 1879. - Moved by Councillor Chidley and seconded by Councillor Menzies at the town council's last meeting that an order be drawn on the Treasurer for $60 to pay in- surance on the town hall for 1878-79. The Expositor had an item 'about "the village of Tipperary, in Goderich Town- ship." Where is this village, pray? because they have nowhere else to go. I complain about a nagging cough or sore throat or a.flu bug that laid me low for a few days. Meanwhile millions of people are dying because of lack of immunization, medicine, doctors. and hospitals. I was reminded of appalling con- ditions in Third World countries a few weeks ago when I' viewed a slide presentation given,_by Dr.Lotta }lit- chmanova, founder and executive director of the Unitarian Se -vice Committee of Canada, which is one of Canada's oldest and largest overseas relief agencies. Sure, the presentation was designed to play on the emotions of the audience, to evoke our sympathy and to rouse us to action. How else can we be jolted out of our complacency? How can we be made aware of how fortunate we are, how wasteful we are and how little we share? How else can we be reminded that many people are not as fortunate as we? Practical questions "come into our minds: How much good can one person do? How can we be sure our money and gifts get to the people who really need them? If those people can't grow enough food to feed themselves, why don't they cut down on the population growth? Haven't they heard of family planning? Relief organizations of Canada and other nations are concerned with more than the immediate needs of un- derprivileged countries. They are providing on-going programs in family planning, foster parent plans, im- munization, medical care, education and training in basic skills, improved agriculture and community development. The purpose is to help people help themselves, and an excellent example is Korea, which raised herself from the wreckage of war to stability and in- dependence with the aid of foreign relief agencies. How much help can one person give? Perhaps not much, but if everyone felt their contribution wasn't worth giving, the agencies that have done so much good around the world would never have been formed and would never have survived over the years. We shouldn't give at random, though, just to ease our consciences. We should do a little research and find a reputable nutlet that we feel we can trust. Then if wet give it is hopefully because we appreciate our good fortune and sin- cerely want to share it. Advance poll Saturday For those few municipalities that have an election this fall, advance polls will be held this Saturday. The polls open at 9 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Regular ' polling day will be held on November 13, when the polls, will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.tn. Clinton voters will only have to mark one ballot, for one PUC seat. Voter lit Tuckersmith will only be voting for three councillor's While voters in Huliett will choose a deputy -reeve, decide on letting liquor into the township, and pick a board of education members in conjunction with McKillop and Seaforth voters. Goderich . Township voters will pick three councillors out of five candidates arid along with voters in Colborne 'Towpship, will pick a board of education member from the two candidates running. Colborne voters will also be asked to pick three councillors from the five running, and Hay Township voters will be asked to pick a reeve and three councillors. Ails other positions in Bayfield, Hensel!, Stanley, Auburn and seats on the board of education and the separate board were tined by'acciataation. • •