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Give us notice
Misuse
On a large city newspaper with banquet. The newspaper is told
a mass circulation, there is about it all, 24 hours ahead of
usually an abundance of available time.
manpower. And the fictiodalized Checking with' other weekly
version of a reporter%is that he sits newspapers in the area reveals
at his desk till the phone rings and that they have all devised various
then races as fast as he can out to policies to ensure that they are
cover the latest fire, or murder, or aware of a special event well in,
some other dramatic event. The advance of its happening. After
time of day apparently never some consideration, and almost
matters for the seasoned reporter two years of frustration, we feel
who is ready to snap into action at compelled to put the following
a minute's notice. ground rule into effect: The
If such reporters ever did exist, editorial office .requires a
• they've gone the way of the house- minimum of two days notice of
call -making doctor and the all- any planned event.
night service station. . Sorry, but we are not on call
Many modern-day journalists and, we are not servants. We play
actually lead almost normal lives, ball best with those considerate
going to work at regular hours of enough to play ball with us.
the day and spending Sundays
with their families and friends. Last t
And yet, some people still
ry
believe.a half-hour's notice is all a
reporter needs to get to the scene, The 'people of the Clinton area,
camera in hand, even if its Friday including canvassers, workers and
night or Sunday morning. Ap- givers are to be congratulated for
a parently, we're not entitled to any working so hard to keep the Clinton
free time. Community Centre open
The most .frustrating aspect of In just a`few short months, and
this business is planning for a right near Christmas all but $30,000
Friday night which apparently is of the $180,000 cost of the new floor
free of any special events has been raised, with some $55,000
deserving coverage,' and then coming from- local people in the
being told on Thursday afternoon ,form of donations.
w or Friday morning that a special But, $30,000 is still needed, and
banquet will be Friday night. there are still some citizens who
The banquet's been in the, plan-, , have not given to the fund. Let's all
ning for months - the hall was check our wallets once more, and
booked a year in advance, the clean up the donations as quickly
band as 'hired six months ago, as possible so •the money •won't
and the caterer was contacted have to be debentured and put on
immediately after the last annual the taxes.
"Umbrage is in the -garage converting the snowblower to coal."
I won't do that again
My 1978 New Year's resolutions were
a little different than usual. I wrote a
list of bloopers that I resolved not to
repeat, reasoning a person should learn
from his or her mistakes -and should not
make the same ones over and over..
again.
Another year
off the roof, the Canadian dollar, the
confidence of the Liberal party,
branches off my big oak tree, and the
Here we' are staggering into another number of years left t-' live.
'year, ,,and nothing done, not a single It was a year like any other: fraught
resolution made. Ah, well, I don't with terrors and horrors and pain and
believe in resolu4ons anyway, except misery and depression and loneliness
for the fun of breaking them., A man all over the world and in our private
does the best he can, and all the well- lives. But also replete with simple joys
intentioned resolutions in the world .Y and sudden happiness and special
won't make him do any better. " moments and overwhelming love and
Looking back over the last year, I occasional peace.
find it was much like any other: ups Wonder what '79 will be like? Heck, I"
and downs, topsies and turveys, ins and don't have to ask. I know. It'll be the
outs, sideways and backward, no real- sanest year, only more so.
progress, but no real retreat either. My two rotten old rusty cars will be
-My son managed to survive another even rottener and rustier, and I'll have
year among the pirrhanas and pythons to buy a third -hand turkey to relate
and poisonous snakes of Paraguay. He them.
is now a graduate masseur and My students will be even thicker in
acupuncturist, hoping to make enough the thatch than this year's crop, and I'll
from his new trade to come home for a have to reach even further into the well
visit, after five years. to try to motivate them. There's only so
I can hardly wait for him to arrive. much water in that well. Then it turns
My teeth and hair are still falling out, to mud. So be it.
my arthritis is giving me hell, I have a My wife will go on thinking that
bum back, -and I could use a little free listening to her . worry about her•
massage and acupunctury. Even daughter, her son, her brother, her
though I'd prefect masseuse. And an father, her grandchildren, her sister-
acupuncturess. in-law, are more ' importantthan my
My daughter lurched from one crisis reading the paper.
to another, as is her wont, but managed My grandboys will go on being a
to chalk up another degree and charm source of utter delight and utter
or weasel her way intcs''a job as a high despair to me, sapping my strength at
school teacher, after six months of the same time as they give me new life.
dearth. Any year or any decade now,,, .My pay will go up six percent and
she won't be expecting handouts from inflation will go up 13 percent. So I'll
the old man. " stop eating beef, which is hard to
My grandboys got a year older, mangle with a partial plate anyway.
survived various fatal diseases, I'll make about 800 decisions. Based
acquired some very colorful ex- on. past performance, 738 of them will
prelsions that I cannot repeat and be wrong, according to my wife. She
elicited from one beleaguered baby- will make 400 decisions and 400 of them
sitter the statement that they were the will be right on.
worst kids she'd ever tried to handle. My son wili.wind up with a total of $24
The Old "Battleaxe and I battled it out profit from his new profession and wire
for another 12 months, lost a little skin me for air fare home for a visit. '
here and there, each won a number of I'll lose a few more chunks of my
skirmishes, but neither won`a-decisive corpus. This past year it was a few
battle, and the war goes on, sometimes teeth and a piece of nose. In '79 it could
cold, sometimes hot. be anything: gall bladder, liver,
We had a great trip to Europe that prostate, or other unmentionables. I've
lasted three weeks and cost me so got lots of parts.
much that I won't be able to retire until The ice will back up on my roof this
I'm 83, at last reckoning. winter, and crash through the new
Everything went up again: in- plaster on the living -room, ceiling. I'll
surance, taxes, heating. And tell .,my wife it's a mercy we weren't
everything else came down: snow, ice sitting there when the roof came in.
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Learning from mistakes is one way Resolved: not 'to let my -oldest
to make them useful. Recently I nephew take 'me do the drive-in unless
reviewed the list to see how much I he guarantees his car muffler won't
learned in 1978. blow up.
Resolved: not to mix orange crystals Resolved: not to try to correct the
with hot water. speech habits of my niece and
As I reported last year, they sure nephews. Three against one are
dissolved fast, but the drink took a long hopeless odds.
time to cool. I didn't repeat that absent- Resolved: not to argue with my
minded -professor stunt in '78. brother-in-law about baseball, 'cars,
Resolved: not to mention the words female 'drivers or any other subject,
car 'and lemon in the same sentence unless he starts it. He started a lot o1`
within earshot of my brother-in-law. arguments in 1978.
I. did it only once last year. If I Resolved: not to abuse or abandon
remember • correctly. I breathed the my 1979 calendar.
fatal words from the back seat of --his A few weeks ago I wrote a column in
car during a trip home from. Toronto, which I admitted that My calendars
The picture tube on my 1 v will ex- ° and I realized it was a mistake when I were usually turned into shopping lists
was threatened With the prospect of • and then thrown in the garbage.
pire right in the middle of the Stanley
Cup final. I'll hustle over to my neigh Walking home.
hour's. Resolved: not to try to back into my
My daughter will be fired from hey brother-in-law's narrow driveway.
teaching job for making certain acs" I succeeded withxhis-Qne therefore,
curate, but colorful remarks about tlf � his lamp pos-issstill-standing and his
ancestry of the school -superintendent. neighbour's hedge is intact. Last fall
I'll tell her she was absolutely right, the city added to my woes by moving
they're all the same, and send her the no parking sign across the 'street,
money to assuage the loss. and erecting a street light in front of his
I hope you don't thi'nk this is a house. ,Now I have the street light pole
pessimistic column. I am never a and parked cars on both sides of the
pessimist; merely a realist. That's life driveway to contend with as well.
and that's the way the bright new year Resolved: not to take short cuts when
will go. driving, especially if I'm already late
People are -scared of another big hike for an appointment.
in the price of oil. Not- me. Energy
crisis? We don't have one. If all the
politicians in Canada were laid end to
end, they'd produce enough hot air to
heat every house in the country.
See? It's simply a matter of attitude.
Think of the worst things that could
happen in the New •Year. And they
probably will. But you can cope with
them. Have a happy.
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5 YEARS AGO
A reader phoned to point out the
wastefulness of my ways. She thought
nursery " schools, day care centres,
rehabilitation ,centres- r-a•nd--other
organiza1# ►ns 'could " make • 11se of "the
calendars,`fetpec1al1y''if`they'"coi 'tained'
seasonal or other eye-catching pic-
tures.
This year I'll save my used calendar
and any extra ones I can find and try to
locate someone who can put them to a
good purpose.
-- Resolved: not to lock the car keys
and the apartment key inside the car at
the same time, especially when the
extra keys are locked inside the
. In • 1977, a muddy road -under- apartment.
construction slowed • me down. Thank ,goodness for a slightly open
Undaunted I tried another by-pass in . car window and a neighbour with a coat
1978 and encountered a five -mile hanger!
stretch of stoney use -at -your -own -risk Judging from the length of my list, I
road. I don't think I'll attempt another must have learned a great deal in 1978.
short-cut in '79. I made more mistakes, but I think I've
Because of a few hair-raising events admitted to enough. As 1979 begins, I'll
in 1978, I'm able to add some new just ring out the old bloopers and ring
lessons to my 1979 list. in the new ones.
remembering
our past
January 3, 1974
Despite less than perfect' weather,
the past` weekend saw two days of top
notch competition, whten the first
Midwestern Ontario Snowmobile
Racing Association sanctioned races
were held at Hully Gully. Sports near
Varna.
Little Christine Johnston, three-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Johnston of Bayfield, was picked as the
Queen of the Winter Carnival last
Sunday in Bayfield. She was chosen by
the large crowd in attendance. The
costume contest judges were Ross
Merrill, Ernie Hovey, Harry Baker and
Eric Earl.
4 Seventy-four of 'the 190 employees of
the. Bendix Home Systems Ltd. were
laid off on Tuesday, bringing to over
500 the number of persons in Huron
County who had become unemployed in
the last month.
The lay off -is temporary, but. the
workers could be off as long as 13
weeks, making it necessary for the
company to give severance pay. '
An especially happy anci rare- event
took place in the Auburn Community
Hall when a diamond anniversary
celebration was held to celebrate 60
years of marriage for Mr. and Mrs.
.Maitland Allen., Auburn.
The young at heart couple were
married on Christmas Day, 1913, by the
late Rev. Andrew Laing at the Ibride's
home, the same home where the couple
now resides.
10 YEARS AGO
January 2, 1999
A tie -breaking vote cast by the
temporary secretary of the Huron
County Board of Education gives John
Henderson, McKillop Township, far-
-- mer, a seat on the new board, ac-
cording to a notice received byNorrrian
Counter, Clinton jeweller and a con-
tender for the post.
The tie -breaking action, -,greeted with
dismay by Mir. Counter who feels the
choice should have been made .by
drawing lots, was announced in a letter
from Mrs. Melvin Bell of Goderich who
served as temporary secretary 'of the
board from December 9 to- December
Dear Editor:
I have just read the letter of C.F.
Barney, and I am dismayed by the
misuse of Scripture, and the lack of
sound scholarly thinking on his part.
There are things that are inaccurate in
his letter, and which I feel should be
corrected and the record set straight.
First of all, the term "Jehovah" does
not appear anywhere in the Old
Testament, or in the New Testament.
The term "Jehovah" -in fact, does not
appear in any Scriptures or even in
English 'usage, until after A.D. 1518. It
appears that the derivation of the word
is "Adonai", which is the Hebrew
expression used in place of "Yahweh",
one of the Hebrew names for God. In
Jewish times, the name of God was so
sacred, that it was never pronounced in
an effort to keep the Third Com-
mandment. Therefore, .It is hardly
likely that Jesus would have ever used
the name. Also, in many parts of the
Old Testament, God is also referred to
as "Elohim".
Secondly, one of the Scripture
passages that Mr. Barney quotes is
from Mark 12:29, and it should read:
"You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your
soul and with all your mind, and with
all your strength."
There is no reference here in the
Greek, the language of the New
Testament, to "Jehovah", but rather to
"the Lord your God". -
There are. a number of passages in
the New Testament, th, t refer to Jesus
as Lord. The Apostle, Thomas, for
example, spoke to Jesus as "My Lord
• and my God." The term "Lord" in the
New Testament, must be understood
against a Hebrew background. In light
of • this, when the New Testament
writers refer to Jesus as Lord, they are
in fact asserting the divinity of Jesus.
Also, when the "pagan" Emperor
Constantine called the Council of Nicea
in 325 A.D. , it was not to adopt the
Trinitarian dogma. The First Council'
of Nicea was called to deal with the
Arian heresy, which heresy has again
been promulgated by one of the modern
sects. It was out of this first Council
that the Nicene Creed was formulated,
but it was not adopted until the Council
of Chalcedon, in 451 A.D.
Although the word "trinity" is not to
be found in Scripture, certainly, there
are many passages in the New
Testament which lend support to the
doctrine. The Creeds of the Church,
which were begun in the first century
were an attempt, based solely on
Scripture, to give expression to the
faith of the Early Christians in Jesus
Christ. These,creeds have stood the test
of time, and remain one of the great
treasures of the Church.
The Rev. James R.
Broadfoot,
Brucefield
I All weddings I
must be in the
News -Record of-
fice within six I
weeks after the
marriage. There j
will 'be a charge j
of :15. after the i
• six weeks.
a look through
the news -record files
to tell him. However, the baby arrived
before 'they could leave, and his first
bed was of straw in the,stable.
The following excellent program,
was presented in the Town Hall,
Bayfield, on December 21, under the
31 direction of the teacher at SS 3,
The December 5 election gave Mr. Stanley, Harry Nesbitt. .
1-fenderson a one -vote margin, 543 to Recitations were given by Donna
542. -A recoynt then removed one of Mr. Peck, Marian Porter, Beverley Hill,
Henderson's 'votes and established a Garry Johnson, Gerald Hayter, Bill
tie. Evans, Douglas Dowson, Bonny
An estimated 200 persons turned out Johnson and Ivan Steckle Jr. The rest
to watch and encourage participants in . of the program included songs, plays,
the first Interclub Figure Skating tap dance, the Irish Lilt, a piano solo
Dance Competition held in the Clinton and a visit from Santa Claus.
Community Centre last Sunday af- Mrs. Lenoard Youngblut has taken a
ternoon. position at the Londesboro°Locker with,
Thirty-five boys and 12 adults Cliff Saundercock and Weldon Tyndall.
travelled to Clinton, N.Y., last weekend . 50 YEARS AGO
to take part in the 5th annual Christmas,, January 3, 1924 .........
Hockey Tournament..,The Peewees had 11`r. Morley Jordan of Belgrave, who
only a short break before playing•their bought out the Reid Grocery in Clinton,
first game against Ithaca. Our boys has taken possession and he and his
came out the winners in an exciting 2 - 0 sister are becoming settled as citizens.
win. Steve Cook scored on a pass from We bid them welcome. .
Raymond Burns and the Ithaca team A citizen and one Who already,pays a
tried its best to score on Richard - rather heavy motor tax, suggests that a
Welch, but he was unbeatable. special tax be levied upon all auto
The little line of David Counter,. Neil owners or owners of horse vehicles in
Colquhoun and Jamie Thompson came town, the money raised to be Used to
through in the third period to give improve all side streets. .
Clinton the extra goal needed to win the The fact is that all streets other than
game. thoroughfares in Clinton, as in almost
25 YEARS AGO every other tovrn of its size, are in
January 7, 1954 rather a bad state as soon as the fall
Mrs. Leen Rehorst and her nine- rains come.
pdund baby are resting comfortably at • History was made in Clinton an
the Clinton Public Hospital. Young Monday night when a candidate for
John Leendert, named after his father, civic honors, for the . first time in
was born before dawn was breaking, on Clinto'n's history, had his nomination
Christmas morning, in the stable at the seconded by a lady. The candidate was
• home of his parents, R.R. 5, Clinton. Mr. C.G. Middleton, candidate for the
Mr. Rehorst, who with his wife came reeveship, whose nomfnation was
to the district just three -and -a -half seconded by Miss Winnifred O'Neil.
years ago from Holland, had gone to 75 YEARS AGO.
the barn that morning to milk and feed January 7, 1904
his cows. His wife realized that it was Mr. Ben Webb Sr., fell in front of a
time to go to the hospital and waded train at the station the other day and
through the knee-deep snow to the barn but for some timely assistance would
probably have been run over.
Mr. George Shore returned from
spending his holidays and opened
school on Monday, but owing to a very
cold weather and the dilapidated
condition of the old school in Varna,
teaching was almost out of the question
as it took him all his time to keep the
fires 'on. What 'about a new school that
the ratepayers of the section voted in
favor of a year ago? The old one is
almost a disgrace to a section like No.
6.
Mr. Alfred Westlake of Stanley has
purchased a brand new cutter. Alfred
knows a good thing when he sees it.
100 YEARS AGO
January 2, 1879
• We are informed that. Jess Wild, the
young man who caused such an ex=-
citment in this neighborhood a couple
of years since has, returned home and.
on one or two occasions appeared in
town, trusting to his changed ap-
pearance as a disguise. If this is true,
we would caution him to remain at a'
distance from Clinton, as the people
have a d'istinct recollection of the trick
he played and will not be disposed to,
allow him to escape scathless should
they be able to lay their hands on him.
If these cautionary remarks are acted
upon, a coat of tar and feathers may be
avoided.
There are registered with the
Registrar here, for the half-year just
ended, 42 births; 21 marriages and nine
deaths.
. A sawing match took place a few
days ago on the farm of Mr. J. Shep-
pard of Tipperary, (Goderich Town-
ship.) There was a large number of
competitors and the work done was
generally good. Messrs. W. Young and
G. Hicks carried off the lst prize and
Messrs. S. Cantelon and G. Miller the
2nd.
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