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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-02-01, Page 4PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 , 1979 What is justice? The general public, that's you and me, can't help but wonder at times if there's one law for the rich, and. another for the poor, or put another way, there's one law for thesordindary guy and one law for the so-called "celebrities." It has long been known that persons who can afford a sharp lawyer have less of a chance of being convicted, and if convicted, get less of a sentence than those who can't afford a fast -talking solicitor. Two cases in the past week or so have only served to reinforce this public perception of the judicial system, whether it be true or not. In\ California, convicted bank A new era Naming Edward Schreyer Canada's governor-general may just turn out to be the bet thing the Trudeau government ha done for this country. Anyone who watched Mr. Schreyer's installation to the vice= regal post last week on -0/ couldn't help but speculate on how much' promise the former premier of Manitoba brings to the job. Without casting any aspersions at all at previous governors- general, we have to admit that Mr. Schreyer's appointment turns a corner and brings an active, committed and contemporary man into what has been a fairly low key and honorary position. The new governor-general is a man for all seasons, a westerner who understands western alienation, a federalist who un- derstands Quebec's aspirations, and a social democrat who know it's important that all Canadians robber and terrorist Patty Hearst, whose father just happens to be a multi -millionaire, received a Presidential pardon this week, and is now immune to any further prosecution. In La belle province of Quebec, the FLQ terrorists who bombed mailboxes, kidnapped James Cross and killed cabinet minister LaPorte, are swarming back to the province like flies attracted to a manure pile. One of them, out on bail, has even got a job working for the Quebec government! Those FLQ'ers, who caused the suspension of our civil rights in 1971, are traitors to the country and are now greeted like heroes. .• share in our country's wealth. He'll make a valuable con- tribution to this country's public life at a time when public con- fidence in leaders of our political parties is pretty low. While he's not elected and therefore his powers are and should be, carefully limited, we predict he'll have untold occasions during the next uncertain five years to set an example, to listen to ordinary Canadians and pass their messages to the prime minister, whoever he may be. Just as interestingly, the young and lively Schreyer family should provide for some fun at Govern- ment House and give other Canadian families inspiration. - We join all Canadians in welcoming the Schreyer term as governor general. We're in for interesting times. (from the Seaforth Expositor) sugar and spice On with the race It's hard to head into a new year with a high heart, when every second headline or smarmy news announcer hits you another blow where it hurts — right on the financial bone. It doesn't tingle, like a crack on the funny bone. Rather it produces a dull, sick ache that you know isn't going to go away in a few minutes. All the staples of life in our once - wonderful Canadian standard of living are taking another spirt in the inflation race: bread, butter, cheese, milk, meat, vegetables, fruit. There's a plausible explanation for every in- crease, as usual. But I have a deep, abiding suspicion, and if I had the research facilities, I'll bet I could confirm it. I have a strong feeling that when the basic commodity. rises, say, 20 per cent, the middlemen, the big food chains with their handy outlets, the supermarkets, add another ,five per cent to make it a nice round 25 per cent, fully realizing that the harried shopper hasn't ' time or resources to figure :out whether the increase ori the shelves is justified. One would have to shop with a calculator in one hand, a copy of the Financial Post in the other, and a mind like a steel trap to be able to prove it. But I have a feeling deep in my bones that it's so. Heard of any big food or supermarket chains going broke lately, trying to keep prices down? Any liquor stores? Any big oil companies? Nope, just round it off to next figure above the increase, never below, and let the consumer make up the difference. After all, it's a free enterprise'system we're living in, And devil take the hindmost. This type of swindle is only pennies, when you look at one item. But it RULES 'COLLO % Of/ ArtDI Limon • tp ****ILO bolo oa wArtonp5 • '3174.144 A 6UAAO mi. MEM ecmMt COM •AIOTtttS WU et MR To MARA*P.LISOr61141 1 '110UTT[Rtt4 TNt Golf (ouVe, 'SHOWER fttoPt tonAw. f.s TWAT! mfou • OAD-OIAQ t,1 Our ATItAotlb Met1AXM O Dem, oourttCtw (o$4, 5M11 b1uftt0 MISORoot'tt, LoDs10. Dfif Htutntn►t RA► VAN'►tt,tPt1A taltA APRs • t ?ttDItA RAND`.•, nal AWE "Set up an extra guard - there are rumors some pensioners are going to attempt to break in tonight." How do you like winter? Different people react to winter in different ways. Since winter took us into its grasp, I've noticed at least four attitudes. Some people elude winter's hassles by fleeing to the sunny south as soon as possible after the first snowflake falls. The annual migration grows each year as more and more couples, especially retired ones, discover it is practical, moneywise and healthwise, to board up- their houses in Canada, escape from'the fuel bills and move to Florida for a few months. i If they have already visited all the tourist attractions and are content to stay in one place, it is an economical and comfortable " way to spend the winter. Other Canadians dislike winter, but for one reason or another they can't avoid it; instead they tolerate it. They resign . themselves to at least four months of shovelling snow and scraping windshields in the morning �;A doesn't take those pennies long to turn into millions of dollars when the - manipulators gather in their counting houses at the end of a year. And it's a kick in the solar plexus for the people on low or limited incomes' trying to keep food on the table. If I were an old -age pensioner and had nothing else to live on, I'd be scared stiff to pick up the morning paper and learn what new item would have to be banished from the menu. If I were a young mother with a raft of kids and a husband out of work, I'd contemplate eating the kids, starting with the youngest and most succulent, rather than trying to feed them-. I'm not an economist, thank the Lord (what a mess they've made of things). But I ,think it .•makes more sense to subsidize farmers for growing wheat so that the price of bread may be kept down, than it does to subsidize American industrial giants so that a few thousand jots will be created. , I know the answers: we need the jobs and the taxes industry- will produce. But the farmers will still be here, growing wheat, when huge new fac- tories have closed, the jobs have vanished, and the Americans are gone, laughing all the way to the bank. It's happened before, and will again. I- don't blame the Yanks. If you can find a sucker willing to give you huge subsidies, and sweet tax concessions, why not use him? When the subsidies dry up, and the tax concessions period ends, you can always go home, taking your marbles with you. No skin off yours. Don't think I like subsidies of any kind. I hate them. Nobody ever sub sidized my father. And when he went broke in the depression, he and my mother had to scramble., to keep us off the relief roles. But they did. That of course, was in the days when individual enterprise was possible, The Clinton News -Record 1s published each Thursday at P.O. Ilo: 31, Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM ILO. Member, Oniarlo weekly Newspaper Association It Is registered as second close moil by the post office under the permit number 3317. The News -Record Incorporated In 1324 the Huron News -Record, founded in 1331, and The Clinton New lira, founded in 1863. Total press run 3,309. Clinton News -Record A (Member Canadian d laool Newrpalser Am u: a • Display advertising rotes available on requisf. Ask for Mate Cord No. 3 aOoktive Oct. 1, Wit battered Mpnager • J. Hovriird Aitken Ildttor . dames 9. Pf tsgerald Advertising lllracto. Wiry L. Hats` Hews *alto" • Ilwlley Meta" OM, Arnow • Msirear t MIS Circulation • Praia McLood Subscription Batas Cenada•'14.N per year 9r, eitlsen • •12 per year U.S.A. i foreign • la Icor veer a before everything got so big and faceless and unwieldy, when a- person was still a. human being, not just a number buried in the bowels of that vast conglomerate that is government today. No, I don't like subsidies, but I do believe in fair shares, or as near as we can get in our system. And that brings -- me from food fiddling to taxes. ' • Every year I read the early January reports of changes in the tax structure. And every year I almost weep. It's the rich wot gets the gravy, it's the poor wot gets the blame, as the old song goes. This year, as usual, the poor get a few minor concessions, but with in- t and listening to the wind howl at night. They try to make the best of a bad situation by grinning through gritted teeth and by keeping the swear words low, but the gritting and swearing increases in volume and intensity as the snow deepens. A good motto for them might be the advice that was given to me the other day: "Get a summer catalogue, look at the pretty pictures and keep thinking that spring will be here any day." rt works, if you cy n make yourself believe it. ° Two other reactions to winter are depicted on a television commercial to promote exercise. A family is shown frolicking in the snow on skis, skates and toboggans. They are rosy-cheeked, healthy - looking, smiling Canadians who describe winter as "Terrific!" and "A great excuse to get outdoors!" Are they the true Canadians? Maybe. Judging by the growing popularity of cross-country skiing, more people are now taking advantage of Canada's natural and bountiful blessings of snow-covered fields and woods - per- fect for cross-country skiing. They stress the positive aspects of the season, such as participation in winter sports and fun,' a chance to breathe fresh invigorating air and an abundance of beautiful scenery. flation, wind up shorter than ever. The rich get the same concessions, but with their money invested at fat interest rates, come out ahead of the game. The poor don't have investments. They have to operate in the market place. It's all very complicated, and I won't go into it here. But putting it roughly, I reckon that if you were a totally disabled veteran with T2 kids and a working wife, you might, just might, have the same income, as the pension of a politician who served two terms, was soundly thumped the last time around, and had returned to his fat law practice. remembering our past " They probably have the best attitude, and for them, winter will pass quickly because they are enjoying it. Not everyone shares their en- thusiasm, though. The other person in the TV commercial resembles the Scrooge of Christmas. He's a dumpy -looking fellow slouched in an easy chair, frowning and growling, "Winter, it's awful!" "Winter, I hate it!" If he snapped, "Bah, humbug!" I wouldn't be at all surprised., _ When he thinks of winter, he sees only a car buried in snow, hears only a cold motor that won't start and feels. only a drippy nose, numb fingers and 1n aching back. ' Whether or not we want to admit it, he, too, is a representative of the true Canadian. The old saying is correct: "It takes all kinds of people to make the world go round." And it takes all kinds of people to handle a Canadian winter. Some love it, others hate it, but most tolerate it with varying degrees of success. Regardless of how any of us feel about winter, it lasts for a certain length of time over which we have no control. In other words, it's here and we might as well try to enjoy it. Enjoy paper Dear Editor : - Enclosed please find my cheque for $30 to cover one year's subscription to the Clinton News -Record. Sorry to be so late with payment, but`�I have ar- thritis in my hands. I enjoy the paper very much. Where could you get so much news for 60c a week. It would only mean four letters and no pictures, but in the paper, I have all this plus ads, real estate, births, deaths, marriages and so on. A belated- wish for health and prosperity in 1979. Yours truly, Mabel E. Wallace, Tecumseh, Michigan a look through the news -record files 5 YEARS AGO January 24, 1974 An ice storm in the Clinton area last Sunday described by some as the worst in nearly 30 years, brought down telephone and hydro lines, broke off thousands of tree limbs and caused thousands of dollars damage. The storm moved into the Clinton area , early Sunday morning when freezing rain began falling at 7 a.m. and by early af- ternoon the half-inch coating of ice on hydra lines 'and trees started to take its toll and thousands of people were blacked out. The Clinton area Ontario Hydro office estimated that more than 900 customers in the central part of Huron County and into Perth were affected' by the blackout. Some were offfor more than 24 hours. The owners of Al's Pizza on Huron Street in Clinton will appear in provincial court in Clinton on February 6 charged with operating a pizza restaurant after the Huron. County Health Unit ordered it closed. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Robinson have been charged with failing to close the premises as ordered by the medical officer of health and failing to conform to health regulations. 10 YEARS AGO January 23, 1969 Roy B. Dunlop, late Wednesday evening, accepted the position of business ad- ministrator for the Huron County School system'. Mr. Dunlop is currently the financial administrator of the University of Toronto Press. The new county board of -education toured Seaforth for a look at potential sites for a head office and then held their regular meeting at Seaforth' District,High School Monday evening. ' The board met earlier • this month in Clinton to consider the possibilities for an office in town and this week received bids to inspect locations in Goderich. A Kippen,,,native, W.S. McBride has been named profitability manager of British - American Oil Company of Canada. Mr. McBride is married to the former Georgia Cook and they have two children. He is the son of Mrs. Alvin McBride of Exeter. Huron County's• new warden was ac- claimed :Tuesday aftetfnoon at Goderich. James Hayter, Dashwood garage owner and Reeve of Stephen Township has spent close to 20 years on the municipal scene, preparing himself for the county's highest office. 25 YEARS AGO January 28, 1954 Due, apparently, to seasonal slackness in the hosiery market, the management of the ° Clinton Hosiery Mill has been forced to let out a number of employees. According to superintendent Andrew Steep, there are about 22 employees at work, some of them on part time, though several married men with families as well as single girls have been let off. This leaves the Clinton mill operating with about half its usual staff. Last Sunday, January 24, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Cook, Albert Street, Clinton, observed their 50th wedding anniversary. On Saturday the occasion was marked with a reception at their home when their family joined in with friends to celebrate the event. Miss Doreen McKenzie, Grade 12 and Kenneth Ashton, Grade 13 of Clinton District Collegiate Institute were judged best speakers in an oratorical contest staged in the auditorium before a student audience. The annual congregational meeting of Turner's United Church was held on January 21. Rev. A. Glen Eagle presided, opening the meeting with a short devotional period,. ifter which the secretary, Herman Crich, read the minutes of the last annual meeting. The treasurer, Johp Turner, reported the finances in good condition. Alden Crich, chairman to the properties committee, reported various' improvements to the church and the grounds and also the installinginstalling:ski new furnace. 50 YEARS AGO January 24,1929 Let's all pull together to putt Clinton in the top notch of towns of this size during 1929. Tenders are being called for putting in a hardwood floor in the town hall auditorium. In Kippen, Mr. Cliff Watson's dance was not a very big success. The prevalence or the flu and wet weather kept people at home. A recent fashion note says that plump girls will be the style the coming spring. Better try to plump up a bit girls, in an- ticipation. Clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired. Woollen goods dry cleaned. Rooms over 1- 'rd''s Barber Shop. A house to rent, W.J. J g• ._ b ere passed away to the Great Beyond On Friday, January 18, one of Bayfield'r old t and most highly esteemed residents in he person of Rebecca J. Colwell, widow of the late Williarn,Stirling. 75 YEARS AGO ' January 28, 1904 Shovelling snow off the roofs of buildings have occupied a good many persons in Varna over the past few weeks. One man by measuring and weighing a block of snow found that there had been over 20 tons on this roof. The long continued storm and rough roads is causing a scarcity of fuel. With wood - users in parti-cular the supply is running -low, in gore cases it is almost exhausted. The service in the Ontario Street Church last night had to ,be abandoned owing to the fact that the wood boxes were empty. Mr. D. Cantlpon is having well on to 150 barrels of apples made into apple butter at Andrews' Brothers mill where a tasty, good - keeping and much -in -demand article is turned. out. Part of the supply goes to the county home and part to Manitoba. - In Brucefield, many buildings have fallen in on account of the heavy snow. The Methodist and Presbyterian church sheds being among them. Wanted by the middle of February a good girl to do.housework.-Mrs. C.E. Dowding. On Friday Miss Maria Dowson of the Goshen Line had a successful rag bee. 100 'MARS AGO January 23, 1879 At the congregational meeting of the Presbyterian Church, on Thursday evening last, a committee was appointed to select a piece of land suitable for the erection of a new church and to report to the trustees, Some persons bound to be in time, broke into No. 1 school house, Goderich Township • on Wednesday night and carried away the clock which had just been put up from the watchmaker's on the same day. This is the second clock stolen from this school house. The young people of the 9th con. Goderich Township got up a party and made a descent upon the domicile Of Mr. R. McMurray on the evening of Tues'kay week; last. They spent a pleasant eve ing in singing and other amusements and departed with the satisfaction of enjoying a successful sur- prise party. On the way home, two sleighs upset, throwing their occupants into the snow and slightly injuring the foot of one of the ladies. Niirse -VP'anted - to take care of two children, must be over 15 years of age. Mrs. John Rainsford. Venacular Dear Editor: In previous articles that I have written to the Editor, I have been discussing the lack of the term Jehovah in both the Old and New Testaments. Mr. Barney in his letter of January 11, quoted a passage from the New Testament, (Mark 12:29), which Used the term Jehovah. It was,the use of this word in the passage to which I took exception. It is simply not there in the Greek, the language of the New Testament, find it is an incorrect rendering.of the passage. It seems to me that any student of the Bible must examine not only source documents, but that which is being published concerning these documen• s. .This includes looking at some of the more recent publications which are available to the general public, as well as to any student in Biblical studies.. In 1947, the world was awakened with the find of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Pale tine, in the area of the Qumran Community. The reason that this find is so important, is that for the first time, scholars now have manuscripts that provide us with original texts, that go back to the 3rd century. With this find, a whole new era of Biblical research has opened up, and much of the material has been or will be published. The aim of modern Biblical textual criticism is to establish, as far as it is possible, the original reading of the Scriptures, using all the means in our possession. The find of the Dead Sea Scrolls, has done much to provide new insights and meanings into many passages of Scripture. In a separate letter to me, not published in, the paper, Mr. Barney states, "Your reference is to the Revised Standard version, which, after years of 'tinkering' omits the name entirely from the text." Tinkering, according to Webster's New World Dictionary (1962) is defined in this way: "to make clumsy, unsuccessful attempts to mend ' or repair something." The revisers of the King James Bible did not follow, like their predecessors, the text of the majority of manuscripts, which being for the most part of a late date (probably 9th century) had been exposed not only to the accidental corruption . of long -continued copying, but also to deliberate correction and 'improvement'.''While the King James Version may be poetic in style and beautiful to read, it does have "grave defects. By the middle of the nineteenth century,' the development of Biblical studies and the discovery of many manuscripts more ancient than those upon which the King James Version wag based, made it obvious that these defects are so many and so serious, as to call for a revision of the English translation." It is as r result that many new Bibles are now being published. For example, I use the New Oxford Annotated Bible (1962) "which takes into account further advances made in Biblical studies and translations...." (The above is taken from the Forward and Preface of the New Oxford Annotated Bible.) Another Bible I find of great help is the New Jerusalem Bible (1966). "...is a truly modern Bible for the modern reader seeking a greater un- derstanding and appreciation of the Scriptures in the language and imagery of today - an entirely faithful rendering of the original texts which, in doubtful points, preserved the text established and (for the most part) the interpretation adopted by the School in the light of the most recent researches in the fields of history, archeology and literary criticism." In view of the research and scholarship, using early manuscripts, that have gone into the newer tran- slations of the Bible, I hardly think that 'tinkering' is appropriate. The Rev. James R. Broadfoot Exception Dear Editor: Regarding James R. Broadfoot's statement, first appearing in his letter of January 11 and repeated January 25: "The term "Jehovah" does not appear in either the Old Testament or the New Testament.", may I submit the following? • In the vernacular (that is language pertaining to the common or native, language of a place or group) of the English speaking people the term "Jehovah'' has occurred in the Hebrew Scriptures since 1611 A.D. In the New Testament, Benjamin Wilson, a newspaper editor at Geneva Illinois, U.S.A. published The Emphatic Diaglott which uses the name "Jehovah" at least 18 times. That was in 1864. In addition to that the New York Public Libary has 10 versions in foreign languages using the vernacular; algo' the American Bible Society has four. Here are some samples: and the language in which they are used: "Chihowa" - Choctaw; "Iehova" - Hawaiian; "Ieova" - Gilbert Islands;. "Jehoba" - Kipsigis; "Jehova" - Manus Island; "Jehovah" - Malagasy; "Jcova" - Kusalen; "Jihova" - Naga (Lhota dialect) ; "Jiova" - Pip; "Uyehova" - Zulu; "Yehova" - Chok- we; "Yehovah" = Mohawk, etc. How any well-informed person could make such a statement is really beyond my comprehension. Perhaps I have ilmisunderstood Mr. Broadfoot. Sincereyours, C.F. Barney, Clinton „• •