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Clinton News-Record, 1979-02-08, Page 4PAGE 4 —THECLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1979 CL_ _. Changing health care Several more events in Huron County in the past week or so have put more focus on the health care system and our changing view of it. The provincial government declared several weeks ago, that it was going to try and limit the burgeoning growth of the $3 billion health care budget by limiting the increase in provincial funding for local hospitals. The move, in effect, will force many hospitals to close some of their beds. Already the howls and screams have started: some are justified and some are not. While we agree with health minister Dennis Timbrell's plan to cut the health care 'budget, he hasn't yet offered viable alter- natives of where to put all those people, particularly chronic patients who will, be forced out of hospital. A!so, there hasn't been much help offered 'to Health Units, who could give much cheaper care to' the sick through Home Care Programs. Huron County Medical Officer of Health Dr. Brian Lynch was right recently when he corn, plained that the Health Unit will be forced to take over many of these health care projects without the intended increase in their budget. On the other hand, the Huron County Medical Association last week wanted the public to spearhead a drive to force the government to keep most of the beds• open, which in effect is like asking the public if they want a tax increase. Already, Ontario has one of the highest per capita cost of health care in the world, and the govern- ment is finally seeking some fair means of limiting that expenditure. An ounce of prevention is worth a poundcof cure/' reads an old adage and the medical professions and the public should embark on practicing more preventative medicine, rather than the more expensive curative brand. Scrolls Dear,Editor: Regarding Mr. Broadfoot's reference to the "Dead Sea Scrolls in Palestine, in the area of the Qtimran Com- munity", in his endeavor to justify his statement concerning the absence of "Jehovah" in the Old and Ne Testaments: Keeping in mind tha Hebrew 'vernacular' is, as adm Mr. Broadfoot, "Yahweh" while in the English 'ver "Jehovah"; in some Scrolls from the ca Sea, the Tetragr in red ink or older type J. • P. "Wh 1 TOLP MY WIPE To EXERCISE ,SoSIM DWI444 RuMNrnc. In BILLS :•:.. "Think I've got the system licked — we'll pay the Visa bill off with Master Charge, the Master Charge with American Express, the American... " odds 'n' ends People in the news by &tiine townshend recently for a tonsillectomy. Former U.S. President Ford was reported to have banged his head several times during his unsuccessful campaign. Margaret Trudeau, estranged wife of President Carter's brother, Billy, the Prime Minister, made the grabbed the headlines a few weeks ago headlines when she entered hospital by relieving himself against a building while touring some controversial visitors around the country. It isn't always politicians and movie stars that make the headlines: it's often ordinary people, like you and me, who do something out of the ordinary. They may not capture the front page, but they make interesting reading -on the inside pages. For example, a 23 -year-old bearded American created his own stamp. He put his picture on it and printed 15c (U.S. postage rate) in the corner. Then he placed the stamp on an envelope, addressed to a friend of his in another city and mailed it. The letter arrived a ending cold and snow, never-ending monotony and loneliness. in winter? 'few days later. Not a bit" of it.y They thrived ands y . He wasn't trying,to'rip off the postal multiplied. (Maybe the latter was the vulnerable ehit just wanted to prove how. answer, There's nothing like a bit of vulnerable was. multiplying to pass the time.) Meanwhile, an eight-year-old boy has Blizzard time Just struggled home through about the tenth blizzard' of this month. You could see your hand before your face, if you had a large hand and good eyesight. Found my street, more by feel than sight, turned -..off with a skid, . went, through the routine of getting into the II garage. It's rather like launching a small boat in a large surf. It takes a lot of skill and a fair bit of nerve. At the entrance to the driveway are the boulders. These are huge gobbets of snow thrown up by the snowplow, which then freezes them bigger than 1. large mah's head. Then there its a flat space, shovelled, about the length of a car. Then, just at the entrance to the garage itself, there. is a sort of reef of ice, built up to a foot or so of frozen snow. You have to hit the driveway, and there is a large maple a foot to one side, at about 24 miles an hour. There is a great rending noise from beneath, just like rocks tearing the bottom out of 'a 'boat. But you don't even slow down. With a judicious touch of brakes here And accelerator there, you sashay past the maple, line her up for the middle of the garage, and goose her just a little on the flat patch. There is six inches clearance on each side. All being well, you then ride up over the reef of ice, with another rending noise, this time part of your roof peeling away, slam the brakes at the last minute so that you don't go through the end of the garage,, switch off, and sit there wiping your brow. My wife is a big chicken. She won't even try to put the thing in the driveway, let alone the, garage, Maybe that's because she has hit the side of ._the garage door about six times, both in and coming out. ° .I enjoy it. I feel like a skipper whose ship is sinking, and who has laugched a boat, taken her through the surf, over the rocks, through the reef, and beached her on golden sand. But inevitably, 'on such occasions, my thoughts turn to the poor devils, our pioneer ancestors, who had to,, cope with the same .weather and snow conditions, with a pittance of what we have to work with. a bit like Captain Bligh on one of his good days; all I have to do is walk 40 yards to the house. Inside there is warmth from an oil furnace, light, an electric stove to cook dinner, a colored television to take me to lotus -land. I can huddle in the cowardly safety of my modern home and defy the elements. Let'er.snow, let'er blow. No chores to do. No trips to the barn to feed, water, milk the beasts, by the light of a lantern, in sub -zero tem- perature. No wood to lug in from the woodpile, or ashes to carry out. All I have to do is sit down with a drink, unfold ' my daily paper, and wait for dinner. And it's no dinner of salt pork or canned beef, with a hearty helping of smashed potatoes and some turnips or 'carrots my wife had to dig up from the root cellar, topped off by some arre,served raspberries from last 'summer's crop. No, the ,refrigerator is one of our modern gods, and one of the most popular. .I think it takes precedence even over the car as a twentieth- century deity. We kneel before it, contemplating its innards. We place offerings of food inside it, much as the ancients prof- fered food to their gods. And, just like the ancients, we are smart enough to take food back and eat it, after the god has been placated. Not for us the pioneers' meagre fare. We have fresh (frozen) meat to hand. We have fresh vegetables, nothing from the root cellar. We have cheese and fruit and eggs and orange juice and a myriad of other exotics that would make our ancestors blink in awe and fear. On the shelves in the kitchen we have another host of luxuries: canned fruit and vegetables and soup, coffee and tea and sugar and smoked oysters and sardines and salmon and tuna. In the bread -box, cookies and cakes and bread that cost money but no labour. After a meal that would appear to a pioneer as food for the gods (even though half the stuff in it is going to give us cancer, according to the quacks), we don't have to sit huddled by the stove trying to read a week-old newspaper by the light of a kerosene lamp, We can sit in comfort and read a book from among thousands in a library five minutes away. Or we can listen to When I've shut off my engine, feeling music or drama from hundreds of Th. Clinton Hews -Record 1s published each Thursday at P.O. lox 39, Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM 11.0. Member, Ontario WG kly Newspaper Association It 1s registered as second class mall by the post office under the permit number N17. The NswaRecord Incorporated In 1924 the Huron News -Record, founded In 1N1, and The Clinton Nsw Ira, founded In 111113. Total press run 3,310. itgesulsor Canadian Costoistataty AMetlatlon Nswapaps► Display advertlslng rates available on request. Ask for Nate Card Ne. • offlottly. Oct. 1, bines) Manager • J. Howard Aitken 1ditor . James 1. Pitxirald Ailtiortittas Meset'or • Gory L. Hetet News *Mot • Shelley McPhee Offki Neva few . Marrtlret Gibb • Clreutittll t, Uredo Mctied eitItion pot Vow,. mile:, away. Or we can watch the same, pr the news of the day, from thousands of miles away. By merely twisting a How diley stand it, those sturdy forebears of ours? Wouldn't you think that they'd have gone starkers under the burden of never-ending tOil, never - been arrested eight times for car theft. Many of them didn't survive, of Police suspect he.is involved with a C'ar course. Children died in infancy. theft ring. After each investigation, he Women were old at 30. But it was a life- was returned to the custody of his 6 long test course in survival, and the mother, who is divorced from her tough ones made it. husband. After the last incident, What a lot of comPlaining, com- though, he was made" a ward of the placent slobs we are today ! court and placed in a foster home. The But I'M sure glad I don't have -to go chances of him becoming a lifetime out to the barn, put hay down for the criminal are high, according to the horses, milk the cows, and drag in a judge. quarter -cord of wood to keep the stoves In the New Year, a man and wciman going, tonight. celebrated their first anniversary. remerribering our past There's nothing unusual about that, except the groom is 22 and his 77 -year- old wife was his step -grandmother. His parents didn't approve of the marriage but are- slowly becoming accustomed to* it; they come to visit occasionally. The couple lead a quiet life going out to dinner and disco dancing once a week. , Another 77;year-old lady made headlines 'last year when she attended a disco in New York with a younger man. The proprietor told her to come back whenever she wanted and that's what she's been doing - almost every night untii4he wee hours of the mor- ning. Nqw :she plans to marry a young man. • On the subject of New York, a man suggested skywriters should start using oxygen instead of smoke because of the pollution. Another man proposed setting a day aside to mark "nothing". He argued that we have a day for \celebrating almost everything else - \ birthdays, Heritage Days, Labour. Day, St. Patrick's Day, 'Valentine's Day, etc': Why shouldn't we set a day for celebrating "nothing" before all Our days are taken up by other events, he_ asked. His only problem was explaining how people should spend the day. What do we do to celebrate "nothing"? Nothing? If we dig beyond the front page and look under the smaller headlines, we can learn about different people and circumstances - some sad, some strange, some laughable, all in- teresting. a look through the news -record files 5 YEARS AGO January 31, 1974 Huron -Perth ' separate teachers and representhtTves met at a marathon 13 -hour session last Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning in attempts to reach a salary settlement before the January 31 deadline. The two sides were to meet again ,on Wednesday afternoon, but no resdlts were available at press time. Winds gusting near 60 miles an hour in the wee hours of last Sunday morning knocked down branches and caused about 10 power interruptions in town. The town public work crew was busy removing a 60 foot, 100 -year- old pin—e—free that fell across Ontario Street, blocking traffic for two hours and snapping off a concrete light standard. Many Ciintonians will be surprised to see their 1974 tax notices in the mail this week, as the town starts their, four -times -a -year tax collection. The first installment, roughly 25 per cent of the taxes, due on February 15. Clerk Cam Proctor and assistant clerk Marie Jefferson were busy last week mailing them out. 10 YEARS AGO January 36, 1969 Despite protests from Clinton Reeve James Armstrong, members of the County Council agreed last week that the second floor of the new county administrative assessment building in Goderich is the moSt satisfactory spot for the offices of the Huron County Board of Education. It was said that the board's offices. should be situated in the county administrative set- up with easy access to library, public health, assessment and other departments. , - A divorce rate jump of 41 per cent was among the statistics gleaned from the *Children's Aid Society to county council last week, The number of unwed mothers ap- plying for aid is,on the rise but records show ' a 19 per cent drop in the number of putative (named) fathers. The annual congregational meeting of Grace Church at Porter's Hill was held last Sunday afternoon. A ditcussion was held pertaining toThe closing of the church at the end of June. Gregoary, a male African lion cub, at- tracted a lot of attention at Warner Collings' store on Blyth's main street last week. Mr. Collings, who 'runs a pet sh p along with his sewing centrel sold the cub o Miss Barbara Baumgarten Of Clifford, S e plans to keep the animal as a pet., During hiS 'stay in Blyth, Gregottry was guest of honor at the regular meeting of the loCal Lions Club. 25 YEARS AGO February 4, 1954 The Clinton and District Chamber -of Commerce, impressive name though it may be,. is not drawing too much interest. Perhaps a meeting planned between the second and third periods of the next Colts game would get as good an attendance as any. Seems the only evidence of the Chamber's existence rests in those pitiful little bits of wood and rag that were so gay on Coronation Day and stillsit bedraggled upon everV lamp -post in town. 'Tentative plan§ to conduct a monster bazaar sometime in October, to assist in the f' proposed construction of a Nurses' Residence, associated with the Clinton Public Hospital, were unanimously sup- ported by the Ladies' Auxiliary to the hospital at their regular meeting on February 1. The 500 members will els; seek help from' every women's club and organization in ‚town and the district. Mrs. George Saville was hostess to 80 friends last Friday, January 29 on the oc- casion of her 90th birthday when she held a party at her home on Rattenbury Street, West. 50 YEARS AGO January 31, 1929 There were 50 births in Clinton in 1928, 16 marriages and 49 deaths. Messrs. Stevenson and Harris have taken an option on the vacant lot north of the Clinton Flour Mill and will probably build a factory there in the spring. Mr. Chas. Dexeter of Constance had a radio installed in his home. Teacher wanted - Experienced, Protestant, for S.S. No. 9 Goderich Town- ship. Duties to commence March 1. Salary $1,000. Personal applications preferred. Wm. W. Wise sec. -treasurer, RR 3, Clinton. Miss Marion Stewart, from Hullett Township, treated her girl friends to a birth- day sleigh ride party recently. Elite Cafe - special 40c dinner every day from 11 to 2. Excellent meals served at all hours. Special attention given -to parties, banquets, etc. We also handle boxed chocolates, ice cream, soft drinks, cigarettes. Qood cooking, and qdick service, open 'from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Lum Sam, Mr. A. Mitcliell has sold his pool room businesS to Mr. Morgan Agne0. '75 YEARS AGO Vebruary 4, 1904 When yoU get your. catalogue for the big mail order house; jOst look it over and see e ed by an. 11), cular' it is e Hebrew s near h ,.,Dead maton was written n easily distinguished ebrew. iegel commented on this: the Qumran manuscripts were fi ' discovered more than twenty ears ago, one of their more startling features was the appearance, in a limited group of texts.,. of the Tetragrammaton written in palaeo- Hebrew characters.... That this practice signifies a deep reverence for the Divine Name is almost a truism." (Hebrew Union College Annual, 1971) Additionally, it has been reported that in" first -century Jerusalem there was a Hebrew scroll of the five books of Moses with the Tetragrammaton in gold letters. (Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 39-43) Does not this new evidence strongly indicate that Jesus would have been very familiar with and would have used the divine name, whether he read the Scriptures in Greek or Hebrew? -Does this not have a ,significant bearing on whether God's name should be in our Bible, and .whether Christians should be using that name for its glorification? (John 17:26) (John 12:28) Sincerely yours, .. C. F. Barney, Clinton. time limited Dear Editor: For the past several weeks, I have written letters for the newspaper, in response to -Mr. Barney, whose letters, in my estimation, leave a lot to be desired. In a separate letter to me, 14r. Barney captioned the letter "Public propaganda is subject to public examination", which"' was the very reason I felt compelled td write' my letters in the first place. I, am afraid that my time is rather limited for this purpose, and I cannot continue at this time. I have ap- preciated the interest of you, the readers, and thank you for your sup - v port and helpful comments. Unfor- tunately, there are those who simply don't hear what one is saying. I am reminded of the words of a very wise professor whom I know well, and whO often used this saying: "Some people's minds are like concrete: All mixed up and permanently set." Arianism 'is a philosophical heresy, that began sometime around 320 A.D. It was never a very popular doctrine, for it denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. "Arianism maintained that the SOLI of God was not eternal, but created by the Father from nothing, as an instrument for the creation of the world; and that therefore, He was not God by nature, but a changeable creature, His dignity as Son of God having been bestowed on Him by the Father on account of His forseen abiding righteouSness." (from the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian It has been the experience of the Christian Church,that Arianism, in one form or another keeps re -appearing, for I am sure that there are those who find it easy to believe. As I see it, Arianism teaches that Jesus Christ is a sort of "demi-god" or some sort of "super -hero", who was created by God. Perhaps in the course of history, there are those who need heroes to worship and maybe this. is the reason that this type of doctrine appeals to certain persons. I read Mr. Barney's letter of January 25, and I couldn't believe what I was reading. Here is a prime example of someone who takes out of context, a passage of Scripture, twists it for his own purposes, so as to come up with an erroneous conclusion. The first liassage he quotes is in I Peter 3:15. The first part of the verse that Mr. Barney omits reads "but in your hearts reverence CHRIST as The passage that Mr. Barney quotes from I CorinthianS 15; 27 is part of the conclusion to Paul's treatise on the resurrection of the dead. I hardly think this is a passage to refute the doctrine of the Trinity. In order to illustrate a point, Paul often quoted from the Old Testament. Thus, in the opening statement, Paul quotes from Psalm 8:6 and therefore, I hardly believe that Paul would insert "Christ" before "feet" when it clearly ,erefers back to "he" being God. The thrust of the Corinthian passage deals with "Adam", "Christ" and "death". Paul is asserting that the enemy, "death", will not forever remain in existence. It was through Adam that death came into the world. Christ, therefore, would have to suffer death (Hebrews 2:9) but in doing so, he 'rose and therefore, conquered death. "And just as we are all involved in the sin of the man who was first created, we are all involved in the victory of the man who re-created mankind", says William Barclay in his commentary on the Letter to the Corinthians, page 169., Enough...said Mr. ttarney states "Scripture Turn to page 9 • what they will pay you for Your produce; also investigate and see what their terms of credit are in case you do not have the ready cash; how much will they give towards the keeping up of sidewalks; just write and ask' them how much they will give to assist the poor. After you have done this and received the reply, see if your home merchant won't do as vcrell. A dance will be given in the Bayfield town hall on Friday evening. The music will be supplied by the Colborne Orchestra of five piece§ and a good time is assured. Mr. William Carter, the famous chicken fancier of Hullett, is repeating his success of former years at the various poultry shows. The Jackson Mfg. Co. have a full staff and are turning out a large quantity of the celebrated Lion Brand clothing. But they are being hampered by the blockade on the Grand Trunk and several thousand dollars worth of their clothing now lies at the freight sheds awaiting shipment. 100 YEARS AGO ' January 30, 1879 . It is not often that dogs feed on cloth, but the other day a gentleman in town lost two mouthfuls of his pants, which a canine had On Thursday, a boy named Beasley, aged about 15 years, got into a dispute with a shooting gallery proprietor named Burling, when he plunged a knife through his clothes to the skin, but inflicting no other injury. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but he skipped out. . Those partits who were unfortunate enough to be on the Grand Trunk train coming from Toronto, on Saturday night, got the worth of their money if length of time en route was equivalent. A smash up near 13rampton prevented the train arriving here until 3 a.m. Sunday morning. When it got to Holmesville, a snowdrift prevented further. progress and the passengers had to get out and shovel. It was near breakfast time when they got into Goderich And some of them possessed an appetite ' that would almost have disposed of a logging chain. Prof. Salter of Clinton has formed a singing class at Middleton's corners. A new Methodist Church is to be built on the 7th con., near the Orange Hall. A meeting has been held and subscriptions are being received. (It woul be better if several 11 of the churches on the Holmesville circuit were thrown together a' 11 a new one erected at Holmesville, as they.are no ortly two or three tulles apart. We hear &at Mr. W. Cole, of the 13th con., Hulled has fallen heir to the um of $70,000 through the death of his father-in-law.