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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-04-26, Page 4fru PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979 fro 4. The Clinton News -Record Is published each Thursday at P.Q. lox 39. Clinton. Ontario. Canada. NOM ILO. Member, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association It Is registered as s•cand class mall by the post office under the permit number 0117. The News -Record Incorporated in 1924 the Huron News -Record. founded In 1111, and The Clinton New Ere, founded In 1163. Total press run 3.300. Clinton News-R�ord i CNA Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Display advertising roles available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 9 effective Oct. 1, 1976. General Manager J. Howard Aitken Editor • James E. Fitzgerald Advertising Director - Gory L. Hoist News editor - Shelley McPhee Office Manager • Margaret Gibb Circulation • Freda McLeod Subscription Rote: Canada -91.00 per year Sr. citizen • '12 per year U.S.A. & fotelgn • •30 per year Give your support Volunteers are a valuable asset to any community especially when the going gets rough, but un- fortunately there are never enough helpful persons. Many Clinton organizations and institutions only survive through the work of volunteers. Look at the grandstand project, the Hor- ticultural Society, various municipal committees, the service clubs and the Hospital Auxiliary. Over the next two weeks Auxiliary members will be knocking on doors in the area asking for support and help in their work, and it is needed. We all'are faced with a situation where the only means to make sure our hospital stays alive and healthy is through volunteer labor. It's not only the $1 membership fee that will help the hospital, but the actual work and care of volunteers that can make the stay for patients as comfortable and as efficient as possible. There are 600 members in the Auxiliary already, bet you didn't know that. No, because only a small few are ever seen or heard of in connection with hospital work. It's time you got involved too. Someday you might be a patient in the hospital and undoubtedly you'll want the best treatment there is. You might want to rent a television, buy a treat off the gift cart, read a magazine or book or have your day brightened with a special flower on your dinner tray. You might need an accurate blood analysis, a mist tent, to ease breathing difficulties, a friendly smile and a comforting word from a Candy Striper or just a hot cup of tea. All these things have been made available through the Auxiliary's work. Remember them.—by Shelley McPhee. What is a manager? What is a manager? If he is pleasant, he is too familiar. If he is sober faced, he is a sour -puss. If he is young, he doesn't know anything. If he is old, he's an old stiff. If he belongs to a lodge, the members expect favours. If he goes to church, he's a hypocrite. If he doesn't, he's a heathen. If he drinks, he's an old souse. If he doesn't, he's a tight -wad. If he talks to everybody, he's a gossip. If he doesn't he's stuck-up. If he -insists that the rules of the shop be kept, he's too particular. If he doesn't, he's careless. If he looks around, he's snooping. If he doesn't, he's unobservant. If he tries to settle all complaints, he must have the wisdom of Solomon. If he worries about them, he'll go crazy. He should have the patience of Job, the skin of a rhinoceros, the cunning of a fox, the courage of a lion, be blind as a bat and silent as a sphinx. What a man! Are there any good managers?—Author unknown -'r 'WINK TdEKE 0 BE A tNEAPE K WWli T F,NpiN(, Our it T -E PULL', KAE ft, ,NT l.• Eo to%r' 1 "As if it's not enough we have to choose between Clark and Trudeau, the bars will be closed May 22." I'll walk In case you've forgotten last week's column or didn't read it, I wrote about horseback riding for handicapped people. This week's. column is in reply to the reader who stopped me on the street and -asked; -"Did you write from a0bird's eye view?" The answer is definite: "No way!" I visited a riding stable and talked to a few people about their experiences. Some suggested that I find out for myself, but I decided for several reasons. First, I didn't want to offend the people I interviewed by making them think I didn't- believe them. I wanted them to know I appreciated the time they had taken to talk with me. Second, I wasn't dressed for hor- seback riding. - Third, I'm chicken. When pressed to try something I'd rather not, my standard reply is, "I could if I wanted to but I really don't want to, so why should I waste your time and mine by doing something I - really don't want to do anyway?" The run-on question is usually long enough to discourage further attempts at persuasion. But not always. by elaine townshend When I was about 15, -my father and brother-in-law hounded me until I tried horseback riding. I gave in with the understanding that, if I tried once and didn't like it, they wouldn't coax me to try again. At least, that's the way I understood it. I mounted a coal black steed and felt his power beneath my knees. He was champing at the bit impatient to fly. Together we rocketed through meadows and forests, over streams, fences and fallen logs in a daring un- forgettable ride. Wel), I may have exaggerated a little. Actually my "steed" was a black Shetland pony, and my father and brother-in-law were at each side as we ambled down the farm lane to the road and back to the barn, a distance of about two hundred yards. "I gave my brother-in-law my usual warningy'Jfa.pu let go, I'll never speak to you again!" and he gave his customary reply, "Promises! Promises!" a You see, we have a problem in our family. Half the members are crazy about horses and can't understand why the rest of us aren't. Half the family loves to ride; the rest of us love to watch them 'ride. They enjoy grooming horses and working with them; we enjoy admiring horses remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO April 18, 1974 More than :70' persons who made up 38 entries braved pouring rain and cold water last Good Friday as they raised over $200 in the second annual Hully Gully Bayfield Lions Bunny Bundle Canoe Race for Crip- pled Children. Complete hydro service was restored to sugar and spice April's the pits when the man was knocking off the ice at the end of January. Mingling with the shingles are "April is the cruellest month." So portions of brick, knocked out of the said T.S. Eliot, a transplanted wall by the man who removed some of American who spent most of his adult - the shingles while he was removing the life working in a bank•'•a'nd , writing ice. poetry in England. Lying on the back porch itself is a As far as England goes, he was full of pile of glass, shattered from a storm baloney. April in England is delightful. window that didn't quite get put on last It rains only every second day, and the November, and was leaning carefully countryside is green with grass and as against the house to wait for a nice day Colourful as a, patchwork quilt with for installation. A December wind flowers. caught that one. Now, if he'd been writing, about Leaning limply is the storm door, Canada, I'd agree. April is no bargain which will no longer close, because the in these parts. It's•one of those nothing ice got in around it, and it was forced months, like November. shut so many times it lost its shape and You have staggered through the last all desire to keep out the tiveather, and of the March blizzards. Barely. And the mosquitoes, a month from now, suddenly, in theory, it's spring. In when it become a screen door. reality, it's the dirty bottom end of Lying in the back yard, leaning on winter, and the weakest possible one elbow, is one of the great old cedar whisper of a hope for summer. chairs, looking as though it had just April is mud, treacherous, piercing been mugged in a back alley by a winds that give you that racking cough particularly vicious gang of punks. you avoided all winter, rusted fenders, Beside it stands the picnic table, changing snow tires, and surveying practically sway -backed from the load your property and all the detritusof snow and ice it carried all winter. deposited on it and around it by the But all is not drab. There's a nice recent winter. touch of color here and there. A green Just checked mine today., On the wine bottle tossed over the fence by side lawn there is a dirty brown hump some passing contributor. Here, frozen that resembles something from the into the ice, a newspaper wrapped in paleolithic age, eyeless, shapeless, but yellow cellophane. Over there, another somehow menacing. It is made up of paper, wrapped in blue, emerges from one part ice, two parts sand, and one its winter retreat. Both bear December part salt, all courtesy of the dates. snowplowing department. This lump There's a frisky grey squirrel, will have melted entirety by the fourth scuttling up the dead vines on the of July and will leave a 30 square foot house, looking for a soft spot to gnaw patch of pure Sahara. through and deposit her kits in the Scattered about the back porch are attic.Chasing her is a dog, probably the bits and pieces and whole shingles, same one who left his calling cards all removed, without charge, from the roof over the back yard during the winter, which are now melding nicely with the mud and the stench of dead earth coming back to life. And the clothes -line is sagging like an ancient stripper. The back stoop is just that. Stooped from the ice falling off the roof onto it. All this is normal enough, a typical April scene, and I'm not complaing. But wouldn't it be nice if you got through one April without your tail- pipe and muffler suddenly starting to sound like a bull breaking wind? It's enough to break a man were he not a sturdy Canadian, who has been through the same performance in the same arena year after year. But this April is going to be the one that broke many a man stronger than I. On top of all the usual crud of April, will be piled the even cruddier crud of an election campaign. It won't be so bad for the kids, who don't mind April at all, as it gives them a chance to get soaked to the knees and covered in mud with some excuse. They don't care about politicians. Nor will it be too tough for the elderly, who greet April with a kind of jaunty, triumphant grin, because they've made it through another bone - buster of a winter. And they are per- fectly aware that politicians are per- nicious, whatever their outer coloring. But for the honest, decent, middle- aged Canadian, who sees no more difference between the parties and their promises than he does between his left hand and his right, it's just too much. April by itself is had enough. But to go through 0 days of it huddling under a barrage of political poop is the Utmost pits. I agree with the poet. This April will indeed to "the cruellest month." from a safe distance, preferably with a fence between us. They can't understand our timidity, and we can't understand their fearlessness. The dissension has led to a few arguments, such as the following examples. Request ... "Don't ride through the fiowerbed!" Response... "We're three feet away from it." Request... "Don't tie that horse so close to the shrubs!" Response... "She won't eat shrubs. She just eats grass. She knows the difference. Question... "Do you have to head that horse straight for me when I'm lying here trying to get a su-ntan?" Response... "What's the matter with you? She won't walk on you!" Counter Dear Editor, response... "Maybe she won't, but I'm In the days of Moses, there were not so sure about you!" times (all too often sometimes) when Question... "Want 'to come for a the children of Israel refused to take_ ride?" Answer... "No thanks, I'm the advice of their leader. This cost busy." them 40 years of wondering. Moses "Aw c'mon. Answer... "No I don't asked his LEADER what he should do want to interfere with your riding." and was given the first law- Thou shalt "That's not the real reason, _ not! ---. After that it was illegal to chicken!" disobey these laws - a very serious "Get lost!" offence! I hope this summer we will be able to Coming down to the times of the agree on a truce. I won't interfere with , judges, again it was considered a very the rest of the family's riding on hor- serious offence to disobey the law; to seback, if they don't interfere with my commit illegal acts against the rulers staying on solid ground. of the land; and the judges showed little mercy to the offender. British law was an example of fairness and justice to every nation of the world. It was also based on the laws that GOD had given Moses. Again the offender, the one to break the law, the Huron County on Wednesday morning after the river. committer of illegal acts, was an a temporary by-pass hydro line was con- North Huron Presbytery Young Peoples outcast. He lived in disgrace. structed around the five 130 -foot hydro Softball League has been reorganized for When these people, accustomed to towers that were knocked down or damaged .1929 and is off again to a good start. law and order, came over to this land to after a tornado touched down last Sunday Numerous stories have been told of the hew out for themselves homes, they afternoon in Perth .,.County, just one mile presence of deer in this part of the country. first established Christian churches, from the Tuckersmith-Hibbert Townline It is to be hoped that they will not be and then, as an outgrowth of the home and one mile south of St. Columban. molested and be allowed to multiply in any and the church, built on Christian laws A Vanastra Recreation Area will be section there is any quantity of wooded land. and principles, they taught their formed at Vanastra.p The Ontario Municipal Work has been commenced making children in school again built up from Board will approve the project. cement blocks for the new building Mr. S. S. Cooper will erect at the corner of Mary and the same foundation, that of law and Isaac Streets. The blocks are being made on order, love of neighbour, and most the ground. important, love of -GOD. 75 YEARS AGO As time went on, our grandfathers April 21, 1904 and then our fathers, built up and Mr. W. Nesbitt in Summerhill is getting added to these laws ; always building timber ready for a new barn. on the original law, as given by GOD to Mr. Joe Rattenbury has been confined to Moses; and those who broke these laws bed for the past week with pleurisy and were held in contempt by the more while now improving it will yet be some decent and law abiding people. They days before he will again be able to attend to were known as criminals and law - business. This is probably the first time in breakers. the genial Joe's experience that he has really been on the sick list. Now, two of these laws, voted on, The 'News -Record appears to be a great passed, and established by our favorite in fact every person who has seen government say, first, and I quote: the paper has fallen in love with it and gives "It is the duty of a teacher- TO IN- itthemostunstintedpraise. ULCATE, BY PRECEPT AND The joint stock company of wealthy XAMPLE, RESPECT FOR farmers on McKillop and Logan who bought ELIGION AND THE PRINCIPLES $2,500 worth of bush land near Burk's Falls OF JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN in Muskoka now fear they will lose heavily MORALITY, AND THE HIGHEST as it is turning out badly. REGARD FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE, Mr. W. J. Stevenson, manager of the LOYALTY, LOVE OF COUNTRY, electric light works, has embarked in the coal business and isalready serving HUMANITY, BENEVOLENCE, patrons. He is well known among our SOBRIETY, INDUSTRY, citizens as an energetic and straight for- FRUGALITY, TEMPERANCE, AND ward businessman and will, no doubt, OTHER VIRTUES" secure a share of the trade. And second: Mr. John Davidson has rented the butcher "EACH MORNING, SCHOOL WILL shop and fixtures of Mr. William Brandon in BE OPEN BY THE SINGING OF THE Bayfield for six months. He is having it NATIONAL ANTHEM, READING OF fitted up in first class style when he will be SELECTED SCRIPTURE VERSES, able to supply the wants of the public. AND A PRAYER OF UNIVERSAL 100 YEARS AGO CHARACTER (OR THE LORD'S April 24, 1879 PRAYER)". The British Hotel building, put up by These laws are broken every day in auc ion, on Saturday, was bid in at $800. most of our schools. Are we criminals? The average Sabbath attendance at the Are we law breakers; we, you and I, four Sunday Schools in town is about 900 scholars. Very good for a small place. who allow this flagrant flaunting of the to continue and say of the trees in town get destroyed by law nothin g? people tying horses to them and in a variety Think it over. p of other ways. We understand that all Lloyd Barth (teacher) parties found doing so will be fined, they had P.S. The taxpaying parents of Huron better, therefore, take warning. o©ut�holding a public meeting on Mr. D. Lavin of Holmesville who was May 3ty nextare in the auditorium of Clinton charged with issuing notes, was tried at the H.S. to discuss the above question. Mr. assizes last week and acquitted. Ken Campbell, Mr. Brian Kempster, Messrs. McCartney, Thompson and Scott members of the Huron bounty Board of of Clinton have been awarded the contract Education, and teachers and parents for the erection of the new Methodist Church in Holmesville .it $1,800. are invited. W.L.B. Lone saviouur Dear Editor: The information gleaned from the various reports of the media and of personal contact with our lone saviour of public transportation in our town, allow me these few lines in defence both of Mr. Howse and - private en- terprise. With absolutely no con- sideration to the consequences in off- handedly revoking the only taxi licence in Clinton, leaving a vast number of people notably the elder citizens with no means of transport, the less than illustrious town council displayed what was a: most inept and ha-sty4-eei.sian In view of the alleged transgressions committed by Mr. Howse that precipitated this sad state of affairs I never, for one moment whilst enjoying the convenience of his taxi service, felt that my life was being imperilled or my body put in jeopardy through the lack of some scraps of bureaucratic papers which are deemed necessary. The reported concern for the senior citizens expressed by the Mayor of Clinton could quite easily be expanded upon by the introduction of a Municipal Taxi Service in conjunction with the present one. What would be so wrong in that? But the blatant thing that strikes n'te as being vindictive is the burning question of relocation. The present site on the High Street has served the purpose for many years without let or hindrance, I never recall an accident being caused or any public complaints towards it, yet suddenly it is no longer considered suitable. Also reported is the town clerk's statement that, "Mr. Howse's licence was only renewed because he finally complied with the By-law" unquote.'I would like to think that strong public opinion against the council's action played no small part in their change of heart. - Criminals Sincerely, Mr. A. Sourbutts, Clinton. a look through the news -record files • 10 YEARS AGO April 17, 1969 A Strathroy company has plans to provide cable TV service to Clinton and Goderich from, the same master antenna and wants to meet with town officials here. The company, Airland Communications Service Ltd., is setting up a local offshoot, Bluewater Cablevision Ltd. and last month- received town council approval to install its cables in Goderich. A stepped-up effort to bring industry to Clinton bore its first fruit this week when a small Milton company bought the five -acre - town -owned site of a former Canada Packers plant and announced plans to build furniture here as soon as its equipment can be installed. The Fabian Furniture industry will take raw lumber and process it into middle priced finished furniture. 4' 25 YEARS AGO April 22, 1954 Another offer from officials of the Dutch Reformed Church, Clinton, has been made to the Clinton Town Council for the old public school building and lots on Ontario Street. Although the church board increased its price by $1,000 over the $9,000 previously offered, it is understood Muncil is not in- terested. Apparently the councillors feel that if the building was sold to a religious group, no future revenue would be derived from the building in the line of taxation. A rally of 300 Royal Black Knights of Ireland meeting here Friday evening in the town hall, called on the Dominion govern- ment to retain the Union Jack as Canada's national flag. This afternoon members of the Safety Patrol Corps will receive official white caps comRlete with brass buttons which have been made for them by volunteer sewing experts of the Clinton Women's Institute. 50 YEARS AGO April 18, 1929 The rooms at the rear of the top storey of the Royal Bank building have been redecorated and fitted up and will be oc- cupied by the Clinton Club at the beginning of May. The bathing season has opened in Bayfield. Several young people who were in the village on Sunday having taken a dip in •