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On Canadian unity
One can often tell a lot about the
underside of a city's nature from its
under ound subways. But there are
othereflectors too. In New York it's
,graffiti. In Montreal it's beauty, albeit
a new experience for both Francophone
and Anglophone. In Toronto it's
sometimes a meanness of spirit we
wish we could hide.
An illustration. It happened on a
subway car. He looked like a poor
specimen of humanity at best. Perhaps
he had too much to drink. He sat
reading his paper–Opposite him sat a
couple in conversation. She, an elderly
life -worn person, and he, an attractive
young man with expressive eyes. They
were speaking French.
It took a moment and then the abuse
began. "Cut that bull...you two. None of
that damn French here in Ontario! We
won't have it! Go back to 'Quebec!
What's Quebec anyway? Who cares if
you go? Shut up, hear me?"
They, heard and_.. they _tv r.e_.hurt.. -
Another passenger, himself from La
Belle Province, but 20 years ago, tried
to reassure them with a smile and
gesture. The couple represented a
culture, a people, and a language that
he valued too. He wanted them to feel
welcome in Toronto his adopted city.
His concern was for the future of the
country. "Keep it up, and Quebec will
act on the message: We don't want you
in Canada. We want you to leave. While
we, the silent majority, remain silent,
the vigorous, ignorant minority will
hold sway and the vote of indifference
will be 'cast in favor of a divided..
Canada."
Simple Christian faith should unite us
in brotherhood with others in com-
munity. It is a message for Christians
-in Canada today. We are part of the one
Body in faith. We are also part of the
one fabric of Canada. It is not just a
political issue --it is essentially a
religious issue. Before the referendum
let all Candians do what they can to
show -on -e-- anvth,er that -a II-' are Welcome ---
i n
--in the family of God and Canada.
sugar and spice
Dearly beloved
I'm often glad that I don't have four
or five daughters waiting in the wings
to be married. If I did I'd soon be in the
poorhouse, as we used to call it. Or on
welfare, as we call it now. Or mum-
bling my gums and my pension in one
of those Sunset Havens, or another
atrociously -named place for old people
who are broke.
This opinion is a direct result of three
middle-class weddings I haveattended
in the past two years. As an innocent
bystander, I am aghast at the cost -
financial, emotional, and stressful - of
the modern straight, or traditional
wedding.
It's not too many decades since you
could send your daughter off in fine
style for a couple of hundred bucks.
Her mother made her dress. The
church and the preacher were free.
You rented the community hall, and
the ladies' Auxiliary catered the food.
You could hire an orchestra for $25.
And you still had $50 left to give • the
bride, your daughter, a little nest egg.
My own wedding cost almost nothing.
We were married in the chapel at Hart
House, U. of T. No charge for the
facilities. Five bucks for the preacher
(larceny was creeping in). The
organist was a school -mate who played
in a burlesque house, so no fee.
Borrowed a car from a friend for the
honeymoon, $20. My wife bought a suit
and her own wedding ring. I had
supplied a diamond, courtesy of a
friend who had been jilted, at half
price. No ushers, no reception, no
drinks. The best man and the maid of
honour got a kiss.
And away we went, just as married,
with the same words (and still
married), as the modern bride whose
old man has forked out a couple of
thousand minimum, whose mother has
been brought to the verge of a break-
down over invitations, guests, hair-
dressing, and a hundred other details,
who is herself ever-increasing
demands of her position as the big day
approaches.
With my own daughter, I was crafty.
I asked her whether she'd like a church
"I'm buying up maps of Canada they may become collectors' items soon.
remembering
5 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1974
Students in schools under the Huron
County Board' of Education will get a head
start in learning the metric system when it
is introduced in the schools in September
1974.
There were no objections Monday night to
a bid by Vanastra Developments to alter
Vanastra's official plan and convert the
former officers' quarters into four, 24 -unit
apartment buildings.
John Van Gastel of Vanastra Holdings told
the meeting, which included about 12
Vanastra residents. that his company is
receiving, two—or theee-ca1Is a `day: a-sking
about housing. He said it would cost about
$450,000 to convert the buildings.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Forsyth, long-time
residents ,of Tuckersmith celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary this week. j
10 YEARS AGO
June 19, 1969
Huron County farmers will go to the polls
next Tuesday to answer the question, "Are
you in favor of a•general farm organization
with compulsory checkoff?"
Voting will take place from 8 am to 8 pm in
37 polling stations in the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Heard of Bayfield,
celebrated their golden wedding an-
niversary on Monday.
The Clinton Ontario Street Choir honored
the departing Rev. Grant and Mrs. Mills at
wedding and the usual reception, or a
cheque for one thousand. A chip off the
old block, she opted for the cheque,
knowing she'd get the other, too, if she
wanted it.
I squeaked in just under $1500. She
invested the cheque in a car, which she
totalled in a roll-over on their
honeymoon. No pun intended.
At a moderate accounting, today's
dad is going for at least twice that
before he sinks into his chair on Sunday
night with a, "Thank God, 'sallover."
On second thought, $3,000 is modest,
the way today's middle-class wedding
has built up its hidden costs. It's $25 for
the preacher, unless he's lost his dog -
collar or been disbarred. Ditto for the
organist. Gowns for the bridemaids,
add $300. A donation to the church for
the oil heating. Fifty bucks for in-
vitations. Five hundred minimum `for
new duds for him and the old lady. A
"little" going -away cheque for the
bride, another five hundred.
He's up to nearly fifteen hundred
before the preacher has even said,
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here
today..."
If he's a real big-time spender, he
picks up the tab for the motels at which
guests who have come from afar at
great trouble and expense, lay their
well-coiffed heads.
Then there's the open bar at the
reception, the dinner with wine, the
orchestra or disc jockey for dancing,
the open bar again, the towing charges
for guests who mistook the ditch for the
road on the way home. Call it fifteen
hundred.
Of course, there are compensations.
With a big wedding like this, the bride
receives about four thousand dollars
worth of gifts. "Isn't it obscene?",
asked the bride's father at our latest,
as we ooh -ed and aah-ed over the loot.
It was. But that doesn't do the old man
much good.
However, I guess it's all worth it. A
daughter, especially an only daughter,
is a gift from heaven.
This last one was a lovely wedding.
And I don't use words like "lovely"
casually.
Kevin MacMillan, 20, grandson of Sir
Ernest MacMillan, one of Canada's
great men of music, married Anne
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Whicher, 18, whom I have known since
she came -home from the hospital in a
pink blanket. They are very young.
Good.
Both deep into music. We had a
beautiful Ave Maria, sung by Cousin
Kathy, and an excellent string en-
semble; before the wedding and during
that interminable time when they are
signing the register, and during dinner.
Class.
Anne was kissed and cozened by
dozens of cousins, armies of aunts, and
hordes of hooligans, like me. She took it
in her stride, as she will life.
For my wife, the wedding was a
chance to gabble at 500 words per
minute, with old friends from school
days. She loved it.
For me, it was being assaulted by
large ladies of indeterminate age who
still had that elusive beauty, fairly well
camouflaged, of twenty years ago, and
who still thought I could dance till
dawn. I loved it. Good wedding.
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Kay last
week.
Members of the new executive of the
Clinton Kinettes Club, are: recording
secretary, Mrs. Don Hull; president, Mrs.
Bob Mann; past president, Mrs. Larry
Jones; vice president, Mrs. Bert Clifford;
registrar, Mrs. Tom Feeney; bulletin editor,
Mrs. Steve Brown; assistant bulletin editor,
Mrs. Russ Archer; treasurer, Mrs. Doug
Norman; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Ron Jewitt.
Sixty friends and neighbors of Mrs. Bert
Doran honored her with a surprise afternoon
tea on her lawn in Auburn. Mrs. Albert
.MMcFarlane expressed --reg-ret at -Mrs.
Doran's dparture from the village.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Lance of Bayfield
closed their antique shop last week in order
to drive to Cambridge, Mass., where their
second son, William, was graduated cum
laude, from the Harvard Law School.
25 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1954
Prominent in the church, business and
municipal life in Clinton, Albert Thomas
Cooper passed away in Clinton Public
Hospital on Tuesday, following several
months of illness. He was in his 85th year.
Nurses at the Clinton Public Hospital have
been given an increase in salary. Ur. W.A.
Oakes, reporting on the staff to the Hospital
Board meeting last week, said that nurses
will now receive $7 instead of $6 for an eight-
hour day. Nurses other than those on the
staff, who have been working regularly six
days a week for the past six months, will
receive two weeks' holiday with pay.
Dancing every Friday night, Bayfield
Pavilion, Ken Wilbee Orchestra, Bayfield's
favorite Summer Dance Pavilion.
Local damage caused by the swift win-
dstorm of Monday night was confined
mainly to limbs broken off trees, and some
hydro and telephone poles down. Hydro
service to part of Clinton was discontinued
for some hours, while the members of the
PUC staff worked on into the night getting
the lines in order.
50 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1929
A strawberry festival will be held in
Holmesville next Wednesday evening on
Miss Acheson's lawn.
Mr. Clarence Crawford of Londesboro has
bought a new car.
Examination week and broiling weather.
It seems a pity that important examinations
could not be held when there's a chance of
having weather more likely to assist the
young people to do something like justice to
themselves.
Miss Olive Henderson has taken a position
in H.F. Berry's store in Brucefield.
At Convocation Hall, University of
Toronto, on Wednesday of last week,
amongst the 24 nurses who were graduated
from the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
was Miss Marjorie Lyon, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Lyon of Londesboro and a
graduate of the Clinton Collegiate Institute.
1 he house which has been built in con-
nection with the Holmesville Cheese and
Butter factory is about to be completed and
Mr. and Mrs. Eeston are getting settled into
their new home.
The Ontario Street Softball team went out
to Bayfield the other evening and lost to the
team of that breezy centre.
75 YEARS AGO
June 23, 1904
A large number from Clinton attended the
moonlight excursion at Goderich on Monday
and many from here took in the excursign to
Detroit.
Madame Livinski, pianist, is at the
Ra-tte_ n ,ury- House where -°she w tt remain '
until Saturday.
Residents of Isaac Street in Clinton
complained on Tuesday of the number of
small toads which were hoping about
everywhere. The toads were small, about
the size of a marble, but appeared to be very
active.
A blond, aged about 30 years, with a scar
on his right cheek, was hired by Mr. James
Southcombe of Hullett Township on Thur-
sday last. He said he came from London. He
worked two days and on Sunday evening,
while everybody else about the place was
absent at church, he skipped out taking a
suit of clothes, a pair of shoes and a razor,
all belonging to Will Cantelon, who is
engaged at the same place.
The boys of the 9th in Goderich Township
are practising football and will no doubt be
able to put a strong team in the field this
year,
Mr. Harvey Morris comes up to Blyth
from Clinton quite often. We may or may not
infer that an interesting social event will be
the result of these visits.
100 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1879
Fault has been found with us for urging
our Council to pass a by-law prohibiting
cows to run at large, urging the benefits of
free pasturage for cows to poor people.
There are a couple of had holes in the
Huron Road between Proctor's and Taylor's
corners, and pathmasters should see that
they are repaired, otherwise an accident
could easily happen. To drive against a rail,
stuck in a hole, in the night, is a cir-
cumstance some horses would rebel
against.
About two thousand copies of Belden's
Atlas of Huron, were sold in the county; all
the illustrations and lithographic work were
done by the A.H. Gorrell Lithographic Co.,
the principal of which is the son of Mr.
Correll of Base Line.
A certain lady sported a cane on Sunday
evening; she would have attracted less
notice and been more becoming without it.
Some time ago the family of Mr. D.
Campbell of Bayfield dried a quantity of
beef and stored it away for future use.
Desiring some recently, a member of the
household went to where it had been placed,
but was astonished to find that it had all
been stolen.
Summer people
One of the bravest of all summer
people is the baseball umpire.
See him crouch; see him peer
through his mask. Even through the
face protector, you can tell he's con-
centrating.
See'him dodge the little white missile
travelling 90 miles an hour. Hear him
shout, "Ball one!"
See him crouch, watching, waiting.
Here it comes again. See him raise his
arms; hear him firmly yell, "Strike
two!"
Watch him ignore the Koos on one
side and the cheers on the other. He is
badgered, bothered, humped, maybe
even bruised. Hear him put an end to
the bickering with a stern, "Play ball!"
Hear him shout without hesitation,
itr ii', ihrrc'! You're out!"
If an empire is, at times, one of the
most unpopular summer people, the
home run king is one of the most
popular ones.
Hear the crack of the hat; hear the
crowd go wild; watch him nonchalantly
make his home run jog around the
bases.
Another popular summer person is
the one behind the ice cream scoop.
Watch him expertly scoop and swirl the
creamy cold delight; see his deft
fingers dip into the nuts. See him sneak
a lick when he thinks no one's looking.
Yes, a popular person is the king or
queen of the cone, shake, sundae and
banana split. Perhaps the only happier
person is the one who gets to eat the
delicacies.
Another person who's always in
demand is the one slaving over the
backyard barbecue.
Watch him flip the hamburg patties
with precision timing; see him season
the chicken parts with his secret
barbecue sauce; watch him shake the
ketchup bottle until hisNwhite apron is
red -striped.
Hear hiim shul away the pesky people
who claim they're starving.
Hear the sizzle, the pop; smell the
aroma; can't you almost taste the
tender hot meat?
Summer people know how to work
hard, how to play hard, how to take it
easy and how to enjoy summer, but
kids are probably the ones who know
how to get the most out of summer.
See them stampede for the door on
the last day of school.
Hear them cheer as they lunge
toward two whole months of summer
freedom - baseball in the park, catch in
the backyard, the beach, a swimming
pool, a lemonade stand in front of their
house, bicycle rides, long nights of
Tight, late night TV and sleeping in
every morning.
Ah...the joys of summer people, kids
and adults dike.
If you think this column seems short
or put together hurriedly, you're right.
The writer is one of those lucky sum-
mer people about lb set out on a
summer holiday, and I have to be
ready yesterday.
Common sense
Dear Editor,
Where Angels fear to tread.
You printed a piece in your paper
dated June 21 that also was featured in
the London Free Press. Illegal Parking
Tickets on Mill Street "Tear them
up", "Laugh at the Law", you say.
Deliberately thwart common sense.
Do you realize what you have done by
this article without first delving into
the hazards that face your children?
I am not saying you have not
reported the hard facts, but, man, use
the common sense God gave you and
look into the far reaching results. Mill
Street, prior to your article was a Mill
race, now, it is a Rat race.
I sincerely hope you will as con-
scientiously report a child's injury, (or
God forbid, death) on this street.
Is it your wish to placate, the ladies
who attend bingo (my wife attends and
enjoys same). I don't think you want to
see one of them wearing black.
I have no complaint against the
police force. They cannot blanket the
town.
If you have any doubt about the
authenticity of this letter, come and sit
on my front lawn at 54 Mill Street
between 12:30 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday or
7:3Q to 10 p.m. Mondays.
Just to prove I have no enmity
against you personally, I will provide
you with a chair, and if you so desire, a
bottle of beer.
I think the experience would make
you a better reporter.
Sincerely,
Frederick H. Jackson,
Clinton.
Handsome profit
Dear Editor:
The Auxiliary to the Clinton Public
Hospital has just completed its annual
membership campaign, and I would
like to thank you and the staff of the
Clinton News -Record for your co-
operation in publicizing this event.
Also, may I take this opportunity to
thank all the women of Clinton and
surrounding area who so willingly gave
their time to canvass for us.
Once again, it has been a successful
event in bringing in new members and
a handsome profit toward&. our _pur-
chases for the -hospital.
Yours sincerely,
Marg Coventry,
Membership Chairman,
Auxiliary to the
Clinton Public Hospital.
No extension
Dear Editor:
The following letter has been sent to
Prime Minister Joe Clark:
"Please be advised that the Ontario
Federation of Anglers and Hunters is
totally opposed to any extension of the
shipping season on the Great Lakes.
The enclosed emergency resolution has
been passed unanimously by our Board
of Directors on behalf of our 18,000+
members. We ask that you and your •
Environment Minister read it carefully
and call on the United States Gover-
nment to stop any further winter
shipping and ban it in Canadian waters.
"Winter navigation on the Great
Lakes would substantially destroy
parts of our environment and would
cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.
Dams would be constructed in the
Detroit and St. Clair Rivers to control
water flows; major dredging would be
required in the St. Mary's River and
harbours would be necessary; ice
breakers would be constantly on the go.
"The spawning beds of fish will be
destroyed by winter navigation;
shorelines will erode; the food chains
for wildlife will be seriously in-
terrupted. The monstrous wave surge
from large freighters dissipates on the
surface during the open water season.
In winter, however, the surge moves
under the ice. When it reaches the
shore, the effects are devastating.
Blocks of ice, fish, weeds, mud and
water fly into the air. We can show you
photographs of fish lying on the ice and
dying after such action. The scouring of
ice movement can destroy priceless
wetlands and waterfowl habitat and
kill hibernating wildlife.
"During the last five years, while
winter navigation has been tested, deer
have been drowning in the St. Mary's
River. No longer can they cross to
wintering yards on the ice. Now they
vainly try to swim.
"An oil or chemical spill in warm
weather has harmful effects that ?lo
Canadian would condone. A spill in
winter would be disastrous. There is
simply no way to effectively clean up a
spill under the ice. Fish would die;
spawning beds would be destroyed;
thousands of wintering ducks could be
killed.
"Natural pools of open water would
be filled with broken ice thereby
eliminating the food supplies of win-
tering bald eagles.
"We could go on and on with reasons
to stop winter shipping in the Great
Lakes, but surely the truth is obvious.
It must not be allowed.
"We look forward to your early
response and positive action. Our
members will be anxiously awaiting
your protection of our environment."
Yours in Conservation,
1=I. M. Goldsmith
-President,
Ontario Federation of
Anglers & Hunters