Clinton News-Record, 1979-07-05, Page 4PAGE 4 -,CI INTQN NEWS7R.E C,O tD,• THURSDAY, JULY 5 ,1979
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The Porter Commission,' which has ment would ,look very foolish if `the
devoted thousands -of hours and tons of Porter report was to go unheeded. If,
.report papers p p to Ontario's needs, both by ' chright
present
Hydro' : officials ore
present and future, "-for electrical and we wake up some cold morning in
energy, has -finally come out with its 'the winter -of '85 with frozen feet we will
last words • o.....the-� subject. Ontario not have any fond memories`" of • Dr.
Hydro has been told to "hold it". No Porter and his• commissioners• But
more power " lines 'or ._generating that's where we stand- in this hot
facilities, at least for the present. summer of '79.
The farmers who have been fighting Public opinion will generally agree
. -.__-Pow.er_corridors -_are.deli hted;t„..which..the_re oxt..wotald_
planners are distressed. Chairman place on Hydro' expansion. Hydro rates
Taylor of the Ontario Hydro Power have risen sharply and .with, good
Commission says the stop work order is„ reason. Fidel for thermal generating
going to cripple his e soration's plants has been bounced upward in cost
future • obligations. The v.ting and at the same rate as gasoline for our
paying public, of course, has • not cars, Nuclear generators use less
forgotten the disclosures of a couple of costly fuel but their capital cost for
months back 'which revealed the, fact construction is.staggering. Add to those
that Hydro already .has more self-evident facts the further one that
generating capacity than it can fully over the year -s I-fydro has been less
use - despite• its advertisin campaign 'than openly 'communicative' about its
aimed'.. at .'conservation .. o electrical projects_and their cost -and -you have�a'
energy. • . typical case of public mistrust.
Who to believe? At the moment all we The wisdom or folly of the Porter
can do is go along with, the side that has Commission's decision may not be
the most clout. After placing the entire known for quite' a` few years to come.
-natter in they• hands of a royal- corn- . Perhaps' our children will be the final,
irr iorrands errdin -m-anY-milions+J•urors:..=from•th-e•%W g
ham • ,-Advance -
dollars
on endless hearings, govern- Times.
Our own backyard
After viewing the opening per-
formance at the Blyth Summer
Festival's fifth season last Friday
night,_ there is ,•little doubt in this
writer's 'mind that. area residents are
treated to some of -the best -theatre in
Canada, if not North America.
Having seen theatre productions in
Stratford, Toronto, and London,
England, . this agent is throughly
convinced that Canadian theatre
doesn't have to play second fiddle to
anyone, including • the : prestigious
British Theatre. .
The talented writers, actors and
directors at . Blyth, nearly all home
grown,. would be equallly at home on
any stage in the world, and Canadians
should. be proud of them: At the same
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time, this vast talent pool of Canadian
artists has had to fight one of the most •
hostile arts environments in the world,
and a populace that is so apathtic that
it elevates American TV• pap to a
pedestal.
And even a proud of
only a few ive born
rea people can be
of the many nal
' professionals like Blyth director James
Roy, actor Ted Johns, and producer
Paul Thompson .whose nan•ies have
already become legends in their Own
It's almost unbe•lievaj le that such
outstanding theatre would be right here
in our own backyard, and it's even..
more incredible that only a quarter of
the people have been to'see a play.
remembering
our past
a look through
the news -record files
5 YEARS AGO More than 400 flocked to the CFB Clinton
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— __.. --June .27, .1.9? ' .Pro t -e, s-ta-n•t _- C h-ap-e I._..._ ._G..i,l.,d' a� - •an -n u l
A•chlorine spill -at Clinton's new sewage strawberry social and bazaar last week. The
treatment plant on Victoria Terrace is still crowds came, despite the rain, to eat the
under investigation, but no injury was delicious fruit with short -cakes and cream. '
reported following theti'leakage of the highly 25 YEARS AGO '" .
toxic gas. July 1, 1954...-. • / •
The chlorine gas, which is used to kill Have you noticed the Library Parks tely,
• harmful '!bacteria in the outgoing treated truly a prettier bit of green we have yet to
sewage water,` leaked"frem a pin -sized hole see. We'll never get, tired of looking at the
from one of about 20'tanks that are stored at pretty silver fountain, anjl;the sparkly spray
the plant.. 'as it fal•IS through the sunlight. •
Over 125 neighbors, friends and relatives .. , To be used asp a cattle barn the Bayfield •
attended the open house in Auburn last Fall Fair this .year, ;this large building is.
Saturday• to honor Mr. and. Mrs, Norman being moved into a new location by volun-'
:McDowell. on the occasion of their 40th teering members of the :Fa-ir-board,, and.
-wedding anniversary. persons._interested in promoting the fair,
- The Clinton Antique Auction Sale is -set to ..They are -doing the -,job' early so that the
this coming Saturday, Sunday and Monday, •grounds -might be -' clear and: tidy for the
but unless organizers of the event get more Bayfield Lions Frolic which will be held this
• participation, the Centennial project will be summer. '
litt e more than a token event, t Work is progressing on construction of the
10 YEARS AGO: new $185,000' bridge `spafining the Maitland
.... June 2fi,`„1 6.0 ...... ,: s - 12` Ve•.r.'rrear-A'uburn
After 28 years and 2,058 babies; 59 year old The bridge will replace the old one built
Dr. J. Alex Addison will see his last patient over 90 years ago.
tomorrow. On On the weekend, the com-
munity
This is a ---big year for Auburn in many
and district he served. for'nearly ways. At the end of this month the villagers
three decades said a grand. thank -you with a are celebrating the 100th year since Auburn
party and dance for more than 700 persons or ')Manchester” as it was known then, was •
in the Community Centre. . fou riled.
The general practjtionerconceded that he ,SQ,XEARS,ACrO
has beefed about being busy, but said,. "I June 27, 1929
wouldn't have had it any other way. I don't The Wesley Willis United Church will be
think I would be happY if I were not busy," -' opened)iorl Sunday: The former edifice was
Don Messer and his fiddle, Marg Osburne, destroyed by fire June 2lst 1928, and has'
Charlie Chamberlain and the rest of the cast been rebuilt On the same site, using the
of Don's CBC -TV show drew°a--record crowd same foundation and walls.
of more than 1,700 to Clinton's Community Hatchway 'lirile. Most men prefer Hat -
Centre last Thursday. The performance chway to any other kind of Underwear, Once
here was sponsored jointly by the you .slip intoy• ur first ,suit you will un -
Recreation Committee and the Legion.: derstand the ,1 ason ' why. Hatchway is •
Branch i40. • , . / buttonless. It s'i •s off or on in a flash.
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Rev, Grant Mills ofOntarioStreet Hatchway is comfortable., 1t has no con -
United Church in Clinton ordered a piano, , straining belt, lir waistband to get hot or
recently, but he didn't have to pay for it.. rumple up. Hatchway is cool. It hangs free
Members of the church congregation from the shotiders, allowing air to circulate
heard about the piano purchase and- *ceded all around th b 'dy.
to buy it for him as a going away present. If this bar Alegged fad persists, we
Mr. Milts conducted his last service in tremble for the future of our two knitting
town last Sunday and is' soon to leave' for a factories. But' what girl' in her right senses
newly organized pastorate at Thamesview would go bare -legged if she could have to
Fullarton United Church, six miles south of wear a pair of"*earwell of Harris -Knit silk
Mitchell. hose of pleasing shade?
The Prince ,_f Wales' peonies in Library
Park were abi tknfor the Prince's birthday
on Sunday last, Sune 23rd. •
76 YEARS AGO
'June 30, 1904
It is expected that the new Constance post
Many happy returns
Had a birthday the other day.
Nobody remembered it except me, my
wife, ancL...the North- American Life
Assurance Company.
1, because I was one year •older and
not• dead yet. Mx wife for roughly the
same •-reason;' And the insurance
• •company likewise:...They don't have. •to• •
pay off that thousand dollars, and can
go on investing, at huge interest rates,,.
that $12 annual_ _prernium my mother
made me take out when I was sixteen.
-We all reacted differently. The in-
surance company sent- me a 30 -cent
birthday card, signed by a guy 1 never
heard of.•He's aboutthe eighth"agent
who has wished me a happy birthday,
over the , past "four decades. I've
probably outlived -•the other seven.
My wife, at a loss to buy a gift for the
man who has everything, 'bought me a
stapler. -Very good. I. am constantly
coming home with masses of essays to
mark, none 'of them stapled together.
As a consequence, I am constantly
getting. pages of one student'sessay
mixed in with ages, --'.of . another
t enc-'-s-essa essay,' disc`ombobulatin
s ud y, g
results.
For example, on page 4 of Joe's
essay,•• --he finds w=ritten, "Well said,
on
Linda, An excellent parallel ' And n P
page 7 of Linda's essay, she might find,
"Right to the point, Joe." •
It is embarrassing, confusing, and
stupid: Now, with tea.... stapler, 'their
essays will be all in one piece, though
it's quite,. possible they will^dine, apiece
bf finger -skin stapled to -the essay. I'm
-hot much good . with . cam lel ated
g. p.
niahirier ,
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Not to be outdone o '
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birth
da
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bolt ht myself aPhesent.ecottple of
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fair belts of a' wel Aknowb arthritis
relieVer' It comes in.' i brown paper
bag, arid, thaxks to a greedy
.romeda
government, is a leader in the "inflation
rate.
The card was innocuous. The stapler
didn't do much harm either, except for
the two staples I put into my thumb
while trying- it out. A little thumb -
sucking, not• at all an unpleasant ac-
tivity, cu -r --ed that. • • t'
It .was my own present that did the
damage. Carried away by _:a, flood of
birthday sentimentality and Mall; "1
decided to take my daughter., grand
s'onsTand•••wife on a.trip this summer.
1 felt a warm flood of kinship or
something, and made up my rrii'iid:fiiat
was going to visitmyki,n,,.-folk, •show
off my clever and beautiful °daughter to
aunts and things who haven't seen her
since she was in diapers, and proudly
pacrade my grandbbys, to great-aunts,
second cousins, and anyone ,else who
would look at them, or put up, with
tjie rrI .'"
This wasn't -so bad. It's not far nidior
weird to take'your mob :fora camping-
Vxsiting trip. At the :time, it seemed a
great idea. Even my old lady was luke-
warmly interested. My daughter was
excited: The boys were ecstatic.- •
Ah,, yes. A sweep down and around •
old° Ontario. Through Algonquin Park,
camping .and the. bears and deer and
hooligans: Visit my niece at Pembroke,
who hada -ad the right age, ffVe. Dig
out old recluse "Don M Ct ai • at Ren-
frew and catch -shine trout inii`sP ond.
Across the Ottawa River at Portage du
Fort, and. a visit to theix.:.,..gr'eat:.'
r m t er s horn--•-s'ttin - err ~'' n
g and o h e�• 1 g
island, high above the river.
• Drop in on their great.Incle Ivan, at
his beautiful rustic .retreat on Calumet
I'sland.. Then to Green Lake, on the
Quebec side,,,where L spent. my happiest
childhood summers. !Down• alof g the
river -to Ottawa, and cousins galore.
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Maybe dre itin J`oe Clarkand d ive
P:e give
him i tijs ortwo, Then to Perth, where.
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,grew up, . I'
Show the boy's, the swiminin !place,
fothere' wen px'!-ie's,.tho park, whe('e T
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kissed girls, the sandpit where I had
my first- smoke, the old Presbyterian
manse where I- learned to swear (from
listening to my father, ear against the
pipe, as he cursed the furnace).
Then a swing down to the St'
Lawrence Seaway,, see anothersister,
and then the•long swing home, camping,
and cooking out, and, detouring. to
things like Niagara Falls, the weekly
newspapers' convention in Toronto, the
Stratford Festival, and any , zoos or
points of interest along the way:.
....Now, I didn't say all these things. But
they are starting to -build exp: - ' - - -
What began -as a germ, a one-week
-swing through: the Ottawa Talley, has
turned into p three-week Grand Tour.
My..first, thought was scrounging -on
relatives,, with the odd night in motel
rooms'. A modest trip. Then I began to
realize that two motel.rooms would be
at least $50 a night. And -also that five of
US can't come crashing in -tin some poor
aunt who has one spare bed•rroom.
I'm _.-_too..,old...for tenting .on the _.old•
camp -ground, ,with an insomniac wife
and two kids who would be pulling out
the tent -pegs as fast. as I drove them.
And things that go bump in the night.
So the answer seems to be Scamper, .
one of those great, ugly things that
pollute the highways and drive other'
drivers crazy. • •.. -
`That's .going fo be a couple of hun-
dred blacks a week, plus grub and gas
and everything that goeswith it. It's
groin"g':'to cost me more than a trip to
Europe,, 1 sh,oulda stood in bed on my
bi.r..thday
-office will be ready for Monday next.'
•We are-cr.edi-tably--in€ormed--that 10 of
Auburn's young ladies will, during the next
few moh.thg enter the married. tate.
Th' local. banks for some time .have been
keeping their doors open ` for _ business
Saturday afternoons, but they now announce
that they will in,the future•r'close at one p.m,.
sharp on that day, the year round:
Miss Stanley. will be "At Home" at the
Rattenbury House at the 1st and 3rd Wed-
, nesday_s fo each month.
• Ernest Rumball,'an employee .of
McKenzie:s Factory, was scalded in the face,
on
Monday -,While cleaning the boiler. ,
The Bandon school. annual picnic • took
place in Hullett Township on Friday last, in.
Mr. John Al•lin's beautiful grove. The games
were more attractive than ` usual as the
number of new features were introduced,
including a needle rrace, a book race 'and a
three- legged race.
100•YEARS AGO,
July.3, 1879
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Dear Editor, • ,-
know you are going to doubt the
veracity of 'rny account of a situat},on
that oceurred recently.' I, too, would
doubt its authenticity„ if I had not been
thefe in person; esmigtly irrwhat-we -:
call a democratic country.
It May be that the agents of corn- -
munism are having their .effect.
Education isnot the only wall of life on •
which they are making inroads; but •it
is one of the most fruitful.
This time, it was a meed_per,
educational representatives to.4iscuss•.
the educationalpolicies we -wished
implemented in our schools.
We -were- all -in -formed ahead_ of time.
that it' was .a verydefinite ruling of
these, our educational representatives,
thaf any one or any ;roup wishing to
bring about any” innovation, must first
present a `brief', in which they outlined
their proposed plat of change. This -
seemed reasonable°, at least on the
surface.
There- were two groups who had'- -
repres,entatives present, at this par-.
ticular Meeting, 'which was op Jure 4 of '
this year. The first, a representative of
'the hired', who, by . the way, had'
neglected to submit his `brief' ahead of
time,[, was granted a hearing with no
hesitancy, and presented his petition at
some, considerable length., It was a
matter .of asking for an extra `grant'
l and it was granted then and there'. -- '
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That was ' a very important point.
For, after listening for an.hour to other
matters of . business, . which did not
• concern` them
and another ' 20 or 30
Just - before' the torch -light -procession minutes for a much needed • coffee -
,,_ went up Albert Street -on -Dominion Day, a break, and then another half + hour or
team attached to aT1t1 cr` wagon-; that-twas---•'mo're-of-the same -other -business; when--
'standing in front •of Swartz's hotel, ran the promised�Jl15 minutes rcould.not ...be
away. Mr. Paisley, happening to be in the put off an ``longer, when the group
immediate vicinity, started in pursuit and • concern•dad not. given up and gone
overtook them near the top of the hill, and`
then climbed in the wagon The reins were Home as had b . n expected, and hoped,
fortunately in the wagon, and Mr. Paisley that they would,` the meeting was
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The second, a representative ors 'the
Hiring', who had presented a 'brief' a
week or so ahead of the time of the
meeting, was granted, (grudgingly, a
limited, time ,to read this:`brief'. But
then, rathe'r;,than going into the matter
in more.detail at that tim, 15 minutes
was promised later in the day to
discuss this matter more thoroughly.
It was stressed -that the absolute limit
of this discussion would be 15 minutes,
and also that it would be the privilege
of anyone to take' -- part in. this
discussion: •
soon brought them to a halt, thrown open to asking and answering
A -person in town, under medical treat- , questions.
ment, tooly no less than,, 80 ` drops of
laudanum to induce sleep,but even this
large quantity was not effectual. Ten drops
is considered an ordinary dose.
It is reported around that last week a
certainm-an in town, actuated by jealoisy
threatened to cut his wife's throat, and 'then
his own, fear of the threat being executed,
caused the woman to leayedtbehouse.
It is reported that ip/131yth, salt has been
struck here at -a, dep'fh of 1,125 feet.. So far
seven feet of so1T'd salt rock ha_s been gone
through.
The -practice of throwing waste paper on
the�streets,'or of sweeping them out of the
'store doors, is a very bad one. -and should be
avoided by everyone. It 'not unfrequently
happens that horses are frightened by paper
flying about the streets when there is a wind,
while the litter they make becomes 'a public
nuisance.
Our thanks are due. Mrs. H. Elford, of
Holmesville, for a basket , of the most
magrj.i'ficent strawberries; the ladies know •
how to keep on the right side of the editor.
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Two of the 25 representatives of the
• tax paying parents asked two questions
of our educational board, neither of
which was answered.-
-The rem-aining minutes of the.
allotted 15 were used up by Mr.
Frayne, one., of the members of the
board, in a filibuster. And then, of
course, no one else was permitted to
Make any further remarks.
Thisas the situation ' that I, too, -
would {lever have believed could .
happenY in a ,democratic country by a ' ,
group of hired servants. I trust it is not
common and will not be repeated.
One who would have dotibtedr such -
communistic procedure in a
democratic country,
Lloyd Barth,
- -Blyth.
Lost and Aund
On a trip -West last year, my friend,
Joan was diver, while I a ted as
navigator. In spite of being lost._ =few
times, Joan agreed to a similar -
arrangement for a trip to the east coast
this year. ,
When an acquaintance of mine, who
knows my- tendency • for confusion,
depend on _ the sun fo'r' direction; it
deserted me in a hurry several times.
In Halifax, Jo.an and I picke�d up a
city map at -a tourist information
bureau. On. the map' was marked
"public' gardens," which-seeme'd like a
good place to • relax and looked as
though it would•l.e easy to find.
After driving in circles for half an
hour, we parked the car and walked:'.I
soon gave up, but Joan kept going until
heard the news, he remakred, "Well, I she spotted a shady area enclosed by a
guess we won't be seeing you for a high wrought iron fence. It was - a
While." cemetery. '
I wrote enough columns to cover the 'Feeling a little dejected, we. left the
planned, tvvo-week vacation .plus two .city and- headed up the Nova Scotia
extra ones in case my friend's y. coast toward Peggy's ogre:- When we
prediction came true. returned to Halifax t e, next. day,' we
I - surprised myself with my map tried again to fin gardens and this
reading- and direction findingabilities. time -we were successful. It was well
We were only•lost two or three times. worth the trouble.
Once- •was in Saint-. John, New In a city somewhere in Quebec, the
Brunswick, where we spent half a day police had blocked' the -main -highway
looking for the Reversing --Falls. Wet, because oaf a fire. The lady in the car
found them once but didn't realize it. ahead ' of. us •:spoke, briefly to the
An attendant at a gas station sent us policeman. Although, neither Joan nor -I•
back, and when we finally stood understood French, we thought the
overlooking the Falls, Joan's only lady looked a's though she knew. where
'Comment was "Is that all there is?'.' she was going and we decided to follow
Incidentally, 'the drive along the. __ ,her. .
winding Sd'int John River Is b•eautiftxl, •. She took its around corners left -and
unless you.find _-yaurs,elf doing it in the right, up hills and down hills, through
middle of ah hailstorm.
the traffic lights and stop signs, around
As 'a navigator, I soon learned not to curves and into the heart of a sub-
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"Oh, oh," we moaned. "What if she's
just going home for lunch?,What will
we
we do if she pulls into a driveway? How
do we get outt•a here?"
Fortunately, just b ►fore panic set in,
she led us back to the main,highway on
the other side of the barricade. We'll
always be indebted to her.
I have a few , tips for would-be
navigators. Don't try to drive-through
Montreal , at rush hour. Don't try to
drive •dirough"Mo iffeardiaftig'a-sform: • • "•
Better yet, 'don't try to drive through-
Montreal at all. '
On the way to the coast, we missed
the Montreal rush hour and let the flow
of traffic take us through the city on the
Trans Canada. Highway. On the way
back, we_missed-the'"•rush hour again
but hit the city at the same time as an
electrical and wind storm. Joan made a
quick exit, and we took refuge in a
shopping mall. When the storm abated,
we set out to find Joan's'aurit's house..
I thou§ht we were doing fine, until I
realized we had passed the last exit -off
a street that was taking us through a
tunnel and across a river which we did
not want to cross.
, "Don't worry;", .I,.asstt-re'dJoitti as I
quickly scanned the map;- "there are
three bridges to.choose from to take us •
back."
What I didn t unt on was cone
Get gull. licexise. before hunting, OPP says struction that hackone b`rldge�closed, an
Dear Editor: disappointed hunters iii September..
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Now is tha:,time to think about' getting""The number* of a plications for An FAC i valid for five ear
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firearms ac � u 'sition certificate if you firearms acquisition certificates u to •alloWs the •holder to .acquire arty'
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expected," s i "tivin _
expec , • says Ozyl;ar o �x clal
are going to be buying or borrowing a the present time is much lower t
g huttitg season.
un for the...,,
AS it is idle al for anyone o sell or Police staff sergeant Don Jones of the
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loan a firearm to p ch p a 1 f`,;a
have the FAO, ,their ,,could bb some Getting a certificate now could save a
.nufnber of gun's,' y
M. Cane,
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Inspector,
..•.i Mr the DIreetor
Community Services Branch:
-.. accident that had--the'-second blocked
• and traffic had the third one
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jammed. At least, the traffic jam gave'
us time to figure out where we were,,
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