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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-08-16, Page 4PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS„ -RECORD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1979 T,he Cllnton'Neww.rs,Record is published each' Thursday at P,0. Box 39, Clinton, Ontario, Canada. NOM 11.0. Mer. ror.Ontarl,oWeekly NewspaPer Association It cs registered as second class mall by 'thsi 1 Emit afflce under the Perini* number 6917, The News.Record incorporated in 1920 the Huron News•Record, founded in 10111. and. The Clinton New Era, founded In 1003. Total press run 3.300. Clinton News -Record Mer!I,bel" Cgnadl911- Community Newspaper Association Dlsplq advertising rotas ,,ovallable on request. Ask for ' Rota Card No. 9 effective Oct. 1, 197/. General Manager • J. Howard Aitken 3dltor.• ,lames E. Fitzgerald Advertising Director • Gary L. Hale News editor- Shelley McPhee Office Manager • Margaret GIitb Circulation • Freda McLeod Subscription Rate: Canada -'14.00 per year Sr. citizen •'12 per year U.S.A. & foreign • '30 per year ^-'""AAS Worthy crack down' Police and concerned citizens alike are pleased with Huron County Judge William Cochrane`s decision to crack down on drinking and driving in the county and hope it will end the terrible loss of life and destruction of property. Huron County leads the province in many things including being one of the top agricultural producing areas in Canada, but one area we are not proud to lead in is alcohol con- sumption. That's. right, Huron residents drink more booze, per capita than any other county in Ontario, and Much of that is done in connection with driving. Constable Bill Wilson of the Ontario Provincial Police . department in Goderich rertorted that already inthe first seven months of this year, 15 people have died on Huron's roads, compared with 12 last year, and many of those accidental deaths\had alcohol involved. Not including accidents in town, there have been 544 accidents in- vestigated by the provincial police up until the end of July, compared to 48] last year for the same time. The police and the courts are hoping the doubling of liquor and noise fines will cut this. accident total, and keep alive mRre of our citizens. Although hopefully the increased fines will keep the drunk drivers off the road, there seems to be little we can do about the increasing abuse of alcohol in Huron, and the devJasta.•ting effects on its abusers and those family and friends around them. P a rememberirig our pas t 5 YEARS AGO August 8, 1974 For the second time this year, the Clinton Police Department was broken into and one of their .38 cal. revolvers was stolen. The break-in occurred early Sunday morning and thieves gained entry by smashing the wooden door frame of the office. They pried open three police Lockers, but only took Chief Lloyd Westlake's revolver. Chief Westlake said that the lockers also contained another handgun, a rifle and a shotgun, along with stolen goods seized by police. From what we've heard, there will likely be a lot of red eyes at the Middleton Church this weekend as the young people. of the Anglican Church are staging a wake- a-thon to raise money. The youngsters hope to stay wide 'awake for 48 hours. Summer school was good move In recent years, the educational system has been under considerable. pressure and one of the maincharges had been that students have lost much of their desire to successfully fulfill the .opportunities provided for them. The blame for part of that attitude has been placed on the teachers. Well, it would appear that both sides have been partially vindicated in the fact that 190 students from Huron enrolled in the summer school trial program at CHSS in Clinton to improve their standings. In view of carefully the costs involved and the the length of time students and ratio of success attained by the , parents. had to°consider the op- students, they musty recognize that the portunity,' It 'Would appear to be' a • ttial had some "limiting factors and successful trial. Summer school principal Doug Ellison --has already indicated he will would appear to be worth another attempt. , The students -who have shown, the recommend that the program con- desire to improve their scholastic tinue next summer, pointing out that standing while their contemporaries he would expect the numbers to in- are enjoying summer in more normal crease through earlier planning and ways are to be commended for their promotion. initiative. (from the Exeter Times - While the board will have to assess .. Advocate) " 61 here clo 1 plug in the electric blanket?'' They'll then probably sleep for a week. after it's all over. High winds last Sunday and Monday raised large waves in Lake Huron and gobbled up hundreds of feet of shoreline. At Dr. Frank Newland's cottage, file miles north of Bayfield, about 15 feet of shqreline disappeared under the waves leaving the cottage only 20 feet :from the water's edge. The lake shows little sign of receeding and cottagers are fearful that a winter storm will sweep some cottages.into the lake. 10 YEA -RS AGO August 7, 1969 Paintings along with sculptures of wood and plasticine and wire and wood drew large crowds last Wednesday and Thur- sday evenings, when the third children's art show took place in Bayfield. Held in the Town Hall, the show con- tained almost 100 exhibits attractively displayed. Miss Greta Lammie of Hensall is the winner of two prizes in the Canadian National Exhibition women's division handicrafts competition. Hers were among 750 prize-winning items which are •now on exhibit at the CNE's Better Living Centre. roads &rider pre sed into firefighting r ice rn tfa rley'Township Monday was - S,:wx. - Y. J 'Wen •a Targe part of die cred if•for stopping flames. which threatened 80 acres of grain on the 2nd concession, farm of Jack McGregor, RR 5, Clinton. Both the\grader; owned and operated by Gordon Heard of RR 5, Seaforth, and the Brucefield fire brigade fought the fast- moving blaze' which blackened more than three acres of standing grain. 25 YEARS AGO. August 12, 1954 Good news again of Fred1Sloman. One of his stories already purchased by Maclean's and published by them has been bought now by the Ford Times. The story? Well, of course, it was the one about the car, the couple and the licence numbers. The Ford publication has asked for more of the same. And from another quarter, a bit of news especially for Tom. Leppington. -.Apparently some folk in Clinton do take care of their dogs, at times to their own expense. There- was the story of the gen- tleman who rode downtown with his two dogs and found that car needed some lengthy treatment at the garage. He still had some shopping to do and had forgotten a leash. What to do with the dogs? Why the gentleman called a taxi and the canines rode home in state. The gentleman completed his shopping and went home on foot. That is a case of living up to the letter as well as the spirit of the dog bylaw. 50:YEARS AGO August 8, 1929 The Londesboro WI picnic to Bayfield last Thursday was a decided successin every way. The lake breezes were rather cool, but the young people enjoyed themselves playing bail and running races, over 200 being present to enjoy the ample picnic lunch. Warning to motel- car drivers, carry your licenses. The Highway Traffic Act requires that every person operating a motor vehicle shall secure an operator's or chauffeur license •and shall at all times The oasis Almost every day in the summer I - drop in at The Oasis, as I think of it. I• know, I know. Nasty -minded readers are already thinking it's some kind of watering -hole for dry old Bill Smiley. One of those air- conditioned bars that are so dark you can'tsee a thing for five minutes and have to count your change by the Braille system. Not so. I strongly dislike those joints. Most of them • are dark and dirty and stink. They have a'few poor, lonely souls who have nowhere else to go, and very often a construction gang or a road gang, noisy and b,eer- swilling and profane, sousing it up on the company's time. Nope. I avoid those places like the plague. The Oasis is nothing like that. t doesn't have a braying television set, foul-mouthed roisterers and cold - eyed waitresses. It's just the opposite. True,it is air-conditioned. But not the kind that makes you wish you were .wearing a fur coat after -five minutes. • And true, it is not brightly lighted. But there is enough light to see what you are imbibing, count your change without using your fingertips, and read a book or a,newspaper, And that's exactly what I do there, and why I think of it as The Oasis, It's a charming little place to stop and refresh oneself, • to cool out and meditate a bit, and gossip and just plain, sip, before plunging back out into the desert of life. What The Oasis provides for the wandering bedouins who stop there is a little peace and quiet. It has none of the plastic jazz of the ,chain ,hamburger and. submarine joints. But it has a number of the things those places can never offer: charm, friendliness, good manners, courtesy. The eustomers are not made to'feel that the tna>nag meat -is doing them a favour by serving there. They are greeted warmly, they are served quickly and d ef� Cp anti . and they aree thanked grad usl WHO they leave even Ithougl •they"ve Spetit only thirty cents and taken up a seat for half an hour. How many public places to eat and drink are there like that in this country? You could count them without taking your socks off. Sure,' we have fancy restaurants in. this country where you can pay $50 for a so-so dinner for two, and be patronized by the wine waiter. An.,d we have eleventy-seven thousand snack bars and lunch bars and grills where everything tastes the same. But we have scarcely any places like The Oasis. It's not much, physically. Just a half dozen or so tables in the back of a store. Very much like the sort of tearoom you, can still find in England, if you get off the beaten trek. The menu varies little, but there's a good soup du jour, good coffee and hot tea, fresh -made sandwiches, and a lot of goodies that are baddies for the many little old ladies and all the vulnerable young ladies who frequent it: home-made pies, butter tarts, muffins loaded with calories. Part of the fun, for me, is sitting there getting a jolt from my coffee and listening in. "Just a pot of tea,. thanks. Well what are you going to have, Ida? you are? Well, _what kind do you have? Well, maybe just. a square of pineapple cake, And just- one butter tart to get ,started on." And half an hour later, those gentie ladies are walking out with about six hundred calorites they didn't need. Each. Even when The Oasis is busy, there is no sweat. No barking of orders. No getting cross. There's time to laugh and joke with old customers, be pleasant to new ones, and make sure nobody is being neglected. I've watched tourists come in, a -little uneasy because they're not used to such informality. They tentatively order soup and a sandwich, find them excellent, wind up with a whacking great piece of pie, 'pray a modest bill, and go out looking •as though they couldn't believe what had `happened to them. It's ,. u place that brin .s u the pa a g out t deScan in ti c.�rtrn • islimited S eo le p g ,The other people, r people Walked to day, 1'r u p ale• wal ed land there wasn't a table 'for fourr. u young icouple, with a babe in arms, offered to move to a table for two that had just been vacated, transferring their food, utensils and baby. The newcomers were so shocked they could scarcely say thanks. Very often, The Ticket -Seller is there. He sells tickets on every lottery you've ever heard of. He loves children and jokes and talks to the little guys in The Oasis. He drinks a coffee, displays his tickets, usually selling one or two, and hits the street. The Calumnist.observes. Two teenagers grab a table. The Columnist listens. "So, I said to him, not on your life." Giggles. "So, guess • what he says?" Giggles. And so on. Despite what my wife thinks, I am not enamoured of the lady who runs The Oasis, though she does have a beautiful face, figure" and walk. In fact, she doesn't walk. She sashays. I am in love with a little place of sanity, sense and serenity in this increasingly ugly world. while driving carry the same. A penalty is provided for failure to produce such licenses when demanded by an officer. This law has been passed in the interests of -safe driving and to prevent incompetent persons from operating motor vehicles. The production of a license is the only proof of ownership of one. A very enjoyable time was spent last Thursday afternoon when the patrons of Holmesville Co-operative Cheese and Butter factory and their, friends held their annual picnic at the pretty 'little spot "Maitland Dale" which has recently been improved for such purposes by Mr. William Connell of Clinton. The afternoon was spent in races by the children "nd grown-ups. A very exciting tug-of-war was ptil'led between the milk patrons and -the cream patrons, captain for milk, Bert Lobb, captain for cream, Reuben Grigg. The milk patrons winning the prize. 75 YEARS AGO August 11, 1904 Commencing yesterday a tri -weekly mail service will operate between Clinton and Summerhill on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. An automobile went through here on Tuesday, something new for Auburn. Mt. • Henry Rau at St. Joseph has a spring chicken, that has four legs and it is doing well. Henry was offered $5 for it but will not sell it for less that $10. Wanted - a good smart intelligent boy to learn the telephone operating and jewellery business. Rumball and Co. An amendment was made in the Municipal Act at the last session of the Legislature, one clause of which will prevent considerable trouble. Candidates for offices of mayor, reeve, controller, councilman, water commissioner in cities, towns and incorporated villages are required to file with the•clerk a declaration of qualification by noon on the day' of nominations. The change in the law will do away with the indiscriminate nominations so often made at nomination meetings. 100 YEARS AGO August 14, 1879 On Friday evening last some con- temptible wretch hurled a large piece of brick through the glass front door of W.C. Searle, Mayor. It is supposed to have been done out of spite. Recently the Mayor received a letter from a Zurich watchmaker, offering to place an eight day clock in the cupola of the market building, warranted to keep good time and strike as loud as the bell would bear., for the sum of $200. In view of the many burglaries of private houses occurring all over the country, an exchange sensibly suggests that pedlars of small wares should not be allowed to enter private dwellings at all for this reason: - The majority -of them carry stuff which they do not wish to sell, and only enter private dwellings at all, for the purpose of seeing how they are eqnstructed in order to accomplish an act of theft in the night. The stores are always are the cheapest place in the end to buy from. The regular established business is the proper establishment to do business. We have ho confidence whatever in Street pedlars of any description, and the most of them are nothing more or less than a band of rogues. Where's H2 o gone 'Water, water everywhere and-ne'er a drop to drink. The old saying doesn't' seem as absurd as it once did. We are using the same water today that was used at the beginning of time. We aren't running out of water, but we seem to be running out of common sense as we pollute the liquid at'a tremendous rate. • + With 20,000 chemicals on . the market now and 500 .new ones in- troduced each year, it's .impossible to know what we're drinking when we turn on the tap. Herbicides on pasture lands draining into 'lakes, rivers and streams' is only one means of pollution. Some people dislike the taste of chlorine, but in many cases, we shouldn't worry as much about the chemicals we know are in the water as we should about the ones we don't know, While the development 'and use of chemicals grow, concerned 'people - are searching for ways to protect themselves from impurities in the water. - A filter on a faucet screens some chemicals, but no._..mesh .. is small enough ,to stop all of them. Bacteria collects inside the filter, until the flow of water pushes some of them through. It is ther"efore essential to watch the filter closely and to replace it when it is no longer doing its job. People will drive for miles to a spring - a _place where pure water wells up before it has a chance to come in contact with pollutants. They haul the drinking water home in bottles and jugs, but as time goes by, springs become more difficult to find. Next to spring water, the purest water is distilled. Distillation is the process of turning water to vapour by Heating it, condensing it with cold and calle he liquid. ctin f! t g q 1�(If you're pick un1ng an old shonor in e hilly; with its chiPmey st i kin and r•t:lt•grandlanpy sitting oh a' rock t , •out front with a shotgun cradled in one arm and a jug of moonshine under the other, you've got the wrong idea.) A gallon of distilled water sells for about $1. An average small family uses four gallons a day for drinking and cooking. $4 a day soon adds up, and many families are choosing to 'buy a home,' distillery as an economical alternative. A unit for an average small family costs ap- proximately $400. Some distilleries can be hooked into the water line, but in apartments, small countertop units are more practical., Some sophisticated machines cool the distilled water, and a drink of cold purified water is always on • tap. Of course, the more frills a consumer wants the more he has to pay, and most settle for a simple version "of the purifying method. Ironic isn't Man s to invert a adhIne to purify ni p rfy the water, er, which he polirted with the chemicals he • acv loped in the name of progress. Not invaders Dear Editor: • To the parties who feel they are invaded by easterners (Vanastra Voice, August 9) : In response to your statement in last Week's News -Record, I feel as an eastern Canadian that I should clarify the word "invade" for you.'To invade means to enter with or as with hostile intent, las for conquering or plum- dering. , As civilized people returning home from vacation, I cannot see where we have invaded anyone. Those of you who feel you have been invaded should, check your roots: Perhaps some of you have eastern blood running through your veins. We have listened to your stupid remarks and sick jokes for years, and now you accuse us of invasion. Each province is a part of Canada, and as Canadian adults, we should set an example for our children of the future. If some choose to be 'prejudiced against • their own Canadian fellowmen, what can we expect from them in the future? I'm sure the majority of easterners stand by me when I say, "Yes we had a good vacation and we never heard one Ontario joke while we were there." People have better things to do with their time down there. And to think I told my• mother what nice neighbors we had. Signed, One of the eastern invaders Leave him alone Dear Editor: On Aug. 2 your paper ran the death notice of Steven Truscott's father. Fine, all well and good, but did you have to go back and remind the people why Steven Truscott was imprisoned? Is the young boy charged with the murder of the 16 -year-old jogger going to be tried as an adult? Are his parents going to have to go through -hell like the Truscotts? Truscott has done his time and is married and making a new life for himself ; he even had to change • his name. I suspect for the very reason that the people- and the news media won't leave him alone. I still firmly believe he's innocent. Furthermore, I can't recall any other convicted murderer getting publicity after they've done their time like Truscott has. Please let society leave him alone. G. Garnett London Story well done Dear Editor: I would like to take this time to thank Shelley McPhee for writing the article on the Junior Agriculturalist Program. The article was very well written as was evidenced by not only the article, but also by the many favourable comments I received about it. Thank you once again for your time and effort. I very 'much appreciate your help in promoting the program. Yours truly, . Laura Hansen, Junior Agriculturalist Co-ordinator, Clinton. Do you have an opinion? ihy not write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. 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