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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1979-10-04, Page 4PAGE 4 77cLINTOI,s,1 NgVirS-RECORD„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER44 , 1979 The Clinton Newa-itacord is published each Thurs441, el P.O. Box PP., Clinton, Ontario, Canada, NOM 110. Member, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association It is registered as alH0Pdclots moil by the post office Under the permit number 1011. The flevo.flecor.0 incerpproted In 1924 fh4 Huron Fiew?•Record. founder/ in 111111. and'The Clinton New Ero, founded in 1042. Total pre!, run 3,300. eiA Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Display advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rat* Card No. 10 effective Sept. 1.1979 • General Manager • J. Howard Aitken Editor • James 0 Fitzgerald Advertising Director- Gary L. Halst News editor • Shelley McPhee Office Manager . Margaret Gibb Circulation • Freda McLeod Subscription Rate: Canada '13.00 Sr. Citizen- "13.00 per year • U.S.A. IL foreijin -.30.00 per year • on, Confidence building Next week, October 7 to 13, is National Newspaper week, and recent studies show confidence is building in newspapers. George Gallup released the results of a poll of public confidence in 10 institutions. The .U.S. survey showed that 51 per cent of the people say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers. Only 38 per cent say they have equal confidence in television. Six years ago, the 1973 poll showed newspapers (39 per cent) and television (37 per cent) about equal. Not only did newspapers surge way ahead of television but the 12 per cent improvement was twice ,as large as the greatest improvement in other institutions. (Big business and organized labor both' improved by 6 per cent.) Gallup also said: "Of - particular significance in terms of future trends Tale of woe In recognition of October 7-13 being National Newspaper week, we reprint the following tale of woe from The Fort Qu'Appelle (Sask.) Times about a horrid warning to non -subscriber. "A man who wals too cheap to subscribe to his hometown newspaper, sent his little boy to borrow his neighbor's copy. In his haste the boy ran over an $80 hive of bees and in 10 minutes he looked like a warty squash. His father ran to his assistance, and failing to notice the barbed wire fence, ran into that, cutting a -hole in his anatomy as well as ruining a.pair of $20 trousers. "The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the wife ran out, upset a four - are two groups - persons with a college background and young adults. The survey shows a far larger portion of the college group expressing a high level of confidence in newspapers (50 per cent) than in television (30 per cent)." "Among young adults (18 to 29 years old)," Gallup reported, "57 per cent indicate a high level of con- fidence in newspapers, but far fewer (38 per cent) give television a com- parable vote of confidence." Latest ranking of the 10 key in- stitutions "(per cent saying "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence): 1. The church or organized religion, 65: 2. Banks and banking, 60: 3. The U.S. military, 54: 4. Public schools, 53: .5. • Newspapers, 51: 6. U.S. Supreme Court, 45: 7. Television, 38: 8. Organized Labor, 36: 9. Congress, 34: 10. Big Business, 26. gallon churn of cream into a basket of chicks, drowning the entire batch. In her haste she dropped a $235 set of false teeth, which/ the family dog buried thinking it was , a new type of bone. The "baby, having- been left ' alone, crawled through the spilled cream and into the parlor, ruining a $250 carpet. "During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the ired man, a stray dog broke up 11 setting hens, the calves'got out and chewed the tails off four fine shirts on the clothes line and the cat had a batch of kittens. All this just to save 35 cents. And in this case, the poor guy never did get to read that week's edition. "Don't let this happen to you! Subscribe Today!" sugar andspice War times BOY, the world is in some mess today, isn'tit? With two World wars in this century, and the oceans of blood shed in them, not to mention the limited wars in Korea and Viet Nam, you'd think mankind would come' to its senses, sit back and say, "Hey, chaps. Enough is enough. Let's sit back, cultivate our own gardens, and have a few centuries of peace and friendship. Let's relax a little, try to Make Aire everybody has at least two squares a day, stop burning up irreplaceable energy, and make love, not war." Not a chance. All over this planet people are starving, shooting, burning, blowing up, raking, mutilating, and demonstrating, all in the name of some non-existent ideal, such as freedom, or nationalism, or language, or religion, or color. And nobody is making a nickel out of it all, except the purveyors of weapons. All over the world; in Nast areas of Asia, Africa and South America par- ticularly, there are probably 300 times more refugees, orphans and just plain starving people than there were at the beginning of this century of enlightenment. World War I, ,with• its millions of dead, produced a bare decade and a half of peace. It also signalled the beginning of the end of the fairly fair and benevolent British Empire, allowed the beginning of the massive international communism, and by its punitive peace terms, laid the foun- dations for World War II. That one produced as little, or less. It vaulted Russia and the U.S. into the great confrontation that has been going on ever since. It wrote finis ' to the British Empire and reduced that sturdy people to a drained, im- poverished, third-class power. It split Europe dOWn the middle between two philosoPhies, dOmmuriisni and capitalism. It launched on the world "Relax, we don't have a thing to worry about — we're already broke." remembering our past a look through the news -record files 5 YEARS AGO September.26. 1974 The summer of 1974 was the best evef for the Clinton Kinsmen Raceway ac- cording to figures released this week. In the mutuel. department, a total of $834,090 was bet on the 13 programs, or an average bet of $64,161 per program. Last year, which was a record, $752,560, or $57,889 per program was bet. The weatherman must have his dates mixed up, and thinks this is November instead of September. Snowflurries were sighted in the area Monday morning, and many ardent gardeners, including the editor, were put out of business and forced to hang up our spades as a result of frost on Monday and Tuesday. With a. few snowflurries in the air the temperature in Clinton dipped to the freezing mark, and spotty damage was caused to the area's corn crop, which in some fields is two to three weeks behind in maturity. 10 YEARS AGO September 25, 1969 Harvey C. Johnston, administrator of Huronview, for the past 15 'ears has, resigned and been succeeded by Chest4';, A. Archibald, a native of Seaforth who was treasurer of the City of Brantford before taking the Huron County post. • This week for the first time the News- Regord carries news of Constance fur- nished by Miss Mary Mcllwain, RR 1, Clinton. Flames spread from• the Clinton dump into an adjacent field and threatened a nearby barn Tuesday afternoon. As town firemen worked to stop the blaze, a Flullett Township farmer asked a bystander: "How would you like to live out here with this smell and smoke all the time?" No answer was needed. At the man's foot lay a dead rat. Another was several steps away. As the garbage tip smoldered, flies swarmed over raw waste rotting in the the final weapon by which mankind could write kaput to his own species. Has it smartened anybody up? Not exactly. Today we have Iranians beating on Kurds, Chinese glaring at Russians, Cambodians hammering Laotians, blacks fighting blacks all over Africa, Jews and Palestinians toeing off, dictatorships in South America, India in turmoil, revolution in Central America, Irishmen blowing up each other with giddy abandon, old Uncle Tom Cobley and all. We don't seem to learn much, do we? The United Nations, a noble idea, conceived with a touch of the greatness man can aspire to, is a joke, albeit an expensive one, -merely a political sounding -board for every new pip- squeak nation that wants some publicity, along with plenty of foreign aid. The U.S., which emerged from W.W. II as a great, powerful and wealthy nation, has been terribly weakened, chiefly by its external affairs policies, or lack of them, and the meddling in foreign affairs of the notorious CIA. It had its shining mottents: the Marshall Plan to put devastated Europe backon its feet; Kenndy's showdown with 1Cruschev over the Cuban missiles instalment; an attempt to' make a better deal for blacks in their own.country. But these were flawed by other events and attitudes: the backing of right-wing dictators around the world; the loss of face in Korea ; the treatment of Cuba; the meddling in the affairs of other nations; the fairly indistriminath supplying of arms to anybody who could pay for them; and finally, the abortive, badly -burned -fingers mess of Viet Nam. At home right now, the States has a rather panicky President, growing inflation and unemployment, belligerent blacks and hardline unions, and a recession on the hori2on. Abroad, "it has lost a great deal of credibility, and seems to be pushed around by anybody who has plenty of oil. American imperialism is coming home to roost, and there are a lot of vultures among the roosters. Cuba is an out -spoken enemy. Mexico, sitting . on a huge oil deposit, is cool, con- sidering past grievances. The Philippines are gone. Japan and Germany, the losers inW4W.jI are the winners in the economic war. The t.LS. dollar is no longer the international monetary standard. The Panama Canal -is going. But let's not forget the tremendous Turn to page 5 • sun. And Tuesday's picture was better than usual because the day before a bulldozer leveled a part of the dump and tidied up some. An appeal -for local co-operation in tackling one problem appeared in this space seven months ago. It was suggested then that Goderich Township and the towns of Clinton and Goderich investigate 'the possibility of banding , together to establish and share a sanitary landfill site which would replace the three existing open dumps. The joint operation did not materialize and when the four parties sat down to go over the contract this month, a number of new points of contention arose. We hope the committee members meet with more success when they again try to come to terms. But if the pact cannot be salvaged and the proposed site proves unacceptable, there must be an effort to keep the plan alive for it offers a sensible solution to a pressing problem. 25 YEARS AGO September 30, 1954 "Miss Huron County," popular young Bayfield girl, is richer by $500 and several erchandite prizes, as she 'w'as crowned queen of the grape festival by Niagara Peninsula grape growers lastSaturday. Miss Barbara Brandon, daughter of Harold Brandon, proudly took the name of Huron tOthe top of the list, as she won over 24 other contestants in the Niagara con- test. Mayor M.J. Agnew laid down -the law quite firmly at the meeting of the PUC held on Tuesday evening. He stated that he was quite "fed up" with the way in which the PUC continued to "pass the buck" to the town council every meeting which he attended. The mayor indicated that since the PUC had been set up to administerthe hydro, water and sewerage systems of the town, tiat therefore it should do ju_St-that and not just run to the council when the going got /tough. 50 YEARS AGO October 3, 1929 There was a report about town on Tuesday that a prominent citizen was dead. Several friends were concerned and one or two went to inquire, finding the supposed corpse out splitting wood. As Mark Twain said, "the report was greatly exaggerated." The old time concert was put on by the Holmesville Ladies' Aid in the church on Thursday evening was a great success and was enjoyed. Those taking part in the play and in the musical part of the program did well and the organization is to be congratulated. An autograph quilt was put up at auction, being bid in at $17 by Miss Mary Howell of Goderich. Miss Dorothy S. Bryant and Mr. Edwin J. Cartwright, accompanied by some friends, drove to London on Monday to the home of the Rev. Dr. Barnby and were married. The bride wore a pretty frock of brown crepe with trimmings of lace and velvet and carried a bouquet of russet mums and oak leaves. The bridesmaid, Miss Nelda Mcllroy, wore a pretty frock of wine colored crepe. Mr. Donald Snell acted as best man. The bride groom gave the bridesmaid a pretty onyx ring and cuff links to the best man. 75 YEARS AGO September 29, 1904 A few days ago Mr. J.W. Reid of town received a cheque for $26 from Mr. A. Hooper as compensation for injuries to his thumb while working at the organ factory. The chopping mill which Mr. Dan McNaughton opened in Varna will be a great convenience to the farmers of the surrounding country. The home'of Mr. Gabriel Elliott of the Bayfield Line was the scene of a very happy gathering on Friday evening of last week when the members of the Varna Methodist Church assembled to present his daughter Susie with tokens of their great esteem and appreciation of her ef- forts as organist of the church. Quite a large number attended the tea - meeting at Mr. Thomas McMichael's in Hullett Township on Tuesday evening of last week. 100 YEARS AGO October 2, 1879 A drunken man fell through one of the large windows in the brick block on ,Tuesday. Recently the Presbyterian Sabbath School, of town, sent to a Toronto firm for samples of libraries suitable for their school, from which they could make their selections. On the arrival of the books they were found to be far from satisfactory, the sensational style predominating, and they were hastily packed off again. Mr. Michael Madigan has sold his farm on the 5th concession of McKillop to Robt. Gordon, for the sum of $4,400. The farm contains 100 acres, but there are no buildings of value on it. Clinton merchants feel delighted over the way in which the fall trade has opened up. It is a fine assortment of goods kept and low prices asked that 'fetches 'em.' In addition to being a good general market, Clinton has the reputation of being an exceptionally good one for barley, in fact farmers should bear that in mind. The Broadway theatre Co., performed in Seaforth on Thursday evening last, Mr.' Harry Lindley, as manager ofothe concern pocketing the proceeds. On Friday mor- ning Harry was nowhere to be found and the company were left to *shift for them- , selves as best they could. Mr. Wm. Jenkins of the Huron Road, Goderich Township, is endeavoring to 'form a joint stock company to work the cheese factory in Londesboro next year as a creamery. When begin? A few weeks ago, a misun- derstanding between the London Board of Education and a newspaper reporter led the public to believe that attendance at pre -kindergarten classes for children four years of age might become compulsory. The misconception was soon remedied, but not before some in- teresting opinions were expressed. - The Board was concerned with making pre -kindergarten available in more areas of the city rather than making attendance compulsory. In fact, a representative clarified that the required age of entry into the organized school system is six years. Even kindergarten is not man- datory, but in recent years, it has become an accepted ' practice. If parents want to keep their five-year- old child at home for another year, however, they thay do so. Attendance at kindergarten or pre -kindergarten becomes compulsory only after the parents enroll the child. The pros and cons of pre- kinde garton wer discussed oi a local adio station. One iother plained that her daughter was an only ,child andilad no playmates her age in the neighbourhood. Pre -kindergarten filled a gap for her introducing her to new friends and teaching her how to interact with her peers. Another mother had two boys. She enrolled the oldest one in pre- kindergarten when he was four -years - old. He enjoyed the experience and she believed he benefitted from it. However, when he entered kin- dergarten he found the experiences similar to those of pre -kindergarten and Seon became bored. For that reason, his tnother decided not to send, her younger son to pre -kindergarten. A third 'Arent of a four-year-old girl said she would send her daughter to pre -kindergarten if the child did not have a younger brother at home. The concensus among parents seemed to be that pre -kindergarten is invaluable for some' children but not all children. Each child is different. Some are ready for an organized type of lear- ning at a younger age than others. To requ re all children to enter the syst m at the tender age of four would be ui fair, and Tortublately, leaders in the field of education seem to agree. t • Society tends to stereotype people, but let's hope we continue to give children five or six years to grow and develop on their own before we in- troduce them to regimentation. The modern educational system offers a wider freedom of choice than when I attended school, but the bell still rings to announce the beginning and ending of classes, the beginning and ending of lunch hour and recess and the time to go home. Most children will spend at least fourteen years in school before they decide whether to continue on to university which is becoming more of anecessity as years go by. When they enter the work force, many will punch a time clock and listen for a signal for a coffee break, lunch break or the end of a working day. Life is exciting, especially for the very young, and I can't help but think learning. begins on the, day of birth and continues even in the most unorganized of atmospheres. Some children will need an educational system at tt younger age than others. The important point for adults to remember is not to push children into a predesigned stereotYpe. the readers Penny sale 5 Dear Editor : 1 The 25th annual Penny Sale sponsored by the Auxiliary to the Clinton Public Hospital has been a great success. , We,would like to thank all those who have helped make it so, including: the News -Record, for their -cooperation; area merchants, professional and business people, for donations of , prizes, cash and vouchers; all those who worked at the town hall and those who sold tickets; and of course, all those who bought the ticketS. Thanks also goes. to Marie Jefferson .and the staff at the town hall for their cooperation. Yours sincerely, Margaret Coventry, for the Penny Sale Committee Special thanks Dear Editor, Cards of ,Thanks are a means of expressing gratitude from the sender to those for whom the appreciation is intended. Occasionally the News -Record receives one of these voicings, which, by its sincerity, seems to embrace not only a few but our community as a whole. Such a one was the following poem composed by Viola Nelson of Victoria Street. My Thanks. For a fine hospital In our Town; Thanks to all who helped To keep our hospital of renown. We can't all be sick by appointment But when to the hospital we must go We're mighty glad it's very near And not miles away. Thanks to the doctors and nurses, Who tended to us well We -appreciated their attention When they cared forthis gal. And when we rushed to University Hospital 'And they scanned the situation - The doctor says "You're here for a vacation" And they'd do the best they could, — To diagnose the situation. I must say thanks to the doctors and nurses There too, who cared for me. They have every kind of machine, And educated folk as well To operate them all efficiently. Thanks to the clergy and laymen and friends Who called to cheer me up. Thanks for those who sent flowers Gifts and cards and there were many It helped to cheer me till I made it back to Clinton, To Clinton hospital for a while And now I'm home with Home help and a therapist. My thanks to all of you. My thanks for a devoted husband Who never failed to visit me And all who helped in any way My sincerest thanks. Seeks help Dear Editor, Donald (Deacon) Fraser, 1807-1884, moved to the Brucefield area about 1820 from New York State, then to Nairn, Ontario about 1832. He was an acquaintance of Rev. John Ross, of the Brucefield area and author of Man and His Book.: Would anyone with knowledge of either of these men or their families please contact Clare Fraser, RR 4, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Box 13, B4H 3Y2. Sincerely, D.C. Fraser. Fanshawe grads To the Editor: Hi there—Panshawe Students !Dear Editor -Former Fanshawe Students: Did you know that you're eligible to join Fanshawe College's Alumni Association? As a foriner .student or graduate you too can be part of an active and growing organization. At this year's annual meeting it was unanimously decided to incorporate. For this reason all present members as well as potential members must be invited to re -join the association. If you want to become an official member of the Fanshawe College Alumni Association please send a letter or a quick "yes" or "no" to THE' FOLLOWING ADDRES4 : Fanshawe Association, c -o FCaonlisehgaewe College,Aluni" P. 0. Box 4005, Terminal C, London, Ontario NSW 5111 - Attention: Mary Lou RObertson, Co-operative Education and Placernent Dept. Don't delay - Let's hear from ou as oon as possible! 1 Mary Lou Robeirtstin 41)