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Clinton News-Record, 1979-11-15, Page 4L PAGE' 1NTON NEWS-R!.'cQ; M -it 15,1:979 Th, C.Iinton Newi•Recgrd 1s pubIlehed eocb -'Thursday of p.O. Rod 39. Clinton. Ontario, Canede. NOM 1E0. - Member. Ontte la W.olt Iy Newspmpgr Assodatlon it Isregistered es second ;loss moll by the Pelt office under the •permit, number 0917. The HewRe s-c0r•4, incorpofatod in. 1124 the Huro, nc,Nwi•Record.'founded In.1u1. and Th. Clinton New Era, founded In. 11103. Total orris � run 3,300. Display advertising rates available an request. Ask far Rate Card No. 10 effective Sept. 1, 1979 General Manager • J. Howard Aitken Editor -James E. Fitzgerald Advertising Director • Gary l.'Halst • ...News editor - Shelley McPhee ^ Office Manager • Margaret Gibb Circulation . Freda McLied Subscription Rate: Canada - 93.00 Sr. Citizen • 93.00 Per year U.S.A. 8 foreign '30.00 per year 14.4 4 it's justified The provincial government's move to introduce legislation making the car insurance compulsory was long Overdue. When the law comes into force every person who drives a car • will be forced to prove that he and the vehicle • are covered by insurance which will carry at least $100,000 in public liability. Up to the present it was not obligatory to carry such insurance. Those who did not were forced to pay $150 into a fund out of which the government would reimburse injured parties when an uninsured driver was at fault. The settlement to the ac- cident victim was usually inadequate and, of course, the $150 fee was much below the current insurance premium. Thus the taxpayers were Play for fun Organized ,amateur hockey in leagues is more dangerous ` than casual games says Dr. Tom Pashby, Toronto opthalmologist and chairman of Canadian Standards Association's Committee on protective equipment for hockey arrd lacro,se players. Pashby, who has been treating hockey injuriesfor over 30 years, and bas be a,c tv to coachrn mateur jockey .13, ayeirs.:feels,K; be gan i zed: hockey (promotes the "win at any cost" attitude. `The kids today are told to hit and play rough . Som e coaches seem to stuck with the difference - a manifestly unfair situation. Hon. Frank Drea, whose department administers auto insurance, has stated that some $6 million would be required to carry the present system through another year, and he also says that the fund is "broke". There is no reason' in the world why a person who can find money for a car (none of which are . cheap today) cannot be expected to put up the 'money required for an insurance premium. The law will. provide for a $500 fine for a false statement about insurance coverage when licences are being issued and another $500 for failure to show proof of insurance when'a policeman asks for it. — from theWingham Advance Times instill the philosophy "it doesn't matter how you play as long as you win," explains Pashby. "This of course, creates injuries and hockey has got to become safer if it's to survive. Look what happened with lacrosse - it became too rough and lost popularity. Hockey is a great game and I hate to see it ruined by too much violence." Pashby believes that players playing hockey on ponds are safer than in organized leagues because the games are "more fun than to win." remembering our pcist 5 YEARS AGO November 7, 1974 Clarence Neilans of Clinton was picked last weekend as the new arena manager for the Clinton Community Centre. The Recreation Committee decided to hire an arena manager after the Town's Recreation Director Bev Wilton, quit last month, Mr. Wilton was the fourth director in 2r/z years. John Broadfoot of Brucefield was elected president of the Huron -Middlesex Liberal Association in Zurich on October • 30. . Presently, Vanastra is not represented on Tuckersmith Township' Council, but we need a voice to ensure sensible 'growth and maturity for the community. In a few weeks, voting for the new Tuckersmith Council will take place.* Who will best represent us? 10 YEARS AGO November 60969 Health .Minister Thomas Wells an- nounced .last Thursday the names of 44 Ontario communities designated for special provincial help in getting doctors' services. Clinton was not on the list, but Goderich was. Last June, Clinton's Dr. J. Alex Addison • retired . from ,hiss practice., He said •one reason he was quitting was sa diem a younger man would have more incentive to settle here and start a practice. Dr. Addison' said he was worried about the future, of Clinton's medical services and said that Clinton needs three or four,more doctors. Ruining the turkey Remember that column I wrote last week about the glories of October? Forget it. I must have been in an euphoric mood. Reality has returned. Caught one of those deep and heavy colds that' make you cough up stuff that gourmets pay for and call oysters. Had to take two days off work, 'first time in two years, and went back far from well, but driven from the house by my wife's solicitude. Had the turn signals and the heating fixed on my car, reached into my pocket to pay the bill — maybe $35 — took a look at the bill, and had to be helped into the front seat of the car. One hundred and one dollars, plus change. Approximately 30 percent of the entire value of the car. You could buy a pretty good jalopy for that sum, not so long ago. This morning when I looked out the window, I nearly keeled over. I can See ' six roofs from the bathroom, and every one of them was white. Snow, on the day after Thanksgiving. Today, when I got home frost work, •it was hailing. And I'd forgotten to put the garbage out. Thought I'd give my wife a treat and cook the Thanksgiving dinner. She wasn't keen on a bird, as there were only the two of us., But you have to keep up traditions like the British dressing for dinner in the jungle. And that's just what it was like. Dressing for dinner in the jungle. On the Saturday, I picked up' a nice roasting chicken, about four and a half pounds. Didn't pay much at- tention, as it was in a plastic bag and felt fat and juicy. Got up a bit late on Thanksgiving Day, and the stuffing was made. I usually do this,, because I love ex- perimenting with seasonings. A shot of this, a dash • of that, h soupcon of something else. It usually turnsout. to be either pretty exotio, or inedible. • Anyway, she'd beaten me Olt, not wanting to feel beholden. Feeling beholden is w. en your mate does one ofYour�jobs-� ad reminds you abouti • for the next three years. Well, 1 didn't mid, But that's the e part f n. ,. .. asy the sof i g, The tough partjs getting it in, a d wrestling ith the bird,and a d tru s t ><t s n ► `St'ot[ stY ll . • � wind up with a Mi t ' f of btl<tter, and' A , i 1 dressing all over you, up to the elbows and down to the knees; and a bad temper. Often you have to scrub the kitchen floor, there's so much goop on it, once you've got the beast in the oven. But I didn't mind. I've been through this sweaty struggle before, and know well the sense of triumph when the slippery monster is finally in the oven, basted in butter, and ready to start sending out that ineluctible odor of roasting fowl. This time, howeyer, I was rather shaken when I pulled the bird out of the plastic bag and prepared for the battle. , It looked as though it had just come through Grade 1 of Butchers' School. All the skin was missing from the left side. It had one leg, one, stuck up at i an obscene angle. The neck looked as though Jack the Ripper had been at it on one .of his bad nights -- liver, gizzard and' heart, had been stolen. These, along with the neck, are what I make my magnificent gravy from. The neck was there, all right, and as tough as the neck of a vulture. Did you ever try to truss a one - legged chicken, semi -skinned and make 'it come, out like the usual work Last week, 1 described the non - of art? Don't. Your heart won't be in person syndrome - a condition that' it. causes some people to have difficulty 1 was so disturbed that I had to interacting with other people because resort to a preprandial nerve relaxer, the latter group looked, talked or and this led to further disaster; the moved differently than the first pot with the vegetables burned black, group. . because I can't smell smoke and my One of the examples I used was a wife was upstairs, staying away from waitress who was confronted by two the blue air that often fills the kitchen customers - one handicapped, the when I am cooking. It was doubly blue other non -handicapped. She com- this time. It will take a week of municated only with the non -disabled scrubbing to get the carbon off the 1 • person by bringing one menu and inside of that pot. asking him, what will `she' have?" To further the jollity of the occasion The `she' was his compa�nion. r we got a call from, my daughter. w' -.i is A non -handicapped Mend and I teaching a thousand miles away in the developed_ a method for dealing with north. It was a bit like getting a call such a situation. As soon as we from Hades. She had a wracking ,. realized what was happening, I began cough, and had been off work for a to do all the talking. I didn't give my .week. Her' students are "hard as friend's order, but I gave my own nails"; and there were dark rumours order loudly, clearly and in• great of wild -dog "p aeks that will attack if , detail. I asked fore the second cup of, you slip and fall on the !CP, and wild- coff a and: what was available for dog kids who will do the .lathe. She dessert, Sometimes I let the- waitress w i� as o•�1 s f3 el she Coulf s . , y cargo hang recite the whole .list of desserts, even upthe home. t Ialready knew wh t I . p - a wanted. . ,�, . , ou h.. She has to walk mileand g � a nd a half, in Ct did it,for spite; inever;�'uggested I windyweather) to.. et antibiotics fro.` ` Was as ._ � g ,m was a saint.) the doctor. She., is h �rifie ; , d that she I asked for the cheque and even° gets Only a little mo a than half her paid for the meal. friend paid her the q ue hen l . payw a the derluctl"ons :yh,rr qe gridtableo when rUnder thewe a got are n�ad �Il.'1 �. a ,. MI6 years of'bf4ln . a back tp the ear, I'm not that student, : living on loans and grants generou 1) ' , ,, ,.�. n (and handouts from us) she has en- tered th'e"-chiil world of capitalism and income taxes. But it wasn't all black. That one- • legged chicken didn't taste bad, if you'd had enough pre -dinner tranquillizers to destroy your taste buds, We did find that the damper on our fireplace works, after 20 years, and we got it closed to save heat dollars pouring up the chimney. And thanks to the town work crew, who cut down one of our maples, the boy next door, and a double sawback, I have my winter's firewood in the cellar. And I know my daughter, tough stuff, will whip those kids into shape. a look through the news -record files The new Canadian Forces Warrant Officers school will be opened officially at Canadian Forces Base Clinton tomorrow afternoon -by Maj. Gen. William K. Carr, commander, Training Command, Win- nipeg. The new training section will draw students from sea, land and air elements of the armed forces. It will have a staff of 26 and will accommodate 96 student's at a' 'time in six-week courses. Elgin Thompson, RR 3, Kippen, reeve of Tuckersmith Township, is the men's president of District 8 of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies. He succeeds Albert Carson. 25 YEARS AGO November 11, 1954 At one of the biggest social events of the years for the people of Goderih Township and district, rural and urban folk heard the suggestion of holding -a - "farm festival week" with the purpose of acquainting city dwellers with the problems and activites of the farmer. R.K. Bennett, chief of fhe Livestock Marketing Branch, Federal • Department of Agriculture, made the . suggestion during his talk at the annual meeting of the Goderich Township Federation of A,gricultur=eit. r; < > ' must do• -something to .make urban people think that food should behigher priced," said Mr. Bennett. "They don't understand your problems." The -organizational plans for the Clinton and Distrct Branch of the Perth -Huron Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society were announced today. Arrangments for the organizational meeting have been made by the Happy Doubles Club of the Ontario Street United Church under the chair- manship of their president Ross Merrill. 50 YEARS AGO November'14, 1929 A break in the local hydro wires, caused by heavy Armistice Day decorations becoming soaked in rain and dragging upon them, ,. plaunged the town into • darkness Sunday evening about half past nine. It was several hours before complete' connections were made.. Turkeys they say were not ready for Thanksgiving, the Canadian holiday coming too early, the chickens and ducks had to fill the breach. If Canada can accommodate those 5,000 Mennonites who wish to come here it might be a good move to bring them. They are farmers who would go on and stay the land; they make good citizens and do*not take periodical spells of wishing to go about without clothing. Quite a number from Constance at- tended the anniversary services at the United Church in Londesboro on Sunday and also the fowl supper on Monday evening. A very disastrous fire occurred when Mr. Robert McIlwain, ,4th concession of Goderich Township, lost his barn and contents Friday evening. The fire was caused by a lantern being upset and ex- ploding. It is a great loss to Mr. Mcllwain at this season of the year. He is having a sale of his stock on.Monday next. 75 YEARS AGO . November 17, 1904 The- trustees of S.S. No. 7, iHullett, have engaged Miss Lizzie Chidley of Clinton as teacher for the year. 1905 at a good salary. Mr. Nelson Cole and Miss Noble of Clinton were married on Wednesday last and have taken up house on the London Road. In the evening a number of friends and relatives gathered to help warm the house and tripped the light fantastic. Some sneak thief visited the hen roost of Treasurer John. Reid in Stanley on Wed- nesday night last and carried off a number of turkeys and other fowl. We would warn theism not to return on the same errand as there is a strong suspicion as to who the guilty parties are. There was not a worse disappointed lot of people in the province on the night of November. 3rd that the South Huron Liberals who confidently counted on winning by a large majority. In Brucefield, it is said,that steam was kept up at the mili so as to be able to toot the whistle for Fraser, but there was no tooting there that night. 100 YEARS AGO November 6, 1879 On Monday a dog came out of Mr. D. Cantelon's grocery,,by jumping through a pane of glass in the door. On Friday evening a number of youths in town indulged in the customary Hallowe'en pranks in Ole shape of removing gates, packing- -"b8xOa and barrels, in several instances causing the owners considerable trouble to recover them. At one place where a closet was moved, one of the mischief -makers got more than he anticipated by falling therein. The following, in referance to an editor, contains more truth than most people are willing to admit: -He does more gratuitously for the town hall than all the rest of the community put together, and often gets cursed for it, while the man who donates a dollar for the 1st of July, a Sunday School or a social, is tenderly remembered. Money To Lend. I have an amount of money to lend,aon good, improved farms only, at 8 per cent; charges very small. Sum no Object if security ample. I do not lend money for any company. John S. Porter, '.a.forth. Hurrwn rights .4 I Our purpose was to make the waitress interact with me and to help her realize T was no different from any other customer. In most cases, by the time we left, the waitress was talking with me in a more relaxed manner. I'm not naive enough to believe I changed her whole attitude toward handicapped people.; I just hope she wasn't quite as stunned the next time a handicapped person came into the restaurant. Although the above situation -can be frustrating and embarrassing for everyone involved, it is usually caused by misunderstanding and can be handled on a one-to-one basis. As one person put it: "When you're handicapped, you ' don't just go halfway to make yourself accepted. You have to go three-quarters of the way or farther." Discrimination against the han- dicapped appears in even more blatant forms. I've heard and read about many cases. Disabled persons have ..peen refused service, in restaurants and asked to leave stores. Whey have been denied access to publictranportatio n and educational _ facilities. They havebeen refused tenancy in apartment buildings. They have been denied not onlyop- portunities tunities to k r r war but even po .: . � op- portunities to fill outjob 1 rtu f l application n 00 pP P fog mows. woulduld y ou fa lif any of these. th lfappened to yo ? What would you do'? Would you tak it to court`:~ The federal government has legislation which prohibits discrimination on grounds of physical disability in the area of employment. The provincial governments of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island have similar legislation. Manitoba and New Brunswick prohibit discrimination on grounds of physical disability in areas of em- ployment, public accommodations, services and facilities, property rental and occupancy, and publications, signs, display of various representations, etc. bHtish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario,' Quebec, Newfoundland, Northwest Te?ritories and Yukon, as yet, have no such legislation. Handicapped associations across Canada are lobbying to have the federal legislation expanded, while associations in 'Ontarib and other provinces are lobbying to have the physically disabled included -in Human Rights Codes. One in seven persons in Ontario alone has a physical disability; the physically 'disabled are finally being recognized as a minority groupP which ich is entitled to protection under the Human Right's Act. Changes in legislation come painfully slow. In the meantime, respect kr each other's differences and acceptance of p M eaeh other's equality must e i n at the aha s roots' level on one-to-one g o a baSls, II ' Dear Editor: Qn Monday ninNovember there was a meetingeveatg the Vanastral.12 recreation centre for the ratepayers of Vanastra and Tuckersmith 'regarding the proposed new addition ,to the Vanastra recreation. centre to, accorhmodatelittle better, the physically and mentally ban- dicapped- At least one of the Tuckersmith cbuncillors was completely non committal; one wanted it proceeded, with the cost to be borne over the' township; one wanted the cost to be borne over Huron County; and one wanted to bulldoze the cost on to Vanastra with complete abandon. He claimed he would resign at the end of his term (why not now?) There were at least three bureaucrats present who, in my opinion, were pushing this thing onto the people of Vanastra and Tucker - smith. These bureaucrats have no idea how money is earned. They all get paid out of taxes paid by the money earners, and yet they are trying their utmost to spend more and more of today's earnings and tomorrow's and five and ten years down the road's earnings of the people of Vanastra and Tuckersmith without regard as to how these people feel or think or want. As these people don't earn or create wealth but rather by their very nature and position spend and use wealth, they should refrain from par- ticipating in the use of these monies. It is a case they have' decided to use money as they see fit irregardless of what the people want and are not happy with doing with what is made available to them by the people. If the representative from the ministry of culture and recreation feels that his ministry or his gover- nment has mistreated the han- dicapped in the past and wants to make some improvements in this area, they should be prepared to pay the whole cost of construction and renovation and cost overruns of operating expenses for the next ten years at least. Vanastra and Tuckersmith' will contribute the vehicle (the existing recreation centre with its built-in swimming pool, etc.) I think the,; people of Vanastra and Tuckersmith would not be opposed to the ministry paying the whole cost plus °Orating expenses for the next ten years if ownership and control remained with Vanastra and Tuckersmith. After 411, this addition to. is what the ministry wants and not the people of Vanastra and Tuckersmith: If the ministry accepts this idea, the monies will come from all of Ontario and not just from the ratepayers of Vanastra and Tuckersmith. C. Mazmanian A Vanastra taxpayer Know these men? Dear Editor: Would you please ask your readers if they ' have any information on Donald (Deacon) Fraser 1807-1884, and Rev. John Ross (of Brucefield area) . Fraser moved to Brucefield area about 1820 from New York State then to Nairn, Ontario area about 1832. He was an acquaintance of Rev. John Ross (author, of the Man and His Book) . Anyone with knowledge of either of these men or their families, please contact Clare Fraser, RR4 Amherst, N.S. Box X13, B4H 3Y2. Sincerely D. C. (Clare) Fraser Gift Cards Dear Editor: People are always on the lookout for a bargain! Could you possibly tell your readers about the USC's won- derful offer? The enclosed flyer ex- plains how our Gift Card program works. The advantages are obvious. No more worries over Christmas shopping ; children in Asia and Africa will receive urgently -needed help and friends and relatives will be delighted with the idea. Could you possibly mention our Gift, Card project as soon as possible? 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