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Don't kill the goose
While major corporations can
usually weather short. economic
squalls, says The Glengarry News,
small businessmen tossed upon a
similar sea of financial instability can
very often find themselves at the
bottomof the lake.
Many small businesses 'order stock
about three months in advance .and
pay with money borrowed from the
bank about 30 days after delivery.
However, the interest rate paid on the
borrowed money increases
automatically with the bank rate and
most small businesses are paying
about 16 percent. interest on their,
loans.
Since small businessmen do not
usually have vast amounts of cash on
hand to float them over troubled
waters, such sharp hikes in the in-
terest rate over such a short period of
time can be fatal.
By following the former Liberal
government's policy of raising in-
terest rates as a matter of form, the
new Conservative administration has
shown a comparable disregard for the
welfare of our small business sector.
The irony of this interest rate policy
is that it penalizes those who are
doing the most to alleviate one of our
major problems — unemployment.. In
other words, we are killing the goose
thatlays the golden egg.
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Save yourself and others
December ist - 7th, 1979 will be the
Canada Safety Council's twenty-
fourth consecutive Safe Driving Week
campaign. The Canada Safety
Council has chosen "Safe Driving:
The Posditive Choice" as this year's
theme. We believe it conveys a simple
• but powerful mes.sage. A number of
hoicesn,be made_ but resiaansible
drivers will .opt for safety.
Safety must be always uppermost if
traffic accidents are to be prevented
and their terrible costs meaningfully
reduced. Such reductions regularly
occur in Canada for one week each
year - Safe Driving Week. They could
be constant if we cared enough to
make the positive choice every time
we took the wheel. It is so simple and
the rewards are so great.
Please help make 1979's Safe
Driving Week the best ever. Make the
positive choice yourself and en-
courage others to—follow your
example. *
Wear seat belts, slow down and
drive with true feelings of respon-
sibility for the safety of yourself and
of those who share the roadways with
you.
sugar andspice
Remember again
Two or three years ago, I swore I'd
never write another column about
Remembrance Day. I'd milked every
emotion, flattened every cliche, and I
thought perhaps it was time to let it
• fade away, as old soldiers never do.
However, I reckoned without our
vice-principal. Each year, for the past
three or four, as Remembrance Day
approaches, he sidles up and wonders
"if I could have a minute of your
• time?" That means he wants
something.
If. he wanted to bawl. me out,- he'd
probably say," Mr. Sthiley, I'd like to
see you in my office at 3:45." When. I
reported at that time; he'd likely give
me the blast, in front of witnesses,
and I'd tell him to go to hell, or shove
it where the sun never shine, or
something equally vivacious and
vulgar. Vice -principals do not easily
upset old fighter pilots.
But when Dave gives me the old soft
soap and asks if I could do something
about a Remembrance Day
programme for the school, I get all
soft and gooey and limply agree.
When I joined the high school staff,
there were plenty of veterans of
World War II. A bomber pilot or two,
a navigator, a radar man, some air
force ex -technicians, and a rabble of
former navy and army types.
Nowadays, I'm just about the oldest
veteran on the staff, so I'm stuck with
the Remembrance Day hokum. The
oldest veteran. is a German, who
fought in the North Africa Campaign,
was wounded, andsprit therest of
the war in a prison camp in the States.
It would hardly do to have him
talking to the .students about "our
sacrifices in two great world wars."
• He might get carried'away and say
something like, "If it hadn'theen for
the maniac, Hitler, we would have
kicked the stuffing out of you,..-"
So I'm stuck with it. For a few
years, we had a full period.
program t! with the students
Making it u '7 TheYlien,' ere awful. Pull of
ft4lk songs, like, "Where have all
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the soldiers gone ", art4 the local
Legion marching around, On the stage
List of the ;'
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Ot,the dafet Hum getting all tangled
up in t61,tfl gs, and the, reading of a
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remembering
our past •'
5 YEARS AGO
• November 21, 1974
The Clinton Credit Union at their 23rd
annual meeting last Monday night, voted
to give shareholders a nine per cent
dividend, the highest ever paid in the 27
years since its birth.
The members decided to give the 4,709
members of the Credit Union $274,799' in
net income, the highest ever. Last year
$236,543 or a dividend of eight per cent was
divided among the 4,442 members.
• There was mixed reaction last Wed-
nesday night when a new plan for a three-
phase municipal project was unveiled
before nearly 100 persons at a Clinton
ratepayers meeting in the old town hall.
Basically, the plan would be done in
three phases. The first part would entail
building a new senior citizens' hall and
library on land the town now owns on
Victoria Street, running behind' the
Wesley -Willis Church. That could cost
$400,000.
Phase two • would involve extensive
renovation to • the .exisiting librnrytiso it
could be used to house the municipal of- -
flees. This would cost $396,000.
Phase three would see the demolition of
the town town hall and the site turned into
a park.
10 YEARS AGO
November 20, 1969
The provincial police detachment at
Goderich will be ready on December 1
Forthe kids, it was a period off
school, and a sort of bewilderment
about what these crazy adults had
been up to in a time of which they
knew nothing.
So we gradually cut it down. The
Last Post was eliminated. I gave such
an anti -war talk at one of these
sessions that even the students were
startled.
For the last two years, I've been
asked to write a two or three minute
"message" about Remembrance
Day, full of meaning, poignancy and
sentiment.
I'd never give an assignment like
that to a student. It would be like
asking them to give a summary Of the
Bible in 200 words.
However, I'm going to do it again
this year, beCause I am soft in the
head, or something. Let us hope that
next year, the thing will be reduced to
an announcement: "We will now
honor our war dead With one minute's
silence. On the sound of the bleep;
shut up for one minute. Then go to
your regular classes."
Here is a sample of what I write. It
is spoken into a mike by a student who
doesn't know how to use a microphone
and has a bad cold. This is last year's
bit:
"When you are young, life is
forever. When you are old, Death sits
grinning and nodding at your elbow.
"Hundreds of thousands of young
Canadians sneered at that old witch,
-4,,Death, and offered their most
precious possessions, themselves, to
• the bullets and the shrapnel, the
mortars and the cannon. They didn't
say to th6rnselves, "I'm going to die
so that the students of Blank Secon-
dary School can have gravy on their
french fries.!'
"They didn't say much of anything.
They just went off to fight against
something they thought was evil.
"Most of them were ,jitSt kids,,Wo
or three years older than' you the.
- They h'ad the satrie hag -ups you
have: bad marks itt natJ:4 frustrated
love; uncertainty about the future,
"Maybe they weren't too bright.
Maybe theySho Id have said, 'I ain't
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gonna get kille in some stupid war
over in tirope.'l
"May ee, But 'they went, And they
were ki 1 ,d, in their thottSarids. 8'el
that you can have gritty on your
frenchfeWs, Artp a lot Of Other things
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you take tor granted.
"Most of us don't want to leave the
world without making some little
mark on it. Every human being is a
precious thing. Whatever you do, you
will leave something of yourself
behind, even if it is only dust.
'Those young fellows who were
killed in France and Holland and Italy
didn't have much chance of leaving
anything behind.
"But they left a memory. Once a
year, on Remembrance Day, we take
a silent moment to think about those
laughing boys - and most of them
were boys - who went across the ocean
so that we could have freedom of
speech, open elections, letters to the
editor, and gravy on our french
fries.”
What in the world am 1 going to
write this year?
"Find a job yet?"
a look through
the news -record files
when it becomes compulsory for motorists
to submit to breath tests to determine
alcohol levels in their blood.
Gordon L. Hill, 43, of Varna is the new
president of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture. -
Mr. Hill has been 'dative in farm
organizations for about 15 years, starting
with the Huron County local of the Ontario
Farmers' Union.
There will be two new faces on the
Bayfield Council next year, Paul West and
Don Warner. E.W, Oddleifson, at present a
councillor, was acclaimed as reeve for a
one-year term on Monday.
Congratulations are extended to Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Shobbrook who celebrated their
•40th wedding anniversary in Londesboro
on November 14.
25 YEARS AGO
November 25, 1954
Officials in town this week expressed
interest in the possibility that supplies of
natural gas near Zurich, might be
available tso householders in Clinton.
Both '1VIa'yor M.J. Agnew, and PUC
Chairman H.R. Hiwkins expressed their
approval of the idea, and Mr. Hawkins
mentioned the lower cost of heating and
cooking that would result.
Clerk -treasurer Douglas Holland, who is
presently secretary of the Huron County
Industrial Promotion Board said, "with
Clinton situated at the crossroads of the
County, the natural gas supply would
make Clinton an ideal area for industrial
expansion."
New, most compact and versatile TV set
ever designed, the Crosley Super -V, 17
inch. Yours only $199.95. We've got the new
miracle set. It takes up less space, has new
super vertical circuit, front is all screen,
light:enough to carry, tube -life extender
and choice of three finishes. Come and see
them at Merrill Radio and Electric,. phone
313, Clinton
50 YEARS AGO
November 28, 1929
Mr. Ephraim Snell of Hullett was in
Toronto last week judging sheep at the
Royal Winter Fair. Eph. should be a good
judge of sheep as he's been carrying off
prizes for them for the past 15 years.
The parsonage in Holmesville in being
wired for Hydro.
Goderich Township seems to be pretty
well satisfied with the way its public af-
fairs are being conducted, as at the
nomination meeting on Monday no other
names than the reeve and four councillors
were put in nomination, and they con-
stitute the council for 1939. John R. Mid-
dleton is the reeve and the councillors are
Wilmot Haacke, F.W. Powell, Ben W.
Churchill and W. Johnston.
Just one thing
hello Santa! How are you? Busy of
course. I understand. It's that time of
year again.
You cover a lot of territory on
December 24, and even with Rudolph
to guide you, I'm sure it's easy to lose
y7.rawdmay.
it
I felt a little miffed when
you missed my place two years in a
row. Last year I didn't even bother
writing to you. Forgive Me, Santa;
my judgement was hasty, I know you
didn't intentionally overlook me.
Since then, I've moved arid I'll en-
close a map to help you find my new
abode.
Recently, I found a copy of the
letter I wrote to you two years ago. I
Made a terrible Mistake in that letter,
asking for a lot of little things like
staples and paper clips, table lamps
and tables tb set them on, typewriter
ribbons and paper and wa§tebasket
Even with Mrs. ClauSj and all t e
little elves helping, a b y man li e
you doeSn't have time gather 11
those tittie thing, r Orgi me, San a;
• Was thOught e§§. •
This year rrn restriotho my list to
"one item. Santa, One-stop Shopping
Word has been received of the safe
arrival of Nurse Gretta Mustard from
Brucefield and Nurse Nettie Sinclair, at
Gypsumville, where they will open up a
W.M.S. Hospital.
Lost between the farms of Fred
, Thompson and Arthur Welsh, on
• November 14 or 15, on the Bayfield Road, a
sheepskin coat. Finder kindly com-
municate with S. Flewett. Phone 606r13,
Clinton; central.
75 YEARS AGO
December 1, 1904
The unique fountain nen contest, as
announced by Cooper's Book Store agent
for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen Co., of
New York, is being widely advertised and
quite a number of cards have already been
received. A $5 fountain pen is being offered
to the person who writes the words
"Wateman's Ideal Fountain Pen" the
greatest number of times on the back of a
post card.
There was an oyster and fowl supper at
King, Edward Hotel, Goderich, on
Friday evening, giien by the apple
packers in honor of Mr. Robert Elliott,
Quite a number from Goderich Township
attended.
Mr. W.J. Stinson of Bayfield is the
possessor of an up-to-date residence
which; when completed will be the acme of
comfort.
100 YEARS AGO
November 13, 1879
Last week a petition was in circulation
among the businessmen of town, which
was intended - to forward to the Post-
master -General, asking that the mail from
the east be forwarded at an earlier hour in
the afternoon. We believe that similar
petitions were in circulation at Seaforth
and Goderich. .
We have time and again warned the
community against purchasing from
shoddy peddlers, but it appears that these
Cheap Johns still find dupes through the
country, for we learn that quite a number
round this neighborhood have been taken
in by them. '
Do you have an opinion? Why not
write us a letter to the editor, and
let everyone know. All letters are
published, providing they can be
authenticated, 'and pseudonyms
are allowed. All letters, however,
are subject to editing for length
or libel.
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elaine townshend
will do it for me this year. Just go
down to your nearest auto dealership
and pick me out a nice new car. I want
the real thing, Santa, not a toy.
The make, model and colour I'll
leave up to you. Surprise me! I'm
sure you're aware of the importance
of miles per gallon.
There are a few options I'd like
included - power steering, power
brakes, automatic transmission,
rear -window defroste- and air con-
ditioning. (It's hard to believe now,
• but even I know a hot summer will
follow this cold winter.) -
Bucket seats with Velour upholstery
and carpeted floor would be super. An
AM -FM radio and tape deck is a
prerequisite. (A few tapes would add
a thoughtful touch). Don't forget the
wh itewal Is.
I don't have a chimney in my new
!apartment. You won't have to bother. -
'raking your traditional entry. Just
park - the car outside the door. Ill
leave the light on.
Perhaps you'd like to take my old
car as a trade in. It's been a faithful
machine; I feel as though it's timfor
a change for tne, but I'm
in hand for
I'm sure y It'
find the car wouldi toind
you, in ease you break a runner �ijl the
sleigh or sorb ethink,
. If you want a trade-in, I'll leave the
4+,
keys under the mat, If not, I'll make
another deal with you. You can use
my neW car to make your deliveries
on the 24th. Leave my place the
last, wake me up and I'll drive you
home. Weather permitting, of course.
f don't think you have to worry
about your gift being duplicated. I
told my sister and brother-in-law I
wanted a car, but my brother-in-law
was engrossed in. a cat food corn-
,mercial on TV at the time and my,
sister's only comment was "fat
chance!"
Even if I did receive two cars, I
could sell one to finance a trip to
Hawaii, which was my second choice
for Christmas this year.
My sister made another "fat
chance" remark. and my brother-in-
law suggested a orte-way ticket to
somewhere else.
I believe I mentioned the Hawaii
trip to you two years ago. 1 guess you
forgot, but that's okay. A11 I really
want this year is a car. .
Please forgive me for any doubts
and impatience in recent years. I
know I can( count on you in 1979,
Santa, Merry Christinas!
Sincerely yours
Elaine
P.S. Do
't forget a full tank of gas!
the,
repders
White elephant
Dear Editor:
1 am sure that in this democratic
society there are a few people still
practicing political equality, but 'not
in. the Township of Tuckersmith. A
few men Bather around for an.eveninB
and decide what we want or what they
want in this case.
After wasting three hours in a.
ratepayers' meeting with council on
November 12th, I was even more
against the proposed addition because
of the reasons they considered in
having this white elephant, Someone
mentioned that a new addition to the
rec centre might entice new business
into this area. First, they should in-
vestigate why the old businesses are
leaving. I am sure they have a more
solid reason for leaving a* not
because the pool facilities are not
large enough. There are more im-
portant matters that should be looked
into, like why is the industry leaving.
It hurts Vanastra every time an in-
dustry closes down in here.
A new addition will not bring up the
value of your property as fast as the
deserted buildings bring it down. It
seemed quite insignificant to council
that the majority voted for a
plebiscite vote. The uneducated group
at the meeting as we have been
referred as, pay the same taxes here
as the higher class residents, so
seeing as they want this new country
club they can pay my share when the
new tax bill comes.
Seventy-eight percent will be paid
with grants and the remainder will be
raised by the people. of Tuckersmith.
Please do not knock on this door
asking for Money for a raffle ticket or
small donations. I don't 'feel I had a
fair deal when I haven't the right to
vote for something that involves my
tax dollar and I'm sure it will even-
tually.
What a way to end "Year of the
Child". More emphasis _should be put
on the children of this community.
They shouldn't have toplay hockey on
the street when there is an arena close
by. There could be better parks in the
area, not just one. The broken gate at
the tennis court could be fixed so I
don't have to squeeze through the
gate. Small repairs, but never tended
to. Why must we always aim so high,
when what we- have just needs
mending.
Sharyn Kyle,
Vanastra
Carrots and asses
Dear Editor:
The current carrot being held by
Tuckersmith council in front of the
ass is grant money from the
Provincial government for a proposed
new. addition. There is no
justification, in my opinion, for
paying and being liable for paying
• nearly $100 per square foot for an
addition to a complex that already
has cost the tax payer § of VANASTRA
over $300,000. The addition will cost
almost that.
I. don't see any reason why the
doorways of the existing structure
can't be widened to accommodate
wheelchairs. I don't see any reason
why the existing showers can't be
altered slightly to accommodate
wheelchairs, although I don't know
why anyone would want to take a
wheelchair into a shower. The
existing toilets can be altered slightly
to accommodate wheelchairs. How
many wheelchair people are there in
Vanastra? The complex was built for
Vanastra people with Vanastra
money.
I'm n9t saying they should keep it to
themselves, but rather they should
gather enou'gh information about any
new addition pro and con to make an
intelligent decision. All the, in-
formation available to this time is
pro. In my opinion, the decision to go
ahead atIthis time with the addition is
unintelligent.
II further believe there will not be a
plebiscite on the matter as I think
Council's attitude reflects the whole
provincial government's attitude that
you, the people, are free, FREE TO
DO AS YOU ARE TOLD. And the
people of Vanastra go on paying and
paying, there is no stopping it.
All the people I've heard and spoken
to regarding ,the addition who are in
favour of it keep repeating look at the
carrot, look at the carrot. I suggest
the hell with the carrot, carrots are
only for asses. Look beyond the
carrot. Why is it so necessary? Who
will it serve? How many will it serve?
Why can't the existing structure be
altered somewhat? What will it cost in
relation to the eXisting structure?.
Why do we have to put up the land and
complex and put up the money too,
just to satisfy the ministry? Why can't
the Ministry put up the cost and
Vanastra put up the land and
building?
Why Are some people pushing it so
hard? Do they have something to
gain'? What cio the people of Vanastra
have to gain. besides more taxes and
another lean-to added to the existing
hodge podge? There. are many more
questions unanswered.
Just look at the CARROT. What
business has a ghost town got in
providing and paying for recreaton
and enters when it nie ds
• more than anything money for
creating , jobs, tor local •
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