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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-01-17, Page 44 - LINToN N WS . CORP, TRt,IRSDAY, .TANUARY l'1, 1980 TI* Clinton `f400.**- cord lo pubilitiook'Hoch rs Is re►gf.str• red as 4e0404 lgts molt by tht TkurOr+ky .Ar O.Q. Pox ». Plotgo. 0ntqoia. post S fircaf •undo*. Cha ;ppxmit ,number.' 0411. i .0stOP.N9frt 1. Tho titp*ridlot..ord rntgrpgru£ad1n 1,24 thvt .a..:HuroriNews-Roord.,.founded.to1110,.gndTho, •Cil.tt.Rnfiltwi Erg,, ioundgd In)Hs. Tototpra.4s. r Eva 3.3 4,140 1,10.44. nrifrlo ltf k ly, Ifrl+. e r Asaso+iltttlon M+miMjr Cwhadign CorhintAnity N.*=1por 0000 _ r Dil;piny advert141ln9 rotas grv.:01%3 to on 'rogyost. Ask for. . 'gfficIthicsnoger• Margpret Glbb • Haig, Card No. 10 effective Sept.. Circulation • Freda Mcleod 11;1179• GainerotMoho oar • J. tictrari• tA itken Editor - -Seine! E Fitzgoralp • /�drq t�rngb octac aryl. Hal i' I s,4itgr . Sheiray'McPI,Po e race is on Subscription Rate: Canoda -'15.00 ° Sr. Citizen -'13.00 per yegr • U.S.A. St foreign •'3Q,00 per year .. ---.-Thr re s—firral.l..'°.` .'-inti slate , of Po good• -turnout -at candidates running in Huron -Bruce . 4 riding for the upcoming federal -election on February 18, and the race is on. For the first time in 15 years, there will be an exciting race with the retirem-ent of our incumbent MP, Bob McKlinley, and likely the winner won't be declared until the last ballot is counted. Right now, both the Liberals and the Conservatives each say they can.. win the aiding, and even the NDP party are saying this is the best time to give it their full shot. So, to make-ther�esults truly -reflect –import ant one-f-or---CanadaTa- r the feelings of as many people as County. by J.F. the polls. That means if you didn't get an. enumeration card in the mail this week, cher with the returning olf- ficer in Seaforth, or get in touch with otie of the political parties and they can instruct you on how to get on.the list. - If you are already on the list, and feel for some reason or another, whether it be that you feel yOu may be "storm -stayed" on election day, or just in'Florida, please vote at any one pt the advance polls, which will be advertised elsewhere. Winter election or not, it's still an Dispelling myths c'�.LF1/R .. .-:.. -... �._� y .r r.v,.r K.• .cam. -.n..,... w. ..��_..�..�r.�.,�axr. r• remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO . �n January -46, 1975 High winds at times gusting up to 60 miles an hbur, buffeted the area Saturday. Although there were only a few tree limbs knocked down in Clinton, an isolated area of Stanley • Township about three•i'miles south of Bayfield suffered thousands of dollars damage. What may have been a small twister touched down about 4:30 am on Saturday and inflicted heavy damage on `several farms, mostly on Highway 21. A 'rcherishec[ hop& of $tan -ley Townifiip Reeve Anson McKinley was realized in Goderich as members of Huron County Council selected -Reeve McKinley as their warden for 1975. McKinley beat out Reeve Harold Lobb of Clinton arid Reeve Allan. Campbell of McKillop Township.' Mayor -Don Symons, in his- inaugural address to Clinton Council, promised - defintite action on the establishment of a permanent senior. citiz-ens-' drop-in centre and lounge and the exploration into. the feasibility of an ambulance •service in Clinton. 10 YEARS AGO January 15, 1970 . Concern over the growing number of complaints about snowmobiles has led to the 'Clinton Recreation Committee to call a meeting of all snowmobile owners to at -- tempt to form a snow'.iobile club. Fire destroyed the home and nearly all the personal possessions of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lobb of RR 2, Clinton on January 7. ' The Clinton .fire department answered People are not totally reasonable. for teenagers, especially those in Those who like to perpet he theft- early, teens. Not Mold enough semi -rationalist notion that people to sense their mortality,' those who P P will :change tfiei'r behavior if -Shown straddle childhood and adulthood the fact, would do well to look at those seem immune to the endless stream who serve the dictator Tobacco, says . of scientific 'evidence, while being the United. Church in an editorial. supersensitive. to peer influence. The . No - major medical or health agency litany of chemical, substances - questions the fact that each year associated with cigarette smoking — 30,000 Canadians die prematurely nicotine, tars, carbon monoxide; from the effects of smoking.-Kif some. cadmium, nitrogen dioxide, am - new food: additive, automobile defect moria, formaldehyde, hydrogen or• drug - exce t ardOhol, or course - --^ sulphide - fail to dispel the compelling could be linked to emphysema, power of those lienor' " Ivlay-- uck chronic bronchitis, lung cancer and smoldering leaves. heart disease as closely ,as has cigarette smoking, a public outcry would explode and perhaps even the government would be sparked into action But still the dollars turn- into cigarettes which turn into 'smoke. Please, don't confuse the facts. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, smoking rates began to drop, except Tobaccoland has succeeded in creating an image— that hot smoke is cool, macho yet super -feminine. Nonsense! That image is distorted! Smoking should be linked to disability and death, to ugliness, rasping coughs, dragon, breath, dried skin, squinting eyes, yellowed teeth and, finger and blackened lungs. --Canadian ... personalities - Well, our children are gone, and our children's children. I can scarce forbear to tell you what a legacy they left us. A flat wallet. A bowl of sun- flower seeds_ . A guitar with a hole in the body. A telephone that defies the efforts of the repair men. A toilet that overflows. And so on. But all you need is love. As they say. Well, as I sit here remembering the Hades that is•a Canadian bus terminal at holiday, I am forced to wonder. Wereall those crapulous old gen- -tiem-e-n and indignant e'l'derly ladies who kept screaming "What about me?" full of love? Or perhaps those boisterous teenagers who kept trampling,the crapulous old men and the indignant -elderly ladies? Since I don't even want to think about.T anyone under the age of 48 for at least six months, I'll leave 'er lay. I wont even mention that my daughter got her suitcase on the wrong bus, and' my son got himself on the bus my daughter, was not on, with all the nest of her luggage.'G'est le bus business. No. I'm sick of the young. I want to deal, in, this column, with a couple of oldsters. One of them takes a very dim view of me, artd the other takes a gleeful, healthy look at life, For years, I've-,_..li.e. receiving' Christmas cards from someone who signs himself Your TV Repair. It drove me "Erlittt°e nuts. The ,messages were -always lively and salty, and blunt. This year, the TV Repair Man came out of the closet. But not completely. He still wouldn't sign his name. In the same mail, I received a copy of a long letter written. to the editor ...of the Gazette -Reporter, Rivers, Man. d Both letters dealt with a particular column I'd written. Comparing them. Might give. the gentle reader a cross- section of . the philosophy of Canadians..I'li print parts of them, sticking my own oar in whenever I dang well feel like it. Here's the TV .Repair. Man: "Hello Smiley -- Merry Christmas. It's, that time so here we go again. You really. shocked • me . with . •th.is year's Armistice Day column. I have always looked forward to, and,backward to, that colu'nin. To me, .Armistice Day is the most important holiday. 'except. Christmas. Yes. I was shot, down shortly after "I lost a lot of close friends in both Arnhem A. paratroop doctor bound world wars. You said you thought you had said it all and then wound up with the best one of all. You have never said it all nor ever will. ' . "I have enjoyed your column for many years (thanks TVRM) so maybe you'd like to wade through this. I won't take long and you can scrape your shoes when you're through, "First, I am an old man — 78 last month. (Hell that's just a boy, TVRM). Second, -I am no more ,TW repair , man than you ... are auto mechanic. Third I am the richest man in the world, if you count friends. (Yes, man, I count friends.) I live alone in a shanty. I built myself and have everything I need or want and enough pension that I can help people now and then that need it. "Like yourself, I have grand- children that are my pride and joy and opened up a whole new life for me, I taught them to swim,' fish, skate, garden, you name it, and like you I am proudtas hel of them. If that ain't happiness, fore t it." That's a happy guy, the old TVRM. The other .letter is full of cliches, bombast, and another word beginning with B: "Sacrifices,terrible price; home and country; fallen comrades." - Etc. Fallen comrades, my bum. They didn't fall, Mr. G. Mathison of Har- ding, Man. They were killed. More of the .same pap. "Where was Mr. ' Smiley when teenagers were dying on the beach at Benny Se Mer?" I presume he means Beny sur Mer. Well, Mr.. M., I was -about five miles away, at Ste. Mer E'glise, 15hooting and bombing the daylights out of the guys who were shooting at -the guys who were dying on the so-called beach. Some beach. "Where was he, when the children were coming out of Caen while it was being bombed,. hungry pchildren, ' alone, afraid and with nothing but a black sky full of cold, rain to succour therm?." 'Mr. M., after bombing Caen about eight times, and .being shot to shreds in the process, I was in a jeep, visiting Caen,,, and giving those kids chocolate rations and getting them out of that hell -hole. - "Does Mr. Smiley really believe that it is time to forget the para troopers of Arnhem, the . Third Division Water Rats, the Red .Devils of the First Division or the heroes of the Second at Dieppe'?" • tr"'?,'t .»�..fM':'fir4a.. -...tl• -.. ¢.'k•' -,ti- K•. N.ih� J 't, qW:a'... Y',C7f. •:M+x s,. �5., .. my displaced knee -cap. I met some of the Arnhem s. They were a tough bunch of bastards, triumphant in defeat, undaunted. The "herpes" at Dieppe were a poor bunch of misled, misinformed, undertrained kids led into an impossible attack by stupid commanders. "I saw teenagers, like the ones he is teaching now, die in the mud -at Walcheren (misspelled)...and their' last thought was a yearning for home. (Canada)." Well, Mr. C., I saw teenagers go down in flames, plunge into the ocean and though I didn't have an ear to their chest, as you seem to have had, I heard their last thoughts•, sometimes, on radio. "Jesus. Mom. Help me. Mother! Help!" • • Hc-GOrtT ALL R14AT, look through ews-record files the call and according to Fire . Captain Kingswell, had .the fire under control until the 500 -gallon tank on their truck ran out. They tried to get water from a spring -fed creek three-quarters of a mile away, but could not get the water in time. This year's edition of the annual Clinton Winter 'Carnival will have some very at- tractive attractions when Jacquie Perrin, Miss Dominion of Canada will attend the official opening of the carnival. 25 YEARS AGQ January 20, 1955 ' Discussion is underway in BayfiercTarid district over the. need for a new public school there, The two -room school now: is use in Ithe village is proving inadequate and has been termed unsatisfactory by the County Health -Unit as far as sanitary facilties are concerned. . - At present, there is an enrolment of 76 pupils, including 19 from SS '8, Goderich Township. Part of the building is thought to be 1^0 years old. The lower room in use by the junior grades and taught,by_1 Miss Pepper, was built in 1'875 as an addition to the original school and in -1895 the senior room was added. We noticed some days ago that work has been commenced on the excavation of the Bell Telephone lot just back of Aiken's store. That's where the new building -is planned which will sometime house a dial tele phone system. Royce S. Macaulay, was appointed chairman and a new office of vice -4' chairman was created at the first meeting of the Clinton School Baord for 1955. Joseph Murphy will act as vice-chairman. The trim "Helen MacLeod II" uuilt by Capt. Louis MacLeod of Bayfield, one of the• -legion's outstanding sailors, has now been re -furbished and is on view 'in the District Historical Commission's Museum in Belle Isle,Michigan. . - 50YEARS AGO, January 16, 1930 Town grocers complain that 'they are much annoyed by dogs hanging about their places of business and nosing into things. There is no use putting the dogs out for they just wait until someone opens the door 40 come in or out and they go in again. A grocery store is really no place for a dog and owners' of dogs, should try to see that they do not annoy business people. Arrangements are underway for the. "Annual Birthday Week" contributions to the Clinton hospital. The objective for this year is $1,000, which will go towards the installation of an elevator and fire escape. Now is the season to get your harness oiled. l am prepared to oil all kinds of harness, single or double. J.A. Workman, harnessmaker; Kippen. Several of the your inen of Bayfield d' clubbetogether and gave a donde in the town hall on Friday evening. -which was much enjoyed by all present. odds 'n' ends Kids are people too Near the end of 1979, • some elementary school children.irr London were asked, "What has the Inter- national Year of the Child meant to” you?" - The congensus was "nothing." More specific questions still brought vague answers. "Did adults treat you differently this year: than they did in other years?" "Not really." "Do you think they should treat you differeiLy.?-" • ° "No; —Mr really. They . treat me okay." "What do you think the Inter- national Year of the Child meant then, if it didn't mean anything to you?" One little girl had an answer, "I think it meant children in poor countries got more to eat." One of the projects -slated to help children in developing countries was remembering. called "Music for'UN.TCEF." A group -4 One of the first TV programs f saw in the year showed two contrasting lifestyles. The setting of the first was a dusty street corner in a city in a Third World m country; A young woman, shabbily dressed, tied an infant, who was also clothed in rags, to the top, of a pole and waved him above her,head,. While the baby cried, provide v medical, care, e�ucation, clean water supplies and food for children in developing,countries. It was a far-reaching program but only one of manydesigned to help children in heed. Other programs took place at local levels; some wire -one- time events; some were the start of on-going programs. During the year, attempts were also made to focus attention - on the. miniature beauties. children of our country - their - _ The five -and -six-year-old little girls problems, their needs, their rights. wore frilly dresses and patent shoes; Movies and documentaries were every hair was in place; they walked aired on the autistic child, the mens daintily and smiled prettily to show tally handicapped child, the battered their perfect teeth. Their smiles were child, the divorced child. (The last especially evident when' -a camera or program dealt with children of a judge looked their way. divorced parents and how they were When the, pageant was over, the affected.) wifinbr explained, with a weary shine A lawyer, who worked with Chid en asy it was: "You' just.dhava to oI divorced -,parents, made al, iri 'know when-.to-srle, even if you don't statement ' that seemed an ap- feel like?'t:-" ' propriate th.erne' for the International- The story was as appalling to me as Year of the Child, - "Kids are people, —the scene on the street corner. Kids too." In a fast-moving society, where are people not 'objects. . Their children are sometimes viewed as problems 'differ from country t� excess baggage,. it's a fact well -worth country, but their rights remain 'the same. . To the average kid in Canada, the International Year of the,Child didn't mean much. Nevertheless, it shed light on the problems of children around the world. and reminded adults that even in affluent countries, like Canada and the United States, the rights of children can be violated, Yes, kids are people, too. A public meeting of all persons in- terested in the public library in Lon- desboro will be held --on January 21. You are invited to come and bring • a list of the books you would like to have ordered. 75 YEARS .AGO January. 19, 1905 On Friday last, Mrs. Shipley Sr. was striken with paralysis and has since been in an unconscious condition. Her life is. despaired- of, but the family and friends w m � ping -fnr^' e -best. The h r-i�f°�l�er dau-ghier all.iss--- I•attie.- months ago was a great blow to this esteemed lady from which she has never recovered. _The Holmesvi-lle WMS -helda sewing, circle a't Mrs.„W. Tebbutt's on Wednesday afternoon. • Mr. A. Radford of Londesboro had a. • successful wood -be on Thursday last and in the evening the girls and boys spenta. pleasant night 'in tripping the light fan- rastit and,other amusements. About 40 friends of Mr. and Mrs. -Robert White of West Tuckersmith were treated to an oyster supper'on Friday evening lastat their home here, the occasion being the celebration of Mrs. White's birthday. A very pleasant evening is reported. The only way to rid the country of the 'political scandals which have- disgraced Ontario is to turn out the Ross government which has supported and profited by the operations of the machine. ' IOb YEARS AGO January 15, 1880 A few fences and one or two chimneys were levelled by the wind on Friday night. A .man with a pair of bright red cloth pants on, attracted considerable notice on the streets, on Monday. He didn't appear to mind a particle. It' has frequently been remarked by parties in a' position to know that the postmaster here is one of the few who does - not put post cards into the boxes in such a way that they can be read by the idle and curious outside the wicket. ' We cannot but smile when a man says he cannot dffort to take his local paper because he wants to take a city paper. He might just as well say he cannot afford • bread because he inter is having sponge cake. Meanwhile he has to ask his neigh- bors about the local news and notices, and the local paper goes on building up his place and business, and serving his con- venience without support. This is not manly, and we say without hesitation that there is sonetiling out of joint \with he man who does not support his local paper. The skating rink will open tonight and the brass band will be present. The very open weather seems to have had the result of causing flowers to bloom in profusion. On Thursday last pansies and daisies were observed -in blossom in the garden of Mr. Swinbank, and since then in several other gardens in town. sell oitt, .d- ear erten; e am receiving $50 per month from the degradation board..'That's• allf get and have no idea where the next dime Is coming from.`with what t have to buyfood, pay—the hydro, pay, the >nertgage, clothe myself, pay the taxes, pay all the other bills, as you• know are a part of modern living, it. leaves..none for pleasuares. And yet Z -am expected to -i a$rfor-the, pleasures of othe? - The skating rink at Vanastra, was purohased along with a church and an. outdoor„ swimming pool for the residents of Vanastra.. To~• -date,. the church is used" for dances and• tn,eetings, the pool. has .since been covered and used by everyone except the residents , of Vanastra. f am partial,.rsa kid- aid` gWi7n"wot •d: --L-- do me a world of good, but I can't afford the membership fee, and yet I am expected to pay for it in my taxes. The skating rink was bought for the children of Var astra;for their skating recreation, but they are deprived of. the use of that rink because the Township saw fit to rent it to their friends for a buek-a-year to be used by a private curling club. Now the children of Vanastra have to find some old pond or cess pool to skate on and their parents have to go on paying for the skat'g , rink just as though their kidswere skating in it. I'm sure the members of the curling club can well afford to pay for their own pleasures. I'm sure.I can't -afford to pay for the pleasures of the curling club members. I suggest they either pay $1,000 a month rent or find "another community that will give _ them • a free ride at the expense of all, - or buy the `skating rink from the Va a recreation--ee•; p -lex for say --a— a eoupl-e-o€ ung:red-thousand dol.l•ar-s- .--- If --If they bought itat least they would be liable to pay taxes; Not being private property, there are no taxes payable on It now. I wouldn't even rent a place like that to my own sister for a buck -a - year, but Township surely does at the ratepayers of Vanastra's expense. This evening I had the mispleasure of. attending a so-called businessmen's .association meeting held at Heather Gardens,. Theywere making decisions affecting the future of Vanastra with less consideration than you would give tobuying a pair of socks. I don't know how some of these businessmen got to be what they are if they made decisions in their firms with as little consideration. I expect some et them had more money than brains and were just lucky. One of them said to me after, the meeting that he had not heard of the concept before tonight but voted for it anyway. He didn't bother to look 'into it further nor did he want to. I think the leader of the group and his cronies came into the meeting with a preconceived idea and bulldozed it through without giving consideration to alternatives. I believe this group is just. another GANG and they -don't have my san- ction nor do they speakfor me and I'm sure if the truth were to be known by the other people of Vanastra they t90 would condemn it for their slip- s -hod actions. I think this 'group, like other previous groups at Vanastra is just another blankity-blank sell-out. Charles Mazmanian Vanastra by Blaine townshend she smiled and passersby dropped coins into'a cup. To me, the scene was appalling. . Then the •scene shifted to a huge beautiful. auditorium -in an American city: The place was packed with men and women dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns. The stage was ablaze with camera lights and footlights, and -on stage, paraded a ' dozen or so' of well-known performers in the pop field gave a benefit concert , for UNICEF at the United,. Nations General Assembly'. Following the professionals' lead, high school students across Canada held `.special musical events with nrnf'itq eoine to UNICEF to help ,. Many thanks Dear Editor: Mr.'A1lan Finch, -Clinton Fire Department, Clinton, Ontario. Dear Mr. Finch: Thank you so much for your generous contribution of $550. Your continued support of our association and its goals mean a, great deal to MD patients across Canada! , The funds you raise annually for,our cause are important to our research and patient' service programs. It is very gratifying to us to know that your enthusiasm aneLdedication"have-- resulted in an overall contribution of well over $3,300.00 over the past ten years. You must be very proud! We know also what a lot of work this represents, and we are very grateful. • Because of the continued support of people like'yourseives and those who support you in your community, we are able to continue our work; ' and there is no doubt that sooner or later a cure will -be found for this terrible' disease. ' Thank you again for your help. Yours truly, (Mrs.) Shirley Simpson Ca▪ mpaign Secretary, Muscular Dystrophy Association. Do you have an opinion? Why not write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. Alt letters are published, providing they errn be authenticated, and pseudonyms are allowed. All letters, however, are subject' to editing for length or libel. u _4 . m _ ute . ..: i. t. ,au. -:'SCYw` i ,J,Z1:• a u au a. "a u )):1:ri' !. +•H�p P.:P�r"7!v �+�.!r.*.rrw-;:.0:rmn