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Total, pr9in run 8400* nthe readers Clinton News -Record t`• Dangerous village/ Dear Editor: 13ayfie1d is a very lovely village in • which to live but as a resident of only 314 *moiflhs 1 baSte also diSCOVered it -.IS a very dangerous 'Village n which to live: I am referring to the impaired car drivers who seem to 'enjoy using the streets. of ayfield as though they were on -the 401: I have encountered many room. ,incidents of what could - ---have-teen-tragio-accidentsrtherlatest— Wog' last Sunday when my 'three children and I missed being hurt, or for -that matter, killed by about 12. feet, We were on skiis so we were unable to make a dash away from the on car. It had gone.Out of control turning a corner too quickly. I May say we were on the grass verge off.the - road, There!s-rea • * • • • type, of driving, but yet it seems to continue. Even icy and snowy con- ditions.don't deter these rhaniacs from driving the way they do. There are a lot of children and marry elderly living in Bayfield. On my return home, I telephoned . _the,O.P.P. and was told that although they do police.the area, it seems that these "kids" know when they are not. So what is wrong? Not enough , policing? Insufficient fines? Should there be unmarked cars? This is too serious a matter to push to one side. Yours sincerely, Kathleen Gowers, Bayfield. COn11$14144/11.740wipne*, As9i411414,11 --111sp'ley:—.41dverTts1nit----iat el c11(0,11011ble on request.Ask 'for R010 Card No. 10 Offuttive Sept, 14 1979 Genetal Manucictr ;, llowtorti Aitken f,ditor • James E. fliiii01'144 Adstqtisitlia Director 'Amyl.. Hoist tter_g_LE eatAtto.t; Shal!ey f_l_tcPheo • afflc• Manactet • Marclqiiit • Circulation,. Freda Mckeod Are we ready-? • • up to 4,000 Shriners and their families visiting Clinton in May, but the big question most ,Clintonians should be asking themselves right now is: are we ready for them? It's been exactly five years since the Centennial celebrations in town inspired homeowners and --businessmen alike to clean-up their properties and put the town in a presentable state for the thousands of returning Clintonians. But five years have passed, the fever has died off, and even though many of our residents have kept up their properties,? there are a few "bad apples" in the basket that seem to detract from the rest. Yes, we have young a Business Improvement Association, which t p anitatei— . • '13.00 Ciltizen • 1340 par year U.S.A. tit foreign • '30.00 per year anything done yet, and yes, we have a property standards by-law that if enforced would eventually get those offending properties cleaned up, but it would create a lot of ill feeling. The solution has to come from within each one of us. We must ask ourselves, what kind of face will Clinton show to those 4,000 visitors from across Ontario and the United States? Are we proud of our town? If you have already got your property in shape, then offer your services to your neighbor or relatives, and then with a positive attitude we can make the town not only look good to the occasion visitor, but make it a better place to live and a place that will attract more permanent residents in the long run. by J.F. ,+ Help the firemen • Firefighting has constantly "to be modernized. For years, 'says the Trentonian, we have advocated •apd seen come into force such things as mutual a,id, aerial ladders, rura-1-Nre depart- ments, water tanks, and'ektaler things to help in the speediest possible action against man's most dreaded enemy, fire. Fire departments have improved training techniques, and have in- creasingly turned to the use of the most modern equipment possible. The latest is a system to replace the telephone call, which is limited in value, requiring people to. be home before it is effective. But the pagers now adopted, a sort of portable radio, a vastly improved version of the old walkie-talkie. With these, which have a radius of 25 miles, regulars and volunteers can be summoned by a single radio call. They have been "in use by the Frank - ford department for a year, so their worth is well tested. They are now -likely to become a standard part of the equipment of all firefighters. Yet much still depends on the public. , Firemen, with all their training and _ eilii/i/EPP`10,110.(1 .014... 1 V) Orli relit49 t›Eiti(Tfootp, t)uT WT14 MY OWN 140/1L/P 'Careful -- 11 (0111(1 he an election ploy.- remembering our pas t .5 YEARS AGO January 30, 1975 Hullett TOwnship council will seek the backing of various townships in the province to have the Ontario government -•/°Westcott, whb first came to county council - in 1967. This week's balmy weather:S-eems—in - have people thinking spring already. auditorium, when a splendid program was given b -y the students. - Death has again visited the community and on Thursday last, January 23, just at 25 YEARS AGO . , the lasit.toll of the bell at noon, the spirit of _rein_sta_te_the wolf boulyt_in the province. . --,- _ February3, 1955 ._ . Miss Catherine Lovett, Mill Street, passed Bert Gliddon, who has 13—arn in business — -87VerTi-l-fals—e alarms hi—vele-en reported to theGm-FeaTBeyor=She had reach-eaThe the longest time of any man in Clinton, 37, to the officeof the .Clinton police con- ripe old age of 84 years years, will close his dry cleaning shop on cerning .the big dog Kurt The big -Saturday for the last t ime. Ge rri. an Shepherd dog has been missing . . • An early morning fire Friday destroyed from his home above the News -Record a barn and 95 head of dairy cattle about_ office foefKarly.three weeks. Considered a four miles east of Goderich on Highway 8. valuable animal and a wellt.loved - The barn, owned by Gerald Rodges of children's pet, as well, his owner is very RR 2, Goderich, was described as a total anxious to recover him. As yet, any of the loss. . clues the police have received have led to Organizers of this year's Winter Car- no success at all. . nivel in Clinton, billed as the Seventh Regular voluntary donations to the Annual Clinton and, District Centennial proposed building, plan at the Ontario Winter Carnival, are keeping their fingers Street ,United Church have brought funds . crossed that the wintry wether of the last to a level at which it is considered_ad- feW days will hold out for the opening vi,,able to begin the work. Chairman of the weekend of the 10 day event, and they are building crmmittee, George Levis has even hoping for a few more inches bf snow. announced that work on the $50,000 ex- ' 10 YEARS AGO tension will get underway as soon as -- --January 29, 1970 weather permits. .- equipment, can deal with a fire only., as fast as they can get there. The public must remember some things: , • 1. When a fire occurs, call at once. Delay can be fatal. The first five minutes of, a fire determine largely what will happen. So call first, and then do whatever can be done. 2. Make sure you give clear directions, so that the men and equipment can get to the right place_ as fast as possible. a. Keep your fire de -p- artment's number handly by the r. telephone, large enough to be seen, and without having to hunt through anything. A card tacked by 'the telephone with the number:written very large is the best way to do it. 4. Have a good smoke detector on your premises. 5. Get out and let the firemen handle the fire. Your life is worth more than any possessions. Firefighters are constantly im- proving ways to combat fires, and also work to help prevent it. The rest of us must work with them to ensure that we get the most value possible out of all this, and save both liveand property. Clinton Town Police and Ontario • 50 YEARS AGO Provincial Police are still investigating January -30, 1930 the murder of 70 -year old Miss Katherine A • pleasant gathering took place at the McGregor of 54 Whitehead Street, Ciinton. -home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Caldwell of She was stabbed to death in her horn. • Tuckersmith Township, when 100 neigh - The crime apparently took place some hors and friends met to congratulate the time before midnight on Friday evening, newlyweds. The evening was spent in acdording to police but the body was not cards and dancing. An interestineeature discovered until Saturday, January 25 at was the presentation to Mr. and Mrs. 10am. • Caldwell of a lamp from friends on the 10th On the final afternoon of a two and a half and 12th concession. Miss Jean Smith read day session of Huron County Council, the address, to which the groom made a members gave approval for up to 820,000 to suitable reply. be -set aside in the 1970 budget for the S.S. No. 4, Tuckersmith was closed this preliminary study and development of week, owing to one of the pupils having Canadian For ces_Baser Clin ton. developed a t ase of infantile paralysis over the weekend:Prom-pi-measures were taken and it is hoped there will be no spread of the diseake. A former well-sknOwn resident of Bayfield in the person of Mrs. O.W. Rhynas: nee Miss Maud Ferguson, and who is residing now in Burlington, received a letter -a short time ago from Her Majesty, Queen Mary. In the Queen acknowledged a book of poems written and sent by Mrs. R hynas. On Wednesday afternoon of last week the first 1930- meeting of the Collegiate Literary Society was held in the school ,For the seCorid year in a row, Huron County's warden has been elected by acclamation. He is .1.1;sborne Reeve Roy Hockey expert • Like every other red-blooded male in this country over the age of four, I am an expert on hockey. . As a player, I didn't exactly make it to the -NHL. Or Senior A. Or Junior A: Or Junior B. Or Juvenile But you don't have to make it all the way in Canada to become a con- noisseur of the game. All you haveto do is to have been. exposed to the game since you were about three, and it's in your blood for life. As a kid, I felt cultUrally deprived because- I didn't have a pair of "tube" skates. To my great shame, I had to • indulge in the sport wearinvan old pair of- my mother's "lady's skates" (pronounced, with 'utter scorn by the kids with tube skates.) IV1Tne went almost to the knee and supported your ankles like a bag of marshmallows. Obviously, that is the sole reascn didn't make it to the big leagues. As a kid, I played shinny on the river with some guys 'who actually, later, did make it; to pro or semi -pro ranks. When I was in high school, some of my best friends wereplaying Junior A. was brought up in a rabid hockey and lacrosse town. When I Was a little boy, we had a Senior hockey team.,It was madc up of local factory hands, blacksmiths (yes, I go back that far), and generally good athletes, of no particular rank or station in life. They played for fun. They bought their own equipment. There was tremendous rivalry with the other towns in the country;.' The rink was - jammed for every game. We kids sneaked into the gaoes through the place where they threw out the snow after clearing the ice, squirmed our 'way down behind the players' bench, and fought each other' t6 the 'bone when a senior proke a -- stick, and with a lordly0 gesture, handed it back towardsu,s._ If you were lucky, you got two pieces of hockey stick, took it home and had your old man splint it, taped it up, and plaSed the rest of the season with a six-foot man's hockey stick practically tearing the armpit out of your five-foot frame. When I was a teenager, the home - town went ape over hockey, began importing players, and iced a Junior A club. We local high school guys were cLevastated by jealousy when.the imports, from such exotic towns as Ottawa, Montreal, Brockville, came to town and stole ourgirls away. We locals didn't have a chance. It wa /Depression times. We were lucky if we had the money to go .o the Saturday night movie (two bits), let alone take along a girl and feed her afterwards. • But the .hockey imports had , everything. Flashy uniforms. Great physiques. The roar of the crowd. And money. Theyg,ot about $15 a week for room and board and spending money. They often had two or three dollars to" throw around, so, naturally, they got the girls. (Someof them are still stuck with them, ha, ha.) Ironically, about a third of those guys who made us green with envy would be knocking off eighty-five to a hundred thousand a year if they hadn't been born forty years too soon. They were good enough to make' the so-called NI-11-44ay, but not then, when there were so few teams and so many aspirants. There were only eight teams then: Toronto, Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Ottawa Senators, Boston, New York Rangers, New York Americos, -Chicago, and Detroit. There were probably just as many' • hopeful players. Today there are 21 or 23 or 28 teams in the NHL. Nobody • seems able to coutitthenf any more. • Well7igure it out. Take a quart of • whiskey ansil add a similar 'amount of water. Split the remains in two and add a half of water to each. What do Turn to page 8 • odds 'n' ends Simple white cane February 3 to 9 is White Cane Week across Canada - a week of public education sponsored annually by the Canadfau_National Institute for the BiiWd (CNIB) and. -the Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB). In 1921, James Biggs, a blind man in Bristol England, painted his cane white to make- it clearly visible on dark streets. As a result of his ingenuity, the white cane became a symbol of blindness. The first White Cane Week was held in 1946. Its purpose was mit to raise funds but to make the public aware of the white „cane as a symbol of blin- dness, to''remind them its owner might sometimes require assistance and to inform them of the best ways to help. In addition, the blind were in- structed in the proper use of the cane. Window display'S-of crafts, made by, the b1TndicFridio interviews were arranged.' Because of the overwhelming success of the initial effort, White Cane Week became an annual event. In 1947, -The achievements and capabilities of blind persons were stressed, and at the same time, at- tention was called- to some of their major problems. The National Street Car Advertising Agency gave free space for posters supplied by Cal. The 1947 White- Cane Week was offitially opened by the Governor- General ,of Canada, His Excellency Vi'scount Alexander, on a., Cii(C national, broadcast which also etsiedolottev— WON 0.417.41APON... 75 YEARS AGO February 2, 1905 A merry sleighing p,arty of „Bayfield Line's fair -young people's:it-Vb. to Clinton on Monday evening last to the hospitable home -of Mr. John, Pbwell where they all spent a most enjoyable time until the peep of day. Miss Edna M. Pickard, pupil of Darol Saunders of New York, will teach the violin in Clinton for $10 per term. For reference apply at Hoare's music store. 100 YEARS AGO January 29, 1880 A couple ot days' sleighing (of an in- ferior order) was enjoyed last week, but the snow soon disappeared - While playing marbles on the ice at Fair's pond, on Tuesday,' a small boy named Dennison went in up to his neck. He • managed to scramble out, little the worse • for his bath. The wheels, of some of the wagons coming into townlatt, week, gave evidence of the state of the back roads. About all that was visible was the hub; the circle outside of this was a compact mass .of mud. As the pre,cise location of the intended new town hall is yet an open question, neither the council nor the public having • settled the and there being a possibility that it -nra y- be—p-fatral in position that will not be satisfactory to a large body of the ratepayers, and when too late, found that it might have been located much more advantageously for a number of reasons, it will not be out of 'place to make a few remarks thereon. Unfor- ▪ tunately, for appearance sake, the area of the market lot is a rhomb and the building cannot, therefore stand at right angles witli one street without being diagonal with another, unless the building is made after the shape of the lot which must not b • entertained for a moment. by elaine townshend featured blind artists. In 1948, a six -point objective for improved legislation for the blind was Set forth. During the 1950s, several new features were introduced to White Cane Week, such as bowling events, demonstrations -of braille writing and reading in schools, distribution of the braille alphabet and disprqs of blindcraft at "open - house" activities. • Alsomtn• the 1950s, documentaries -began. The first, "Miracle,In The Dark," portrayed the normal at7,.• tivities of a sightless homemaker whose abilities surprised a visitor that had come to read to her. - "The Way Back," shown in 1951, described- the adjustment of a young. man who lost his sight through glaucoma. "Light in The tYarkness," • in 1951-, pointed out the problems of three people - the child who never had• the adult who lost -his vision in early life, and an elderly person whose sight failed because of aging. The national documentary in 1954, "Handicap Harvest," was an account of the adjustment period which Mrs. W. --C. Bending, Council President, underwent after her loss of sight and her work with the Councilafter the adjustment was accomplighed: In 1962, General Motors Theatre presented a radio drawa on the life of • • Louts Braille; and Foster Hewitt, play-by-play commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, received a plaque for "sharing his sight" in hockey with ,blind Canadians. To celebrate Canada's Centennial' Year, CCB club'members across the 'countr9 raised Kinds to purchase a mobile eye clinic, to assist in the prevention Of blind ss in India. By 1974, TV pp�rnos had replaced traditional boo marks and braille cards, but because of continued demand forthe bookmarks, they were re-inserted in the White Can Week package.• Frorn posters on street cars to pamphlets and bookmarks. from radio dramas and ',TV docume:taries to .newspaper, radio and TV promos. theeducation of White Cane Week has been' disseminated since 1946;CNIB, CCB, and clubs across the country continue to promote a better un- derstanding betWeen sighted and non - sighted citizens. .It all started with a .simple white cane. • - The slogan for White' Cah,,e Week,_ 1980, is "Blindness Is Everyone's Concern," and the emphasis is on prevention. More than 33,000 Canadians are blind or visually im- paired, and over 2,000 Canadians lose their vision every' year. Half of these cases could be prevented with proper safeguards--atrWOrk, at home and at play and w-ith--regular medical and eye checkups. During the upcoming week and year, sighted Canadians will be urged not to take our sight for granted. We will be advised to learn more about , lAindness and asked to set aside our stereotyped ideas of blind and visually impaired persons. We will also be „reminded we can share ou'r sight -by lending a helping hand when it is needed ,and by considering the donation of our eyes to the Eye Bank of Canada. . Let's listen. Blindness is' everyone's concern. egypieetto Need opportunity Dear Editor: I am writing in regards to the piroposed supermarket planned by Knechtel Grocers. I too am a businessman in this community, and, I a-rii 100 per cent in ta-vour of the proposed market. , • .„ I canribtbelieve that certain people objecting' to this are concerned -about the town's welfare. -,They are,..more concerned about their personal gain, than what is good for the town. They certainly aren't concerned about the young people who live here. As soon as they receive their education, they have to go elsewhere for employment. Even though this is only a small undertaking, every little bit helps. We have turned -away business' and in- dustry far too often. Let's get started in the r ightdirection. Yours respectfully, Donald J. Swan, Clinton. Need hanging back Dear Editor: ' A strong and unique b d has nutured and grown through/theyears. The bond I speak of, is We love of a complete family. Tra cally, on- the dark and cold night of January 23, 1980, this bond of,,I6ve was abruptly ansi_brutaily s -ttered _loving. father and hu band, loved son, and brother's 11 indiscriminatly ter- minated (Constable Ducan McAlees As s e of this highly respected man' family, I have agonizingly w ched the senseless pain and, isery inflicted on his family and friends. To lose a loved one is a heartbreak in itself, but to have a loved one's life violently snatched from you for no apparent purpose is a sensless waste of human life. Which, cannot nor will it ever be explained to his; wife, sons, mother and family. • The tragedy of this whole situation, reminiscent of Detroit City, is that the unjust death of this fine, young, dedicated officer has served no purpose. That is why we the, family ask no, we demand, capital punish- ment be reinstated and our parole syStem revamped. A plebiscite is needed so that all Canadians -can voice their views and be heard by the men in government. Therefore, ask your candidate what his viewson capital punishment are and maybe, just maybe we can 'save someone's son, daughter, husband 01 wife. - % Phil and Beverly (sister) Beddow, and the lbving family of Constable • • Douglas McAleese. I like Zehrs Dear Editor: Recently there has been talk of a new grocery outlet opening in Clinton. As a regular out-of-town shopper, I wonder if you would be interested in my viewpoint? ---. I like to shop at Zehrs for four main reasons: 1. Everyday prices are comparable, if not a few cents cheaper on all of itheir high quality name brand and house brand products. 2. Let's face it, every shopper is Attracted- by weekend specials. At Zehrs, weekend specials are available in abundant quantities, readily visible, willingly off4edlor a full. six 'day period at prices that generally offer a substantial saving-, Even when limitations are placed. ▪ on quantities one can purchase, it is hard to feel cheated because limitationare fair and savings are • , Turan to page 7 0