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Canada ,1115.;047— sr. » r0rj Sr. citizen '13,00 Rer Year , U•S.A, 8, fgrelgn .'30.00 per soar Think of the future Canadians go to the polls on Mon- day to decide the fate of the country for the next decade, because any decisions made on energy policy, economic policy, or even foreign policy will effect the country for the next 10 years, or perhaps the next generation. So how you vote on Monday will - decide how you, or your children, or your grandchildren for that matter, will live more than any other election in recent history. Energy, is plentifulness and cheapness and has made Canada what it is today, for no country with the harsh climate and greatdistances of ours could survive very long without, it. Our wholelifestyle is based on 'it, from the availability of .:cheap food because of - energy intensive farming, to huge : luxurious homes that gobble, up energy in the cold winters like insatiable dinosaurs. So it is clear thinking that is needed when we go into the polling booths on Monday. We "can't afford to cast a ballot based on silly emotion, or even tradition. The`future is too important. We need to conserve energy, there is no doubt about that;but taxing it beyond reason is no " answer, and jacking the price up unreasonably doesn't make the miles any shorter, or the ; winters any warmer,' but only serves to put money into the pockets of those that need it- the least, the foreign owned oil companies, or the'. hands of a greedy provincial premier. -- That's why a vote for the Joe, Clark's Conservatives is a vote to give the country away to the multi- nationals, and a vote to slit our own throats. His energy policy is the least palatable of the three parties. This editorial writer has never taken such a tough and opinionated stand on an election before, .but «because the whole future of the nation depends - of this.. _election, now is the' time to stand up and be counted. -by J.F. Cars from eggs As the nation's automobile manufacturers" suffer through some ttrnoil, they should not only be considering the size of their product, but also the quality. The consumer affairs division of the department of transport in Washington received a letter from a woman in Pennsylvania who had Learned the hard way just how today's.• r cars -are constructed. She 'had been shopping at a supermarket and had packed a carton • of eggs among the other articles in her shopping cart. As- she -neared car, a gust of wind caught the shop- ping,cart and she lost control of it and it ran into the side of the vehicle. Not one of the eggs was even cracked, but it cost her $84.50 to have the damage to the car body put right. In her letter, thea lady suggested that -auto manufacturers try building car bodies- out of eggshells so they would stand up better. (From the Exeter Times -Advocate) -"I'm still trying to decide between the one with the insincere smile and the one with the shifty eyes." 5 YEARS AGO February 13, 1975 Ontario Health Minister Frank Miller said in Clinton last Friday night that no, hospitals - in Huron County, including Clinton's, would be closed as a result of the controversial Mustard report on health. He said that the Mustard report was prepared to stimulate discussion and it was never the government's" intention to implement if: ' A historic plaque commemorating the formation of the Town of Clinton will be erected and dedicated this' summer, council learned Monday night. Council received a letter from the Ontario Heritage Foundation telling the town that the province would erect the cast metal plaque in town, and requested the town to sent them the wording to be placed on it. - 10 YEARS AGO February 12, 1970 A wildlife area expected to become a major attraction for hunters and naturalists and thousands of -Canada geese - will 'be establishedi in Hullett Township swamp, it was announced jointly this week by Ontario- treasurer Charles McNaughton and Lands and Forests Minister Rene Brunelle. Theprovince is' proceeding to acquire about 5,000 acres north of Highway 8 between Clinton and Seaforth which will be developed for a variety of wildlife species and recreational pursuits. , Russel Thompson, formerly Chief of Police in Clinton for 13 years, died at this RR 5, Clinton home on. Friday. -.He was 64 - Politica turkeys It's ' a wonder ., there - aren't more people in politics. All it requires basically -is a strong stomach, a thick hide, and an absolute lack of scruples about giving. away other people's money. There will be only one real loser in this mid -winter election - the Canadian people. After eight months of non- government, they have to pay 60-65 million dollars for the privilege of choosing between two flocks of turkeys. Let's- start with an a priori. Ed Broadbent and the NDP don't have a hope of forming a government. All they can play is the role of spoilers. So we have a choice between a party that practical-Y.put us into eternal bankruptcy, the Liberals, and a party that showed' an incredible naivete in its first•chtance to govern in more than a decade, the Tories. There's something desperately wrong, with our system when we have - two choices only: the mediocre and the mediocre. My gut instinct about this election is disgust, and I'm 'sure it is widely shared. But it's the only system we have, at the moment, and a maxi can't just lie down on his face, cry, and kick his heels in frustration, as he would love to do. As I write, the Liberals, after being soundly rejected by the voters last spring, are 20 points ahead of the Tories in the polls. What an incredible electorate we have! Canadians tend to think of them- selves as rather dour, solid, gray people, fairly unemotional, quite stable. The truth is that we are more volatile, politically, than the Balkans. After several decades of good, gray prince ministers, whom we could count on to never let the left hand know what the right hand was doing,. we embraced, with an alrrtost religious fervour, a fiery, flarriing, evangelical prophet out of the mid- west, who had a Vision - and not much else. Rapidly becoming uncomfortable with this, we backed right up to a good, solid Canadian, who liked sports, had an infectious chuckle, and didn't know how tochop off the hands of his friends when they got them into the till. Mike Pearson. Soured on him, we clasped to our breasts a brilliant, arrogant rban`with' a flower in his button -hole and a flower -child in his kitchen. It was as disastrous as an honest, homely man who had never made the .. team marrying the chief cheer -leader. We became envious, and finally, em- barrassed. We listened to his maunderings and his ponderings. We were at first proud;' then baffled, then suspicious. He seemed to have the knack of. saying the wrong thing at the right time. There was nowhere to go but down, so we happily went back to a nonentity,. a fellow whom most of his own party did not want, a scrambling, ambitious, 'and colorless man, We'd had -enough of that •-.color- aerd charisma. We wanted someone like Mackenzie King, only .not so crafty. Toe. As I write, we are witnessing the Second Coming of Pierre and the Second Chance of Joe. His Brilliance' and His Ordinariness. And you can't tell them apart. The first is trying to hide a)1 his faults by acting like a clam. The second is multiplying his faults by opening his mouth. Both are promising the moon, with our money. They have cancelled each other out. What I'd really like to see is a massive rejection of both by the Canadian voter. Everybody staying home on election'day. Three hundred votes cast in the whole of Canada. All of them for the Rhinoceros Party. But that couldn't happen. We're too sincere, too earnest. We still believe in the so-called democratic system, which gives you a vote for one of two or three guys, none of whom youthink should lead the country. So we go into the polling booth, start to write an X, shake our heads, start to write an X in another place, shake our heads, and wind up feeling as though we'd like. to kick the sides out of the booth; and go off and get drunk. And that's about the way the vote will go, regardless of polls. We might vote' for the local candidate, if he -she seems a good persons regardless of our party affiliations. We:might cast a negative vote, against one party rather than for the other. • . Personally, I hope the Liberals lose, ,for several .reasons. They are in 'complete disarray. They did little to attack inflation, except steal Bob Stanfield's,.prsces and wage controls.. They let the national debt become -infamous. They showed little political conscience in forcing an election. The Tories were on the right track, with their tough budget. But they went too far on their so-called energy policy, in a land of long dj a.n-t~es, and eight months of .cold "weather. Canadians, will give up their mistresses' before they'll give up their Oil and gas. Pre"diction? Another minority government, worse than the last one. years of age. One of biggest attractions of this year's Clinton Winter Carnival is.,bound to be Ice Nick's '70, the ice show put on by the Clinton Figure Skating Club and including skaters from CFB Clinton, which begins tonight. The show will have 127 skaters ranging upward from tots to teenag , They have been working on their show under the direction of Mr. Robert McCrabb. 25 YEARSw,AGO • February 17,' 1955' Completion of the new Nurses' Residence in town is expected within six weeks, -- according to a report of the building committee given by chairman Harry Ball, at the annual meeting of the Clinton Hospital Association last night. Mr. Ball states that in that time the residence should be ready for occupancy and that the board is planning now for renovations to the old section of the hospital. Dr. R.W. Street, Blyth, is credited with saving the life of. nine month old 'Sheila Blake who suffered a severe attack of bronchial pneumonia. The doctor kept- a constant vigil at the baby's bedside in Clinton Public Hospital. At one time her temperature was recorded at 109 degrees but the baby is now well on the road to recovery. Dr. James S. Tapp, (son of Jack Tapp, formerly of Hensall and presently living in Clinton Public -Hospital)-- has handed surgeons of Canada and the United States a new tool combat injured and diseased arteries. Dr. -Tapp has solved the problem by devising a nylon tube treated to produce a bellows effect and so constructed that it would not unravel close to the ends when united to the surrounding tissue by a surgeon's sutures. 50 YEARS AGO February 13, 1930 Mr. Henry Sloman is in possession of a very handsome but fierce looking specimewn of the owl family, the bird being sent down from the north by Mr. Fred . Sloman, It is very large and ::_beautifully marked, but does not "make friends" very readily. Mr. Sloman intends sending it to the London Zoo, where it will be added to the collection of native wild birds. Mrs. Parsons of ,London,, Provincial Organizing Secretary of the Girl Guides, is here today investing the .Clinton Girl Guides. Can any good word be said of a sub- marine? It is a mean, Sneaky, abominable. thing and should be absolutely banned. A fair fight and no favors might not be so bad but the sub, and gas are not fair fighters. For sale - Good 'rubber tired top buggy. Cheap, will take wood for same. Bert Langford. 75 YEARS AGO February 16, 1905 When the cutting of what is known as the Colborne Hill in Goderich Township was undertaken, it was agreed that the cost, about $1,100, would •be defrayed by Goderich and Colborne Townships, Clinton and the county council. Colborne's share, as agreed upon, was $100, but the council has 'refused to pay the amount and ac- cordingly Reeve Middleton has entered suit against it. The weather of the past week has been cold and stormy enough to remind us -all of last -winter. On Tuesday morning the temperature fell to 18 below zero, some thermometers registering 22. Mr. Joseph Freeman and Bros. of Mullett Township, while engaged in cutting wood for William Morris -son cut up 30 cords of wood in two -days. If anyone can beat that we would like to hear from them. At 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning the alarm was sounded from the organ factory and half an hour later the east wing was completely destoryed by fire. When seen first the flames seemed to extend from one end of the building to the other so that all thoughts of saving it were soon abandoned. _The portion of the factory that went up in smoke col limned -the ° • machine, case, finishing, machininactfiilit an0 keys� L,u.,n, .n•.0 uui u. rndm Between 75 and 100 men were there em- ployed and they are not only out of work, but have had all the implements of their traded destroyed. In many instances the value was considerable. It is a serious matter with the employees and they are feeling a little blue about it. 16O YEARS AGO February 12, 1880 During the past week detectives have been busy making arrests and gathering information in connection with the Don- nelly tragedy. —Already 12 persons are under arrest, and a considerable amount of evidence collected which it is presumed will convict some of those under arrest. The remains of those killed were buried on Friday last. The Donnellys living do not .manifest outwardly much concern over the affair, taking matters in a very cool and , deliberate manner, though, no doubt, their emotions are concealed. Reporters at the scene of the tragedy continue writing a good deal of a sensational-n-ature, but the substance of their reports is generally, "interviews" and "surmises" that are of little real account. A number of boys whose parents suppose they are at school, are in the habit of daily gathering at building on Huron Street, and idling away their time, very much to the annoyance of the owner of the premises. Their names would look good in print, but they can avoid their appearance here, by giving up the habit and attending school. ' ' Promises, promises Dear Editor: - People have short memories and are easily taken over by talk. Trudeau tojd the people there would be no price and wage control. After he got in, he had a worse plan than Stanfield. So just watch all this talk against an Party feed A few weeks ago on a Sunday af- ternoon I switched on the TV and flopped down'on the couch. Too late, I remembered it was Super Bowl Sunday: I watched the game for a few minutes not because I'm a football , fan, but because turning the 1'V channel meant getting up. The underdogs were putting up a good b -'a tle: At that- point, the game was .closer than any of the experts had predicted. I was struck by the hard- hitting in the game. At first, I thought it was only over -reaction from an un- initiated viewer, but even the com- mentators remarked on the hard- hitting plays. Then came time for a commercial, and I was assaulted by another type of hard-hitting - the debut of election Campaign television ads. Television , has played an in- creasingly important role in politics hi recent years. In the past two t. campaigns in particular, the strategy seems to be to use the medium of television to point out the mistakes and weaknesses of the other parties and their leaders. . --- ,. "Attack on the opposition" is a phrase often heard nowadays Prom reporters covering the campaign trail, and it seems an apt description for most of the tv ads. It's not the type of strategy that stirs my interest or excitement. I.will be hard-pressed to become enthused about the upcoming election_ , im- portant though it may be. I would prefer the parties spend their money, time and energy discussing the issues and their policies' in simple clear-cut terms, that the ordinary Dick and Jane could understand. I would be more Likely to listen to 60, seconds of a party's owe positive point than 60 seconds of at- tacks on their opposition: On the other hand, I don't want a list of ros) promises that I know .realistically can't come, true, or if they did, would pause more problems further down the road. Canada has problems that won't be solved by all this fusin' and feudin',__. and I for one will be glad when, it's all over. But another question mark exists. If we have ,another minority government, how long will it be until we go through the whole process again? It's ,Ironic the election will be held a few days after Valentine's Day- I can imagine the verbal Valentines that will be passed amongst the candidates. I'll bet traditional verses are thrown out the window, and this Valentine's Day will be hike no other in Canada. Meanwhile, the television rebuttals go on. I'i'n reminded of a popular U.S. daytime game show called "Family Feud." During the first few weeks of 1980, Canada has had its own version of the show - the Party.Feud. It's less friendly and less fun toawatch, but the stakes' are higher, and in reality, it's not a game. *wit M Dear Editor: r- 1 mPt ,a fellow roan on Albert Street the ether day - a sort of wild,, hairy looking fellow whom I understood to. bo' the Main Street Wit. 1 tried to, avoid 'him but he got me by the lapels and. pulled me up and • said' "You know hallCoun;?,,cs going .to' tear down the town " Npt so, • l said, not ,so..JuSt th? opposite; They're 'accepting tenders to..start it u." "DQrl;'tfixing _you..- beplieve "They're going to tear the old place down and put up a little flat -top box'Qf a' thing ,in' its place. And they're going to continue to withhold repairs from. • the library so that they can tear it down too. They want the Library site for a swimming pool and skating rink four settlor citizens. Nice and central, • .ou see." "You're out of your mind," I said. "Why would Council let its own public buildings fall down. for lack of a bit -Of maintenance? Surely they have a maintenance fund' - put a little in each. year and keep things up to scratch," "You, just wait and see," he said. "when the tenders for repair of the town hall come in they'll argue and argue and argue and argue and argue and argue and argue and argue and decide to do nothing. The FLAT - TOPPERS you .see, are playing the waiting game.: They're tryij"g to -delay • long enough for the old town hall to fall down by itself. Then they can put up the FLAT -TOP PALACE. Shouldn't cost less than $2 million. What the taxpayers should be doing, ow that their taxes have gone up is to be telling the Councillor for their ward that they do not want TWO MILLION DOLLAR FLAT -TOP PALACE, and that they want the old place fixed up just as they voted in 1974." "You're insane,"- I said and tore myself away from him. I proceeded north along Albert Street, and a short distance from your office, Mr. Editor, I' met -another one - like the firstbuta little saner looking, less wild in the eye, the beard a little more trimmed. "Say" Itl said, "Are you, or are you not, the Main Street Wit?" "I am," he said. I then described my encounter with his look-alike. "Oh", he said, "that's the : Main Street Half -Wit. Onlya half-wit would believe the stuff he believes. Like, only a half-wit would believe that after the people voted in 1974 to restore the town hall, six years later some members of Council would still be doing their damnedest to block restoration. And only a half-wit would believe th fteritocritil designated the town hall as, a Heritage Building last year, they would now be trying to find ways of tearing it down. So don't you believe what he told you. Don't you believe it. At the very best, • only half of what the Main Street Half -Wit says is true." • - "Thank heaven" 1 said, "but I wonder which half is true?" "Well," said the Main -Street Wit, "I would imagine that THE TWO MILLION DOLLAR FLAT -TOP PALACE is only half true." "How does that work out?" I said. "Well," said the Main Street Wit, "I would think THE FLAT=TOP PALACE will cost only half of two million." All I can say, Mr. Editor, is that the stuff that goes on on Albert- Street is hardly better than what goes on in Council. I've been thinking that if the rent hasn't gone up too high, I might move into a packing case in the Holmes -Ville Dump, and live out_there instead of Clinton. Yours very truly Albert Geiststrasse Clinton 18c tax on gasoline will be peanuts to what the Liberal government will charge; M far as Broadbent is con- cerned, talk is cheap. He hasn't ever had the real experience. Mr. Clark made mistakes and was man enough to change it. Mrs. Sarah Storey, RR 3, Clinton. Death penalty Dear Editor: - , The Police Associations_ and many others are no* making a concerted effort to impress the Government to reinstate capital, punishment for pre- meditated murder, and to increase control over those . who 'have been judged criminally insane. The London Police Association has prepared a questionnaire for con- cerned and interested people to fill out and sign Ibr presentation to the ap- propriate -authorities: I would like to invite all of your readers Who are Turn to page 18 '• 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 lilrrl. • 0