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Times are changing
The times they are a `changin.'
We all know that and our reactions
range from amusement to disgust and
disbelief, says the Seaforth Expositor.'
Recent statistics froom Ontario's
registry of marriages and births may
help us get a handle on some of that
change and act accordingly.
Province wide, according to the
Registrar -General, Ontario's birth-
rate continues to decline. In 1961 it
was 157,663 and in 1978 it haddropped
to 120,964. We all think we know why...
the availability of birth control, the
high cost of raising children, and the
decision of many to remain chitless.
Marriage' too: i's... on'. the-.- d cline:
From a peak of 72,716 couples who
were joined in wedded bliss in 1975,
we've seen a drop off to 67,491
marriages in 1978. We think we know
why too...marriage is no longer seen
as the ultimate goal of everyone in our
society.
That's borne out by the divorce
statistics. They're up in Ontario, to
21,640 in 1978, up 900 from 1977.
Those of us who are in favor of
equality of the sexes can note with
pleasure that combined or
hyphenated surnames for children
were twice as popular in 1979 and they
will struggle through life with
so.mewhat unwieldy, but liberated,
surnames.
There you are folks, social trends in
'Ontario. as we -head .into-t:he eighties.
We hope those of you making business
and marketing, schooling and social
servicing decisions will take note.
Helping neighbors
Parts of the Prairie provinces are
suffering what has been termed the
worst drought in the area since the.
1930's. Abit of rain this past weekend
will help to alleviate the problems to a
certain extent, but grain yields in. the
worst -hit areas are expected to be, at
best, about half of normal. -
Lack of rain this year, preceded by
a dry fall and sparse snowcover
during the winter, have combined to
hit the Prairie farmers hard.
A "haylift" has been organized to
help provide Manitoba livestock with
Ontario hay, which is currently in
good supply. The Manitoba govern-
ment, has organized shipments of
195,000 tonnes of hay from Ontario
using whatever transportation means
available.
While Manitoba will pick up one-
third of the transportation costs, CN
and CP railways are expected to pick
up ' another third while the federal...
government will hopefully pick up the
rest.
The provincial plan is. that
Manitoba farmers *ill pay only the
cost of the hay itself, not the excessive
transportation costs involved in
getting it there.
And throughout all this, the Ontario
government has refrained from
rushing in and declaring Ontario hay
a provincial resource, setting up a
"Hay Heritage" fund or trying to get
world prices for the stuff.
Mr. Lougheed, take note. (From the
Mitchell Advocate)
[sugar ancF'SpICe
Richler's works
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If you're so smart, why don't you
write something intelligent and
literary?" That's what' a lady said to
me, after reading in that dumb article -
that I was a graduate in honor
English.,
My immediate response was, "If
you're so smart, sister, why are you
reading that trashy weekend
magazine?" 'Fortunately as they say
choler heads prevailed and my wife
and I were once more pried apart
before we could injure each other.
O.K. You want literary criticism?
You shall get it. I've just finished
reading "Needles", the novel "that
won for its author, William Deverell,
$50,000 in a new gimmick established
by, I think, Seal paperback hooks and
the old — and it says here — reputable
Canadian publishing firm of
McClelland and Stewart.
It was, according to the cover blurb,
the unanimous choice of the judges. I
wonder who the judges were. Gordie
Howe? George Chuvalo? Lassie?
"Needles" cannot be -Written by a
fine young Canadian. It is straight out
of Sax Rohmer by Mickey Spillane
with James Bond- doing the ac-
co4lichement.
It is pure garbage. But the sort of
garbage that makes you dig right to
the bottom of the garbage can. (Note
the repetition of the word garbage
there, you literary crits?)
But it is wonderful garbage and
that's why the judges chose it. It will
self. It's so rotten that 1 finished it at
three a.m. It's so bad you can't put the
Bang thing down.
It has everything that the modern
reader wants and can't quite get, even
though TV and the moyies.sze busting
their corsets to probe our every ab-
beration.
It has kinky sex, drugs, genital
mutilation, booze, a cop who likes
kickingpeople in the „guts; a cour=
troom scene with a lawyer who is
shooting into his vein -and a rein-
carnation of Dr. Fu Manchu, the great
Chinese villain of the aforenientione'd
Sax Rohmer's books.
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"Dammit, man — don't you know there's a recession on?"
a look through
thenews-record files
5 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1975
Last Saturday Clinton got a taste of what
it was like- to :be a big town when her
streets were invaded by 4,000 people for.
the Orangeman's Parade.
Wat Webster, 72, of Clinton led the 400
marchers through the town to the com-
munity park where a smaller crowd of
people gathered to hear the fife and drum
competition.
A gigantic crowd burst through the doors
of the Bayfield arena at 8,pm on Friday
evening and enriched the coffers of the
Pioneer Park Association by over $1,000 by
attending their annual rummage sale.
Proceeds from the sale willassist the
association in"paying for the groins which
were installed below Pioneer Park .last
year to hopefully sa.ve the bank from
further erosion.
10 YEARS AGO
July16, 1970.
"Clinton town council at its meeting
Monday night decided to enforce the
cut few during the summer months.
The curfew calls for all persons under 16
years of age to be off the streets by 1.0 pm.
A. blackened burned -out shell is all that
remains of what .was once the home and
business of William Fink on Wellington
Street following a fire on Monday evening.
Firemen were unable to save the
building that housed Fink Plumbing,
It also contains every dirty word
you ever thought you might like to say
and every violent deed you might like
to commit. It's bound to be a best-
seller.....And that is why Gordie, George
and Lassie chose it. Not for literary
merit.
To be fair,. it has a few great
descriptive passages from the. -
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
tourist booklet, an.cti. Thme switches
right out of John Le Carre. . -
So sue me, Jack McClelland.
Everything is in my wife's name.
A& icily, I thoroughly enjoyed the •
novel and I'm sure you will, too, if you
can't get enough sex and violence at
home.
Might as well get all this lit crit out
of my system at once. That brings up
--- no pun intended — Mordecai
Richter's new novel. I haven't read it,
because the library has not stocked it
and may never do so.
When his novel "Cocksure" won the
Governor General's Award, I chaffed
:local librarian because it wasn't
on the shelves. Her reply, and she was .
right. was that it was too dirty for our
town. We must have had a dirty old
man as Governor General at the time.
At any rate, as they say when they
don't know how to begin the next
paragraph, grumpy old Mordech
has once again gone through his
gestation and produced. -
And once again, he is into the
Jewish thing. In short, he has once
more rewritten the same novel that he
has been honing for years. Hep wrote
one about a young Jew. then about a
slightly older Jew. then . about a
youngish middle-aged Jew and this
one is about a really middle-aged
Jew. I'm looking forward to his novel
about an old Jew.
Simply, Mordecai Richler, after a,
couple of good attempts, went back to
-the fecund well of his own
background, drew from- of,
and drank
deeply. The results are first-rate.
He has not ' yet produced a
- "masterpiece". as Maclean's, that
pale copy of something or other,
called his latest work.
- What's a masterpiece? A piece done
by a master, which is recognized a
hundred or three hundred years later
by the current expert on master -
P
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pieces.
Shakespeare was a journeyman
playwriter. Dickens sold his stuff to
magazines, and padded it• un-
scrupulously, because he was paid by.
the word. Nobody would touch Conrad
with aten-footpole until he was aging.
We have some excellent writers in
Canada. If you want to see into the
mind of a woman, read Marg-aret
Laurence. If you want to see into the
'mind of a Catholic moralist, read
Morley Callaghan. If you want to see
into the mind of a WASP read Richard
Rolimer. And so on.
But if you want to read the works of
a hard-nosed satirist who lays it right
on the line about this country of ours.
read Richler.
Too had his novels are too dirty to
teach in high school. But I have snuck
in Duddy Kravitz.
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Heating and Electrical Ltd., and an an-
tique shop called the What's -It Shop, run
by Mrs. Fink.
The first mobile home to roll ,off the
assembly line at ,the huge new Boise
Cascade . Factory- at • Hensall was
celebrated with champaigne when it was
wheeled off the line on Monday afternooia.
When the new plant reaches capacity,
Boise will have a payroll of 300 in Hensall.
Miss Luella Johnston of Clinton Public
School -Was honored on several occasions
recently. Miss Johnston has retired after
teaching for 47 years in Hurontounty. She
taught in Clinton Public for 28 years.
25 YEARS AGO -
July 21, 1955 -
Elston Cardiff, Brussels MP for Huron
has again received assurance from the
federal government that plans are un-
derway to improve post office ac-
commodation in Hensall and Exeter.
Miss ,Rose Snowden's large barn, a
historic landmark in Bayfield, fell prey to
flames of unknown origin early Tuesday
morning.
The largest barn in the district, it was
built in 1882 in the form of an L. Two barns
were placed together and raised on a stone
foundation and another one built on the
end. The stonework which has often been
admired was done by two expert craft-
smen, John and Alexander Thompson who
had emigrated from Scotland.
50 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1930
Citizens of Clinton and community were
shocked yesterday evening to learn of the
death of Mrs. Harrison, wife of Rev. L.C.
Harrison, which was the result of a
collapse following a very critical operation
which took place yesterday morning.
Sincere sympathy is felt for the bereaved
husband and little son and daughter.
The sudden drop in temperature on
Sunday forenoon was a rather Unpleasant
reminder that summer will not last
forever. It was something of a surprise,
too, especially to the ladies, many of whom
had gone to church in their thin summer
dresses, feeling quite comfortable, only to
come out into a chill breeze which plainly
-ealled for a warm wrap.
On Sunday morning an epoch occurred
in the history of Bayfield when the former
Methodist Church which has been idle
since Union took place between the
Methodist and Presbyterian Churches in
July 1925, was opened by the Roman
Catholic denomination.
Haying and cherry picking have been
occupying the time and attention of
residents in Holmesville. Both cherries
and hay are a good crop this year.
At a well -attended and at times heated
meeting of the ratepayers of SS No. 10 of
-Goderich Township on Monday evening. it
The .10's" club
Now that I've reached another so-
called milestone in life, I can sit hack
and - reflect on all I've lear-
ned...There...that didn.t take long.
Take heart all new members of the
exr'Th-ave 30's club. If we believe the
song that was popular a couple of
yeas ago, we're not getting older;
We're getting better.
I've decided -to take the advice of a
birthday card. I'm not thinking of itas
middle age. I'm thinking of it as
prime• timi . (The card came from a
16 -year-old). Who else would dare.to
suggest 30 might be middle age?
Another card came in the form of an
insurance policy which entitles me to
the right to finagle, lie,_ evade and
kibbutz about my age to my heart's
content. -(I've been doing 'that for
years, 1 kihhutzed about my age so
ofterr•I almost forgot the truth.)
W.heh I was 20, I kidded people who
were thirty about being older than I
MWaS decided to hold over action in4regard
to the building of a new school until the end"
Of the -year. As there seems to be such :a
difference of opinion as to the best modeof
procedure, this was'considered the wisest
plan.
75 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1905
Mr. Will Cole, the veteran thresher ha
placed his order for a new separator with a
cutting attachment in front. This
arrangement is by many farmers
preferred to that of cutting the straw after
the threshing process.
Mr. A.E. Turner, bicycle dealer, informs
the News -Record that he has this year sold
out all his new wheels and ordered more.
This is the first time in history of his
business that such a state _of affairs
existed. Such facts do not seem to point to
the alleged decline in the use of .those
useful articles.
While people elsewhere, have been
sweltering in the heat, we have been en-
joying those breezes which have caused
our town to be known as Balmy Bayfield.
Chas. Lee Hing, hand laundry. Best
work in the town. Guaranteed, No
machines used to destroy the clothes.
Stand-up collars ironed without being
broken in the wing. Shirts ironed so that
they will not hurt your neck. Ties done to
look like new. Laundry on Huron Street,
next to Ridout and Hale's office.
100 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1880
A number of prominent businessmen in
Hensall have formed .a joint stock com-
pany for the purpose of sinking a salt well;
enough stock has been subscribed to
warrant them in commencing the en-
terprise.
Some farmers in this neighborhood are
paying $12 and $15 per week and board, for
harvest hands and even at this rate, hands
are scarce.
A number of residents along the base
line of Hullett and Goderich Townships
and also along Con. 16, Goderich Town-
ship, have recently suffered the loss of
quantities- of provisions by the thefts of
tramps. There is said to be five ofl these
gentry, who make their home in the woods
and sally out utider.th.ecover of darkness
to commit their depredations. The thefts,
which have been carried on for some time
are very annoying, as in several cases, all
the cooked edibles in a house have been
carried off, leaving the family sans board,
while the tramps display a decided liking
for butter, cheese, canned fruits &c. Good
watch dogs and cellar doors seem to be no
guard against the depredations and the
farmers are in a quandry as to what to do.
They should turn out en masse to find the
fellows and root them out of the neigh-
borhood.
by
elaine townshend
Was, with 1,. pip.asis or, the 'old'.
Funny, now that I've reached the
• milestone they were at, it doesn't
seem as old as when I was looking at it
from the milestone of twenty.
Understand?
Furthermore, the people 'who are 40
don't seem much older than me, and I
don't feel much older than the ones
whin are twenty. Understand that?
One of the mysteries of milestones
is that, when you get there, the
mystery is gone. Being 30 feels just
the same as being 29 or 31.
We attach great importance to
milestones of age as we go through
life. How anxiously kids wait for the
magic age 6f 13 when they enter
teendom, the age of imine, self-
consciousness and pretending we're
having a swell carefree time while in
reality we're wondering if we'll
survive.
When we turn 20 we know we've
0 made it. Sixteen was .a bonus if' a
driver's licence carne with it and 18
was the age voting, drinking and
seeing X-rated movies became legal.
My peers and I had to wait an extra
three years for the latter. *hen we
reached the age of 21, the legal age
was lowered to 18. With indignation,
we watched those 18, 19 and 20 -year-
old `childl-'en' lining up at the polling -
booths .
olling-booths.
When, we finally reach the age we
can' do" all the things we thought we
wanted to do, we realize they're not,
that thrilling.
In retrospect, I've changed rely
ideas about certain things not once
but several times as the years went,
by, and e learned a few things.
- For e) npie,..most-.people over 30
are trustworthy; people over 40 are
not over the hill; people over 50 are
not senile and people over 60 know -
more than I because they've had a
longer time to experience life. I can
learn from them, if I justtake time to
listen.
" I alio realize I didn't know
everything -when I was 18 and I hadn't
learned everything by the time 1 was
21 or 25.
I'm still learning and I always will
be. That's one of the exciting parts of
every milestone of life.
Sportsfest '80
write
letters
Dear Editor:
ma
Sportsfestmunity Qf is being heldGoderich inon the►ugtist host
Co
15006th, and 17th, 1980, It consists of
18 ,recreational event tournaments,
through which we encourage fun,
good sportsmanship, parti.crpatioa ,
low-key competition, and to promote
on gdin•g intercommunity com'
petitions in the future for these
developmental sports.
Sportsfest '80 is sponsored and
organized by the Lake Huron Zone
Recreation Association. (L.H.Z,R,A.)
The events offered are for all ages.
They include; archery, .ball hockey,
cycling, euchre, fun run, girls soft-
ball, gymnastics, horseshoe pitching,
karate, men's slo-pitch, shuffleboard,
soccer, swimming, T -ball, table
tennis; 'tennis w'ap eir'-s"softba-l1 and -
women's slo-pitch.
The registration deadline date for -
these events is July 25.
If you are interested . in more in-
formation or in participating in
Sportsfest '80 in Goderich, contact
your local recreation director or
recreation committee.
Tim McLean, Sportsfest Co-
ordinator, can also be contacted, by
-writing to 166 MacDonald Street,
Goderich, Ontario N7A 3N5 or by
calling 524-2127.
Hope to see you participating, in..
Sportsfest '80 o Let's make it the
greatest yet!!!!
Sincerely yours,
Tim McLean,
Sportsfest '80
' coordinator.
-Rooting
-Deur Editor --.- -.-_y
In my family history research, I
discovered that. - my great -great
grandmother was Elizabeth Rat--
tenbur:y,, a sister of Isaac, William,
Joseph and John Rattenbury who
settled in the Huron Tract (Clinton,
Bayfield and- Goderich) in the 1830
and 40's.
In order to trace the family's
origins in *England, require mere
information regarding the family
members that came to Canada.
If any of your readers have in-
formation that might be of help, I
would be most grateful.
Yours truly,
(Mrs.) Shirlee Viljoen
131 Penfield Dr.
Kanata, Ontario
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Further to numerous enquiries
asking this Corporation (Tele -Direct -
a Bell Company) to react to
solicitation for advertising being done
by Intra Canada -Telecommunication
throughout the Province of Ontario
and further to the various newspaper
articles that have appeared con-
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any connection whatsoever between
Intra Canada Telecommunication
and Bell Canada or Tele -Direct
(Publications) Inc. arid the well-
known "Yellow Pages" directories
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Intra Canada Telecommunication,
soliciting for advertising in an
Ontario classified directory, is in no
way associated with the Bell group,
Tele -Direct or. the "Yellow Pages"
(registered trade mark) directories
of Bell Canada or Tele -Direct.
Yours very truly
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- Director
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