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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-07-17, Page 4PAA 4 L TQ EW$' R CORP, TRVRtSDA Y, AMY 7y 1980 tfhr 'C.ii.toton: tsws.ka:4ste! lw euh1444k4 ;HO" Thursday tet 04. Reit $t. Clinton, Ontarl'oA C,unalla.14.012l,11. Mamlio.G Oolong W'aol!ly 14..'sp'F.MA,t' Association ft .!,0 120 iwev+ d: c$*•s mon by pest office ggdar that ,permit nt•ntboar Sill, is fi * NewIIsKord. icolrporsft.sl In 3t24. the, Huron Naws•R+tcwd, Ioutld.d in.1S'1, send 1'h. Cilnton Maw Ora, fpund.d In 141ota1: p, rgss nun ;'• CNA MiimberCanadian Community Newspaper Associaflen Rlspla.y advertising rates available on request. Ask for • Rata Card No. 10 effective Sept. 1,1,71. General Mana9er. J. Howard Aitken Editor • James E. fit!goratd Advertising Director - Gary 4: Moist News editor - Shelley McPhee Office Manager. Margaret Gibb Circulation • Freda McLeod Q,1 t p J Subscription Rate; • Canada •'13.00 Sr. Citizen- '13,00 per year U.S.A. 1L foreign -'50.00 per year 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 ,l 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. +f] "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 i, 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. • 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 Not associated Dear Editor: 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- cerning that solicitation, please find -I attached a press release disclaiming any connection whatsoever between Intra Canada Telecommunication and Bell Canada or Tele -Direct (Publications) Inc. arid the well- known "Yellow Pages" directories published by Tele -Direct .(Publications) Inc. , Tele -Direct (Publications) •Inc., Bell Canada's publisher of White and Yellow Pages telephone directories, informs its directory advertisers that 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 0. D. Mannion - Director Communicatinnc S-trike causes shortage -paper A strike by the Canadian Paper - workers Union against Abitibi -Price Inc., has closed paper mills in Ontario, 'Quebec and Newfoundland and may force Signal -Star Publishing into newsprint conservation measures to conserve current sup- plies. If the strike against the affected plants continues, readers may find' the paper will become a little smaller and perhaps, a little tighter. News pages may contain more advertising and stories may be shortened to ac- comodate the adds. We will still endeavor to bring the reader the best possible of coverage Of community news and events despite the difficult circumstances., If the strike continues over a long period of time, further cutbacks and stringent measures may be im- plemented. We, will keep you in- formed 6? any 'changes in the situation. We hope these changes will not affect the advertisers or readers and that the situation will soon return to normal. 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