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Clinton News-Record, 1980-11-27, Page 4C PA frE 4 I> 'D il�il WS« CORD, "pH SDAY, NOVglYIBUR27;1980 tr>*0 ortt• to. pb43ithoid .i chi it ,P,f;►,.00at 31, Ontioria. .$lilt 1tJ Tt►1,s 4 Mt.34+g3, link• .riptintt i ett; $400040 M,iCA,Lloft ,-'3i$par,yeir it is reektio#40; it to on+i c tawii, hyr liWl. *tit ,r1lki under thw pens t nuw of N17, The 'Naw R,4Fi rtl ie.►corporu 4 ti its thu Huron tfewi-Recortl,. found Mb.1N1. d04Th, Clinton Rro,'fdun ilii Mist. xotot Oreo: tun 3,3Otr. , :+PCNA MEMBER JAMES E, FITZGERALD -Editor SHELLEY McPHEE - News Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET L. G10B - Office Manager MEMBER isplay adyertisino rates available on request. Ask for Rate Cord No. 10 effective Sept. 1, 1479. Hospital financial The revelation this week that the Ontario government, through the ministry of health, has agreed to let Clinton Public Hospital go ahead with extensive renovation plans, and even to give a two-thirds grant, should come as encouraging news to area people who have fought so hard in the last few years to keep the hospital open. Only five years ago, the province ordered the hospital closed and the blow would have been a severe one not only for Clinton's sick, but for hundreds of employees. port But we all fought back, and proved that a small town hospital is not only a necessity, but is much cheaper in the long run. The fight was well worth it. Now we are going to update the health care centre, modernize the hospital, and make it more attractive to doctors as well So a fund raising effort will be necessary in the next few months, and what better thing to give to that something we all use at one time or another. Be generous when they call on you and let's keep an important part of our community alive for mariy more years to come. By J.F. II Help to save fuel With the predicted shortage of crude oil, and our dependance on expensive foreign crude coupled with the skyrocketing prices, it is hear- tening to see the merchants of Clinton encouraging the conservation of energy, particularly gasoline. At the head of the class for getting top marks are the town's two major supermarkets, who' together have doubled the floor space to nearly half an acre for grocery shoppers in the last week. . No longer will people have to drive all the way to Goderich, Stratford or Exeter to do their grocery shopping, using the excuses of better selection and lower prices as reasons for burning up gas. Now, those amenities are available right here, in town, which will save thousands of gallons of gas each month, and many dollars, as it costs about 23 cents a mile to operate a car. Even more gas will be saved by those who are accustomed to shop- ping at the high-class quality of Birks stores in far off cities. They too can stay home, how that Anstetts has unveiled one of the best jewellery stores in this part of Ontario. Other businesses in town have encourged fuel saving in the past, but now more than ever, we can thank the merchants for giving us more good reasons. by J.F. ovemberK gate by Bud Sturgeon remembering our past a look through the news -record files 5 YEARS AGO December 4, 1975 No one will say for sure that the Clinton Public Hospital could be on the Ontario Minister of Health's doomed list of 23 hospitals to be closed. \Frank Miller, minister of health, has not divulged the names on -bis list, but-'J'ack Rid ell, Huron County's MP is trying to get s me information. Al hough she was Ole oldest swimmer in the wim-a-thou at Vanastra last Satur- day, Mrs. Allen Jewson of Clinton showed good endurance and tried to complete 45 laps in an effort to raise money to help with the . Vanastra Rec Centre. About 47 swirl -toners raised ` $1,200 with Shela- Arnston of Clinton swimming a record .400 lengths. 10 YEARS AGO December 3, 1970 New decorations on the lamp posts on 'Clinton's main street are brightening both day and night during the Christmas season in Clinton this year. The expensive new wreaths and lamps were purchased by the businessmen of the town and installed by the -PUC. The program of redecorating the downtown area will be spaced over three years and will see more lights added next year and the job finished in 1972. On Wedensday, November 25 around 10 pm, John Miller, who owns a farm five miles north of Bayfield on Highway 21, lost ' his barn, feed and 40 head of cattle in a fire. The inaugural meeting for the CNIB advisory boards of Huron and Perth Counties was held on November 25 at the Royal Hotel in Mitchell. There are currently 81 blind people in Huron and 58 in Stratford and Perlh County, receiving Suee(s.s ful buddies I sometimes wonder if my college. contemporaries are as happy as I, or happier, or less happy and just walking the old treadmill until they reach the end of the road and the dust to dust business. My wonder was triggered by a recent letter from no less a body than Sandy Cameron, the Ambassador to Poland. He seems happy, .but that's only on paper. We used to kick a football around when we were ten or twelke until we were summoned home in the gathering dusk. He's since returned to Ottawa, after three .;Fars in Yugo-Slavia and two in Warsaw. and has_ invited us to drop around I shu #der at the cost of that, if my old lady thought she was going into ambassadorial regions. Can you rent a mink coat for an evening? Another guy I knew at college has emerged into a fairly huge job, much in the public eye. He is Jan (now John, Meisel, a former Queen's professor who • has been appointed head of the CRTC and is determined to) move that moribund body. Jan is, as I recall, a Czech, gentle, brilliant, fairly frail hut strong in spirit. Lets riamedrop some more. Jamie Reaney is a playwright, poet, novelist and professor of English at Western. Two Governor -General's Awards for literature, but he's just the same sweet, kooky guy he was at 19, a real scholar, absorbed in children's games, yet a first -rata teacher and writer. Alan Brown has been a dilettante with the CBC, producing. unusual radio programs from faraway places, and lately emerging as a translator of French novels. He came from Millbrook, a hamlet near Peter- borough. How we small-town boys made the city slickers look sick, when it came to intellect. George McCowan was a brilliant English and Philo ophy student who was kicked out of s" hp .1 for writing an exam for a dummy who happened to live around the corner from me when Iwasakid. He went off to Stratford as an actor and director, and 'suddenly disap- peared to Hollywood, after marrying and being divorced from Prances ,.Hyland. He is now on his third or fourth wife, has an ulcer, and directs Grade B movies. I knew Don Harron casually. His first wife was a classmate of mine, who later married that Hungarian guy who wrote In Praise of Older Women, made into a movie. Harron, with kits of talent, energy and am- bition, has parlayed his Charley Farquarson into a mint, and is still producing a lot of creative stuff. ° Another of 'the, drifting mob was Ralph Hicklin, a dwarfish kid with rotten teeth, and a wit with the bite of an asp. He still owes me $65, because he had no scruples about borrowing money. He became a movie and ballet critic, and a good one, but died in his late forties. There were other drifters in and out of the gang, including my kid brother?, who was mainly there for the girl's. And boy, I'd better not start -an—the girls, or I'm in trouble. I was the only one who was about half jock, that sweaty and anomalous name that is pinned on Phys. Ed teachers today. I played football, and my intellectual' friends had nothing but scorn for this. I loved it. And I made some friends among the jocks, or the hangers-on, the sport- swriters. Notable among them was Dave McIntosh, who still writes a mean letter to the editor from Ottawa, and spent most of his adult life working for The Canadian Press and newspapdrs. I also had other friends in the college newspaper. I was a couple of years behind the bumptious Wayne and Shuster, but knew Neil Simon and others whose ,,names appeared as bylines from all over the world. What I wonder is whether I would trade places with these bright guys I used to hang around with. I think not. I doubt if three of us are still married to the same woman, not that that is any big deal. �,,� I don't ve the ego to hustle" hys if as some M them have done, nor the brilliance that many of them had. When I go up and shout at my noisy' Grade 10's, or try to coax my four- year elevens into some sort of in- tellectual movement, I simply haven't time to wish I was the Ambassador to Poland, a director of B's in Hollywood, a translator of rather obspre French novels, or the head of the CRTC. I haven't time: Tomorrow night I have to drive 140 'miles and give a speech about "honor" to the Honor students of another school. Tomorrow I have to go to a Department Heads' meeting where we will, for the fourth time this year, discuss "Smoking" in the school. Tonight, I have to call my old lady in Moosonee, tell her I've been a model bachelor and have only burned six holes in the rug. Thursday night, I have a Parents' Night, at which the parents of bright kids will come to have me praise them and the other parents will stay away. I bought the paint for the back stoop, but it's been too wet to paint. Yesterday, I had two young lady visitors, who caught me in m'y pyjamas, bare feet, and dirty dishes all over the kitchen. No. There's no way. I just haven't time to be an intellectual, a success, a good father, or a good husband. But -I'm going to keep an eye on all those old friends of mine, and if they stutter or stammer or stagger under the load, I'll be laughing. service from CNIB. 25 YEARS AGO Decembern,1955 County , Councillors last Friday unanimously agreed upon a grant of $6,000 towards the' cost of renovating the old section of the Clinton Public Hospital. This duction from $15,000 requested by rs Harry Ball and N.W. a, respresenting the hospital was a re petition Trewart board. Representing 26 years of ministry in the Ontario Street United Church, eight for- mer ministers were 'present with Rev. A.G. Eagle at the special opening services and reception last weekend at the church. Tea'was served to about 800'guests in the afternoon on Sunday and the elders of the church and the ladies of the Women's Association took care of the supper served on Monday evening at which about 700 people attended. The supply of food was well in hand, with sufficient for a second supper for about 200 the • following night. Suppers were also taken to four church members in Clinton Public Hospital. A very successful social evening under the auspices of the Woman's Association of Middeton's St. James Church was held last Friday at Stewart Middleton's home with nearly 60 persons present. The highlight of the evening was a splendid talk by Mrs. Leroy Poth on the history of Goderich Township. . • 50 YEARS AGO December 4, 1930 The snowstorms of the past week have made travelling rather difficult. A snow plow and a couple of trucks got stuck out on the gravel road on Monday and sat there for a day or so. The News -Record, believing that there are in Clinton, through no fault of their own, but owning to the depression of the times and lack of regular employment by the heads of the family, are not as well off this season as usual and will not be as well provided for -as it is desirable at the coming Christmas season, is starting the Christmas Cheer Fund for their benefit. Chief Strong has kindly consented to act as treasurer for the funds and the Welfare Committee of the Home and School Club, which is in the position to know the needs. in all parts of the town, will administer it. 74 YEARS AGO November 29, 1900 In the bar -room of a certain hotel - you may say if you will that it is not located in Clinton - might have witnessed an unusual scene on evening recently. Two men got into a discussion on the merits of a horse that one of them had purchased, which culminated in the animal being brought into the bar -room. Subsequently the horse was traded for a cow and to the surprise of the nabitues of the place, the bovine was led, or rather pulled, into the bar -room an evening or so later. But the bovine misbehaved and the wine clerk raised such a row that the animal was turned out of doors as quickly as possible. A couple of local young ladies are negotiating for a store at present vacant in —view-te-e-nga•_ Dr. Thompson this week moved to his fine new residence on Huron Street. It is of brick, two storeys high, lighted throughout with electricity and hall all- the modern - Spiders, Ugh! Guests are welcome in my home - at least, the two -legged kind are. I even opened my door to a four -legged one, shaggy but house-broken. But, when the number of legs climbs to eight, I draw the line. A place for everything and everything in its place. That'.: my motto, although you'd never know it looking around the office with its books on the floor, telephone on the bookcase and typewriter cover on the filing cabinet. Nevertheless, my place is here amidst all the confusion. The place for spiders is outside. Sure it's cold out there, but that's not my problem. If a spider dares to cra wl into my domain, he'd better be prepared to run for his life. I thought cold weather would spell the end of them Unfortunately they seem to think my place is a warm autumn haven. They amaze me with conveniences. It is a handsome and comfortable residence and adds im- mediately to the appearance of the street. Here's hoping that the genial medico and the estimable wife and family may enjoy many happy years in their new home. 105 YEARS AGO December 2, 1875 See here, we wish some of. our sub- scribers who are so situated, would bring us in a load of good wood or else some money with Which to purchase one, as this weather is pretty hard on our wood pile and it won't hold out much longer. Just make note of this. This town recently had a narrow escape from *fiat might have which have been a very disastrous fire. A lighted lamp was left in a barn a few moments and while the ownerwas• out,, was kicked over by a cow. It instantly set fire to some loose straw, but. was fortunately discovered before it gained much headway. One day last week the clothes line of Mr. J.C. Miller, was visited and four shirts abstracted therefrom and on the same night a few pairs of socks were taken from a clothes line belonging to Mr. Thos. Jackson. It will not do any longer to leave the clothes out all night, as we were went to do in the good old days of yore. The weather has been sufficiently cold of late to form, good ice on ponds and the youth of both sexes daily take part in this delightful and exhilerating exercise. Either the moral tone of society is on the decline, or the majesty of the law is Iosing its terrors, for the violation of the sixth commandment is becoming of very frequent occurrence and even the quick detection and punishment of the guilty party appears to have none, or at least very little, effect in the prevention of crime. On Monday, Michael Purcell was. brought before Messrs. Fisher and McGarva, charged with the crime of stealing money and jewellery from boarders at Knox's hotel. The evidences of -quilt-were so direct that the prisoner plead gtiilty and was at once committed to Goderich gaol to take his trial. Support appreciated Dear Editor, The Gift Shop Committee of the Auxiliary to the Clinton Public Hospital thanks you, the News - Record staff for your co-operation during the gift shop's first year of operation. • At this time we thank too, the local merchants who so generously support us, the many volunteers who work in the gift shop and those who help in producing craft items. We are also grateful for the many donations and handmade articles and thank the -genera 1 publi.c_for -their patronage. Yours sincerely, Margaret Coventry, Chairman Gitt Shop Committee by Blaine townshend their Houdini acts, slipping through the tiniest of cracks under doors or hiding in the corner of a doorstep until someone opens the door. Their speed can be surprising. Once inside, they seem to swell to three times their size as they boldly case the joint. Spiders are mysterious and hard- working creatures. The webs they weave are almost works of art. Photographers capture striking pictures of webs draped over twigs in early morning with dewdrops shining on them like jewels. Webs can be beautiful, but3not in the corners of my livingroom. Some spiders have the nerve to practise their handiwork at my front door. I try to remember to make regular sweeps with a wall mop, at least two -legged visitors find there's more blocking their entrance than a screen. I'm not a vindictive person, but I will not tolerate invhsion by spiders. I've declared war on them. The only reception they can expect in my place is a stomp, a.swat or a flush. The battle requires speed. I've discovered the enemy can disappear amazingly fast into cracks in the wallboard I can't even see. When I spot a spider, I jump into action. The other night I almost dragged the phone to the floor during a sudden chase. The daddy -long -legs type is no match for me. Small and medium- sized spiders with their round black bodies and squiggly legs don't in- timidate me. gut, occasionally, I encounter a large juicy -looking type that makes me h'estite. The first time this confrontation occurred I considered luring the enemy into a glass jar and taking him outside. I a-bandoned the idea because, with my luck, he would be back through the door before I was. He met the same fate as the others; it just took me longer to work up my courage to do the dirty deed. When the battle is over, I don't feel like a conquering hero. I take no pleasure in watching twitching legs minus a body on the floor, On the other hand, I feel great discomfort when I open my eyes in bed to see a spider , staring down at me from the ceiling. Foreign kicid Dear Editor'. It is my great pleasure to write to you. I expect you will, be pleased to accept my appeal regarding overseas pen pals fc17 our students. •I am an English teacher in a noted high school in Seoul, Korea. This school has about 2,500 students of both sexes. I am eagerly seeking foreign students who world like to correspond with our students:, There are many Korean students who want to ex- change letters and friendship with foreign pen friends and they frequently request me to let them have foreign pen friends, Throughout my foreign language teaching career, I've noticed this would help not only their English and emotional life, but also expand their ,knowled • e of forei • lands. This would also promote world-wide friendship and mutual relationshipas well as serving as a true foundation'of world peace. I feel it is necessary to publish this simple wish among the boys and girls of the world, therefore, I courteously request you to run this letter- in a corner of your valuable paper. The only information I need of a student is his or her name, .address, sex, age, hobbies and picture if possible. I expect to receive many letters from your readers wishing to correspond with our students. I will appreciate it very much if you let me have the chance to do this for my , students. This would be a warm and thoughtful favor. Awaiting good news, I remain. Yours sincerely, Mr. Park Won Gejn, K.P.O. Box 141, Seoul 110, Korea Abuse,, and criticism Dear Editor, I wish to reply to Peter Mantel's letter to the • editor .(Clinton News- Record's November - 13 issue) regarding what Tuckersmith Council paid the witnesses attending the OMB hearing. When Jim McIntosh resigned from being clerk -treasurer, we had a mutual agreement with him, if required, his knowledge and assistance, we would pay for it. The money we paid Jack McLachlan was very small compared to the overtime work he had done, preparing for the hearing. I feel a large percentage of people attending the hearing would agree with me that the people of .Tuckersmith should be proud of past and present clerk - treasurers. I feel congratulations should go to Dick Lehnen, who volunteered to give the facts as they were. I have very little patience with people who signed the petition to pay the debentures debt, then try everything under the sun to- get out of it, backed up by the minister. It might surprise Mr. Mantel and other readers that when I was young I studied the good book and feel Mr. Mantel in his profession as minister should preach the word of God to people and try and . get people of Vanastra and community to live Christian lives. In closing, I would like to thank all the employees of Tuckersmith for their excellent work who have to take unnecessary abuse and criticism. Last Call Councillor, Frank Falconer Separate Board supports ideas By Wilma Oke The Huron -Perth. County Catholic school board Wednesday endorsed a resolution from the Lanark, Leeds and Grenville County Catholic school board, asking the Ontario Separate School Trustees Association to resume providing resource material and advice to boards on salary negotiations. The board endorsed another resolution ,asking for the Ontario' Separate School Trustees Association to initiate a study of long-term disability plans for teachers and other employees. The four newly elected trustees attended the board session Wed- nesday as spectators. They are Jeannette Eybergen, who will be representing Stratford; Lorraine Devereaus, who will represent Seafgrth, and ...the Townships of Tuckersmith and Stanley; Ray VanVliet, RR 7, Sts Marys, who will represent the Townships of Downie and North and South Easthope, and Ernie Vanderschot, RR 7,' St. Marys, who will be representing St. Marys, Mitchell, and the Townships of Blanchard, Fullarton and part of Zorra. The new (elected) trustees will be attending an orientation meeting this week -at the• board office to acquaint them with all aspects of the board's operation. The board members agreed that the Canadian Inventory of Historic Buildings, Parks Canada, may in - dude four of its early schools in its study of early schools in Canada, constructed before 1930.