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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-12-11, Page 4PAGE RIBBON AWARD 1980 NTO i' NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MEMBER 114'1980 a4104)0, $Uws'$00040 1w p!uhf h Ilionoky of i',Q. sox 3t. Clinton, Ontorlo, 1, NIM 10. Tpi:x 4123143, 1 rlptiettlistty; fiv *'11#1«3111. sr. cltiicenf34,100 per yaaa %S.*, itk for i +'30,0019pr YAW' it k tt41140400 4 *0 1004 aims, mail by thr post Pfikft urn, fh0 pt►rn,it numkor 0417.. Thss NNwt 4.coi4: ksurpuretusi in 1134 its* Heron Nowtllgurti. fo s4 o4 in 1it111;, orid Tho. glietort thsw *ra, oun4Md in 1Nx. Tuta1 press run 3.311. MEMBER JAMES E, FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McPHEE . News Editor GARY HAW Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER , Advertising MARGARET L, Gm- Office Manager 4 r� ` P MEMBER Display advertising rotes available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 10 effective $ept. 1, 1171, 1/ Those who advocate rising gasoline and oil prices to ensure more con- servation is practiced would be well advised to study Shell Canada's briefing paper called World Oil and Gas in. 1979, says the Georgetown Independent. The only country with reduced demand for oil products in 1979 was the United States where allocation of motor ,gasoline supplies by oil com- panies notably restrained mid -year demand. By year-end, the paper says, price has taken over as the main depressant on demand. However, those countries with gasoline prices well over $2 and $3 a gallon such as France, Italy, West Germany and the United Kingdom increased demand by plus 1, plus 3, plus 3 -and plus'l percent respectively. Canada's demand increased by ,4 percent. Canada is a large and cold country with huge areas in frost six months of the year but it is noteworthy our demand is less than the United Kingdom's which has a milder climate and much less distance between major cities. The United Kingdom is listed as using 294.1 thousand cubic metres daily while Canada's derhand is 281 thousand cubic metres. • This country is seventh in overall use behind the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom in that order. Although probably everyone realizes ., oil is - not a' 'renewable resource, the argument that in- creasing oil prices will reduce con- sumption is surely false. If price encouraged conservation then surely the United Kingdom, West Germany, France and Ltaly with their high prices would be reducing demand rather than increasing it. Wrapped in white 5 YEARS AGO - December 18, i975 With only a week left until the big day.:, the Christmas rush is really upon us now ,with everyone participating in the wild scramble. Although the weatherman hasn't promised a White Christmas yet, several oldtimers tell us that the thun- derstorm we had last Sunday night is a sure sign of bad weather to come. Record warm December temperatures were set last Sunday and Monday morning, withl'a high of 56 degrees F. being recorded here in Clinton. Bea Cooke of Clinton filled two shopping carts at Corrie's Red and White, before her Take cautions against rabies There is a substantial rise in the number of rabies cases in Huron' , • County and other areas this year and special precautions must, be taken, says the Goderich Signal -Star. This year the number of cases has risen to 69 which is up considerably from the seven cases of last year. Authorities claim the disease runs in cycles and this year the cycle is peaking. In Lefroy, Ontario over 100 people are being subjected to the painful anti -rabies vaccination after contact with stray animals. For many, it is just a precaution but the real danger exists. Kids and animals are an in- separable duo. /If there is a stray animal around a schoolyard or wandering the street, there will be at least one kid nearby_as_well. Kids love animals and are more curious than fearful. They cannot see the potential danger and are innocent in their approach. But in light of recent reports of rabies amoag animals, precaution is the best course. Instruct children to leave unfamiliar cats and dogs alone. The Huron County Health Unit will be conducting free anti -rabies vac- s.ugarand spice Shotgun column' Shotgun column coming up. Reason? I've just been through a real mother of a 'flu attack, and the little bit of brain matter still alive, inside a body that feels as though the Gestapo. had been having a go at it, is not capable of the usual sustained, melodious,. incomparable prose essay. Item. After looking forward to my old lady getting home from two weeks in,the north country, after laying on arrangements for her to be picked up at the airport and dropped at our door, after making the house look as though I'd hired an expert jl,Qusekeeper, I blew it. _ _ I was listening to a particularly noisy "TV program. I wandered downstairs about the time she was to arrive, just in time to find her opening 0the cellar door with an expression the Gorgon would have envied. She'd got in a bit early, rung the doorbell when she found the door locked. No response. She checked the garage. Yes, the car was there; he wasn't off somewhere carousing, unless on foot. ' Lights in the house all on. More doorbell ringing. No answer. Finally, she forced open one of the cellar windows and crawled • in, dragging her best white suitcase behind her, across the woodpile beneath the window. I'd kept the door locked, because I'd become used to doing .so while she was away. Hadn't heard the bell. Five minutes after she got home, I was wishing she'd go away for another two weeks. Day after she got -home, I got the 'flu, which she took as a personal affront. Lay around groaning and hawking and spitting and drinking plenty of fluids, until she was wishing she'd stayed away for another two 0 • weeks. Item. Doctors and well-meaning friends urge you to take it easy, that you. are not indispensable. Well, they're completely wrong. Some of us are indispensable. Like me. I took two days in ld, and returned to work to find chaq . Three members of my English staff off sick, one of them for good, eighteen pieces of aim inistrivia to sort out, new timetables to, be arranged, and, feeling like a wet rag that has just cination clinics over the next four weeks and ill pet owners are urged to take advantage of the service. Do both your family and pet a service by getting the vaccination. In Goderich, the clinic, will be at the fire hall on Waterloo Street, Monday, December 8 from 1-8 p.m. Also if your child has been in,con- tact with a stray animal and \was scratched or bitten, consult with a physician or the .department of health on proper treatment procedures. It pays to be safe. But first of all, it pays to be cautious. dispensed by bill smiley been wrung out, eleventy-seven essays and, tests to mark, and four exams to set. I'm looking at those New Career ads in the paper. Can't seem to find anything suiting a venerable gen- tleman with no manual or technical or 'organizational skills. I'm thinking seriously of joining my son when he goes back to Paraguay. Surely I could be of some use down there. I make a _dine pot of tea, and could teach English as A Second Language, and I am an expert at dandling babies on my knee. Item. Budget. Allan McEachin �shoLild be renamed Allan Machiavelli. "` Mackenzie King is chortling in his grave as he watches one of his disciples go through the old Liberal routine: you can fool most of the people most of the time; use the_ tarrot as well as the stick; never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing;, learn to speak out of both corners of your mouth at the same time; and energy taxes if necessary but not necessarily energy taxes. If the average household ran its budget as does the federal govern- ment, we'd all be on welfare. And that's just about where Canada stands now. On welfare. Borrowing from one finance company to pay the interest owed to another finance company. Holding out its hands to the poor, with, gall in one palm, and vinegar in the other. Item. The Consti-bloody-tution. Trudeau acting like a near-sighted lion, with his comfortable majority. Joe Clark and Ed Broadbent waving futile fists in the air. And the provinces, like so many jackals, each striving to tear off a juicy morsel of meat before the lion roars. Item. I'll never write another ode to October. This has been the rottenest (rotten, rottener, rottenest?) in many a year. Where are the Octobers of yesteryear, with their magnificent colors, their clear blue skies and mellow sunshine, their opportunity to haul out the boat or get in a last few rounds of golf? It rains. It sleets. It snows. And it's mighty cold, in our parts. The splash of brilliant color has been turned a sort of dun, and the wind and rain have stripped the foliage before it had a chance to show its fancy un- dergarments. Item. Somebody is after me. Lost a filling. Twenty-one bucks. Caught not wearing my safety harness. Twenty- eight bucks. Sink plugged. Fifty-two bucks. The Feds are after me for income tax errors. Somebody stole my wallet. Two hundred. Storm windows coming up. Over a thousand, and at the rate we're going, it'll be April before they're on. Brickwork needs about three hundred. Whole house needs painting, inside and out. About two thousand. Oil and gas .bills going up. Corn on sole of right foot killing me. Telephone bills exorbitant. Inflation f ).ahead of salary increase. Well, I Turn to page 5 • by Bub Sturgeon a look through thenews-record files three minutes shopping spree was over. Mrs. Cooke had the winning ticket sold by the Kinettes and she grabbed $169.81 worth of goodies. 10 YEARS AGO December 17, 1970 Former police constable .Albert Shad - dick and his wife were special guests at a dinner for members of town council and their wives. The constable, who retired from the Clinton Police Department earlier this year after 15 years of service, was presented with a gift from the town by Mayor Don Symons. Huron County could be served by a rapid -transit highway to the MacDonald - Cartier Freeway is a Stratford proposal is accepted. A highway Uniting Goderich and Stratford to Highway 401 is one of the main points contained in the Stratford brief to the midwestern Ontario Regional DevelopmentCouncil. 25 YEARS AGO December 15, 1955 Large crowds attended both per- formances of the annual Clinton and District Collegiate Institutecom- mencement last Thursday and Friday evening. They were treated to an excellent program of singing by junior and senior choirs, a one -act comedy, gymnastic display and presentations of diplomas. Clinton is very lovely these evenings. White snow all around sets off the Christmas of co •rf • bulbs in store win- dows, Christm 's ees ell lighted in homes and in + th, big town tree ligthed, standin'` .''.{ -3 corner of the Post Office park, the f ed chain looped across the face of the ntury old town hall, the four gay strands of lights at the main intersection, thoughfully erected by the Chamber of Commerce a year ago. All of these give a really bright and cheery atmosphere to the "hub town of the county." It's a pleasure to be out and about. 50 YEARS AGO December 18, 1930 The local players are very busy prac- ticing hockey there evenings. Tuesday and yesterday evening, about 35 wt.:e on the ice. Yesterday evening, the coach, Mr. .Reid of Stratford, was present putting them through their paces. Owing to the 'fact that people have responded generously to the News -Record Christmas Cheer Fund and the splendid proceeds of the Kiltie Band Concert on Sunday evening, no one in Clinton need go cheerless this Christmas. The Home and School Club is busy preparing comforts for those who are unfortunate and canny. this year provide Christmas songs Christmas music is already in the air, and as the day approaches we will hear it wherever we go. The carols we sing at church, the songs we sing at parties and ,the tunes we hear on radios, in stores and on street corners are second nature tel us. They have been around so long we know them by heart and seldom think about their origins. Two books, "Christmas Songs And Their Stories" by Herbert H. Wernecke and "Merry Christmas: A History Of The Holiday" by Patricia Bunning Stevens, tell us the stories behind the songs. Carols were suppressed in England in the seventeenth century by the Puritans who* abolished Christmas. However, some carols survived in Western England and Wales. In 1822, Davies Gilbert revived some of the Christmas songs, and William Sandys brought attention to more in 1833. The two men saved such favorites as "The First Nowell", "I Saw Three Ships" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gen- tlemen". Confusion exists about the true authors of many popular seasonal songs. John Francis Wade, an Englishman, •was proved to be the author of "0 Come All Ye Faithful", dated 1751. He was a copyist and music tenrh4'r at the Catholic `4BIJaddy" Dear Editor: The i following article appeared in „the London Free Press, Saturday, November 29, 1980. I found itscontent relevant and warranting reprint in the . Clinton News -Record. I will welcome any comments or criticisms but the replying party must riot hide behinda pen -name as I have chosen not to do so. "Any municipal clerk in Ontario who thinks he's bigger than his council will have to face the wrath of David LaCroix. "LaCroix, clerk -treasurer - administrator of Port Stanley, said in an interview Friday he expects a quick reaction from his fellow clerks after he teed off on them in the latest issue of Municipal World magazine. Some clerks do not really want to ---"be- ele lis, They fairy want o be--""' mayors and councillors,' LaCroix said in a letter to the editor of Municipal World, the municipal af- fairs magazine published in St. Thomas. 'They want to get into the advisory and decision-making arena.' "A prudent council will call on a clerk for advice, particularly if he has been around for several years, said LaCroix in his letter, but there is no , requirement to do so. Clerks should make appropriate municipal acts available to all councillors, and should quote legislation when giving advice. "Clerks will not be contributing to good municipal government by feeling superior to new councillors,' he wrote. 'If you' are one of those clerks who feels important when councillors come to you to find out every detail, then shame on you!' "Lacroix said he wrote, the letter several months before its p blication and there is no particular r ason for choosing , this time to ake his feelings known. It is coincidence that it appeared just as most municipal councils are holdipg their 1981-82 inaugural sessions next week, he said. "A clerk for eight years, LaCroix said he is bothered by those clerks who feel they ruri their towns rather than serving the wishes of the elected council. Some clerks play a 'big daddy' role and talk down to inex- perienced councillors, he said. "Clerks tell me, 'they take some dumb bunny off the street and elect him and expect him to run the town.' That doesn't help our image. We ought to try and curb that from within.' - "Adm itting that most of his feelings were based on verbal reports frorp clerks of activities in other municipalities, LaCroix said he recently heard of one. unidentified clerk who walked out of .a council meeting complaining that the councillors were refusing to listen to his advice. "In his letter, he told of one clerk who referred frequently ' t� the Ontario Municipal Act. When one councillor asked to see the act, LaCroix said, the clerk, told him he kept the municipality's only copy at home and refused to allow it out of the house. Another clerk, he said, picked up municipality mail personally, opened it behind closed doors, and refused to allow elected officials to see the contents until the next council meeting. "LaCroix said the °Municipal Act limits the clerk's duties to recording the minutes, bylaws, accounts and records of the municipality as well as performing any other duties specified by the council. "Most of the clerks in Ontario know their jobs and his criticisms do net apply to them, LaCroix said. 'It ap- plies just enough to make me. gs a clerk, embarrassed.' "He said he hoped there would n¢t be too adverse a reaction to his letter. 'I hope all the other clerks don't write me poison pen letters,' LaCroix said with a laugh." - I could not have said it better myself ! the good things which seem to go with Christmas time and it is expected that all will be looked after. The Londesboro street lighting corn,' mittee are holding an old tyme dance in the community hall on December 13. They are hoping this will be well patronized as the funds are in aid of the street lighting, which means much to the village folk as well as to the surrounding community. Our new line of Corticelli full fashioned silk hoisery with the new French heels are here. Also a little line 9f dainty scarfs. These are very complete for Christmas - gifts, packed in a clever box of brown suede - only at The Vogue, Clinton. 74 YEARS AGO December 13,1906 It is understood that the county attorney has intimated to Coroner Thompson that the recent birth of an illegitimate child in Goderich Township, its death and burial without the necessary certificate, fur- nished ample cause for an inquest. It is expected that the body will be exumed this week and the inquest will be held on Tuesday next. Quite a quantity of sugar beets have been shipped from the Brucefield station this past week. The Government is determined to round up all tramps and vagrants, who infest the province and are a menace to respectable women who happen to leave their homes. 105 YEARS AGO December 16, 1875 The skating rink will be opened tomorrow (Friday) evening, weather permitting. Mr. Thornton has made every preparation for the comfort and con- venience of pleasure seekers and there will likely be a good turn out. The Clinton band will be in attendance. Mr. G. Fulton, of Clinton, has the con- tract for supplying the Grand Trunk between this station and Goderich with 3,000 cords of wood, and has already contracted with a number of persons for this delivery. We hear that several farmers in Hullett, have recently had several animals stolen from 'them, and have not been able to get the slightest clue as to the perpetrators of the whereabouts of their cattle. One far- mer near Kinburn lost four head a few nights since., He saw the cattle in his yard at nine o'clock but at 10 they were nowhere to be found. Farmers will do well to look after their stock, aid take the necessary steps to prevent their disappearance. The protracted meeting at Wilkinson's corner in Porter's Hill is still going on. It is 11 weeks since it started. The house is crt wiled every night and a great ti an9 converts have been made. by elaine townshend seminary in Douay, France. • "Joy To The World" based on Psalm 98 was written by Isaac Watts, a Congregationalist minister in England. The author was in his teens when he wrote the hymn in 1719. Watts and Charles Wesley were the most prolific hymn -writers in English history. The latter wrote more than 6,500 hymns; the best known is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" penned around 1739. His brother, John Wesley, was the founder of Methodism. Several well-known hymns come from the United'States, including "We Three Kings of Orient Are" written by John Henry HoOkins Jr., rector of Christ Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1857. Phillips Brooks, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, And later Episcopalian Bishop of Massachusetts, visited the Holy Land in December, 1865, and rode on horseback from Jerusalem to Bethlehem on the day before Christmas. He passed through the fields where the shepherds had watched their flocks. Three years later he wrote the words to "0 Little Town 'Of Bethlehem" for his Sunday School class in Philadelphia. The world's most loved Christmas song "Silent Night" was written on impulse on Christmas Eve in 1818 in a little village in Austria. The organ in the village church had broken down, and the young assistant pastor, Joseph Mohr, decided to write a new tune to be played on guitar, at the midnight mass. The organist, .Franz Gruber, arranged a melody for two solo voices, chorus and guitar ac- companiment. The song has since been translated into more than ninety languages. Christmas has inspired great composers and musicians: Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his Christmas Oratorio in 1?33. George Frederick Handel wrote the Messiah in 1741, and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" was presented to the public in 1892. Some songs that.are identified with Christmas have little to do with the season. For example, an early French version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" listed the gifts this way: a good stuffing without bones, two breasys of veal, three joints of beef, four igs' trotters, five legs of mutton, six partridges with cabbage, seven spitted rabbits, eight plates of salad, nine dishes from the chapterhouse, ten full casks, eleven beautiful mittens and twelve musketeers with their swords. "Jingle Bells," written by James Pierpont of the U.S. in 1857, will be heard a hundred times before Christmas 1980 is over. Although it never mentions the day, "Jingle Bells" is accepted as part of .the music of Christmas as much as "Away In A Manger" and "White Christm as." Juel Howse, Clinton Help others Dear Editor: Our annual campaign for funds is falling short of its $4,00 ,000 Christ- mas Day objective. Thousands of destitute people in the developing world are counting on our agency to supply them with the barest necessities. Unless we reach our goal we will be unable to accomplish our pledged 1980-81 relief an development program and I am ping with all my heart that you willbe able to find space for our second captioned glossy. Please find it enclosed. With matiy anticipated thanks and kind, • personal regards, Sincerely yours, Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, Executive Director Unitarian Service Committee. Ido you have an opinion? Why not write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. All letters . published, providing they cert be authenticated, and pseudonym. us allowed. All letters, however. are• subject to editing for length or libel. 10) a • 411, n