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J. HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher
SHELLEY McPHEE • Editor
GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager
MARY ANN HOLLENRECK - Office Manager
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Gold mine in Blyth
Only a decode ago Blyth was a small, seemingly ordinary village. It was like all
the other small hamlets that tourists pass through.
Today the tourists are stopping in Blyth. No longer can it be said of the village,
"Don't blink you'll miss it.'
Blyth has been solidly placed on the map, and a major contributor to the new
village image has been the Summer Festival and the Centre for the Arts After
several difficult years their determination and patience has paid off and last
year more than 43.000 attended the summer theatrical performances.
No other village or town in this area can boast a visitor list like that. In fact
many sui rounding municipalities are envious of Blyth's "'gold mine."
Fortunately Blyth merchants and council are realizing the benefits of this
steady flow of tourists. Council hos gone in the right direction in anticipating that
trend will continue by approving a proposal for a downtown beautification
program.
Urban tourists are par riculorly fascinated with small town, rural Ontario and
blyth hos the advantage of already attracting the tourists. By working together
with local merchants and residents, Blyth council can build and promote this im-
age by raking advantage of government sponsored schemes like the Business Im-
p/ uvernent Area beautification pian and the Ontario Neighborhood Improvement
Program. Subsidized programs such as these have been successfully used in
uther villages and towns, making attractive core areas for residents and visitors
ulike.
While many local municipalities and commercial areas are feeling the negative
ettects of limited Industrial production and poor economics, Blyth is in a very for-
tunate position. With borne plonking, support and work, the village can be made
a coil meluol success a special place to live in, not just another hamlet to drive
on through. -by S. McPhee.
Hospitals help us
There has been considerable interest of late in the idea that babies should be
born at home. The midwives' organization puts forth many arguments in favor of
u child entering this world in his mother's bed. However, a Kitchener doctor
ecently pointed out some of the obvious fallacies in this argument.
That there should be more family participation in the birth of a baby is on
acknowledged fact and most modern hospitals have accepted the presence of the
tuiher in the delivery room if that is what both parents want. Hospital visiting
houi s ha..e been made a great deal more flexible so that family relationships will
lot be unnecessarily interrupted during a mother's stay in hospital.
1he Kitchener doctor, however, points out that any delivery can suddenly
become complicated. demanding skills and equipment which would not be
available in the home Since our hospitals are prepared to meet all such
emergencies it makes nothing but sense to provide this protection for both
mother and new baby.
,e lisle gi.eat blessings of lite in o s;noll community is the fact that most of
them have their own hospitals, by now weii equipped to provide excellent health
ore. It is difficult to understand what real advantage there would be in refusing
Tu take telt advantage of our good fortune. - from The Winghom Advance Times,
behind the
scenes
Pay -TV thievery
t'unununication Minister Frances Fox's
top flop on government. policies shout
satellite dishes is an admission by the
government that if you can't catch the
thieves. you night as well not call it a
crime so you won t took stupid trying to
stop it.
Already there have been repercussions
thorn the move and there will be more.
Plans to build a donned stadium in Regina
have been scrapped because, the pro-
moters point out, people drive a long way
to watch football in Saskatchewan but if
they can stay horse and ,catch pirated
signals either in their horse or at the local
tavern. will they risk that long drive
through weather that is sometimes less
than pleasant The fragile economy of the
Canadian Football league may also be en-
dangered by these stolen signals
And this is a case of stealing Entertain-
ment spots such as bars have installed the
satellite dishes to increase the number of
people who will come Into their bars and
drink. Jake (;audaur, cortlnus.stoner of the
CFI. has pointed nut that if the football
clubs broke into bars, stole the barrels of
heer. took them to the stadium and adver
tIse(' free beer as a way of alt acting more
customers even body would consider it
stealing It's also stealing to lake a televi-
sion picture prepared at great cost and use
it for purposes for %which It was not intend
eel_
But the public dlwsn't see it that way
The ordinary citizen somehoe feels that if
it .'. lip there in the air.. it's fair game We
even have a huge new business building up
these dayin the manufact Wing rind sell
keith
roulston
Abandoned
sugarand spice
Curse of the
20th century
A newspaper article the other day
reminded me of one of the inexorable laws
of modern life: Things multiply in inverse
proportion to their use.
It is a simple fact. and we've all been
through it, that there are certain things in
life that multiply like rabbits, and others
that invariably disappear forever.
No matter how hard you try to get rid of
pennies, they just build up, and if you
carry your loose change in your pants
pocket, as I do, after a week you are listing
heavily to the right. You pile your 18
pennies on the top of the dresser and start
again, and a week later you nave 22 pen-
nies in the same pocket.
Another multiplier is the single sock.
Start out a new year with 12 pairs of socks.
In three months you'll have six pairs and
six odd socks. In six months, you'll have 12
single socks. After years of suffering this,
I've counter -attacked. 1 now buy 12 pairs
of identical socks, so that after six inonths,
at least I have six pairs of socks.
Ladies used to have the same problem,
before the invention of panty -hose. But this
discovery hasn't lessened their problems.
In the old days, if they got a run, they
usually had a spare single to match the
good one with. But now. if yoi get a hole. in
one leg of your panty -hose, you're scup-
pered. Out they go, the intact one with the
bum one.
Women also have other multipliers in
the singles division: earrings and gloves.
How many women in this fair land have
seven or eight exquisite single earrings
and four or five superb single gloves?
It's Quite fashionable these days for a
man to wear a single earring, and a prac-
tical chap who lost a glove would wear the
other and put his bare hand in his pocket
� rL kaleidoscope
sae
Shelley McPhee photo
But women don't think that way, and the
gloves and earrings proliferate in their
solitary glory.
Old keys multiply at a fantastic rate,
until cupboard drawers and plastic bowls
are overflowing with them. We have a
huge collection of car keys going back to
our fifth -last car every key to the house
before we changed the locks, an enough
skeleton keys to outfit James Bund on one
of his capers.
New keys are diminishers. We have lost
two sets of key to our present car, and
sometimes search for half an hour to find
one of the new sets we had to order. The
new keys to the new locks disappeared,
and we had to take off the locks and go to
the key mar for new ones. I wonder where
they are, at this moment? The new one
that is.
Paper is definitely in the multiplier list,
especially if you are a writer and -or
teacher. As both, I sit to write this column
in a sort of tunnel between two massive
piles of paper higher than my head. When T
sit down to mark papers. 1'a: in another
tunnel between essays and tests and
bureaucratic bumph. Makes n.; feel like
an old badger.
Bottles, particularly those on which
there is no deposit return. piie up abou! as
fast as you can empty therm;. But prepare
to take back your beer .ease
and there are always two missing. Where
did they go? Is there a guy, or a dance,
hiding behind the furnace who sneaks up
,,c hen you are- beddy-byes. drinks ea() of
: your peers, then eats the bottle,?
For the ladies, the wrong shades of
lipstick and haif-empty bottles of nail
polish multiply, along with saueeis for
which the cups have disappeared.
Wire coat hangers reproduce like rats.
The other day, while attempting io get :ny
coat out of the Closet, 1 knocked down six
empty hangers. I carefully fished theta up
f: -»n among the parts of the vacuum
ing of illegal decoding machines so people
can steal pay-TV signals. Not only doesn't
society in general seem to look down on
this kind of theft as they would, say shoplif-
ting. there seems to be a kind of admira-
tion for the ingenuity of the thieves.
But don't expect people like me, don't
expect writers, actors, singers and
dancers, directors, producers and sports
stars to agree with you, if you think this
way. You are stealing our livelihood as
surely as if you stole a cc... out of a
farmer's pasture or a new car out of an
automobile showroom. Those electronic
signals have been sent up through the air
in the same way oil is sent through a
pipeline or electricity through a wire and if
you tap into that electronic pipeline you're
stealing the product of all those people who
depend on its sale for a living.
Somehow the theft of TV signals, the il-
legal copying of records onto tape, the il-
legal photocopying of books has been
reduced to a guiltless crime, like taking a
few paper clips from the office, but for
those trying to make their Livelihood in
those areas. it's a disaster.
The government's answer in this case
again has been subsidy. The government
will provide money for production of more
Canadian programming on television But
many people in the business are tired of
subsidy and the stigma of welfare attached
to it by the very same society that thinks
stealing music words or television pictures
is a harmless lark. We'd like to be able to
earn a living without anybody being able to
demean that living.
it's hard to lay the blame entirely at the
feet of the government for this chicken-
hearted act How long can a government
try to enforce a law society doesn't believe
nn' But how healthy can a society be that
condones theft'
McPhee may be a good old Scottish
name, but I know a terrific Irisl drink
when I taste it.
In the past year or so Irish Creani liquei
has become a popular sipping drink It':;
smooth and rich, good on the reek,'
straight -up or mixed into coffee.
This past Christmas I blended up gali•,ns
of homemade irish liquor, added an
original label and put the bottles under
friends' Christmas trees. The_, were qu ek-
ly emptied.
In any books Irish cream is good anytime
of the year. Here.'s the recipe;. 1 ''an '1f
sweetened condensed milk: 1 to 1' cups of
rye; 1 cup of table create: 3 eggs; 1 tables-
poon of chocolate syrup and a dash i)r •r
Stant coffee
Put all the ingredients In the blender,,
mix it up and bottle. Refrigerated, the
Irish cream will keep w.'l! le- ,o'er a wool,
It sure beats green::,r•'•- , , fa•- as I '
concerned!
Bobbie the robin is st,li happy and
healthy and enjoying yea: ;round comfort.
cleaner, took another 40 empty hangers off
the pole, tied them all together with cord,
marched calmly into the basement and
hurled then/ into the woodpile. Two weeks
later, I knocked down eight hangers while
getting my coat, and sat down and wept
tears of fury and frustration.
Pencils multiply, but there's never one
in the house when you are trying to take
down a long-distance phone message.
Odd buttons multiply until it seems
like a button factory. But when you need
two the same size and color, forget it. You
have 5,000 buttons, no two alike.
You think you don't take many snap-
shots. Been to the attic lately? There are 12
boxes of them up there, right from your
own baby pictures, through your courting
lays. into, your own children ,at every
stage, and about 500 of the grandchildren.
But just try to find that especially good one
you wanted to send to Aunt Mabel. Com-
pletely vanished.
Shoes multiply. My wife has about 36
paris, most of them out of style, just like
that outfit she had to get the shoes to go
with. She has to tear my comfortable old
:hoes out of li?y hands to put them in the
garbage. I go to a half-price sale, buy three
new pairs. and they sit there, stiff and
;tack r lair T g;, ,,7 wearing the old shabby
Anes
Stamps rur, out: magazines pile up to the
'etiing. bilis at:: receipts multiply while
bank accounts diminish. Pornography
flourishes as sex drive diminishes.
'Television.channels multiply while their
contents diminish in quality. Work-
manship diminishes as cost of it soars.
Arid I've just touched the surface. How
about acid rain and fish'? Or safe, salted
highways and holes in your car?
Was it always like this. or is it just a
.ursc of the twentieth century? Make up
your own 1isi, ;wu columns one headed
Multipliers, the other Diminishers. It will
shake you.
by
Shelley McPhee
and '.yarniti: at the Hartley hoe), in, :7),i -
:nn.
Rnbbi� is still the first robin of sin me
Because he's made his home with the
Hartleys for the past 14 years. "lone of
Ilnr)bie s relatives in :he wild would ever
live to his age. however Robbie, like ;
lnrrnan. is also starting to shote lis age.
file's losing a few feathers now. he's not 'he
nimble young bird he used to be and i'' e'
though he likes to flu. he can't get too t,1••
,in':mor•e. The 1lartleys .'epori tial f;r!,l^e
stir has a goo(] appetite and we i, •pc
;eh eith tri ocat :,•eer at this :u-.,
Spring is a good time Ir think ':'lc;ut a'!
t'ose horn' :'^iy.;tr that were,. e •'rlptc;,',,
',1st year -
;he Ontario yltnistry r1i Ag ; ''i1'u: 1' 'sirs
1•„1„!ISi;l`onsor:ne,:
;•nr:.e in April. ,'i1' ,ant : '.v ,
,o'•rnation on home repair procedures a11d
home maintenance actlyitit's. Yeas will
include rlac'tri(-ity,
and ,'c sings.
,A.1',-Itnr cnrl joie in lire 4)111 :e''Hiatt VtI.�
nr new 111 rioinicsy ale u:: teen lo, at Use
1Iensa11 United Church on April 19, in
Wingharn on April 20 and Walton on April
21. The courses wit! run from 1:30 to 4 p,ni
('all home ec'•rlor-'.st .'ane Muegge at the
oM,1I' office- fn' .Ila•''' 111: 'rmatron and
regi';+. r:a!ir•11.
i + r
ieri ,v riAup is gearing up for
1985 the yea' :t the''/ Sesquicentennial
• eletlration.
1 public meeting will he held on March
3a a' B pin. in the ('otiuuunity ('entre to
plar: f,•r this 150th anniversary it is hoped
!eat an:, etc .:1t, -rested 10 celebrating the
ti't wil! 1111'' .1,1: u' ',111,ilori ,,f the ses-
quicentennial
Goderch happens to t)e the
les; , ;,);:11:y ,:1 11::!' ('aunty
„.- r,,; ;,,�,, till• 'l:ntot. Sorority
oie obeys wii: he `tiling 15,000 daffodils in
,id of the Cancer Six lett' next week, The
firs^.;s ;t -t: I $:' .y r!1 tw s',Id on March 24.
''5 a 'id 'It, tie sore t1, , .all ,, Sahara),
rner.ls , i,� lull', c ',111 order
Call for reduction in go%'ernnierit
Statement from .tack
Riddell, MPP (Huron-
Middlesex t and James
McGuigan, MPP 'Kent
F,1RIn):
in view of the fact that
interest rates charged !o
Ontario farmers by the
Government under their Tile
1)rainaee Loan Program
were raised bon, eight per
cent to 10 poi , int last year
when prime interest rates
reached a peak we are today
calling on the c;ove'nment
reduce the rates to their
former eight per cent in
reroEnition of the generally
present low cost of
harrow'e,p t, like f.lvei 11 -
',Hent
h,u years now .+e• „
Liberal l'arty ha', e pointe,'
out to the (; ,; crnrnl•r11 'ar
benefits of this PI lgra ', ,ind
our ramal'
Government. divest me.! I?
dill about 10 IM'•
than the ler-
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the
readers
write
letters
Cultures must
work together
Dear Editor,
The recent attack by Toronto Alderman,
Ying Hope and some elements of the
Chinese community against Wiatario'•i
"Mystery Prize Bonus" commercial is LI
serious threat to Freedom of Expression)
and Canadian culture.
This is the second time that Ying Hop,
has used the Ontario Human Rights Com-
mission's totalitarian powers to bludgeon
free speech ,and Canadian traditions. In
1962, the Ontario Human Rights Comini: -
sion in conjunction with Ying Hope suc
ceeded In terrorizing the O'Keefe Cental
into changing "offensive stereotypes' ()r
Chinese people in the 100 year old Nut
cracker Suite. This ballet has long been a
favorite of children and has delighted
Canadian audiences of all ages for man)
years. It is an important component of on,
cultural background and it belongs n.
everyone. -
everyone.
Now Ying Hope is offended by the
Charlie Chan character in the Wintaric,
commercial and he has enlisted the aid of
the Human Rights thugs to terrorize ..
weak-willed Ontario government into pull-
ing the commercial.
Quite apart from the fact that the
Human Rights Commission did not take of-
fense at the stereotypes of the English
detective Sherlock Holmes or the
American detective Sam Diamond, the
Charlie Chan character has always evoked
very positive images in the minds of the
public.
This ceaseless chipping away at our
cultural traditions must stop. Ying Hc;p+:
and the gang at the Human Rights Com-
mission must be made to understand that
Canadians did not accept immigrants inti
this land to have their culture replace ours
or to have our traditions suppressed in
order to protect their delicate sensibilities.
Yours sincerely •
Harry F. Barrett,
President.
Why I'm
--quitting hockey
The following letter is based on the ex,
periences of one 9 -year-old hockey player
witnessed in an arena by Toronto Sta;
reporter Bill Walker. The player, coach
and parents are not named, but the detail:,
are exact. The letter is the only thing that
isn't real — and hopefully it will never
need to be written by this boy, or by
thousands of others ,- who play mirloi
hockey each winter.
Dear Mom and Dad :
Don't get excited, I'rn not running ass a j
or anything. I hope you won't be read that
I left you guys this letter, but I don't nave
the guts to say all this stuff in person.
It's about our hockey team. I was really
excited to make the all-star team this
year. The uniforms and hockey bags are
pretty neat and we get to travel all over the
place. But I know you are disappointed in
me.
It started when Dad called our coact'
after the second game to tell hum he wa
taking me off the team. I know you used
like to tell the guys at work how mar,;
goals I scored last year in houseleaelrf'.
guess you haven't had too much to •r:
them this year.
After our game yesterday. I felt bad
when you yelled at the coach for not o.l:.
ting me on the ice in the thirci harm.
was a close game and he wanted the be:
players out there. The coach is
cool guy really , and he doesn't
money or anything fol •_oachini u:,. 1 k •
you were both pretty upset after ne
the game.
But alter we coacn taticer you cu; ct
ing me off the team, 1 was real:_::u
to go back. The coach told me he tnougn:
was good enough to play all-star and Tint to
worry. He told the other pla','ers I got
and they all kept askiite e' if i was feel:n ,
better.
I know you really like it when 1 seer -
goals. I guess that's why you said you'
give me a $1 for a goal and .25e fur an
assist. But the coach sac's an assist is ee
good as a goal. The coach wasn't tco happ-
when I told him you give me $1 for a penal
ty though.
I try to be more aggressive, like 3 nil
said, but the other guys skate pretty ffa',t
You told me to carry the puck more. lik-
Jirruny does, hut I can't seem to go fast
enough to get away from the other guys
You should see me play street hockey
though. When they pick teams, 1 alwey.,
get picked nearly first and i score a lot it, -
goals.
goals. The other day i hit, one of the guy- it
the elbow with the. tennis hell and "e
couldn't stop laughing for about a :tea' -
But before our real hockey +'ar•tes.
always get so nervous. i`,u kno-w lot
about hockey Dad, but i jest can"..
remember all the things v^c: ' ' ;.,c h
car nil the .way to the game. Ry the tall( we
get there, I always feel sick in my
,loo Caen. i tem r 111111(1 you .screaming nt
the games, 'cause all the parents screae,
But don't yell at John to pass the pin!:
more. He's the best player on our t 'n
without him we'd be dead.
interest rates
benefit .1 .111 , '•aseri hoots
;lted 1n the ix-ograiii
y ar were negated by the
Pea• -e 1,. ilii debenture
mans and by the fact that
only fife per + env of ;, drainagr
I,rnlcct would he covered,
11,1. .1 un 11„' n. t 1
/ler rent level
1i ,. ..e! 111 o0;u/e,i trial
tele drainage is essential to
the improvement of
Ontario's foodland ft ran
in<lease production yields
up to 50 per cent and return
$18 for every $1 invested
We, in the Ontario liberal
]'arty. believe that the
'.,eernment should im
mediately announce its
111 n, ;1111,;, i enc thr'
program for the ';nA:i-R•:
season and that this an-
nouncement should eras :d•'
up to $511 million pct yeas (of
loans at eight per ( cat in-
terest and that they should
(over 75 per -ant of tiT' 'r.'-1
of the dra,na V,'•'t'11�