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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1983-05-04, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4. Teem ClanfCn 69owo-0oam.d lo p.m®O0o0omd moat /11110dovensdkng al p.®. Omm 39. C9Onton, ®ntor0o. Cv.me dm. 610311 1 e.0. I o l.. 908.39® 3 Staroo:v0pnom. 09,e. Commode '10.89 Sr. Catdaen •13-8O per ram. Bt.LA. !6 % mega '30-99 poi year it, 15 ro®Ooreved oo e0001000:9 99:m09 wo®al ®g Video pogo, <Mike gondmr lO o pernsOI aommaDmr 00111 10,0 Imo®a-8aoaw21 inaerppromo d 0n 1989 the nor en ROmweraBoamrd. fmmao.deytt In 11881. eared Ike COO...* Now Sro, tmgom goal in 1893loved premo 0.800. a.� Incorporating THE BLYTH STANDARD J. HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher SHELLEY McPHEE - Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Man®ger MARY ANN HOLLENRECK - Office Manager e A MEMBER MEMBER Display odror.lsing roves oeolloAlo on rogmoe. AoA for Bolo Core No 11 off®ctive Oa. 1 1901 She's still the best Sunday, May 8 is Mother's Day and here's a toast to Morn, yours and mine, for her love, devotion, patience and stamina We may live in a liberated world, o society with changing ethics and morals, divorce figures are at an all-time high and marriage on the decline, but still nothing has changed or been discovered to equal or better a mother's love. In the 1970s motherhood and family ties were on the wane. Many women chose to seek a different type of personal success and satisfaction. Having accomplished this new independence, in the 1980s, it appears that more women are again thinking in a new way. They are realizing that there is more to life than money, success and career equality with men. The great strides that were made for women in the 1970s are now working in harmony with traditional thoughts and lifestyles. Women are now combining two images, two roles, two seemingly opposite goals, and they're succeeding. With a great deal of determination and strength women of the 1980s are both active, successful career persons as well as loving, attentive mothers. Women are now more independent, they are bringing in a good family income, they are raising children as a single -parents and yet they are still the mothers we've all known and loved for centuries past. Her loving smile is still our encouragement when we feel blue. She still fills our home with warmth and security. She devotes herself to keeping us well and hap- py and finds her reward in the pride of our achievement and successes. Here's to mothers, whether she has the boundless energy of youth, or the calm and wisdom of maturity - we love her best! -by S. McPhee behind the scenes The Catch by George Chapman 0 want the job? Nearly a dozen people are criss-crossing the country, spending money as if they thought they were single-handedly respon- sible for bringing the country out of the recession all because they want to ne leader of the Conservative party. An equal number are putting on their track shoes over on the Liberal side of Parliament in expectation of Pierre Trudeau stepping down. One wonders, if psychiatric ex- aminations were a required part of the process of choosing a prime minister for the country, would any of them pass'? I mean would any!T,Tdy in his right mind even want to be prime minister? Aside from having a nice house with a swimming pool and servants, what's good about the job? If things go.right in the country it isn't because the prime minister did a good job, it's because of all those far -thinking business executives and hard-working or- dinary stiffs out there in the factories and offices. If things go wrong, suddenly the problem doesn't he with business or labor but with governments. As head of government you are to blame for all the bureacracy that surrounds government. All of us get tired of the red tape that's involved in doing anything with government. Yet the first time somebody in the lower reaches of government does something unfair or unethical, we demand the resignation of a cabinet minister or the prime minister himself for not having con- trol of the government. We've had a couple of "scandals" in the last couple of weeks which is about the ratio these days. Under our parliamentary system we've adopted a belief in ministerial accountability. That means that if some manager of a government of- fice in Whitehorse does something stupid, the rrunister tor that government depart- ment is answerable for it in Parliament. In times of smaller government this might have been possible but it's a laughable situation today. If a worker on the assembly line at Ford forgets to put a bolt on a wheel and it falls off the first time the car is driven you don't demand the resignation of the president of the com- pany. But we do in government. But the minister is in a damned if you do, danured if you don't situation. We the public demand a human approach, without red tape. Why does the government official we deal with have to go by so many rules, to get approval from so many superiors? But we also demand absolute equality in the way we all get treated by our govern- ment. If each government official is Heft a lot of leeway in decision making there is going to be a lot of unequal treatment around and if one person gets treatment that seems to be preferential, the minister is to blame. Another reason for red tape is to make sure honesty is enforced on all those thousands of government decision makers and clerks across the country who may be tempted by all the money they're handl- ing. And red tape exists because govern- ment officials are trying to close loopholes that" sharp members of the public have us- ed to get unfair advantage from the government. Most of us have only seen bureacracy from one side. Having watched two small businesses grow from scratch, watched new rules having to be made because peo- ple took advantage of a lack of rules, hav- ing watched tighter controls having to be set up to keep track of decision making and financial comings and goings, I can see red tape from both sides. That's why I can une- quivocally say I have no plans to change my plans to have no plans to seek the leadership of any party. With Elaine Townshend Odds 'N Ends Spring Things Spring is a time of sunshine and rain. budding trees and flowers, the songs of birds and the smell of warming earth - a time for poets and philosophers to excel. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote. "i open wide the portals of the spring, To welcome the procession of the flowers. With their gay banners, and the birds that sing Their song of songs from their aerial towers." An unknown author philosophized: 'Never mind yesterday, life is today' Never mind yesterday, lay it away' Never mind anything over and done, Ilere is a new moment, lit with new sun." Sara Coleridge noted: "March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil." Someone else noted' "A nice thing about spring is that it always says it with flowers " Perhaps that was what Mary Dawson Hughes was thinking of when she wrote "i would like to send you the essence Of myriad sunkissed flowers, Or the lilting song, as it flows along, Of a brook through fairy bowers." From The Good World by Edgar A Guest comes ''The Lord must have liked us, 1 say. when 1 see sugar., spice Failing senses Most people begin to lose their senses, if not their sense, as the passing years exact' their toll. Sight, smell, hearing, taste anti touch grow less acute, steadily but inex- orably, in most of us. This didn't bother me much. Deafness runs in the family. My nose has been broken so often that I can't smell much, and this affects my taste buds. I thought touch and sight would last forever, or at (east to the grave. Touch is still pretty good. If I touch a hot burner on the stove, or the cold nose of a dog, I can tell the difference. :'ut since they started using that tiny print in books and newspapers, I've had to rely on specs to read, and even on the highway, they seem to have pygmies pain- ting the signs these days. What disturbed me was that my wife seemed to be failing rapidly. She has always been noted for having eyes like a hawk, ears Like a deer, and a nose like a bloodhound. The nose is still there. She can sniff an il- licit beer at 40 yards. She knows exactly when I haven't had a bath for a week or washed my hair for a month. But recently her sight and hearing seem- ed to be growing dimrner and foggier. It was strange. It seemed to be much worse in the TV room. She could still hear the top coming off a bear bottle in the kitchen when she was upstairs with two closed doors between. She could still see a speck of dust on a surface I'd swear was pristine. However, when we were watching TV, the deterioration began to show. At first, I was always hollering at her to turn up the sound, or try to sharpen the picture. She'd retort that I was getting deaf and blind. Then she herself got fed up with the shadowy picture and the inaudible sound track, and I noted with some satisfaction the failing of her faculties. 111t. 1111/(./111 111 Lilt 1 ‘JJ.11 trANUo. Lire green of the tree, The fl ash of the wing of a bird Litting by, The gold of the grain and the'blue of the sky. The clover below and the tall pines above - Oh. there's something about us the good laird must love." Robert Loveman wrote in the Rain Song: "It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining daffodils; In every dimpling drop I see Wildflowers on the hills. A cloud of gray engulfs the day And overwhelms the town: it isn't raining rain to me, it's raining roses down. It isn't raining rain to me. But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room .A health, then, to the happy, A fig to him who frets; it isn't raining rain to me, It's raining violets." Ruby Archer asked: 'Know you how roses came to grace the world" A feather from an angel's pinion fell, A sunbeam caught and kissed it as it whirled, And left it blushing on the world to dwell." dispensed by bill smiley This went on tor weeks, the symptoms steadily geting worse, until we had so- meone in to watch a special program with us. "Good Lord!" quoth our guest. "What is this — days off the silver, silent screen? How long have you had this set, anyway'?" After the usual bickering that married couples go through to establish anything — even the time of day — we agreed, not without a certain amount of awe — it seemed like only last year we'd bought it'? — that the machine was 14 years old. Our friend snorted in disbelief. "That thing was worn out six years ago. No wonder the picture' looks like a 1920s movie, and the sound track is as sharp as a stomach rumble." We just looked at each other askance. I think that's the word. At any rate, there wasn't much skance in us. We felt pretty much the way one would feel if the doctor told one that a favorite aunt had terminal cancer. I mean, we had lived with this old girl for 14 years. We had almost come to blows over whether She would watch Dallas or I would watch a real, unreal Western. We had settled family problems of great moment, during the commercials. Our grandboys had suckled at this fount of pap, and thrived, turning into incredible hulks, Batman and Robin, Darth Vader. To just throw her out into the dump would be like throwing your library out, burning your Encyclopedia, ripping up Plato and Hegel and Kant — that's a law firm that has given us a lot of trouble. An end to all culture in the home. Well, we had to steel ourselves, but we did it. Just as one throws a beloved aunt to the wolves, we let the brutal TV men come and carry her off to an unknown grave, still alive, but barely; still whispering. Then came the great wrench. How to replace her. There was a confab that lasted all day. We certainly weren't going kaleidoscope Klompen Feest is less than three weeks away. Are you ready for it' The committee will be holding a last meeting tonight (Wednesday i at Mrs. Van Damme's Holiday Horne at 3 p.m. to finalize plans. There are still a number of parade entry forms available for interested families, groups or indivivals. As well, booth space is still available, just let the Feast com- mittee know if you'd like to take part And don't forget the Kick Off dance for the 1983 Feest will be held on Friday. May 13 at the Clinton arena. Tickets are available at most businesses. I understand that a number of special decorations for this year's Feest will be unveiled at the dance. The dance is also an opportune time to try out those wooden shoes that you gladly shoved in the hack of the closet after last year's festivities. They look great on, but they take some getting used to Start practicing now We're really gearing up for Klompen Feest at the News -Record and next week the special souvenir edition wi11 he published in a number of local papers to just go out and buy the first thing on the market. Alter all, we weren't born yester- day. None of' this nonsense that we have always used to buy cars: When we buy a car, we go and look at them, kick the tires, check the color of the upholstery, and buy the thing. We have never yet visited more than one car lot. We are the salesman's dream. And we've never got a lemon. Some people spend more money on gas driving around and comparing prices than they do in their first year of driving. But we weren't going to be taken in this time. After all, a car is merely a car. A TV set is much more. As well as being a source of entertainment and information — how would I know anything about Mini - pads without it? -- it is a refuge, a solace, a babysitter. A TV set is much more important that parents or children. It is an escape from the real world, an anodyne for pain, physical or psychic-, a sleep -inducer, a thing to make one feel superior to one's fellow man, a warm, intimate look into the lives of practically anyone from the cop on the corner to Sir Lawrence Olivier. You can't handpick your family. But you sure can be choosy over your TV set, thank goodness. So what did we do? We went out and bought the first one we saw, after judiciously flicking it on and off several times. You can't even kick the tires on a TV. But it has remote control. Now we're really going to fight about who sees what. I'll just be settled into Hill Street Blues when my wife, deliberately and malicious- ly, will switch to one of those dreary, endless, stupid soaps she thrives on. bike murder mysteries? Watch for The Remote Control Button Murder. Oh, well. There's no such thing as an ill wind. At least we've got our sight and hearing back, Here's the real fish story Dear Editor: My husband is a commercial fisherman., and often times 1 have heard people say there are no trout, because the com- mercial fisherman have caught them all. This is not true, but you can't seem to make people understand, because they siMply don't want to. My husband has offered to take people on the boat with trim to see what is caught. Many say they don't have to because they already know. They can tell from shore through their binoculars. The following is an article that was in the Toronto Sun by Outdoors Writer Ted Gorsline which backs up what the com- mercial fishermen have been trying to tell them and the Ministry of Natural Resources, Here's a fisherman who hates salmon Ernest Schwiebert, perhaps the best- known fly and trout fisherman in the world, was in town last week to lecture at the Canadian Fly Fishing Forum. He has a lot to say about angling technique c and in that area he is brilliant) and he is outspoken in his views on splake and coho, chinook and pink salmon stocked in the Great Lakes. Schwiebert said "the Great Lakes salmon programs have been an economic success but are destroying trout habitat." He calls the salmon programs an "en- vironmental disaster" and thinks the splake program is for dum-dams. "Why go to the bother of creating a new hatchery fish when you have so many ready-made wild strains of fish that would do the job." He is not criticizing from ignorance. He has two doctorates, his own environmental planning company in New Jersey, and advises government agencies in areas as diverse as Alaska and Argentina. Schwiebert says "the problem with salmon in Michigan is that they have been stocked in such quantities that when they return to spawn, they root up so much gravel making their spawning beds, that they destroy the algae which aquatic in- sects need for food." Once the insects have been destroyed, a stream is no good for resident fish or as a nursery for young trout. He says there are so many salmon in Michigan streams now that they destroy each other's eggs, and adds that fish and game departments have not been in- telligent in their choice of salmon strains for the Great lakes. "The salmon return in the fall, and because of their size, they intimidate spawning brown trout and keep them from ascending the rivers to lay their eggs. "There are plenty of salmon strains in the west that run in the summer that could be used. That way, the salmon and brown trout would lay their eggs at different times of the year." Schweibert claims pink salmon, the type planted by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, are a problem because their "numbers are not regulated by available spawning beds like other fish. "Their young don't stay in the stream atter hatching like rainbow and coho. They leave right after they hatch, so they can use sterile rivers for spawning. "Their numbers are regulated only by the amount of food in the lake, so their populations grow to enormous size. When they return to spawn, they come in swarms and obliterate the beds of other fall -spawning fish like brook and brown trout." Since pink salmon have now spread throughout the Great Lakes, MNR may unwittingly be devastating famous trout streams in both Ontario and the U.S. Yours truly, Jean Reid, Varna. UNICEF thanks The days and months are certainly flying by Already it's May. the month of Taurus the bull, the month when, ''Hoar- frost is star-crossed. Cool breeze sweetens early peas. Sun dapples apple blossoms. ('old enough to congeal a seal. Kissed by a lilac mist. Time for a bucolic frolic," according to The Old Farmer's Almanac. 1 4 it's my favorite time of the year - ga rage sale season. The coming events section this week is hill of all sorts of dandy bargain backyard sales. offering everything from plants to plates, baby items to bicycles Re sure to take the garage sale tour on Saturday from Clinton to Blyth + + Three cheers this week to our devoted Rayfield writer Ahhy Champ, who got the news in by deadline time. despite some minor difficulties. Abby blew into the News -Record office on Tuesday noon, somewhat wrinkled, damp and breathless in her jaunt over from Hayfield her truck ran out of gas little more than half way to Clinton Concerned that deadline time was less than a half hour away, Abhy braved the wet weather and hitch -hiked to (linton, news in hand. She made it in time and we got her on her way back to Rayfield, this time with a can of fuel in hand. Rayfield readers, enjoy your Round About The Village this week, your correspondent went beyond the call of duty to bring you the news. With Abby's determination and devotion i think she might make a good mail per- son What's that saying about neither rain. snow, sleet or hail . Thumbs down this week go to me On Sunday I took a photo of our devoted young Candy Stripers, receiving their caps and awards for hundreds of heirs volunteered at the hospital The picture turned out. but un- fortunately it won't he running in this week's paper My program with the names of the girls was accidently left in my coat pocket The coat was sent to the dry cleaners' We'll have the photo in next week's paper Sorry for the slip-up Dear Editor, ()ver the past year the Ontario UNICEF Committee has received excellent support from the news media of our province. I would like to thank not only you and the members of your staff, but all those concerned citizens who so generously supported the work of UNICEF DURING THE LAST 12 MONTi-LS. At a time when the plight of millions of children is so great, and when the lives of so many hang in the balance not just from clay to day but from minute to minute, it is heart -warding to realize that UNICEF has the interest of so many fellow Canadians. The monies which UNICEF in Ontario has received will go a long way in alleviating the suffering of thousands of children around the world. Approximately $500,000 was raised through the Hallowe'en campaign and the same amount was realized from the sale of (;reeting Cards. These amounts are matched by (IDA Canadian International Development Agency). This means that such programs as oral rehydration therapy. the first breakthrough in stopping dehydration in young children suffering from gastric infections; child im- munization against measles, diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough, poliomyelitis and tuberculosis: promoting breast feeding and finally training mothers in the use of a growth chart to arrest and prevent child malnutrition and ill -health may be implemented As well, clean water will be provided to communities where even a puddle of dirty water can he precious in these times of economic uncertainty. we, the volunteers of UNICEF in Ontario are most gratified by the continuing sympathy shown for those small beings of thr world, who are all too often forgotten Yours sincerely, Elizabeth Gordon Edwards, Provincial Chairman, Ontario UNICEF ('ommittee