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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1981-04-23, Page 4PAGE 4 --CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 23,1981 -'—�` A Ylum Clinton ttere.Record Is published moth Thursday ®t P.O. Roz 39, Clinton. Ontario. Canada. NgAi 1LS. Tel.: 403043. Subscription Roto: Condo - •16.311 Sr. Citizen -'14.M per year U.S.A. & foreign . '3E46 per year It Is legislated es second close recall by floe poet office tinier the portrait number 6117. The Plewo-Recofd Incorporated In 1914 the Huron PPewaRowrd. founded In 1111. most The Clinton Plow Era. founded In 1663. Total press run 3.366. A� A MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY MCPHEE - News Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET L. OMB - Office Manager MARY ANN GLIDDON-Subscriptions Display advertising rotes available an request. disk for Rote Cord No. 11 effective Oct. 1. 1916. Every dollar counts Despite rising cost, run away inflation, and soaring interest rates, cost can be held in line, and the private sector isn't necessarily the best at it either. Take .a couple of departments in the town of Clinton, a public financed body, who -both came in with excellent financial records from last year, and in fact spend far less than they were given. The public' works ' deportment, despite major street reconstruction, and expensive maintenance of our too numerous gravel roods, still managed to come in $11,000 under budget, despitetosing-o$13,000provincial government road subsidy. The recreation board also set a:good example., when they were able fro shove $16,000 from their 1980 budget, taking only $77,500 from the taxpayers, which was $11,000 less than they spend in 1979. The rest of the receation board's $180,000 comes from grants, ad- missions, and canteen sales. ' Both departments dispel) the common myth that government spending is wasteful, and money flushed down the drain. That may be.trtae to some extend at higher levels, but on the local municipal leveir it certainly is not. By J.F. LFt#le guy gets it again If Huron school board members have their way, the strap will re- main In the school . system in the county, says the Exeter Times - Advocate. 's not p °zmajor issue, as evidence4 by the response from the pudic and4Iwe schools when.osiced for "Their opinions on fhd matter prior to the board making a decision. I - ln truth, the board is asking only that the strap be administrated to students who will stand for it. That argument is supported by the fact .it is used occasionally in elementary schools in Huron, but hasn't been in the secondary schools for a number of years. It's not much of a threat to a 6'2" macho male high school student to know that his 5'6" pedagogue has the right to administer the strap. It's a right on whichonly the most foolish would embark, unless he -she knew the student considered the whole thing a big lark. In that way, it becomes an unfair tool for correcting behaviour because it cannot be administered without fear of favor. However, it does p epare children for the real world, where there are many examples of there being one Tule for the big guy and another for the little guy. April fresh 5YEARSAGO Apri122, 1976 So far, the Chilton Hospital board'has taken no action on an order last week to close the Clinton Hospital by June 1 and members of the board and doctors were meeting with. acting health minister Dr., Bette Stephenson today and are asking her to reconsider her closing order of last week. The hospital board in a meeting Monday night, gave their solicitor; Beecher Menzies of Clinton, permission to go ahead and see if legal action can't be taken by the board against the provincial government. An unusual mid-April heat spell started last Wednesday when the temperature officially reached -70 (F-)., A --new record -was -set Tpursday when the mercury hit 77, Friday's high of 80, Saturday's high of 81, and Sunday's high of 82 also set new records for those dates.. Mike' Miller, associate ag., rep, said that considerable seeding of spring grain has already been carried out, compared to last• year when farmers never got on the land until the first of May. - instrumental music will be offered at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton during the.. 1976-77 . term. The board has agreed to offer the course. to YEARS AGO April 29, 191 1 More than 200 guests gathered in V,: Clinton, Legion Hall for a dinner and dance Friday night to honor Florence Symons, Grand Organist of the Grand Chapter of Ontario, Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Symons was installed last September at the Grand Chapter and will hold office until after the Grand Chapter Sessions this Sep- tember. She will play for this year's con- vention at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The professional sound in modern music is hard to come by in Clinton; but not im- possible. , • Last Saturday night the Koffee House sponsored an evening of music by The Brotherhood. A crowd of about 70 young people enjoyed the versatility and the swing of this group. Hank and Beryl Gelling, hosts of the Koffee House and originators of the idea were pleased with the turn -out, and at a quarter a head, nobody could afford not to come. by Shelley McPhee a look through the news -record files 25 YEARS AGO Apr1126, 1956 Self-satisfied smiling faces were easily seen when more than 200 Legion members watched as the mortgage on the Clinton Legion Memorial Hall, Kirk Street, went up in flames. Legion members gathered for the mortgage burning and a social evening in celebration of thefact. Clinton Lodge AF&AM played host to a distinguished native-born Clintonian on Monday, April 23, in the person of Sir Ernest Cooper, younger brother of the late Albert T. Cooper, former mayor of Clinton. A new public school for Hensel), to be erected at an estimated cost of $120,000 was approved in principle at a special meeting of Henson Counil last week. A school board delegation made the proposal after recom- mending that construction of the new five - room school and kindergarten was preferable to attempting to bring the present building up to standard. 50 YEARS AGO . ' Apri123, 1931 During the month of April the Canadian Legion has been conducting an intensive membership drive. in order to bring into membership many returned men who live in the villages and country outside of the larger towns and cities. The' fountain in Clinton's Library Park has been painted 'green and bronze, making a bright spot in the centre. But the color doesn't blend well with the white and blue of the new ' urns. Mr. Barry Walter gave a fine temperance address in the Holmesville Sunday School on Sunday last. He dwelt chiefly with the Wickersham report and the opinion of many noted doctors on. the harmful effects of alcohol . 75 YEARS AGO April 27, 1906 Death is always unwelcome even though it comes at the natural time when life's day is over and its work done, but when it steals in upon the family circle, and plucks the young life that is just budding into womanhood it is doubly sad, and its blow falls with terrible force. Such a bereavement as this befell the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Pennabaker of Clinton, Saturday the 21st, when their third Provincial election This is being written on the eve of the provincial election in Ontario, but it could be the eve of any election in any province in this far-flung dominion. Going up against the incumbent government resembles very much a pruiiiising -heavyweight fighter going up against the world champion. He has to knock the champ out, or make him look so foolish that even the judges have to award the challenger the title. If it's anywhere near close, the champ wins. How does this apply to provincial politics? Well, in the first place, the party in power has its fingers in a stranglehold on the public purse. This means that it \can run an over- whelming advertising campaign, conduct its own slanted polls, and throw grants and patronage in all directions, especially when a seat is in danger. Every nickel of this vast wastage comes out of your pocket and mine. A provincial election costs you and me anywhere from ten to a hundred million dollars, most of it disguised in the form of government in- formation, government announcements of ten million here, two million there, eight million elsewhere, and so on. It means that the government, fighting a supposedly democratic election, is in with both hands to public money, scattering i. wherever it might glean votes, regardless of the provincial debt, regardless of us, who are putting up the bucks. It . means that the government can cynically hire clever people to write speeches, brilliant people to plan glossy ad campaigns, brutal people to twist arms and remind of past favors, and op- portunists to denigrate the opposition parties. The latter, without access to our money, can fight only with what they have, and it's an uphill battle. They can't afford the opulent advertising, the sybaritic sycophancy of a venal press, the bus or the plane with the tree bar, the free buses to pack nomination meetings. But, lo, all is not lost. People are not sheep; not quite. Every so often, a slick, glossy government campaign goes down the drain, as The People suddenly demand to know what the hell the government stands for, besides motherhood, prosperity, and a turkey in every seat in. the legislature. It happened in B.C. when'Dave Barrett knocked out the right-wing government of Wacky Bennett. And in Manitoba, when right-wing Sterling Lyon knocked out the left-wing NDP. It happened in Quebec, when the PQ knocked off the smooth Liberal organization, riddled with patronage and corruption and fear. And it happened before that in Quebec when the Liberals, before they became rich and slick, bumped the Duplessis, right-wing Union Nationale, now a mere shadow on the Quebec horizon. Being of Irish extraction, I always, without fail, vote against the government. By the time this appears in print, the Tories in Ontario, who have a menage a trois with the NDP federals and the Liberal government in Ottawa (doesn't that boggle the mind?) will likely have formed another minority government. (Editor's note: they got a majority). How could they ..be defeated, with all that money, and a leader who epitomizes all the small-town, small-minded attitudes of traditonal Tory Ontario? But I'm in a quandary. Out on my front lawn is a sign, urging people to vote NDP. My wife, in a weak moment, allowed a friend to talk her into installing it, with my urging. 1 can't vote Tory, because I detest and despise a government that has allowed Ontario to become a second-rate province, despite its enormous resources, and because I resent the manner in which the Tory leader, a fairly mediocre politician who squeaked into the leadership by about the same margin as Joe Clark, and only because the Northern Ontario voters had to get home by bus, rail and plane, and couldn't vote in the last ballot, and who chooses to scatter my money wherever it will buy a vote. Why not vote, then, for the NDP man, a good man, a man of intellect and in- tegrity? Because, while he is a good man, and would nuke an excellent represen- tative, his party can't win. Turn to page 5 • young daughter, Annie, answered the sum- mons of death. For nearly eight months she had been fighting a hard, and continous battle against disease, and though she was very brave and usually hopeful, and though everything that loving hands, and skilful medical attendance could devise was done, it was an unequal struggle, and at last the grim reaper conquered. The • directors of the Threshing Co. in Londesboro met here on Tuesday evening, and there were no less that eight machine agents present to show them that each had the best threshing outfit; they did not com- plete the deal with any of them, but the chances are strong in favor of the White rig from London. Routes of popular stallions - The Pope, full brother to Bishop 2.06, will make the season at the owner's stable near Porter's Hill, and will arrange for certain days each week later on at Clinton; Goderich and elsewhere. - Sterling McPhail, prop. 100 YEARS AGO ;; Apri122, 1881 Why doesn't our street inspector of con= mittee look after the sidewalk in front of the town hall? It's in a bad state gentlemen, and remember there will be an election again in January. WANTED - We insert the following ad- vertisment without charge, with great pleasure: - WANTED - About 79 young men, of all shapes and sizes, from the tall, graceful dandy, with the baseball moustache (nine on a side) down to the henped-backed, carroty - headed, weazel-eyed up -start. The object is to form the gaping corps to be in attendance at the Clinton street corners each Sunday during the coming summer before and after divine service, to stare at the females as they pass and to make delicate and• gentlemanly remarks on their person and dress. All who wish to enlist in the above corps, will appear at the various street corners next Sunday, both morning and evening, when they will be duly inspected and their names, personal appearance, and quantity of brains registered in a book, kept for that purpose, and to be published. To prevent a general rush, it will be well to state that none will be enlisted possessing intellectual capacity superior to that of a well-bred donkey. R ots Dear Editor, Like many other people in Canada, we are trying to, trace our family tree. Our home is in Toronto and we visited Clinton on April 14th and 15th in an effort to find missing links and crucial ties. Town Clerk Cam Proctor did everything he could to help us. We went to the cemetery and located our grandfather's grave in Section Q. Your newspaper en- deavored to help us to locate places and people who would be able to ,help us. But the f ew leads we had ran into dead ends. Our grandfather Thomas Hession lived and died in Clinton. He was married to the former Sarah Foster Morten and had six children, Henry (our father), John, Eleanor (Nell), Norma, Mary and Eva. They were all born between 1870 and 1 a 7 and dad worked at Nickelborough's Department Store and at a furniture factory. They first lived over a store, then bought their own homestead which we believe still is standing somewhere in town, although renovated. Henry moved to Toronto around the turn of the century. Grandfather was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 27, 1840 and he died on May 30, 1914. His wife Sarah was born in London, England (maiden name Morten) on December 27, 1848 and died on September 9, 1915. Grandfather had some connection with Dr. Charles Cole. If aibyone has recollections of our family here, or knows when they settled here we would appreciate hearing from you. Write Barry F. Hession, 139 Kingston Rd., Toronto, M4L 1T3. Thanks to the Clinton News -Record our trip wasn't completely in vain. Yours truly, Barry Hession. Disabled can enjoy sports too Dear Editor: On Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd, and Sunday 24th of May, the cityof London will host the Regional Games for the Physically Disabled. I hope that in this, the International Year of the Disabled, the Clinton News -Record will be able to help us promote these games. Our primary objective is to increase the number of participants over last year. The Regional Games, although an important stepping stone for disabled athletes ap- proachingthe Ontario Games, the Canada Games and eventually International Games, also provides wide ranging op- portunities for all disabled persons wishing to engage in recreational sporting activity. We would like to see every community in our region represented at the Games and registration takes place mainly through April and early May. From our point of view, the bigger and themore frequent the exposure you can give us over this period, the better it will be for us. Many groups, individuals and corporations have donated money, time and services to put these Games in place..I sincerely hope that the Clinton News -Record will add its weight to this effort. John Walsh, Chairman, media & promotion The big game? Parr 11 The puck was dropped. The game was one, and two mothers were flat on the ice. The boys' centre grabbed the puck before the opposing centre knew what was hap- pening. He skirted one sprawled body and out -raced two defenders for a clearcut breakaway. The goalie didn't expect her work to start quite that fast, but she prepared herself. She moved out to the line in front of the net that John's mother told her was called the "lip of the crease." She kept her pads together, her stick flat on the ice and her gloved hand outstretched - just like the guys on TV. Well, not quite. e shot came, the puck gliding s oothly on the ice. She swiped at it with. her stick, missed and landed on her fanny. 1 - 0 for the boys. Not a good start for the mothers. By the end of the first 10 minute period (the mothers had insisted on only 10 minute periods), the score was 5-0. The boys were not surprised. But, in the second period, strange things started happening. The goalie became more aggressive, flip-flopping and throwing herself on the puck as though pride had suddenly become more important than bruises. Sometimes she landed on players instead of the puck, but more often than not she came out of the scramble screaming, "I got it! 1 got it!" She seemed more surprised than anyone. When the other goalie took over near the end of the second period, she seemed to have picked up some tips. She let in a couple of fast soft goals, but after that, she settled downatoo. By the end of the second period, the score was 7-3. The boys were shaking their heads, just a little. They still knew they would win - easy. But they had to admit some of those mothers could skate not half bad. And Jim and John's mothers really had known what they were talking about; they could actually play hockey. The referee, alias Tommy's father, let them away with a lot, though, especially Tommy's mother. The mothers did a lot of tripping. Sure, it usually happened when the mothers fell and her stick was lying on Armchair athletes Dear Editor; Regarding the quality of hockey in this area. I was settling down, Wednesday of last week, to see a good hockey game between Toronto and Buffalo when the phone rang. Being disturbed from my Coke and ? I hoped it could be a wrong number. Instead, it 'was from a friend of mine (Oscar), asking me if I would like to see an Industrial game being played in Goderich between Hodgin's Mill and.O'Briens. The game was the rubber match in the first round of the championship. . Well, I hesitated for a few seconds and then I thought that since the guy was good enough to ask me, I'd say yes. Thank heaven's for' the invitation, instead of seeing the demise of, what used to be a top hockey reggmg (,Toronto lost 4-4) we were treated to a very hngh class game.. Here are some facts about the kind of hockey that I saw: there is no body con- tact, no slapshots and no spearing (remember last week's', game between Toronto. and the Pinnies when Sutler got slashed for five stitches). Oh, the guys push and shove a little, but within two minutes they always kiss and make up. But if there is a little extra pushing, both players get an automatic game penalty. One other thing I forgot to mention, all these guys are working buffs and it doesn't cost one cent to watch. How about it Clinton, dO you want to watch your local lads, or get fat and overweight by sitting in your armchair watching lack -lustre games on T.V. Sincerely, Fred "Doc" Jackson, Clinton the ice and a kid tripped on It. But she should have got a penalty for tripping, anyway. As the third period wore on, the mothers were getting up slower and slower. In the big leagues, they would have gotten trillions of penalties for delaying the game, but not in this one. The boys took over again, popping in more and more goals. The final score was 12-4, and the boys claimed they could have made it a lot worse, but they didn't want to make their old moms feel bad. The mothers blamed it on lack of prac- tise time but quickly turned down the ref's suggestion of a rematch. During the boys' celebration, one was a little subdued. John remembered his mother had threatened to feed him spinach and liver for a week if he beat her. He glanced at her and grinned sheepishly, as they were leaving the ice. She rubbed her elbow. He forgot his worries, though, when the referee and some of the other fathers took the boys out for a Big Mac to celebrate. When they walked past, the mothers' dressing room, a liniment bottle was be- ing passed around. A sister for Clinton Dear Editor: Our sister city of Bay City, Michigan, again wishes to thank the large delegation from your town to our annual St. Patrick's Day parade weekend festivities. They _ were a wonderful contribution to our parade and we were pleased when they came away with the "best -out-of-town" float and trophy. Our mayor, Mrs. Anne R. Hachtel, organized :a.. very -.nice reception for the group at our City Hall, and our American Legion Post 18 hosted the delegation, in- cluding the Clinton Pipe Band, in their clubrooms. If the Goderich folks were wat- ching, our WNEM-TV Channel Five gave coverage on three different newscasts to Goderich participation in our "Irish" ac- tivities. In honoring the 25th anniversary of our national People -to -People and sister city program founded by the late President Eisenhower in 1956, we will have a special Goderich Friendship Days program Satur- day and Sunday, October 3-4 when we hope a delegation from your city will visit us. There will be special tours of Bay City historic homes and points of interest, ar- ranged by the Bay County Historical Socie- ty and a reception with special entertain- ment provided by American Legion Post 18. Our family of Michigan cities affiliating with sister cities in your midst is growing. Our neighbour, Standish, has a very fine program going with Wingham, while West Branch is affiliated With Seaforth and Auburn with Auburn, Ontario. Meanwhile, another Bay County community, Pinconn- ing, is showing some interest in taking on Clinton as a sister city, while Midland, 15 miles west of Bay City, expects to affiliate with Midland, Ontario, this year. Thanking you and all of those fine folks in Goderich, I am, Sincerely, Leslie E. Arndt, President Bay Sister Cities Federation, Bay City, Michigan