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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1981-05-07, Page 4PAGE 4 --CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 7 ,1981 • The Clinton Navas -Record is published each Thursday et P.O. des 30. Clinton. Ontario. Canada. NOM Wt. 'W.:0124443. Subscrlplion Rate: Canada -'10311 - Sr. Citizen - •10.46 per year U.S.A. dd foreign -'40"N p©r yew it Is registered as second elves wean by Cho post *Nice under the permit number 0411. Tho News -Record Incorporated in 1324 the Huron Nevas+Wecord. founded In 1041. and The Clinton Naw Era. founded In 1603. Total press run 1.300. �C A MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McPHEE - News Editor GARY HAST - Advertising Manger HEATHER BRANDER . Advertising MARGARET L. OMB - Office Manager MARY ANN GLIDDON-Subscriptions MEMBER Display advertising rates evallable on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 11 effective Oct. 1; 3066. Help the young boys Nothing can be more satisfying than to see a loving smile come over a young boy's face as he enjoys the special companionship with his father. But many boys in the area have never known the pleasure of go- ing fishing, seeing a live hockey game, or •lust fixing a lawnmower as these boys are fatherless. Most of them hove a mother, but they still seem to need that little bit of extra guidance they get from an older adult male. It's like a tonic that smooths out their transition from boyhood to manhood. That is why the original Big Brothers Association was formed- to try and fill a gap in our society of today, where more and more often boys are raised in: a fatherless environment. The Clinton area is no exception, and at least eight boys could use some kind of big brother guidance to help them too. The Big Brothers Association of Goderich and District has recognized this and has - been asked •. o expand into the Clinton area, where a Big Brother association started several years cigo , never really got off the ground. They are hooking for mole volunteers, age being no bar- rier, to make life a little more happier and meaningfully for these youngsters. Can you help? -by JF Little guys finish last I'dlike to ask the people a few questions. It's a matter of economic survival to me as well as to millions of other little people vho have small stores: ` ` ' ' Whom do you aslk sto ,cash your checks? Whom do you- ask for credit when things are tight? Whom do you ask to take ads for your organization's yearbooks and programs? Whom do you ask for con- tributions to banquets, raffles,- etc.? Whom do you call after hours when you need a special item? Who do you ask to put up your posters for special events? Who helps. sponsor and coach minor hockey, soccer teams, etc.? Who donates prizes and awards to 4-H clubs, bowling and curling leagues, local school activities, horse shows and fair days? - It's your local home town small businessman. After all, he's your friend and neighbor. But when you want to make a purchase, how often do you drive past his place of business and go to a giant store thinking you might save a few cents, without giving your local merchant a chance or even comparing his prices? We are competitive with the biggest stores price -wise and our services are often better. But we can't survive much longer. When we go you'll miss us. (From The Okanagan Falls Herald) Forest bea u ty remembering our past 5YEARSAGO May 6, 1976 Clinton town council last Monday night decided to go ahead and make the first step towards annexing Vanastra and parts of Stanley and Tuckersmith Townships. After thinking about the move, council appointed a committee to meet with the Huron County development office, the county planning office and the two townships in- volved. A remarkable milestone was celebrated by the' Hydro crew of the Clinton area last Friday night in what has become an annual affair, their safety banquet. The Clinton area was presented with many awards for achieving one -million manhours of working time over a period of 13 years. without a single lost time accident. .- 10 YEARS AGO. . • May 13, 1971 ,By this time next year, Clinton's main street could have a. bright new look, and not. just because the present reconstruction program should finally be finished. • Representatives from the Clinton Retail Merchants Association appeared before Clinton town council Monday night to ask consideration of a plan ,to put hanging flowerpots on the light standards along the main streets and to plant new trees on the north and south edges of town ,on the boulevards. The Huron County Warden's Challenge Trophy will be played for probably the last time on May 22 when oldtimers from Clinton and CFB Clinton meet at the community park for a softball game. Major ,Frank Golding, C.D., Base Com- mander at CFB Clinton, Major George Youmatoff, C.D., Chaplain, and a Color Party from the Base will participate in a colorful ceremony at Wesley -Willis United Church on Sunday. The Laying Up Ceremony dates back several centuries to when a merchant ship was decommissioned after a period of hostilities. After the decommissioning ceremony, the ship's white ensign was marched to a church in the ship's homeport and "laid up" for safekeeping. This tradition has been followed by units of the . Armed Services when their ships or establishments have been closed. 25 YEARS AGO May 3, 1956 Miss Rosalee Watkins last week won the Way up north Dateline: Moosonee. How did a nice boy like you wind up in a place like this? Isn't that the classic ques- tion prostitutes are asked? Yes. Well, I realize the entire world is waiting for my answer, so I must confess. I didn't wind up here. I came here. And if I don't get out pretty soon, I just might wind up. here. Buried in mud, with taxis driven by gently -laughing Indian ladies rolling right over my Irish tweed hat, the only thing sticking out of the mud. Moosonee is not Far North. In fact, move it far enough west, and it could be a suburb of Edmonton. But it's far enough north to be one of those towns that are neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring, in this democratic, liberal -thinking, decent, next -door - neighbor country of ours. As a result, it is a combination of a nightmare by Dostoievsky and a plan for a Utopian village by Tolstoy. Two -room shacks with the inevitable snowmobile parked outside, and a minute's walk away, super -modern school buildings, tidy liquor store, neat brick post office. Truly beautiful Indian toddlers, super- vised by smart, smiling young Indian women. Happy-go-lucky teenageian kids who should be in school but, with apparent- ly no financial problems, smoke, drink cof- fee or Cokes, and feed the juke box, which whines the same old songs they're hearing in Halifax and Vancouver. And three tables away, in the same Chinese (that's right, Chinese) restaurant, a grizzled old guy, so drunk he doesn't know whether he's sipping his toast or eating his coffee. Mean, obscene, obstreperous. But they look after him. Anywhere else, they'd call the fuzz, and he'd wind up in the slammer. Not in Moosonee. When he'd driven everyone else out, he turned on me, the cool -looking guy with the shirt and tie, the fresh shave, the snappy trenchcoat, and the skiing earlugs my wife insisted I wear, even in a Moosonee heat - wave. (Glad I did. If I'd taken them off, I'd have had sun -burned ears, which would have made my old lady think I'd gone to Texas on March break, instead of Moosonee.) Anyway, this almost -incoherent old drunk zoned in on me, despite my preten- ding to be a born-again Christian or a deaf- mute or a retarded senior citizen just out of the funny farm, and went into a lurching dialogue about Kon and how we'd captured 750,000 Germans in the Falaise Gap. Suddenly we were buddies. Kon was Caen, Normandy, 1944. That was my bap- tism of fire. He was in the infantry, trying to capture the mess of shattered bricks and unshattered Germans. After I'd con- vinced him that I was a fighter pilot and not one of those jerks of bomber people who bombed their own' troops, we were soul -brothers. In fact, if I'd thrown away my fancy top- coat, let me whiskers grow for five days, taken out my partial plate, and gotten in- credibly plastered, you wouldn't have known us apart. We separated with one of those 10 -minute handshakes that drunks insist on. And I felt very sad. Outside, on the street, macho young In- dians, sometimes three abreast, sunglasses, thumbs in denim trousers, some pockmarked, some handsome, some menacing faintly. Playing a role. I am pro- ud to say that not one of them pushed me off the sidewalk into the mud. I stepped off, a purely individual choice, into the mud. Middle of main street. Water two feet deep. Kids of all colours wading around in it with their 14 inch rubber boots, wildly happy, soaked as seals, oblivious to all else except sun, water, mud. All veterans of World War I should be buried in Moosonee, in the spring or fall. It would be just like Flanders fields. Mud. Golly, it sounds as though I don't like Moosonee. That's wrong. I love it. And I'll tell why next week. by Jim Fitzgerald a look through the news -record files Stanley Township $lO scholarship in music at the South Huron Music Festival held in Exeter, for the fourth year in a rpw. A Grade 8 student at SS 1, Stanley, Rosalee and her sister Judy, Grade 4, placed first in the duet class with 86 marks. Each of the girls placed second in their vocal solos, Judy with 84 marks and Rosalee with 86. Mrs. Francis F. Powell is their teacher. Atthe request of thepublidty committee of the Huron County TB Survey, James Scott, Seaforth, has written a skit to call attention to the benefits which the survey will be bringing to Huron County citizens. After an absence of nearly 20 years, soccer has returned to Clinton. On Saturday, Clinton will meet Stratford in the first game of the year's schedule. The game will be played on the Public School grounds starting at 6 pm. No admission will be charged. 50 YEARS AGO April30, 1931 A number of young people from the Varna community gathered together in the town hall on Thursday evening and presented Mr. and Mrs. William Marshall, who, has- been recently married, with a pair of handsome chairs. The evening was spent in music and dancing and a general good time. Work has commenced on the Bayfield Golf Course. Last year the course was increased to 18 holes, water mains laid to 411 the greens and tees enlarged. Two tang of fertilizer was used and the greens seeded with creeping- • fescue, Kentucky blue grass and Red Top. A thousand gallon water tank wag donated by W.R. Jowett. Many players from large cities commented on the splendid condition of the course last year, so with the growing popularity of the course, the, officers and directors look for- ward to a good season. Daylight saving time has started in Toronto and several other places. From now on when we go a -visiting we will have to keep in mind whether we are going on daylight saving time or ordinary, old-fashioned sun time. 'Tis often a great bother. James Love's house in Tuckersmith Township was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. The building, which was a large stone house, was badly gutted but most of the furniture was saved. The fire is supposed to have started in an out -building in which there was a chicken brooder. Mr. and Mrs. Love and family are moving into Mr. Hamilton's house in Egmondville. 75 YEARS AGO May 4, 1906 There is much talk of joining Middleton's Parish with the Clinton Parish, leaving Summerhill and Holmesville to themselves, which may meet the approval of a number of parishoners at Middleton 's. The Hullett Thresher Company has pur- chased a complete outfit from the Whyte Co., of London, They get a modern engine and end -cut, up-to-date Thresher representing a.` heavy instrument. Mr. `Thos. Cole, a well known and experienced thresher has been N engaged to run it, and the farmers especially interested look forward to satisfactory results. The Chinamen who run the, laundry in Ain ton have a phonograph which gives selections in the Chinese language. Itis quite a novelty and attracts a lot of attention. 100 YEARS AGO April29, 1881 The coming summer hat for women is to be Get involved Dear Editor: We don't mean to be pessimistic, but as far as can be seen, civilization stands only jit a slim chance of survival beyond the year two thousand AD. Therefore, while those of us who strug- gle to ensure a future for our species must by all means continue to do so, it perhaps behooves us to give a serious consideration to the only alternative, should efforts on this planet prove futile...EXODUS. It's unlikely our governments will assist us in this, preoccupied as they are with money, politics, resources and war; so it's up to us. Project Noah will certainly be vast, quite likely expensive, but definitely not impossible. We urge anyone with anything to contribute to this venture — from prac- tical suggestions, through financial assistance, to your own person as colonist to contact us at the following address: A. Knight, 70 Rexdale Blvd. Apt. 316, Rex - dale, Ont. M9W 1N8. On behalf on those already involved, A. Knight Project Noah, RR 3, Mount Forest, Ont. write Tetters straw. It will be knocked in on the front, jammed in at the back, shoved in on each side, and kicked in on top. When the rim will be jammed up all around to make the whole effect harmonious. The desired condition can be obtained by taking one of last year's hats and letting a freight waggon run over it. We understand that it is the intention of our brass band to petition the council at its next meeting for a grant. It is now nearly six months since the band was organized and all 'will agree that they have made 'good progress. We understand that it is their in- tention to'play on the streets once a week so that all may receivea like benefit. We further hope that the council may see fit to give them a liberal grant. On Wednesday at noon a drunk man proceeded from one of the hotels and went shouting and halooing along the street en- joying himself spendidly and not thinking of the indecent language he was using as the ladies were passing. The cooler would have been the right place for him. He was heard half a mile off. On Thursday of last week, about noon, the residence of Mr. Geo. Miller of 'the 9th con., Goderich Township was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was immediately given, and a large crowd of people, including the brigade, repaired immediately to the scene to render assi$tarice., The fact that the fire had' originated from a defective chimney, was at once evident, and a number of persons at once ascended to the roof where the fire had already made considerable headway. In the meantime the furniture etc., of the house was carried out with considerable confusion, while the parties on the roof with com- mendable energy succeeded in extinguishing the fire. Had the fire not been noticed as soon as it was, it would have been impossible to save the building. Thank you Dear Editor: On behalf of the Ontario UNICEF Com- mittee, UNICEF Canada and the many UNICEF children around the world, I would like to extend thanks to the people of Ontario for their most generous support of UNICEF's work in 1980. I would also like to extend UNICEF's sincere gratitude to those representatives of the Ontario media who supported the ef- forts of our many volunteers so effectively, throughout the past year. Once again, the people of our province have responded with concern and generosity to our fund-raising appeal at Hallowe'en and through the purchase of UNICEF greeting cards during the year. As a result of this generosity, $414,542 has been raised to date from the annual Hallowe'en for UNICEF collections and we are optimistic that we will reach our goal of $450,000 from our greeting card sales across Ontario. These contributions, when matched by the federal government through the Cana- dian International Development Agency (CIDA) will multiply to approximately $1,800,000 — monies which will go far in providing safe water supplies, improved nutrition, health care and educational pro- grams for millions of children in the developing countries of our world. As, „we move into the 1980s, we are becoming more aware - of '"the". ib- terdependence of all people and the im- pact we each can make. Through their con- tributions to UNICEF, the people of On- tario have helped to provide a brighter future for many children around the world. We thank you and look forward to your continuing support.' Sincerely yours, Maggie Smiley, Chairman It's a serious problem - Dear Editor, On November 25, 1980 Harry Parrott, Minister of Environment, announced that South Cayuga had been selected as the location for an industrial waste disposal facility destined to handle all of Ontario's industrial waste, currently estimated at some 60 million gallons a year. As a citizens' group, our major concern /)o you have an opinion? Why not write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. All letters are published, providing there is sufficient space available, and they can authenticated. Pseudonyms /pen names/ are allowed if the letter is signed elsewhere, but all letters are subject to editing for length or libel. Not one of the better days You know it's going to be a bad day when your twin sister forgets your birthday or it's not a good sign when your birthday cake collapses under the weight of the candles. The day gets off to a rough start when your alarm goes off at 3 a.m. because you were too tired to set it correctly the night before. You turn it off in disgust and roll over without bothering to reset the alarm. Then you fret for the rest of the night, afraid you'll sleep in. Total night's sleep amounts to about three hours. You also know it's going to be a bad day if: you turn on the news and they're giving emergency routes out of the area; you find a Fifth Estate news team waiting in your office; the first day in 20 years you forget your Wallet and you're flagged down by a traffic cop for a routine check; your horn goes off accidentally and stays stuck while you're following a group of Hell's Angels on the 401. You know it's going to be bad if : you sit down to a mouth-watering feast of hot beef and mashed potatoes swimming in gravy with buttered corn and melt -in -your -mouth homemade rolls. You finish if off with a huge slice of chocolate cake and two scoops of butterscotch ice cream, then some slim smart aleck with yogourt cup in hand quips: "Many a round figure has been acquired by eating too many square meals." You mention to a friend that you had lunch in a fast food joint and she says, "You know what I hear they're putting in those things now?" Someone tells you what a fine person you are and how lucky they feel to be able to call you their friend. Then they ask to bor- row $20 bucks. Your cupboard is bare; your wallet is flat and the sign in the grocery store says, "We made a deal with the bank. They don't sell food and we don't cash cheques." You're in the middle of helping your kid put his new model together. There are tiny rubber tires and shiny chrome parts strewn over the living room floor. Then you find out half the instructions are miss- ing. You spend days preparing for the most important speech of your life. You feel con- fident and composed. You're not a bit ner- vous, until you mount the stage. Suddenly your throat is dry, your hands are sweaty, your knees are shaky and your mind is blank. You can't hear yourself talking, but you're afraid your speech sounds as confused as the ditty: "I went to the theatre tomorrow I took the front seat at the back I fell from below the gallery And hurt the front of my back." it has not been one of your better days. You're tempted to chuck it all and run away, like the little pig : "The thunder roared, the lightning flashed And all the world was shaken. The little pig rolled up his tail And ran to save his bacon." But you can't do that. You're strong: you're indomitable. And tomorrow has got to be a better day. is with the manner in which that announce- ment was made and the dangerous im- plications behind that announcement - im- plications which affect all of Ontario. For when the government announced its deci- sion, it stated that there would be no En- vironmental Assessment Hearings nor Ex- propriation Hearings. We are not saying, nor have we ever said, that we don't want the `dump' in our backyard. All we have ever asked for is our right, according to existing legislation, to a full Environmental Assessment Hear- ing in order that ALL the facts be brought out, both pro and con, so that Ontario will not have to deal with its own LOVE CANAL. 1) The number of organizations and associations endorsing our demands for such a hearing is growing, and while too numerous to list, they do include: Cana- dian Environmental Law Association, Pollution Probe, Greenpeace, Baptist Con- vention of Ontario and Quebec, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Consumers' jo Association of Canada (Ontario), Ontario Christian Farmers plus some 250 Ontario municipalities. We, as citizens, are being extremely reasonable about this issue - we are asking for nothing more, nor will we settle for anything less, than a hearing under the Environmental Assessment Act. The On- tario -government has chosen to circum- vent its own legislation and refuses to listen to us. We urge you to consider the seriousness of this problem - for while this particular topic is South Cayuga and an environmen- tal issue - if the government's dictatorial - attitude goes unchallenged - next time it could be YOU and YOUR COMMUNITY over another issue. If the government cares so little for the rights of 40,000 people in our area, do you 4. really think they will care or listen to you? Think carefully before you cast your vote on March 19. Yours truly, Rene Tunney Rene Tunney, for H.O.P.E. (Haldimand- Norfolk Organization for a Pure Environ- ment), P.O. Box 10, RR 9, Dunnville, On- tario.