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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1981-05-14, Page 6PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 14,1981 The Clinton Neves.Record Io subtle/all each it is registered ap second clone avail by the Thursday at P.O. mos 30, Clinton. Onterlo. poet office under the permit number 0011. Canada, NOM 11.9. Tei.: 012.2102. Tho Hem -Record incorporated In 1021 the Subscription Rate: Huron Neves.lhocord, founded In 1n1, end The Cade -'11.19 Clinton Hew fro, founded In 1113. Total prop® run 3.100., Sr. Citizen - '13.89 par year N.S.A. 3. foreign -'8/.N per year •o A MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY Y McPHEE • News Editor GARY WAIST - Advertising Manger HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET LbGIBS- Office Manager L MARY ANN OLIBDON-Subscriptions I D , o r MEMBER Display advertising rates available on request. Ask far Rote Card No. 11 effective Oct. 1, 1. Deserve an answer The old adage that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor is certainly evident in the federal And provincial govern- ments' attitude towards business in this country. While thousands of small and medium sized businesses including hundreds of family farms, have or will be going bankrupt this year due to soaring interest rates and a sluggish economy, the two governments are doing almost nothing. The politicians argue that any additional support they give these small businesses can't be justified because the freedom to fail is an integral part of the free enterprise system. Supposedly, the process separates the wheat from the chaff, en- suring that the least efficient and productive businesses will fail because they can't compete, but for our two governments what's good for one, isn't for the other. While farmers fall by the wayside by the hundreds, Ottawa has opened the vault to multi -national cor- porations like Chrysler and Massey Ferguson, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayers' money to support these firms. Likewise, the provincial government gave Ford $70 million to build a new plant, and then the company turned around and closed an older one putting hundreds out of work. The principal at stake is not whether the taxpayers will lose their money or not, but if taxpayers are helping two mismanaged and in- efficient enterprises, why shouldn't they also help all troubled firms. The public ,and especially smallbusiness people facing bankruptcy because they are playing by the rules, deserve an answer from the politicians before corporate socialism .takes over This country! By J.F. . Peaceful Maitland remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO May 13, 1976 The struggling congregation of the Clinton Baptist Church was dealt a severe blow early Wednesday morning when fire ravaged their church on Huron Street. An explosion rocked the structure about 3:30 am and some $40,000 in damage was caused to the87-year-old brick structure. Because of the danger of falling bricks on the outside, which had been weakened by the explosion, and the danger of falling plaster inside, the church has been condemned by the fire chief for the time being. • The Vanastra and District Lions Club held their charter night on Saturday, May 8 at the Vanastra Community Centre. A well-known Clinton man, and a native of the area who was the town's fire chief for 25 years, Grant (Red) Rath, died suddenly at his Huron Street home last Sunday night, May 9. ' He was 64years old. Peggy Campbellwas nicked as the junior Give the students a chance this summer This time of year college and upivgrsity students are on the prowl forsummer jobs. Andin a few -short months theknumber of :job seekers will swell when the high school year ends. ' That will put a lot of young people on the summer job market and some of them will belooking for their first full-time employment. Many employers in the Goderich area have an active summer employment program and they are fully aware of the benefits of student labor. Young people have a lot to offer business and in- dustry. But the task of finding a summer job is not an, easy one.. The economic climate'has dictated cutbacks in several areas and jobs are simply not as plentiful as they once were. Students now may have to knock on several doors before any op- by Jim Fitzgerald a look through the news -record files queen at Bayfield's Centennial Queen contest held last Saturday night in the village. Peggy, who was picked from 20 other entrants, will reign for the rest of the year. Runners-up were Valerie Merner and Veronica Huffman. to YEARS AGO May 20, 1971 Mayor Don Symons called again, on Monday night at the regular meeting of Clinton council, for the county to take over the cost of recreation in all areas of the county. The Laying Up Ceremony of the Colours from the Protestant Chapel at CFB Clinton which took place on Sunday, brings to an end the long history of the chapel at the base. Ted Gozzard was appointed to fill the vacancy on Bayfield village council Monday night as the council' held its regular May Meeting. 25 YEARS AGO May 17, 1956 A small tornado ripped through the portunity presents itself. The Student Manpower office does a lot of the door knocking for students in advance and is successful in mak- ing needed placements. Many businesses and industries co-opel _,e with the student placement centre annually which indicates they were more than satisfied with student labor. But the jobs are tougher to find each year. Students and young people have something to offer the labor force but they have to be given the chance to display that initiative and talent. If you have any openings during the summer or could use some extra help, contact the student placement office and give a student a chance. - from the Goderich Signal -Star. - More on the north There are three ways of getting to Moosonee. You can fly, which is expen- sive. You can walk, which is lengthy, or you can take the train, which is something else. I took the train because I was a bit broke after a major decorating job, because my gout was acting up and I couldn't have made it walking in two years and because I wanted the experience. It was an experience I will never forget. Or repeat. When I think that my daughter made the same trip two years. ago, with two small boys, my heart bleeds for her. It's almost 24 hours from Toronto, and she refused to get sleeping berths, against my advice. But she's a very adaptable, strong - hearted and generally clear-headed young woman, and has made not only a go of it, but a success of coping with a frontier town, if there's such a thing left in Canada. At Cochrane, you change from a fast trans -Canada train to the self-styled Polar Bear Express, somewhat of a misnomer, as it has nothing to do, even peripherally, with polar bears, and is the exact opposite of an express. It stops whenever it feels like it, backs up for a while, sits for a while, then jogs off again. Sitting in a coach surrounded by fat, middle-aged Indian ladies who chuckled and gossiped in Cree, I felt much like a Russian aristocrat who had been banished to Siberia for supposedly plotting against the Czar. The train rolled .on hour after hour through the taiga, skinny evergreens too useless even for pulpwood, burnt-out patches every so often, snow out both win- dows, and no sign of human life. All we needed was a samovar at the end of the coach, and the Siberian image would have been complete. But a warm welcome, with some hugs and kisses from grandboys dispelled the first impressions. There, seems little real reason for Moosonee to exist, except that it is the end of steel. Yet it's a thriving little town, with all the requisites: liquor store, post office, police station, churches, The Bay store, with a monopoly on most food and clothing, a meat market, two hardware stores, one garage, a Mac's Milk sort of place, a Chinese restaurant, magnificent schools, a really splendid, small art gallery featuring the works of Indian ar- tists, and three taxis. What more could a man want? Well, maybe a poolroom. Or a massage parlor. Or a movie house. But these are sybaritic southern frills. No violent movie could take the place of a dash across the mighty Moose River just before break-up, with the water flying as though you were a ship in a stiff gale. It's an odd community, geographically. It looks as though God or somebody had flown over the place, dumped out a few handsful of buildings, and let them fall where they might. I can find my way around in most major cities, but I was con- stantly getting lost in Moosonee. Something else that made me wonder was what people did for a living. There is no industry, yet everybody seems to have money. Nobody looks even vaguely hungry. Perhaps it's a matter of taking in each other's washing. But I have a suspicion that if all the government money, railway, liquor store, schools, police, welfare, old age pensions, baby bonuses and so on were suddenly withdrawn, the place would collapse and be remembered as a sort of rough-hewn Camelot. There is, of course, the tourist industry, but that's pretty negligible except for a couple of months in summer, and during goose -hunting season. On the other hand, the government was left with a pretty sizable investment, and has used it with some common sense. The town used to be an army base, and many of the buildings have been put to use as schools, housing, administrative offices. Better than leaving them to rot. For example, the houses on the base are now rented to teachers and other officials. The barracks are used to house the Indian kids from Moose Factory, across the river, in spring and fall, when it's unsafe to cross the river. The recreation building is used for school -rooms. it still has a bowling alley. There is a curling rink, where kids also learn to skate. At the school there is a fine cafeteria, with food that would make t di5pense i by bill smiley the habituees of our school cafeteria drool. But this is beginning' to sound like a travelogue, not my intention. I had a grand visit with my only daughter, without the constant interruptions of her mother. I played chess with my grandson, 7, and barely escaped with my hide. Twice he forced me to stalemate, instead of checkmate, a humiliating experience. And I played without mercy, regardless of age. Most days I picked up the other little guy, 5, at his day-care, and he gave me directions for home when I got lost. I got through six novels in six days, and didn't mark a single exam paper. That's what I call a holiday. We had music, and read poetry, and played dominoes, and ate like kings. I rip- ped off three graceful Moosonee geese, hand-crafted by the natives. And I came home with a better sunburn than confreres who had gone south for their holiday. townships of Stanley, Tuckersmith, Hibbert, Logan and McKillop Townships last Friday night, leaving a trail of wrecked barns, smashed homes and toppled trees in its wake. Starting just south of Bayfield, the trail of the twister showed up most strongly at the farm of Alex "Sandy" Pepper, in Tucker - smith Township, east of Brucefield, where the garage was tilted over about three feet, ending up in a 45 degree slant; the chimney was down and all windows out of the house, with the roof lifted and bricks pulled about eight inches making a wide crack down the,. width Of the house. On the next farm, also owned by Mr. Pepper, the storm flattened two barns, lifted the roof of another and shed, smashing a combine inside. The apple or- chard wa r- chardwa s completely demolished. Bev Boyes has won first place in the tenor class of the Huron County Music Festival. There were 31 boys competing in the three classes. Bev •is completing Grade XI at Clinton District Collegiate and is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Boyes. 50 YEARS AGO May 14,1931 The Wednesday half day holiday is .,not having a very good start in Clinton. Several of the merchants wished to have the holiday from May to September inclusive, others would not consent to close during May and September and still others 1 rished only to have the holiday during July and August. But only a very few of those who had agreed to close this month did so yesterday. It would be much better if. some agreement could be reached amongst the businessmen so that there would beuniformity of action. The picture you have waited for at the Capital Theatre in Goderich, with Northern Electric Sound System, "Africa Speaks." Stark Realism! Unsurpassed Drama! To miss this picture means to be left out of countless conversati9ns. You have seen nothing to equal "Africa Speaks." 75 YEARS AGO May 18, 1906. A joke is told at the expense of one of the sturdy young farmers who reside not far from the 7th concession in Goderich Township. He recently went around with a petition for a better observance of the Lord's Day, and was apparently quite anxious that all kinds of unnecessary labor should cease on the Sabbath. Those who knew of his action were a little surprised, however, to learn that he had taken advantage of a recent Sabbath to break in a fine colt he is the owner of. ' The parlor social in connection with Summerhill church held on Wednesday evening at Mr. George Hill's, was decidedly a success. The refreshments consisting of ice cream, cake, coffee etc., which was greatly enjoyed by all, despite the coolness that prevailed. This was followed by a literary and musical program. While not disparaging any of the other performers, we might add that the Holmesville Male Quartette is an ex - odds 'n' ends by elaine townsh.end Regional games for handicapped Athletes with disabilities from South West and Central West Ontario will com- pete in the Regional Games for the Physically Handicapped from Friday, May 22 to Sunday, May 24 in London. Classifications include blind, amputee, cerebral palsied and wheelchair com- petitors. Events consist of swimming, ar- chery, wrestling, rifle and pistol shooting, track and field, snooker, basketball, volleyball, table tennis and distance rac- ing. The games are developmental. Com- petitors from all skill levels can par- ticipate from newcomers to world class athletes. For some, it will be an introduc- tion to the social and rehabilitative value of sport. For others, it will be the beginning of the long road to Ontario, Canadian and World Games later in the year. Many Canadian athletes have their eyes trained on the 1984 Olympiad. The first record of competitive sports for physically disabled persons comes from 1880 when two amputees with wooden legs had a walking race against each other dur- ing a sports festival in New Market Heath, England. In 1938, Karoly Tacaczs, an outstanding pistol marksman, lost his right arm. With intensive training, he transferred his skill to his left hand and became an Olympic champion in his sport in the 1948 Olympics in London and the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. Liz Hartell, an outstanding Danish equestrian, was struck by polio at the age of 23 in 1944 and became partially paralyz- ed in both lower limbs. She returned to riding and in 1952 at the Helsinki Olympics won a silver medal in the dressage event. In 1944, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neuropathic surgeon, was asked by the British government to set up a spinal injuries unit at Stoke -Mandeville, Aylesbury, England. Guttmann was a firm believer in the value of sport for rehabilPta- tion, physical fitness and public awareness. In 1948, the first Stoke - Mandeville Games, which have since become annual and international, were held on the grounds of Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The Fearnly Cup, an award for outstanding achievement in service of the Olympic ideal, was presented to the Games by the Olympic Committee during the Melbourne Australia Games in 1956. The first Olympiad for physically han- dicapped athletes was held in Rome in 1960 at the site of the regular Olympics and under Olympic rules. In 1964, Dr. Robert S. Jackson, an or- thopedic consultant to the Canadian Olym- pic Team in Tokyo, observed the Olympiad for the disabled and noted no Canadian athletes were entered. By 1968, he had gathered a team ot 22 disabled athletes to compete in the Tel -Aviv Olympiad. The 1976 Olympiad was held in Etobicoke, On- tario. Canada is the home of the first Paraplegic Pan-American Games, held in Winnipeg in 1967. In Canada, sports for the physically disabled began as local friendly competition in 1947 at Deer Park Lodge Hospital in Manitoba with events, such as archery, ring toss, croquet and golf put- ting. A wheelchair basketball team com- peted in the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1952 and 1953. Sports for the disabled have come a long way, mainly due to the skill and tenacity of the athletes themselves. Wheelchair marathoners have broken into the prestigious Boston marathon. Wheelchair basketball teams are wowing audiences, and athletes with all types of handicaps are smashing records every year. Cana- dian athletes rank high in world competi- tion. Rather than being known as disabled athletes, they are making themselves recognized as athletes who happen to have some type of handicap. 1981, International Year of Disabled Per- sons, is a good time for people with disabilities to become aware of the skill of local athietes. Information on this year's Regional Games may be obtained from London Public Utilites Commission, Recreation Department: 300 Dufferin Avenue; telephone 679-5579. Letter of thanks To the Editor: Dear Mrs. Fingland: We received today the cheque from the Bank of Montreal for $3,607 and I have for- warded these funds to our Provincial Of- fice on your behalf. Please accept once again Mrs. Fingland, the sincere appreciation of the entire On- tario Division for the support which you and your dedicated volunteers extended to Red Cross during this eiccellent effort. As operating funds for the Society are becoming more scarce each year, it's enlightening to see campaign revenues from a specific area increase drastically. We acknowledge that this type of achieve- ment is only attained through dedication to the cause and for this we applaud your ef- forts. For your information Mrs. Fingland, I have enclosed the most recent copy of Red Cross International News. You might find this information of interest to you as it depicts in many ways the distribution of the funds collected by local organizations and Red Cross volunteers such as yourself. Once again let me thank you Mrs. Fingland, for your support in a most need- ed time. I look forward to meeting you when I collect the residue campaign materials at a future date. Sincerely yours, John C. Mulvihill regional executive -director Southwestern Ontario cellent combination, whose selections were much enjoyed by all, and these people would be a valuable addition in connection with any affair of this kind. The proceeds amounted to within a trifle of $20, and will be used in some way as church aid. 100 YEARS AGO May 13, 1881 We understand there is not a vacant house in town at the present time. In fact it is im- possible for parties coming here to reside to obtain a house at any rate or rent. Secure a building lot and erect a good residence of your own is our advice. Mr.. H. Collier has erected a shooting gallery on Huron Street, west' of Craib, MacW,hirter & Co's store, when he intends giving the boys some amusement during the summer evenings. If •you want to been good shot, now is the time for practicing. Bathing in the Maitland River has already commenced. Physicians recommend cold baths. The blankets and carpets now have to take their usual semi-annual flailing. Be sure to wear your shoes in the house just now. The industrious housewife has carpet tacks strewed around with reckless profusion. Don't fail to attend the 24th of 'May celebration in Clinton. it will no doubt be the best celebration ever held 'in the Foufity, Pig in Poke gets his Dear Editor : Because I consider my time very valuable, and not wanting to bore you, or use too much space, I will voice a very short opinion on Pig in a Poke, an article which appeared in the May 7 edition of the Clinton. News -Record's Bayfield Bugle section. I read somewhere that the one who does a lot of talking usually does nothing, and has 20-20 hindsight 1 might add. I have worked for the Bayfield Arena on a volunteer basis since the 1950's. I do not recall ever refusing to help when I was called upon. I am still working for the Community Centre and Arena as a volunteer and intend to do so as long as my health will permit. In my capacity, I am very proud of Bayfield's Community Centre and it's a shame to waste valuable meeting time to amend Bylaw 125, to make unpaid volunteer officials, however I suppose it is proper. In regard to the financial statement that was reported on in the May 7th paper, I would like to note that the statements are all in the office of the clerk and open to any person who wants to ask about them. This community c centre board has nothing to hide, and if people are concerned about community centre affair§, I hope they do ask because sometimes when they are published, readers only get one part of the story. I wonder if the writer of Pig in a Poke would have said, "Don't pay me the wages I'm worth because you are having hard times now," if he had the job of community centre manager. I don't have to detail the efforts of John Siertsema. The whole town was out to pay tribute to his volunteer efforts in regards to the Community Centre and Arena. It should be known that there is no point in having regular meetings if there is no business to discuss. I said 1 was not going to comment in the paper, but it was a golden opportunity to say that if this is one of those kicks that the correspondent referred to awhile ago, it should be known that the arena is booked on July 11 for a dance. There are a few people in the community who have volunteered to do the work and the proceeds will go for a sound system at the a rens. Also, I personally have the community centre booked for three dances with proceeds going to the commuity and the Clinton Public Hospital. Now is your chance Bud Sturgeon, come on and help the volunteers. You may get a kick out of it. May God give us Netter understanding of our fellowman. Sincerely Elaine Brandon, Bayfield L •