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Clinton News Record, 1981-05-21, Page 4PARA LINTON NEWS•I GURR, THURSDAY, MAY 21,1981 BLUE RIBBON Ai4'ARE'' 1980 The Canton Nuws.1ecord 1s euhlliihed each Therstleyet P.O. bee 34. Clinton. Ontario. Cgnatfe, SPIA1 140. Tol.: 4$1.3449. $ubecriel len bole! Canine - 13.36 Sr. Cltisan . '14.11 per year 114.41. i torelpn . 1140 par Yee, at Is registered et sesame slaw null by ihs, pose oaks under the poraett esesmwgwr WV. The im®was-Record ineorparetad in 1064 the Moron tteongtacord. founded In 1$01, aced This Clinton NOM ,re, loa,asdad In 144.3. Total ®Wats, run 9.911. CIA MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McPHE! - News Editor GARY MAIST - Advertising Manager HEATHER EIRANDER - Advertising. MARGARET L. G1111 - Office Manager MARY ANN O1.I0DON-Subscriptions MEMBER Display advertising rates available on request. disk Par Rata Card No. 11 effective Oct. 1. 1444. Qur best heritage Many times in human history, tragedy has often been turned into triumph. People have overcome great hardships to rise to new heights. There are many examples of this and none more poignant than the story of the Dutch immigration to Canada. . Faced with a countryside devestated by the Second World War, overcrowding by large families on small acreages, and a bleak future, people of The Netherlands pulled up their stakes and moved to a strange new country, filled .with strange customs, and a dif- ferent .lanuguage. Many of them had only a few possessions, but all had one great asset- hope. Using this magic ingredient, they turned their hopes and dreams into reality in their new country of Canada, and soon prospered and flourished, building new lives and seldom looking back. Thirty years Later, the Dutch have become fully integrated into the community., adopting well to the new language and customs. But their heritage is part of the multi -colored fabric that makes up Canada, and just as we remember the other nationalities that make up. our melting pot, so now we will horror the Dutch for their unique contribution with Clinton's first annual Klompen Feestr We all hopethatthe people of Dutch extraction will be pleased with all the efforts that hove gone into planning and carrying out this event, and we also hope that many of them, along with Cana- dians from other ethnic backgrounds, will come and freely par- ticipate, the festtv©I..-Welkom-in Clinton! by IF. Rotten iournalis• rn Carol Burnett, star of film and television fame, was awarded $1.6 million in her lawsuit against the National Enquirer, a publication which makes its profits out of the lowest form of journalism known tomon though the judgement clears Miss B rnett of/guil'miners. �n a dir- ty to = it isnot Iik t to.cri le;The,k .firer or its o triers. �a ,.:. � � pP nut+ w It is g nerally believed that its profits are in the neighborhood of $10 million annually: Lest • anyone should be ,confused; The National Enquirer is not a newspaper, despite the fact that it looks like one when you see it on the news stand along with several other publications of the same ilk. It is plainly and simply a gossip .sheet, devoted to seeking a mass audience by purportedly revealing the secrets of people's private lives. And of course, the more famous its victims, the more copies are sold. ,• A newspaper, if it truly lives up to its purpose in our society, seeks not :merely the sensational— it seeks the truth. Sometimes the truth is unpleasant; often it is refreshing and encouraging. But the vital essence of any worthwhile newspaper is that it must stick to the truth-- the provable, honest truth. Any publication which prints stories only for the purpose of .pro- fitable sensationalism is not worth even the few cents it costs. The sad side of the picture 'is that there ore always enough buyers to make slander and gossip profitable—from the Winghan Advance - Times. c remembering our past a look through the - r-e4c-o-rid-f-i l -e s-_. _.. 5 YEARS AGO May 20, 1976 A long-time general practitioner in the Clinton area, Dr. Fred G. Thompson, was honored last Tuesday night May 18th in Toronto at the Ontario Medical Association's annual convention when he was presented with a life membership in\the Association. Dr: Thompson who has served in the area for over 50 years, was on hand. for.the presen- tation at the Royal York Hotel °. Twlgersmith Township council approved the installation of water meters at Vanastra during a six -hour session of council Tuesday evening. Council will work with the ministry of the environment to have the installation done. 10 YEARS AGO May27,1971 Sunday will see the celebration of 100 years of Sunday School classes at 'Ontario Street United Church in Clinton. It was in 1871 that the first recorded Sunday School classes took place in a small white church on the site of the present Baptist church on Huron Street. The boys were taught by Rev. Wade while the girls were taught by Mrs. Wade. A family of nine is homeless following a fire Monday night' which destroyed their two- storey frame house on a farm on the 12th concession of Hulled Township, southeast of Londesboro. The home of John Benjamins of RR 1, Blyth, was lost in the blaze which was discovered shortly after 9 pm. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamins and their seven children, ranging in ages from five to 17 years, were at Lon- desboro watching a fireworks display when the fire broke out. sugar and spice dispensed by hill srniley Us oldies Once again, I must confront that spectre that looms before quite a few old guys like me. To retire and live on beans and dog food, or to step once more into the breach, dear friends, and not become an old dog, licking its wounds and less savorable parts, waiting for the final stiffening into extinction. Well, that was a fairly literary first paragraph, anyway, with a reference to a spectre, Henry V, and old dogs, perhaps loved, but increasingly useless, and ready for a shot through the head. 1 could get the last-named, at times, from my wife, if we kept a gun in the house. That's one reason we don't. Another is that I decided, some years ago, after shooting a black squirrel while thinking it was a black bear, that I wasn't cut out to be a hunter and bring home the game, unless it happened to be chess, or dominoes, or Scrabble. Secondly, l am not an old dog, though I wotild love to be. I always wanted to be a devilish old dog, twitching my moustaches at the ladies, pouring a sherry for a fascinating widow in a suave flat overlook- ing Kensington Gardens at the age of 82, sipping an aperitif in the great square in decaying Venice when f was - , . `Twos riot to be. I am just a youngish old dog, to whom no widow under the age of 59 (her version) would give a second look. Unless she were really broke. In the third case, 1 am not young King Hal of Tudor times, looking for breaches to go into once more. I have been in too many breaches (note to proof-reader; that is not britches) already. The next breach I leap into will be the last one: that hole in the ground. And in the fourth place, I ain't afraid of no spectres. That's what Scrooge said, and you know.what happened to him. This retirement gig is not that simple. First of all, that inflation has you by the short and. curly. All my friends who are retired cry: "Don't do it! ," as though I were a 17 -year-old about to take my first drink or something even more sinful, ac- cording to the society in which we grew up. They claim that they can eat steak only once a week, that they haven't even the money for one of Freddy Laker's trips to England in the off season, that they're go- ing to have to sell their fine middle-class homes and move into some fine middle- class apartment where they don't even have any lawn to cut or snow to shovel. It's a horrible prospect. Most of these old friends are in a pitiable state. They have decaying discs, heart pro- blems, high blood pressure, the gout, the crud, or some other debilitating nightmare. Yet they're all in thew early sixties. My father-in-law, �, would call them "boys". Well, I don't think I'll be one of the boys, at least not for another year. I am a mere sixty years old. I am as sound in wind and limb as a man of thirty. Forty years ago. I limp a bit with the gout. But that is merely a sign of goad living, and 1 limp rather proudly. I scarcely need glasses, except to tie my tie, or hit an ash -tray. I can't hear much of what the students say, but my lip-reading is excellent, and I don't want to hear what they say, anyway. They've been giving the wrong answer for years. I have a partial plate, but 1 lithp through it only when we have hamburger in the cafeteria and it gets a bit clogged — no more than three or four days a week. All in all, a fine specimen of homo mithancropus, whatever that means. I wouldn't want to translate it, because some 89 -year-old Latin teacher (we don't teach Latin any more) would jump on me and tell me I was either a depressed ape or a melancholy man. That I don't need. I feel like either, at given times. But then my conscience assails me. 1 think of all those young fellows of 40 or 45, whom I am keeping out of a department head's job, and I pretty nearly break down. Until I recall the fact that their wives are working, they have just bought a new van or boat and they are making more money than 1. Then I decide to stay another year, and I break up, chuckling at the grinding of teeth, the silent curses in the night, the visions of their child having to work during his or her summer vacation to make it through college. "Why doesn't the old nit quit? He can't teach anymore. His department is the worst run in the province. He had no idea how to organize his budget. He doesn't know what a budget is. He's not sure whether it's fall term or spring term. And what is really maddening, he doesn't care' And they're right, or partially so. Well, I've decided. I'll stay until at least Christmas. I'll quit then, suddenly, and leave somebody else to sort out the mess. And some mess. I have keys to Locks that don't work. I have filing -cases full of material taught in 1914, that have never been opened, because the keys are lost. Any if my wife doesn't stop spending money on decorating, I'll re -run this col- umn in '. Why doesn't Trudeau solve it by appointing me to the Senate? 25 YEARS AGO May 24, 1956 The mobile X-ray clinics will be in this area next week, ready to serve you by taking a free chest X-ray for tuberculosis. This X-ray service has been made possible through your contributions to the Huron County TB Association, and through assistance from the „ .Ontario Department of Health. Official opening date for the 'recently tbinpleted Bayfield P is ,School has been '41seh for next Wednesda ;.May 30: and plans that ceremonies will be outside the schobf if weather permits. Open house and opportunity for viewing the school will be held afterwards. The Parker House Motel, gleaming white with sparkling blue roof and blue trim, opened for business Last week under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sturdy of Auburn. Owners of Parker House Motel Li are John and Wilfred Parker of Pa� Hoisery Limited. These young businessmen are well known in town. since in 1949 John purchased the Richmond Hoisery Mill on Albert Street cat the foot of Vinegar Hill). 50 YEARS AGO May 21, 19:it In Auburn ttte grounds recently purchased by the Tennis Club are being levelled and put in shape for a tennis court and community playground. it will be ready for use in the course of a short time. The Clinton Women's Institute will meet for Rile first time in their new quarters, the Firemen's Hall, above the Bank of Montreal, on Thursday. May -28th at three o'clock, when • Miss Aletta Smith. the summer speaker, will be present to address the meeting, her sub- ject being, "The Four Square institute." A good program is being prepared and all ladies and girls who care to show their in- terest in and appreciation of the work of the Institute will be most welcome. The annual graduation exercises of the local hospital was a very pleasing function of last Thursday evening. taking place this year in the Ontario Street United Church. The church, which was handsomely decorated with flowers and palms, was well filled for the graduation exercises and the pastor Rev. F.G. Fa mid, was in charge of the program. Men's Suits $15. if $15 is your price for a suit, we havea pleasant surprise for the man that don't know about the value of our $15 suit. -The Morrish Clothing Co.. agents for Goderich French Dry Cleaning and Pressing. This is blossom week. everyone should drive out and enjoy the beauty of nature. 75 YEARS AGO May 25, 1906 Someone was guilty of a mean piece of vandalism, this week, Mr. James Wallis of Lake Shore Road in Goderich Township, had a fine row of young,trees in front of his farm, and nearly 50 of than were maliciously destroyed. Why anyone should do a thing of this kind is a mystery. Sheep washing and fishing has been the order of the day in Goderich Township for sometime past; a large number of shad has been taken from. the Bayfield River by our experienced angle Shaffer's Hotel, Kipper, had a narrow escape.from destruction by fire a ft�/nights ago. Mr. Shaffer was closing up his bar, and while putting out the lights, a chandelier with two lamps in it fell to the floor. The flames spread over the bar, and for a time things looked serious. Fortunately a number of men were around at the time and the flames were soon extinguished without doing much damage. The Doherty Organ Factory, the Clinton Knitting Co., and the Jackson Manufacturing Co., all close down for Saturday afternoons during the summer months, thus allowing their employees an afternoon's outing. 100 YEARS AGO May 20, 1881 The grand musical entertainment to take place in the Town Hall on the 24th, is ad the talk of the town, and also of the country, which we learned while on an extensive drive on Tuesday last. Everybody is going, and the event promises to be a rich treat. The music is first-class while the action of mowing, raking and pitching the hay is a perfect imitation of rural life in the hay field. The Queen's birthday falls upon Tuesday next and Clinton. with its accostumed loyalty intends celebrating the event, with great programmeeclat. A splendid programme of musements has been prepared by the committee which cannot fail to interest all visitors to the place, and 'should 'the day prove fine, an immense crowd will no doubt be here. • All railways are offering reduced fares, and preparations are being made by the hotels to accommodate all visitors. The "Record" would like to see: Clinton made a port of entry; the man who says The Record is not a good advertising medium; a few large factories started here, it is the best location in the west for such. The fall wheat is very poor in Londesboro. A great deal of it had to be ploughed up. The spring crops are looking good not- withstanding the usually dry spring. Wall paper, wail paper in endless variety, from 5 cents a roll. Baby carriages, cheap and stylish. Also a fine and choice line of cigars, tobaccos and cigarettes. Cheap and first-class croquet - all at W.H. Ransford's City 'Book Store, Clinton. The book store where you,get value for your money. Write Letters 'hank for blood Dear Editor: On behalf of the Red Cross and the Clin- ton ICinettes, I would like to convey our thanks to all those who helped to make the Blood' Donor Clinic last Tuesday another success. There were 234 donors attending. the clinic. I would especially like to thank all the volunteers who gave up their time to help us the day of the clinic; also the Sorority for doing the telephoning; the students at CIISS who helped unload the trucks; and the custodians for all their help. Thank you to Clinton Public Hospital fqr their donation of ice, Huron and Erie Beverages for donating the pop and Cline\, ton News -Record for the publicity. The next clinic will be October 6, 1981. With sincere thanks, Volunteer Chairperson Kinette Club of Clinton Bev. Riley. Constitution a, repatriation Dear Editor: The latest news, at this writing, confirms that a lot of important people in Britain don't like the haste of the Trudeau gover- nment in pushing for quick British approval of the patriation of Canada's constitution - a necessary legal formality. It looks as though Herr Trudeau's hopes for an easy time in this regard will be dashed by British impudence. And well they should be. As I see it, Herr Trudeau is laying the foundation for a republican style of government which will lend itself more readily than our present parliamentary setup to the establishment of a one-man dictatorship along the line of Cuba's. I am not saying that Herr Trudeau is out to become Canada's first dictator, onlythat what he is doing lends itself to that end. This suspicion of mine is not allayed by the feverish and intolerant haste of Herr Trudeau and his Liberal cronies to grab off full legal control of Canada's destiny in the face of agonized provincial opposition throughout the land Mind you, if a federal election took place tomorrow, the popular vote would return to the Liberals and their socialist -minded leader to power. I'm sure of it. The liberals plan to celebrate Canada's new Liberal -imposed status next July 1st. It appears that the British affection for democratic traditions will prevent the realization of the arbitrary deadline, by legal means, at least. It is ironic, and even downright laughable, that Herr Trudeau seems about to be stymied by the very parliamentary system which he openly scorns. Critics of Herr Trudeau, who make of him the whole focus of attention in Canada's drift toward a socialist dictatorship, need to be reminded that Trudeau is hardly working alone for his not -so -mysterious goals, that 'he is ardently supported by all the stern and ruthless regiments and cadres of the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberal Plan for Canada is a program that most Canadians would oppose with vigor if most Canadians were awake enough to see what is happening to this country under Liberal i rte. Albert Atkens, Ottawa. Do you have an opinion?� Why nal write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. All letters are published, providing there is sufficient space :mailable, and they can authenticated. Pseudonyms (pen /lames are allowed if the Etter is signed elsewhere, but all letters are subject to editing for length or libel. The storm You tried to slide down the bannister of life and all you got were slivers in the end. You thought you could go through life with a hop, skip and jump, like a bunny rabbit without a care, and then you found yourself in a cow pasture. You motored along easy street without a bump, without a knock and with a filling station on every block. But then, you began to notice changes. The road became uneven and crooked. Suddenly there were steep hills that were very hard to climb. There were deep valleys and each was harder to get out of than the one before. The sky turned grey, then black. The wind began to blow against you. Rain came pelting down. There were tots of other people around, but you seemed to be the only one getting rained on. "Why did the storm pick on me?" you wondered. You felt as though you were sinking in a deep dark hole and the more you tried to get out, the deeper you sank. Yon 'felt lost and completely alone. You were amazed at how quickly things had changed for the worse. You doubted if things would ever change for the better. You doubted if the rain would ever stop or if the wind would ever blow in your favour again. And you wondered whether it was worth trying to weather the storm. You felt so tired. You thought no one had gone through the troubles you were going through. But they had. You thought no one understood, but they did. You thought no one cared, but they did. For some reason that you didn't quite understand, you kept hanging in there, even though you felt you didn't have much hope left. Then one day you noticed another change. You thought the sky seemed a lit- tle lighter. On a later day, you saw a rain- bow. It was very faint but still a promise of better things to come. Slowly, ever so slowly, the storm began to ease. One day there was even a trace of: sunshine. The road became smoother. Then came the day you knew it - you had weathered the storm. And it was worth it. Instead of feeling weaker, you felt stronger. You knew, that you had gained a bit of wisdom and understanding. Voir knew too, there would be more storms, more hills and valleys down the road, but you would be better prepared for them. And you would be better equipped to cope with the next storm, knowing it would have an end.