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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1981-06-04, Page 4PAGE 4 --CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, JUNE 4 ,1981 ,. litio Ciliation rlassoliesorsi w Puhllaw•4 eadt It Is eI lsasso4 In second slaps wean by Visa Thursday a9 O.Q. waw. S4, Clinton. Oadarto. post anise awd®r 9h4/ parody aninspa ff18. 6wa9ada, Ohm 11*. T l.: 44114443. She Nuns.Rucord Incorpora9ad in 1131 Ina Sahaeviollose Rahn Huron Nause-Raeord. foapnda4 In 1*11. and Than C.w8do.• Mi.* Sllm8on Nam Bra, laasndaoi In 331. Total fr. Chiron . 94.110 per year run 3.331. U.S.4. m focal®n ;°U.N Par your TA MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD Editor SHELLEYSUMER - Now; Iditor GARY HAIST = Advsrtlfing Manager HEATHER. BRANDER- AdvortIaInil MARGARETL. 011110- Office Mangier MARY ANN GL1DRON•Subacriptlons V: Display ■dvarIl®In/ ragas asallahla on squash. Ask for Rota Card No. 11 aHarrlve Oc9. 1. 1Ni. Energy or fuel crisis Do ;North Americans have the right to consume the world's resources at breakneck speed? Such moral questions inevitably arise when we talkabout the energy crisis. Do we.hove.a shortage of energy or are we simply us- ing too much? North Americans comprise only about six per cent of the world's population, yet weconsume more than twice as much energy as the combined total used in South America, and all of Asia excepting Japan . It would not be an exaggeration — in .view of developments in the Middle East —.ta say we may be on the brink of war over energy , . sources. If the Soviet Union takes one more step closer to the oil- rich Arab states, the United States is very likely to jump in with both feet, especially with Ronald Reagan as president. Really,we, don't have an energy shortage. We have a fuel shor- tage.. We, have all the energy we could possibly use in the form of sunpower. We just haven't` harnessed It yet. ©neof'the reasons we have been 'slow to move to solar power is because it is free. Multinational corporations can't make money selling ,.t taus and governments can't meter it. But itis t States tion uses in an entire year : . is not inexpensive,` but it's a lot cheaper than war. Let `met t4 It (from the Glengarry` News) lwere. The amount of solar energy that falls on the United est energy user — in 12 hours is more than the na- 5olarseaI JO Bell Canada` shares have for a hong time a solid investment on the stock exchange And is it any wonder why. %"• iSn The compl ii(rl gs a m nopoly in.. certain parts of the country which helps'their situation 'and not surprisingly, they' are seeking yet another hefty hike in rats as they approach the (CRTC): Cana- dian, Radia television Communications Commission. This time they are'seeking'30' per cent, and will push the pay phone rate up to a quarter from the present 20 cents.: It wasn't too long ago they were busily scurrying around changing the pay;•phones over from a dime. Hopefully the CRTC is.going. to oppose ych a proposal. In the re- cent past it would appear Belt mismanagement and 'that of its American subsidiary, Northern Telecom, have cost the company substantially and .now they are seeking to have the general public pay for their mistakes. This absurdity has to come to an end. Let the Bell shareholders"shoulder the bulk of the losses for once. When the company is making all kinds of money you dont ever. hear of them •(shareholders) offering to give a portion bock to the government to assist the taxpayers who have subsidized them heavily over the years. • Let's get this situation in its.proper perspective. (from the Durham Chronicle) „ Where's breakfast? C remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO June 3, 1976 ' A proposal to open an entranceway to Vanastra off No. 4 Highway at Ontario Hydro's location to 7th Avenue has been 'Mad eto Tuckersmith Township Council. Among the reasons. given for the new en- tranceway was the need for ready access to Vanastra for fire protection and to provide more direct routes for commercial outlets to . improve business for them. Fifty year pins were awarded on May 25 at the Clinton Legion Hall. Proud • to receive such all honor were. Gordon Scribbins, Ephriam, Snell, Russ Philips, J.K. Cornish, JoeSilock and Dr. Thompson. 10 YEARS AGO June 10,1971 Heather McAdam was crowned Queen of the Fair on Friday night in the first of what may be an annual contest. She won for per- sonality, appearance and a speech she delivered on the fair. Other girls who com- peted were Joanne Bates, Cheryl Dale, Bev Elliott, Kitty Kellens, Hazel Collins and Donna Leduc. • • The 117th annual Clinton Spring Fair was a huge success on Friday and Saturday with more than 3,000 persons attending and nearly all classes of all competitions were filled. The horse show was as good as ever and the exhibits ofsheep were so heavy this year that accommodation became a problem. Jim Akins of Holmesville showedpr. that the hail stones were as big as golf balls during the severe rain, hail and wind storm' that hit Clinton district Monday evening. Mr. Angus was away.at the time, but his wife Blanche saw the huge ice pellets falling and brought them .in to preserve in her freeezer for later exa urination. 25 YEARS AGO • 'Joie 7,1956 New in the religious experience in Clinton will be the evening services throughout the summer months which have been planned by the Ministerial. Association with the co- operation of the owners of Brownie's Drive -In Theatre. For the• 10 Sundays, during July •and August, evening services will be held jointly at the Drive -In Theatre, with the different churches taking the responsibility for the services. "Biggest and Best Ever" is the motto . of personnel at RCAF Station Clinton as they prepare for the 10th annual Air Force Day to be held throughout Canada on Saturday, June 9. A colorful parade through Clinton on James Fitzgerald photo a look through the news -record files Saturday morning will signal the beginnings of the 10th annual Air Force Day celebrations and 20 men led by the Color Party, the Bugle Band and the armed guard will make up the parade: Neighbors of Leon Triebner, RR 1, Hensall believe in putting in practice "The. Golden Rule" as was evidenced by their spirit of good will last week when 14 neighbors with 14 tractors swung into action to plant 70 acres of barley for Mr. Triebner, who has been in a cast froth his head to waist since an auto accident in March. The planting bee lasted from 1 to 8 pm. Dick Etherington organized the scheme and Exeter dealers supplied gas'for the tractors. Lunch was served to the men by Mrs. Archie Etherington, Mrs. Dick Etherington and Mrs. William Etherington. 50 YEARS AGO June 4, 1931 Mr. John R. Thompson, a Clinton Collegiate graduate, and son of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Thomspon of Goderich Township, carried off the highest honor of the pass arts course at the University of Western Ontario, when he was declared the winner of the Governor - General's medal for fourth year general proficiency. Mr. Thompson has followed in his older brother's footsteps in entering the service of the Church of England and was ordained on Sunday last at Christ's Church in Chatham. oofr,,,03,;; ,The rp, r ,hams on Clintog's front street are preparing for the big celebration bn July 1st, by painting up their store fronts. When the strip of pavement is laid and open it is said that the stretch between Clinton and Clandeboye, a distance of 28 miles, will be the longest stretch without a single turn in the province. Nostalgic times Two waves swept over me the other day. No, I wasn't on the beach at Waikiki or Monaco or even such plebeian places as Florida, California or Mexico, which are now frequented by us common people. And no, I wasn't drowned, as I know you were hoping. (Two waves. Maybe we won't have to listen to Smiley's blathering any more.) I can swim like an aging, arthritic seal, and it would take more than two waves to do me in. The first wave came when someone an- nounced at school that the price of pop in cans was going up by a nickel. I was swept by a wave of nostalgia for the days when pop was a nickel. And then came the second wave, one of revulsion, as I realized what inflation had done, not only to pop, which is irrelevant to a decent life, but to many another cherish- ed aspect of our daily living. Being swept by two waves of strong emo- tion is not an easy thing to cope with, and I had to fight off students who crowded around, saying: "Are you all right, sir? Can we get you a Coke or something? (They'd never think of a stiff Scotch). Maybe he's had a stroke and we'll get a day off." And so on. A moving experience. But I was so upset by the twin waves that all day I kept calling Shakespeare George, Bernard Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan. My students didn't know the difference, so it didn't really matter. That night, however, I looked back on the experience, and realized what it was. I had been exposed to mal du temps, and barely rescued by a memoire du fin de sie- cle. I hope nobody will cancel subscriptions because of the last paragraph. 1 am not trying to shove bilingualism down anybody's throat, and. ' I think Pierre Trudeau is a.... well, you know what I think. What all that bad French means is that I got a pain in the ass, then one in the pocket- book, both relieved only by memories of times past, accompanied by the inevitable association that I'm just about ready to be put out to pasture. Except that nowadays they just send the horses to the glue fac- tory. O.K., Glue Factory, here I come, and if I can even make a couple of things stick together, I'll still be two jumps ahead of a millionaire who hasn't been able to make one marriage stick together. Ah!. Those golden days. When a nickel would buy you: a Pepsi, a cup of coffee, a phone call, a chocolate bar three times as big as those anemics of today, a good (? ) cigar, a ride on the carousel or the Ferris wheel. When a dime would buy you a ham- burger, a piece of homemade pie, a Satur- day matinee, three eggs, a good (no ques- tion mark) cigar, a draft of beer, a bottle of milk, a loaf of bread. It's true, you unbelievers. Those were the days when two boys received from a minister of the church one dollar and a half for working eight or nine hours cleaning up the huge grounds on which his huge manse was located. My older brother got the dollar, I got the half. The minister complained about a few leaves. A couple of weeks ago, I engaged a young man and his crew to clean up our yard. It cost me $175.00. I didn't complain at all. Why didn't you do it yourself, you'll ask. Laziness, business, sore back, and the fact that 1 can't get any Qyoung people to rake leaves any more, even for three or four dollars an hour. They get an allowance •from their stupid parents that makes that sort of demeaning labour not worth looking' at. But that half -dollar from the manse was wealth, to me. It meant ten bottles of pop, five matinees, a night at the movies with a girlfriend. I asked the young entrepreneur who did my place how his business was going. Only in his twenties, he sounded like a right- wing conservative. He claimed that young fellows don't want to work anymore, don't do a decent job when they do work, don't show up for work, and are generally unreliable, shiftless, irresponsible, and plain lazy. "Then how do you get guys like the ones who worked so hard at our place?" 75 YEARS AGO June 8, 1906 The sugar beet growing district surroun- ding Clinton, comprising 24 shipping points for beets, contains 365 farmers who are growing sugar beets totalling 768 acres, being one-seventh part of the whole crop grown for the Berlin Sugar Factory. It is to be hoped the sugar beet fields of this district will receive thorough deaning and cultivation so they may compare favorably when inspected in June by br. Shuttleworth, with beet fields of other districts, and bring highly profitable returns to our farmers. Mr. Chillman is putting in electric machinery to aid him in his clothes cleaning businss. • • Mr. J. Sibley of London, England, son of B. Sibley of Clinton, is the inventor and He admitted that he had to get someone who was hooked on motor -bikes or racing cars, and needed money to supply the habit. In my day, of course, if you had a habit, it was 'something as expensive as biting your fingernails or sniggering at off-color jokes or drinking so much Pepsi you got pimples, which wrecked your love life, which was non-existent anyway, so it didn't matter. I'll never forget the time I found a dollar bill, in the snow. It was the first one I'd ac- tually ever held in my hands. I dreamed of eloping to the South Seas with a girl I had my eye on in Grade five. But it was not to be There was certainly odds 'n' ends Wrong again This column should have been written last night. The mailing deadline is today. But in my infinite wisdom, I decided to leave it until morning. I reasoned that, if I went to bed early, I'd wake up refreshed - ready to write a sparkling brilliant piece. I was wrong. The first thing I did this morning when the alarm went off was hit the drowse but- ton - three times. I would have hit it the fourth time, but I was afraid of breaking it. While I drowsed, I was serenaded by a number of birds that take advantage of a the backyard. It's a great sound to wake! the backyard. It's a great soiund to wake up to! After waiting all winter to hear it, I like to give myself the luxury of a few Minutes each morning of just listening. write letters Homecoming Dear Editor: To the readers: Please consider this your personal in- vitation to visit the oldest town in Ontario as Penetanguishene celebrates its first an- nual. Sueniner Festival and Homecoming from June 29 to July 4. Whether this is your first visit or a trip down memory` lane, we are sure you will enjoy our week of festivities in beautiful, historic Penetanguishene. For a complete program, please contact the Penetanguishene Chamber of Coin- merce, P. 0. Box 7 N, , Penetanguishene, Ontario. Yours truly, Grace McCabe, Chamber Communications manufacturer off what is known as perforated music, similar to the Pianola music. It has become very popular in the Old Country, and Sir Thomas Lipton was so "much impressed with it that he recently ordered a special quantity of it, and had it forwarded as his wedding present to the Princess of Bat- tenburg, now the Queen of Spain. It is also being largely used by the wealthy people of England. This is quite an honor for a former Clintonia n. loo YEARS AGO June 3, 1881 Now doth the young maiden begin to sigh and talk mysteriously about last year's picnic. It will be about two weeks -before her young man takes the hint. Are we or are we not to have the streets watered this year? It is high time something was done in the matter, as the dust has been dreadful during the past week.' Several houses in neighboring towns have been lately visited by a most impudent tramp, who, if money is refused him, swears at and damns the person who comes to the door in a most indecent manner. He is generally under the influence of liquor, and his language, is described as something shocking. Our townspeople should watch the fellow. He is middle aged, and lame in one leg. Mr. John C. Campbell, painter, has pur- chased from Mr. R. Cole, a house and lot on Maple Street, for which he paid a fair price. It ad'sd yl�:., g ,• hat, "when a man procures a cage he has :1 bird to put in it" and we are, inclined to believe that this is the case with John, but never mind, go ahead we wish you success. When your boy comes home with his shirt turned wrong side out, don't let him gull you with that juvenile legend about his .garment being turned while he was getting over a fence. "That's played out. He's been in swimming." • Subscribe to the Huron Record, the leading local paper in the county. Only 75 cents to the end of the year. Sample copies free. A S. Fisher - $50,000 to lend at 612 per cent with extra privileges to borrower. Agent for the old Lancashire Insurance Co., England, capital $15,000,000. Agent for first-class fire proof safes manufactur d by Goldie and McCullough, Galt. On Wednesday last, a cricket match bet- ween the members of the Londesboro cricket club took place and proved an interesting event. Visitors from Clinton and Blyth were in attendance and took part in the game which was very closely contested throughout. enough money there, and I think she'd have gone with me. Her parents were, on relief. But it was not to be. With considerable pride, I told my mother about the dollar. She promptly went all Presbyterian on me, took the buck from my grimy paw and announced that we'd have to find out who'd lost it. There was my last chance to run away. I don't know what happened to the dollar bill. It probably went into twelve pounds of hamburger (yes, it was three pounds for a quarter, with some "dog bones", now known as stewing beeef, thrown in free. ) I' don't quite know the moral of this col- umn. Maybe it is: •Never Trust Your Mother. But I don't think so. A friend of mine, who's a city dweller, once complained about noisy birds waking her up whenever she visited a country place. But to most of us country folks, it's music. Finally I shut off the alarm clock and coaxed my eyes open. The first thing I saw was a fly on the ceiling. I began to think. How did he get up there? And how does he stay there? He flew up, you spy. That's right. But, when he was at my level he was right side up. To land on the ceiling, he had to turn upside down. Did he make a 180 degree roll in rnid-air or a vertical flip? When you think about it, the common housefly is a genius when it comes to aerobatics. And, after he gets up there, how does he stay there? Does he have suction cups on the bottom of his legs? I think not. If he had stiction cups, how could he take off so fast when I'm about to swat him? If anyone has the answer to the preceding vitally important questions, I'd sure like to know. The other question that came to mind was one my father asked me a few days ago. Why do people plant large lawns and flowerbeds when they know they'll have to cut them and weed them? I wonder if he was remembering that it was my brainstorm a few years ago to seed a large area of lawn between the house and barn and to buy a riding lawnmower. A while after persuading him to do it, I left, and I never seem to be around now when the grass needs cutting. With these thoughts floating through my head, I made my way to the old typewriter. The deadline was drawing ever closer, and I didn't have a single brilliant or sparkling thing to say. • Oh well, maybe next week... A good investment Dear Editor: Town and Country Homemakers is laun- ching its first major fund-raising appeal to help purchase the Wingham house which holds its offices. . We are a non-profit agency in Huron County that supplies quality care in the home for any resident who may require it. We always strive to help everyone whether or not they can afford to pay fully. for our services. For those who cannot pay, we employ an assessment scheme whereby their fee is subsidized. To pay for this sub- sidization we are constantly raising money through many different projects. However, the reason we are writing to you at this time is because the owner of the house in which our offices are housed, has been presented with an offer to purchase. But, because he is sympathetic to our cause, he has given us first option, pro- viding we can raise the necessary down payment of $10,000. To this end, we are asking for your generous assistance. We are most anxious to purchase this house to assure us of a permanent office and also to give us some equity. We firmly believe it is a gond investment. Since there is such a short time in which to raise these funds, your immediate con- sideration and assistance would be greatly appreciated. Yours sincerely, Gwyn Whilsmith, Fund Raising Chairman. Water is prec us. Dear Editor: I was sad today, when I' saw another swamp being drained, another crick being tiled, and probably soon to be plowed over. I guess people never learn to appreciate anything, until they no longer have it. In Africa, people scoop little holes in the sand to catch enough rain hopefully to grow a tree. Oh, well you may say, in Africa that is desert! Couldn't happen here? Well I think we are heading this part of the country towards becoming a desert rather fast! You know this is not land being re- claimed from the Ocean! This is water supplies being re -moved from dry land! Every farm needs its wet areas, so something can grow on its dry areas! So wells do not dry up, and so in dry years if they have cattle, etc., they do not have to draw water. I've seen that happen. My father-in-law and many other people in central Ontario, not so many years ago, were faced with hauling water in large drums for many miles! Everyone should be concerned about keeping any source of water. It's Precious!!! I don't think we should ask government to do our conservation, and I certainly can't see . government helping people to ditch our waters out off existence! On another subject can you tell me Sir, why we do not see our flags flying in Clinton on Victoria Day weekend and why we do not have a fireworks display? Sincerely, Ena Hill, Clinton. Update spelling Dear Editor: English spelling is tu dificult because while pronunciation changes all the Wile, spelling remained the same. For example, 1,000 years ago, "thru" use to hav a "gh" throat sound. English speakers hav stopped using this sound but continu tu print the "gh" relic in many words. Our spelling must be updated. Ken Tillema Box 823 Chatham !)o you halo= an opinion?1 Why not n•rite ue a letter ii, the editor, and IPI everyone kno,i'. ,411 letters are published, p►v,ri(ling there is sufficient space available, and they ran authenticated. Pseudonyms (pen names, are all(,n'('(I if the letter is signed elsewhere, but all letters are subject to editing jimr length or libel. • s