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Clinton News-Record, 1981-07-16, Page 4PAGE 4 —CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, JULY 16,1981 Me Clinton feekop hocord b published each Thursday at P.O. Ron 31. Clinton. Ontario. Canada, NAM U.S. Tel.: 033.3483. Subscription (late: Canada -'10714 Sr. Citizen . •10.01 per year U.S.A. A foreign ,•38.40 per year It Is registered as sastand date rain by taus post office under Lite pariah rantsbet RR1Y. Tito News..flesard Incorporated In Mit the Huron Nema.Rtuord, founded MUNI. and The Clinton Nam Era, founded In 1333, Total press run 3.340. � SNA MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McPHEE - News Editor GARY HAIST Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET L. OMR - Office Manager MARY ANN GLIIDON-Subscriptions MEMBER Display advertising rot.. available on request. Ash for Data Card No. 11 effective Oct_ 1. WN. Government action needed There is little doubt that after two weeks without postal service, it is a vital ser- vice, and something should be done to ensure that such an essential service is available to the public at all times. In a country like Canada, it is a very necessary, service, particularly to small businessmen, who depend on the mail to keep the, cash flowing into their businesses. They must still keep their own bills and loans paid up, but it's nearly imposssible to for them in turn to contact the thousands of customers who owe them money. And with interest rates at an all-time high of 20 per cent, it may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Most giant corporations can get along without postal service for some time, mostly by hiring couriers and passing the cost on to their customers throught higher prices, but in the highly competitive world of the small business, couriers don't reach enorigh customers, and the cost is prohibitive. , The federal gbvernment should introduce a sort of binding arbitration scheme in the post office, that would guarantee postal service while at the same time still leave the union the freedom to negotiate fairly within that framework. By J.F. Step in theright direction The Ontario government has attempted to reduce potential hazards on' the roads by placing new drivers' on a two year probationary period. A new driver may feel that he has been restricted by the new legislation, but why should he? . The province issues a driver's licence on the premise that a person is a qualified driver, capable of handling a machine which can be one of the most useful items available to society. However, some drivers seem to ignore, forget; or never comprehend this responsibility which the people of Ontario have placed upon them. • More often than not, it is the drivers that don't aciknowledge this responsibility that credit themselves as being 'super drivers and must prove this to themselves and their cohorts by leaving tire marks and blue smoke at intersections. Although it is likely impossible to rid some drivers of this Indy 500 feeling, perhaps it could be reduced by illustrating the consequences of such driving vices. Make driver's education Mandatory before o driver may apply for a licence. Films showing the carnage on the highways would be a shocking, but likely effective way of maturing an audience Of young drivers overnight. Why not increase the driving age to 18 or 19? .lf 16 -year-olds aren't mature enought to see restricted movies they surely can't be mature enough to take con- trol of a vehicle. If such measures were taken, perhaps then they would realize that they are in control of a dangerous, machine capable of killing themselves and others. Probationary licences will not affect the majority of young drivers but hopefully it will keep some of the 'super' drivers off the road. Now, if the government would only clamp down on the drunks! (from. the Bowmanville States mon) There's no place like home by Shelley McPhee Write letters Deer hunting Dear Editor: HOW THE SELECTIVE DEER HAR- VESTSYSTEM WORKS: In order to obtain an arftlerless deer validation tag„ a hunter must apply for it. An application for this validation tag may" only be obtained -in 1981 by purchasing a resident's or a farmer's licence to hunt deer. Deer licences and maps showing the deer hunting zones will be at the hunting licence issuers by mid-July. The ap- plication has spaces for you to select your first and second choice of hunting zones where you would bice to hunt antlerless deer. Your application must be complete. In order for the application to be accepted, it must be post -marked on or before August 29,1981. A limited number of validation tags will be issued for each hunting zone. If the quota of antlerless tags is less than the number of first choice applications in a zone, allthe first choice applicants will receive tags. Remaining tags will then be randomly allotted by computer to hunters who choose the zone as a second choice, and who are unsuccessful on their first choice. Only successful applicants will be notified by receipt of an antlerless deer ikalidationa tag in the mail by mid- September. NOTE: If you only wish to hunt during the controlled shotgun and -or muzzle - loading firearm season, you should not apply for an antlerless deer tag, instead, you should contact the appropriate district office in late August or early September to obtain an application for the controlled hunt. If you are selected to participate in a controlled hunt, you will he automatically authorized to hunt antlerless deer during the controlled hunt. If you are a bowhunter and wish to hunt antlerless deer in areas with contrilled shot -gun and -or muzzle loading firearm seasons, -you must apply through the centralized computer draw for an an- tlerless deer tag. remembering our past a Zook through the news=record files 5YEARSAGO July 15. 1976 After four years of debate. including numerous petitions from Clinton residents. Clinton council last Thursday night passed a "standards for the maintenance and oc- cupancy of property" bylaw for the town. Council hopes the new law will force owners of unsightly properiie s to clean them up. The bylaw. which carries a fine of up to $Still for the first offence and up to a $1.000 fine of the second or subsequent offence. says that all yards in town must be free of rubbish or other debris that might create a health. fire or accident hazard. "I'm afraid we are going to raise some Spring for June Man and woman, this is some crazy country. Whoever fust said it: "eight months of winter, and four months of bad sleighing," wasn't far off the mark. You're hanging up the snow shovel with one hand, and reaching for the lawn mower with the other. Your lilacs just start out 'as the lra.rJll W1.VGY Jr oY1. LVi LLiaE, ur. • VW trLL44a, VLl to work in early May with snowboots, scarf and overcoat, plus headgear. Two days later, you embark in the same outfit, and it's like being in a sauna. Then you're into June, and anything can happen_ One morning a frost, the next a heat wave, then a thunderstorm. And all around you things are growing like maniacs: mostly grass and weeds and children. The children are OK , but you can have the weeds. And you can mow the grass. Poets get a bit silly in spring. They talk about the tiny crocuses peep -their wee heads through the sullen earth. Show me a pound of asparagus growing like mad, and you can have eight pounds of crocuses. And they use all sorts of other images. I think it was Walt Whitman who wrote about grass as God's green handkerchief dropped. Well, mine doesn't drop. It shoots up as though the devil himself were pushing from below, and it grows about six inches in six hours. Did you ever try.• to mow a handerchief? June is pretty rough, especially for a teacher. I dropped in on a colleague yesterday. His eyes were glazed and scattered around him were about 100 essays to be marked. H vaguely recognized me, dropped his lead on his desk and moaned, "Isn't it a bastard?" I patted his head and rubbed his back, and when he came around, I agreed, "Yes." When I was an editor, the coming of sununer Was rather a pleasure. I always made Opening Day of the trout fishing season in May. in June, I knew the ad- vertising would fall off, because the merchants knew the suinrhr r tr,nrist trade would make up for those bleak spring days of March and April. And then I looked forward to the sum- mer, when I could sit in the office with one eye on the typewriter, and one on the tourists walking by: some like young gazelles, long-legged and brown as Masai warriors with breat-works; others with the gait and hippos; still others with the questing snout, the short-sightedness, and the short tempers of rhinoceri; and always the children, golden, round, and sleek as speckled trout without the speckles. But, as I grew more mature, June took on a different tint for me. It meant I was one year older, and not a bit smarter. And today I realized, with a real touch of paranoia, that they're out to get me. I'd forgotten all about my birthday, as I usually do, and my wife almost invariably does. In home form period this morning, my kids started half-heartedly singing, "Happy Birthday, Les." Well, my name isn't Les. So I just moaned a bit and told them to shut up. I thought it must be the birthday of some rock star. Then I realized they were grinning at Les -Dawe, a five footer who has had to be moved because he was pushing over six foot girls when they weren't looking. Hey. It struck me. It was my birthday too. I announced the fact, try ing to steal a bit of Les' thunder, The response was terrific: "How old are you, Mr. Smiley? When are you gonna retire?" I responded by telling them they all had to write the final exams. They wouldn't believe me. They seldom do. Then I crashed down to the English workroom for a smoke. There were eight teachers in there. I asked, "Who the hell is Minding the store?" Started out, to get the department back in business. Was seized by a six footer and told I had to help eat a cake. The cake was delicious. It must have cost them thirty cents each. The singing of "Happy Birthday was the' most cacophonous sound I've ever heard from a mixed group. Went to hinch. The ladies in the cafeteria gave me a nudget toward retirement, too. Completely for free was a piece of pum- pkin pie, with a single, burning candle in the middle of it. At least the candle didn't go out while I carriedmy macaroni and tomatoes into the dining -room. A goodly symbol. But I took two puffs to blow it out. A not -so -goodly symbol. About then I began to realize the whole plot had been choreographed by some -one after my job, not so-subtley saying it was time I retired. I went over the potential power-hungries, the dissidents, the ladies to whom I'd told to stop crying on my shoulder. I couldn't think of one with the brains to orchestrate it or the ability to afar, infn rnv hnausr chino Last straw was getting home and finding • on the back porch a bottle of homemade pickle relish, sitting in a bowl of ice, with a message: "Roses are red, violets are purple. And we know June 2 is your birthday too." It had to be my neighbour, whose son-in- law has the same birthday, and who makes great chilli sauce. She's in on it, too. Now I know how those African prime ministers feel. Juju everywhere. contentious objections." Mayor Symons said. "well have touse some discretion enforcing it .•• to YEARS AGO July 22, 1971 While the secondary school teachers' salary dispute with the Huron County Board of Education is still unsettled and the board is unable to offer any indication of whether or not secondary schools in the County of Huron will be open an schedule in September. members of the board, Monday night. ratified an agreement with the Huron County elementary school teachers for the upcoming school year Ex-Cell0 Corporation of Canada Ltd.. announced the selection of Clinton. Ontario as the site for the construction of a manufac- turing facility to be known as Wildex. Division of Ex -Celt -0 Corporation of Canada Ltd 25 YEARS AGO July 19. 1!156 The Clinton Scout Troop returned Sunday from the first weeklong camp in several years The 20 Scouts and three leaders at ('amp Chipewana near Holmesville had a pleasant week although six days out of eight saw rain In Seaforth on Saturday the Clinton LOL Fife and Drum Band was awarded first prize for the best band. They were tied with the Woodham band for this honor. Clinton LOL Fife and Drum Band tied with the Woodham band at the Glorious Twelfth celebrations in Sea forth on Saturday when it Lvac vcfimafart that s.INHI nersons attended the walk Several youngsters of Adastral Park. RCAF' Station Clinton. found that bales of hay on the farm of Kenneth Rogerson. RR 5. Clinton. would pile up nicely for the making of forts. However. rain drenched the hay while in this position. damaged about 409 bales causing considerable loss to Mr Rogerson Seems to bad to mention money at a time when everyone has either just spent all he's saved on a two week vacation when it rained every day...or else is busily saving for a holiday on which he hopes it will be sunny and c lear... However did you know that tobe a farmer now days...a man needs just aWtit $:kr.000 just for a start. The Bayfield Agricultural Societyhas received word from Reed Forsee of the CBC that he and Don Fairbairn will be pleased to broadcast the Neighborly 'News radio program from the Bayfield Arena the Sunday before the Centennial Fair. September 23. In addition to this program will be a quarter hour "Salute to Bayfield." which will include Bayfield people on theair . 511 YEARS AGO July 16. 1931 ' There were a lot of rather sleepy people going about yesterday. they having lost so much sleep that morning during the electric storm which kept up from about three -thirty until five The flashes of lightning and the rumbling of thunder. accompanied by heavy rail) kept up almost without cessation during all that time. It was somewhat of a strain even to people who as a rule do not much mind .an electric storm. Except by those who are garnering hay crops. the rain was not unwelcome. it has rained heavily again this morning but shows signs of c lea ring now Mr Harry Ford and his bride have returned home from their honeymoon and are now getting settled on their farm in the Huron Road of Goderich Township. Was it not honest of those boys who were .swiping cherries from a tree in the garden of a citizen to leave a two -dollar in repayment? n uwy "a; u.alr cre;y did YAW liiiciiii it :Ali utile the hank note was found the following mor- ning Miss Sybil ('ourtice. who has been engaged in missionary work in Japan. arrived home nn furlough this week Her sister. Miss Hattie motored t o Toronto to meet her. 75 YEARN AGO July 2a. 1906 Tourists are arriving in Bayfield at an early date this year. and a fair sample of The challenge Terry gate us A country that could call Terry Fox one of its own should indeed be proud. The day Terry died Canadians express- ed many emotions - a relief that his suffer- ing had ended; sympathy for his family; and the sadness we all feel when a friend has died. Cancer tragically shortened his life. it seems most unfair. But consider the quali- ty of , his, life. In 22 short years, he ac- complished more than most people could achieve if we lived 100 years. People sometimes become emotionally involved in a cause or a public figure, but, as time goes by, we become preoccupied with everyday living and tend to forget, I hope, and I honestly believe, this will not happen with the memory of Terry Fox and his marathon of hope. impressive memorials will bear his name - research grants and scholarships, institutes and laboratories, open roads and mountain peaks. His story will become part of our nation's heritage. He will be remembered also in the lives of thousands of people who gained a little more courage, a little more determination and a little more hope because of him. He taught us to dream. He taught us that everyone can have a dream and everyone can make that dream come true, if we believe in it and are willing to work for it. When he was in Toronto last summer, he said if something happened that he could not complete his run, the marathon of hope must go on without him. How prophetic those words were. Terry met his challenge. Now it is our ' turn to meet the challenge he gave to us - the challenge tokstop and think and to find the way in which each of us can best help in the fight against cancer, the challenge to do our part. If we give up hope, we are lost. If we stop fighting because Terry is no longer here to lead us, we will be doing a disservice to his memory, to all *the people he fought so hard to help, and to ourselves. Ten -y would not want us to o et the thousands of cancer'victims ver hear an ovation. A cure for ca i• may not be found in my lifetime or rs. But, if our genera- tion can initiate the successful treatment, cure or prevention of cancer, what a legacy it would be to leave to the next generation:- And what better tribute could we give to the memory of Terry Fax. J.L. Hamill District Manager R.R. 5 Wingham, Ontario NOG 2W0 519-357-3131 young lady tourists adds greatly to the per- fection of our handsome summer resort. as they leisurely saunter about our sunny slopes and valleys. or chant their lovesongs as their boats glide upon the waters. Their numbers will doubtless be much larger during the month ofJuly. On Friday a man who belongs north, passed up by train. and was the centre of attraction to everybody. He had been celebrating the 12th by imbibing too freely and got in.a scrap with a resident of Blyth. who used him so roilghly that he looked as if he had literally passed through a threshing machine. being bandaged all over. it is' said that in his drunken • irresponsibility, he drew a• knife. though he did not use it. hence the other rough handling. The 5.2:3 p.m. train east on Monday was delayed for sometime near Holmesville. owing to the engine breaking down: it was necessary to send up the auxiliary from Stratford to help out. The L.H, and B. train north on Monday was delayed a couple of hours near Exeter. by a freight train running off the track no one was injured. During the fruit shipping season. express trains often lose from 10 to 2o minutes here loading and unloading fruit: if time is of any importance a laborsaving device might be introduced that would do the work in one minute. 1011 YEARN AGO July 22. 11011 - That young gentleman who had such an interesting encounter a couple of Sunday evenings ago with the mother of his fair inamorta on the western end on Rattenbury Street. freely expresses his opinion that the old ladv was tnoprevinllc for him HP ff.,.>a as his experience that when he looks for an amiable mother-in-law she will be tongue tied in both feet. deaf in one ear and can't hear with the other 1f mother-in-law's could be so arranged to order. there would be a serious renovation. Mr D..l Miller of the 9th concession of Goderich Township hoed an acre of potatoes today %%hocan beat this? Mr Robert Wiseman of the American Express Company. left town rather suddenly on Wednesday last He drove with the express wagon to the station about 12 o'clock. and whip down there gave the key of the express box to Charlie Keith, his' assistant in the express office. telling him he was going a short distance down the track. Since then he has not been -seen. Mrs Wiseman seems to know nothing of his whereabouts. William Muir of Clinton has a rather curious curiousity in the shape of a tame chipmunk This week it presented him with a litter of five young ones 1Wlr hart, an a►/linif)rr 0 11 hv not irrilr' ns a le'llf'r Iii the a flilf„•, all(' la'i er•t•'ri-errif' know. 1/1 letters are published, /rrffr•iiling there is sit/ficient Space available, and Mel,- can authenticated. I'sf'nelfenq fns (pen nattiest are rrllurrrel i/ 1/,. 'eller is sigrrre.il vlseichere. bill all letters are .ertlrjf'f•I In editing Int- length fat- libel. .,'