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Clinton News-Record, 1981-08-06, Page 20PAGE 4 —THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12,1981 The Como. Ways -Record Is published oath Thursday at P -O. Ron 34. Clinton, Ontario. Caaada. & M ILO. Tal.: 403-3343. SuYmerlptlon Rata; Canada -'13.34 Sr- Chinon - °14.01 par year 61 -S-A. & foreign - °91.41 paP yaaP It is registers as second class mall toy the post office under the permit amarta3f 3011 - The Weens-Racord Insorporeted In 1444 flan Huron l4®eenLRe¢ord, founded in 11101. and That Q intoe Wets Er., founded are 1143. Total press run 9.943. eA. MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McPNLE - News Editor GARY HAISY - Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET L. GIBS - Office M_onager MART ANN GLIDDON-Subscriptions 0 MEMBER Display advertising rates available on request. Ash for Rata Card No. 11 affective Oct. 1. 14111} Learning before we lose The total stupidity of the Canadian way of labor negotiation, known for its irra- tional adversary tactics, has surely reached its peak with the settlement of the 42 -day postal strike. After all the hardship suffered by the general public and business, it turns out that the inside postal workers will get what a conciliator recommended they get two months ago. But meanwhile, the economy lost billions of dollars in lost cash flow, at a time when interest rates were at the undreamed of usurious levels. Small businesses must continue to pay their suppliers and creditors no matter how slow their in- coming payments are because of the halt to postal servie. Large corporations use courier to deliver their mail, and then tack the added cost onto their product. The adversary system of labor negotiations is slowly but surely strangling the country as the rift continues to widen between workers and their managers. In only a few isolated cases do labor and management agree to get along and reach for that common goal, increased productivity, and hence increased profits and wages. Where the two sides recognize each other's talents, where losses and profits are shared, the working environment has been made far happier, and the companies Prosper. Perhaps an intensive program of mutual ,understanding seminars should be started and put this country back on its feet, before the strike finally brings. it to its knees. By J.F. Small consolation to farmers Farmers are going bankrupt, homeowners are losing their homes due to high mortgage loan interest rates, newly married couples are unable to purchase homes due to the high bank loan rates and small independent businesses are suf- fering. These problems are insignificant, according to the government at Ottawa. Canadians are much better off than they were a decade ago, in the estimation of Prime Minister Trudeau. These words of consolation are bitter fruit for Canadians to consume but things can become a great deal worse over the next three years or so. There appears to be little anyone can do to ease the frustration of high unemploy- ment, high bank interest rates and the increasing inflation. One might tighten one's belt, refuse to eat; drink and most certainly be merry. It might also help if one were to stop motoring- around the countryside, turned off the violence oriented TV and, merely sat at home twiddling one's thumbs. • • The facts are plain for all to see and digest, the latter being about the only things that are not taxed at the moment with the exclusion of the air we breathe. This too can be taxed, eventually perhaps, once the politicians get around to figuring out a way. - Instead of electing politicians these days to represnt the electors and work to their betterment, the public elect a government to add to the problems that are already in existence. More are added -once the election is over and the promises shelved until required at thenext election. The requirements of the public are quite simple in actuality. All that is,required is some old-fashioned honesty and reputable, fair-minded representation. These commodities, however, went out with the hoop skirt. Today the politician thinks only about how best to gouge his constituents, or the country as a whole. Such actions as this bring to mind a comment by a large retail chainstore magnate, made some many years ago. The head man said company policy was to buy goods as cheaply as possible and sell them for as much as the market would stand. Equally so, government policy appears to be a case of sticking it to the public as hard as possible and when they complain, merely suggest they never had it so good. (From the West Lincoln Review) r, Morning coffee remembering our past 5YEARS AGO August. 19. 1976 The Clinton Recreation .Board discovered in a meeting last Wednesday, August 12 that the government is now planning to inspect the safety of grandstands. as they did the arenas, and that letters are now being sent out to the various m unicipalit ies that will be effected. To. James Cleave and son Barry of Bayfield. mustard is more than just a con- diment to put on hot dogs. The Cleaves ex- erimented, growing six acres of yellow mustard this year, and found it a successful cash crop. At first. everyone laughed at the clop. and some neighboring farmers feared that the seeds would spread into their grain fields. However. there is a good chance that next year there will be enough contracts in the area to build a cleaning and storage plant closer than theone in Ottawa. 10 YEARS AGO August 19. 1911 ' For the second consecutive year, the members 'of the Huron County Board of Education have given careful discussion to the matter of English Literature books to be used in the county's fivehigh schools. , In questioning the administration con- cerning the wisdom in putting some of the books on the list on the course of study for Huron high school students. John Henderson claimed that some of the books studied last year were "disgraceful.' - "Decent girls don't want to be in the room thie in the lurrouf The lid is going to blow in rural Canada. When it blows, it will not only hit the roof but go right through the ceiling. - Potato farmers in Prince Edward Island are being warned that last year's high prices for a record crop were a fluke. They are being told to cut back on production and save what they made last year for a lean year ahead. ,Quebec hog farmers and broiler chicken producers are being told that the fair prices (fair? ) they got last year are going to bottom out this year. Ontario farmers, especially beef and hog producers, are suffering record -high bankruptcies. They are crying for relief to senior governments to stop high interest rates. A group in southwestern Ontario is calling for the resignation Qf agriculture minister Lorne Henderson. Western farmers are watching their land blow away in spring dust storms reminiscent of the Dirty Thirties. They have also been warned of impen- ding droughts that could see their crops wither to nothing. The concern is spreading to almost every aspect of agriculture across Canada. To make matters worse, in P.E.I. con- cern is growing that the giant K. C. Irving - owned conglomerate will be given permis- sion to acquire 9,000 acres of land at Kensington -Cavendish to grow more potatoes to feed its processing plant. The fears, of course, are valid since indepen- dent farmers feel Irving interests would use the extra land as a leverage against the little man. The Kensington -Cavendish -operation, to be fair, has been a losing operation for former owners. The Irving people are try- Lene.s a.e app•ec•a,ed by Bob T,otie, (10a1e DO (i,,+••a Ont ,136 7L 7 ing to make it profitable and much money has been spent to improve the product. Im- provements mean more than 300 jobs on the Island and that cannot be ignored. But the unmistakable signs of a rural uprising are there for everyone to see. Farmers are unhappy. Beef farmers have been in deep trouble for more than half a decade. They have steadfastly refus- ed to organize a marketing board, preferr- ing to remain staunch free enterprisers. One cannot help but admire their tenacity, but the writing is on the wall. Farm bankruptcies in Ontario alone in- creased by 91 percent last year and this year doesn't seem to be much better. In other business, bankruptcies increased by only 18 percent. Foreclosures are also in- creasing and the federation of agriculture estimates them at 10 times higher than bankruptcies. I have related two or three horror stories here recently about farmers being unable to get enough money to put in their crops this year. Some younger farmers are pay- ing huge interest debts. Even the usually non-farm oriented Globe and Mail carried a story recently about Brian Ireland from Teeswater, a hard-working, respected farmer, who is paying $1,000 a week in in- terest charges; of Don Morrison of Lucknow who paid $30,000 last year in debt charges; of Glen Smith, a 24 -year-old farmer from Troy who can't sell out because the bank beat him to it by deman- ding $170,000 in 24 hours. When he couldn t pay, trucks were sent to take away his hogs and leave his land frozen so that he can't even put in a crop. Is it any Wonder so many are selling out to foreign buyers who are willing to pay top dollar for Canadian farm land? Is it any wonder that conglomerates such as K. C. Irving with all kinds of backing can con- template buying 9,000 acres of land? There are plenty of reasons why farmers are crying the blues. When you are forced to pay $750 for replacement cattle, feed them all winter arid then sell them for $735 you are going to get very angry indeed. That's why it is easy to predict that the lid is going to blow in rural Canada. Farmers are angry and bewildered and who can blame them? a Zook through the news -record files when they are being studied.'-' said Hen- derson. Jim Coulter. superintendent of education. said he asked the opinion of the Huron County librarians concerning the book lists. He admitted that the librarians had questioned the value of some of the books, and said that only one book - "The Godfather" - had.been removed from the I ist. 25 YEAKS AGO ' August 16. 1956 There's some slight complaint about our choice of words with reference to the new housing development on the south' edge of town. Last week we bad occasion to make some comment.,or other about the section and called it Millionaire's Row. We understand though. that certain of its residents feel the more proper name should be Mortgage Row. At any rate. this suburb of Clinton should sometime soon be dubbed for certain. Clinton has its usual number of nicknames for dif- ferent districts. "Up Vinegar Hill." "Hell's Half Acre, • Little England.• - They all mean a good deal to residents of long standing and newcomers are soon acquainted with the names Due to increased num her of pupils expected to attend the Clinton Public School this (all. the school board was forced this week to refuse accommodation to the 25 pupils of SS 4. llullett Township. 5111/EARS AGO August 13. 1931 A smooth tongued chap. driving a car. called on a couple of our local clergymen the other day soliciting assistance to reach his dying mother at Windsor. ()ne of the ministers. while a little suspicious. was pretty well convinced that the case was a genuine. one and gave the young man a generous donation He did. however. take the trouble to take the number of the car and later. on learning that a brother minister had had a similar "touch accompanied by a somewhat different story wrote to the High- ways Department for the name of the owner of the car carrying this number. and tie feels like seeing the thing through. This week's Mitchell Advocate noted the fact that some such a scheme has been worked in that and neighboring towns. the young man being in a hurry to reach his sick mother and needing assistance to replace a worn out tire. It may be the samexchap but if so we should say,his race is pretty welrrun Messrs. Sutter and Perdue. who have carried on a hardware and plumbing business in Clinton for some time. have decided to branch out into the furniture and undertaking business. Mr. .1.R. Walker of Toronto. who has had considerable experience. will have charge of the undertaking department and they will take over the store now occupied by odds 'n' ends On dreams A few days ago, I heard on the radio part of a discussion about dreams. It seemed in- teresting, and I wish I had heard more. A man, whose name and title I didn't hear, explained that dreams do not always relate directly to events in real life .but the feelings may be similar. He suggested that people try to recall what emotion they were feeling in the dream and when they had experienced a similar feeling in real life. For example, a person may have a negative or fearful feeling in a dream. How the emotion is dealt w 4th in the dream may be related to how the feeling can be handled in reality. Mr.. W. Robinson as a grocery, which was purchased by them when they bought their present stand. ' It is encouraging to see our businessmen branching out. instead of retrenching, as many have had to do. and with three young energetic men in charge this business ought to succeed. 75 YEARS AGO August 17. 1906' Let everyone keep hustling to improve the appearance of their streets and lots. Keep all kinds of rubbish off the streets and sidewalks. and see that your houses, fences etc.. are all neatly painted. There is nothing that helps the looks of a town and induced newcomers to settle in it more than neatly -painted houses, tidy sidewalks and streets. and fruit and Shade trees on your lots. For some time..farmers on the 2nd and 3rd concessions of Stanley Township have been losing sheep. a dog worrying them to death. Mr Glenn lost about a dozen. and other farmers lost smaller numbers. One night last week. a certain farmer heard a disturbance among his s.heep, and his son went out with a gun. finding a dog at work worrying them. A well -directed shot put the dog out of business. and it is anticipated that there will be no further trouble. 100 YEARS AGO August 19;11481 - Ransford-s salt well has caved in at the depth of 1.700 feet. and the block has been shut down in consequence. A gentleman from Petrolia is engaged in repairing it. The man who advertises can easily be distinguished frau the -one who does not. The former wears out the soles of his boots, and the latter the seat of his pants. A family of noble red skins are camped on the picnic grounds to the south of Blyth and are supplying our juveniles with bows and arrows Our boys have dropped their other games. and are now practising archery The managers of Cole's circus have acted very wisely in selecting Clinton as the only place in the county in which to hold their circus and shunning the other orie horse towns Whilst engaged in digging a drain in an old beaver meadow a short time ago. Mr. Jas. Willse. of the 14th concession of Tuckersmith turned up a pair of enormous antlers. which for size. are•seldoln met with, and althougl. considerable decayed and broken they are still a fine specimem of what once inhabited the unbroken forest On Friday morning that farm of Mr .las. Lindsay of the 16th concession of Goderich Township was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire with most of the contents Mr. Lindsay ,only being successful in saving a• buggy and a wagon There was an insurance of $ 000n the building and 56111 on the stock fiC By Jim Fitzgerald the readers - write letters A true appreciation Interesting. I began to think about a recurring dream that I had as a child. I slept in a bedroom at the end of a hall. In my dream or nightmare, the door at the other end of the hall was always chasing. me. It came closer and closer and just as it was about to catch me, I would wake up. Now what could that mean! The feeling was one of fear and a sense of being closed in. It might be a sign of claustrophobia, but I've only experienced that feeling once in real life. I was in a very small and very slow elevator with a cigarette smoker. Turning my imagination loose, I came up with another theory. could the closed -in feeling be. related to the self-consciousness I experience, during My teens and early twenties? , At parties, my tongue became glued to the roof of my mouth making speech im- possible. More than two people in a room, including me, constituted a crowd. Walk- ing down main street in town was misery because all eyes were upol. rife. I chastised myself for causing curiosity. • Everyone feels self -cc scious at some point during their_iife. For some, it's a short-term discomfort; for others, it's a miserable condition that takes a long hard struggle to overcome. My solution was to force myself to face those wondering eyes and to put myself deliberately into situations that 1 would have previously avoided. My tongue gradual;y became unglued. It wasn't easy., but the results were worth it. Although I still encounter wondering eyes and occasional bouts of self- consciousness, I haven't had a door chas- ing me for years. Dear Editor: I am writing this letter to you because I wish to express my gratitude to all people of all levels, federal, provincial, social, and especially Clinton organizers who, because of the strike of postal workers, made itpossible to deliver the cheques for Jay to all needy people. I realize that it was not an easy job and was made with such skill that it was ad- mired by all Canadian people. I cannot find the right words to express my feelings and I know that the words, "Thank you," are not enough. This reminds me of what happened to me in 1935 in my old country. I helped one merchant and saved his business from. bankruptcy. This man came to me the next day and said, "Mr. Kloskowicz I am not thanking you, may Almighty God pay you for all you did for me." I remember that to this day and I think I will use the same way to thank all these wonderful people in Canada who delivered the July cheques to all needy people, especially to senior citizens. May Almighty God pay you all for your generous hearts. Very truly yours, Frank Kloskowirz.., Clinton Saving the animals Dear Editor: Bravo to Shelley McPhee for her un- tiring efforts and compassion for the many stray cats and dogs found in our very own town. Can you imagine the feeling of a dog or cat deliberately abandoned? Is there any greater sin against the animal world? Every year, millions of animals are put to death by our Humane Societies because people allow then to breed needlessly then leave them at someone's gate or drop them on the road to starve. Let me quote from the book Sandy. "It is said that the dqg is man's best friend but it is not true that a man is a dog's best friend. There is abundant evidence that literally Millions of people have been the dog's enemy. The best friend was unwanted, uncared for and unloved. To be abandoned is a far greater tragedy than to be drowned. Yet no dog or cat should suffer either fate in a society of civilized people. Sandy is a true story of a friendship and love nf two beings - an abanddned dog and a compassionate man. It is as true a bond between a man and a dog as one between two human beings. It teaches us that love and caring are the ingredients of a fulfilling relationship, to be truly human has always meant to be compassionate. Yet of how many of us so-called Christians and church goers can this be truly said? If people would stop breeding their animals and start adopting them from shelters, there wouldn't be thousands suffering from slow starvation, disease and injury when they are abandoned. Neuter your pets and adopt new ones. Don't ever take an animal you won't be taking for keeps. - Your.: truly. h;.U. l'•ingland, Clinton