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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1981-10-14, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981 TR. Clinton NaasrI.cord 1, published socio Thursday et P.Q. Boa 983. Chilton. Ontario. Caned!. NOM 11.3. Tal.: 411.1443. ifebecrlption Rate: Cunede •'11.11 Sr. Citizen -'13.1110.: y.ar U.$.A. & ioreign • '31.11 per year 4 It Is r.111stared s.cgntl shale mall ►y Ilea post office under the Ipoormlt number 4318. The Neops•Record Incorporated In 1334 Nee tturon Nemra•Racord. founded In 1111., aM The Clinton Neon Ere. founded In 1113. fetal grass run 3.311. +C -NA MEMBER JAMES E. FITZGERALD - Editor SHELLEY McI HEE • News Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER • Advertising MARGARET L. GIRR - Office Manager MARY ANN GLIDDON-Subscriptions „10 MEMBER ®Impiety advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rale Cord No. 13 affective Oct. 1. 1981. Danger-Livi ng Caution: Living can be hazardous to your health! , says the Tillsonburg News. It's getting so you develop a nervous tic every time you pick up the newspaper, because, you fear, somewhere in its columns will be another item telling you whatever you have been doing could be laying you low with some disease dor other. f=olks are developing a don't breathe, don't eat, don't drinkor otherwise expose yourself to anything syndrome. Latest warning is don't get caught in your wet jeans. It's the truth! A young chap in Copenhagen (the Denmark one) fell asleep wearing skin-tight blue jeans and the mean jeans shrank up and crippled him for life. The inevitable warning from o doctor: don't buy jeans so tight you have to screw yourself into them,- and never, never shrink jeans to form -fit by wearing them when wet. So do we now get a directive to jean manufacturers making caution labels mandatory con their product? Right there across the skin tight derriere, under the ,designer name: Caution, this garment may be hazardous to your health if sub- jected to water? But, what is this? A voice of reason? The Ontario Medical Association is getting concerned about people being scared to death by all the warnings of potentially dangerous substances. The OMA general council has called for development of a means to inform the public accurately and immediately about exposure to hazar- dous substances; and the validity of such reports. A Toronto doctor said the public is being bombarded with scare announcements, in some cases without real evidence of a danger having been identified. He's worried the public' will be scared into heart failure while worrying if it will get cancer from something. So eat, drink and be merry...because worrying about it could be just as dangerous as whatever it is you are accustomed to putting down the hatch. Tough job School bus drivers are not recognized often enough for the tremendous service they perform. It's a job that's for more difficult than most members of the public realize. There's much more involved than simply driving the vehicle to and from school. First of all, the passengers are children. Couple the kids' spontaneous en` thusiasni with the normal hazards of the road and you've got a job that would test the nerves of the most hardy of us. It's a tremendous responsibility ferrying our children every day, morning and evening. The hours ore hardly enviable, ask anyone who has. And how many take the time to personally thank the men and women who drive the school buses and our children? More often than not other drivers will complain about having tb stop for a school bus or ending up in a long line of traffic behind one. And every day a driver will break the law by passing a school bus while the red lights are flashing. `• If they could only realize how potentially disastrous this action is. Children boarding or disembarking will often without thought cross the highway secure in the knowledge that the law protects them. The schools are doing their best to educate the children on the dangers involved, but kids will be kids. The respon- sibility is ultimately ours. The penalty, upon conviction of breaking this law is a $28 fine and four demerit points. That's not as much a deterrent as the realization that someone's child - perhaps your own - could be killed by one thoughtless act. Consideration should be given to increasing the penalty in light of the poten- tially grave consequences. So all year long, give a special thought to those bit chrome and yellow vehicles. And pass along^a word of thanks to the drivers. They deserve it. (from the Renfrew Mercury) Golden harvest —by James Fitzgerald write letters We need your help Dear Editor: As of this date, there has been no response whatever in regards to ringette• Sixty registration forms were distributed to various schools and the arena office. These forms outlined direction and, re- quirements for both players and any in- terested person. The Clinton News -Record issue of • Oc- tober 1st stated volunteers were required, As of this moment, no one in any manner has responded in any shape or form. An open meeting is scheduled for Oc- tober 15th, at 7:30 p.m. in the upstairs hall of the arena. Simply stated, if this pro- gram is to continue, your attendance is re- quested so that a management committee can be formed. Hugh Hodges, Clinton Give generously Dear Editor: Once again, it is that time when the Canadian. Arthritis Society begins its final big push for fund raising for 1981. For the second year, the Clinton Optimist Club will be conducting a door to door canvass dur- ing the final weeks of October. Because of the problem with the weather this time of year, and the need for suffi- cient canvassers to cover the town thoroughly, no specific night is being designated. Those wishing to contribute and who are not at home the night their neighbourhood is canvassed, can do so by mailing their donation in the Arthritis envelope that will be left in the door. All canvassers will be carrying official Arthritis receipts and Op- timist identification, for those who do not know their canvasser personally. I thank you for allowing us the use of your newspaper to convey this message to your readers. Yours in Optimism, Greg Burns, President Clinton Optimist Club .) Do you have an opinion? Why not write us a letter to the editor, and let everyone know. All letters ire published, providing they can b. authenticated, and pseudonym., are allowed. All letters, however, are• subject to editing for lets th or libel. remembering our past a Zook through the news -record files 5 YEARS AGO October 21, 1976 Newcombe's Drug Store; an institution in Clinton for 26 years, will be passing over to a new owner at the end of October. Walt Newcombe, the owner and phar- macist in the drug store has sold to Mrs. Judith Alilovic of Geraldton, who is also a pharmacist. Huron County recorded its first snowfall last Sunday morning. The snow didn't stay long, but served to remind residents that winter's not far away. • For the first time in their history, the Clinton Retail Merchants Association held an election of officers. The new executive include: chairman, Tim St. Louis; vice chairman, Wayne Holtzhauer; secretary, Noah Zeeman and treasurer, Rosamond Garrett. Family affair It's been a tough day. This morning, I dilated home from work to say goodbye to daughter Kim and the grandboys, who are off to Hull. Dear proof-reader, that is Hull, Que., not Hell. I Kim has given up on teaching school, although she was offered a promotion at her last school. She loved teaching, and threw herself into it with the enthusiasm of a knight setting off for the Crusades. Her summing-up was honest, but not bit- ter: "When you put every ounce of your energy, enthusiasm, imagination and belief in the best values in life into a job, and receive in return apathy, sullenness, indifference, and even physical violence, there must be some better job around somewhere.” Right on. I spent a week with her last spring, and she still retained a vestige of those at- tributes, but it was wearing thin. I'm amazed that any young person wants to get into teaching. In the twilight of my own teaching career, I can look back and see some of the pleasures: summer holidays; the occasional class that was fun, and bright, and made you feel like a kindly uncle. And that's the list. There's something terribly wrong with our educational system, but it's too com- plicated to put my finger on, in this space. When I've retired I plan to be appointed to a Commission I at $100 a day 1 to examine the problems, make a report, and have it ignored. Anyway, Kim is off to Hull, the anus of Quebec. She wants to learn French, expose her children to it, and find a job. I think she must have i;limpsed those headlines ;l f'uw weeks ago. stating that our ton civil ser- vants were the highest paid in the world. And about a third of the civil servants are in Hull, just across from Ottawa. Maybe she'll hit it lucky and Pierre Trudeau will fall in love with her and marry her. She's just about the right age for him, under half his. And this would give him a family of five boys. Another couple and he'd have a hockey team, and in 1999 Canada might win the Canada Cup. But all this is as likely as yours truly going to Heaven. They left in a battered Datsun that uses a quart of oil to a quart of gas, has to have the radiator filled every 20 miles, and has tires of tissue paper. It's an eight hour drive. I'm praying, something I seldom do, except when I get in a mess, fall on my knees, and plead, "For God's sake, God, get me out of this." Like most people. But, by golly, Kim is going back to her roots, whether she knows it or not. Back to the Ottawa Valley, where her great- grandmother was an itinerant music teacher, her great -great uncle a holy ter- ror in fights among lumberjacks. She has dozens of cousins in the area, on both the Quebec and Ontario side, whom she has never seen. Tonight, if the Datsun holds up, she'll be staying with her aunt Flora, in Perth, whom she hasn't seen since she was about four months old. .Flora will feed her with food, homilies, good advice, dozens of addresses, and spunk. The last will be needless, because Kim has lots of it, but they can exchange a bit of spunk, and maybe a few angles on feminism or whose children -grandchild age the best -worst. Kim might even see the house where her father was bungled up. Or the river where he used to catch fish. Or the school in which he took seven years to get through the normal five. Only one problem She saved enough money while teething up North to keep her going for a few months, but she needs a job. There's little chance of her getting one in Hull, where you must speak French. She got 54• in French in high school, and what she learned there would barely enable her to order a meal unless it was "an chien hot" or "des poissons et french frieds." That's where the old man comas in. Danged if I'll buy her a new car. Danged if I'll pay her rent, although she can stay here, free, as long as she wants. Danged if I'll send her money when' she can go on welfare. But I do have some old friends in Ot- tawa. How would she like to be the recep- tionist of Dr. Norman Lightford, a dental surgeon? Or should I start right at the top? My old friend Robert Cameron, late Canadian Ambassador to Poland, might need a girl to bring coffee during his morning breaks. Dave McIntosh, a Canadian Press jour- nalist for more years than he cares to men- tion, might find her a job as a research assistant. He is now a successful author, and might want to find out where he was born, and who his girlfriend was in Grade 1, for the new book he's writing. Kim can even type better than Dave does. How about Jannie Meisel, as we used to know him at Varsity, before he became a professor at Queen's, and more recently, head of the CRTC? Surely he'd have a spot for a girl who is unilingual, unisexual, and has a dbuple of kids who know something of the tree Indian tongue? I can see that 'I'm going to have to spend a long time on the typewriter, knocking off letters to people who say, when their secretaries bring in the mail, marked "personal","Bill who?" But PauGormley will find a spot for her. He worked in Public Relations for half the agencies in Ottawa, loves music, and has a soft spot for my wife. No problem, Kim. Bob McGaw of Bayfield found an old anchor in the bowels of Lake Huron. Mr. McGaw, a fisherman and three of his crew lugged the 300 pound cast iron anchor, at least 100 years old, onto his boat, the Bessie Ann after it got tangled up in fishing nets, some threemiles north of Bayfield. Mr. McGaw has offered the anchor to the Bayfield Historical Society, which are trying to find which schooner it belonged to. . 10 YEARS AGO October 21, 1971 A meeting will be called, perhaps within the next week, of all governmental bodies involved in attempts to find a new use for Canadian Forces Base Clinton: Robert McKinley said the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation had opened the tenders for sale of the base over the weekend and said he had seen the offers. He said some looked as if some might make a base a good source of employment in Huron County. The Brucefield Bombers, in an exciting game played Sunday afternoon in Fullarton against Carlingford, won the Intermediate ladies 'A' championship. The series was deadlocked at two games apiece in a best three out of five series. 25 YEARS AGO October 25, 1956 Accounts totalling over $6,000 for the Clinton Community Swimming Pool were passed by the Board at their first meeting Thursday night. The winter season for a variety of courses in a number of skills is getting underway smartly in Clinton this year. The dancing classes are being held by Madame de Kurthy, formerly a member of the Vienna Opera. The Bayfield Boat Club loading ramp and docks at Alfred Scotchmer's park have been taken up for the winter. Ed Pangracz of Grosse Pointe, one of the members, was up last weekend. He stated that he had a good catch of perch, one of the largest in the seson. And he felt that this year had been the best for game fishing out of Bayfield that he had ex- perienced. 50 YEARS AGO October 15, 1931 A carload of vegetables and produce, the gift of the people of Clinton and surroun- ding community, was shipped from this station on Monday to Areroid, Saskat- chewan, where it will be distributed amongest those living in the dried -out area. The car contained 225 bushels of beans, 600 bushels of apples, 300 bags of vegetables, 300 bags of vegetables, besides a quantity of pumpkins, squash, citrons and 300 pounds of honey. No potatoes were included as it is said potatoes may be obtained at more adjacent points. 75 YEARS AGO October 19, 1906 Hullett has some pretty active old men, but we think Mr. Jas. Cartwright can keep Up with the best of them. Last week, when the weather was nearly at its worst, he picked 25 barrels of apples in two days; no wonder the oldtimers went ahead; he is now in his 75th year, and not many young men could do much better. One day last week the Jackson Manufacturing Company received a rush order from a Toronto departmental store odds 'n° ends Decisions decisions To perm or not to perm - that is the question. Many of you will not understand the trauma involvetAre making such a decision. Many men, for example, will shrug it off as just another hare -brained worry that women insist on worrying about when they needn't worry at all. And some ladies with natural curls will pat their tresses and think, "You can't beat the natural look." And other ladies, with natural curls, who have spent fortunes trying to straighten their locks, will wonder: "Why in the world would anyone want to put kinks in their hair now?" The answer to the last question is ob- vious. It's the same old story of discontent with what we have and desire to change - to look tike someone else. for 350 pairs of their famous Lion Brand Knickers. The order was filled by express, and the next day the goods, previously advertised, were put on sale. Before night only three pair were left in the store. A youth named Branfield, who works for Mr. J.W. Irwin got slightly burned on Monday, while cleaning the store lighting machine. It had been taken apart, and supposing that all the gas was out, a match was struck, when there was a momentary flash of gas, as Branfield was stooping over the machine. He was slightly burned about the eyebrows, and got a couple of burns on his hands, but they were not at all serious. 100 YEARS AGO October 21, 1881 A party of young ladies from Goderich Township while going home from a "wake" a few evenings ago, discovered a man asleep in a wagon, on the roadside, the horses being brought to a stand still. They immediately woke up a neighbor nearby, and in company with another roused inmate, repaired to the scene of action and took charge of the man, who by his expressions, imagined he was in the vicinity of Brucefield. He was taken care of for the night, and the ladies proceeded on their way, no doubt congratulating themselves, both on their bravery and their kindness. The Record is the only paper in the county, which published the prize list of the Belgrave show. The people of that village and surrounding country should hereafter support the paper that looks after their interests. by Blaine townshend The decision is complicated because, as we ladies all know, when we get a hair style we like it grows out in no time. But, when we get a set we detest, it takes forever to grow. We are destined to weeks of wearing hats and scarves and hours of brushing and combing. My decision is further complicated by childhood memories. Once upon a time there was a little girl with curly fair tresses. Yes, it was me. Somehow through the years the fair hair became darker and darker and the locks became straighter and straighter. Of course, the curls had been phony in the first place. They were achieved after hours of sitting still under tons ,of rollers, papers and bobby pins - a hard chore for a kid. On several occasions, I was certain I would succumb to the 'overpowering stench of the "perm solution." And for months after the ordeal came the inevitable morning hassle with tats. Of course. things have improved im- Il:e llbti) .ince Well. l ne ,iueu ul some solutions, for instance, might almost be called pleasant. The wide variety of solutions makes it possible to choose one appropriate for individual hair type - no more burning scalps and watering eyes. The variety of perms also means a variety of styles from which to choose. Let's see. i could have j ust enough perm to give my hair bounce and body. Or, I could have a soft slightly curling style. Or, I could return to the tiny tight curls of my youth. Heck, i could even become a blonde again! Decisions, decisions. Knowing me as I do, i would almost be willing to bet that my hair will remain straight and brown. My habit will also remain the same. 1 will let my hair grow until I can no longer' see where I'm going. Then I'll consider all the possibilities for a new style. inevitably, I'll have my hair trim- med and thinned, and I'll leave the decision for a new look until the next time.