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Major changes needed
As itis presently operated, Canada's unemployment insurance system doesn't
Make a great deal of sense, says Roger Worth of the Canadian Federation of In-
dependent Businessmen.
Consider what's happening. As the country's jobless rate continues to surpass
seven piercerit, a let: of employers are having a great deal of difficulty finding
workers; particularly skilled trades people.
' Onepf.the reasons: many unemployed individuals are prepared to sit tight,
tf ,
t9lletirfq cis, much as $1895_per week yri unemployment benefits, rather than ac-
ce its true; the available positions may require individuals to move,
overnment programs are available to finance such activities.
ych, Presidefit of the 62 -thousand Canadian Federation of Indepen-
dent s then vy,,hat reallyirritates employers. is the fact that they pay a
s,.4�hla i:asli` ised to finance the system, yet it appears to work against
an`•incentive'for workers to remain on the dole until benefits
*rye is little question the program' which will cost .severalbillions
pxpayer dollars this year -is extremely, generous. In a supposedly
soai�st>,awitty such as West Ge�rmany,,: for instance, workers .can collect no
ne.week's joblessbenefits. for every two weeks worked.
nad¢�, on'e other hand, individuals can collect as much as four weeks
slevery week worked, which at the top rate of $189 per week is not -
chi And that's just one example.
c'problem, of course is that our -unemployment insurance program has
ngradea to the point whereit has. little to do with insurance. Instead, it
rs a9sort of social welfare prografil.•
So there's:little wander Ottawa is taking a long, hard look at the system. With
the. -federal government in debt to the tune of $90 billion. (and rising), the need to
seriously consider,,nnajor changes is clear.
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t rection
Members of municipal councils in' Huron Will have little room to complain over
a decision reached by the county board of education to collect levies four times
each year, rather than the current practice of having ,the municipalities' forward
thorn only twice, says the Exeter Times -Advocate.
Moircouncil fibers have been complaining about the high cost .of, education
foryears,and the move is designed primarily to reduce the amount the board of
edecatiori has to borrow before the levies start rolling in from the municipalities.
rhoitost-of borrOwinig interim\ funds has always been a large expenditure for the
board, and with;today's-interest rates, it was reaching even greater proportions.
In same cases, the,change will not be noticed.. Clinton, for instance, has col -
Jetted taxes' on a quarterly basis for sometime now. Others may now be promp-
ted to follow suit.
Actually taxpayers throughout the county will not notice any significant change
as it is basically a matter of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Regardless of which body
•has to borrow money, the taxpayers foot the bill. It all comes out of the same
pockets, and it is that very fact that sinks the argument of .those who suggest the
board should collect its own tax revenue. Why duplicate the cost of collection?
Everyone knows taxes are already high enough without adding that unnecessary
expenserfor those who have to pay the bills.
While there may be those who complain about the board's decision to increase
the number of levies, everyone should welcome the indication that trustees are
at Least taking steps to cut expenses. Perhaps they'll find it so refreshing, they'll
continue with other'segments of their astronomical budget that will result in real
savings for taxpayers, not merely a shift of costs from one pocket to another.•
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Remembering summer
remembering -
our past
5 YIEA RS AGO
' October28,1975 z.
Alexander and Mabel Knowles may
well be .one of Canada's oldest landed
immigrants. Mr. and Mrs. Knowles, the
parents of Kirsty Barrett . (Dr.
Harrett's wife) arrived in Clinton on
October 8th from Scotland and plan on
residing here.
After.12 years as Mayor, and 15 years
of serving on Clinton Council, Mayor
Don . Symons is retiring from public
duty. Now, he will be running as a
commissioner for the Clinton Public
Utilities Commission.
The . Clinton Planning Board has
decided to go ahead and ask the Huron
County Planning Department to draw
up a detailed plan of the town's future
growth. Presently the town has a zoning
map, but has nothing on record on
which to base any future growth or
expansion
10 YEARS AGO
October28,1971
Firemen played fire onto the blazing
Clinton = Public Works Department
warehouse in a fire that destroyed the
building last Wednesday night ' moat
8:30. The old building was ablaze when
firemen arrived and they had no change
to save it or remove the equipment
inside. They were also hampered- by
exploding fuel containers in the
building. They spent most of ttteiir.time
protecting neighboring buildings which
were threatened. A crowd of 300 to 400
persons watched the blaze which could
be -seen at a long distance.
Charles McNaughton topped every
poll but four in Huron riding as he swept
to victory in Thursday's Provincial
Election with his highest majority thus
far.
25 YEARS AGO
November 1,1956
Yesterday G. Morley Counter,
(better known as "Pete" for his hun-
dreds of friends in town) completed his
last day as postmaster for the town of
by James Fitzgerald
a look through
the news -record files
Clinton. After 23 years of service to the
community, he remarked proudly,
"I've got the best doggone staff in the
province."
About 100 in costume attended the
Bayfield Lions Hallowe'en Masquerade
held in the village hall last night. Alf
Scotchmer, acted as master of
ceremonies and Leslie Elliott operated
the public address system and record
player for the parade.
Progress is being made steadily
toward the objective set by the Nurses
at Clinton Public Hospital for the Jessie
Grainger Memorial Fund, which they
hope to furnish the new public waiting
room in the hospital.
Auburn's grand old gentleman,
William H. Campbell, celebrated his
100th birthday on October 19th. Mr.
Campbell has the distinction of being
the only Auburn resident to reach this
ripe old age. "I haven't an ache or
pain," the pioneer , said, "but my
eyesight has failed me."
50YEARS AGO
: ,b October22,1931
The clothing firm which was to have
started business in the store recently
vacated by the fruit man has decided
not to locate in . Clinton. Some
alterations had been made in the
premises to suit their convenience but
on learning that a deposit would have to
be paid to the town treasury before
opening up, they decided against it. At
the end of a year's business this deposit
would be returned, less taxes, but
evidently it was not their intention to
continue . business. Mr. J. Hall, the,
carpenter who made the alterations
was given so long to tear them out again
and the representative of the would-be
business firm de pa rte d. The probability
is that the intention was to make a
convenience of the town to run off a job
lot of goods, then move on to another
place.
sugar and spice
dispensed
by
bill smiley
Accident
prone
Teachers have 20 days of sick leave
(paid) due to them every year. That's fair
enough.
At present, I have 316 days, plus 20 for
the coming year, built up. Figure it out for
yourself. I haven't missed many days on
the job and some of those were funerals of
relatives and such.
But how can a man show up for work as a
member of the "walking wounded": abra-
sions on forehead, black right eye and
scraped cheekbone, nose looking as though
the rats had been at it and right leg almost
completely crippled, though nothing
broken?
Well, he can't. And yesterday was the
first time in my teaching career when I
wasn't ill, but stayed home. I went back to-
day with a few flesh -colored pieces of tape,
and a bad limp, arousing the curiosity of
staff and students alike.
Strangely enough, I had been telling a
bright Grade 11 class just the other day
about the gullibility of students. You may
remember. I'd had a very minor lesion on
my big nose removed. The nurse said,
"This is a big bandage." I retorted, "This
is a big nose." It was ail done at the
hospital before 9 a.m-, and I was on the
job.
A lad in one of my classes asked, with
concern, "What happened to your nose,
sir?" I told him with a very straight face
that a hyena had escaped from a nearby
zoo, poked in one of my cellar windows,
and, sneaking up to the bedroom, had bit-
ten off my nose. And that's why I'd been to
hospital, to have an artificial nose im-
planted.
"Oh, that's too bad, sir," he'd said, in all
sincerity.
Well, in all sincerity, I wish the story had
been true. For' about the eighth time in my
career, my nose looks like a transplant
from a guy who has narrowly escaped his
life, after being shot through the nose, in-
stead of the brain.
But this Grade 11 class the other day
didn't say a word, though their looks were
eloquent. They didn't want to be gullible,
6and have me tell them that my wife did it,
or 1 had a fight with the town cop, or I
crashed while glider -flying.
I wish I'd been born with a snub nose.
These people, even though they are always
sticking their snubs into other people's
business, never seem to get them hurt. I
mind my own business, and keep getting
my nose broken or badly cut, or a can-
didate for cancer.
Once again, the damage resulted from
shopping. One time I came in with two
bags of groceries, slipped off my shoes at
the door, went into the freshly waxed kit-
chen, took a kick at the cat, slipped and
fell, nose -on, against the kitchen counter.
No eggs broken, just the nose:
This time, I went off with a reasonable
shopping list, but got into the impulse -
buying game, and arrived home with five
of those white plastic shopping bags, load-
ed to the gunnels (the bags).
Cunningly, I thought, "Well, I can han-
dle three on one trip and go back for the
other two and still have one hand free to
slam the trunk door of the car."
Unfortunately, my cunning neglected
the fact that I was wearing my new arch
support, total cost $85, and that it was hur-
ting me like a brand new set of false teeth.
I was limping heavily on the right.
I arrived at the pile of rocks just outside
our back door. Sometimes we call it the
rock garden, at other times the rock patio.
Every year we plan to turn it into one or
the other, or something exotic. But it's still
just a pile of rocks, each and every one
with sharp edges. Many a chunk I've taken
off my shin by veering a little to the right.
To make a longstory short, I caught my
right, limping foot on a heave in the
sidewalk, and tumbled straight into the
rock pile. Loyal to the end, I clung to the
groceries. In my right hand were two bags,
obviously loaded with canned goods. The
one bag in my left hand contained the toilet
tissue and the Kleenex.
I went into the rock pile like a badly
ballasted ship hitting a reef. I could have
been killed. My nose saved me. It took the
initial impact before I . skidded onto my
cheekbone and forehead.
Bloody but unbowed, I gathered the
groceries (not an egg busted, not a quart of
milk spilled), staggered into the kitchen,
scattering blood and groceries
everywhere.
Lots of people would have been rushed to
emergency and sewed and cauterized and
otherwise tortured. I never do that. I use
my mother's old remedies. Staunch the
blood with a cloth or something, make sure
you haven't lost an eye, and then sock the
ice -water to it.
In my mother's day, hot and cold water
were the painkillers and the blood stop-
pers. We didn't have ice -cubes then, but we
had a chunk of ice in the ice -box. And we
needed it. I was always coming home with
a cut foot.that should have had six stitches,
or a cut head where a kid had hit me with a
stone, or a sprained ankle from football.
I must admit that 1 add a little modern
extra. I put the ice -cubes in a towel until
the bleeding stops or is merely oozing.
Then I take them out, wash off any
superfluous blood, put them in a glass, and
pour some medicine over them, just in
case of shock. If my mother could see me
doing this last maneouvre, she'd have gone
into shock. She was TT.
And that's how I got my banged -up face.
But my nose saved though worse.
75 YEARS AGO
October 26,1906
There was quite an exciting time in
the Holmesville Women's Institute
circle, the day of the bread contest.
There was a splendid showing of bread.
The prizes were carried off by:,lst, Mrs.
'Jos. Jervis; 2nd, Mrs. S. Tebbutt; 3rd,
Mrs. Thomas MacDonald. The judges
were Mrs. F. Swann, Mrs. W. Marquis
and Mrs. Watts.
The Jackson Manufacturing Co., has
a splendid artisian well over 100 feet
deep, which lately has been supplying
all the people in the neighborhood with
good pure water. The other day a
Toronto traveller took a hearty drink of
it, and as he smacked his lips he said,
"By jove, that's good water; I'd sooner
drink it than whiskey." He had
evidently been accustomed to the city
water, which . is said to be oneythird
liquid, one-third - mud, and one-third
polywogs and lizards.
The unique spectacle of shingling by
lamplight could be seen at the Salvation
Army barracks on Monday night, when
by the aid of eight lanterns, a new roof
was put on.
100 YEARS AGO
November 4, 1881
Even the patience of Job would
become exhausted were he a preacher
and • endeavouring to interest his
audience while they were keeping up an
incessant coughing, making it im-
possible for him to be heard, yet how
very easy can all this be avoided by
simply using Dr. King's New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds.
Trial bottles given away at J.H.
Combe's Drug Store.
Diptheria is now prevalent in
McKillop, several cases being reported.
Mr. Myers of Bayfield is inventing•a
patent reaper and mower, which has
very little gearing, and can be built and
sold for half •the price of other
machines.
On Hallowe'en night, the boys in
Londesborough had some harmless
sport removing gates, one being placed
on the top of the old store, but no serious
damage.
Promenade dresses are very short.
The skirt of a fashionable woman clad
in walking attire clears the ground by
several inches.
Autumn poem
Dear Editor:
I was surprised to see my . poem
"Autumn" in your Oct. 14, 1981 issue of the
Clinton News -Record. Under different cir-
cumstances, I would have been very pleas-
ed. Unfortunately the poem had been
abridged and a significant error made in
the last. stanza. I would appreciate it very
much if you would re -publish the poem in
full as follows:
Autumn
As I look through the trees toward the lake,
The splendour that was theirs is scattered
wide.
The heaving swells and whitecaps far
beyond,
And heavy clouds disgorging from the sky
Foretell of icy blasts, and snow piled high.
The garden that was lush, is limp and bare •
As rain and frost and wind take tireless
toll.
The ground is littered deep with fallen fruit
That hung red ripe just only days ago,,
From propped up trees with laden limbs
bowed low.
- ducks and geese which know full well •
their goal,
Wing faultlessly their way each scudding
day;
While birds which sweetly sung their songs
to young
Among the trees and flowering shrubs,
have flown
To winter homes; each species to its own.
The flaming lamp which earlier glowed'
northwest,
Now dips its gold red wick much further
south,
,And some who squandered gifts of sum-
mer days
Like birds and fowl their way are wending,
And sharing the common hope of Spring's
returning. ,
The flowering weeds now stand in fields
forlorn,
Brittle and dry beneath the threatening
sky. •
Surely it is only those who will not see
That what so many curse, and some
despise,
Is far beyond man's skill to realize.
As once again I stare towards the lake, .
Theurge the birds must feel runs through -
my mind.
Like them, I'd like to wing my way and
stay
At a winter home far from the snow and.:
blast
Until like Spring, I am welcomed back at
last.
Yours truly,
Charles. F. Curtis,
Bayfield
United stand
Dear Editor:
The Supreme Court's recent ruling is a
clear vindication of our determined stand
over the last year to win for Canadians a
made -in -Canada Constitution that will
reflect and serve our federal country.
In the days and weeks ahead we will
have to put the case clearly and forcefully
for agreement on a reasonable consensus
compromise. That will mean continued
toughness by all of us in standing firm
against unconstitutional unilateral action
that will divide our country.
-Mule we continue to press the govern-
ment to give priority to the economic crisis
it has caused, we must be firm on the con-
stitutional front as well.
Thanking you for your help and support
for the sake of our country.
Yours sincerely,
Joe Clark
Opposition Leader,
Ottawa.
Kinettes say thanks to all
Dear Editor:
May I take this opportunity on behalf of
the Clinton Kinettes to thank everyone who
assisted our Fashion Show in any way,
great or small.
To all the merchants who made a special
effort to assist us with their merchandise
selections and displays; we couldn't have
managed without you. We must mention
Mrs. Jane Groves from the Board and Bat-
ten, who made special decorations just for
Autumn
delight
As autumn leaves are falling one by one
to the ground and Canada Geese are call-
ing on their way southward bound, many a
wingless spirit longs to take flight and soar
over woods, hills and lakes to some far-off
shore.
Most wanderlust souls, though, have our
feet firmly anchored in the rich plowed soil
of Southwestern Ontario. And, when we
take a look around, we discover it's a good
place to be.
Many people, who are busy at all times
tf the year, and many people, whose minds
are always oce'upied with practical
thoughts, can't resist slowing their pace to
take stock of the beauty around them. ,
In summer, we stop to smell the roses
along the way to remind us of our bless-
ings. In autumn, our eyes drink in the spec-
tacular colours of nature's palette - colours
brushed on the landscape by an unseen
hand.
The sun shone on us for most of the
Thanksgiving weekend. In spite of the pro-
blems that plagued us before and the ones
we knew were sure to follow, it was three
days that made us sit back and appreciate
the good things we had.
It was a welcome break in an otherwise
hectic season. For many people, life seems
to be getting busier and more complicated
no matter the time of year and "time-
outs" are getting harder to find.
Everyone needs to take a breather now
and again. Everyone needs to relax, and
most important, everyone needs to lake
the time to enjoy the good things around
thein before those good things are gone.
It is easy to take pleasantries tor
granted. We assume they will always be
there for us to enjoy whenever we have the
time. Often we don't realize how wrong we
are until it is too late.
As the old saying goes,, all good things
must come to an end, and autumn is no ex-
ception. The beauty of the fall season is an
especially fleeting thing. The romance will
end. The gorgeous leaves will mat the
ground and the work Of raking will begin in
earnest. Stark branches will stand against
a grey sky when the sun becomes a
stranger again.
Rain will probably fall turning the fields
muddy. Mornings will begin quietly when
most of the birds are gone. Nights will
become longer and days colder. Morning
frost will become a familiar happening.
For awhile, the panorama will look bar-
ren and bleak, until one daywe'll waken to
a sparkling field of white - the beginning of
the beauty of another season.
our stage backdrop. Thank you, Jane.
To our Kin Kids, you're all great actors,
and to our friends Kay, Florence, Dave
and Kent we appreciate your helpfulness.
The proceeds from this event will help us
with our ;10,000 pledge to the Clinton
Hospital Building Fund. The profit we
realized Would not have been possible
without an audience. We hope you were
well entertained!
Yours truly,
Marie Jefferson,
chairman
Safe ch' g water
Dear Editor:
I note with interest that the Ontario
Unicef Committee has declared the week
of October 24 - 31, 1981, to be UNICEF
Week for Safe Drinking Water. During this
week UNICEF will promote citizen
awareness of the United Nations "Inter-
natioaAl Drinking Water Supply and
Sanitation Decade, 1981 - 1990", and i am
more than pleased to wish the Conunittee
every success on behalf of the Government
of Ontario.
goal of
his U.N. - declared
e
is to eliiminate by 1990 the threat of death
and disease which presently endangers the
lives of 500 million children in the
developing world. The provision of basic
necessities such as wells, pumps and pipes
will guarantee safe water, a vital con-
tribution to the health and well-being of
these children in need.
William G. Davis,
Premier
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