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Clinton News-Record, 1983-11-30, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1903 Vito Clinton tioweliesond RD pctlWlstse f oasis Iiikstineatiev at P.O. Boss 89, Clinton, Onterlo. Csnsia. ®MOM 1E0. T&.: 48-3—. 9asberrOptOon Oloteo Canaan - 019173 Si. Citizen - 610.75 For row 07.9.rRa. tonslPe - 699.00 per eons it le ra®tattessed sasosvai dew mon b7 Oise Foot office argots/ OOt;o alt asacrasea, 01917. Th9 iiionD.Dtecmrsi lnsorporatasd On 1924 ORm Karon eivross-liscand. seconded In 10111, and Ms Clinton Neve dna. twanrisd In 1699. Total Prato tiara 8,766. Incorporating THIE LYTH STANDARD) r J. HOWARD AITKEFd Puh11rh®lr SHELLEY McPHEE - Editor GARY HAIST = Advertising Manager MARY Al4H HOLLENSECIIC - Office Manager MEMBER Olselerp advertising rotes evellable -en nesitroot. itsb for Nato Card. No. 14 stfestivo October 1. 1163. A MEMBER Safe driving self control October, 1983 was a historical month for the Clinton police department. It was the first time in 15 years that the local police had no reportable accidents. Reportable accidents, those involving damage over $400, unfortunately take up a major part of our local police officers' time. , The unfortunate part is that many of these accidents could be avoided. Canada Safety Council statistics show that over 35 per cent of all fatal traffic crashes involve alcohol. Drinking drivers causes countless accidents and kill hun- dreds of Canadians every year. W.L. Higgitt, president of the Canada Safety Council says, "The most persistent contribution to traffic collisions and fatalities is the impaired driver." He believes that the problem of drinking and driving, "could be overcome by drivers accep- ting their full personal responsibilty towards others." Those facts have prompted the Safety Council to term their 28th annual Na- tional Safe Driving Week, None For The Road. To be held from Dec. 1-7, the Safety Council is urging everyone to drive sober during Safe Driving Week and at all times. December is a particularly "festive" time of year when we all tend to imbibe a little more than usual. It's also a time when traffic accident statistics peak and a time when many families are forced to face tragedy instead of Christmas peace and happiness. If you are attending Christmas parties and drink liquor of any kind, get a sober person to drive. Better still, take a taxi or stay with your host until you're sober. Remember, there is no quick remedy to sober a person after drinking alcoholic beverages. Strong coffee, food or cold showers don't work. Time is the only cure. It takes about one hour to eliminate each 12 oz. (340 grams) of normal strength beer, 1° oz. (42.5 grams) of spirits or 5 oz. (142 grams) of table wine. Many people are impaired, to a degree, even with one drink. So play it safe. Impaired driving charges can result in a driver license suspension for 12 hours, but police are unable to prevent all accidents. Prime Minister Trudeau, a longtime supporter of Safe Driving Week identifies "impaired driving as a major problem to be overcome. Your full responsibility in this special area of concern will greatly reduce the risk of accidents and un- necessary loss of life." The choice is yours and remember, as the LCBO promotion said, "You are your own liquor control board." -by S. McPhee. Behind The Scenes By Keith Roulston Arguments won't bring peace Like a few million other North Americans I recently spent an evening before the televi- sion hoping life doesn't imitate art. The Day After, a made -for -television movie about a nuclear attack on an erican city is probably the most con- troxe sial television show . to be seen in years. It attempts to show graphically just what horrible consequences there would be if this nuclear madness ever got completely out of hand. I say attempts, because for me the movie failed to convey the horror of it all as well as two books that have long been in existence. When I watched The Day After I couldn't forget that this was, after all, a movie. There was no such comfort when I first read Hiroshima, John Hersey's reports of what happened in the first use of nuclear weapons against humanity. The book first appeared in 1946 and its slim 115 pages tell a story so grim, television audiences couldn't possibly watch it. These were real people. Their pain was real. Their numbness at the immensity of what had happened was real. Their lives changed forever in one blinding flash, one storm of wind and fire. How could television show the reality of all the skin pulling off the arm of a survivor like a glove? How could we stomach seeing eyeballs melting and running down faces? For all its controversy the television show was considerably less than reality. Nor did it touch, for me, the sadness, the feeling of waste and futility of Nevil Shute's book On The Beach published way back in the 1950s. Shute deals with a family in Australia waiting to die as the radiation from a nuclear war works its way south on the changing winds from a northern hemisphere that is already dead from the first explosions of the war. No, for me the most frightening, the most infuriating, part of The Day After came in the discussion afterward on Global Televi- sion. There seven people representing the opposing sides of disarmament question showed us exactly why we should be afraid. The peace movement activists trotted out their old jargon. The right wingers brought theirs out and dusted it off. They spent most of the night shouting at each other. If a small group of Canadians cannot agree how can we expect the U.S., France,Britain, China and the Soviet Union to agree. The only thing that can keep us from a nuclear war worse than that portrayed on television is some flexibility. The right wingers insist on seeing the Soviet Union as an evil force. The liberals claim if only we would take the first generous step the Soviets would gladly follow. They then make the U.S. and our allies the bad guys by com- parison. The peace movement, if it is going to have any credibility, must appear to be fairer, must demand of both sides an end to this madness. Why, for instance, if they are will- ing to lay down their lives for peace, don't German peace marchers march right through the gates of the Berlin Wall and pro- test Russian missiles on the other side of the border. If they get through, they can show the people on the other side that we want them to give up their weapons too. If they don't, at least they will win respect en our side for trying. As it is, they're taking low- risk measures against one -side only and are winning converts to the right-wingers' arguments that the peace -movement is only showing a weakness that the other side will try to exploit. If we want peace, we've got to do something else than retreat to old arguments. Jointprogram plans how to deal with nuclear and other emergencies TORONTO ( UPC) - A day after North Americans were chilled by The Day After, a fictionalized television account of the effects of a nuclear war, the Ontario government released details of an emergency planning program to deal with nuclear disasters and other emergencies. The $6 -million federal -provincial program finances 100 separate projects in the pro- vince, with Ottawa footing half the bill. In- dividual projects totalling about $1.23 million have been approved so far this year. These projects include: ;Jlou,uuv co develop pians for ueartllg with nuclear emergencies.; $429,000 to develop municipal plans for dealing with non-nuclear disasters; $269,000 to buy and equip a number of multi -pa emergency and search -and - rescue vehicles, mobile command posts and telecommunication centres; $173,000 for the purchase and installation of emergency communications systems. The Joint Emergency Planning Program was introduced by the federal govrerament in 1980 to enhance the national emergency response capability. The Carpenter By Wendy Somerville Sugar and Spke Ode to November I don't know anyone who 'has written an "Ode to November." It is just possible that some idiot in Florida or California or Por- tugal, or the West Indies, has done so, because that is the month their oranges, grapes, or sugar -cane achieved their finest flavor. Long gone are Thanksgiving, the glories of autumn foliage, the bright yellow sun of, October. Instead, there are the withered fields. There are the black, accusing branches, like witches' fingers, of the stark and naked trees. There is the first snow, turned to dirty slush. Fittingly, November has no holiday. The only thing near it is Remembrance Day, a day of mourning, of remembering old slaughters and young men caught in them. There are the first obscene Christmas carols, the first phoney Santas, the intricate arrangement of colored lights, to remind us that if we spend, spend, spend; buy, buy, buy, we are supporting those two great edifices of the western world, Christianity and free enterprise. November, for most Canadians, is a time of fearful, tentative waiting, shoulders metaphorically hunched. Waiting to see what The Lord has in store for us. There is no promise in November, no hope. Only more of the same for the next five months. Grey, greasy, unyielding, November grips us to the bone with its cer- tainty that we have sinned, and now we are going to suffer. Even with modern heating and lighting, By Bill Smiley with the tranquilizers of television and frozen dinners, and no trips to the backyard john necessary, November makes us cringe. Probably it's a legacy trom our pioneer ancestor. I can't help thinking what November meant to them. The closing in of days. The black of the morning. The wet chill of the air. The worry about enough hay for the beasts, enough wood in the woodpile, enough salted meat for the winter, enough spuds and turnips in the cold -cellar. It was no time for watching the Grey Cup, or the Dallas Cowboys, on a Saturday after- noon. It must have been a time off frantic scrambling for those pioneers. Chinking the draughts between the logs. Cutting wood like mad. Slaughtering and smoking and "putting down" food for the long bitter days ahead. There .was no running over to the super- market for a few bags of flour, a bag of sugar, and eight cartons of margarine. It was a siege ahead that could last seemingly indefinitely, with no relief force just over the horizon. It must have been especially frightening for the women. For those long, dark months ahead, they would be virtually locked in their cabins, with almost no social inter- course outside the family. Endless days of preparing hot meals, knitting warm clothes, with no company after the children were bedded down except that of a sullen, ex- hausted husband. For the men at least, there was some escape; the daily chores, the battening Kaleidoscope down of hatches against the coming storms, perhaps a trip to the village,for supplies, the tending of animals. As we turn up the thermostat, flip on the lights, or flusli the toilet, we should remember, with a touch of awe, what November must have been like for our grand and great-grandparents. Now, I know not everybody. will agree with me. That's as should be. For afi- cionados of curling, November means the opening of a new season, with the slap of brooms, the conviviality of the bar, the urge for competition beckoning them out of their cosy homes into the dark, cold night. • For the skiing crowd, November does hold promise. They sniff the air like beagles, cheer like children when the first flakes fall, and generally irritate the rest of us. It's even a rather exciting time for mer- chants. They anticipate the jangling of cash registers, the pushing of hot, sweaty mobs through their aisles. It enables them to blot out for a brief time, the doldrums of January that lurk ahead. And of course November holds no fears for the deer hunters and those idiots who stand in icy water to the waist, trying to catch one last big rainbow trout. "Best time of the year", they chortle heartily. But for golfers, boatsmen, and most old people, November could be left right off the calendar. For sailors on the Great Lakes, and at sea, it is a month fraught with discomfort and even peril, with storms out of the northwest. You may have gathered that I don't like November and I'm glad it's over. Flow many ounces in a pint? That was the simple question one Clin- tonian put to 48 different people last week. Only five answered correctly, the rest, like me, hummed and hawed, guessed, finally got the right answer or simply gave up. Most will tell you that there's 16 ounces in a pint. Remember learning that in school eight ounces in a cup, 16 in a pint. Well our observant measures questioner notes that there are 16 ounces in a pint, if you are following the American system. Canadians are supposedly raised on the Imperial System which says there are 20 ounces in a pint. Seems that many of us have never really followed the Imperial System, but a mixture between American and imperial. The point, according to our questioner, why not go metric, since we don't even know the old system. At any rate, for everyone who was con- fused by the American measure conversion chart in our recent cookbook edition, here's the Imperial chart as well. LIQUID Imperial Metric 3'4 top 1 ml 1 tsp 2 ml ltsp 5 m 1 tbsp 15 m1 'l4 cup 60 ml One-third cup 75 m1 '"z cup 125 ml 1 cup 250 rnl imperial u4tsp 112 tsp ltsp tbsp DRY Metric 1.2m1 2.5 rnl 5 rnl 7.5m1 By Shelley McPhee 1 tbsp 18 cup 14 cup One-third cup ''2 cup 1 cup WEIGHT Imperial 1 oz 1lb(16oz) 15m] 30 ml 60 ml 80 and 125m1 250 ml Metric 28 gm 450 gm (.45 kg) + + + On Nov. 19 at the Vanastra and District Lioness Christmas Bazaar, held at the Vanastra Community Centre, the Clinton Public Hospital Auxiliary table had a draw for a bushel of apples. The locally grown fruit was won by Mrs. Olive Rean of Goderich. + + + The Clinton Lions Club report that they have just completed another successful Grey Cup Draw and fund raising campaign. The project reached 100 per cent of the objective. Wilfred Haines of Wingham won the first quarter prize. Charles Lee of Wingham won the first half prize. The third period score was won by Ken Boyce of Bayfield and Dave Bartliff of Clinton was the holder of the final score ticket. + + + St. Joseph's Separate School will have a new full time principal starting Jan. 1. Edward Cappelli, presently the principal of St. Michael's School in Stratford, will be replacing Don Farwell, St. Joseph's last full time principal. Since September, Jim McDade has acted as a temporary principal for the school. He has split his duties between St. Marys in Goderich and St. Joseph's. !love your soy Dear Editor Christmas Bureau provxd ., s servic Dear Editor: The Huron County CHRISTMAS BUREAU, sponsored and operated by Family and Children's Services, provides a special opportunity for you to contribute to Christmastime celebrations of referred families. Last year Huron County citizens generously supported the CHRISTMAS BUREAU which resulted in a cheerier Christmas for 635 children and 292 families. Our volunteer staff distributed this Christmas warmth from our Bureaus in Clinton, Exeter, Goderich, Seaforth and Wingham. Volunteers m each branch of the CHRISTMAS BUREAU work hard to see that no child is overlooked and therefore disappointed at Christmas. In particular, we are concerned that each child under 16 years receive one new toy and one new arti- cle of clothing and that each family has a dinner for Christmas Day. In addition, our Bureau serving the County, helps prevent overlapping. We feel that the CHRISTMAS BUREAU is a very worthwhile established program that provides co-ordinated help for needy families in the Christmas season. Your financial assistance which is income tax deductible through Official Receipts will enable us to carry on this and related family enrichment programs. If you require further information, would like a speaker for a meeting, or have any referrals for us, please contact us. Yours sincerely, (Ms.) Sheila McCaffery Acting Local Director (Mrs.) Audrey M. Royal Volunteer County Co-ordinator CHRISTMAS BUREAU Say something nice nothing at all Dear Editor: Why can't people, just say something nice or not say anything at all? This past weekend two township Federa- tions of Agriculture put on a Christmas Dance to make money w support them in the upcoming year. At this dance about six - or seven women got together and made a nice Lunch. Did we hear that the turkey was tasty or the potato salad had a nice touch? No, we heard, — "You didn't use butter, if you can't use butter we won't be back." Why should we have our evening spoiled because some loud -mouth in the crowd has to make nasty comments about what pro- ducts we used. Sure, he was a dairy farmer, but we also had beef, chicken and egg pro- ducers at our dance. We didn't hear them squealing. Does he think margarine is pro- duced by Martians or something? The bean and corn ' producers at our dance should have cheered us on for using their product. Do we go into this person's home and ask if he has pork in his freezer just because we're pork producers? Does he eat Ontario produce or wear Canadian made clothes? That's not our business, it would be nice if everyone did do these things, but that is an individual's choice. Because of this person's comments and nasty ways, I begin to wonder if all the work organizing and preparing the food for this night was worth it. Why is it that the people with the loudest voice don't seem to be willing to help at these events. They have time to make the nasty remarks, but not the time to work. Thank you for listening. + + + What happens to all the Remembrance Day wreaths placed at the Clinton cenotaph on Nov. 11? We've learned that the wreaths are stored by the town and are laid at the cenotaph throughout the year, replacing the worn out ones. + + + If you happen to be in Toronto before Dec. 11 be sure to visit the Ontario Art Gallery. The Gallery's special December exhibit is Dutch Painting of the Golden Age from the Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuuis. I saw the exhibit this fall and guarantee that you'll enjoy it too. The exhibit features portraits, landsapes and still-life paintings of 40 17th century Dutch artists. Familiar works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and Ruisdael are featured. The show is on until Dec. 11. Yours sincerely, Mrs. Ann Nesbit, R.R. No. 2, Blyth, Ontario. Where are all the people? Dear Editor: Watching the Bantam Hockey Tourna- ment in Clinton on Nov. 26, I was amazed at the quality of hockey these kids of 13 and 14 provide. When you see teams travelling from as far away as Ohsweken, Hanover, Oakville and Thedford, I' think they deserve better sup- port from the people of Clinton than they are getting. Watching from upstairs during the time I was in attendance, I was among a bunch of "Furriners"... The only people I saw from Clinton were either officials of the tournament or employees of the arena. Is it humanly possible to light a fire under "Yuz Guys"? For heaven's sake, let's put our "Garage Sales", ' Town Hall", "Petty Bylaws" etc. etc. on the back burner for a short while and show visitors we are not dead. The semi-finals and finals are on the 3rd and 4th of December. And I challenge you to come out to the arena on one of the above dates, approach me and say, Phooey to you Jackson Frederick H. Jackson Nothing but trouble Isere This series of ads appeared in a Belfast newspaper. MONDAY'S AD: "The Rev. A.J. Garven has one TN. set for sale. Tel. 42.3571 after 7 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Donnelly who lives with him cheap." TUESDAY'S AD: "We regret any embar- rassment to Rev. Garven caused by a typographical error in an ad in yesterday's paper. It should have read: The Rev. A.J. Garven has one T.V. set for sale cheap. Tel. 423571 and ask for Mrs. Donnelly who lives with him after 7 p.m." EDNESDAY'S AD: "Rev. Garven in- orms us that he had received several an- noylhg phone calls because of an incorrect ad in yesterday's paper. It should have read: The Rev. A.J. Garven has one T.V. set for sale cheap. Tel. 423571 after 7 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Donnelly who loves with him." THURSDAY'S AD: "Please note that I, Rev. A.J. Garven, have no T.V. set for sale. 1 have smashed it - don't call 423571 anymore. I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Donnelly and until yesterday Mrs. Donnelly was my housekeeper." FRIDAY'S AD: "Wanted, housekeeper, usual duties, good pay, love in. Contact Rev. A.J. Garven Tel. 423571. — (from The Huron Church News)