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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1986-01-22, Page 4Page 4---CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, Oa - the Clinton NRenkileterd 111 published oath Wednesday et p.O. gore 70,, Clinton. Ontprlo. Caned,. NOM 114.1114 60244.43. Subscription lletm Cenede • 031.00 $r. Cltlsen • 010.00 per year. U.O.A. foreign 000.00 per year It Im repIffoN90 a► second slam moll by the P001 office under the pormlt number 0017. Tha fpolap"11191d lncorpvrotad In 1934 th'etturon Netts•Record, founded In 1001, and Tbp CIlnton Pierre Ira, founded In 1006. TWIN Isms runs 3.700. Incorporating THE BLYTH STANDARD Jo HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher ANNE NAREJKO - Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manager MARY ANN HOLLENBECK - Office Manager Display advertising rotes available on request.- Ask for Rate Card No. 17 effective Oc• tober 1, 1684. MEMBER 11411E nI04071 AWARD 1985 Look, then vote The, elderly have given "the best years of their lives" to our com- munities, helping to build businesses, working the land so fresh food can be bought at reasonable prices and passing their knowledge on to the young. For these reasons and many others, they deserve the best treat- ment possible when they enter a home for the aged. The Huronview Home for the Aged is looking for approval from Huron County Council so they can go ahead with renovations. The proposed $1.4 - million project was passed by the former county council - by only one vote. A recorded vote saw the 28 members present split 14 to 14. It was the ad- ditional vote of the Goderich reeve which carried the motion. However, the county now has a new council. A council which must decide, once and for all, whether to give the project a green light. There are several reasons for and against the project. What council has to determine is which side has the best argument. One of the major arguments against the project is`the timing. Can the county afford the pioneer museum work as well as the Huronview pro- ject? The Province of Ontario has set asidh" $75,000,000 for renovations to homes for the aged and 50 percent of the Huronview project will be fund- ed with this money. For this reason, those infavor of the project feel the renovations should be acted upon now. The pioneer museum work must be done - no one is arguing that fact. The Huronview renovations aren't .classified as an emergency - no one is arguing that fact. And no one is arguing the fact that the proposed,renova- tions will cut the available beds by 21. But, how many of the councillors who Voted against, or for, the renova- tions took a good, long tour through the building. Those who did would have seen the Huronview Home for the Aged provides little resemblance to their home. Thanks to the hard working staff, the building is always kept clean, but it provides very little privacy, inadequate closet space and limited space for socializing,.,.,. In sec i r1,SLR 44,01640§.01010: °feel as thoi h th:' e ere visiting a hospital. The impersonal For -be room's °can be fluid'With closets, similar to lockers, allowing only a minimum number of clothes to be stored. Washrooms provide little privacy for washing or bathing. Throughout their lives, the residents have mixed with the opposite sex, and now face male-female. Segregation. What council is being asked to do is pass the former council's recom- mendation that $716,000 be spent on improvements to Huronview over the next three years. Huronview administrator Wayne Lester has been quoted as saying, "Today is the cheapest it will be to do the renovations. Tomorrow" it will cost more. Today the government will pay for it. Tomorrow they won't." Those involved could discuss the issue for weeks but first hand informa- tion has always been the best educator, therefore, before council votes, each and every member should take the time to visit Huronview and see the conditions for themselves. Some day it may be their parents, or even themselves, residing at that address. - by Anne Narejko Representation may be last 75 years ago January 19,1911' -Will Huron Lose a Member -The Dominion Census will be taken in June and will be followed at the next session of Parliament by a Redistribution Bill. It is considered quite probable that there will be a reduction in the representation from the rural constituences of Ontario, tilt several counties will drop from three to'two members. In this class good old Huron is included and the matter of the division of the county is even at this early date giving the politi- cians concern. The News -Record learns from a reliable,. source that those "near the throne" have partially arrived at an understanding to cut the county in two along the line of the Lon- don, Huron and Bruce Railway. Hunt up your old returns and make a guess as to how such a division would affect the standing of the political parties. Sorry to Part -The announcement that Mr, David Robb, Inspector for public schools for' East Huron, has resigned owing to ill health. Itawill be received with genuine regret, not only in his own inspectorate and the County, but throughout the province for he has a wide circle of friends that is widely scat- tered. For nape years Mr. Robb was Master of MathenTatics and Science in the Clinton Col- legiate Institute, resigning in 1880 to accept the position of Inspector which he ha now for a score of years filled in a very satisfac- tory manner. Few officials, indeed, are more con- scientious in the performance of duty than Mr. Robb and to fewer still is accorded a more generous measure of sincere regard. That when freed from the responsibilities of office his health may improve is the wish of numerous friends, including the News, - Record. • Fine Winter Weather -The fine weather of the past few days has been welcome to many, but to none more Ulan our worthy citizens, Messrs. A. J. 'Holloway and Polly Freeman, These two gentlemen hate now storms, and especially is this the case since their little drive into the country a recent .. Sunday when, they, were snowbound. and obliged to restrain over bight t atld ow* pito Early FiIu town on a "tie pass" in the morning. Verily, there is "nothing so rare as a day in June." About People You Know -Miss Edna Man- ning has taken a position in the G.T.R. sta- tion. Miss Lulu Mullholland leaves on Saturday for a few weeks to visit in Detroit. Mr. G.A. Bradshaw will' spend the next three weeks in Chatham and Wallaceburg. Miss Gladys Cantelon is now assisting - with the „office work in Cantelon Bros. grocery. Miss Nettie Stevens has been in London the past week as the guest of her sistfr, Mrs. I Taylor. 50 years ago January 2,$,1936 King George V. Died After Short Illness -The empire is in mourning, because her monarch, King George V. beloved of his peo- ple as, perhaps, no other monarch ever was beloved,,lies dead in his palace and we go about with a feeling of loneliness and sor- row. A little over seven months ago we re- joiced with him as he celebrated the twenty- fifth year of his reign; less than a month ago we heard his voice, albiet a somewhat tired voice, over the radio in a Christmas message to all parts of the Empire. Now that voice is stilled, the heart which throbb- ed for his people, whom he greeted in his Christmas message as "my dear friends," lies quiet, and as a man and as a King we mourn him and our hearts go out in sym- pathy to his devoted -wife, Queen Mary, and to his children, in their hour of sorrow, more especially to the eldest, his heir, who is now "Ilia King. Treat softly, all, tlleKingis-Dead And while We mourn for the monarch we loved, we rejoice that the new King is also beloved of his people. Xing Edward VIII, whom we know as the Prince ofWales, dr more intimately as "The Prince," (it will be difficult to teach our tongues to use the new title), is hailed, with complete- confidence +tram page 5 The Winter Freeze By Anne Narejko New grants ackRJddeII, MPP . On behalf of several of my colleagues, I am pleased to announce a number of grants for the riding of Huron -Middlesex. John Eakins, Minister of Tourism and Recreation has informed me that Stephen Township Arena will receive a $6,497 grant to restore their boardsyand glass; the South - Huron Recreation Ceif re will get a grant of. $2,500 for renovations; and the -North Mid- dlesex Community Centre in ,Parkhill will receive a $19,539 grant to .improve their en- trance and make roof repairs. , Murray Elston, Minister of Health has an- nounced $110,000 grant to Alessandra Marine and General Hospital jr,i tate ich.to,,, improve out-patient psychiatri services. Ailsa Craig will receive a community planning grant of $1,878 froth Municipal Af- fairs Minister Bernard Grandmaitre, while Clinton has received approval for funding of a sewage works :expansion. Jim Bradley, Minister of the Environment, said that Clin- ton is eligible for the grant estimated a 62.9 per cent of the total cost of updating the town's existing sewage collector system and sewage treatment plant. I directed my ministry last November to ' establish a special task force to work on a strategy to reduce losses from the turnip mosaic virus for the 1986 crop year, in On- tario and particularly in Huron and Mid- dlesex Counties. The disease is not new to Ontario but it tends to flare up in some years causing losses to the rutabaga industry. There is concern that the increase in the virus may be linked to the increased production of winter rapeseed. The virus decreases the leaf surface of the plant and stunts root development. The roots, if they develop at all, are small and suffer reduced storage life, The virus is an insurable loss under the Canada -Ontario Crop Insurance program for rutabagas. Heading the task force is Ralph Shaw, director of the Ministi`y of Agriculture and Food plant industry branch. Other members include Dr. Rob McLaughlin, executive director research and education; Dr. 'Jack Tanner, Chairman of the Department of Crop Science, University. of Guelph; Dr. John Proctor, acting chairman, Dept. of Horticultural Science, University of Guelph; and Wayne Roberts, manager of the ministry's pest management program. The first job is to pulltogether all of the facts, sutheyy9se.4 l thg p,;gcess,oi receiving , "Griefs Asonilrut aga�grror ers, hckers and shippers, mind are telcdmii�g :§iiG4ni'ssiiitls" from other groups aS well. The task force has also formed a technical action committee of researchers, virologists and extension specialists to develop recom- mendations for the:1986 crop. Serving on the technical conimittee is Wayne Roberts, manager of OMAF's pest ' management program; Dr. Lorne Stobbs, virologist, Agriculture Canada, Vineland; Dr. David -Hume, Dept. of Crop Science, University of Guelph; Dr. Vern Shattuck, Dr. Vince Souza Machado, and Dr. Ib Non- necke, of the Dept. of Horticultural Science, University of Guelph; Dr. John Gardner, crop advisor, OMAF, London; Craig Hunter, extension pathologist, OMAF, Sim- coe; Joan McDonald, crop specialist, ,OMAF, Walkerton; and Jim O'Toole, head ,of agronomy, Centralia College of Agricultural Technology. At the December meeting of the action committee, Dr. Stobbs confirmed that aphids readily transmit the turnip mosaic virus from rutabaga to winter rapeseed and vice versa. The green peach aphid, which migrates to Ontario from the United States each year, has been found as the most effi- cient carrier of the virus. Early tests in- dicate it is unlikely that the virus is seed - borne. Tests of winter rapeseed cultivars are be- ing conducted to determine resistance to the turnip mosaic virus. The results of the field survey conducted last fall suggest a possible relationship between proximity of winter rapeseed, and the severity of crop losses in rutabaga. However, there were exceptions where the virus was present in the rutabaga crop with no winter rapeseed known within 10 miles of the field. The action committee is now looking at rutabaga and winter rapeseed breeding pro- grams with the hopes of incorporating resistance to the virus. The committee is also trying to determine if a chemical con- trol strategy can be developed- to control aphids in both crops. The turnip mosaic virus has been present in Ontario for many years and was not in- troduced by the production of winter rapeseed. ."Winter rapeseed has been grown com- mercially for more than five years by in- dividual entrepreneurial farmers who ob- tained seed from European sources." More research is needed to determine controls and whether the disease can be directly linked to the winter rapeseed crop. I will keep constituents up-to-date with the progress of the task force in future columns. Submissions may be directed to Ralph Shaw, Director, Plant Industry Branch, On- tario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Box 1030, Guelph, Ontario, N1H 6N1. Bill Smiiey A saying I hate If you read in the papers one of these days about some middle-aged guy going berserk ,and punching a pretty young waitress or bank teller right in the mush for no apparent reason, you'll know it was I, driven f'flatly over the brink by that inanity to end them all, "Have a nice day." It may happen in a restaurant. It will be just after that waitress has served me lukewarm soup, followed by filet of sole. The filet will turn out to be of the boot variety, rather then the sea variety, and I will just have broken a tooth on it. As I am fumbling fragments of bone out of my face, she will sashay off to serve another customer, hips twitching, and toss,over her shoulder at me a gay "Have a nice meal, now." That's when I will let her have it. . Or it mightoccur on a Friday afternoon; in the bank. The weather forecast is for bliz- zards, I'rn in a snarky mood, on my way to have two teeth extracted, and my arthritis is giving me a fairly lively foretaste of hell: And this young teller, her feet aching, slaps down my withdrawal, summons an hausted smile from -down around her- pan tyhose, and chirrups, "Have a nice weekend, eh?" It's not the grammar or the verbiage I ob- ject to. It's the utter insincerity. of the sug- gestion. It means just about as much as if -the speaker blew his/her-noseand.spat.into- the wind. And it's pretty obvious where it came from. It's one of those American imports that should be banned at the border. It has crept across via the airwaves,' issued in treacly tones by signing -off disc jockeys and game show MUMCs. Arid it has been copied by Canadian media people, who ape automatically the :mispronunciations of their U.S. counter- parts, such as eggsacution for "execution" and noshus for "nauseous." From there it has spread like the Black Plague into our airlines, hotels, restaurants, and even our sacred institutions like the banks. I haven't been in a bordello lately, but I'd be willing to bet that when a customer totters off shaky and unshaven in- to the cold dawn, the madame will coo after him in dulcet tones, "Have a nice .. day, now." I have a strong suspicion the damn thing originated in the deep south, along with such heart -felt maxims as "Y'all come back real spon, y'heah." Which means, roughly, if you want to be ripped off again in our joint, we'll be happy to oblige. • I refuse to believe all those waitresses, air stewardesses, bank clerks are spouting this garbage from deep in their hearts. Those gals are tuckered out. They don't give a did- dle whether we drop dead, as long as we do it in front of somebody else's wicket. No, they've been coerced into this phoney farewell . by the Simon Legrees they work for, the type who think that if the clerks ut- ter such slop in the Holiday Inn in Texas, they should do the same in the Holiday Inn in Toronto. And they're the guys I have it in for, not the poor underlings, forced to soil their lips With an artificial, Cynical se -long that raises the hackles on-thelikesaf me. _ At first I responded to this silly utterance with a reluctant and very concise "Thanks, Yon too." As i became more digusted with the ob- vious falsity of such as thedentist ' absentmindedly muttering "flae a sed day" just after he'd drilled two and yanked one, myicesponse subsidedto a grOnt. Next step Will be to look one of the idiots who issue this inanity right in the eye and calmly ask: "Are you kidding? Who told you to say that? Do you mean it? What do you care what kind of da I have? I don't really care what kind you have." This might make a few of the more sen- sitive ones blush. But most of them would just drop their jaw and wonder whether old Smiley had got into the sauce, to nuke him so snarly. It may take stronger measures, and I hope many of my readers . who agree with me, will join in putting a halt to this per- nicious poop. If it happens in a public place, perhaps we .should call the manager and say "This young lady/man is interfering in my private life, in my democratic right to have, a rotten day/weekend if I feel like it. Now you, buster, just tell her never to insult another customer with that silly saying, or I'll take my business elsewhere." This is the only language understood by the type of turkey who thinks such garbage as "Have.a good day" is good public rela- tions. Hit him where it hurts. In the P.P. panic pocket. Perhaps I am over -reacting. I have been known to do this in connection with Celsuis, metric, politicians of every hue, greedy unions, ,misleading advertisements, town engineers, school administrators, and about 1,000 other -things; -including the highway Irrob . rs known as garage Mechanics. • Maybe it will pass away, along with other such worn -to -the -heels expressions as "That'll be the frosty Friday" and "All righty" and the ubiquitous "Turkey," which seems to cover a multitude of t 11ntal and physical Aberrations. But in case it doesn't, keepyour dukes up, yott purveyors of "Have a good..."