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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
Clinton News -
THE CLINTON-;NEW; ERA.
First issue June6. 1865
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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
First issue (Huron News -Record)
January • 1881
Amalgamated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District
Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2,000,000; Rate, 4.5c per Line flat
Sworn Circulation - 2,126
Home of Clinton. RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential)
MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA;
Western Ontario Counties Press Association
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Delivered by carrier to, RCAF Station and Adastral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a copy
Authorited as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa
Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County
Thursday, January 28, 1953
Time. For a Dime.
HEY MAC! You gotta dime?
No, its not for a cup of coffee - its
to FIGHT POLIO. •
The Ontario Chapter needs a lot of dimes
to continue its war against this dreaded disease-.
poliomyelitis.' Its 1954 objective, through the
What's
Canadian March of Dimes, is $300,000.
Polio is no longer a child's disease. It is
attacking adults too. In Ontario' during 1953
more than 2,000 fathers, mothers and children
were among the victims of polio. They need
your. help.
Haven;t you got time to send a dime?
Going On?
VOR ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS since
the Confederation of Canada, and for many
years before that, the people of our land have
been perfectly happy to recognize the Union
Jack as the national flag of Canada. When it
came to a matter of choosing a flag suitable
for ships at sea, liable to be confused with those
of England, the Union Jack was reduced in size,
tucked into one corner of the flag, and the
rest of the space proudly bore the Canadian
ensign. That flag has been accepted as Can-
ada's for many years in countries across the
world. What's all the fuss right now about a
"Canadian flag? What is wrong with the
one we have?
Just a year or two ago great anxiety was
expressed when it was found that the govern-
ment was quietly but surely doing away with the
word "Dominion", in reference to Canada. Why?
And now that men are using time and tax
money to carry on research on flags, we again
wonder why.
At the same time one of our most widely
publicised novelists, Mazo de la Roche has stated
her dislike of the beaver as a national symbol.
And suddenly a great host of ideas for the re-
placement of the beaver in the national con-
sciousness has been noted. Why not a .stag?
Well, indeed, why not. If the stag had leant
as much to the early economy and wellbeing of
Canada as the beaver, it would have become
the symbol of Canada. -
We cannot change the character of a
country by changing its name, its banner, nor
its representation. The only way to effect a
change, if one is thought necessary, is by gradual
education towards some end. No doubt, Canada
is changing as the world over changes. But
there is nothing to be gained by putting out
sums of money to change flags and symbols,
especially when the existent ores are perfectly
satisfactory to us and perfectly respectable in
the outside world.
Of much better good to us would be a
striving to improve Canada. Things that are
perfectly all right the way they are should be
left alone. The nation's efforts should be to-
wards levelling off high cost of living, and
they should be bent towards economies which
would make it possible for Canada to compete
in the world market. •
Ten Commandments of Country Courtesy
(From an American Conservation Magazine)
THE MATTER OF MAKING friends with the
farmer is an easy and pleasant undertak-
ing* All you have to do is practise the code
of courtesy all of us have been taught anyway.
To be more specific the writer has outlined
a few little maxims that might be called the
"Ten Commandments of Country Courtesy". It's
just as easy to obey them as it is to violate
them. They'll please the farmer mightily and
after awhile they'll become a natural, effort-
less part of your conduct afield. They contain
Be Ourselves
(Financial Post)
CANADIANS SHOULD•STRIVE to make tour -
another realize they are visiting com-
munity and a different country.
This is the sound advice given by Governor
Genera] Vincent Massey, speaking to the Can-
adian Club of Toronto this week.
A Canadian who visits the ruins of Pompei
doesn't want to see "Rah, Rah, Queen's" painted
en the stones by some Italian huskster. Nor
does he want to see beavers building dams in
Holland, or Mounties selling shoelaces in Times
Square.
Why should we expect that flying a Stars
and Stripes from our gas pumps pleases Ameri-
cans? It is certainly no stroke of promotional
genius. The more Canadian we are, the better
everyway.
"Litterbugs" and
THE CLEAN-UP OF ROADSIDE litter, care-
lessly or deliberately cast along the high -
'Ways by the travelling public, has become a
Very serious highway department maintenance
problem. The almost unbelievable amount of
debris resulting, from a weekend of favourable
motoring weather not only counteracts -the sin-
cere efforts of landscape and maintenance en-
gineers to provide pleasing and attractive road-
sides, this litter, if not removed from the high -
Ways, may be a potential factor in the spread
of diseases. It frequently clogs drainage ways,
and bottles and cans hidden in the roadside
grass may cause extensive damage to mowing
equipment. Furthermore it is not an uncommon
sight to see motorists changing tires which
Were cut on the jagged edges of cans or broken
bottles.
It is, therefore, essential to keep the road-
sides as free of debris as possible. This task
annually costs the highway departments thous-
ands° of dollars -money sorely needed for other
highway purposes.
"Litterbugs" seem to fall into two classes,
the deliberate and the thoughtless. Those who
make a practice of surreptitiously disposing of
their garbage and household trash along seclud-
ed sections of the roadside apparently do so
deliberately and with the full knowledge that
such action is illegal. They deserve no quarter
if apprehended and should be prosecuted to the
limit of the law.
Unquestionably the thoughtless "Litterbugs"
comprise the larger group and -are responsible
for the major portion of the clean-up problems.
These are the untidy persons who' are forever
tossing out of cars empty bottles, cans, candy
wrappers; and so on.
Hot dog stands and similar roadside eating
places contribute their full share to the ever
increasing roadside litter. Despite the presence
of adequate and conveniently located trash dis-
posal receptacles the thoughtless "Litterbugs"
leave the surrounding roadsides blanketed as if
by snow with containers and wrappers discarded
from their purchases.
It is impossible to legislate an attitude of
mind and)t appears that public education offers
the best solution to this problem. As previously
stated "Litterbugs" are victims of habit. Since
the greater number of these are, adults, it is
the "Open, Sesame" to the farmer's fields and
coverts . to his open-handed hospitality.
Here they are:
1. Always drive into the farmer's yard
and ask permission to hunt.
2. Hunt only in the areas he designates,
Never go on ground he wishes to keep inviolate.
Stay away from his stock.
3. Respect his fences. If necessary to climb
them, climb over by a post. Use gates if pos-
sible, closing them behind you. Always replace
lowered bars.
4. Never shoot near houses, barns or live-
stock.
5. Leave his fruit and other crops alone. If
you want some, buy it from him.
6. Go around fields where people are work-
ing, or pastures where livestock is grazing. Do
not walk on seeded ground. Don't walk through
standing grain.
7. Shoot crows and predators that do dam-
age to his crops and livestock.
8. Share your game with hint.
9. On your next trip, bring his wife or child-
ren some little gift or token of friendship.
10. After you've become well acquainted,
suggest a planting program to better game
habitat, offering to finance it cr help him with
it, thereby showing genuine interest in his af-
fairs.
These are simple little rules of common
courtesy that any sportsman can practise to
the benefit and pleasure of all concerned. They
are really keys to better hunting.
Their Control
only logical to assume that immediate reduction
of Litterbugs can be expected only if these in-
dividuals can be induced to change their habits.
But the final solution of this problem lies
in the proper education of the young. Unless
they are instilled with the civic pride in clean
roadsides there is little hope for a decrease in
the amounts of litter deposited on the roadsides
in the future.
This could be accomplished to a large ex •
-
tent, by women's institutes, working through
schools, Scouts, Farm Clubs, and other youth
groups by means of posters in the schoolrooms
and meeting places, talks, educational pamph-
lets, and films. Essay and poster contests spon-
sored by garden clubs and other civic groups
will arouse the interest of the children and also.
that of their parents.
Such educational programs need not be cost-
ly, and the potential results make such cost as
there is in money, time and effort well worth-
while.
A World Farm Creed
WE WHO TILL the land,
Seeing our duty
To feed humanity,
And knowing that an act of man
To lessen food,
While any hungers,
Violates the Law of God,
Pledge ourselves
To give our best to husbandry;
Joining with our neighbors,
Wherever they may be,
To make our work more fruitful;
And to uphold
Those governments
Whose vision spreads to all mankind:
For Which we ask
Free minds,
Fit bodies,
Good homes,
And Justice in our labors.
-JOHN ATKINS.
'OFF MAIN STREET\
From Our Early Files
1.0 YEARS AGO
The `Chntori'. Neiws"Record
Thursday, January 22. 1914
The PUC who have charge of
the waterworks and hydro de-
partments consist .of J. W. Shaw,
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
Thursday. January 20, 1944
Congratulations are in order
to William Norman of the Hol-
rnesVil'le Cheese and Butter
M D , C. W. Thompson, M,D., and Factory. At the Western On-
Fred Jackson, mayor, The firstl tario Dairymen's Association
mentioned is chairman and the- convention held recently in Lon-
second secretary, with the mayorrldona he captured first, second
as council's representative. and third and seventh prizes on
Albert Seeley met with an ac- l his cheese and also had the
cident last Friday when' his hand highest scoring cheese -on ex
came in contact with a rapidly, hibit.
revolving wheel •which swept off'' An RCAF bomber piloted by
the nails on his first two fingers. F/L R. W. Aldwinckle, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bartliff'Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aldwinckle,
and family have become confort- Varna, has been, credited with
ably settled. in their new home, the probable sinking of two
the residence recently purchased , German submarines spotted re
on Ontario Street. 'cently during a -routine North
William. McCool and William
Manning, Pilot Mound, Manitoba,
returned Friday last from a -visit
of several days at Hamilton,
Niagara Falls and other places.
The Clinton New Ero
Thursday, January 22, 1914
T. -Cottle was chosen chairman
of the . Clinton Model School
Board at the annual Meeting
held last Wednesday. Dr. J. S.
Evans was elected treasurer in
place of Mr. Macpherson who
tendered his resignation. J. Cun-
ningham is secretary and J. W.
Cooper caretaker.
Goderich defeated Clinton 2-0
in the first game to be held in
Clinton's new arena. • There was
a big crowd present, but the mild
weather made the ice soft and
sticky. Lineup for Clinton: goal,
W. Johnson; defence, R. Rum. -
ball, O'Donnell; rover, Cluff;
centre, Kerr; wings, M. Draper,
C. Draper.
The Hotel. King George in
Hensall, owned by Mr. Cooper
of Clinton, was partially destroy-
ed by fire last .night. The loss
was fully covered by insurance.
25 YEARS. AGO
Atlantic patrol,
Fred Watson, for the past
seven years reeve of the Town-
ship of Stanley, was elected
Warden of. Huron County at the
opening of the January session
of Huron County Council.
Lt. Col. F. G. Thompson has
been 'transferred from London
Military Hospital, where he has
been since his return from over-
seas over a year ago, to dommand
a hospital at Lethbridge, Alta'.
To supplement the research into
past events dealing with Clinton
residents, the following, clipping
was brought into our office. It
was part of a story printed in the
newspaper at Mossbank, Sask.,
just ten years ago.
"Among the recent class of wire-
less operator -air gunners who
graduated from No. 2 Bombing
and Gunnery School of the Royal
Canadian Air Force at Mosbank,
Sask., was W. R. "Reg"Cook, sen
of Mr. and Mrs. William Cook,
Clinton.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954
Letter to the Editor
CLASSIFIEDS WORK
Clinton News -Record
Clinton, Ontario
GENTLEMEN:
We are now starting the sixth
year of continuous/Cress Classified
Advertising in your paper.'
Cress sales jumped from a low
four figure volume annually in
that time, to well over $100,000 in
1953 alone, That's right, over one
hundred thousand dollars. •
Truly a big success story for an
all -Canadian enterprise. You still
have us muttering under our
breath how such small classified
advertisements can produce so
much business -it must be a com,
bination of a good local paper -
plus a high quality group of pro-
ducts. ,
To serve the increasing demand,
for4Cress products -we completed
our brand new plant in 1953-a
sparkling hospital clean show place
in Kitchener -with a welcome mat
for you, if ever in our renowned
city.
Incidentally, will you change ad-
dress to 1680 King St., East, in all
sections of your mailing depart-
ment.
Yours very truly,
CRESS LABORATORIES,
Division of Heldmann
Industries.
January 20, 1954
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, January 24, 1929
D. M. Maltby, cream grader at
the Clinton Creamery, had, a
very successful trip to London
recently. While attending the
Western Ontario Dairyman's As-
sociation convention in that city
he captured third prize in the
cream grading contest among 45
expert contestants. Mr. Maltby
also was a member of the team
that placed second, in the but-
ter -grading competition.
Tenders are being called for
putting a hardwood floor in the
town hall auditorium.
Supt. Chant of the PUC has
been confined to his home
through illness for the past fort-
night. '
Reeve N. W. Trewartha is at-
tending the meetings of the Hu-
ron County Council in Goderich
this week.
Edgar Maguire spent a few
days over the weekend with Galt
and Stratford friends.
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to store natural gas piped in from
the United States.
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THE VOICE OF
TEMPERANCE'
Huron County is one of the larg-
est "dry" areas in Ontario. We of
Huron would do well occasionally
to recall the story of the long
struggle against drink that our
fathers and grandfathers fought
for nearly half a century. Hullett
Township adopted Local. Option in
1905, one of the first municipalities
in the province to do so. By 1931
three townships, two villages and
three towns in.Huron remained in
the "wet" column, due to the 60
percent handicap. In 1914 The
Canada Temperance Act was car-
ried with a majority of 2,603. This
act wiped out all legal outlets for
the sale of liquor in our county.
Later, in 1919 and in 1924, Huron
voted strongly in favour of The
Ontario Temperance Act. In the
latter year, when Ontario voted to
retain the O.T.A. by a majority of
34,051, more than one third of this
came from Huron, to be exact
11,945. The courts have frequently
complimented our county on its
comparative freedom from crime.
That is not surprising. The more
freely liquor flows the busier are
the courts. "Seventy-five percent
of all criminal cases in my court
involved drink", declared a judge
of 30 years' experience. Let us in
Huron hold fast to our proud posi-
tion as a temperate county.
This advertisement is inserted
by the Huron County Temperance
Federation. 1-b
HOLINESVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. William Norman
and famil, and Dewar Norman, ..
spent Sunday in New Hamburg,
the_ guest of Mr. and Mrs. ileab
Hinz.
Mrs. D. 11. Gliddon is in London
the -'guest of Mr, and Mrs. •Frank
Lawson. Mr. D. E. Gliddon and
Mrs. Walters spent Sunday' in
London with Mr. and Mrs. Law-
son.
The annualcongregational sup-
per of Holinesvilln United
Church will be held in the Sun-
day School room on Wednesday
evening, February 3.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Mr. a n d
Mrs. Frank Lawson, London, on
the birth of a daughter, Patricia
Lynn. • Mrs. Lawson was former-
ly Marie Gliddon, R.N.; Holmes-
ville.
CROP REPORT
(By 'G. W. Montgomery)
Many of the old farm windmills
are now being purchased as bases
for TV antennas. With the local
TV station now featuring farm
news, there is an increase in the
number of sets being purchased by
county farmers.
Most farmers now report that
they will have adequate feed sup-
plies for the remainder of the in-
side feeding period. All classes of
livestock generally appear to be in
good condition.
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CHIROPRACTIC
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Chiropractic -Drugless Therapy
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Office Hours:
Commercial Hotel, Seaforth
Monday, Thursday
Afternoons and Evenings
INSURANCE
Inane. the "Co-op" Way
W. V. HOY
District Representative
Box 310 Clinton, Ontario
Phone Collect
Office •557 Res. 3243
J. E. HOWARD, Hayfield
Phope Bayfield 53r2
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GENERAL INSURANCE
Representative:
Sun Life'As5ungnee Co. of Canada
Office: Royal Bank Building
Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W
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11. C. LAWSON
Bank of Montreal Buliding
Clinton
PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 251J
insurance -- Real Estate
Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co.
THE McRILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Head Office: Seaforth
Officers 1953: President, J. L.
Malone, Seaforth; vice-president,
J. H. McEwing, Blyth; manager
and secretary -treasurer, M. A.
Reid, Seaforth. Directors: S. H.
Whitmore, Seaforth• C. W. -Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewar-
tha, Clinton; Robt. Archibald,
Seaforth; J. 11. McEwing, Blyth;
J. 'E. Pepper, Bnucefield•, Wm. S
Alexander, Walton; d. L. Malone,
Seaforth• Harv. Fuller, Goderich.
Agents J. F. Prueter, ;Brodhag-
en; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Erie
Munroe, SeafortA,.
OPTOMETRY
A. L. COLE, A.O.
Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted
Goderich Phone 33
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SEAFORTH: Weekdays except
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Tues., Thurs., Fri., 9 a.m.
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Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
CLINTON: MacLaren's Studio
Mondays only, from 9 a.m.
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