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• THE CLINTON NEW ERA
First issue June 6, 1565 s
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
First. lone (Huron NeWS-Record)
Januar*. ,1881
Amalgamated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted M the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District
Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2 000 000* Rate 4,5c per line flat
Sworn Circulation — 2,018
• Home of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential)
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Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON Ontario Canacia, hi the Heart of Huron County
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1954
Make Courtesy Your Code
(By Police Chief Joseph Ferrand)
GREAT MANY PEOPLE believe that chance akers are accident -makers,
passing laws against obvious driving faults • Even if the motorist doesn't commit a single
will solve the problem of tragic accidents, but specific traffic violation, his rude driving habits
nothing is farther from the truth.will endanger every other motorist on the high -
Strict enforcement does weed out flagrant • way as well as himself.
violators if the morgue or hospital doesn't get I know I wouldn't want to pick out five
them first. But the sad truth of the matter i$ hundred people at random and trust my life to
that most -accidents are caused by ordinarily them. •Yet every time I drive a car, my life isi
nice people whose motor manners differ greatly at the mercy of every other driver on the road.
from the way they act in normal society. • Good and bad drivers pass us a dozen
In our daily personal contacts, courtesy times a daywith only a few feet between our
makes for a more pleasant way of life and car ,and theirs. They trust us to abide by the
represents the difference between tension and rules—we depend on them to do the same. So
relaxation. On the highway, courtesy makes you see there is no place on our highways for
for safety 'and represents the difference between anyone who for any reason does not live up to
life or death. Try being courteous next time this agreement.
you are driving the family car. Whenever some As police officers we enforce the laws and
person gives way to you 'or demonstrates his or regulations which were enacted for the protec-
her knowledge of good driving in some other tion of everyone. But we cannot police the
manner, give some recognition of the fact by minds of individual motorists and too many of
• saluting him or her. You will feel good and them have learned the hard way.
SC) will the other party. For this reason I urge every driver to
Insistence on the right of way, impatience honestly re-examine their driving attitude and
with other drivers, and all the other discourt- resolve to make "courtesy your code on the
eous attitudes lead to taking chances — and road."
cumro„Novvs_REco
Froin, Our 1 1
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40 YEARS AG for wind Mau
The cliep• w New. ,Era ranee, the result of
last. little blow. The claims
Thurs4ay, march IA 194.4 front threoeern'dillielardenseesiet?,atialiemit s.
The Clinton hocke t 1 t H
Y earn Qa at 91st jairhdcZn
-Smith 'Falls .bk•a score of 6-2 on y ne
Tuesday reght for the Trench
trophy, Tim, home team played
their own rules •ad • had a referee
to back them up. The way that
the Clinton boys explained the
rules it seemed to be •a mixture
RFramididraa.Y1TAInTaHsetitoinpegr' ahtas St r at f .Q,rd on
of hockey and lacrosse.
Mayor Jackson and ex -mayor B.
J. Gibbings took in the Hydro
brick house on Huronm
Street,
tt on the
Rc000ykal!Bank, latelY occupied by D.
•• Clinton defeated the "Iroquois"
of Goderich•last Friday night by
the score of 5.1. At half time the
score was 3-0. The Clinton boys
played their regular team, except
Draper. McDonald took his place.
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, March 19, 1914
Master Earl Steep, son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Steep of Staple-
ton, passed his 14th birthday on
Monday and celebrated the event
by entertaining a number of his
boy friends to a party.
Morley Counter met -with a bad
accident at the rink on Thursday
evening which will lay him off
duty for several weeks. He was
playing hockey and in turning his
skate caught and he fell striking
his knee on a sharp edge of cem-
ent at the wall, splitting the knee
cap clean across.
W. A. McConnell, formerly in
the drug business in Clinton, and
Miss Sadie Cowan, also a former
resident of town, were united in
marriage recently and now reside
at Alhambra, California.
25 YEARS AGO
Letters to the Editor
WINS NEWS -RECORD PRIZE
Editor,
Clinton News -Record,
Clinton, Ontario,
DEAR SIR:
I beg to adivse that Ron Hern,
No. 1, Woodham, age 13, was the
winner of the Clinton News -Rec-
ord Special, $5.00 cash for the
youngest exhibitor for having two
or more entries at our County
Seed Fair.
On behalf of the Huron County
Soil and Crop Iinprovement Ass-
ociation I would like to thank you
for making this donation to our
Seed Fair.
Yours very truly,
G. W. MONTGOMERY,
Secretary -Treasurer
Huron County Soil and
Crop Improvement Ass.
Clinton, Ontario,
March 18th, 1954,
WHEN AND HOW DID THE
CHANGE OF HEART TAKE
PLACE?
Editor,
Clinton News -Record,
DEAR SIR:
In a statement published in last
week's issue of the News -Record,
declaring the Public 'School Boa-
rd's decision "to forget about the
County Music Festival," I have
been trying to fathom why this
position regarding the Music Fes-
lival has been taken; especially
as I remember well the severe
criticisim levelled against the sup-
ervisor of music in Clinton who
refused to take part in the fest-
ival a few years ago, and since
the two of those associated with
the present Board, were also as-
sociated with it when the former
supervisor was criticized so un-
mercifully. Why and when this
change of heart?
Secondly, when the statement
reported to have been made by
Mr. Jefferson at the Board meet-
ing that "the present day festiv-
als had become little less than a
war between the supervisors. I
personally resent being a contest-
ant in such warfare- and emphat-
ically wish to deny any such
charge.
As far as the County Music Fes-
tival is concerned, it is my sin-
cere belief that it has a real val-
ue. If the local supervisor does
her work honestly, the whole
class receives the training regard-
less of distinction. But for Festi-
val purposes naturally selects her
best pupils and competition among
the selected pupils from different
schools is one of the recognized
methods of high attainment as
seeen in all competitive schemes.
MRS. E. WENDORF
March 23, 1954,
Clinton, Ontario.'
ON CALIFORNIA HOLIDAY
(The following is a letter receiv-
ed this week from Miss Wilma
Dinnin of the News -Record staff,
who is on a holiday motor trip
to California).
The News-Recerd,
Clinton, Ontario, Canada,
DEAR SIR:
This matter of balancing a small
typing machine in my lap while
travelling at between 60 to 70
miles per hour is a novel exper-
ience in itself. When you consid-
er that it is Friday morning, some
1,200 miles from home, and about
30 miles from Texarkana (on the
border of Arkansas and Texas)
then it really is a novel exper-
ience.
Arkansas has turned out to be
a regular Pogo -land, and the road
we are travelling accompanies a
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Tenders for Trucks
TENDERS are invited for the supply of one to four
Trucks and wilLi be received by the undersigned until Noon,
Monday, April 5th. New 1953 models, where available, also
to be submitted.
Motor Size—Approximately 360 cu. in displacement.
10.00x20, 12 -ply tires. Heater and Defroster.
Rear-view mirrors. Reinforced frame.
' Direct in 5th Transmission, 2 -Speed rear axle.
Cast spoke wheels. Electrical directional equipment.
All marker lights required by law,
Dark green in colour.
2 Units are to be equipped with 6 - 7 yard capacity
Galion Dump bodies.
2 Units to be equipped with necessary trailer brake and
lighting equipment.
Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Further information may be obtained at the office of
the undersigned.
PETER D. PATTERSON,
Huron County Engineer,
Goderich, Ontario.
Goderich, Ontario
March 18th, 1954 • 12-13-b
railroad track, through swamp
land. Here, level; dry spots be-
come the home of the more or
less idle -rich, and their mansion
type or ultra modern ranch -type
houses are lovely to see. But, in
the swampy bits and poorer
stretches of land the houses are
mere shacks or tiny cottages set
up on blocks, of wood or cement,
and many have no paint at all.
One can imagine that if one corn-
er of the house starts to sag, they
might just jack it up and slip in
a correspondingly thick slab of
wood. By the looks . of some of
them they could stand just that
kind of treatment.
Our first look at spring came
this morning just as we entered
Arkansas, and the sun was begin-
ning to struggle through the
clouds. We had been driving
through wintry looking country,
much like that at horde, when,
suddenly it was spring! The hed-
ges, small trees, and grass were
green. And some shrubs shaped
like our spiarea were out in full
bloom. . The blossoms were deep
mauve.
Since our trip is of necessity a
speedy one, we've not investigated
any locality to any great extent,
feeling that extra time would be
better spent in the mountain coun-
try or on the west coast. There-
fore any observations I may make
are made from the car window.
Our trip through Michigan and
the northern part of Indiana. was
made during W‘ednesday night,
and I must say it was very pecul-
iar to find ourselves driving
through the moonlight, instead of
working in Clinton helping to get
the News -Record on the press. We
spent the night with friends in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and set off
early the next morning after a
short window-shopping tour in
that city. Our greatest diffic-
ulty in any of the towns and cit-
ies here is to find a mail box to
post our homeward bound missiv-
es. We don't particularly wish to
waste time hunting one, so we
sometimes drive 100 miles after
addressing a letter before actual-
ly mailing it,
As we left Fort Wayne yester-
day morning we had the South
and West strongly in mind, and
made a note to keep track of the
first horse we saw.
The first farm resident was a
stately goose coming back from a
morning's dip in the pond, and
then we saw cows, sheep, pigs and
chickens, but we were almost 400
miles from home before we notic-
ed a horse, Perhaps this noble
beast really is becoming obsolete.
However; we did see a number of
them in Arkansas, and it was in
that state that we_ saw the first
mules we over had seen. (Some-
how motion pictures and TV 'have
spoiled a lot of the fun of travel-
ling to new countries. Those mut-
es looked just as we had known
they would).
Plowing and seeding was in full
swing just south of Fort Wayne.
Gasoline prices, (of interest to
all motorists) vary from the low
of 18 cents per gallon in Decatur
(pronounced de-kay-ter) where a
price -war did fantastic things, to
the more usual 25 cents, and some-
times 30 cents. We've just driven
into Texarcana, where the price
is 23.9 cents.
Herm. too, we've met our first
real Texan, who, instead of having
a regular ranch, runs a "stop
again service" station. He at-
tracts business with an old two -
motor plane, gaily painted and
mounted on the roof of the stat -
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
CHIROPRACTIC
D. IL McINNES
Chiropractic -Drugless Therapy
Foot Correction
Office Hours:
Commercial Hotel, SeaforM
Monday, `Thursday
Afternoons and Evenings
INSURANCE
Iunure the "Co-op" Way
W. V. ROY
District Representative .
Box 110 Clinton, Ontario
Phone Collect
Office 557 Res. 3243
E. 110WARD, Hayfield..
Phone Bayfield 53r2
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Clintan
PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 251J
Insurance -- Real Estate
Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co.
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
„ Head Office: Seaforth '
Officers 1954: President, John
H. McEwing, Blyth; vice-presi-
dent, Robert Archibald, Seaforth;
secretary -treasurer and Manager,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth. • -
Directors: John H. 1VIcEwing;
Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha,
Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal-
ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har-
vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea -
forth. •
Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr.,'Loncles-
bore; J. F, Prueter, Brcidhagen;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric
Munroe, Seaforth.
OPTOMETRY
A. L. COLE, R.O.,
Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted
(oderich - Phone 33
Mrs. Walkinshaw has -let her
house in Maple Street to Dr. Mc-
Intyre, who gets possession short-
ly and has taken the house recent-
ly purchased from Mrs. Andrews'
estate by James Holland.
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News -Record
Thursday, March 16, 1944
LAC Eddie McGill of Hagers-
ville, spent a few days at his home
here. WO Percy Brown, who had
been invalided home from overseas
following injuries received in a
plane crash in Scotland in which
other members of the crew were
killed, visited with relatives in
town last weekend.
Last week while Messrs Thomas
Stinson and Lloyd Johnston were
returning from the bush from cut-
ting wood they sighted a herd of
deer in Mr, Johnston's wheat field.
Being only a few rods away they
counted them and there were 35 in
the herd. •
Pte. and Mrs. Carman McPher-
son Stratford, were visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. William
Hoggarth. Pte McPherson has
recently returned from overseas.
Miss Gertrude Holmes, R.N.,
London, spent a couple of days
last week with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. R. Holmes.
• Spr. - Clark Ball and Mrs. Ball
have returned from Camp Dun-
durn, Sask., to visit their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Cornish and Mr.
and Mrs. Norman Ball.
Cpl. Bruce Bartliff, RCAF Ayl-
mer and L/Cpl. Douglas Bartliff,
Brantford, Tank Corps, V{,ere
weekend visitors with their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bartliff.
Fifty years ago on the 6th con-
cession of Hulled, the Rev. Hamil-
ton united in the holy bonds of
matrimony, Miss. Jane Ferguson
and Mr. Thomas Noble. The bride
and groom resided on their farm
on the 5th concession of East Wa-
wanosh for 41 years retiring to,
Blyth in 1935.
The Clinton News Record
Thursday, March 21, 1929
Mr. and'IVIrs. A. Lucas received
word last week from Edmonton
that their son, W. Lucas, had met
with an accident while supervising
a street gang and had to be rush-
ed to the hospital.
G. A. MacCague, Huron's new
agricultural rgpresentative, is a
graduate in animal husbandry of
the OAC. He 'will no doubt make
a success of his undertaking.
Frank Glew has purchased the
Stothers cottage, Huron Street,
which Dr. McIntyre has been oc-
cupying.
R. B. Higgins reports 30 claims
.1. E. LONGSTAFF
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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.
to 5.30 p.m.
PHONE 791 SEAFORTH
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
ion. Of even more interest' is a
large, horse -sized bunny rabbit,
on whom our Texan places a reg-
ular saddle for tourists to take
novelty photos. Did we snap
some? Of course. Complete with
stetson and tightly -clenched huge
Cigar, this curly-haired Texan
likes his job, and- must have a
great host of friends all over the
continent.
We're signing of this account
now, so it will be ready for the
next mail box we manage to find,
and will write again. (At the
moment we are close to 14000
miles along our way).
•1". - WILMA '
Friday, March 19.
ROY. N. BENTLEY
Public Accountant
4 Britannia Rd. (corner South St.)
Telephone 1011
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l'Uv#gpAtt,.MAD,CJI .25,. 1954, •
Old Home Town
T remember a Church that rd like you to see
_
Where I learned about God at my mother's knee
Where she wrote on a card that I carry still—
And will to the end of my da—
"Ile Will give His angels charge over thee
i'To keep thee in all thy ways."
• Oh—life was carefree in those halcyon. days
And I learned a great deal of Nature's ways
• As I walked in the night thru snow -bound fields
, Where rabbits danced to the moon;
And field mice played tag in the old corn shooks
Watched by a fox and a '-'coon.
I remember the lights of the General Store
Arid its pot-bellied stove — how it used to roar —
And the folks that gathered not only to shop
But to pass the time o' the day;
And swap recipes and debate the week's news
Ere they left on their homeward way . .
The sleighing parties and skating, too,
The way you taught me to dance with you,
The snowshoe hikes and the weiner roasts—
And the song we sang, "Sweet and Low"r. .
Oh—I'll always remember the old home town best
*In a background of starlight and snow.
—By Charley Dill
- Crop Report
"Despite a week's postpone-
ment of the County Seed Fair 41
exhibitors brought 150 entries,"
reports G. W. Montgomery, agri-
cultural representative for Huron
County. "Ten -bushel lots of oats
sold for an average of $2.40 per
bushel with $5.10 per bushel being
paid for a ten -bushel lot of Simcoe
oats. Ten bushel lots of barley
sold for an average of $1.83 per
bushel. Inquiries re: where -abouts
of grass, clover and cereal seeds
are increasing and local farm sup-
plies of good seed are becoming
exhausted. Contracts are being
let for cash crop acreages and al-
ready some 148 growers have con-
tracted to grow approximately
1200 acreage of sugar beets. Six
townships in the County have al-
ready passed the Brucellosis Con-
trol Act By -Law and petition
forins are being circulated in three
more townships. Several farmers
have tapped with light runs of sap
reported."
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