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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-04-01, Page 2PAGE TWO CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Hilton News-Recor THE CLINTON NEW ERA First issue June 6, 1865 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD First Ware (IiMon 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 --- 2,016 Home of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential) MEMBER: Canadian Weekly NewspapersAssociation' Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA; Western Ontario Counties Press Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance -Canada and Great Britain: $2.50 a year; United States and Foreign: $3.50; Single Coles Six Cents Delivered by carrier to RCAF Station and Adastral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a copy Authorized as second class !nail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron CountY THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954 Boost the Boy Scouts 44IN STEP WITH Canada's Future, the, Boy Scouts Merit your support." The Boy Scouts, Cubs and Guides in Clinton are thriving small groups. For the boys and girls are receiving expert kadership from local folk, and from a group of most interested per- sonnel from RCAF Station- Clinton. The Girl Guide Troop was just recently formed, and their leader is a young airwoman. Already a ladies' auxiliary has been formed among the mothers of the youngsters,' and this organization is x'eady to help in the development of the three existing groups. It is expected that a Brownie troop will be formed very shortly, probably as soon as leaders can be obtained. The Boy Scouts are very interested in their training, and three Clinton boys are this year working towards be - just Love T CEE! THE NATION THRIVES ON IT. •••1 Business deals would flop without it. Social events' would lose their special hominess with- out it. Romance flourishes over it People beg for it. And the price continues to go up. To hear our neighbours to the south talk of coffee, one would think that to make it properly, one should be a tried and true citizen of the USA. Tourists from that fair -land visit our restaurants here, and say, You can't make coffee. It's awful." But they still drink it. And when we visited the USA. recently, and sampled coffee in eating houses all the way across to the west coast and back again, we found only eight cups of the lovely stuff, worthy of the name. Four of them were in one rest- aurant. Elsewhere, the coffee was too scaree; the chicory was too evident; the mixture was served cold; or the cup was too thick, or else a plastic or paper container was used. coming Queen's Scouts. The Cub group is grow- ing every week. • Right now the most particular need of the bOys and girls, and their leaders is a suitable place to meet. With the present healthy inter- est being shown in- the groups and especially the Cubs, they have grown too large for their present quarters, and a large room or two more would help. If anyone has any suggestions to make in this regard, or if there is a possibility for a couple of suitable rooms being available, cer- tainly the leaders of these young people would be. pleased to hear of them. The Boy Scout movement is a wholesome thing, "a stake in Canada's future". It would be too bad if it were to be curtailed or hamp- ered in Clinton because of the lack of meeting rooms. hat Coffee We maintain that the only place for coffee in a paper or plastic cup is at a hockey game, or a rodeo, or perhaps at a picnic, when the spirit of the event is the thing, rather than the brew. But for coffee to be at its excellent coffee - best, it must be served in a medium weight china cup (neither too thin, these should be used for tea - nor too thick, these should be the purveyors of hot chocolate), and it must be neither too hot nor too cold, nor should it be weak watery stuff. And the true coffee think- er appreciates being able to add sugar and milk or cream himself. It is that last little item of personal choice in flavouring Which makes coffee -drinking a democratic institution. Regardless of the price, and even to some degree regardless of the quality, coffee drinkers will continue toexist, and to prosper. , Spring Grass Fires (I. C. lVfarrItt, MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE is caused every 'LTA' year in early spring by grass fires that get out of control. The grass is tinder dry and will burn quickly if a lighted match is accidentally dropped- after lighting a pipe or cigarette. Many landowners start a fire to burn old grass or have a bonfire to get rid of rubbish. It may get out of control and run in the dry grass, causing damage to fences, build- ings, plantations and woodlots. Forest plantations have been ruined by spring grass fires that have burned over the area and practically all the trees have been killed. There is usually a heavy mat of several years growth of grass that has accumulated and a very hot fire results. 1 District Forester) Spring is the only season that a fire will run through a hardwood bush, as the dry leaves provide fuel. Extensive damage results as seed- lings and saplings are destroyed and it quite often scars the larger trees. The smoker should not throw matches and cigarette butts out of car windows but they should be placed in ash trays. A match or cigarette butt should be dropped and ground into the earth by the heel of the shoe. It is advisable to plan in advance if the grass on a vacant lot or field is being burned off. Burn the grass when several people are around with shovels or water to keep it under control. The tractor or team with a plow could be ready to plow a furrow as one or two furrows • will stop a grass fire. From Our Early Files 1 40, YEARS AGO The Clinton News -Record Thursday, March 26, 1914 Miss Helen Cook, daughter of Mr. and lVfrs. J. E. Cook, Albert Street, had a birthday on Satur- day afternoon last. A number of her little friends gathered to make merry with her and a most enjoy- able time wasespent. HarryTwitchell, who has not been enjoying very good health of late, on Monday went to Western Hospital, Toronto, for treatment. An operation was peilormed yest- erday and at last account he was doing well. Jacob Taylor hat taken on a new role, that of division court pleader. His first case was on Friday last. , Bert Langford brought down his new Ford car from the central depot on Tuesday. It Rowland has let the contract for a red brick residence to be erected on High Street, south side,' opposite that of Wesley Walker. The cement work will be .done by Hiram Hill, the brick portion by D. Prior, and the woodwork, by Thomas McKenzie. John Govett, who was injured some time ago by a fall on the icy sidewalk, is slowly recovering. The Clinton New Era Thursday, March 26, 1914 W. Jenkins of the Gunn, Lang- lois Company, left on Tuesday for Montreal with two span of horses for tise at the company's head of- fice. One pair were medium weights bought from W. H. Lobb and the other two were heavier, purchased from Herb Oakes and Reuben Grigg. Wesley Walker entertained at his fine home on High Street on Thursday evening last, the occas- ion being a "stag" that is confined to- his gentlemen friends. The local people present included: John Ransford; W. 'Jackson, Mayor Jackson, Dr. `Ball, Dr. Shaw, Harry Bartliff, Percy Towne, J. A. Ford, Major Combe, B. J. Gib- bings, D. A. Forrester, A, J. Hol- loway, D. McPherson. Red Cross Asks Help for Them To Help Others A series of foreign disasters last year demonstrated anew the vital- ity of international co-operation through the Red Cross. The Can- adian Red Cross extended aid in Western Europe where winds and mountainous tides sent flood wat- ers into the lowlands of Belgium, the Neterlands and Great Brit- ain in January. Over 2,000 died. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless. The day the storm broke relief supplies from the stockpile at Geneva furnished by the Canadian Red Cross were dis- tributed in the stricken areas by nightfall. The League of Red Cross Societies co-ordinated the relief operation using supplies donated by 34 national Red Cross societies. NATO troops carried out extensive rescue and evacuated operations. Total value of aid extended by Red Fireside Farm Forum (By Mrs. J. R. Tebbutt) The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Babcock was opened to the memberS of Fireside Farm Forum on Saturday evening, March 27, for a social evening or :euchre and the serving of pie and ice cream to the large gathering of 58 per - Cross Societies throughout the world was over 815,000,000. As a result of the dollars which the Canadian Red Cross administ- ered through a special fund half a million dollars worth of agricul- tural implements /eft the port of Toronto for Holland late last No- vember. Your Red Cross needs $5,422,850 to carry on its work in Canada this year - Ontario is asked to enntribute $2,144,690. Clinton's canvass for Red Cross funds takes place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, both in town and rural area. A. J. McMurray is again chairman of the Clinten area Red Cross drive. LETTERS gE.-PlITOR Loglgegroa08-' "'" A REPLY TO THE MEMBERS OF' THE CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD A real interesting and at times exciting hockey match took place Monday evening between the "Bankers" and the "Stickhandlers" from the Collegiate; the custod- ians of the cash winning, 6-5. Line- up was as follows: Bankers -goal, Johnson; point, MacGregor; cover, Weir; centre; Walker; wings, Wheatley, Woods, Referee: Ernie Graham. ' , • Canadian railways transport about three milliOn tons of rev- enue freight a week, equivalent to about 43'; pounds' of freight per Canadiap per day. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954 11,000 years ago, in the last of four glacial epochs, Canada was covered by a sheet of ice that ranged from one to two miles in thickness. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record Thursday, March 28, 1929 W. H. Cole, who has been VI for the past couple of months, is now improving nicely. James McConnell is to be con- gratulated upon the attairunent of his 92nd birthday todd.f.' ' R. J. Fisher has accepted a posi- tion in the Stratford post office and left on Monday to assume his new duties. The Odd Fellows At-home on Tuesday evening proved a very pleasant Affair, There were about 20 tables of cards. Miss Z. Bawden carried off first lady's prize and Mrs. Dutter low prize, while E. J. Cantelon took first prize amongst the men; F. Bawden taking low prize. Mr. and Mrs. G D. McTaggart returned last week after spending a few weeks in Bermuda. G. R. Paterson, for over two years agricultural representative for Huron County, with his office in Clinton, who has been appoint- ed by the Department to Peel County, with headquarters in Brampton, left with Mrs. Paterson on Tuesday for their new home. 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, March 23, 1944 Miss Gladys Addison, daughter a Mrs. J. Addison, Clinton; has enlisted as a nursingsister with the RCAIVIC and is stationed at Trafalgar Military Hospital, Lon - Dear Sirs: According to an article in the Clinton News -Record you stated that a little music for all pupils was better than a lot of music for a few pupils and your intention when you hired Mrs. Mae Rance MacKinnon was to have general instruction given to every child, is a terrific slam to the four years of supervising of music that I gave in your schdol. I want you board members to dee, • know, that from September of 1 Miss Barbara Scott has been each term, up to one month prev- ious to the festival every single child in each room was given in- struction on an equal basis, and each week on top of that, one row of pupils was asked to stand, in- dividually and sing a solo, to en- courage each child to gain confid- ence in his or herself, Then one month before the festival, I would take a full day, having competent outside and uninterested talent come in and pick the solo entries, with every child having his chalice. The amoupt of work. including ear -training, rudiments, sight - singing, rate -singing, music ap- preciation, etc., was fully covered each year and preparation for the festival, our yearly concert for the parents and local people of excel- lent singing and other appearances in the town, were accomplished each year, not just one. concert made up of costumes and a bed- lum of noise which I witnessed one year in the town hall, prior to my teaching in your school, How could the board make such remarks without any foundation of what they are saying? I taught many times before different in- spectors and Mr. G. Roy Fenwick, Supervisor of Music for Ontario, with a high recommend. You mention also that the fest- ival had become a war with super- visors. When my children and I (90 in my senior chorus one year) went to a festival they had con- fidence in what they could expect of me and I in them, because we knew we had our work well pre- pared and they loved the exper- ience, This article was printed in the March 18 edition, but I'm sure you board members haven't the sup- port of the people of your town. (Signed) IVA BOYES, Clinton, Ontario sons. A "thank -you" card was receiv- ed from the Cook family and thanks were sent by the Ben Riley family, on behalf of their son Douglas, who is at present in a London hospital, recovering from an eye injury, sustained while playing hockey. Winners at euchre were: ladies' most games and lone hands, Miss Marilyn Riley; consolation, Mrs. Oliver Anderson; men, most games, Kenneth Cook; lone hands, Don Buchanan; consolation, James Howatt. The evening closed with a vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Babcock for the use of their home, and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne". During the summer a picnic will be held. Arrangements will be made later. The forum members will convene once again in the f all for the opening of a new farm forum season. The freight rates which Canad- ian railways may charge for haul- ing Western Canadian grain and flour to Fort William and Port Arthur were set by Parliament in 1899 and are still in effect. ,BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY CHIROPRACTIC D. H. McINNES Oldropractic-Drugless Therapy Foot Correction ()ffice Hours: Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Thursday Afternoons and Evemngs INSURANCE Insure the "Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative Box 310 Clinton'Ontario Phone Collect Office 557 Res. 3243 _ J. E. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Hayfield 53r2 Car - Fire - Lift - Accident WindInsurance it you need insurance, I have a Policy - BE Sure : : Be Insured 1E. W. COLQUHOUN GENERAL INSURANCE Representative: Ban Life Assumnce Co. of Canada Office: Royal Bank Building Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W OFF MAIN STREET 4. • so?! 6141,0 stoPi H. C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building -Clinton PHOIIES: Office 251W; Res. 2513 Insurance -- Real Estate Agent: IVIuttial 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 11 McEwing; 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; Mister Broadfoot, Sea - forth. Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Londes- boro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric Munroe, Seaforth. OPTOMETRY A. L. COLE, 12.0. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted Goderich - Phone 33 1. E LONGSTAFF HOURS; SEAFORTH: Weekdays except Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Tues., Thurs., Fri., 9 a.m. to 5.80 p.m. 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 Clinton Medical SoOiety DR, W. A. OAKES , Phone 16 OFFICE HOURS: 1.30 M 4.00 p.m. Evenings: Tuesdays and Thursday only ' '7.00 to 8.60 p.m. DR. F. G. THOMPSON Phone 172 OFFICE HOURS: 2.00 to 4.00 p.m. Evenings: 1.00 to 8.00 p.m. DR. F. M. NEWLAND Phone 170 OFFICE HOURS: 1.00 to 3.30 p.m. Evenings: Tuesday and Friday 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. DR. J. A. ADDISON Phone 215 OFFICE HOURS: 1.00 to 4.00 p.m. • Evenings: Monday and Thursday 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday Emergencies To prevent the possibility of a doctor not being available on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays, we,, the above doctors have planned to alternate duty on ,Wednesday afternoons and Sundays. In case of an emergency on these days, if unable to locate your -own doctor, kindly call Clinton Public Hospital, phone 70, to find out who is on call. promoted to the position of secre- tary of the London- branch of A. E. Wilson and Company, Insur- ance Brokers. Miss Phyllis Manning has been named an athletic representative for Arts '46 in the students admin- istrative assembly in the voting concluded Thursday at University of Western Ontario. Stewart Middleton was elected president of the Huron Fruit Growers' Association at their an- nual meeting on Friday. Master Don Kay, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Kay, is at present a patient in Clinton Public Hospital. Little Miss Delores Parker, dau- ghter of Mr. ad Mrs. Richard Par- ker, Harriston, formerly of Clin- ton, is in Palmerston Hospital re- covering from an operation. Cpl. and Mrs L a R. Theedom spent last weekend in Toronto at the King Edward Hotel. • ROY. N. BENTLEY Public Accountant 4 Britannia Rd. (corner South St.) Telephone 1011 GODERICH ONT. REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker SLOAN BLOCK, CLINTON Phone: Office 448; Res. 599j Quick Canadian Facts 1. In 1897 the wheat crop in Western Canada totalled 18,- 261,950 bushels.. What is the current figure? Who were the "mound build- ers?" 3. Of the $5,000,000,000 Ottawa expects to spend in the coming year, how much will be spent on defence? 4. By rail what is the distance from Calgary to Fort William? 5. Through the annual $2.50 radio license fee Canadians formerly paid about $5,6 million to the CBC. Do they pay more or less through the special tax on ra- dio and television equipment that replaced the $2.50 license? ANSWERS: 5. Nearly three times as much; about $15 million in the coming year. 3. Less than $2 . billion on defence. 1. The prairie wheat crop in recent years has been about 600,000,000 bushels. 4. 1,240 miles, 2. 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