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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-04-29, Page 2PAGE TWO CLINTON NEWS-REODRD MURSDAY, AMT., 29, 454 linton Nev. THE CLINTON NEW ERA First issue June 6, 1865 eCOr • THE CLINTON NEV1S-RECORD First 'sane (Huron News -Record) January 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Aln Independent Newspaper devoted to thk Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District •'Population, 2,643; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2,000,000; Rate, 4.5c per line flat • Sworn Circulation -- 2,016 Home a Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential) MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; 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 Copies Six Cents Delivered by carrier to RCAF Station and Adastral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a copy Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1954 You Can Help AGAIN THE CLINTON and District Chamber of Commerce is beginning another year. The annual meeting of the Chamber showed a great deal of interest and even more banqueters attended than Wad been at the meeting the year before. Now, with a group of directors of which four men have had executive experience with The Chamber, the future of the group, and the future of Clinton and district, looks fairly good. As in every organization there are times for a recession, and a time for growth. 1953 was an example of the recession in Chamber work loc- ally. Everyone seemed to be sitting back to take a good look at the doings of the Chamber, and no one seemed too terribly interested in Public THESE ARE FIVE of ten rules suggested by 3- the American Committee for Cultural Free- dom (an US anti -communist group), "to restore a spirit of logical persuasion to public discus - EVERYONE involved in a controversy has an intellectual responsibility to inform Himself of the available facts. CRITICISM should be directed first to politics, and against persons only when they are responsible for policies, and against their motives or purposes only when there is some important evidence of their character. BECAUSE certain words are legally per - doing anything. As never before, Clinton needs a good con- sultative and working board to help consolidate and facilitate industrial promotion, the ordinary promotion of the town, and, of course, the continual smoothing of the path for industries and businesses presently in Clinton and the agri- cultural industry which foims the backbone of the entire county. Big things are expected of the 1954 Cham- ber. The way to get the big things done is to make sure that you are a member of the Chamber, and that is only the first step. Be ready to get behind the ideas and projects that your directors undertake. Then the Chamber will accomplish the big things you expect. Discussion For the Puri 113LEASE DO NOT be frightened away by"the A big word in our _title. It is merely the technical term for the study of words and their usage. We find a great deal of ,pleasure in reproducing the following from the official weekly road bulletin of Ontario, issued by The Ontario Department of Highways. Not doing a great deal of travelling our - .selves, although we would very much like to do more of it, we've had mixed feelings about this same small bulletin. We are torn between disapproval because of the amount of taxes that must go into the production of it, and a feeling of pride in the Department for publish- ing important information in such an attractive manner. Lately we have gotten great enjoy- ment from the column on the back page of the bulletin, where one is apt to read a humorous bit about anything from the comfort of Toronto street cars, to the great achievement of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Here that columnist gives good reason for the term, "centre -bare" in radio and newscasts about road conditions: "For several years past the Department has been assailed by critics in regard to its use kof the term "centre bare" when reporting winter road conditions. This might be passed off with lt shrug except that at least one critic is a writer of merited distinction; and we have a ,perchant for playing out of our league. "We quote the Toronto Globe and Mail, whence comes most of the slings and arrows, of Saturday, January 12, 1954, page .15, Column 6, i "and the simplicity n design with the wide Central Ave. down the centre of the island" . . . "Centre" here is obviously the incorrect word. It should be "middle", of course. This Depart- ment would have been guilty of equally as gross a solecism if it had ever said, "The centre of the road is bare". • It never has. It does state, when occasion warrants, that "Highways in a certain area are centre -bare". This is not a quibble. If you draw a line from one edge of the travelled -way to the other and bisect it you have the centre point. Draw another line to ••• • missible, they are not therefore morally per- missible. BEFORE impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. DO NOT treat an opponent..of a policy as if he were therefore a personal enemy, or an enemy of the country, or a concealed enemy of democracy. Editors of the Letter -Review expresses the - opinion that the tone of public affairs would be improved in Canada if these rules were mem- orized by all groups involved; partienlarly Social- ists, union officials, and militant farm leaders. st, in Etymology Conse ,drOIVLMON TO ALL CANADA is the current problem of Conservation. Which i§ not to say that it follows the same pattern, because while the old settled sections of the east are struggling to replace thoughtless waste of nat- ural resources, which followed the cutting of the forests and settling the land, the outposts of today are trying not to commit the offences and to plan ahead for the generations who will have to live when the wealth of today has been harvested and spent. Conservation is sometimes described as an inadequate term for the many activities which it embraces. But it is not so far out, at that. In the early days of Canada, our grandmothers made a special preserve called a "conserve". It gathered the riches of the harvest of fruits, tied it all up together and added a sufficient connect a number of these points. This line becomes the "centre line" and as such it is universally known to engineers and surveyors. So what the Department says in effect is, "High -- ways are bare on both sides of the centre line, but are snowcovered near the shoulders". As radio stations disperse this information as a public service without charge, we try to co- operate by being as succinct as possible, and "centre -bare" covers a multitude of verbosity. Granted, it may be occupational cant, but even so it is a coined phrase, not a misused one. Surely engineers have as much right to a pro- fessional jargon as doctors, lawyers or even journalists. Where a character in a Victorian novel might exclaim, as death drew near, "A4ts, I am sped", a journalist in the same circum- stanee. would cry "Thirty". Nor, would one of the cogniscenti who reads on the sports page the sentence, "Hannigan smothered Majurski's liner", for a moment suppose that Mr. Hannigan had stiffled Mr, 1VIajurski's steam ship. Further, we doubt that even the strictest purist would send a letter addressed to "Bison"% N.Y. though that is the correct appellation for the North American ruminant for which the border city was named. So usage does play its part in determining cor- rect -speech, and "centre -bare", though it 'may first have seen the light of day in an etymolog- ical slum, was definitely not born out of wed- lock. "As to using, as has been suggested, the phrase "middle -bare", ye gods and little pend- ants! The naive among the public would think we were doing a review of the Goldielocks saga, while the more earthly minded would leap to the conclusion that we were describing the scenery on the beach at Waikiki. "So the public will simply have to put up with "centre -bare" for though, as everybody knows, the Ontario Department of Highways is as kindly, reasonable and benevolent a depart- ment as can be found in any government the world over, still it can be dreadfully stubborn in defending its philological rights." rvation quantity of sugar to make sure that it would keep against the cold days of winter when fresh fruit was not available. She used it up during the winter, but in her thrifty habits as housewife and gardener she still had, year after year, the fruits from the well tended bushes :from which to make her "conserve". The preservation of these natural resources is the first duty of these who are organized these days under the banner of Conservation. They will make good farms, fine forests, beautiful parks which will be used and still preserved for generations to come. They will be the best fruits of the Conservation movement "done down" for the perpetual use and enjoyment of Canadians, Prow Our Ehrly Files I • 40 YEARS AGO • The Clinton News-liticird Thursday, April 23, 1914 The baseball club has been re- organized and the indications are that it will be possible to get together, a winning team. Officers were elected as follows: patrons, E. N. Lewis, M.P., W. Proudfoot, M.L.A.; president, G. D. McTag- gart; first vice-president, • C. E. Dowding; second vice-president, M. D. McTaggart; third vice-presi- dent, Dr. Shaw; manager, T. Haw- kinS; secretary -treasurer, J. E. Johnston; grounds committee, T. Hawkins, M. McEwan, J, Weir, F. McCaughey. Frank Andrews is going exten- sively into chicken culture, having already at his farm just inside the town limits about 800 eggs in ,pro- cess of hatching and expects to have twice that number of chick- ens before the season is over. J. W. Kilbride of the Interna- tional Harvester Company has sold an auto truck to the Monkton Creamery Company and another for the Guelph creamery. The Clinton New Era TInunday, April 23, 1914 James Stevenson, formerly man- ager of the Electric Light works is erecting a couple of nice houses in north Rosedale, one of the fashionable residence sections of 'Toronto. Police Sergeant Welsh has had a new -shingle roof placed on the residence occupied by E. Latter, A, J. McMurray who has been connected with the implement business for some time, has ac- cepted the position as lalockmbn for the Deering people in the district. A despatch. from Ottawa says that the Canadian troops will go into camp in khaki uniforms this year. This marks the passing of the various uniforms. It was in camp that there was a red coat, there an artilleryman in blue with red stripes, the cavalry in dark blue with white or yellow stripes, the rifle regiments in black, and so on. This is to be all changed, and the corps will go into camp in the khaki uniforms. Church is going on very satisfac- torily but, owing to some delay in getting material it is not expected that the opening can be held until early ,in June. The house,recently purchased by the board, has been sold to W. Elliott and Will be te- moved from the lot, Mr. M. Elliott is remodelling his garage and will have a covered driveway for his gas pumps. The names of the following Clinton students appeared among successful Victoria College grad- uates: Elmer W. M. Paisley, Isa- belle Fraser, Cora M. Jervis and Esther W. Treyvartha. Mrs. Walkinshaw . has moved this week to the house recently leased from J. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fulford have bought the house recently occupied by R. J. Fisher, North Street. The paving of six miles of high- way south of Clinton, the London Read, has been let to Messrs. Boss arid Brazier. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record Thursda,y, April 25, 1929 The Boy Scout Troop No. 1 Clin- ton held their regular meeting in St. Paul's Sunday School rooms. The following boys passed their tenderfoot requirements success. fully: H. McEwan, J. Gandier, R. Carter, S. Cook, Bill Draper, E. Campbell and Jim Nickle. The work on Wesley -Willis Crop Report The weather, although not • ideal for spring seeding, has been suitable for many farmers to start their preparations for spring seed- ing," H. R. Baker, assistant -agri- cultural representative, states. It is reported that the land has firm- ed particularly fast and that mois- ture conditions are not as hinder- ing as might be expected. "Fall wheat is reported to have come through the 'winter in an excellent condition. The higher pastures are greening up very rap- idly and it. is expected that some livestock will soon be out grazing. 'Late inquiries for cereal ' seed grain are quite frequent." 0 Newfoundland and Labrador have some 20,000 fishermen, whol- ly dependent on the sea for a living. Lane Pines Beach Mr. and Mrs. Harry Husband London, spent Sunday at their cot- tage; Bert Comley, Stratford, was at his cottage on Sunday; Mr. and Mrs. George Woods, Detroit, spent the weekend at their summer home; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dun- bar, Lambeth, were at their cot- tage on Friday. Letters to the Editor Clinton News -Record Clinton, Ontario DEAR EDITORS: Have enjoyed our home -town paper in Florida which came most regularly all winter. Please, now send our paper to out home ad- dress —26 Eastmount Ave., Lon- don; Ont. We are, • Sincerely yours, —Mr. and Mrs. Murray Quaife. 1520 5th South, St. Petersburg, Florida April 20, 1954 RABIES IN CLINTON? The Editor Clinton News -Record DEAR SIR: Now I am not too sure, for I can see conditions in town that look very much like it. Of course everyone is not affected by the germ, but we have a goodly num- ber that have an attack almost every spring, and strange to say that it is the best gardeners that have it the waist. Now I wonder if the cause is in the soil, or is it still carried around by dogs? 0110 thing I know is that it spreads very rap- idly once there is an outbreak, and this is how it mostly starts: A good gardener and his wife have just finished planting their garden, and after days of hard work they have the seeds and plants all so nicely placed in order. As they lettrthe garden quite late in the evening their minds are filled With visions of new potatoes, green peas, early lettuce and all the good thingsthe garden can produce. They retired for the night. But when morning came, and the gardener wants to have a good look at the nice work they had done, there is to his dismay he found there had been a free-for-all fight by a half dozen mad dogs all over their beautiful garden and everything torn to bits. And of course, he got the germ and he went mad. He went to :the house and told his wife that her flowers were all destroyed. Then she went mad. Then if the news is carried, complaining to the town fathers, they go mad. And if the dogs are tied up, the dogs are mad, and the owners of the dogs get mad, because their dear little dog never does any harm. So they cut the rope. Back he goes to the gardens and every- one goes mad, then. Is it rabies, or what? -.I an A GARDENER The Editor, Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario. . DEAR EDITOR: view with some misgivings the report appearing in the London Free Press on .April 27 under the caption "Jaycees Plan Complete Survey, of Unworked Farms in Huron.' I agree with Mr, Brophy that Huron County's biggest industry is agriculture. However I suggest that before going out on such a survey the Jaycees should consult with Farm Organizations in Huron County, In driving through Huron County a casu'al observer may see many farms that appear to be unworked ,ior neglected. In many oases these ' farms are being used for pasture land for cattle. Huron County is one of the largest producers of beef type cattle in Ontario. Mr. Brophy apparently. is not aware of the fact that there are other farm problems besides va- cant farms. The number one prob- lem confronting farmers to -day is SURPLUS PRODUCTION. We are now producing more agricultural products that we can sell on our own home market. Ex- port of many of our agricultural products has become an irripossibil- ity due to the high cost of pro- duction established here in Can- ada. I might add that the high cost of agricultural production is tiedveryclosely to our high stand- ard of living and the value of our Canadian dollar in relationship to currency in other countries. During the past winter farmers have been stable feeding cattle at a loss. In many cases a year's • THE VOICE OF TEMPERANCE We moderns are influenced tre- mendously by percentages. We want to know what per cent of people own cars, what per cent own television sets, etc. But there are other percents that deServe more attention than mat of us give them They could be called vital statistics, for they have to do with our gravest social men- ace, the drink problem. To say that tyvo per cent of adult Canad- ians are alcoholics may not seem startling. But that means that more people than live in Hamilton are, or have been, absolute slaves to alcohol. More than 70 per cent of adult Canadians drink, Drink is responsible for more than 45 per cent of all serious traffic ac- cidents on Ontario highways. The Chief Justice of one of our Can- adian Provinces has declared that -- 75 per cent of the serious crimes of violence coming before him have alcohol as a contributing factor. By their own admission 89 per cent of all criminals under detention in Canada have been drinkers. Con- victions for drunkenness in Canada between 1934—the year when beer rooms were legalized in Ontario—. and 1949, increased from 20,000 to 76,000 or 265 per cent! A world- renowned scientist and physician, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the Univer- sity of Illinois, has declared, "We have NO evidence on the basis of past experience to indicate that the teaching of moderation will achieve the objective of alcohol education, namely, to reduce the number of alcoholics, to reduce the number of accidents . . , and to decrease the human misery due to divorces, vice, crime and poverty which arise from the consumption of alcoholic beverages." (This advertisement is inserted rbytehreatHiounr.on County Temperance S ed 17b 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record • Thursday, April 20, 1944 The fire brigade was called to a grass fire in the recreation park on Tuesday afternoon. No real damage is reported, as the fire did not reach any of the buildings. Last Friday morning there was a chimney fire at Miss Anniee Bartliff's home on Albert Street, but no damage resulted. A/B "Bud" Schoenhals and his father, 0/D Melvin J. Schoenhals, who are both with the RCNVR are now in the same ship, HIVICS Brantford. LAC Ted Middleton, who has been home on furlough, left Mon day to report at Manning Depot Toronto. Superintendent A. E. Rumball and Hydro Commissioners Thoma Churchill and W. E. Perdue, left on Wednesday for the Hydro con- vention at Niagara Falls, From Clinton, Ont. comes SQMS Sam E. ("Pecos Pete"1 Castle, of a, Canadian Tank Delivery Regi- ment, now in Italy. Besides being quartermaster in his squadron, Castle is also famed as a cartoon- ist and illustrator of the unit's news sheet. His drawings are de- voured by the boys depicting, as feed has been marketed through cattle that did not realize any in- crease in value over the -purchase price last fall. Two years ago hogs were in surplus supply and in order to avoid disaster to pro- ducers the Federal Government had to step into the picture and buy up large quantities of canned pork. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics report that hog•market- ings will increase in the fall of 1954 to a point where pork pro- ducts will again be in surplus supply. Poultry production is on the in- crease and export marketing pros- pects are not good. What are we going to do with the increased production that will come from thousands of people located on the now (apparently), vacant' farms? This is not just a Huron County problem; it exists in every county in Western Ontario. The only product that Canadian farmers can product that can be marketed and used to feed the hungry millions in the world is wheat. To -day we have millions of bushels of unsold wheat in Western Canada. Our production of grain has been so great that the- Secretary for Agriculture in United States has suggested that we should probably be considering acreage controls. Might I suggest that the Jaycees direct their efforts toward seeking marketingoutlets for Western On- tario agricultural products at a price that will give the farmer his cost of production plus a fair stan- dard of living for his f amily. If 'this can be accomplished I can assure you that production of all lines of farm commodities will be increased beyond any figure that has previously been established. I am intrigued by the sugges- tion that Government grants might be obtained to assist in such a project. We in farm organizations are constantly being told about the large sumb of money the Fed- eral Government is paying out to subsidize agriculture. If the Jay- cees can sell the idea of giving grants to establish settlers in Hu. ron County, they can sell ice to the Eskimoes. We have many farmer's sons who have left the farm and gone into industry be- cause they could, not get financial assistance to get established on a farm. If we spend money to establish people on our farms let it be spent on our own Canadian youth. Yours truly, GORDON M. GREIG, Secretary-Fieldman, Huron County Federation of Agriculture. April 27, 1954 Clinton, Ontario. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY • CHIROPRACTIC C. LAWSON OPTOMETRY D. IL McINNES Bank of Montreal Building Dtiiimpractic-Drugless Therapy Foot Correction Office 'Hours: Coxinnercial Hotel, Seaforth - ` Monday, Thursday - Afternoons and Evenings INSURANCE Insure the "Co-op" Way W. Y. ROY District Representative Six* 310 Clinton, Ontario • Phone Collect °Klee 557 • Res.3243 3. E. HOWARD, Bayfield Phone Bayfield 53r2 Oar - Fire- Life - Accident WindInsurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy Be Sure : : Be Insured K. W. COLQUI1017N • GENERAL INSURANCE Representative gun Life Assurance Co. of Canada fice: Royal Bank Building Of.f'ice 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W, Clinton PHONES; Office 251W; Res. 2513 Insurance -- Real Estate Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co. THE Melf.ILLOP MUTUAL VIRE 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. 1VIcEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton' Wrn. S. Alexander, Wal- ton, J. 'L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea - forth. • Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Londes- boro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; • Eric Munroe, Seaforth. A. L. COLE. R.O. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted Goderich - Phone 33 • J. E. LONG -STAFF HOURS: SEA.FORTH: Weekdays except. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Tues., Thurs., Fri., 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CLINTON: MacIaren,s Studio Mondays only, from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. PHONE 791 SEAFORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY. N. BENTLEY Public Accountant 4 Britannia ltd. (corner South St.) Telephone 1011 GODERICH ONT. REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and. Business Broker • SLOAN BLOCK, CLINTON Phone: Office 448; Res. 5993 they do, cleverly and humourously, the day to day goings on in the squadron. In civil life, Quarter- master Sergeant Castle was em- ployed in his father's butcher business. Dr. H. Gibbs, Fred Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cooper spent the weekend with relatives in town. •-••••-•-•-•-•-•••••-•-4,-4,-0-0-40-•-•-•+-41-4-4-4-0-•-•-•-•-4-+-4.-•-•-•-•44.4-•••••••••÷4041".. 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