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Clinton News Record, 1954-07-08, Page 2PAGE TWO httonNews-Record ' THE CLINTON NEW ERA" 401 TV - THE. CLINTON NWS -RECORD First Issue June 6 1865 First Issue (Huron News Record) January, 1981 ' An Independent Niwspaper devoted to the biterests cif the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2,000,000; Rate, 4.5e per line flat - • Sworn Circulation -- 2,016 .7. Home of Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral Park (residential) •MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, VWNA.; Western Ontario Counties Press Association • SUBSCRIPTION RATES:- •Payable in advance—Canada and Great l3ritain: $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 A.uthorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron County THURSDAY, JULY 8,, 1954 ' ' YES WE HAVE IT WE'RE RATHER PROUD of Clinton, and for " perhaps e rather strange reason: Our town has available peeking areas! Of course, all citizens do not really apprec- iate the fact, and continue to double park in astounding numbers, However, proper parking space is adequate and placed within short walk- ing 'distance from the shopping area. We have at -times deplored the fact that ow town was laid out in wbat must seem to many Visitors to be an erratic manner. Our streets (in the works of Mark Twain) appear to "ride madly off in all ,directions". But this planning (?) of Clinton was enede necessary because of the feet that five main roads must intersect here, and a right-angled layout was impossible. • The resulting angle blocks, however, have provided an unused area at the rear of the Town Hall, easily accessible via three laneways which enter it from three different streets. Suddenly the enforced cutting -up- of the town area has become a blessing in disguise. We have peeking space! Now -all that remains is for us to accept it as such and use it. DE SUMMER TIME • - YE GOODE OL THE BEST PART of the summer is now before us. The heat of the sun has still not curled nor disfigured the leafy roof which arches over -almost all of our town streets and country roads. The harvest of grain is yet to begin and ,the reaping of hay has shown an abundant year. But to move from the sublime to the ridic- LOCAL IMP T}m COUNCIL of the Town of Clinton ap- pears to have its foot down. However, it seems to have come to rest after a peculiarly sliding and hesitant shifting about, and even yet is th all intent resting on lather pliable ground. . We would prefer to be able to state that the foot was 'firmly and unshakably planted, for without such a stand on the part of council now, it would appear that the finances of our town may get steadily worse rather than better. 'This, of course, refers to the situation in which Council finds itself with regard to the extension of sewer mains, water lines, and other town services. • You should understand that until now, all services in Clinton have been put in and paid for either otte of moneys raised through deben- ture issues, or by general taxation, In any event, all taxpayers in Clinton shared the cost of putting in all town services, and they were put in in this manner right up to the property owner's lot line. Then of course the individual property owner paid for the installation .of the service from there to his house. WHAT IS er HAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. A- And it is a question that the members of the Council of Clinton should have been asking many months ago. • Certainly they had heard of the Local Im- provement Act. Certainly they talked about it. They said it was a good thing. They said, yes, the new services should be installed under it. Yee, they all agreed. But not one of them apparently said, "What is it all about?" One would have assumed that they knew just what It was. Then on Monday night, when the subject of extending some 350 to 700 feet of water line was brought forcibly to their attention in coun- eil meeting, an unusual and in fact rather plti- AFRAID OF ulous, we would suggest that the best part of the season is that there is eeet a shortage of flies. ' To us the annoyance of mosquitoes in June and early July is little to put up with when compared with the settled complacency 4 those blasted houseflies which appear in droves every mid -summer and remain un -swatted until the froit comes. ROVEMENT? • This was a rather admirable way of financ- ing. As long as Clinton remained a rather deddering and sleepy little town; then the whole e• thing worked out quite well. There was time for the revenue to re-imburse the depleted treas- ury, so that there was a chance of funds being on hand for new males, when they were needed. Now, however, Clinton has shaken off its lethargy, and if we are to believe the words of -. the learned Prof. Pelva, in the next 20 years or thereabouts it will have at least quadrupled its population, and that's a mighty lot of growth for the straining seams of Clinton's' present pair of jeans! Now, when the need is definitely evident, is the time for the abandonment of the once workable plan for installing new services, and the time to make use of the more modern one of installing them under the Local Improve- ment Act. Already a start has been 'made on refusing -to install new mains, ete., other than under ,this Act. It is up .to the Councillors to keep their collective foot firmly down upon all requests for expenditure on future mains, other than viathe Act. THE ACT? able -lack of information on the matter was shown. This particular instance of required water service has been considered before, and although there was some reason to believe that the desire for it had waned somewhat, still it would seem that the Council could have taken some steps towards educating themselves in the meaning and use of the Act. In a nutshell, the Act permits the levying of costs of a service directly to that person who wishes the service, rather than asking all taxpayers to share the cost. Just how this method is employed is set forth clearly in the Act and it is the business of all councillors, as well as those persons who desire town services to familiarize themselves with the details. COMPETITION er HE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress has asked the government to shut off immigration until it becomes clear that further immigration will not aggravate unemployment. The labor group is assuming that for every man who comes to Canada from abroad a -Canadian is thrown out of work. However, is this entirely true? In eyery city and town we can see new Canadians in the stores buying groceries, clothes, shoes, and all the other necessities. We see them driving new or used cam We see them DOESN'T SO buying trucks for their businesses and in many instances hiring men to drive these trucks. In short, we see them helping to create employ- ment by increasing the demand for goods. A man who has lived in this country all his life, who speaks the language, who is acquainted with the customs and economy, should be able to easily compete with a stranger from abroad who has none of these advantages. Are Canadians afraid of this kind of com- petition? UND THE SAME (Wingliam VERT -TAPS • were old fashioned, but it seems -e• • to us that modern technology is going over- board somewhat in promoting this current craze for power lawn mowers. From what we can see the average farnily needs a power lawn mower about as much as it needs a tractor for the back garden or a snowplow for the front walk. Without wanting to stand in the way a industrial progress, we could point out that . most front lawns are •scarcely big enough to Advance -Times) cause any strained backs through the use of a hand mower, even when cut as infrequently as our own. And furthermore," frore, what the statisticians have td-ld us about the average short, chubby Canadian, most of us could prob- ably do with a bit of exercise. Admittedly these are minor points in dis- favor of the power lawn mower. Our biggest complaint is the infernal noise, . After the staccato barkings oe these meth- anical monsters, the pleasant whirring of the old hand mower is music in our ears, FUTILE AND FObLISH (Nanalmo Daily Free Press) One Cannot see much hope for the adult popula- tion of any cotintrye if it cannot make its own selections en the field of reading material. It is only by pioneering and exploring that the human mind .cari satisfy itself, and this is a wholly legitimate aspiration. The veorld needs thinking ' mieds, not restricted,, grooved, and channelized minds. Such latter are negligible in terms of a country's good. ' elfellOSE CANADIANS who have been trying to dictate the. reading habits 4 citizens of this country, might as well realize that they have been engaging in something futile as well as foolish. The Canadian people as a whole are a stable people, not given to thvolietionary or rash experiments.' They can be trusted, one would suggest, to safely pick and choose their . own reading, and to do their own thinking. NO ROOM FOR GLOOM (Financial Post) s we enter the second half of the year it Is' people to feed, clothe and shelter; four million -e-e- natural and prudent to look ahead at the more to buy cars,. stoves and television sets. , economic climate facing us for the next six , Almost everywhere across the country, cities months. In this issue, Post writers at our main • and towns are growing. Construction and other office and coast to coast look at immediate new capital investment is continuing at record prospects, -measure our prospective, gains and levels. • And ceespite the tremendous volume of losses in the next two quarters. goods sold since the end of the war, there is The picture for the months immediately still an enormous buying potential both in re. ahead is one of moderate and fairly general placement and in new products. improvement over recent months but some weak spots will remain, particularly in the western farm and in certain secondary industries (tex- tiles farm machinery) where' employment has - felled to follow the general upward trend since last spring. Actual results for the full calendar year will, it seems pretty Certain, place us close to the very satisfactory total volume of business accomplished in 1953. The outstanding U,S, economist, Sumner Slichter has pointed out, that since the war "the pessimists have a perfect record for being If we continue te be a people of high energy and ieealisrfie if the men of boldness and vision • continue th have elbow -room, and if we con- tinue to choose wise governors, we shall, among all theenations, enjoy good times' indeed. BORROWED BOOK VOU KNEW I would enjoy it, so you brought -e- The book to me apologizing then wrong.'BUt even in a strongly growing- and For all the, underlininge from your pen rapidlydevelopingcountry like Canada, we can- That pointed where the author shared your not hope to keep on piling one record on top,thought. . of another year after year, What happens in Canada is to an important. • No passive reader,- you, but one to find degree coaditioned by affairs beyond our bord- A phrase or paragraph so fair and true ers. But among ' our allies ' there are -•'many ,It must be marked for easy turning to • — elements of continuing strength. ' A ready pasture for your grazing mied. • For Canada: itself the sober longer,term .• ' . outlook for this country leaves no -room at all What rare adventure has my reading beenl for pessimism. In a cotantry with eour Yonth Ter find) on this page that we chose the same and our tesources, huenan as 'Welletteephysicale - In that, . some words alight with subtle flame, thmeediate fluctuations must not blot out the Or, but for you, a place I had not seen. • long rising curve ahead. • My world is richer now the book is through— Our population ie groWing, up over 30% Both for its contents, and the 'glimpse of you. from 1941. This means almost four million: mere ' —Lee Avery. „ OT-4INTON IVENVS-RECOTel:) 1 OOTES' Cep rolVeleIC'elbei 0.4ezeeke. eeeeeeee 7DOMorUSE-ALCOHOLICBEVENIGEA1 . . ALCOHOL ANQ ATHIErIC3 POr- ivornver"--! A2,9 mr•yeesi 1 From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News -Record Thursday, July 2, 1914 Supt. Chant of the PUC has moved his office from the town hall to the mill office on the cor- ner of Albert and Princess Sts. Master Charlie, the little son of' Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cook, Albert Street, had the misfortune on Fri- day to fall from a cherry tree and break his arm. It is only a few months since he fell and broke his collarbone, so the poor lad seems to be having rather hard hick. , One of James Snell's valuable thoroughbred sheep had „ a sun- stroke last week and. it kicked the bucket. Charles F.. Libby, manager of the Knitting Company, ie spending a couple of days in New York City. Dr. Thompson, who underwent wa.:•••••....m..mmapowm.m4mN INSURANCE 3. E. HOWARD, Bayfield Phone Bayfield 53r2 • Car. - Fire - Life Accident Wind towline° If you need Insurance, I have a Policy Be Sure Be Insured K. W. .CO.LQUHOUN GENERAL INSURANCE - Representative: Sun life Assurance Co. of Canada Office: Royal Bank Building Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W IL C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building Clinton PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 2512 Insurance — Real Estate Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co, Insure the "Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative Box 310 Clinton, Ontario Phone Collect Office 557 Res. 324,1 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL - FERE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1054: President, John H. McEwing, Blyth; vice. presi- dent; Robert Arehibald, Seaforth; secretary -treasurer and manager, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: john H. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal- ton; Je L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea- -forth. Agents: Wane Leiper Jr., Landes - baro; -3. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn - Baker, 13russels; Eric Munroe, Seaforth. OPTOMETRY A. L. COLE, R.0, . Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted Goderich - Phone 33 a. LONGSTAFF HOURS: SEAFORTH: Weekdays except Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Tues, Thurs., Fri., 9 am. to 5,30 p.m. , Saturday, .9 a.m. to 9 .p.m. CLINTON: Maceearea's 'Studio Mondays only, from a.m. to 5.30 p.m. PHONE 791 SEAFORTH 'PUBLIC ACCOUNiANT. ROY N. BENTLEY lEnililie Accountant 4 Britannia Rd. (corner South St) Telephone 1011 GODERICH " ONT. REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Est,ate and Business Broker SLOAN BLOCK, CLINTOIN Phone: Office 448; Res. 599j surgery in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, last week, is doing nicely. The Clinton New Era Thursday, July 2, 1914 Principal Bouck of the Model School, left this week for Brace - bridge, where he will teach the summer Model School there. Last week Thomas Cottle made two more flower beds on the boulevard behind E. Munroe's bar- ber shop and W. Brydone's law of- fice on Isaac Street. Rev. E. G. Powell has rented Mr. Tozer's house, furnished, for the next two months and will move this week from Exeter, Miss Bell has resigned from the CCI staff and will take up teach- ing in the Clinton College of Com- merce at the fall term. During the past week the street committee have had charge of the construction of the macadam road from Victoria to King Street. ,F THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1954 etters to the Editor SUMS -UP SCOTLAND The Editor, Clinton News -Record , DEAR SIR: -- This is just a general summary of Scotland on the whole, as I saw Agriculture is quite similar to that of Ontario. The main dif- ferences are the climate, the „hills and the population. ' Although' Scotla.nd is directly, east of James Bay, the temperatures are mod- erated by the ocean and thus the summer temperature ranges from 40 to 65 degrees while the average winter temperature is from 26 to .50 degrees. This "allows work to continue the year round, for the farmers - turnips.. and sugar beets, plow and thresh grain out of stacks, during the winter months. The climate also gives a longer growing season and tins higher yields from the grain. The total rainfall is equal to Ontario's but it conies in small amounts at a time and more often, practicallY every day or tWo. This produces ideal conditions for pasture and grass silage but makes haying more complicated. As the hay dries slowly, it is often coiled, then placed on tripods, then put in large stacks for winter feeding. All the hay is kept in open stacks or .a Dutch barn, (which IS a roof supported by steel poles, but no foundation or walls, as the stock is kept in separate buildings). Scotland is very hilly and only three million out of the 19 million acres of land are arable, The re- mainder is mainly used to pasture sheep and some highland cattle, while the arable land is used mainly for 'raising beef and dairy 'cattle and quite a large acreage of potatoes. Turnips are used ex- tensively in the winter feeding of livestock and on many livestock farms, one tenth of the land is planted in turnips. As it is a gen- eral practice to buy in cattle to feed, rather than raise them, pas- ture is not as important, since the 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record Thursday, July 4, 1929 Mr. and Mrs, Vesey and family are occupying 'the Irwin house, Huron Street, for July. R. H. Johnson has not been able to be at his peace of business the past week, owing to illness. Miss Myrtle Armstrong and Miss Fraser are chaperoning a company of girls at- a camp at Bayfield this week. Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Trewartha were both speakers at the South Huron Lib -Conservation- Conven- tion at Hensall last week. Mrs. C. Remball, local manager of the Bell Telephone Company announces that a considerable sum will be spent to provide long dist- ance circuits between Stratford and Clinton, as well as renew present equipment. Mr. and Mrs. Murray 1VIcEwan, Ross lVfcEwan, and Master Harry and Miss Mary Greens' motored to Windsor and Detroit to spend the weekend and holiday. On their return on Tuesday they were ac- companied by Miss Betty Twit- chell who will spend some weeks with her aunt, Mrs. McEwate Leonard McKnight, Oshawa, spent the weekend and holiday with his parents in town, 10 YEARS AGO • Clinton News -Record Thurseity, June 29, 1944 A recent dispatch told of a Can- adian Spitfire Squadron racing over the Caen area of the Nor- mandy beachheatl in support of Arne troops, locked in battle on the ground, tearing into a forma- tion of 20 ME 109's, and blasted nine of them out of the sky, An- other was damaged. r/o W. E. Cook, Clinton, destroyed one of the enemy planes, Commencing July 1, Hugh Haw- kins will take over the plumbing, heating and tinemithing business and will carry on entirely inde- pendent of the hardware store, . Members of the committee ap- pointed to receive the engepeer's report concerning the seeVerage system for the town of Clinton, met on Tuesday night Miss Kay . Middleton of the Royal Beek staff, is spending her holidays with her -cousin, Miss Dorothy Smith, at Rowntree Beach, Georgian Bay. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McKnight have Moved to their new home in Exeter. Harry Johneon• is 'beck in his Mire after an abeence of over a Week owing to illness.. •• • W/O S. E. Yungblut, Londes- boro, was among the Canadian airmen who have returned to their heines from overseas. He left Ot- tawa for his home On Friday and will haye some debarkation leave. Rent Apartment; Use a 50c Want Ad Quick Canadian Facts... 1, Where is Canada's "Railway, on - Stilts?" 2. What is average Member of -persons per family in Canada? 3. Last year, supplementary la- bour income—that is, employe ers' contributions to pensions and welfare, unemployment in- surance, workmen's compensa- tion—was $500,000 a week, $2.7 Million a week, or $7.6 minter, a week? 4. In what year was Ottawa chos- en as Canada's capital? 5. Is more tax money spent an- nually by the provincial and municipal governments combin- ed or by the federal govern- ment? , ANSWERS: 5. Te 1953 federal spending was about twice the com- bined spending of all provincial and municipal governments com- bined. 3. In 1953 supplementary labour income amounted to $7.6 million a week.1. The Kettle Valley line, the CPR rail route through southern BC, crosses so many trestles it is called the 'railway 011 stilts." 4. In 1857. 2. At the time of the 1951 census the average family was 3,7 per.. Sons. Material prepared by the editors of Quick Canadian Facts, the poc- ket annual of facts about Caneda. tamers buy only enough cattle , to keep the grass down, and then boy more in the fall for winter feeding - Labour is much more plentiful here,with three ' or four men working 100 acres. On the aver- age the farms,are larger in Scot: land than in Ontario; generally_ about 500 acres with 12 to 15 men to operate them. Most of the • farms are rented from large land owners who may own thousands of acres and rent sections to var- ious managers or tenants to oper- ate. The Royal Highland Show is the largest show here, and moves to a different city each year. It is a combination of the Ontario plow- ing match with- all its tents and machinery, a trade fair with tents selling merchandise and taking orders, and a large livestock show, but there is no midway, races, nor games of chance. The livestock here is second to none,with only the best in Britain being shown, with all classes well filled. There are many different breeds of sheep, cattle, swine, horses and ponies. The outstanding feature other than the livestock was the well -decorated tents with beauti- ful flowers around practically every exhibit. —BOB ALLAN West Suffolk, Scotland June 29, 1954 The Voice of ... Temperance Puslinch Township in Welling- ton County will remain dry. In May voters voted about 4 to 1 against permitting beer or liquor outlets within the township bord- ers. Thus ,did the people of Pus- linch strongly affirm the last li- quor vote, taken 40 years ago. The vote was on five questions; liquor sale from government stores, beer sale from government outlets, bev- erage rooms for men, beverage rooms for women, dining room sale of beer and wine. This victory was not won without hard work by a local committee. Into every home went a pamphlet packed with facts about the issues at stake and challenging the propa- ganda of wet advocates. Some extracts follow: "Really now, is Puslinch Lake (a delightful and popular summer resort) a good place to put a beer parlour? Ac- cording to an estimate supplied by an 0.P.P. officer, 70 per cent of the deaths due to accidents in 1952 were caused by drinking driv- ers. Dare we increase the hazard to our children? Remember DRINKING PLACES attract DRINKING DRIVERS." Re taxes: "We hear a good. deal of talk about how these outlets will help our taxes. The fact is they will COST US PLENTY in additional POLICE, WELFARE and other costs . . . To get even one dollar of this tax, the Town- ship must provide Police Protec- tion. In cast, terms—for each, 10,000 gallons sold, the township gets less than $200 . How much liquor and beer must flow before the salary of even one Policeman is paid?" A fihal note: "In 17 places in Ontario since September 1953 where a vote was taken, the elect- ors have maintained the dry status." 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