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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-08-12, Page 2THE GUNTON NEW 'ERA Eliot issue June 6, -1865 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD I First issue (Huron News -Record) January T881 ,. Amalgamated 1924 ' Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Sturountling Dietrict Population, 2,543; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $2,000,000; Rete, 4,5e per line flat Sworn Circulation — 2,016 Home of .Clinton RCF Station and Adastral Park (residential) MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario-Quebee Division, CWNA; Western Ontario Counties Press Association STJESCIIIP'PION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $2.50 a year; a United States and Foreign: $3,e0; 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, AUGUST 112, 1954 JUST A MATTER OF COURTESY (Second in a series of methods Of con- ducting meetings.) PERHAPS, soon you will be given the job of obtaining a speaker for, some special gath- ering. All along, you've known just who you -would ask if you just had the chance of making the choice. Perhaps he is a well-known figure in local politics. Perhaps he is a person who once lived ih your town and would be pleased to make a return visit. Everyone will be sitting on the' edge of their chairs to see what sort, •of teak he will give. But the knowing of the right speaker to get, and being able to persuade- him to come are the first two in a long list of details needed to insure a successful evening. Too often the program committee chairman lets the matter drop right there and so spells doom to his program. Here are some suggestions of things that should be done in preparation for a "special 'speaker": 1. Contact him personally by phone or letter :at least two weeks in advance. 2. Tell him specifically what you want him to talk about, and give his speech a title—one with zip, an attention -getter. 3. Give him some information about his aud- lence—how many may be present, their interests, etheir ages, the walks of life they represent. He'll want to fit his' remarks to his lieteners; give him a chance to do so. ' 4. Giye him the date, time and ,place of the meeting, how to get there and who will ' meet and introduce him. , 5. Tell him exactly how long he is to talk and how much time to allow for questions. 6. Give him the names of the other speak- ers, their topics, and his place on the program. 7. Supply any other pertinent information about the room, the acoustics, facilities for pro- jectors, etc. 8. Of course, advise the press concerning the acceptance of your bid for this special speaker, giving the details and address if neces- sary, so that arrangements may be made or proper handling of publicity in the matter. Even a small meeting will get better attention by weekly and daily press if the reporter, photo- graphee or correspondent covering it, knows in advance. (Some of the material we have used in this little discussion we have gleaned from a quite excellent small book named, "When You Pre- side" by S. S. Sutherland. The eighth and final suggestion we added ourselves. All suggestiens are worth putting to work.) IF YOU HAVE The following editorialby Associate Editor Ben Hur Larnpman has been widely circulated since it first appeared in the Portland Oregonian: PYOU HAVE LOVED the glimpse of a doe : and a fawn in the bracken at morning, when the mists rise out of the little valley; and the resonant call of the grouse in the sentinel firs; and the sad sweetness of wild pigeons, calling one to another; and the wood duck low to the water; and the red rabbit that comes to the sand bar at dawn, out of the blackberry tangle— if you have loved all these, and love them still, be careful of fire in the forest. If you have loved. the deep, cool shadows of noon, with a hawk circling; the charmed stillness of the drowsy woodland, smelling of fern and resin and berry; and a peace that flows outward and LOVED THESE inward, like a great pulse in harmony; and the knowledge that here is no urgency, nor ever has been;- and a pendant Vine drooping with purple berries -- if you have one time loved these, and had healing from them, be caretul of fire in the forest. If you have loved the lengthening shadows that come from the forest at evening, when the deer steal forth again, and the plumed quail; theawareness that at twilight the near hills draw nearer; if you have loved, in that listening stillness, the splaph of a fine trout rising, or a sea -run salmon ascending the river; the assurance, somehow, that you are not alien to the trees, to the evening, nor to the creator of these; if you have loved all this, and these, and. are grateful, be careful of fire in the forest. THE IMMIGRANT (Aurora News Page) 11E SAT AT A TABLE in the restaurant sip - :ping his cup of coffee. We tried to make conversation with him but he did not speak our language nor we his. He had managed to order his cup of coffee with some difficulty. Afterwarde he was alone with his thoughts. Around him were people in gay mood. as they drank from cups or enjoyed the contents of tall glasses. He was alone in a new country. He was young, blonde and good-looking. Something had brought him here, away from the land where he was born. He had a story if one could have learned it. But where there is no medium of understandable speech there can be no com- munication. He would have an uphill fight. But he had the future before him. It may be that in the years to come he will look back with pride on the resolution that brought him to Canada. But as he sat alone with his cup of coffee his thoughts ap- peared to be far away. Perhaps he was thinking of his Mother -Land and wondering why he had come so far. To look on a face filled with such loneliness is not a happy experience, the more so when one can do nothing to help. VIEWS ON ADVERTISING (Ingersoll Tr(bune) :'MERCHANTS who do not advertise are invited to read the followingfrom the American Bankers' Magazine, as it might give them a new slant on business, your own business, as well as the matter of building up your town. No "business man in any town should allow a newspaper published in his town to go without his name and business being mentioned some- where in its columns. This does not mean you should have a whole, half or even a quarter page ad in each issue of the paper, but your name and business should be Mentioned, if you do not SLACK—OR TH • A S WITH OTHER EDITORS who find the -e-31- topics for editorials rather slim through the dog days, we take time to skim through others efforts to glean ideas. And this week, things are so low, that we must needs use the ideas of a fellow -editor who has been gleaning from the efforts of still other editors. And he discourses on the topic of slacks for women, and sums up his own objection -thusly: The objection to slacks is simply that they look ugly on ninety-nine women out of a hundred. , Then our editor -friend at Fergus quotes from various other weeklies: The Barrie Examiner: This year, slacks are slacker, shorts are shorter and the halters have halted. ' Wiarton Echo: There's nothing personal or psychological about my distaste for slacks, on women. I don't mind. those jeans, and shorts are 0.K, depending on the legs. It's simply that they're so darned ugly. And there's one thing worse than tight slacks on a woman. That is slack slacks. Durham, South Carolina, News -Journal: If it's too hot to wear clothes, people ought to stay home. use more than a two-line space. A stranger picking up a newspaper, should be able to tell what business is represented in a town by look- ing at the paper. This is the best possible town advertiser. The man who does not advertise his business does an injustice to himself and the town. The man who insiste on sharing the business that comes to town, but refuses to advertise his own is not a valuable addition to any town. The life of a town depends on the live, wide-awake and liberal advertising business men." -- Leduc Representative. E NOT SO VE, RY Then the Glengarry News is recorded as having this to say: finpSlackhort .htaeehtnu. It looks as though that might sound like the spluttering of the Glengarry editor after daughter or wife has applied a wet pilloiv to stifle any remarks he may have been peeparing to make about slacks—or the not so very. EVEN IN YOUR MORNING COFF,EE (Bowmanville Statesman) WHEN DRINKING your cup of coffee tomor- row morning jest bear in mind that the government does mighty well out of the high coffee prices. It charges a ten per ceet sales tax on the duty-paid value of the imported coffee. Last July the duty-paid price was 58.7 cents, and now it is about 92 cents. The gov- ernment cut thus has gone up from less than six cents to more than nine cents. This illust- rates the unfairness of a sales tax in a rising market. .40 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era Thursday, August a, 1914 Since ReV. Father Hogan bee purchased a runabout he has had a garage erected at the back of the rectory. The CCI Board received the re- signation of Miss Stone, commer- cial teacher for the past two terms, War ,Sutrunary Lord 'Kitchener appoitited new war minister in Britain. French Fleet capture two Ger- man cruisers. . Japan will aid Britain if eirelini- stances governed by the allianee arise. The Cabinet was in session all day Monday discussing plans for Canada's aid to the motherland. It is reported thet the Cunard liner Luisitania is being pursued by two German cruisers and is heading back to Portland or Bos- ton. , A' battle is supposed to be fought in the North Sea. Five German aviators were kil- led in the assault on Leige on Wednesday afternoon. Inea. W, T. O'Neil has returned from: visiting friends in Buffalo. Miss Margaret Cree, R.N. of New York, is holidaying at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Cree, Miss Grace Veneer, London, spent the weekend at the home of her mother. Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Doan and their two daughters, Margaret ted Elizabeth, have returned from holidaying at Rondeau Park. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Epps, who have been spending ,some time with friends and relatives in this vicinity have returned to their home in Cuba. Miss Isobel Chowen visited friends in Teeswater during the week. Miss Amy Andrews is spending her holidays at Grand Bend and Toronto. The Clinton News -Record Thursday, August 6, 1914 Great Britain and Germany are now at war. On Tuesday night the British Foreign Office issued the following statement: 'Owing to the summary rejection by the German government of the request made by His Britannic Majesty's government that the neutrality of Belgium should be respected, His Majesty's ambassador at Berlin has received his passperts and His Majesty's government has declared to the German government that a state of war exists between Great Britain and Germany from 11,00 o'clock p.m. August 4. On Monday evening the town ermen struck the tax rate at 29 m % John Watkins came down the street the other day with a speci- men corn stock which measured exactly ten feet three inches. Harold Pickett, who underwent an operation in the hospital a fort- night ago, has made a qeick re- covery and will soon be quite him- self again, TREASURER'S SALE OF LANDS FOR TAXES County a Huron To Wit: By virtue. of a warrant under the hand of the Warden and seal of the Corporation of the County of Huron, bearing date the 14th day of , July, 1e54, and to me directed, commanding me to levy on the lands hereinafter described for the 'arrears of taxes respectively due thereon, together with all costs incurred, I hereby give notice that unless the said arrears and costs are sooner paid, I will, proceed to sell by public auction the said lands or as mueh as may be necessary for the said payment of arrears and costs thereon, on Tuesday, November Oth, 1954, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in the temporary Court House, Britannia Road, in the ToWn of Goderich, in compliance with the pro- visions of the Assessment Act. The adjourned sale, if necessary, will be held one week later fat the same time and place. Name and Description Lot & Conc. Years Taxes Costs Total TOWNSHIP OF GODERICH Arnold Porter Lot 21 Cons. 3 1951-2 $251.35 $. 8.29 $a59.64 TOWNSHIP HE HULLETT 'Thomas Little ........ , . . N. 25, Cons. 12 1951-2-3 558.86 15,97 574.83 Robert Henry .. , Pt. 35, 36, Conc. 13 '1951-2-3 584.71, 16.62 601.33 TOWNSHIP OF STANLEY Z. F. Cody .,, Lot 29, DowaSt., Hayfield 1951, 1953 7.79 2.25 10:04 W. J. Wilky Pt. 5, L.R.W. 1951 9.71 2.25 11.96 The above lands are patented. Dated at Goderich, Ontario, July 19th, 1954. a A. -IL .ERS1C(NE, Teem:eel:sea County of Huron. Published in _the Ontario Gazette, Aueuat 7, 1954 THURSDAY, •AUGUST. 12, 1954 RCaTV13., are spending a leave with their relatives in Clinton and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. G. Shoebottom have received word fame their son Lloyd,' who is serving with the ItCAMC overseas. Fit./lat. John E, Curmingharne, Ottawa, was home for a sheet visit last week. Bruce Tasker, Brantford, them- erly of Clinton, is with the Royal Regiment of Canada, in France. Mr. and Mrs. George IVicLay are moving this week into the cottage on Rattenbury Street formerly oc- cupied by the late Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson. , Miss Betty Harris spent the weekend in &vela and Detroit. Rifleman Benjamin Wellington Churchill, son of Mr. and Mes. Ben W. Churchill, 16th concession of Goderich Townshie, was report- ed killed in action, July 5, 1944. He is believed to be one of the first casualties in the Clinton aiea durihg the invasion. F/0 and Mrs. A, J. Deseck and baby, Steven Douglas, arrived on Tuesday from Claresholm, Alberta, to spend several weeks with Mrs. Desecles parents, Mr. and Mrs, A. C. Brandon. • Miss Wilma Radford, London, spent the weekend with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Radford. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Holmes and baby Billy,. Toronto, are en- joying their holidays at their par- ent's' home Mr. and Mrs. W. S. R. Hohnes. • 10 YEARS' AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, August 3, 1041 Sgt. Edward Elliott left on Mon- day for Christie Street Hospital, Toronto, where he will undergo treatment on his leg. AlSme. M. J. Schoenhals and A/Smn Robert (Bud) Schoenhals, 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record Thursday, August 3, 1929 A E. Finch has a fine new building erected on his premises, on Victoria Street. H. E. Rorke is having a cement foundation put under part of his residence. Miss Brown is having her house, on James Street, raised and a foundation put under it, INSURANCE J. E. HOWARD, Hayfield Phone Hayfield 5352 Gar - Fire - Life - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy bearing •a tray on which there were a couple ad huge pots ot Pip- ing hot coffee, caught the tail of his coat in one of the umbrellas and immediately there was a shower of scalding lieted over some of the jesters. Their, injuries, an some cases, required', medical attention. Some of the members of the "Thirteen Club" went home nursing their wounds, others nurs- ing their thoughts. Legends, be they jinxes, super= stitioes, rites or 'customs, delight the heart of prince and peasant, of lawyer, cleric, poet, potentate or any student of history or human nature. The literature of our western world has been en- riched by sech legends brought to us by those who have left their native lands to find a new home beyond the seas. Anyone with a wealth of sech legends at his command makes an inimitable host and ie ever acceptable as a most welcome guest for anecdotes are the canapes of good conversa- tion. The 13th A Jinx? Huron Old Boy Presents Views and News on Subject Be Sure : : Be Insured K. W. COLQIIHOUN GENERAL INSURANCE Representative: Sun life Assurance Co. of Canada Office: Royal Bank Building Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 9W II. C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building Clinton PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 2515 Insurance — Real Estate Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co. (By Claude, Laing Fisher) (Copyright) Friday, the 13th! Do you be- lieve in a Friday jinx or that ill - luck dogs the footsteps of the number "12"? If so, then what of the combination of Friday and "13" on the same day as it occurs this week on the 13th day of August? Of, course, you may pooh-pooh such nonsense as belonging to "untutored minds" but be honest with yourself. If you put no credence in either of these wiper- stitions, have you your own pet belief to which you pay obeisance? For instance, do you throw spill salt over your left shoulder, or carry a rabbit's foot or a four - leafed clover as a concession to the ill -luck or bad -luck that is sometimes attributed to one or other of these? Do you . sit on your handkerchief or walk around your chair three times when your star is not in the ascendancy in bridge or poker? Do you walk around a ladder rather than under It? Insure the "Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative Box 310 Clinton, Ontario Phone Collect Office 557 Res. 324J THE Meliti,LOP MUTUAL EIRE INSURANCE COIVEPANY Head Office: Seaforth Offieers 1951: President, Sohn H. MeEwing, Blytla; vice-presi- dent, 'Robert Archibald, Seaforth; secretary -treasurer and manager, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: John H. lacEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal- ton; 5. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Eu, ller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Seaa forth. Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Londes- boro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric Munroe, Seaforth. OPTOMETRY A. L. COLE, R.O. Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted Goderich - Phone 33 J. E. LONGSTAFE HOURS: SEAFOR,TH: Weekdays except Wednesday, 9 arra 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: MacLaren'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 Rd. (corner South St) Telephone 1011, GODERICH ONT. ....eemememeeremaememee REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate and Business Broker SLOAN BLOCK, CLINTON Phone; Office 448; Res. 5993 of a skull reposing in a coffin. The toastmaster used the bone of the forearm of a skeleton to rap for order. At intervals, the diners counted up to "13" as a chant and when "13" was reached, it was hailed with cheers. Near the end of the banquet, the waiters filed into the room to the music of a funeral march, each waiter bearing aloft a chocolate •cake with 13 candles upon it,—and a white skull and cross bones in the centre. But the crowning insult to superstition wes an open umbrella at the head of each table and everyone knows that an open umbrella within doors presages bad luck or disaster. This super - insult was, apparently, too much 'for Pate's patience. A waiter, • THE VOICE OF TEMPERANCE "The bottle club, now an accep- ted institution in Huron and Per- th, makes a farce out of uur ont- dated Canada Temperance Act." We quote from a recent editorial in a Huron County Weekly. "In a recorded vote, which was unan- imous,- a, permit to build a $10,000 social club building on the west side of Erie St., Clinton, was turn- ed down by the Clinton Town Council on Monday night. The so- called 'club' was described as a club where citizens aged 21 or over could join and play cards, or if patrons so desired, the club could supply and control liquor and beer for them." A recent news item. One Huron town council very evi- dently does not accept the bottle club as a desirable institution, The council rightly interpreted the feeling of Clinton citizens. How many such liquor clubs in Huron are listed amongst the pleasant social clubs in their community? Granted that the law lacks teeth somewhat, it is rather surprising how frequently these clubs run foul of the law. Our Crown At- torney, can and does prosecute without fear or favour where there is evidence that bottle clubs are selling liquor. Liquor cannot leg- ally be sold in Huron County, even in a bottle club, except in that section which is directly under Federal jurisdiction, the RCAF camp just outside of Clinton. 32. All this may be nonsense to you. You are really level-headed and do not believe in such foolishhess, (touch wood, dear reader,. when you say that), and do not Indulge in such silly things. If, however, you do happen to do sorne of those things, you may pass it off with a flippant remark, but is there, at the same time, in the back of your mind perhaps a feint idea that there may be "something in it" after all and it is just as well to be on the safe side? Now, think again. Even if you laugh off or laugh at those so- called silly customs, is there not one custom to which you pay your devoirs? If so, then you are in good company. The immortal Dr. Samuel Johnson, wag perhaps, the greatest debunker of his day, yet this Dr. Johnson, the author of the "Vanity of Human Wishes" and many other erudite sayings, would never pass a post on the street without touching it or hit- ting it with his cane. He had it firmly established in his mind that, if he neglected to do so, some disaster would shortly afterwards overtake him! Even the sedate London Times of London was not immune to superstitious beliefs or at least to the news value of such beliefs, for it published on its front page the story of a banquet the previous evening where superstition was flouted and invited to do its worst by all manner of taunts levelled against the fearsome number "13". It was a dinner given by the "Thirteen Club". The writer was in London at the time ancl-clipped the story from the Times and ad- ded it to his scrap book. The diners sat at tables of '13" each. Before each plate a red candle burned in a death's head holder and the member whose candle went out first was sup- posed to receive it as a sign. .As soon as the company was seated, a mirror was broken. 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