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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1954-10-21, Page 2PAGE TWO cum* broms,anaiRD THE CLINTON NEW ERA .„ First Pleize June 6, 1865 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1954 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD First issue (Huron News -Record) January 1881 •' Amalgam ated , 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) - MENIBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division,* CWNA; Western Ontario Counties Preis 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 Aciastral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a oPY Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department; Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Huron. County THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1953 WE WERE SO LUCKY A GOOD many of the people in Clinton and district must surely have been born under a lucky star. ' Nothing but a great bit of good leek sav- ed ns from disaster of the like which Hurricane . Hazel has, created in Toronto, and many out- lying, part s of that city. In Wingham, Wiart- on, and to the north of them -there has been ?" a good deal' of damage " suffered by house- holders and farmers alike. • Though local bean growers, and those who have corn 'yet to harvest are counting their , losses in thousands OI dollars, still there has • been only a - small fraction of the damage here that has occurred elsewhere. After' we have given thanks for this bless- ing, then we shouldapke time to consider any method in Which we can be of help to those now left _homeless in the wake of "that old hag" Hazel. The most immediate help can be achieved by taking as much of this week's pay check as you can possibly spare and placing it in the hands' of either one of the two banks in Clinton. The Town, along with the ministerial as- sociation have already set up an organization to handle relief money. Known as the Ontario' Herricane Fund, it vvill be forwarded as soon as possible to the headquarters in charge of helping the flood victims. We who have been so lucky, should give generously to help those who have to re -build their houses and their homes. • WATCH FOR FAKES SWIFT ON the heels of disaster and troubles, comes those beastly people who take the opportunity to gain from the victims' mis- fortunes. While pblice were struggling in Toronto to help the folk who were in danger of being drowned in the raging floods of the Hurnber, thieves- were using the opportunity to loot and pillage. Then, before regular channels could be set up and collecting for relief of these unfortunate people could be accomplished, there was another groin) of men taking the opportunity of collecting cash for themselves In the name of the victims, • • There will be only one collection made in Clinton. That will be a voluntary one at either one 61 the two banks. There will be no door-to-door collecction. If anyone comes to your door asking for donations for the Hur- ricane Flood victims, then without doubt he is a fake for there is no such campaign planned officially. If you wish to give money to help thee make it personally at, either the Royal Bank of Canada or at the Bank of Montreal. DON'T GIVE IVIONEY TO ANYONE 'SOLICITING IT AT YOUR HOUSE. VOTING TIME IN VIEW COPIES OF the voters' list for the town of Clinton were posted this week. Nomination Day is set for November 26, Before that time comes, there is need for a good bit of thinking by the people of Clin- ton. Upon the shoulders of the rate -payers rests the responsibility for choosing the right men for the job of governing the affairs of the Town. More important—from the ranks of these same rate -payers must come men who are willinglo stand for office in the Council, the PUC and for the Public School Board. There is no honour in the position of a man or a wonian who is unable to find the time to work in any one of those bodies and TAKE 0 yet has time to criticiSe and gruntble about the work that is being done, There is no honour for any of the rate - Payers in a town which iiiust (as happened in Clinton last year) hold a second nomination meeting to find enpugh men to fill the Coun- cil. There are Tumours of many changes in the membership of both Council and PUC for next year, Whether these he tree or not, and. whatever may be the reasons for these rum- ours—there may be confirmation of them at the next meeting of the PVC (October 26) or of Council (November 1), Will yett be there to hear them first hand? UR TOWN, "WE'LL TAKE our own town," says an editorial heading in the TilIsonburg News and the writer goes oxi to• say that 'more and more young men and women are finding that the -pot of gold can be found in their home town; that the glitter of the city is not neces- sarily the lucky rainhaVr" "The to -the -city trend is reversing as business and industry wake up to the advant- ' age of the small town, and city dwellers seek a breath of fresh a'rind turning room in sub- urbia. "But despite the economic advantages, there is a greater reition for our liking this old 'Burg of ours. It's someihing you can't find in the businesa statistics or, in •the town hell records. • "It's walking up the street and having most of the people we meet wave, give out 1 with a cherry greeting or stop for a chat. It's attending a meeting and finding dis- cussion is about problems of you and your neighbors and general welfare of the com- munity. ,' "It's entering any store and being able to spend a minute shooting the breeze with the proprietor or any of the clerks, and knowing the goods you buy are backed with something better thaii any written guaran- • tee—the Toennunity standing and the friend- ship of the merchant himelf. . . . ' "It's realizing that all this doesn't stop at the town's boundaries, -but extends into the farmlands' and villages about us. • "Big city?" No thanks, misterr. We may lack in glamor, but we have sobaething bet- ter—.a big heart. EXA.MPLE—GOOD• OR RAD? • - (Ingersoll • CORPORAL 11. ARTER has a question Or 1.114,. "How," asks our police chief, "can you • expect children to cross streets at the corn.ers and to cross only with a green light, if adultscontinual& set a bad example?" • The corporal has a good question. It is doubtful that we have good answer.'• At school our boys and girls are taught the rules of traffic safety and the impOrtanceof keeling these rides. ••- Then they come down town. There we are, impatient of delay, too busy to wait for a signal to change, crossing against the light Tribune) . or jay -walking from behind parked cars? What is. the child to think? Sometimes, of course, we can plainly see, the crossing is clear and • it seems ridiculous to wait. But we should remember that while we may be eapable of judging that margin of safety, the child watching us may not. The next time, he might try to do ju„qt what we did. No second or minute saved beating the light would be worth an injury to one child. Next time we cross the street let's re- member we may be setting an example. It should be a good one. BROT-HERS-IN-ARMS (Wingham Advance -Times) LOOKS AS If Canadian veterans , are a beat the Germans—or else. And at least army little behind the times.'•gome of them are authorities aren't letting the new rectuits weir , getting all worked up about the release of their Iron Crosses, • '• Nezi,General Kurt, Meyer. Others are alarm - These modern trend may be confusing. ed and deapondent .because German soldiers, They may even have you wondering what all who fought and.killed Canadians on the battle- -. the fuss was about in 1911 and 1939, things . fields of Europe, are qualifying as brothers- • - being the way they are today. in -arras by joining the Canadian Army. •But, in the Worscis of the song, you'll get Don't let it throw you, fellows. Things used to it. And if you can, pet it down to are a bit more complicated now than they • the fact that all of us "sweats","'11 op '39, are were in the days when all we had to do was getting old. "'I don't want to miss out on Canada Savings Bonds." -•-•-•-•-•-4-••••• From Our Early Files 40, YEARS AGO The Clinton News -Record Thursday, October 15, 1914 On Sunday afternoon the Clin-• ton Kittle Barid, in full uniform: paid the House of Refugee 5 vieit and entertained, the inmates 1or an hour or •- On ThursdaY afternoorr a. rink of Seaforth bovvlers came up end ,played a friendly match with j. Taylor's rink and lost 23 to 9. Following- Were the players for Clinton: J. Watt, T. Harland, B. Hovey, J. Taylor. War Sunnite -1.-y Antwerp still holds out but is in peril. " • A German airplane dropped two more bombs into the city of Paris. Three ship -loads of Canadian troops reached Southampton. The French and British fleets destroyed six Austrian Warships in the Adriatic Sea. • The Clinton New Eio Thursday, October 15, 1911 . Several of our citizens saw wild geese flying south on Sunday. It isa sure sign of the coming of winter. Wunderstand the Solo Player Piano Company have received a proposition from another town to move away. Is Clinton going to allow a factoryto leave? The three prizes for the ticket - selling contest • had everybody guessing. When the totals were added up, "Pat" Murphy won the gold watch, while Earl Steep won the Lion Brand pair of pants, and Layton Walker got the fountain pen for third money. Town Clerk D. L, Macpherson, has received the revised list or permits for the province. There are now 3,649 motorcycles and 31,050 automobiles in Ontario. • 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News Record Thursday, October 17, 1929 Messrs. Curren and Shipley have disposed of their Albert Street grocery business to C. Lobb, who has been conducting a grocery an the old Wiltse stand in the Sloan Block. Another change in the grocery business has also been effected this week when L. Lawson and Company disposed of their bust- ness, Heron Street, to J. T. Mc- Knight. Leonard •McKnight will come up from Toronto. to assist his father in business. Under the caption, "Clinton, is now on the Map", the Canadian Golfer has a few remarks concerti - Ing Clinton's new golf course; re- cently laid out on the farm of Sheriff C. G. Middleton. G. W. Schaefer, Goderich, has purchased the S„ A. Gray drygooda business in that town and takes it over at once. Douglas Ball, second son of Mr. and Mre: Nelson Ball, who has been in Peru for the past three years with the Imperial Oil Com- pany, arrived home this week „and is spending a holiday with his parents. • 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, October 12, 1944 J. H. Brunsdon has purchased the building in which for several years he has conducted his Mas- sey -Harris machine and repair shop. - At present he is making plans to remove the upper story and repair and remodel the build- ing. • G. W. Nott has returned from Western Canada where he purch- ased several loads of cattle. Mel. Crich, has purchased the Vincent house on Princess Street. Mr. and 'Mrs. Crich and family have already taken possession. Miss Celestine Shanahan, Lon- don, spent the. weekend and holi- day at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Shanahan of town. Citizens of Clinton will get their new ration books at the town hall on Thursday and Friday. Miss Lucy Levy is returning this week to her duties on the nursing staff of London Sanator- ium. Miss Lois Kearns, Woodstock, spent the weekend with .her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs, B. W, Kearns. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Garrioch and Sandra Elaine, Windsor and Miss Leola Nott, Toronto, spent the holiday with their parents, Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Nott FA), and. Mrs. Version Wagner and baby, spent the weekend with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Miller. Winners at the CDCI field meet were: senior boys, Ivan Hilborn; intermediate boys, Beecher Menz- les;junior • boys, Alex Nfenzies; senior girls, Harriett Fremlire in- termediate girls, Kathleen Powell; junior girls, Grace Lobb. Letters to the Editor THANarS The Editor, Clinton News -Record DEAR SIR: Would you please accept our thanks and appreciation for your co-operation and publicity given us on the occasion of our bazaar and penny sale on October 2. ' We know that it contributed in a great measure to its success. Again our grateful thanks. Yours truly, • HELEN J. BARTLIFF, Secretary, Hospital • Auxiliary, Clintori, Ontario October 5, 1954 , TO THE MAYOR Clinton News -Record, Chilton, Ontario.. • TO THE EDITOR: Our Mayor of Clinton seema be- wildered these days as to what is M. the •public press and what it not. It is time he made even some accurate statements regard- ing publicity of certain issues. It was never in the paper, Mr.. Mayor, and you know it. I found out about this secret property deal by the Town because I wrote 'and made a bid to the Department of Highways, believing it to be a good building site when developed, and it was the I was informed that the Town had an offer to purchase on this property in ques- tion but the Taxpayers of Clinton had never been given a report on It by press or otherwise. Our Deputy Reeve's statement to me was quite true that, in his opinion, if a private enterprise desires to secure this property the Town would not stand in the way of progress. I wonder how he voted on this same isstie at the last council meeting? It is also time that the Mayor and his Councillors, tell us, the Taxpayers, what the nominal fee would be for this piece of land now owned by the Department of Highways formerly' owned by P. W, AndRews and never, owned by the ToWh. of Clinton as implied n last week's press.; It is possible the Mayor and the Council would tie up this property such as they\ have tied up the lots behind the old Publi S h , th great real estate deal, and for Whieh they refused even ridiculous offers? There was never even a defiuite price agreed upon to ac- cept for these lots. Now these public land speculators wish to tie up mare money in property at the Taxpayer's expense. Are we a democratic town fol- lowing a good baste governmental constitution or are we- being ruled by the few. This would be quite a different story I fthis DOH prop- erty in question was needed for some good purpose but no real need has been indicated, - More of the Mayor's bewilder. - mein. Ile reprimands the PUC for channeling my request for water services to the Town Coun- cil. Correct me if I am wrong Mr. Mayor, but are 'not all capital extensions of Town services the business of the Town Council and not the PUC and the business of the PUO is to maintain theee ser- vices out of their revenues arid to extend them only by some Local Improvement scheme sanc- tioned by the Town Council, and to be paid for in the main by the propery owner who benefits, from this installed service and in part by the Taxpayer of Clinton in general. Then w,hy reprimand the PUC when yott were present at the meeting vvhen' this issue was considered? By the way, how many capital extensions to services have been made by , the PUC out of their revenue since my agreement with the Town to pay 85 per cent of frottage services to iny property? I would appreciate any correc- tions, if any, to my statements to be made public so that we have no secrets from the Taxpayers of Clinton. Yours very truly, , A. J. DESECK. Clinton, Ontario ' C)ctober 19, 1954. Do You Need A Place to Live? Try a Want Ad. Well, another spell of the bad weaher has come and gone. Didn't so much as get our feet wet last weekend, Why? well, if you had such a wire as Millie is, You wouldn't be after ask- ing such a geestion. Such. a mouse as she -is for keeping the carpents ewerit, and dusted, and "No bringing in or Wet sticky • leaves, mind!" is ler warning all autumn long, ' So the past three weeks or so, life has had a great deal of the indoors to it. Speaking 'of pud- dles—or were we? Well, at any rate, we are now. Have you noticed the glorious big wet spot right on -Main 'Street in Clinton? It's a perennial one by now, so probably you really haven't paid it rrtuch mind. 1, • We've seen mea pushing and poking at the fountain of the red fire , hydrant on the corner, several times, Sometimes they dig in at the base of the hyd- rant, Sometimes' they seem to figure,: "Oh fiddle on the thing," and dig down some feet away • and have a look at the earth ,there. /Vs all wet. However, the puddle remains. People walk byunconcernedly. Some shake their heads. Some hop awkwardly over the litter. Others splash through. As for this mouse, hnd Millie, we are hopefully waiting for the first freeze-up this summer. Then there should be fun. * We don't mean skating either. Neither Millie nor myself have donned skates for many ,a. long year, and we don't plan to make • our debut right on the main thoroughfare. But even 'Millie got- a rather wicked gleam in her eye when we happened to suggest going up along that way - after the first really good frost. It should be a great deal of fun seeing the first People slip across the street. * * Really, though, the skating sea- son will soon be here. The Lions Club has already planned for 'a big „Hallowe'en • Free Skating Party for the youngsters of Clin- ton on October 30. First ice to the small fry is as exciting as first mouse in the spring to a roving pusSy—Oops, what have we gone and said? * Not too long ago we went on a little tour of our fair town, looking at all the pretty parts of Clinton. There are such a lot of them. Then we got to thinking. Perhaps, we talk in this column just a little too much about the pretty parts of _town. Perhaps we should make a little survey and look. for things that are not very pretty at all. For the pretty things have only to be kept up. The ugly parts of town might need a real overhaul. /ft 4. Well, we didn't have to look very far at all for a very obvious bit of ugliness. Right at the front door of the News -Record office is a very unsightly piece of sidewalk, which really isn't the only bit of walk that looks bad. You'd think something could -be done About the poor sidewalks in town, wouldn't you? Then we travelled along that self -same ugly sidewalk, (for after all it does keep one's feet dry and clean) down towards the main corner, Now, maybe it's just that this mouse is set rather close to the ground, but the next rather ugly thing we noticed was low down, too. Did you ever consider the impres- sion that the part of a block just behind the Bank of Mont- real, (and before you get to Brownie's service station) must make on the chap who visits in Clinton? Now we realize that by picking out this bit of back -door area in Clinton makes us 'fair game for someone looking at the back door of our own back shop. And we will admit that the place looks hone too good at times. But it looks out upon an alley which is not trod by the casual visitor to our town. • Actually that small area which we mention'. has . been bothering us for some time now, and we wonder if something could not be done to tidy it up. Certainly if it were ours, /Vfillie would be having us out and at it before now. Never did see such a mouse for housecleaning. Spring and Fall, Summer and Winter. Her zeal never ends. Crop Report (BY O. W. Montgomery) Harvesting operation are at a definite standstill in Huron County last week. White bean growers report a study decrease in the possibility of harvesting their crop, and some sprouting Is tak- ing place. Soil conditions are too wet either for the harvesting of silage corn or for ploughing. From the appearances o± many fields a con- siderable acreage of fall wheat is likely to be drowned out. DISTRICT DEPUTY VISITED AT BRUSSELS LODGE Rt. Wor. Bro. Harold T. Vodden visited St. John's Lodge, No. 284, Brussels, on Tuesday evening in his capacity as District Deputy Grand Master of North Huron Masonic District. He was accomp- anied by Wor. Bro, Donald Howes, District Secretary, and Bro., the Rev, A .W. Watson, Distrret Chap- lain.—Blyth Standard. 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