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'HECLINTON 'NEW"ERA
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CLINTON' NEWS -RECORD
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Amalgamated 1924
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton and Surroyndjng District
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Published ,'EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, -. Canada,; in the Heart of Huron' County
THEE CLINTON NEWS' -RECORD
First !Sane (Huron NewaRecord) "
Jainuary; 1821
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, .1:955.
SPRING STOW FOR 1955
UNDER' CONTINUOUS praise from the
hands of its +'directors, and, supporters, ' the
Clinton > Spring Show for 1955 ''got its ' rtitiat -
shove into"the limelight last Saturday after-
noon, when some 25 menu young and old, gath-
ered to review the situation after the• Centen-
• . Mal, and to prepare for this year's program.
Though' last year was a big year--it—marked
the 100th year of fairs in Clinton—the harmony
which is essential to putting' forth- a big effort,
was slightly Iacking among the directors. How-
ever, 'it.'was ',a great success. The weather
pitched in with its sunniest best, and with F„A.
Lashley to open the Show; a visitor from Pak-
istan to add foreign flavour and interest; and
the biggest > exhibition 'of fine horses, cattle,
sheep and pigs ever seen in Clinton, the Cen-
tennial went over with. a "bang".;
` This year is to be a big year, too. More-
over, it is evident that the dissention that -mark-
ed 1954, is notgoing to be present this year.
' There is, a deficit. of $615 to overcome; but
that :is'a small matter in the face of the, great"
work 'that went forward last year, and since
that time. The commemorative plaque marking
• the 100th year 'of fairs'in Clinton has been`
erected on a stone pylon` which graces the. front
wall of a sturdy bandstand directly opposite
the grandstand in the Clinton Community Park,
This plaque- will be unveiled in official ceremony
at the 1955 Spring Show. it is hoped that the
Minister- of Agriculture will be officiating at”
this ceremony;
It will be another' big day in Clinton.
The wheels are in motion. Let's get be-
hind the Spring Show' and do all we can to
make it bigger and better than it has ever
been,
THE 'FAIRS ARE FAIR
THE TOPIC on the Farm Forum broad -
east last week seemed to be as important
and as interesting as any yet devised, Cer-
tainly the subject of fall fairs is a timely one
at this season, as all Fail- Boards ''buckle down
to the initial meeting of the year, and the
planning of dates, programs, and all that goes
with it.
• The board members would do well to heed
the advice of the farm families who discussed
the matter so thoroughly. The results are in
and 'have been, listed thoroughly in daily and
weekly press, and over the radio..
The people seem fairly unanimous in their
desire for fairer competitions at their fairs. It
is not fair, they say (and we agree with them)
that a prize-winning exhibit, such as a quilt, a
• dresser scarf, a knitted suit, or such should win
year after year, Perhaps this could be avoided
by limiting the number of prizes any one object
could-win—but this would tax • the memories of
judges- over the years, and if memory failed
there would be a lot of discouraging talk among
the other exhibitors. Of course the honesty of
the exhibitor would 'be taxed, and perhaps few
would brave the disparaging remarks of their
neighbours if they dared re -show an article
more times than was legal.
The Forum groups were loud in their praise
of the work done by 4-H Clubs, their. -leaders
and the agricultural representatives in promot-
ing local interest in the fairs. They were en-
couraged by the turn -out of relatibes and friends
who came to see how the youngsters were doing.
Discussion groups voiced their disapproval
of midways and sideshow attractions. Generally
they felt that these did little to attract people
to the show, and merely extracted money from
the community. One forum suggested a midway
conducted by a local service club. -
The total opinion seems to say: let us have
more and greater agricultural fairs; let us have
them re -organized to eliminate the commercial
exhibit, the repeater, the quantity exhibitor; let
us keep it strictly an agricultural show; let us
encourage the 'work of the young people, and
of local -people, especially.
RECREATION IN 1957
(A Prediction)
THE STATE of small town recreation has
come to a pretty pass. •,
Not too long ago Clinton had plenty of
sport: hockey, baseball, bowling and softball,
and all the players were Clintonians. There
was a town league in about every sport played,
Excitement ran high. Interest was strong. No-
body made any money. But everybody had fun.
Then inter -town games began, They always
had been good to end a season, or to mark
special occasion.' But gradually the inter -town
games were emphasized more The seasons
lengthened. With the increase in transportation
facilities more and more inter -town games were
played Gradually the town leagues were for-
gotten, There were more spectators, and fewer
and fewer participants,
As competition increased there were fewer
participants still, as the town and. countryside
was combed for the very best, to pit against
that good team 50 miles away. If you made
the team, you were good. If you weren't good,
you sat ori the sidelines and cheered.
Then came the next and fatal step: players
were imported. From as far as ,Pogo's "U, S.
and A." they 'came. They played. They were
paid. Sometimes the team won. Sometimes the
team lost. The imported players made money.
' The hometown boys still played for the fun of
it—the four or five that made the team, any-
way. The others sat on the sidelines and cheer-
ed, plugging for the hometown team to beat
that good team from 50 miles away..,
HYDRO'S GUIDE'
THE TRAGIC DEATH of "Bob" Saunders
means .the passing of a man loved and respect-
ed by all Ontario people who knew him. •
Of all the many men in the world today
who might have been killed in a plane crash,
it seems extraordinarily tragic that one so well-
known, and so much needed by his contemp-
oraries as Robert H. Saunders, should be the
one to die.
Throughout the past years, Saunderse has
carried on "untiringly in the ,work of the
Hydro Electric Power Commission of the pro-
vince. We hesitate to use the word untiring-
ly, for he certainly was capable of, becoritinp
tired,' as any of us are. The essential thing ,
' was that he never lost his enthusiasm' ,even
though terribly fatigued.
' The only trine we ever met him personally_
h• e was tired after a' long motor trip, but the
-address he'gave that evening -inn the •spring
of 1952 -was as cheerful, as, lively and of hi-
dicative" of "untiring" courage as anything -he
ever did.'- Afterwards a group of us..were enter •
-
tained by Chairman. Saunders before that busy
man retired. The conversation was of triviaL
things—we remember that "Bob" (as he' asked
-"tie, to call him), was enthusiastic over 'a new ;
electric shaver which plugged into the dash-
board of his car—the better to save time as he
travelled between ,his appointments.
There will be those who may say --anyone
in his job would have done as well. We believe
—although a job would, have gotten done=t11a
t
no other man could have done so much, have
leaIt successfully
with, so many
difficult situa-
tions, have piloted theHEPC through
the con-
version years so well, have represented Hydro
and. Ontario so diplomatically abroad, nor have,.
engineered' the actual accomplishment of the
Then came'the awakening. Like the awaken
ing of Rip Van Winckle, the ,process was slow,
• difficult and hard on everybody concerned.
But the awakening came,. and the ones who
sat on the sidelines and cheered came to realize
that their cheering was for a hunch of men they
didn't know at all. They realized they were
cheering for a bunch of men paid out of their
own and their neighbour's pockets, to go out and
win a game,fromanother bunch of men paid
for out of the pockets of citizens in that town
50 miles away. About the same time, the four
or five good athletes from the home town real-
ized that the game could be played for money
and they began hiring out to other towns. And
there were no local boys onthe home team at all.
Then those who sat on the sidelines and
cheered, decided that this was not much fun at
all. Cheering for "Number 13" and "you there
with the green pants" was not nearly so exhil-
arating as yelling for "Red", "Doug", "Hack",
"Pick" "Danny", "Cooney", "Bud", and the
other lads 'you knew around town.
And so those who for so many years had
sat on the sidelines and cheered (after paying
theadmission fee to the grandstand) stayed at
home, turned on TV and gloomily looked at niers
they didn't know playing games hundreds of
miles away. And no' one went to the rinks and
the parks and paid admission fees and sat on
the Sidelines and cheered, And nobody made
any money. And nobody had any fun,
St. Lawrence Seaway aS Bob Saunders has done
since 1948.•
The extremely unfortunate weather which
loaded ice on"his plane, has meant disaster for
-the nation in the .loss of one of Canada's great
men, • ,
Our 'sympathy goes to his fanil'ly, his per-
. sonal friends, and the highest tribute to a man '
we once met briefly—and will be a long time
forgetting.
We Would- Like To See
(WITH PLEASURE- we reprint the follow-
ing editorial which appeared first in the .Wing -
ham Advance -Times and was chosen last 'week
as "Editorial of the Week" by The Financial
Post').
' We'd like to' see the nations'resoive to stop
cal$hg : each other names. A minor matter,
perhaps, but it always seemedto us that "adults •
should act like adults, and not like a bunch
of school kids hurling insults at ' each other
across the back fence And that, we feel,
should go for nations, too.
We'd like to see the nations resolve to
spend a little `more time and effort in peaceful
pursuits, instead of sitting up nights trying to
devise more efficient ways' of eliminating the
human race altogether. It seems. -to us that
if half the time spent in ,developing weapons
of mass, destruction were out to constructive
use the 'world could be a much better place
to liv , in'.
e
Finally, the nations'inight resolve to leek
w
at things from the other fellow's point of view
once in a whale, to a bit more tolerant of
ea'ch. other and to' realize that it's pretty hard,
Even for our Side, to be right one hundred per
cent of the time. `
/I
EVERW YEAR I [/LIE /NCREASES .
MY CONVICTION THAT TNE`(/SE OF'
/NTOX/CAT/NG DRINKS/SA GREATER`
,DESTROY/NG FORCE To L/FEAND .
wRTuE THAN ALL OTHER pWV$ICAL
EVILS COMB//VIED''
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
From
Our
Early Flies
40 YEAR* AGO
The Clinton New Era
Thursday, January 21, 1915
Charlie Stewart has purchased
the 25 acres from J. Taylor along -
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Officers 1954: President, John
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secretary -treasurer and manager,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth.
Directors: John H.' McEwing;'
Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. 3. Trewartha,
Clinton; Wm. S. 'Alexander, Wal-
ton; .1. L. -Malone, Seaforth; Har-
vey Fuller, Goderjch; J. E. Pepper,
Brucefiold; Alister Broadfoot, Sea-
forth.
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boro; , J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Eric
Munroe, Seaforth.
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Tues., Thurs.,; Fri., 9 a.m.
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Saturday, 9 am. to 9 p.m.
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•
side of his other 25 making him
50 :acres so that he has a fine
farm of 150 acres in a block. There
is also a fine lot of good timber.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
E. G. Powell is doing nicely after
her operation at the local, hospital.
A. J. Grigg was a visitor at
Goder-ach last week attending the
poultry show.
A. Cantelon took a bad tumble
last week that shook him up con-
side,rably.
Two other native Clintonians
who are going to the front are Will
Manning who has enlisted at King-
sten for the third contingent, and
Eric Gilroy who has joined a cav-
alry regiment at Medicine Hat.
The Clinton News -Record
Thursday, January'21, 1915
Mrs. Israel Taylor, London,
daughter of James Stevens of
town, had the misfortune to frac-
ture her wrist the other day.
The latest men to become mem-
bers of the curling club are Rev.
Potts, Rev. Harper, 3. Nediger, T.
Cottle and W. Grant.
The Solo Player Piano Company
will in future make electric play-
ers only and, with new men on the
directorate, it began operations on
Monday.
Miss Bessie Davis returned on
Tuesday evening after a visit of
several weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Marsh, Detroit.
Miss Jean Morris, who has had a
position at Chatham. during the
past year, is spending a vacation
at her home in town.
A. Owen, New Yorlc, vice-presl-
dent of the Clinton Knitting Com-
pany, is in town this week.
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News Record
Thursday, January 16, 1930
• C. B. Hale has opened a con-
veyance office in the rooms above
Hovey's drug store,
Thomas Riley had the misfor-
tune to hurt his shoulder the other
day and had to take a few holi-
days.
Miss Winnie ItIcMath supplied in
the room of Miss Armstrong of the
Public School for a day or so
this week.
The name of E. W. M. Paisley
appears amongst those who were
successful in passing their Christ-
mas examinations at Osgoode
Hall, Toronto,
March's Grocery will be moved
next week from Its present stand
beside Bartliff and Crich's rest-
aurant to the store recently vacat-
ed by C. Lobb in the Sloane Block.
Douglas Ball left Monday on his
return to Lima, Peru, after a three
month holiday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs, Nelson Ball,
Doug has been with the Inter-
national Petroleum Company in
Peru for three years prior to this
visit at his home and returns to
resume his work.
Misses Beattie of The Vogue
leave Saturday for a'short visit at
their home at Watford before at-
tending the millinery .openings- in
Toronto, -,
1-0 YEARS AGO
.Clinton News -Record'
Thursday, January 18, 1945
The Exeter team which bad de-
feated Clinton Juveniles on home
ice, again defeated them here on
Friday •.night by a score of 4-3
after ten minutes -overtime. Line-
up for Clinton: goal, R. Miller; de-
fence, Frank-Fingland, H. Miller;
centre, Frank 1VfacDonald; wings,
Menzies, Roy Churchill; alternates,',
B. Hanly, C; Hanky„ W. Lee, Jerry
Elliott, Bob Morgan. •
Ira Rapson, Hullett, is improv-
ing after his serious operation on
Christmas Day. • -
W/0 Percy Brown, Tordnto,'was
visiting in town this week, with
his brother and sister.
Miss Celestine Shanahan, Lon
don, spent the ' weekend at the
home.of-her parents, Mr.. and bilrs.
Charles Shanahan.
Ninian Heard, Stratford, . spent
''1'llURSPAY, , JANUARY 20, .'1955
LIKES CLINTON. '
Dear Editor;
Through the kindness of our ex -
landladies• in Clinton, we are to
enjoy the News -Record for 1955.
The subscription is an appreciated
Christmas' gift because my wife
and I became ,quite attached to
Clinton and'Will be able to keep
up to.date on the happenings
there. ,
•' Our sop, Ian, was born in yodr
most capable hospital in'•Novem-
ber, 1952, and grew healthy his
first two year's in nice climate, on
lovely property down by the river..
That fact, plus the many nice peo-
ple and beautiful countryside
makes it 'a pleasant thdught for
us," to return sometime.
In, the, ' meantime we'll enjoy
Clinton through the pages of your
very, interesting paper.
For speedier delivery please
use the following address:
MacLennan, E. A. Dee.1955'
RCAF ,Station,
WHITEHORSE, :¥ukon, '
1VI.P.O. 1315,-Edmonten, Alta,
Nostalgic memories will home..
along with every copy and we'll
surely enjoy each one throughout
1955. .
Thank you,
E: A. MacLennan (Cpl,)
RCAF Station,
Whitehorse, Yukon.
January 11, 1955
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton. News -Record,
Clinton, Ontario,
DEAR SIRS: .
Enclosed please find cheque for
Two Dollars and Sixty-five cents,
which I trust is in order.
I enjoy reading your paper very
much. I must confess that I get
a great kick out of your 40 Years
ago column. I knew pretty near-
ly -everybody in Clinton at that
time but now there are a great
many names I cannot recall. ,
yours very truly
C. M. THOMPSON, Manager
Selrite Stores •
Port Hope, Ontario,
January 17, 1955
the weekend in town with Mrs,
Heard.
The regular meeting of Clinton
IOOF on Tuesday night took the
form of a card party and enter-
tainment. Winners in the card
party were: gentlemen, Mr. Nickle,
W. L. Johnson; ladies, Mrs. Gould,
Mrs. Nickle. The entertainers
were Mrs. George McLay, Mrs.
W, M. Nediger and George I -I. Jef-
ferson,
Murphy Lodge No, 710 elected
the following officers for the com-
ing year: W.M., T. Deeves; D.M.,
W. Fulford; chaplain, W: Cook;
recording secretary, H. Corey; fin-
ancial secretary, C. Nelson; treas-
urer, G. Potter; tyler, G. Hay;
I,P,M., J. Turner; lecturers, N.
Falconer, M. Falconer; committee-
men, William Falconer, G, Cornish,
1,200 miles of new railway line
is under construction or has just
been completed in Canada, bring-
ing the country's total of single
track up to 43,000 miles—nearly
enough to go twice around the
world at the equator.
ODE To A LANDLADY
(Ed. Note: Though' not written
to us—the;, following ode is so
usual in context and- feeling :`that
we feel you would be interested.
We have read many jokes about
hard-hearted land -lords andtheircareless tenants. Here is proof
of the opposite being true in Clin-
ton.),
From a Tenant to .
Her Lanturidy:
WITH LOVE
Although we are leaving and going
far away, , -
The memory of you in our hearts
will stay;
The world is full of people -but,
0' so few
Have the quality of kindness that
is found in you.
And so before leaving we
would
like to express
Our thaYnks and appreciation for
your kindness.
And we want to wish that your
every clay ,
Be nicer and happier in every
And so as waywe part we' send our
love,
From Nan and Bob who rented.
above. •
—NAN and BOB.
January, 1955.
TOAST TO 'TEENS
The Editor,
Clinton News -Record
Dear Mr. Editor:
In this week's paper, I am most
interested in your report of the
new regulations and rules to be
enforced by 'Teen Town Couneil—
and the local Lions Club who are.
backing them — re their. 'Teen
Town dances.
May I, through the columns of
your paper, commend those young
people (and any others who are
their advisers) for this excellent
piece of work in formulating these
rules? ' They are so reasonable;
and good common sense! Most
praiseworthy!
It is my opinion, if those of us
who are older than 'teenagers, fol-
lowed their excellent example in
enforcing such regulations in our
social activities, everyone would
be a. lot happier.
Congratulations to Mayor Ken
Porter and his Councillors! May
each one have a very happy and
successful 1955.
And may each one attending
'Teen Town dances have an even
jollier time as these splendid rules
and regulations are adhered to!
Very sincerely,
CLARE McGOWAN
Blyth, Ontario,
January 15, 1955.
WEATHER AT SOURIS
The Editor,
Clinton News -Record,
Clinton, Ont.
DEAR SIR:
Would you kindly send us the
Clinton News -Record for 1955. We
do like to read how Clinton and
residents are. We have many
friends there. We are having quite
mild weather and a little snow.
Wishing you the best for 1955:
Yours sincerely,
W. H. TOWNSEND
Souris, Man.
Box 45,
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