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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 1955-03-03, Page 2PAGE TWO THE CLINTON NEW ERA First issue June 6, 1865 curtrON ` NEWS-RGCOIU) THURSDAY, MARCHI 3, 1915 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD First issue (Huron News -Record) January 1881 Amalgamated 1924 :• Jnde endent 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, .4.5e ,per line flat Sworn Circulation — 2,016 Home of Clinton RCAF =Station and Adastrai Park (residential) MEMBER: CanadianWeekly 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 Adestral Park -25 cents a month; seven cents a copy Authorized as ecce nd class mal, Post Office Department. Ottawa Put ----- THURSDAY CLINTON, Ontario, t- Heart Huron County THURSDAY, MARCH 3,.-1955 SECRETS? TOWN COUNCIL on last Friday night held The business matters of a small town may' a secret meeting. Neither public nor press seem like .a .small thing. Perhaps the well were advised of it. A second meeting- was being,, of 2,700. people as best handled by a held on Tuesday at noon and neither public group who can say "This must be so." : Per - nor press were advised of it. haps the, job of taking careof the Town of Perhaps there was no business conducted there which is not now an open book. We have no reason to believe: that any business was conducted during, these meeti1igs which would not have been conducted in the seine - way had the meeting been a public one. portant. The business ofconducting the gov But domost definitely contend` that .ernment of a small. municipality such as ours Bu we .• Y any ' elected municipal body which decides the is the .very nucleus ' upon which dethocracy is ' business of the municipality is better discussed built. Democracy: means:' government of the and conducted in private, is showing absolute disregard for the democratic ;principles for which -:Canadians. were (and would again if necessary) be willing to fight and die. • ti Clinton would be better handled .in such a manner. Maybe Clinton's affairs are of such small moment that it doesn't matter. We don't believe this is the case, •To us the affairs of Clinton are very im-,° people, -by .the people, for the people. It does not mean government of the people by a small group (even if elected) meeting in secret session to 1take whatever action they see fit1. , WHAT DO YOU HONESTLY THINK? WHAT DO. YOU THINK yourself? Has accept the job as head of the police depart - Clinton been adequately policed, throughout the ment once more, with promise of a -three-man past two years? Have you fault to find with force, cruiser and better working conditions. the work of the Chief or of his two constables? - The police committee (which is actually, An ultimatum has been issued to the Police t to mayor's committee, made up of the mayor Constables giving them until five o'clock next Monday evening to sign an agreement with. the Town of Clinton to work for a salary set at and three councillors) was set up in early 1953 to deal with all matters pertaining to the police department. The first year. Councillor M. 3. an increase of $50 over last year, and be on Agnew was chairman. Whei'x, . in 1954, Mr. duty "for such hours as shall be designated by Agnew becamemayor, he retained the chair- the Police Committee." Other conditions of manship of the committee, and again this was work are to be the same as that in existence during 1954, with the additioh that each con- stable "shall devote his -full time- to the duties of a constable as heretofore set •down." What does this mean to you? It' means to us. IF the time until next Monday at five o'clock in the` evening expires ... and IF the constables.h ve not decided to accept these terms which have been so dietatorily laid down for them to accept or reject (on pain of dis- missal) . THEN Clinton will once more be without a police force (effective April 1). his post in 1955. Other members of this. com- mittee this year are Deputy Reeve B. Stanley (who was on council in 1953, though not on the mayor's committee); Councillor George Knights' (who at public meeting of Town Council voted In favour of a higher `wage and better working conditions for the police constables) and Councillor Bert Gliddon (who was not a member of council in 1953, but was on council before that when a two-man force was used.) All of those things are facts to -remember. - What are you going' to do about it? Are you content .to, see the police force which we Do you want this to happen? , Remember have at present, "go by the board"? Are you When, it happened:. before—two years ago. Re- happy to see the policing- of Clinton go back member the succession of constables and chiefs, to the two-man force which 'we had prior to and the very unsatisfactory way h which the January, 1953? If so, then sit down in your town policing was done for a period of months. easy chair and let it happen: It, certainly looks Remember, too, how the Police Committee as though it might. . • of the Town Council at that time consisting -, But if you are not content to .see these of Mayor W. J. Miller, Reeve J. W. Nediger, things happen, then for goodness sakes do some- - • Councillors D. M. Pegg and M. J. Agnew (chair- thing before it's too late'. Make your voice men) -masked the present chief to return and heard before Monday evening. WHY -NOT -A B:T.A.? :AT RISK of being a bit boring when we repeat this question, we would like to ask why Clinton does not have a Parent-Teacher As- sol:iation of some sort. Though there seems little suggestion that all thingsare not well between parents and teachers at present, we can see room for improvement` in the well- being of - our town, through an active organize- , tion such as this. In Canada these groups are. called Home - and School Associations. In the ,United States they are better known as Parent -Teachers groups. In either case they provide a common meeting place for the parents and the teachers to discuss the education of the school children. . As risk again of being boring, we would -like to suggest that the parents in Clinton seem to show a lack of interest in the doings . of their children. Of course there are those few individuals (both men and women), who do spend a lot of time' with the younger genera- tion -and the leaders of the Scouts and Cubs (where enrolment is growing muchfaster than theincrease in leaders); and of the Guides and Brownies; the men who sponsor minor, hockey and getdown to therink actually to work with the boys; the ladies who have worked so faith- fully in doing the costumes and , planning for- . thls week's skating' extravaganza—all are to be strongly congratulated. But what about the other 300 sets of parents? - What are you doing to show your youngsters that you care what they do in their spare time? (Note: the purchase of. a TV set is not a. particularly good answer to this question.) - We feel that a Parent -Teachers group of some sort in Clinton is gravely needed. With- out such an organizationparents tend to forget, about the problems the children meet in school— and when they forget. these problems; they are all too apt to forget about,leisure time problems: as well,• I. ' ,TOUGH GOING AT TIIE ARENA THIS YEAR; without a good .team in the the Arena just about the busiest spot in town. intermediate series of hockey, the Lions Club . Expenses are high, however. Electric power has been hard put to it to -make ends come and water are two of the largest items of ex - within sight of meeting in the financing' of the Dem' and in some town's the municipality itself is giving some help. : skating arena. This is not because it is not \ In connection with waterworks, the local' Well patronized. PUC can make a direct grant to the community -In fact the day begins at about seven centre. • in the morning when members -of the figure, With regard to the electric division, it is skating classes start their practice of a graceful necessary to collect from the arena., Then the art. From then on until after eleven the ice money can be returned by the PUC in the form is rarely free of some group or other. The of a grant, and it can be charged to public figure skaters' leave, and a hockey game prat- . relations and advertising. tice begins. That over, a group of mothers with This is a good idea. Other businesses in young children, then after-school figure skat- town support worthwhile projects and it would , ing, then a minor hockey game,then a scheduled' be a fine gesture `if the Public Utilities would games or else' an evening of group skating makes join these community efforts. YESTERDAY —= TODAY AND TOMORROW WHILE THE FACTS of current' educational teacher, but when that' moment • comes, the needs stare us in the face this "Education person who fills it will never be forgotten. Week" (which begins on Monday) would seem They taught in log school houses, in rooms to be a -good time .,to look backward and in private dwellings, those pioneers in education.' forward at the school scene• in Canada and to They took over the bright new schools Which recognize that while teachers may be in . short we now team hovels. They worked •with a supply today and may be vitally ;needed to- minimum of text books and paper and ink but morrow, they have ;been faithfully on the scene ' they turned out our -college . professors, our .qf., Canadian education ever since the first set- ministers, our politicians and our. statesmen. 'tiers arrived -and through many years when their reward was pitifully small and their in- fluence great beyond all computation, There has been, in almost every smalltown in Canada, at least one teacher whose honest . may • ever hope to repay. But ill one way we , God-fearing presentation of the -basic principles may acknowledge it and, make a down payment of learning has laid a foundation on Which -the -ona long loan. Today we may accept this men and women whom he or site taught have whole matter . of education as a trust from (built lives which were lived in the service _of those who worked long and faithfully for little their country and their God. They wielded an pay. We may spend our money and educate influence which even they probably under- our young men and Women with a view to Feitimated, because in the life of every,,, child a making the education of our children the first pr,•young person there is one moment when he' claim on our purses and on our time. And we needs a hero It may 3be a baseball player, an may recognize this great increase in the children orchestra leader, `a' minister or, perchance, a of the nation for what it .is --riches unexcelled.. Arid they did as good, or better a- job as is being accomplished today with .all our . new- fangled machinery. 'We owe them, a debt greater than we sad�a�+r-�s�r�r-�-�•a-ay-��rs-i+a�++�-o-r•r-�•a-va,r-w-rc-a-+�o-� a-t^�-s�o.•a. From, four .Early'- Files 40 YEAR.) AGO ,_The Clinton News -Record' March 4, 1915 W. Greig,eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Greig, of town, is, an- other Clinton boy who hat volun- teered for overseas service and is now in training. in Toronto. Tom F. Rance, son of Mr. C. C, stance, Toronto, was operated on for appendicitis on Monday and is now doing as well as can be ex- pected. A. T. Cooper was at Atwood over Sunday taking special church services. Little Miss Doris Miller has re- turned home after spending a very pleasant week wish her aunt, Mrs, Clarence Sturdy, Goderich Town- ship. Charles Clifton has moved his effects and livestock to the Mur- dock .,farm, south of Brucefield, which he bought for $7,200. Ed. Welsh expects to raise his barn for a stone foundation, Edgar Armstrong has sold his driver to Chris O'Brien, Tucker - smith, realizing a good figure. The Clinton New Era March 4, 1915 R. H. Reynolds, GTR agent at Kippen, states he saw a snake glide along the .ground, on -Friday while he -was walking around the station platform. This is the first of the season. Warden 3, M, Govonlock 'hat served as a county councillor for the least ten years as Reeve of McKrllop Township, - The girlfriends of Miss Mabel Dunford gave her 'a.shower"at her home 'on Monday evening. Many useful presents were given to the bride-to-be. "BUSINESS DIRECTORY" . INSURANCE Be Sura Be Insured K. W. COLQVHOxJN GENERAL INSURANCE Representative: Sun life Assurance Co. of Canada Office: Royal Bank Building Office 50 - PHONES Res. 703w2 H. C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building . Clinton PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 2513 Insurance . Real Estate Agent:. Mutual. Life Assurance Co. Insure the -"Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative Box 810 Clinton, Ontario Phone Collect Office 557 Res. 324J 3. E. HOWARD, Bayfield Phone Bayfield 53r2 Car - Fire - - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have ' a Policy THE MoKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office Seaforth Officers' 1954: President, John H. Mc'Swing, Blyth; vice-preal- dent, Robert -Archibald, Seaforth; secretary -treasurer and "manager, M. A. Reid," Seaforth. Directors: John H, McEwing; Robert" Archibald: 'Chris. Leon- h4r`dt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewastha, Clinton; Wm. S. "Alexander, Wal- ton' alton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Goderich; 3. E. Pepper, Brucefield; AlisterBroadfoot,'Sea. forth. es- boAgents: Q J:F. Wm. Leiper Brodbagen; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; - Eric Munroe, Seaforth. INVESTMENTS (let The Facts Call VIC DINNIN Phone 168 Zurich Investors Mutual Managed . and Distributed by Investors Syndicate of Canada, xtd. OPTOMETRY A. L. COLE, R.O. Eyes Examined and. Glasses''Fitbed Goderich - Phone 33 J. E. LONGSTAFF FLOURS: $EAFORTH: Weekdays except Wednesday, 9 a,m. to 12.30 p.rn. • Tues., Thurs., Fri, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. ' Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CLINTON: lWaeLaren's Studio Mondays• only, from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. PHONE 791 SEAFORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT • RONALD G. MoCANN Public Accountant Royal Bank Bldg., Phone 561 Res: Rattenbury St., Phone 455 CLINTON, ONTARIO 4-tfb ROY( N. BENTLEY Public Accountant '4 Britannia ltd. (corner South St) Telephone '1011 'GODERICH ONT, REM. ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Beal Estate and Business. Broker ' ' High Street— Clinton ' Phone 448. On Thursday evening at the quitting hour, at the Doherty Piano Company` the boys called upon Will Moffatt,head finisher,"and presented him with a cabinet of silver on the eve of his wedding,' Clinton defeated Mitchell in a red-hot hockey match played here Wednesday night. Referee Charles Martin lost control of the game and an old-time slashing, tripping and wrestling match, was pulled off on the ice. Clinton line-up was: goal, Byam; defence, Rum;. ball, O'Donnell; rover, C1uff centre, -• Graham; wings, Forbes and Draper. 25 YEARS- AGO Clinton News -Record 'February 27, 1930 H. P. Plurnsteel was talten ill yesterday ' evening and had to undergo an operation. His friends trust he will soonbe around again Master Norman Fitzsimons cele- brated his- birthday on 'Saturday last ' when he entertained the members of his Sunday_ School class and their teacher at the home .of his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy. Harold Lawson, Hamilton, spent the weekend at his home in town, The contract in connection with the erection of a new school. at SS 10, Goderich Township, ' has been let. E. J. Dinnin, Seaforth, being the successful contractor. He expects to commence building operations as early in the spring as possible. e Rev. C. E. "Dougan'of St, .And- rew's Presbyterian Church, was elected moderator of the. Huron Presbytery '-at the meeting held here on Tuesday. 10 YEARS AGO The-Cligton News Record. March• 1, 1945 W. L. Johnson has taken his son, Charles,into partnershipwith him in his grocery business. The firni's name in the future -will be W. -L. Johnson and Son. A. D. McCartney has ,disposed of his coal business to George German, who has already taken possession. F/0 Frank Garrett, elder son of Mr. and- Mrs. Newman Garrett, Tuckersmith, has been awarded the" Distinguished Flying Cross. F/0 Garrett has finished his tour of 40 trips over enemy territory. Clinton's fifteenth blood donor clinic was one of the most success- ful yet held; 115 donors attended. F/0 W. M. and Mrs. Adams have returned to Toronto after spending the past week at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A, E. Fremlin. Pte. Ken Scott, Chatham, spent the weekend at, his home here.., The people of the tenth conces- sion of Hullett, west of Landes - bora, are rejoicing that the road is open for cars after being im- passable for motor traffic since New Year's. Mrs. Lloyd Picot was taken to Clinton hospital, Wednesday night following a fall on the ice during the sleet storm, Business Girl Pkins.Worr-y- Free Future $150 Every Month For Rest of Her Life! A young. Toronto woman hu solved the vital problem facing ell business and professional women— future security. If she stays single, her future will be protected by "a Confederation Life policy which, at age 50, guarantees her $150 a month for the rest of her life! If she marries, this policy will provide a comfortable 'extra -income' for h@r and her husband. . Her Confederation Life policy is a systematic savings plan for build- ing a secure future -without finan. cial risks or investment worries. If, -for example, she is totally disabled for at least six months by sickness or an accident' before she is 50, Confederation Life's Disability Benefit will keep up her premiums for her until she is well again. C�nfedcrat!on l f 0 ASSOCIAiIOY For Free Booklet, Want Insurance", call: K. S. GILLIES, Representative, Atwood Science Wages An All -Out Fight 'STARVATION' WAR ON CANCER (BY RON IKENYON, Telegram Science Reporter) (This is the last of le series of five at'ticles). The way in which cells—normal on: cancerous—utilize. 'food is one of the most fascinating studies in science. To Say; "We. eat food, which goes to the cells of our body" is a general statement. The cells don't live on bits of banana or tapioca pudding. What is the chemical process by which foodstuffs are turned, by the cells, into energy, so that we can lift our arms, walk, bend—do all the things which re- quire life: Since it is obvious that, in order to live, cancer cells must feed, are there any ways 'ib which their feeding processes canbe interfer- ed ',with so that they starve to death? This question has been asked by scientists for decades, but it awaits a full understanding of the incrediby intricate ,pro- cesses of chemistry for its ,answer. Obviously, food, whether beef- steak or an ice cream: cone, must be turned into energy if the body is to use it. First,saythe scient- ists, it is convertedto glucose (body sugar) and is sent around the body, in the blood. Each cell, receives its quota: What then happens inside the eel, is amazing,` and has come to Light, through' use of the electron microscope and similar methods fox studying the very, small. In each cell are "zoos" called mitochondria in which "live" a number of . enzymes. Let loose haphazardly, these enzymes would. destroy the cell, but they are kept ingeniously caged and used only in exact sequence. Enzymes are chemical catalysts. In the pres- ence of oxygen they are able to cause chemical changes in `food while remaining themselves but little altered. As glucose entersthe cell, cer- tain enzymes attack it, changing it into another substance. Then their attack is withdrawn and an- other set of enzymes take over. Finally, after the activities of numerous enzymes, the glucose is reduced to energy, carbon dioxide and water. Enables Movement The energy, of course, is used by the cell for reproduction as well as to provide us with the ability to move. ' It is as though the food (glu- cose) were travelling in a truck convoy along a super -highway and suffered a constant -attack from different -bandits (enzymes) so that when it reached its destina- tion there was nothing of value left. It has been learned that cancer cells do . not work exactly the same as normal cells in extracting energy from food. A long time ago a German re- searcher noticed -that there was an unusually high concentration of lactic acid in the bodies of cancer patients. This has now been ex- plained. At one stage in the enzyme attacks, the glucose is turned into Iactic acid. In normal cells the process is continued until only carbon dioxide and water re- main; but cancer cells tend to stop at the ,lactic acid stage and waste the rest of the food value. Numerous attempts are being made . to turn this peculiarity of cancer cells into a weapon against them. Another ingenious attack is the effort to "roadbock" the enzymes of cancer at certain points. If one series of cancer cell enzymes could be stopped, it is reasoned, all those that followed after would be unable to work and the 'ce11 would starve. This "road -blocking" ,operation has actually been successfelly carried out—so close is the cancer solution! But the cancer cell enzymes proved tricky. They used `sideroads" around the block and carried •on as before. Nevertheless, this research is considered among the brightest in all'baneer research , for there can only be so many sideroads When all are blocked—and scient- ists believe they can be—cancer will be curable, se There is no shortageof ingen- ious ideas among cancer research- ers; Dr. W, R. Franks, of the Ranting Institute, is ; trying an idea which he believes is hopeful. He injects into the bodies of mice, chemicals which are poisonous.af- ter irradiation.,, One such is chlor- al, Though the chemical is dist- ributed generally throughout the mouse's body, only the tumor As x-rayed and only the chloral in the tumor becomes poisonous, Dr. Hans Selye;' of Montreal, one of -Canada's most famous re- searchers,is studying the relation- ship of inflammation to cancer. He points out that cancer must get large food supplies from the blood. Inflammation causesan increased blood flow -and there- fore more food. By reducing in-- flarnmation" around a cancer he hopes to interrupt its growth. 'Can Cure 'Cancer'? I asked a noted scientist to predict who would discover the final answer , who would stand alone one clay as the only man on earth who correctly could say: I can cure cancer." "Who knows?" he said. "So many are doing good work. There's so much luck necessarily implied in finding the ultimate answer. If you ask me I'd say some 21 -year-old boy will fool,us all and come up with something we neverthought of and, unex- pectedly, we'll find he has the answer." Whoever cures cancer, the dedi- cated labors of thousands will have gone into making it. He'll have no more right to claim the final victory than the man who signs the armistice has the right to say he won the war. Wanted: Bartender "Must have ability to cater to a very discriminating club member- ship, embership, Appearance and use of Eng- lish languagelmportant, A MUST is no drinking habits." Strange but true. This is a part of an actual advertisement. A MUST for -liq- uor dispensers is total abstinence, if efficiency is the objective. Plane pilots, locomotive engineers, hockey players, (if they wish to reach the big time), must curb their personal liberty in this mat- ter. Yes, even the liquor barons, makers of beer, wine and h31 d liquor, know the facts about in- dulgence and the resultant loss of efficiency. 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