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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1955-04-21, Page 2GE 'FW IVTON NEW$ -RECORD TIi 3RSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 THE GLINTON NEW. ERA First 'sane June :6, 1865 ec 'THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD First issue. (Huron News -Record) January 1881 Amalgamated 1924 an Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Town of Clinton. and Surrounding District Population, 2,548;- Trading Area, 10,000; ' Rettail. Market, $2,000,000,` Rate, 4.5c per line •'flat Sworn Circulation - 2,016 Home: of Clinton RCAI! Station and Adastrai Park (residential) MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, •CWNA; Western' Ontario Counties Press Association ' SUBSCRIPTION RAPES: i 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 Adastrai 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 Heartof"Huron County THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 THE LETHAL TRACTOR AGAIN the season for the use of tractors On the farm, on the country roads, and between town and Sarni is with us. These tools, ever so •necessary in the age of the mechanized 'farm, can be anything but helpful when they are used .carelessly. There is never a year goes by in this dist- rict but that one or two people are seriously injured or killed because they have- forgotten the power of the machine they are using, or it has been operated by someone not old enough -to have good judgement or the strength to act in an emergency. "If it isn't unlawful for a minor to operate one of these• very dangerous machines, all I desire to say is that it should be. On the other hand, if a tractor is not describable as "a motor vehicle", then :I tend tolean on the acumen of Mr. Bumble, in warning that "The law .is an ass; an idiot," was the neatly worded PART A PART TIME after-school job for a teen- ager is the answer to a number of problems. To a boy, the job of raking a lawn, ' or sweeping a sidewalk, cleaning a basement, or taking off storm windows may seem an irk- some thing—but if the pay be reasonably in keeping with the task, then the chore is lighter and it means he will have some cash for a show, or to put a new wheel on his bike, or to help collect enough money for a down pay- ment on a jalopy. To a girl, the house-cleaning tasks in the spring take on new meaning if they are ac-• complished with promise of payment, and she can often find this type of work next door as well as at home. Her pay means a new pair of bobbysocks, a spanking new permanent for that special date, a pair of dancing shoes, or STRA comment of one letter .to an editor. This same writer added: "Sometimes. I get the thought that we are paying• a fearful price for so-called' "cheap food, and squeezing the farmer between costs and his revenues?' I am against child labour, on the farm or off it: Organized urban workers wouldn't tolerate it a minute." There is a thought indeed. Certainly no farmer can afford to risk his child'slife for the doubtful prospect of saving the hire of a grown man. Still the fact remains that a farmer's son or his' daughter may be a much better worker on the farm than those who condescend to go out into the country to work when jobs are no longer available in the city. Whatever the situation, though, there should be great care taken in the operation of the familiar tractor. It can be a murderous weapon. • TIME JOBS the price of a tasty soda in a favourite rest- aurant. , Both boys and girls need the feeling of responsibility which comes with earning some- thing of their own. Perhaps we grown-ups can do something which will' help them in this regard. Plan to get someone in to do the odd job we've been putting off. As ,merchants, perhaps we would welcome the chace of getting the store swept or the shelves dusted, or an order delivered, so that we can relax a bit earlier in the evening. At any rate, if you do hire a teen-ager— hire hint to do a job, and then pay him a fair amount. It may be just the thing needed to help a 'youngster along the way to a useful adult citizenship. NGE IT IS WE NEVER cease • to marvel at the world in which we live. Here in Clinton we have been advised that expenses for the public school are to lie raised in ,1955 enough to make necessary a request for at least three mills more than was spent for the purpose last year. Three mitis translated into dollars in our town means $5,715 approximately. Some few hundreds of this can be explained away in a $100 raise for each teacher employed at the school, which is ex- pected to take effect at the first of September. However, by our figures this will mean less than $650. There will be no additions to the number on the staff. The main extra expense outside of administration and operating costs, seems . to be a matter of seeding, and of course, the stage for the auditorium. What seems particularly strange to us, - is that in the face of this, there has been no outcry from the taxpayers. Perhaps we judge wrongly, but a few months ago, it seemed imperative to the repre- eentatives of •the people to lop off $100 from the municipal budget for this year. We refer, a course to the refusal to pay a salary which the police constables of our town could whole- heartedly accept. Now it seems highly improbable that the representatives of the people would have acted in any way but that which they felt the voters would condone. Still, when the matter of a raise in school costs is predicted, there was but one still small voice from the public school board membership, which even expressed a hope for reduction. Surely the younger generation is the hope of the world. - But we do question, for instance, just what contribution the stage in the new auditorium will make toward the betterment of the country, Certainly it would be a nice thing for the children to have. But surely our town will be unwise indeed, if we continue to cut corners in other departments, to the detriment of our adult citizens, and of course, to the children in the long run. We cannot go along with the idea that so many small halls with -limited seating capacity, can be of much use to the general citizenry, even though they be fitted "to the teeth", while our only public hall—the Town Hall—continues to look like a disgraceful dungeon. Let's show some of our strong civic pride and fix up the place that should be a meeting centre for our people, a place for staging local theatricals, political gatherings, farm meetings, all of those . things which go to make up the community as a whole. Let us not sacrifice our everything to the, children while we let the adult part of the world disintegrate into a shambles. NO PRETENSIONS TO ROYALTY (Meaford Express) , ONCE in a while, people wonder why edit- ors, in writing editorials, use the pronoun "we when referring to their singular selves. We were never too sure of the origin of the custom, until we came across it recently. The only other persons who use the plural • pronoun are kinds. Few editors have pretensions to royalty. Current issue of the Canadian Weekly News- papers Association bulletin claims the following explanation of the editorial "we" has been extant for more than 100 years. "An editor is one who reads newspapers, selects miscellany, writes articles on all sub- jects, sets type, reads proof, folds papers and sometimes carries them, prints job work, runs on errands, cuts wood, works in the 'garden, talks to all his patrons who call, patiently receives blame for a thousand things that never ,were and never can be done, gets little money, has.. scarce time and materials to satisfy his hunger, or to enjoy the quiet of nature's sweet restorer, Cheese For Dessert (Ii;ingaton Whig -Standard) WHY DON'T the dairymen's associations get out and convince -restaurants that cheese is a .very good thing with which to finish, off a meal especially when the cheese is as good as that produced alpnost in the suburbs of this City? Such promotion would do good to the in- dustry in tWo'ways. It would notably increase the amount of cheese producers would sell. It: would alio, assure the public that the industry was trying to help itself as vigorously -,as the taxpayers are • forced to help it. It might even do good to the people who ate It. After all, it is one of the non-fattening foods, as we11 as being pleasant, to the taste, sleep, and esteems himself peculiarly happy if• he is not assaulted and battered by some un- principled demagogue who loves puppet shows and hires the rabble with a treat of cider brandy to vote him into some petty office. A man who does all this and more, not here recorded,. you will know must be a rather busy animal; and as he performs the work of sb many • dif- ferent personshe may justly be supposed their representative, and to have an indisputable right, when speaking of himself, to use the plural number, and to say 'we' on all occasiont -and in all places." THE I R.INTE• The fellows who write and the fellows who read „)lave ,of ten forgotten one, fellow they need, Though reading and writing were not very much Till this fellow came with his magical touch. Then he who. would write had a reason to try And he who would read had a way he could buy. Then reading grew easy, and knowledge began; Began with the •printer'.— yes, he was the man. Men boast of their freedom, and often forget The+source of their freedom, the source if it yet. Where more, isthe knowledge the monarch behaves Where less is the knowledge the people are slaves. A word that is written one hand can erase, A wool that is printed can awaken a race. • And yet we've forgotten the fellow, I guess,'• Who's setting the type or is running the press. Salutes for the soldier, a wreath for the sage, Applause for the spelaker Otho stands on the stage. A penny for poets who give us their songs, But never alone have the righted our wrongs. For down in the basement or back in a room Are liberty's future and tyranny's doom.' When freedom is calling thesummons is heard Because of the printer, who gives us the word. —By Douglas Mallecb, From urkarly Files 40 Years Ago CUNTQN'' NEWS -RECORD Thursday, April 22, 1215• Large catches of perch are be - 'ng made by xod and line off the pier at Bayfield. The old sheds, at the , rear of, Willis manse are being torn down, repairs are being Tirade to the house and the whole premises are being put in order. . -• If a new fountain will have the effect of inducing those in author- ity -to put the market square in, - proper 'shape and keep it so, the town will bless the giver :for all time. Clinton's public square is an eyesore in the centre of an otherwise pretty town. Miss Chinas of the Couch Com- pany's staff was- in Toronto the beginning of the week attending .the summer millinery openings. Ross Forrester, left op Monday for Assiniboia ,Sask,, to resume his former position after spending several months at his home in town. Norman Sheppard left on Tues- day for Toronto to rejoin, as sec- ond engineer, . the crew of the steamer City of Toronto, which jolies between Hamilton and Mont- real. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW, ERA • Thursday, April 22, 1915 There is plenty of sickness in and around town these days. John Govett is having a new verandah erected at his home on William Street. The Clinton Motor Car Company has sold a three -ton truck to the C. H. Tuny Limited of London and delivery will be made shortly. Several other contracts are nearly completed for two of their big trucks. Reuben Stirling, who has been working in Jackson, Mich., arrived home Monday, having had his left hand badly cut while running a saw, Tuesday, while councillor Harry Fitzsimons and "Bert Fitzsimons were whitewashing their slaughter house, thecquncillor had the mis- fortune to get both eyes filled with the spray. The 'town watering cart was put to 'Work on Tuesday and not be- fore the stores were filled with dust. Glen Cook has become the local agent for the Prudential Comp- any. Mr, Cook is well known and should work up a good busi- ness in town. On 5'riday morning, Bruce 'Mar- shall, son: of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Marshall, who is an employee at the Sherlock -Manning Piano Com- pany, had the misfortune of get- ting his fingers badly eat while cleaning oil off the plainer. Bruce was rushed, to the hospital, "the first two fingers', of his right hand were toobadly cut to save. They were both amputated between the- points hepoints of the second knuckle. O/Smn. Kenneth Miller, St. Hy- acinthe, Que., spent the weekend with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Norman Miller. Haines and Ross have opened their new taxi stand on Isaac St. Mrs, Fred ,.McCool, Hullett Township, recently received a cable from her nephew; Pte, Tom O'Connell who had reached the United Kingdom after being lib- erated from a prisoner -of -war camp in Germany by the Russian Army. Pte. O'Connell was taken prisoner at the time of the Dieppe raid and has spent`• over three years in a German prison camp. Mr, and Mrs. Albert Seeley have received word that their son, WO Harold Seeley has been injured in a plane crash on the west coast, Harold suffered severe burns but is making satisfactory progress. F/L J. Craig Cooper arrived from overseas on the -noon train on Friday and is spending his leave with his small daughter, Eliza- beth, at the home of Mrs. J. W. Treleaven. Mr. and Mrs. H, M. Monteith and son Neville, Goderich,' visited with Mrs. A. J. Holloway. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, April 17, 1930 So far there has been no suf- fering from excessive heat in this section. Harold Langford,'had the mis- fortune of having his hand injured while overhauling a car. - Phil Rowcliffe purchased a very valuable horse from Roy Elliott, Reuben Grigg has purchased the farm of the late Thomas Webster on the ninth concession, Goderieh Township. It adjoins Mr. Grigg's second' farm, formerly known as the Cantelon place. Miss Mary Cook and niece, Miss Lucy Ellwood, Goderich Town- ship, are this week spending a few days at the home of the former's sister, -Mrs. Joe Riley, Sr., Con- stance. Mrs. Daniel Gliddon has return- ed home from Clinton -Public Hos- pital. Hugh Maguire has been visiting his mother and grandparents in town before commencing his duties sailing on the Great Lakes. ' 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, April 19, 1945 Mrs. Harold Glazier received word on Monday evening, that her husband, L/Cpl. Harold Glaz- ier received wounds to his right •arm, while fighting overseas. Quick Canadian_ Quiz 1. What proportion of Canadian families own their own homes? 2. In what year was Queen Eliza- beth born? 3. Which costs Canadians more, national defence or state spend- ing on welfare and social se- curity? 4. Excluding the Yukon and North West Territories does Canada have seven persons per square mile of area, 14 persons, 21 per- sons? 5. Canadian railways operate how many miles of single track? ANSWERS: 5—More than 44,- 000-miles, 4;000'miles, a total exceeded only in Russia and the U.S.; 3—Welfare and social security spending ex- ceeds defence spending; 1—Two- thirds own homes one-third rent; 4—Less than seven persons per square mile of area; 2-1926. Material prepared by the editors of Quick Canadian Facts, the poc- ket annual of facts about Canada. Letters to -- .. !:op Shelt0 (By BENJAJIW BEVERIDGE) 9Vfaritimers are sprucing up on Ivied all 'their lives under its their local history these days in ;shadow, preparation for a big tourist year. One old gent, who fancied him More ''anniversary:. events are self a local historian, said his fath- scheduled for the. approaching er had been the first white person summer than old timers ;can re- born in "these parts", and that he Collect were ever planned for any had died just two years after Col - one, airbus had visited the city, Charlottetown, which calls itself the "home of Confederation", since it was there, that John A. Mac- donald and his committee from Ontario and Quebec (then known as Canada) put across the idea of union in 1864, is planning a sum- mer celebration of its centennary. Annapolis Royal (once Port Royal) is marking the 350th year of its, founding by the French, while up in Nova Scotia's Annap- olis Valley — in Grand Pre — the Acadians from all over the cont- inent are going to recall in pag- eantry the 200th anniversary of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Towns throughput the Maritimes will . be having birthday parties, and in addition to the usual straw- berry festivals, the traditional ap- ple blossom festival will be held in Annapolis in June, . Lobster carn- ivals and old home weeks will go on as usual, as well as the world, famous tuna fishing tournament at Wedgeport. HANNA WILL STAND The Editor, Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario. Dear Editor: After a very busy Session the Legislature prorogued on Marek. 31. We feel that much was ac- complished, particularly in look- ing to the immediate future. Among the most important meas- ures' approved by the House was the unconditional extra grants be- ing made available to each muni- cipality. It would seem that an election might be • held soon and I will let my name stand for endorse- ment of- the citizens of Huron - Bruce. The Government of Prem- ier Leslie Frost is a progressive one. Human betterment of all our people is certain under the leader- ship of Mr. Frost. You will be pleased to know that I am in good health and anx- ious to continue serving the fine people of the riding of Huron - Bruce. With kindest regards, Yours sincerely, JOHN W. HANNA, MPP,. Huron -Bruce. April 5, 1955 ENJOYS PAPER The Editor, Clinton News -Record DEAR EDITOR: A week ago I wrote you a few lines to say I was i11 and not able to send you the money order for your welcome paper. You can if you care to •put this item in "The Home Paper". I wait every week for'the paper and get home news. My brother also enjoys it for we both love our old home. MRS. BERTIE HABER, ELGIN MASON. 322 South Main Street, Romeo, Michigan. April 7, 1955 Huron County Crop Report (By II. R. Baker) "Dry winds and ideal seeding conditions caught many Huron County farmers unprepared for spring seeding. In, the southern part of the County many farmers have completed the seeding of cereal grains and report excellent working conditions. "Considerable ,interest has been taken in the new varieties of grains this year and although it was impossible to meet all these requirements with the desired` varieties quite a number of farm- ers are trying out the varieties Rodney and Simcoe in small quan- tities. A number of farmers have Garry oats under contract. "Farmers report quite a good spring growth of their fall wheat and the recent rain has hastened growth 'considerably. "Sugar beet growers are signing contracts at the present time and if a 500 -acre crop is contracted north of Exeter it is anticipated. that a new weigh station will be installed at Kipper:. e Carla'dian Cancer Society statis- tics show that cancer is th,e second cause of death in children between the ages of five and 14 , , sur- passed only by accidental death. This year also marks the 170th anniversary of the incorporation of Loyalist city Saint John in New Brunswick. But I have not heard of any celebration there, possibly because it might be only an anti- climax to the 350th, year of Cham - plain's naming of the St. John river which was observed last year. Halifax had -a big bi-cen- tennary celebration in 1949, and nothing is happening this year of that nature; but countless tourists will still be expecting to visit the historic citadel, and leave it, doubtless, far better informed of Halifax's early history than many of the natives. We could do better than, that Canadians everywhere across this land, who might disappoint theft visitors tremendously by their meagre knowledge of their home towns. Almost 155,000 New Can- adians came to this country last year, 44,593 of them from Britain, 48,562 from . Europe, and over 10,000 from the United States. Most of them have already shown a 'sharper acumen for seeping up fragments of the historic past than those born in Canada have done. The great tribune of the people, Joseph Howe, left this creed: 'A wise nation preserves its records gathers up its muniments .' decorates the tombs of its illust- rious dead , . repairs its great public' structures and fosters na- tional pride and love of country by perpetual reference to -the sac- rifices and glories of the past." As individuals we have forgot- ten those precepts more often than we have remembered. The radio personality known as "Rawhide" proved this point some time ago when he posed as a visit- or and roamed around the public gardens in Halifax with a micro- phone concealed in his coat. Some of his interviewees knew that the city was built in 1749 by Edward Cornwallis as a British fortress and springboard fo'r at- tack on the French port of Louis- bourg. Some even knew that there have been four forts from time to time in Halifax, and that the Duke of Kent, who was the father of Queen Victoria, helped build one of them. ' But most of the. Haligonians interviewed illustrated how much people are inclined to take the history of their own communities for granted. Some of them said the fort had been built by the French and was captured by the English, when 'in reality it was never at any time called upon to serve the purpose for which it was intended—to protect Halifax from invaders. Some thought it had been built by Indian slaves. Some didn't know when it was built or by whom, even though they had A. * I started out by talking about the summer's activities in the old province by the sea, and let me finish with one last note about the achievements I have noticed since I have been in this picturesque land, While the cities of Dartmouth and Halifax, looking across the harbor at each other, have been linked this year by. the Angus L. Macdonald bridge, and anew ferry service is to commence between Main and Yarmouth, a third im- portant link in communication is to be officially dedicated in the shape of a causeway between Cape Breton Island and the mainland of Nova Scotia. The Cape Bretoners are inclined to refer to the link as the end of the isolation of the mainland. But this is only facetiousness: The Scots of Cape Breton have lived for generations almost as a people by themselves. So much have they been isolated that it is said that more Gaelic is still spoken on the island than in Scotland itself. Agitation began to link . up the two factions of the province as early as 1902—almost as long as the agitation for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Since 1952 the causeway —three-quarters of a mile long, reaching from Mulgrave to Port , Hastings—has been in construc- tion. It is the deepest in the world, 212 feet below the surface , (filled with 9,000,000. tons 'of stone and cement) and 830 feet wide. - The lock is 80 feet in width, with a draft of 32 feet at low tide. There are provisions for a high- way, a railroad and a pedestrian. walk, over which more Americans and more Canadians are bound to travel into the highlands of an enchanted isle. Quality Only Home Permanent Custom -Made for GRAY HAIR w#i AQUAMARINE HAND LOTION Reg. $2:00 for $1.25 SPECIALS ON Tooth Pastes IPANA, reg. 59c -2/89c KOLYNOS with Chlorophyl reg, 69c — 2 or 89e KOLYNOS Anti-Enzfyme— reg, 69c -- 2 for 89c Try--- - BACHELOR SMOKER'S TOOTH POWDER It removes the film - and whitens the teeth. 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