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Clinton News Record, 1955-07-14, Page 2GE 01 cuRiON MWS-i12031th THE CLfl'4TON'14E/04;!!'1RA' THE. •CLINTON NEWS -RECORD , • , ••••• ' • • .•••..'Frt issue • Juno • 6, 1665, • eamalgamateu" 1924 ' An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of• the Town of Clinton and SurroundingPistric Population, 2{825; Trading Aread 10,000; eta11 Market,, $2,000,000; Rate, 4.5c Per. line flat Sworn Cireulation --- 2,016 Home of Clinton RCAF Stater: and Adastral Park (residential) Editor; ,WILMA. D. DINN)N ME1VI)3ER: Canadian and Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associations • and 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 • Authorized as ,Second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, _Ontario, Canada, ' in the Heart of Huron Count THURSDAY, JULY -14 1955 * • First issue (Huron'News-Record) January 1881 t y ELECTION NEXT MONDAY is election day.. Voters of Clinton are urged to go to the Polls and cast their vote to fill one council seat for the balance of the year. Choice is between one man with one year's experience and another with no experience. Both are family men, and have lived their entire lives in Clinton. • • 'c.s Whichever your choice may be for this im- portant post, make sure to take the trip to the polls and cast your vote. SEASON FOR PEDDLERS GOOD VVEATILER, brings out door-to-door peddiers in great abundance.. Some of them are doing their job in a perfectly legal way. That is, they pay their license fee to the town clerk, and receive a licence which enables them to peddle their merchandise to houses in town. However, there is always a group of ped- dlers who do not bother. They come into a town; work from deor-to-door in a couple of days; take away their orders for merchandise Which can quite possibly be purchased from merchants who pay business tax ln town; the housewives co-operate in sending payments as ixdquired, and money flows out of town. It is definitely unfair competition and it is up to the housewives to help put a stop to it. When, a salesman comes to your door, ask to see his licence. Read it carefully, and make sure all is in order. If in doubt, phone the police station at once. If the salesman does not possess a licence, then refuse to do business with him, and phone the 'police department 'so they can check up on him. It is to the whole conuminity's advantage that this be done. Do not feel that you are being hard-hearted. Remember the one-armed salesman who came to town last year who took away money from housewives who thought they were buying magazine subscriptions, and that their purchase was to help the man buy himself an artificial limb. That man was brought into court and convicted of false pretenses. If a salesman is iti a legitimate .business he will not object to calling at the town hall and getting the proper credentials. If he has not got them, then he should be brought to a halt right away. It's up to the women of town to help protect the businesses of their husbands and other businessmen in town, BETTER THAN. NONE WHEN THE NEW President of the recently revitalized Huron County Industrial Promotion Board was about to take office, and there was yet a number of offices to be filled on the Board, he stated that the location of Clinton as a site for meetings of the Board was best • because it was central. He suggested that the need for a strong working executive was neces- sary if the Board should live, and also stated that he felt they, should be in one place if possible. Another delegate made the remark that if ail of the executive were from one area, it would perhaps rouse jealousies among the rep- resentatives of other" municipalities, who might feel that one district was getting most prefer- ences. President Jermyn's reply was: "Well, that would be better than no Board at all." So far there has been no suggestion of jealousies among the communities of the County which are taking part in the Promotion Board. The initial purpose of banding together "to foster, co-ordinate and direct the promotion of new and existing industry in Huron County" leaves no room for jealousies. Each of the delegates to the Board is expected to carry on this purpose within his own community. But by banding together resources and ideas, a stronger group exists to attract attention to the 'County. TRADITION (FROM THE TRAVELLER) A GREY-HA1RED MAN', with apple cheeks and smiling eyes, sat in a family living room, Four other younger people comprised the group. And the talk was the same which might have been heard at this precise hour in a thousand other homes in that same city. One spoke of the treasury deficit. • Another spoke of the turn -over on that day's stock ex- change. And a third mentioned the latest fig - tires of unemployment. And when each had said - his or her say about what these things denoted, the grandfather put down his cigar and said this: "We seem to speak in numerals to -day. Whatever we 'say, we define and measure in numbers. We speak of one man's wealth and another's loss. And generallg we speak in mil - Bong or billions. These words were seldom used when I was a younger man. "We read and spoke of a mechanic building a horseless carriage; of two brothers flying like birds for the first time, in human history; of a small merchant linking a chain of stores across a thousand miles; the world today seems to speak .of the number of things. And between the two there is an ocean of difference. "We used to think of numerals as relative, even before relativity burst on the popular horizon. Dollars were important, but there was something even more so. That something was Tradition. Ours was a tradition of build- ing. We harnessed the rivers and we drove ribbons of steel into a trackless waste, We moved mountains and we dug shafts deep into the earth's blackness. This was Canada—and a Canadian was one whose heart stirred with these accomplishments." • , CAPSULE (OR AN EULOGY HE CAME on muleback, dodging Indians as he went with a pack full of better living and a tongue full of charms: For he was the great. . , . salesman, and no man ever had a better thing to sell. He came by ricketywagon, one jump be- hind the pioneers, carrying axes for the farrn- er and fancy dress goods for his wife, and encyclopedias for the farmer's ambitious boy. For- he was the great practical democrat spreader of good things among more and more people. • He came by upper berth and dusty black And the grandfather continued: "We did not place the emphasis on numbers or numerals. The word million was an extravagance, and billion fabulous and fan- tastic. Our emphasis was on a man and his work. And we measured all things not by numbers, but by the quality of what a man produced, and what he did with his head and his heart and his hands. "We had wealth and poverty. But each man was rich in the tradition that he could climb as high as his heart would carry him. We trusted to Time and we believed in the manifest destiny of Man to survive. "I seldom hear younger people today use the word Tradition. Yet this, and this alone, is the asset of a company or a man. In the end, it survives all weath and all change. The Man • who owns a million dollars is a pauper without it. And the pauper may be a king, if he remembers it and uses it. "Richer than all riches is the accumulated experience of men. This is the only thing a man may pass on to his son—or one generation to the next. For this, men- have struggled and spent their years and given their lives, Yet this is the one thing which all men inherit. "Blind men speak of sharing wealth—while those with eyes to see realize that this is the real wealth of a nation—and those who feel its spur have shared it ever since the first man looked back on what another had brought into the world, and said: This is mine to leave stronger and better for those into whose hands it will come—as it came into mine'." HISTORY TO A SALESMAN) coupe, selling tractors and radios, iceboxes and 'movies, health and leisure, ambition and ful- fillment. For he was (the) great emissary of abund- ance, Mr. High -Standard -Of -Living 10 person. He rang a billion doorbells and enriched a billion lives. Without him there would be no ships at sea, no busy factories, no sixty` million jobs. For the great salesman is the great . . civilizer and everywhere he goes he leaves people better off, (Reprinted from bidustry) THIS SYMBOL — A FLAG • WE LISTENED to the heartening comment • - of a local citizen this week in defense of the flags which Canadians now fly. She had been thrilled to hear the fife and druin band of the , Orange Lodge as they provided local citizens with a taste of the grand music of the ,Orange 'Walk, before they went up to Blyth, for the 'big do". The trune "Three Cheers for the Red, • White and Blue" made a gay brave sound. We agree. • The flag we 'now fly—whether it be the 'Union Jack alone, or the Union Jack in the, tipper left, with the coat of arms in the middle of the red field, which is the Canadian ensign— is perfectly satisfactory to us. The history • 'Which is interwoven through the making of the • Jack—and through the figures in the coat of • wails, to • us' signifies the beginnings of the •,,,• greatest country in the world. Canada is the Most thrilling thingin the lives of any .of us to-day—and her beginnings are important to us. However, our Canada, dear though she may, •' pblOpttiloatign ninety-nine all, is echanging.- f o rilo- f=gtejleititiln17- redths percent pure British Isles and Fretich • descent. And with her people now of all nations, coupled• with astonishing griowth of industry and btu ding and culture, Canada has • become a eartain turmoil of emotions and procedtire. Through it all thrives the demon progress. Mitch as vvelike the Canada we have been brought up in, we are caught up in the excite- ment of the growth of Canada into what she will become. • It is inevitable that suggestions for a distinctive flag shall be made, by those, who wish honour for themselves, or by those who sincerely wish for Canada. to "stand on her own two feet". Bill Smiley, editor of the ,Wiarton Echo has this suggestion (and he says, 'It will have to be "a big flag): "Among the scenes depicted on it will be these: an Indian handing over a mink coat to a French fur -trader in exchange for a 19 -cent • mirror; a British officer handing over a few shillings to an Iroquois warrior in exchange for some scalps; Sir John A. MacDonald driving a silver spike into a railroad, the railroad to be' represented by the pocketbook of a 20th cent- ury taxpayer; a squadron of Mounties doing their famous "ride" against a background of nude Doukobors; a beaver rampant on a bed • of maple leaves, thistles, shamrock and fleur de lis; a wheat field just after the grasShoppers have been through; a forest fire; a House of • Conunons scene, with nobody but the Speaker and the speaker;' a U.S. tourist, complete with cigar, dark glasses and baseball 'cap." In truth, though that is' a light-hearted way of saying the same thing: Carla a has so much wideflung territory—from sea to sea --and so mallY,'thingS are symbolic, of Canada, it would appear thebetteri part of •valour, to remain satisfied with the flag of our beginnings, and continue to cheer the red white 'and btu TIIURSDA'k, ,'SUI,Y It 1955 , .• From our Earl File 40 YIt is reported' that Charles Glew ears -- of the iluron Road, Ihallett, has Ago CLINTON 'NEWS -RECORD ' sold his fine faith to Peter Glazier Thursday, July 15; 1945 •of the rarne line. Dr. Thompson has had a top ad- Wilbam, Elliott is= making an dition to • his verandah • erected excellent job of his two houses which adds greatly to his house. put of the old Queen's Rotel. James Manning, who has been Bert "Kerr is having a verandah at the GTR station here for some built at his home on Victoria St. 'time is now on the road relieving. • --- • Wiltner Wallis has taken a posi- 25 Y Ago tion with the GTR at the stafinn taking James Manning's place. CLINTON NEWS -RECORD John G. Medd is having his Thursday, July 10, 1930, house shingle&C, W. Draper was elected presi- , We are sorry to hear that Mi - ss dent of the Western Ontario Fire - May Forbes is ill at her home and men's Association -at Tavistock on is threatened With typhoid fever. July 1, • Miss Shirley Bawden is spending Dr. P. Hearn has been appointed her holidays at London and other to, the Public Library Board and points. .• •. at a meeting of the board R. E. Manning was chosen chairman. The partnership having subsist - 40 Years Ago ed between Messrs. Robert and CLINTON NEW ERA }tarry Fitzsimons for the past 25 Thrusaay, July 15, 1915 years, has been dissolved, R. Fitz - Major Shaw reports that the sinions having withdrawn. The following have signed for the 4th business will be carried .on by II, Contingent now 'being formed; Fitzsimons. Elmer Cluff Beacom, Clinton; In the list of successful entrance Joseph Reginald ,Skilton, Stanley students writing at Clinton, Gene Township; David Downey, Gode- Andrews took the' highest marks rich Township; John Reynolds, in the Clinton class and thus wins Goderich Township. the Dunn cup. Last Tuesday; Hazel' Carter, R. B. Foster, Toronto, spent a daughter of Mr. and Mrs, I. Cart- few days- at the beginning of' the er, fell and broke her arm when week in renewing old acquaint - she fell while climbing a tree. ances in Clinton. It is 33 years Thomas Churchill of the 16th since "Dick" left Clinton but he concession, Goderich Township, found many of his old friends here. lost a lot of his sheep last week. He came to visit his aunt, Mrs. One dog was shot, but the owner J. C. Copp, who is very ill. has not been found, yet. Mrs. Edgar Cross and children, Toronto and Miss Marion Gunn are holidaying at their home in town. , On Saturday last George Scales, an esteemed resident of Hullett Township, passed his 80th birth- day. Mr. Scales is stillhale and hearty and, with his daughter, Miss Esther, still manages his farm on the ninthwith as keen an interest as many a man half age. • "BUSINESS DIRECTORY" INSURANCE Insure the "Co-op" Way W. V. ROY District Representative Box 310 Clinton, Ontario Phone Collect Office 557 Res. 324,1 .C. LAWSON Bank of Montreal Building Clinton PHONES: Office 251W; Res. 2513 Insurance — Real Estate Agent: Mutual Life Assurance Co. Be Sure t : Be Insured IL W. COLQUHOUN GENERAL INSURANCE Representative ' Sun. life Assurance Co. of Canada Office: Royal Bank Building Office 50 - PHONES - Res. 703w2 E. HOWARD, Bayfield , Phone Bayfield 53r2 Car - Fire - 142e - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy THE alcRILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers 1954: President, John H. McEwing, Blyth; vice-presi- dent, Robert Archibald, Seaforth; secretary -treasurer and manager, M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: John H. IVIcEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris. Leon- hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Wal- ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Har- vey Fuller, Goderich; J. E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alister Broadfoot, Sea - forth. Agents: Wm. Leiper Jr., Londes- boro; J. F. Prueter, Brodhagen; Selwyn Baker,Brussels; Erie Munroe, Seafort. INVESTMENTS Get The Facts Call VIC DINNIN Phone 168 — Zurich Investors Mutual Managed and Distributed by Investors Syndicate of Canada, Ltd. OPTOMETRY G. 11. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone 33, Goderich J. 15. LONGSTAFF Hours: Seafortiu Daily except Monday & Wednesday -9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m, Clinton: IVfacLarens Studio—Mon- days only ---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. RONALD G. McCANN Public Accountant . Royal Bank Bldg., Phone 561 Res: Rattenbury St., Phone 455 CLINTON, ONTARIO 4-ffb REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER, Real Estate and Business Broker High Street — Clinton Phone 448 • • ' - . • " ' „ • •,•,, • , • „ • • 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, July 12, 1945 Pte. L. p. "Skip" Winter, Clin- ton; Gnr. J. W. Deeves, Goderich Township and L/Cpl. Bob Dairy; mete, Brucefield, were among those who arrived in New York on Wednesday aboard the Queer Mary, Taggers who worked for the Navy League of Canada last Sat- urday were: Jean McIntyre, Kay Britton, Anna Glew, P. Shanahan, M, Thompson, A. Husty, D. Elliott, J. Andrews, A: Britton, J. Fines; A. Jervis, K. Glew, C. Pi/lean& N. Ford. Misses Joan and 'Llsbeth Slo- man are at the Girl Guide camp near Toronto. Mrs. Richard Barley, Galahad, Alta., is visiting her brother, Fred Nott and other friends and rela- tives in town for two or three weeks. Miss- Eunice Roy, nurse -in - training at Toronto East General Hospital, returned to her duties on Sunday, after spending her vaca- tion with her parents at Londes- boro. Mr, and Mrs. Stewart Taylor, Robert and Pauline, have return- ed home after spending a week's holiday at Wilfred Jervis's sum- mer cottage on Lake Huron. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reynolds. Letters !9 the Editor "47t,.,57ri• - - $75 CAR RENT THE EDITOR, CLINTON NEWS -RECORD: In your report of Council act- ivities, appearing in the last issue of the Clinton News -Record, you stated a bill from a local garage charging the town $75.00 rent for a car for one week had' been re- ferred back with a view to hav- ing, the charges reduced, Unfortunately, Your statement has caused this firm some em- barassment. We have been wrong- fully accused of having levied the charges referred to. As you are aware, the vehicle was not sup- plied by Lorne Brown Motors Limited. We are not suggesting you pub- lish the name of the garage who did supply the vehicle. Our re- lations with our competitors loc- ally have been on a friendly basis and we hope to keep it that way. We do feel however, the public are entitled to some explanation. While the cruiser was being re- paired at our garage, a replace- ment vehicle was supplied to the Police Department at no cost to the town. We feel this procedure would also have been followed had the work been done by. any of our local competitors if at all possible. • Yours very truly, Lorne Brown Motors Limited, Per LORNE J. BROWN July 12, 1955, Clinton, Ontario. 0 Latest official figures show that in 1951 motor vehicle .accidents caused nine deaths per 10,000 vehicles registered in Canada. • Huron County Crop Report (By G. W. Montgomery) Baying progressed favourably during the past week. Dry weath- er still prevails, rain is badly Cutting cif wheat started in th south end of the Country this week- and other spring' grains. are commencing to turn color, ^ Milk flow has dropped off con- siderably and in some cases dairy herds are being put on supplernen- • tary feeding. lir SRI MTN Siff :4-.7- --la- • `1111.111w2e:4114111111.1s1- _ Surpervisitio, Saves Lives! --44' 44- 12, '10 USE RED+CROSS WATER SAFETY SER Published in the interests of Clinton and Community By the CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Quality DRUGS Service Try LUCOZADE Only 59c THE DRINK TO PEP YOU UP IN THE HEAT 16 oz. „ bottle . 40c Tooth Brushes WITH TOOTH PASTE PEPSODENT — REG. 59e .... 2 thr 89.c HAZEL' BISHOP Nail Polish Buy 2 — Get 1 Free REG. 1.50 for . 98c ASSORTED SHADES Bathing Shoes Durable Hard Plastic Small - Medium - Large ONLY 59.c REXALL Nasal Spray Ii Plastic Atomizer For Hay Feveir 98c TUSSY Colognes and Bath Powders G $ 1 2.50for .25 TRY SPRINGWOOD TOILETRIES by TIFFANY AN ENTIRELY NEW FRAGRANCE COLOGNE $1.75 PERFUME. $L50 STICH DEODORANT $1.25 DEODORANT LOTION $1.25 CLEANSING CREAM $2.00 CREAM LOTION $1.00 KODAKS — Printing and Developing — FILMS W. 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