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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1955-12-15, Page 2PAGE TWO CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 Clinton News -Record 'ITI'i; CLINTON NEW ERA (1865) and THE' CLINTON NEWS - RECORD (1881) Amalgamated 1924 N95NIT Seeo1AN84w r... t.w-,;(ii\ �SPARERS ',COM° Sworn Circulation 2,021 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT CLINTON, ONTARIO, IN THE *WART OF HURON COUNTY Population - 2,828 EDITOR: WILMA D. DINNIN SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance -Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a year; United States and Foreign: $4,00; Single Copies Seven Cents • Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa MEMBER: Canadian and Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associations and Western Ontario Counties Press Association THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 TAXES HIGH We feel that there could be more attention given theeducation problems of our nation to- day. There is where a high percentage of our tax dollar . goes, though the ordinary taxpayer pays it little or no attention. Certainly we want the young folk of Canada well educated. In them the future of the nation rests. However, education seems to have resolv- ed itself into providing money to build schools and more schools; provide more and more books and equipment of all sorts. In the meantime we continue to burden our teachers, of whom there are all too few, with the task of getting some knowledge across to ever more youngsters without due attention to the fact that the youngsters themselves in some cases are not interested in learning. They are just sticking it out until they are 16 years old. They are occupying school space, teacher time, and using up the tax dollar for little purpose. But the taxpayer doesn't care. He'd rather, in the long run, pay the taxes he is asked, - grumble a certain amount, and feel that the government is giving him something for nothing. TAXES, PEOPLE SAY, are pretty high. same people say they are too high, and that they just cannot go any higher. One thing is sure. Lf we continue to want the government,' whether it be local, provincial, or national to do more things for us, then the taxes are going to condone getting higher. The peculiar fallacy of human nature seems to be this: we can look at the awesome amount of taxes which must be paid municipally, and shudder at the thought. We can look with, wore der at the figures, and wonder just where it all gets spent.. We then say to ourselves and our neighbour, (and the hounddog at the window, if ire will listen): "They can't get any higher. We just won't pay them." ` And then in a few mon- ths time find that we are paying them, whether we like it or not. We consistently refuse to investigate the matter of tax collecting and spending, and hon- estly try to do something about it. Somehow, We seem to have the idea that our money can be best spent by someone else. . A BOOK LAST WEEK for the first time in our - rather short career as an editor, we received a book, newly published, for the purpose of review. After we first got over the shock of re- ceiving such a thing, we discovered several facts to be thankful for. First of all, was the fact that we had met the author. Michael Foran was in our office not five months ago. More than that -he is a brother of Mrs. J. McGuire, who is well known in this district. In fact he was born in Huron County, up in one of the Wawanosh Townships, and his work is well known to listeners of CISNX radio. Tlvs all makes him an old friends of ours. The second thing of which we are grateful, is that his book is a slim one of quite entranc- ing verse -of the humourous sort. We cannot help but shudder at the thought that our first "review book" might just as well have been a horrendous tome of 900 pages or more about any one of the hundreds of dull topics which authors have been known to choose. We have never gone along very far with the accepted idea that Canadians have no hum- our.. Having grown up in Canada -and with a large family on a farm -we have always gotten a great deal of fun out of life, and very few OF VERSE happenings in which humour could not be found. Anyone who has lived on a Canadian farm long enough to make the acquaintance of a flock of ducks being raised by a clucking biddy of an old hen can hardly exclude humour from the Canadian way of life. However, the skill involved in getting that humour satisfactorily on paper is another thing again. And the skill involved in getting this. humour (especially in verse form) published, is yet another thing --especially in Canada. Mr. Foran has done both of these things. And the result is quite, quite satisfactory in- deed. For instance: HOLY CITY Sinners say that it's a pity This is such a saintly city. Only God could make Toronto. Only God, indeed, would want to. And he goes on with a tale of the disappear- ance of Fordyce, a small hamlet between Gode- rich and Wingham, which actually is no more, and another ballad of Timothy Welsh in the Donnybrook hotel, way back in 1893. We've really enjoyed our first "review book" and it will be on our shelves for many a year and a chuckle to come. The name of it is "This is My Worst". POKING A FIRE (The Printed Word) • ' way and no one shall give any advice. Poking at a fire is a personal affair. There is no place in the operation for those people whose delight is to arrange others' lives rather than to live lives of their own. One who feels that he may sometime get a chance to poke a fire should therefore avoid knowing any bossy people, lest one of them might happen to be on hand when the rite is being performed. How terrible, as one is leaning forward to stir up the sparks, to hear someone say, "The log needs turning." When they see a fire being 1I1 used, bossy folk should restrain themselves, although a slight' twitching of their lips and fingers is peen tted as being only natural to human frailty. POKING AT A FIRE in a fireplace is an ,A,ot peculiarly rewarding in satisfaction. From the fire's point of view the poking seldom does much good and may do harm, even may put the fire out'altogether; but to worry about such things is to misconstrue the purpose of fire poking, which, has no particular purpose. Every fire should have someone to poke at it, tickling It into a laughter of sparks. Out of doors and on in an evening.,before a one crawls into a sleeping bag, a last meditative, urmnecessary poke at a fire can be a thing for a person to reittember through the years. There are only .two rules about fire -poking and these are that no one shall assist in . any MIK1C-Mtet6 tie tit ss Qeq k6M-ta FOR. GIFTS THAT LAST GIVE FURNITURE KNEEHOLE DESKS In Walnut, Limed Oak and Solid Birch $31.00 --. $49.00 - $59.00 $65.0 .- $79.00 DESK 'CHAIRS TO MATCH Special Christmas Carton ,of 2 Lawn Aluminum folding Chairs 2 for $21.90 A 'For That After Christmas Cleanup Bissell Carpet Sweeper $9.35 $9.'75 $12.50 Large assortment of Chairs, Mirrors, Pictures, Tables Beattie Furniture "Mb at9tSieireSi rtrltSis9tet esbteiSrSt3 t Muggs and Skeeter SAY. THIS IS A NICE DOG YOU'VE GOT, S(GEE'i-ER! ta YEAH, WE , LIKE NIM HIYA, BOY:... HE DOESN'T MIND 1F I PET HIM, DOES it% NO, HE LOVES THATI... BUT WE'RE 1N A HURfzY.:, ',litt i( r21 The United' Church of Can- ada is conducting a national campaign to ,make the coming Christmas more Christian In announcing the camp- aign, Dr. James R. •1Vtutchmor, secretary of the board said: "We are urging our people to remember the needs of the poor at Christmastime. "Christians should remem- ber that Christmas is the an- niversary oe the birthday of Jesus Christ. It should be observed as a religious festiv- al. It is a time offellowship and family reunions, for giv- ing and receiving, for rejoic- ing in the good news a Christianity. Christmas should not be ruined by over -indul- gence, show and unseemly dis- play, or falsified by ,hig pres- Fro' Our Early Files 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, December 9, 1915 Clarence Paisley, who has been a member of the local branch of the Royal Bank, has been promot- ed to the Stratford agency and en- tered upon his dutiess there the other day., Mrs. Emma Kennedy returned on Saturday from Caledonia where she spent the last ten weeks with her sister-in-law, Mrs, James Car- son. Mrs. A. J. Grigg and W. Ham- blyn : were in Guelph during the past week attending the big poul- try show in connection with the Winter Fair. Major H. T. Rance was in town on Saturday, his last visit before leaving with his battalion for Eng- land. noland. Newman Cluff has gone to Strat- ford to take a business college course. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, December 9, 1915 L, Paisley has a new and up -to- the -minute oil wagon. , Win Shepherd has his new run- e -bout on the go these days. Mrs. R. Match, Matron of the House of Refuge, is moving her furniture to her home on Ontario Street where she will live in fut- ure, D. Marks,'formet7y of the plant department at Goderich takes R. Runball's place at Clinton, Reeve Ford is away this week attending county council at God- erich. An important item of bus- iness is the appointing of the keep- er and matron of the House of Re- fuge. Ralph Tiplady, who is at present working . at Stratford, was home for Sunday. Nurse 3, Grainger, Brucefield, spent the weekend with friends in town last week. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, December 4, 1980 C. Mortimer Bezeau, Kitchener, a former Clinton boy, was elected mayor, of Kitchener on. Monday. His majority over his opponent was 1,879. Owen Combe, only son, of Col. H. B. and. Mrs. Combe who is a stud- ent at Trinity Boys' College, Port Hope, has won the Oxford Cup, the highest award for athletics. E. Wendorf is proving his con- fectionery and restaurant business from the stand in Albert Street to the one in Huron Street, where he has conducted a baking business for some time Mr. and Mrs, J. J. McCaughey have. gone to Toronto to spend the winter, Miss Margaret Ball, R.N., who has been in New York for some time, is holidaying at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Ball. • W. J. Nediger motored Rev, A. A. • and Mrs. Holmes to Toronto on Monday. Miss Gwen Holmes came up from Cobourg on Saturday to accompany them to the city. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Thursday, December 6, 1945 Addison A. Pegg, president of Sherlock -Manning 1 ianos Limited, Clinton, was elected president of the Canadian Piano and Organ Manufacturers Association at the annual meeting in Toronto last week, Thomas Deeves was re-elected Worshipful Master of Murphy Lodge No. 710, Clinton at the an- nual nnual election of officers, L. G. "Skip" Winter has purch- ased the spacious Dr. Gunn prop- erty. Franklin Banton was elected DOES HE BARK MucH,SKEETER? t'LL 83ET HE'S A GOOD WAItrN+' - 1 ' POG: p WELL, HE DOESN'T DO MUCH BARKING, BUT HE'S A REAL WA'I:CHDQG,,, reeve of Blyth over W, H. Morritt, reeve for the past five years, by a majority 0f 116. ' Russel Bolton has been elected president of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture. Miss R. V. Irwin has moved into the house recently built by Gordon Howes. Harry Tideswell lett last week for Hespeler where he has resumed his duties in. the woollen mills. Miss Florence MacCallum spent the weekend with friends in Tor- onto. Lorne Cook, soh of Mr- and Mrs. Cree Cook, Clinton has been elect- ed president of the Kinsmen Club of Toronto. Mrs. Ross McEwan, who has served as office manager of the Clinton Knitting Company for many years has resigned. Oscar. Switzer, R.R. 3, Seaforth, has bought the business property on Huron Street west of the main intersection, ownedby the Cooper estate, and consisting of three stores occupied by J. E. Johnston; Mel Crich's barber shop; and Husty Shoe Repair. 0 %; THE ,�' \ BIBLE 0,! TODAYwy Fri TI e, term "suspense thriller" could well he used to describe the story of the recent translating of the Bible > into the Hankul script for Korea. About the turn of the century a missionary had literally worn out his eyes putting the Bible into ,the ctaesical Korean script. Few people could read this, 'how ever. As the new, simpler script was developed and novels and newspapers were printed in it,. the decision was made to print the Bible in it also. After years of painstaking ef- fort the manuscript was complet- ed and the first 400 pages were set up in the press in the Bible House at Seoul. Then war broke out. The Bible House was bomb- ed and almostost ever ybu ng destroy- ed. ed. The remainder of the precious handwritten manuscript however was smuggled out by the wife of Rev. Young Bin Im, the master- mind behind this translation. she hid it in a pickle jar in the cellar of their home and hid her husband in a woodpile. As expected the communists searched the place but miraculous- ly missed the manuscript and the man. Knowing •they would return she again smuggled it away over miles of geurrilla infested fields to a farm owned by a friend. There it was buried rte a barnyard. When it had finally been smug- gled out of the country to Japan the first 400 pages were laborious•• ly re -written by hand. As war cleared around Pusan it was re- turned to Korea for, printing. Now it is coming off the press- es daily and eagerly snatched up as fast as it can be printed. The Bible which le so easily available to us reaches others' around the world only by difficul- ty and danger en the part of Bible Society workers, Suggested Bible Readings for the week: Sunday -I Cor. 13:.1-13 Monday -Luke 10; 25-42 Tuesday -Luke 15: 1-10 Wednesday. -Luke 15: 11-32 Thursday-Joktn 3: 1-17 Friday -Jahn 14; 1-14 Saturday -John 14:15.31 Local Man From Creamery Wins In Competitions Eric is Sims of the local Canada Packers creamery once again hung up a respectable string of prize - winnings in the Ontario Creamery- men's Association competitions during the past summer. Results were announced at the Ontario Creamerymen's Association con- vention in Toronto this month. He won fourth prize in the com- bined competitions, indicating all- round efficiency throughout the plant and tenth. in the yeast and mould competitions which have to do with plant sanitation and thoroughness of work. In addition the local boys won honourable mention for Butter Quality and in the Workmanship competitions. The competitions are supervis- ed by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, and are based on the grading of all churnings during the competition period from May 1 to October 31. --o Over 60 percent of the $650,000 raised in Ontario for cancer con- trol thisyear is used to support fundamental research into the cause of cancer. tetetVetVZ-+a Reg iz-ZeiSt.tetatw_er. tr t tat t.^,ta,cta;tetZtfit. 4 Tuekersmjth Has Named i!'' elegates Last Tuesday the councillors of Tuckersm.ith Township authorized the Reeve James Doig. and Clerk E. P. Chesney, to have an agree- ment signed with Alex Boyes 013 Concession 3, H.R.S. to provide a dumping ground for the township. It is expected that this ground will eventually be available for use of taxpayers two days each week un- der supervision. 3. C. Smillie will he the town- ship's representative on the South Huron District High School Board, Exeter; James .McIntosh on the Seaforth District High School Board and George Falconer' on the Clinton, District Collegiate Insti- tute Board. William Cameron will representthe township on the Scott Memorial Hosjpital Board, Seaforth. Authorization was given to have plans prepared for a concrete bridge to replace what is known as the O'Brien bridge. The road superintendent was instructed to proceed with the necessary work to alleviate a drainage problem on road adjoining lots on East Centre Street in the village of Egmond- ville. The clerk was instructed to in- vestigate procedure to be followed in the case of persons refusing to make available female calves for brucellosis treatment. A special meeting will be held on Thursday, December 15, to con- clude the year's business. Huliett Council Appoints to Boards A11 members of Hullett Town- ship.` council were present last Tuesday, when appointments were made to various, boards. Oliver Anderson will represent the town- ship on the Seaforth.District High School Board; Willis VanEgmon:d will be representative on the Min- ton District Collegiate. Institute Board, and William T. Craig on the Goderich District Collegiate Institute Board. Barden Brown will act on the Scott Memorial Hospital Board, Seaforth. 0 5 Quality Service TO HELP YOU SELECT THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR HER COSMETIC SETS -- SOAPS PERFUMES -- COLOGNES BATH SALTS -- FACE POWDERS and LIPSTICKS by Tiffany' -- Coty -- Tussy Tabu $1.50 to $10.00 COMPACTS $2.50 to $6.00 HAIR BRUSHES with Match- ing Comb $1.50 to $4.50 DRESSER SETS - 8 piece $4.95 to $9.00 FLORAL SOAPS., 69c to $1.50 BOXED STATIONERY 75e to $1.50 BATHROOM SCALES- $10.95 PLAYING CARDS -Plastic Coated -Singles $1.25 Doubles $2.50 IVIUSICAL POWDER BOXES $3.95 to $8.95 TO HELP YOU SELECT THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT HIM Lighter and Cigarettes-. his favourite brand .. $1.82 Lighter and Cigarette Case to match $1.98 Sheaffer Pens .... $1.95 to $21.09 Club Hair Brushes 98e Kodak Cameras .$3.60 to $45.75 Pipes -- Cigarettes -- Tobaccos Cigarette Rollers EELECTRIC RAZORS; Schick, Sunbeam, Philishave. Shaving Sets 85e to $4.50 Shaving Brushes -- After Shave Lotions -- Gillette Razors. Photo Albums --Flash Bulbs to fit all Flash Gwis. Wallets -- Plastic Poker Chips Soda Water Bulbs. Flashlights -- Shaving Mugs. FROSTY SNOW - To spray your tree .. 89c Gift Wraps -- Tags --' Seals Cello Tape -- Ribbons 5e to 25c GET TOUR SUPPLY OF SMILES 'N CHUCKLES Chocolates 1 lb. to 5 lb. boxes in assortnnsents to please every taste `+ 1 00 to $5.00 Gift Wrapped. W. C. Newcombe, Phm.B. Chemist and Druggist AIR20-227+,"h9ii-svry t9rr 1 Appeal Dismissed At sgoode Hall "A very serious • offence - by. a mature man," Chief Justice 3. W. Pickup commented at Osgoode Hall Monday alter the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an ap- peal by L. Douglas Holland, for- mer clerk -treasurer, here. Holland was sentenced to two years less a day definite and 12 months indeterminate in the On- tario Reformatory last Juhe 3 by Magistrate D. E. Holmes, at Gode- rich. Holland's counsel, W. A. Suth- erland, argued Holland's sentence should be reduced because he had an "extremely good possibility of rehabilitation," NE SITS IN THE DINING ROOM AND WATCHES EVERY BITE OF FOOD Y01J TAKE/! TOWNSHIP of TUCKER.SMITH Notice of Nomination Meetin A Meeting of the Electors of the Township of Tuekersmith will be held bt TOWN HALL, SEAFOR.TII Monday, a*ec 2 • 1955, for the purpose of nominating erndidattes for the offices of Reeve and Councillors for 1956 and School Trustees (2 to be elected) for the years 1956-57. Nominations will be received from the hour of 0210 o'clock to two o'clock in the afternoon.. In the event of more being nominated than, are required to fill the positions, AN ELECTION will be held on Monday, January 2nd, 1956 Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the following places ' PSD No. 1 -Mrs. Sheila King's DRO -Harry Chesney House, Egmondville PC -William Cameron Pm No. 2 -SS No. 8 DRO Roy McGeoch. PC -William Scotchmer PSD No. 3 -SS No. 4 DRO W. P. Roberts PC -George Turner PSD No. 4 -SS No. 3 DRO -Norris Siliery PC -John Broadfoot PSD No. 5 -SS No. 1 DRO -Melville Traquair PC --Glenn Bell PSD No, 6 -SS No. 9 DRO =W. S. Broadtoot PC -Robert Gemmell E. P. CHESNEY, Returning Officer 50-1-b