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Clinton News-Record, 1956-03-01, Page 5Civil Defence Who Pays? J. S. Scruton CITIES SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR For Service Call 377W • After 6 p.m. — 377J COMING AGAIN TO CLINTON F l R A ONE-NIGHT RALLY Popular Song Leader of the Laighton. Ford Evangelistic This Youth for Christ Rally will be in the CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Young People Especially Urged To Attend IWURPAY, lVfAROH 1, 1950 .471NTON NMMTIMCORD pAcm vx'srg (Second of a Series of 24 Articles) Weather Reduces Crowd But Figure Skaters Perform At Their Best Members of the cast in the Clinton Junior Farmers and Junior Institute winning play, "Bobbie Pulls Up Her Socks" are, back row, left to right, Stanley Johns, Lois Janese Berne McKinley, Cath- erine Powell, Stella Rankine and Stewart Broadfoot. The players go now to Guelph during the Easter week, to compete in drama festival finals held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Huron County uiiior Farmer Drama Festival Winners ,Trappers Return .Of ficersi -Recommend Fur Auctions Mair federal assistance has been hi grants established in 1952 on the basis of eight cents per capita for the whole province, with another six cents per capita for target-area cities. For the first two years the grants were available• on the basis of a federal dollar for every pro- vincial dollar up to the province's population quota. In the last two years these were extended to mu- nicipalities as well, providing the province approved. That is, for municipal projects the federal contributions now are made on the basis of 50 per cent from Ottawa, 25 per cent from the province and 25 per cent from the municipality. If the province' jump in Ontario's direction as that province accepted the federal grant for the first time, Administrative officers at fed- eral civil defence headquarters in Ottawa, have estimated that of the $4,800,000 available through grants in the first three years of the program, the provinces took up about $1,000,000. Ontario's par- I ticipation was expected to make the bite larger in last year's grants. The grants, however, are only one side of the federal C.D. as- sistance program. 'Its direct C.D. expenditures from 1950-55 totalled some $9,000,000 and its estimates for the 1955-56 fiscal year were $7,000,000. It set up the Canadian Civil De- fence College at .Arnprior, Ont, and pays expenses for training persons from all provinces. It has put aside $9,000,000 for stockpiling emergency medical supplies. It has supplied warning sirens to major cities, fire pumpers, stretchers, training manuals and other equip- ment wherever there was a need. And these costs do not include such projects as the multimillion- dollar radar warning screens going up around the continent, telecom- munications, the ground observer corps and others closely related to the defence of Canada. The federal government also agreed to pay one-third the cost of stand- ardizing fire hose coupling sizes. Ontario, British Columbia and Al- berta have taken advantage of this offer. (Continued from page one) Bourke, Albert Dyer and Wayne Graham in a comic policeman act. Two young ladies from Goderich, Carol Zimmerman and Diane Mc- Connell gave solo performances, assisted by senior club members from here and Goderich. The Clin- ton. girls were Lorraine Caldwell, Susan Finley, Sharon Cook, Mary Ann Newcombe, Ann Trott, Mar- ilyn Miller, Iva Glazier, Gwen Shorey and Dawn Grigg. "On The Avenue" This show by the junior girls, was in the Easter motif and in- cluded pair skating by Lorraine Odbert and Joyce Templeton, of Stratford.• Clinton juniors in the Easter ballet were: Patricia Rey- nolds, Mary Macaulay, Wendy Mc- Gee, Heather Winter, Margaret J. Addison, Marjorie Woods, Dianne Lee, Ann Shives, Jean Ashton, Edith Dawson, Karen Hamill, Dianne Garon, Beverley Beattie, Nancy •Schoenhals, Nina MacDon- ald, Julie Dixie, Nancy Olde and Maureen Hayter. "Polar Fun" Sharon Fenton, RCAF Station Clinton, as a mother penguin, and Wilma Billings, . Clinton, as pa, were principals in the "Polar Fun" penguin act. All were dressed as penguins, complete with perfectly shaped bills. Little penguins were: Margaret Trewartha, Joanne Ald- winckle, Margaret Pratt, Betty Jo Deeves, Margaret Muirhead, Margaret Aldington, Sandra Malt- by, Louise Easton, Shirley Spills- bury, Christine Getty, Charlene Turner, Mary Jean Neilans, Glenda M'ero, Maureen , Hayter, Nancy Olde, Bonnie Sfnith, Janet Smith, Dianne Donaldson, Mary Elliott, Margaret Steinburg, Ruth Stein- burg, Donalda Freeman and Judy Graham. Other parts of the show were: "Doggie in the Window" starring Larry Daw, Don Cunningham, Peter Thompson and Patricia Rey- nolds, all of Clinton. "Stairway to the Stars" enacted by Elizabeth Odbert, Arthur Bourke and Albert Dyer, Stratford. A mambo on skates was danced on Friday night by Joan Finnegan, Stratford; and on Saturday night by Shirley Campbell. "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" saw Sylvia Bullen, Goderich, as the solo skater, with a chorus of Goderich and Clinton senior skat- ers. All skaters appeared on the ice for a grand finale bow, Dennis Silverthorne was the an- nounced for the evening. The col- ored lights and spotlight equip- ment were from. RCAF Station and was handled by a crew headed by F/0 Bud Hayter. Duff Thompson was in charge of a telecommunica- tion system between different points in the arena. The wiring for the extra lighting was, instal- led by Maurice Bateman while Mrs. Bateman was in charge of make-up for the skaters. Most of the costumes were obtained from the Stratford Skating Club. At intermission time, Mrs. Reg. Ball, president of Clinton Figure Skating Club, expressed apprecia- tion to all who took part and for the support given the carnival. =111101111111Mak THE CANADA TEMPERANCE ACT This law was passed by the' Federal Government in 1876 to assist Provincial Governments to control the liquor traffic. It is a County Local Optioe law which can be carried on a majority vote. Huron Coun- ty voted it in by a majority of 2,608 in. 1914. The law is very restrictive. No legal outlets, for liquor sale, such as beverage rooms, lounges, cocktail bars may be licensed by the Government in C.T.A. Counties. Twice the law has been test- ed in the higher courts. Both the Supreme Court of Canada and the Privy Council in Eng- land rejected the appeal to have it declared invalid. It was declared "good law." It is just as enforceable as any other law that forbids sale, if the integrity and efficiency of the enforcing powers are as- sured. Those .who have lived all their lives under the C.T.A. find it difficult to believe it 'preferable to the Liquor CUT1- trol Act. Not so many others, who have moved into Huron from L.C.A. counties. "You just don't see drunks on our streets," declared one, living now in a Huron town. Another who had lived more than ten years in another Huron town, has found conditions much worse in the little five-legal- liquor outlet town to which he moved. We in Huron are fortunate. Let us think twice before we make a change. HURON COUNTY TEMPERANCE FEDERATION 9-b A small attendance at the an- nual meeting of the Huron County Trappers Association here last week was blamed on the bad wea- ther. Thane present unanimously named lest year's slate of officers to continue for another year, They are: President, Les. Dolmage, Sea- forth; vice-presidents, Elmer Trick, Clinton; Elmer Shade, Egmoncl- ville; directors, Bois Johnston, Murray East, Joe Becker, Mervin 13atisin, Earl Doucette; auditor, Austin Harris; secretary-treasurer, Keith Cox, Bayfield, Harold Cantelon, Wildlife Man- agement Officer with the Depart- ment of Lands and Forests, spoke at length on the present scare of rabies, and then considered the progress being made in getting better prepared pelts presented at the fur auctions, He quoted a Mr. Henderson as saying at the Hunts- ville sale, "We of the New York fur auction. are a, million dollar business. We have to act in a million dollar way," Mr, Cantelon said that at the Montreal fur auction, buyers carne from all over the world, and they could be influenced in price by good or not-so-good preparation of the pelts. He said, "It's. a crying shame" to see good furs being cut- led, down to a No, 3 grade., which originally were No. 1, just because of poor preparation. The speaker told of the advant- age of the trapper in knowing what grade his furs should be and having them piled according to grade, so that when the buyer comes to his home to buy he will know that the trapper has some knowledge of what should be of- fered. He said, "In Ontario we have developed a name for "Ontario Furs.", and "Ontario Mink". Some of the fur men in Northern Mich- igan have noticed this, and so have bootlegged some of their furs onto the market under those nam- es. It is something to watch out for," Another disease mentioned was tularemia which occurs in musk- rat, and can be caught by humans. It, like rabies, is contracted through a break in the skin, and acts similarly to' a bad case of the flu. Mr. Cantelon said that it could be' fatal, and it could have after-effects, He said it was a blood cell disease. One of the traps pers present mentioned that there had been two Cases at Listowel this year, and some in the Ste Clair region, Strong endorsement of the fur auctions was expressed by the trappers present. According to Bob Johnston, who attended the recent sale in Huntsville, 'coon pelts sel- ling locally for $1.25 were bringing $4.50 at the auction. Les Dolmage mentioned that the 'coon was bringing as high as $5,75 at the Montreal auction, The club is arranging for cars to gps to a proposed sale in Brants ford on March 26, and again on April 23 at the same place, and anyone with furs they wish placed in this auction are asked to con- tact either Mervyn. Batkin, ton or Les. Dolmage, Seaforth, for transportation. a Letter to the Ed itor CLINTON BOY The Editor, Clinton News-Record. Am sending you the Stars Phoenix of February 16, contain- ing the news of the death of Charles Spooner of this city, and you will note that he was born in Clinton. He was well liked here and is a great loss to his friends here. I knew his dad, grandfather and Uncle, and old-timers there will re- member them as they used' to be in the hotel business in Clinton. I thought perhaps you might wish to let the people in Clinton know, not that they would like to know of his death, but that they would perhaps 'be proud of such a grand write-up of what his friends thought of him in life. Yours truly, MARSH MORRISH February 17, 1956 Saskatoon, Sask. * * (Editor's Note: We certainly appreciate your thoughtfulness in letting us know about this former Clinton boy. It is a pleasure to find that those subscribers who are far away from home, feel their "belonging" to the home paper and are always glad to use information they know will be of interest to our readers.) Canada's civil defence bill is' big and still growing, but it would be bigger without the citizen volun- teer, Under the Canadian C.D, set- up each province ..and municipality is responsible for adapting broad :federal policies to the needs of its Own people, for Ottawa exercises •no administrative control over local C.D. agencies. Civic-minded volunteers, there- fore, are the backbone of civil de- fence. The bill is not small. It probably won't shrink so long as nuclear war is a threat, But F. F. Worthington, federal civil defence co-ordinator, has said "To federalize civil defence, to plan for a provincial or municipal government staff in all its ramifi- cations would involve a paid force numbering thousands." So far the federal government, in various ways, has paid the lion's share. It has agreed, at confer- ences with provincial officials, to provide training, research, equip- ment and financial assistance, The provinces and municipalities are taking it from there. doesn't participate financially, the federal contribution is 25 per cent direct to the municipality, In the 1952-53 fiscal year the federal government matched these provincial C.D. expenditures, Bri- tish Columbia, $114,964; Albert; $85,545; Saskatchewan, $25,206; Manitoba, $15,899; Newfoundland, $5,244, In 1953-54: B.C., $107,714; Alta., $85,545; Sask., $34,020; Man„ $25,158; Nova Scotia, $4,020; Nfld,, $3,015. It was in 1953-54 that B.C, municipalities led the way in civil defence, financially at least, by putting up' $145,728. They led the next year, too, shelling out $225,- 000. Ontario municipalities enter- ed directly into the C,D. financial picture then, too, with $48,366 to Ottawa's $18,122. That year, 1954-55, federal grants matched in: 13.C„ $158,350; Alberta, $118,922; Sask., $42,087; Manitoba, $25,892; New Bruns- wick, $12,433; Nova Scotia, $17,925; Newfoundland, $21,373, Figures were not in for 1955-56 but were expected to show a big BERT STANLEY'S Red and White Market CLINTON — ONTARIO C & W GROCETERIA Red and White Market CLINTON --ONTARIO RCAF Station Store Here are the Lucky Winners so far! Mrs. R. A. May Mrs. K. C. Cooke Mrs. J. Mair Mrs. M. Maltby Mrs. A. F. Boom Mrs. K. Sutton Another 5 Weeks To Go—You Can Be A Winner Too RED AND WHITE BRAND AYLMER BRAND Red Pitted Cherries For Pies CLARK'S 5/$1.00 GRAND PRIZES! To Be Drawn After The 8 Weeks Of Lucky Winners MARCH 31st RED & WHITE BIG — $ DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS! CAMPBELLS '9 Cream of Mushroom Soup 6 tins CLOVER LEAF BRAND THUR., FRI. AND SAT. FEATURES AT ALL MARKETS SHOP OFTEN — PUT YOUR LUCKY ENTRY IN THE BALLOT BOX EVERY TIME Solid. 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