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THE. NEW .ERA----91-st YEAR. THE NEWS-RECORD 75th YEAR
No. 'I5.---The Home Paper With the News
CLINTON( ONTARIO( I UR$DAY( APR' 1,2„ 19$0, •
First Section Pages to
Modern, New Building Rouses Dial Ecripiunt
This, is Clinton's, new dial telephone building, on RattenbUry Street West. The two-storey
structure houses the dial switching equipment and associated apparatus on the first floor, switch-
boards for long distance and other operators on the second flow, and power, heating and ventilat-
ing. equipment in'-the basement. The building was constructed by Ellis-Don Construction, Company,
London.
Ally! W 9,4
rr$ GENERALLY F41,10,0700
and .$0111etirMs inspiring to read
from the. columns of .other weekly
newspepees Sometimes, haw--
ever, we come Upon bits which
seern to be rank injustice at the
very least „ „ .consider this item.
from the "Kaedid Ieea.ritels" ogle
UrtM by Bill in the Kincardine•
News last week:
"M. far as the Clinton Colts
are concerned, they are a good
team, with the security of the
fact that they seldom. lose in the
pillbox they flatter by .calling an.
.arena, At any rate, we thought
the Bulldogs .(Kineardine team)
were a little better and.. We will
put our money on Phillipsbtleg
to whip the horsemen and collect
the tribute of consesest."
-Bill went on with a good hit Of
the same, and in another story
about the ill-fated Bulldogs; play,
ing with our own home-brew Colts,
slighted the Clinton Lions Arena
with, this description: "their own
miniature in-door millpond" ....To
say the least, we were incensed at
tine sort of talk ... and only one
thing saves Bill from a blistering
comment or two on our own
Bill is quite happy about home-
brew hockey and is satisfied`
that with all players on the Kin-
cardine team corning from within
the town's limits, they have turned
in an excellent season of hockey,
and are able to show a slight pro,
fit financially for the season ...
This hi' comparison with Port El-
gin; „which is rumoured to be some
$2,000 in debt and Durham,
which paid out $8,000 for hockey
players . In this we heartily
agree with Bill „ and in defence
of our own arena, which 'may be
slightly smaller than theirs —
we. would note that at least it is
being run in the"black" by the
good bueineseinen in the Lions
Club . *
WE WOULD GO ON TO -SAY
that, even .if Bill is placing his
ate with the Phillipsburg players,
to win the current-tourney it's
ardly fair of him ... Here we are,
s home-brew as the Bulldogs;
th all players living inside Clin-
on, and that for the most of their
ves ... while the Colts are pitted
gainst a combination team by the
ame of Phillipsburg . . which
ulls players from Wellesley, ac-
ording to rumour from Kitchener;
nd from last year's intermediate
am of New Hamburg ... In fact,
ou. can hardly distinguish this
e.ars,...Phillipsburg team from last
ear's New-Hamburg Intermedi-
te team... Of course it's legal as
an be ... but it's more than, a
ittle "rough" when it is looked at
lonely ... And then to have sup-
itere of the other home-brew
earn in the playoffs, side with
ms... Oh, well, chances look
ore than bright that Clinton's
alts will take them anyhow
et'e get out and show the Celts
hat -their fans are behind them all
he way, whether it be in the mill-
id or in Phillipsburg's borrowed
alace the Cons are our team
.. and they're the best ...
Clinton Will Cut-Over
To Dial, 2 a.m. Sunda
At approximately 2 8..m. qn Sunday, April 15, a momentous
change will take place in Clinton's telephone system as the ex-
change is converted to dial operation in two minutes or less,
The conversion will be made with virtually no interruption
in telephone service. Early Sunday was chosen as the approx-
imate time because normally there are few telephone conversa-
tions in progress at that time.
Thanks For All
Help Towards
Special Issue
This issue of the "Home
Paper" represents a supreme ef-
fort on the part of the staff here
at the Clinton, , News-Record.
Eighteen pages of news, views
and' historical data in connection
With the .biggest thing since the.
Old Boys Reunion: dial phones.,
—has- made this paper one .ot
• which we feel rather prod.
However, we Would, like to'ex,
press our. thanks to all those ad-
vertisers (for early copy), the
Bell Telephone Company for
their exceptional co-operation, in
this regard, and to all those who
helped make the paper possible.
Credit for most of the photogra-
pliSr in connection with the dial .
cut-over is due to lVfacLaren'e
Studio,
Assembly Yard -Decision
Producers Plan -ForDisposal
Of Hogs From Local Yard
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TH A BIT OF TIME ON OUR
ands since the new pink telephone
ooks arrived ... We toyed around
'th, the thing . . . and found our-
elves tallying up the number of
Imes which certain names' came
in the listings. . Then we be-
an looking for the name which
ppeared most often . . . Actually
he Johns(t)on name appears 17
imes in the Clinton directory . . .
f course they show some individ-
ality: only 12 of them spell it
ly "t". . . .
Next in line are the Elliott and
mith names (13 times). , . then
all (12 times . . . Thompson (11
es) . . . Miller, Steepe, Taylor
nd Tyndall (all 10 times) .
ames which appear nine times,
re Cox, Crich, Dale, Lobb, Reid.
bile there are eight each of
rown, Cantelon, Gibbings, Harris,
Potters Trewartha, Turner, Wilson
and Wise ... Other familiar names
which appear seven times each are
Carter, Falconer, Jervis, Layton,
Livermore, Snell. , . and those ap-
peering six times are, Bartliff, Col-
slough, Cook, 'Glazier, Jones, Lavis,
Lawson, 1VIcEsvan, Middleton, Mur-
phy, itathevell, Stirling and Web-
ster. ,
*
Though many of these have been
familiar to Clinton for many
years.. . there is a fair sprinkling
of new names in the new pink di-
rectory: such as Kuiper, Keziyzek,
Kraszewski, Koene, Menke, Horne-
men„ Dykstra, Demo, Doney, Fat-
um, Fyvie, Ouirriee Verhoef, What-
ley, Van Riesen and Woneh .
which are new to Clinton within
the past few years . . . A new
'phone directory is faecinating .
even without a complete set of new
numbers,
tv *
CROCUS OF ALL coLovris . .
enewdrops. . . . all sorts of spring
flowers are making their presence
known along flovverbeda, by pract-
ically screaming with their bright
colours.. Vieing for attention are
the scarlet-breasted robins, plume
after a winter hi the south, .
The Weather
1056 1955
Iligh Low nigh LOU'
March 29 44 29 35 21
30 33 26 43 22
31 32 23 53 86
April 1 42 16 60 .81
2 47 35 61 81
3 65 40 48 32
4 62 36 50 28
5 54 33 '62 36
6 58 86 58 36
7 50 31 40 25
8 45 30 53 26
, 6 41 30 67 33
10 49 26 72 86
11. 53 31 70 39
Rain: 6 ins, Writ .19 his.
Sneer; 4 his.
The actual cutover will be made
according to a closely co-ordinated
procedure, requiring split-second
timing, to make sure that the
period-when all the community's
telephones are "dead" is kept to
a minimum.
At a signal given when calling
has reached a low • ebb, a gang, of
men wearing goggles will go into
action at the old manual exchange
to disconnect all the lines to the
old switchboards.
The goggles are necessary be-
cause of the method of disconnec-
tion. Tapes are strung behind the
heat coils—little fuses that protect
subscribers' lines from high volt-
Brush Up On
Languages At
"Bell" Display
Like to try your skill et read-
in Ukrainian? Hungarian? or a
little Yiddish?
These languages, along with
Italian, German, French, Dutch
and English are all included in
a sparkling new folder which the
Bell Telephone Company has on
hand at their display in 13eettie
Furniture Store window all this
week,
At Beattie's you are invited to
pay a visit, talk to the lade who
is demonstrating the dial phones.
Ask her your questions; try out
the dials; learn how to use a
party line; —and brush up on
your languages at the same
time,
age—so that the fuses can be rip-
ped out by the thousands. As
there are two of these fuses to
each line, about 3,200 of them will
be flying through the air when
the tapes are pulled•. This opera-
tion will require about 30 seconds.
As soon as the old exchange is
"dead", the signal will be given,
over a special telephone line to
the new exchange, where another
gang of men will stand in readi-
ness to remove the "blocking
tools" from the dial switching
equipmeet These tools; which are
used to prevent the dial switches
from working while the manual
exchange 'is still in operation, also.
are attached to cords so that they
can be yanked' out in a few sec-
onds.
Once the blocking tools are pul-
led out, the dial system will be
in operation. As the first callers
dial, the dial switches will begin
to click, connecting Clinton tele-
phone calls.
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RED CROSS CAMPAIGN HAD
SUCCESSFUL RESULTS
With the campaign for funds for
the Canadian Red Cross in this
area coming to a close, Chairman
A, J. McMurray reports a success-
ful year, with some returns yet to
be in, A full report of the cam-
paign is expected for next week's
issue.
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ONE MORE CDCI TEACHER
HIRED TO TEACH ENGLISH
Miss Eleanor Plumsteel, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Plum-
steel, Clinton, has been hired by
the Clinton. District Collegiate In-
stitute Board to teach English and
History next year. This leaves
neeed for one more teacher in the
lower grades at MCI.
ANOTHER FIRST IN CLINTON
FIRS,T. DUTCH ADV. IN 'HURON"
Announcing another First In
Clinton: On Page 3 of this issue,
is an advertisment headed "Holl-
anders". (From, there on, if you
can read. it, you're • probably a
Dutchmen). To, the best of our
knowledge this is the first time an
advertisement- has been printed in
DutCh in any of the weekly papers
in Huron County.,
The tulverlisement was placed
by an out-oistown bakeshop-, whice
specializes in, Dutch iseOnsg. They
list the varietes of baked goods,
emphasizing its freshness "(riot iin-
ported from Holland) and urge
that customers visit the Superior
Food Store (Reg, Ball's; main in-
tersection, Clinton) to buy.
Women PCs Name
Mrs, F. Thompson
Presideni For 1956
Mrs. Fred G. Thompson was
elected president of Clinton Pro-
gressive Conservative Women's
Association at its organizational
meeting held on Friday night,
First and second vice-presidents
respectively are Mrs, Douglas• Free-
man and Mrs. W. S. A. Holmes,
Mrs. Thomas Steep is' secretary-
treasurer and Mrs, N. W. Trewar-
tha, press secretary.
Chairman of wards: St. James',
Mrs. Ernest Epps; St. John's, Mrs.
Bart Lavis; St. George's, Mrs.
George Elliott; St. Andrew's, Mrs.
Elliott Bartliff.
Elmer Bell QC, of Exeter was
guest speaker. Otlier speakers
were Elston Cardiff, MP, of Brus-
sels; John Hanna, MPP, Wingham;
Thomas Pryde, MPP, Exeter and
Douglas Freeman, president of
Clinton Progressive Conservative
Men's Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Trewar-
tha were presented with a beaut.
ifully engraved certificate of . con-
gratulations by Mr, Pryde on
behalf of Premier Frost, The
couple will celebrate their 50th an-
niversary soon. Mr. Pryde also
presented the book "Pioneer of
Old Ontario" to them froth the
Premier,
Rel.'''. and Mrs. Bulteel
Feted Prior To
Departure For B.C.
Rev. R. M. Bulteel and Mrs. Bul-
teel were feted Monday night at a
congregational meeting in St,
Paul's Anglican Parish, Hall, on
the eve of their departure,
Mr. Bulteel has been rector of
St, Paul's Church for the last
eight years, and recently resigned
to make his future home in Van-
couver, B.C.
During his stay 'here he was ac-
tive in community circles as well
as in the church which he served,
For several years he was chaplain
of the local branch of the Canadian
Legion; president and vice-presi-
dent of the Clinton Horticultural
Society; president of the minister:-
lel society, and a member of the
school board. 'He also served on
the library board far several years.
Mrs. Bulteel has been a faithful
member of St. Paul'a church choir;
a member and/office bearer in the
Clinton Chapter of -the Eastern
Star, and a leader in the Girls'
Club of the Church.
Mrs. M. J, Elliott was chairman.
The rector's warders C. V. Cooke
spoke, John Livermore, ' people's
warden presented the couple with
a well'4lled bill fold. Barbara
Jones, on behalf of the Girls' Aux-
iliary'af St. Paul's, of which Mrs.
Bulteel was leader, presersteds her
with a corsage,
DRAMA. CONTESTANTS ARE
DISAPPOINTED IN FINALS
Caste of the Huron: County Jun-
ior Farmers drama festival win-
ning play-, "Bobbie Pulls Up Her
Socks'," travelled to Guelph on
Tuesday to come to in the prov-
ince finals, only to lose out in all
three competitions. At Guelph
five Counties' made festival entries.
The Halton County entry from
Norval, won the award for best
production, best male actor and
best female actress.
However the local players, who
are from the Clinton Junior Far-
mers, are "pulling up their own
socks" and will go forth to present
their one act drama to audiences
in, several of the communities near-
by to Clinton within the next few
weeks,
An important meeting for Hog
Producers will be held in the ag-
ricultural office beard room to-
morrow night, Alfred Warner, sec-
retary of the Huron County Hog.
Producers' Association, announces,
' Two discussion meetings have
been held with regard to opening
up a hog assembly yard in the
County. One held in Heusall on
March 29 was well attended, 'and
enother was: held on Tuesday this
week, to hear Eldred Aiken, Al-
lenford, zone representative of
.this district and Wes Magwood,
Hanover, director of the marketing
board.
At the meeting here tomorrow
night, it is expected that the pro,
ducere will make a decision about
the assembly yard,
the children were in the house, and
were advised of the fire by a pas-
ser-by. They have no telephone.
Mr. McKenzie was away.
First to arrive at the scene was
the Brucefield fire truck, Response
was swift, since the firemen, were
attending their regular meeting
when the call came in. However,
they were able to do little, except
play water on the kitchen wall of
the houses:- thus preventing the
spread of fire from the been, Fire
Chief Ken Stewart was in charge
of the Brucefield firemen,
,Seaforth also answered a call
about 10.20 p.m. but were, unable
to'clo anything to control the barn
fire.
Previous to that call, Seaforth
firemen extinguished a fire in a
dump-truck owned and operated
by Gus Johnston, Seaforth. Mr.
Johnston had taken a load to the
McKillop dump, arid backed up to-
wards a fire of burning refuse at
the dump. He unloaded, arid with
the lightened truck found not en-
ough traction - to get the truck
moving on the soft ground. intense
heat from the dump ignited the
rear end of his vehicle. Damage
was estimated at $600. Fire Chief
Jack Scott, Seaforth, was in char-
ge of the Seeforth crews.
R. N. Irwin, owner-manager of
Irwin's. Ladies' Wear in Clinton, has
purchased the McKnight Ladies'
Wear stare in Exeter. thus making
Mortgage Burning
Ceremony Set
For April 20
All members of the Clinton
Branch No. "140, Canadian. Legion
are expected to be on hand for
the burning of the building mort-
gage which will be held in the
Legion Hall, Kirk Street, on April
20.
Attendance is restricted to leg-
ion Members, their wives and
friends,. Ineitations, have been ex-
tended-to representatives of local
civic bodies and service clubs.
Doug Andrews, chairman of the
program expects the festivities to
start at about 8.30 with a social
gathering, The mortgage burn-
ing will take place under the direc-
tion of past president William
Counter at 10 p.m.
Dancing to a popular orchestra
and a buffet lunch provided by the
Ladies Auxiliary to the legion will
conclude the important event.
the third in the Irwin chain of
ladies' wear stores.
The Irwin name has been assoc-
iated with merchandising in Clin-
ton for nearly 50 years. The
grandfather of the present Mr.
Irwin ("Bob" as he is familiarly
known) was J. A. Irwin, and he
opened his business in town in
1910 in the location now known
as Irwin's Ladies' Wear, on Vic-
toria Street. Then in 1925 his
daughter, Ruby (R. V. Irwin) took
over the management of the store
until 1945 when Bob came home
from the Second World War, dur-
ing which he had served in the
RCAF.
The second store in the Irwin
chain, is in Henson, formerly op-
erated by Ted Chuter (now owner
of A. H. Lofft and Co., Ladies'
Wear, St. Marys), which he op-
ened in June, 1954. The purchase
of the Exeter business became ef-
fective on March 28, 1956.
Bob is very widely known in
Clinton and district for his partici-
pation in all phases of community
life. Included in his activities at
present are: the job of secretary-
treasurer of Wesley-Willis United
Church; Councillor of the Town of
Clinton (second year); director of
the Chamber of Commerce, bass
vocalist with the itarbouraires,
male choir it Goderich,
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Bonnie Goes Down.
On Word "Missile"
"Missile" was the Word, on
which. Clinton's Batelle Hamilton
bowed out of the Ontario Spelling
Bee last Thursday evening in To-
ronto, Along with 12 other boys
and girls who were stumped
words including strychnine, in-.
dispensable, rhetoric, repetition,.
eon:'estionary, character, recom-
'pens°, plaque, acquaintance, .prin--
eipie, secretary, character and vet-
oes. Bennie spent several days
last week in Toronto, the guest of
the Toronto Telegram. Winners
were Patricia Marontate and john
Bowden, both of Windsor.
Memorize These New
Numbers or Hang Them•
Near Your Telephone: ,
fire Call—Htli. 24421
Police- HU. 24435
Maori area school children are well prepared for the intro-
dUetion of dial service here on Sunday. Bell Telephone instruct.
ors visited schools in the exchange area in the weeks prior to
Public School Pupils Well Versed In Use Of "Dials"
Members of the Seaforth and At the time, Mrs. McKenzie and
Brucefield fire departments had a
busy time of it on Tuesday even-
ing, when they answered' two calls,
to locatieris where damage totalled
$6,600.
The largest loss was suffered at
the farm of Kenneth McKenzie,
concession two, Tuckersmith Town-
ship, one and one half miles east
of Brucefield, where a $6,000 fire
levelled a large barn.
Included in loss were 35 small
pigs; threesows, three calves and
all of the implements in the barn.
Burcefield Barn Burns To Ground;
Two Fire Brigades Battle Flames
the cutover .explaining to students the use of the dial, This
photograph shows a group of interested pupils at A/V/IVi Hugh
Campbell Public School al' RCAP Station (Minton, watching a
dial demonstration.
The scheme involves setting up
of a co-operative yard somewhere
in the county which would be run
by the marketing hoard. Loca,-
tons suggested have been Clinton,.
Hensall, Exeter and Belgrave. Hur-
on farmers would ship their hogs.
to this yard and the Toronto of-,
fice of the co-op would sell them.
to processors F.O.B. the Huron
yard.
Based on experience in Bruce
county, the officials predicted
Huron processors would save 50
.to 60 cents a hog in trucking costs.
Farmers would be required to,'
transport their pigs only as far
as their own assembly yea.rd. This
it is estimated, will cost 25 to 30
cents a. hog. Expense of manning
and operating the yard will
amount to another 30 or 35 cents,.
This makes total cost per pig
about 60 or 65 cents which com-
pares favorably to the $1.10 to
$1.25 which_ farmers are paying
now to transport to yards, at
Kitchener or Stratford.
Truckers will not lose out by
the new plan, the officials: insis-
ted. While they will receive less
from the farmer, they will be com-
pensated by the fee from the pro-
cessor who must pay- transporta-
tion costs from the co-op yard to.
his plant:
When questioned if processors
would pay the extra transporta-
tion costs• to buy pigs. in Huron
County, the officials' expressed
confidence they would because
these hogs are of better quality
than those produced in ' other ,
sections of the province. The pro-
cessors need good quality hogs to
sell on the export market and the
premium domestic market.
Asked about shrink , at co-op
yards, Mr, George Galbraith a
mender of the board whi,ch oper-
ates the assembly yard at Strat-
ford, said no hogs had ever been
left in that yard overnight. First
hogs in in the morning were the
first to be sold during the day,
he added. •
Mr, Galbraith said hogs were
weighed when they came unto the
yards and records kept to deter-
mine the amount of shrink. These
records showed the loss to be very
small.
If an assembly yard were esta-
blished a board of nine would be
appointed by the county hog pro-
ducers to manage it.
Irwin's Expand To Include
Third Business At Exeter