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'They Are
Preventable
Accidents on the highways can
be consistently avoided. Statistics
show that in nearly 98 accidents
out of 100 the cars involved were
"in apparent good condition."
Moreover, the "enormous majority
of accidents" happen on good' dry-
surface roads and in conditions
of clear visibility, So they are
preventable. Even in wintry con-
ditions roughly half of highway
accidents have occurred on bare
surfaces.
. The logical conclusion is that
the overwhelming majority of
accidents are not events of chance
or fortune. They are the natural
and" often inevitable sum of hu-
man behavior,
Surely 'one other fact is perti-
nent, Dr, Jocelyn Roger medico-
legal expert of the Provincial
Government whose duty it is
to check all serious highway
accidents in Ontario. is our
authority, Upwards of 50 percent
of all such. crashes involve liquor!
Here Surely is the Arch Enemy of
careful human behavior . . They
ARE preventable.
HURON COUNTY
TEMPERANCE FEDERATION
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DEBENTURES -
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$100 and Upwards
A '
Trustee
Investment
3 1 ' /2 per annum
for 3 and 4 years
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YEARS
IN BUSINESS
IN LONDON
IT IS -TO LAUGH
DOES NOT the copious amount of colunins
and words with regard to the fluoridation quest-
ion which appear daily in the city newspapers,
seem more th'an a little absurd, in the face of the
situation as we know it?
Over a year ago the discussion about fluor-
idation began. Cost, benefits, detriments, all
have been listed in various manners, One opin-
ion against the idea, seems to be' this: "The
children of the nation are not water drinkers.
They drink milk. Any fluorides in water would
have little effect on the little monsters; and it
would be better to put the expense into the dair-
ies rather than into the water purifiers,"
Li Clinton and Mitchell, and like areas, the
presence of fluorides in water is agreed to be at
the ideal which the dentists of the country rec-
ommend. There is not too much to harm people;
nor too little to be of use. Children in such
areas, who have lived there at the correct ages
for the fluorides to do their work, have been
found to have fewer dental cavities than those
children in areas not so Well blessed.
Why then, with the actual living proof be-
fore the Powes-that-be, can they not see the ben-
efits for what they are; the detriments, few if
the quantity present in the water is correct;
and the only problem left being the cost?
We can hardly suppress a chuckle as we read
the letters after letters' to other editers, and the
reams' of printed matter which are being pro-
duced over the question.
The Olden Days
Perhaps one of the reasons teaching is' not .„,
as popular as it was is' the modern trend of
education which stresses the individual freedom
of the pupil more than the somewhat rugged
discipline of the old days when' kids were sent
to school to be' educated' rather than to develop
their personalities.-The• Meaford Express
ACROSS
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5. Strike with
the hand
9. South
American
river
10. Exclama-
tion
12. Heaps
13. Musical
instrument
14. Frozen
water
15. Cares for
medically
16. The sitting
together of
a court
19. Tantalum
(sym.)
• 20. Weep
21. source of
sugar
23. Talk
26, Category
27. Maize
28, Pale
29. Overhead
30, Unfriendly •
34. Steamboat
builder
37. Negative
vote
38. Aptitude
39. Mother•Ot•
pearl
41. Keeps
42. Chills and
fever (poss.)
43. Infrequent
44. Stripes
DOWN
1. Aromatic
seasoning
I Bulrushes
3. Coin
(SwedO
4. Roman
money
5. Clipped
6. Learning
7. Seaweed
8. Large,
flat dish
9. Sacred bull
(Egypt)
11. Having a
handle
15. Plaything
17. Scrutinize
18. Vex
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26. Fuel
28. Gained
30. A quad-
ruped
31. Bring
upon
oneself
32. Roman
house gods
33. Organs
of sight
35. Volcanic
rock
36. One of
several rows
89. Seize
40. Moslem
title
Weekly
X-Word
Puzzle
40 Years•Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
ThUrsday, April 20, 1916
Pte. Albert Livermore, Toronto,
is spending three weeks at home
on. furlough. He expects that his
battalion will leave, for England
next month.
County Clerk Lane was in town
today.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam McKenzie
were visitors in Brussels this week.
Miss Hattie Lavis is; in Hamilton
for a few days: with her sister,
Miss Edna Levis who is attending
normal school.
Lieut. Earl O'Neil returned front
London on Saturday and left to
take charge at Wroxeter.
Letter •to the Editor
MY! SUCH VERVE! SUCH SPIRIT)) I
14AD' DEciDED TO RECOMMEND TO
YOUR GRANDMOTHER THAT YOU
GIVE UP THE PIANO... BUT SUCH
INTEREST AS YOURS MUST BE
ENCOURAGED/t'
IF THIS
DOESN'T
CONVINCE
NER4.1 HAVE
NO TALENT,
NOTHING
WILL .#
env PTANO', teACHER IS
DUE HERE
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THURSDAY A,PRIT,0 20, 1950.
TRIBUTE TO A REVERED
TEACHER
Clinton News-Record:
As I read the last issue of the
News-Record I came upon a notice
of ten or 12 lines. I re-read it.
What a flood of memories it
brought back to me! The walls of
the room where I was sitting seem-
ed to melt away, and the hands of
the clock of time turned backwards
several decades.
With- the eager footsteps of
youth I was hastening toward a
future that was alWays a rosy
cloud. I saw myself a timid first-
former entering that staid-looking
white brick building that , once
faced •Gibbings Street. Its style of
architecture has long since been
replaced by the modern trend,
There in the old C.C.I., I was en-
rolled in the classes of the late
Miss Isabella J'. McDougall, B A ,
Specialist in Modern Languages.
Little did I know the influence she
was to have upon my young life.
Many times with. fear and trepida-
tion I entered her classes knowing
that lessons had been poorly pre-
pared. A strict disciplinarian, Miss
McDougall never condoned indol-
ence or carelessness, but she was
Buick to give praise if deserved.
As the 'school• days passed I
found that gradually I was acquir-
ing a hitherto unknown apprecia-
tion of our English langauge.
Shakespearian dramas became ex-
citing. The works of such poets
as Tennyson, Wordsworth, Brown-
ing and Arnold thrilled me when I
studied them. Soon I began to
enjoy the study of other lang-
uages. Always there was Miss
McDougall to alternately prod and
encourage me. How often I used
to resent her, persistence.
Of Highland Scottish ancestry,
Isabella McDougall, taught not only
from textbooks but by precept and
example. Her favourite quotation
was, "To thine own self be true,
and it needs must follow, as' the
night the day, thou can'st not
then be false to any man." She
was truly dedicated to her work.
Through the years the former
pupils were not forgotten by their
teacher. When success, came to
them they often received a note of
commendation written in her clear,
distinctive script. How prat(' she
was to tell her friends about Louis
A. McKay who Won that coveted
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 20, 191,6
Wesley Walker will again em-
bark in the furniture business and
at Goderich.
John. Schoenhals has received
from the Dominion government his
second contract for flour, May de-
livery, all he can ship that month,
2,000 bags or more.
Miss Rose McCaughey went to
Toronto this morning where she
will spend the Easter holidays. •
Miss Dollie Mennell is expected
up from Toronto for the Easter
vacation.
Miss Ruby Cook left 'Friday to
resume her position in Toronto.
irfra CLINTON NEW ERA
(1865)
and -
THE CLINTON NEWS-
RECORD
(1881)
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1956
YOUTHFUL EFFORTS
THOSE WHO attended the public speak-
ing finals sponsored by the Branch of the
Canadian Legion were treated to an excellent
presentation of the best in what our public and
high schools are doing for your young people.
There is little doubt that all present will
agree with us: the delivery, the enthusiasm,
and the supreme confidence of the young folk
who took part leave little to be desired. Of
course, their teachers, and the young folk them-
selves will endeavour to improve in the years to
come, just as they have improved throughout
the past three years in which the competitions
have been held,
ANOTHER CHUCKLE
--AND ANOTHER chuckle which we got out
of the daily press, though it be a rueful one, is
when, we discovered, 'after perusing some 224
pages of newsprint published by the afternoon
papers in Toronto on Tuesday and Wednesday,
not one mention of that case in Sppreme Court
which is discussing the, all-important (to the
farm population) issue of farm marketing
schemes.
There is room for a multitude of stories
about sex crimes, drownings and suicides, but
'apparently no room for this vital issue.
Has the farming population of the nation
fallen so far in importance in the eyes of the'
city folk that nothing of this matter is deemed
of interest? Should it be necessary for the far-
mer's interests to parade a line of beauty queens'
before the cameras in order to get the eye of
the daily press?
We have a feeling that the rueful chuckle
would be on Other persons should the supply 'of
farm-produced goods which the "city folk" buy
nicely wrapped and far removed from the "good
earth" should suddenly cease to be marketed at
all. Surely this matter of marketing the nation's
food should be a Prime importance to 'the nation's
people-and more particularly to those city
people who have no back-yards in which to grow
a mess of spuds.
(In this opinion of the daily press, we do
not include that published in Stratford, nor in
London., who, though far from the capital city
of Ottawa, where the. hearings are progressing,
nevertheless take the space to record what Can-
adian. Press has to report on the matter,' The
Globe and Mail, also, recognizes the importance
of farm product marketing.)
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 23, 1931
- The -Clinton Golf and Country
Club has been re-organized for the
season with the following officers:
honorary presidents, G. D. McTag-
gart and Col. H. B. Combe; presi-
dent, H. R. Sharp; vice-president,
J. E. Hovey; secretary-treasurer,
S, L. Lucas; committee, M. D. Mc-
Taggart, Dr. J. C. Gandier, Sheriff
Middleton, F, 0. Ford,
Mrs. Len 'C'antelon is moving in-
to the house formerly occupied by
G. H. Jefferson.
W. Glen Cook is in London for a
couple of weeks taking a short
course in electrical frigidaire, to
fit him for an agency he has taken.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson
entertained the staff of the Cooper
store on Tuesday evening.
-Clifford Holland has rented the
'Worrell house recently vacated by
W. Robinson, Albert Street North.
Miss Lottie Sloman has been
visiting her brother, W. Shaman,
Kankakee, Ill,
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, April 25, 1946
Horace Elvidge, Clinton's new
CNR agent, officially began his
duties here yesterday succeeding
R. M. Sperling, who has gone . to
Brampton as agent.
Clinton's "walking octogenarian"
is Kenneth Charles Cooke, father
of C. V. Cooke, florist, who cele-
brated his 83rd birthday by walk-
ing the 12 miles to Goderich in
four hours and ten minutes.
A coal-oil stove was the cause
of 'a fire• at the farm of Henry
Leishman, Hullett Township, on
Saturday, when a colony house,
along with 300 week-old chickens
was destroyed.
Cherry trees are in full bloom in
Clinton, providing a colorful spec-
tacle.
"Play ball" is the' cry as Clin-
ton's baseball greats and near,,.
greats assemble for the big season
that lies ahead. The first official
'practice, has: been called for Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Welder and
three children took up residence in
Clinton on Monday, having remov-
ed here from Dundas.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lever, Jr.,
St. Catharines, spent Easter with
the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Lever, Sr.
CDCI Ex-Teacher
Back To Blyth.
A former teacher at Clinton
District Collegiate Institute, Irene
Morris (now Mrs. Charles St.
Michael) along with her husband
are returning to the county from
Chicago to operate a grocery busi-
ness in Blyth. They get possession
of the store from Clarence "Casey"
Urquhart, on May 1.. Mr, and Mrs.
Urquhart, Who came to Blyth. four
years ago from Kincardine, plan
to return td Kincardine,
award, the "Prince of Wales
Scholarship". In later years she
followed with interest the careers
of such people as Fred Sloman,
Bishop W. A. Townshend, Judge
Fingland, Ernest Livermore, Q.C„
and many ethers.
Those of us who had the 'privi-
lege of sitting in her classes may
have lost some of youth's bright
dreams, but the lessons we learned
fitted' up better to tread 'the dusty
road of life,
And now that her last classes
have been dismissed I fancy I see
her approaching the Golden Gate-
way, and there awaiting her, a
group of young men and women
who will never grow old, because
they have cast aside their earthly
cares. Their voices, mingle in the
joyous WordS, "Welcome Herne,
Miss McDougall."
--AN EX-PUPIL,
In the past few weeks, a good
many news-writers have SharP-
ened their wits and their pens in
an attempt to cut.the Morale° nup-
tials down to size. (1) "He has
as much power as the mayor of
Etobicoke." (2) "He is the her-
editary propietor of an •amuse-
ment park,"
Why do they do it? Are they
striving for the newsman's goal of
strict if painful accuracy? Are
they jealous of the Prince who won
such a beautiful and charming
bride? Or are they simply enamor-
ed of their own facile gift of
words?
For 'shame! I, for one, am inclin-
ed to let Grace have her handsome
Prince and her tiny kingdom with-
out attempting to' belittle either.
Her family has been vulgar in
some of the statements attributed
to them and in her mother's' in-
credible articles about her famous
daughter. But, so far as I have
read, Grace herself has behaved
with becoming dignity and poise.
Huron County
Crop Report
(By G. W. MONTGOMERY,
Agricultural Representative
for Huron County)
"Rain, along with light snow
falls accompanied by cold weather,
delayed• seeding almost entirely the
past week: Most farmers apprec-
iated the delay as it gave them
further time to prepare for seed-
ing operations, however; everyone
hopes for good seeding weather
next week.
"Slightly in excess of 1,200 bus-
hels of Garry oats, have been dis-
tributed for a.gricultuyal society
field crop competitions and the.
4-H Grain Club programme."
0
ZURICH CHAMBER HEARS
BUCIILEY; TRIES FOR DOCTOR
The Zurich Chamber of Com-
merce met in the Dominion, Hotel
to hear Leo Buckley, secretary of
the Ontario Branch of the Domin-
ion Chamber of Commerce._ Two
new members, Jack Bannister, and
Jack McClinchey, were admitted.
The Chamber is' continuing efforts
to procure a doctor for the com-
munity-Zurich Herald.
She will make a gracious royal
princess - and the Grimaldis have
been hereditary rulers of Monaco
for seven hundred years.
The size of the little principality
is not against it - the sense Of
patriotism, and love of country has
nothing to do with acreage, except
in inverse' ratio. Somerset Mang-
ham, observing that patriotism as
he knew it did not seem to exist
in Russia, concluded that the size
of one's country was a factor. The
relatively small size of England
made his feeling for it a more per-
sonal thing. He says, in "A Writ-
er's Notebook" - the very shape
of England on the map has signif-
icance for me."
I seized on this idea with gratit-
ude to the author for putting it
into words for me. I knew just
what he meant. I am a third gen-
eratibn Canadian, ,with ancestors
from England and Scotland. I have
never seen the British Isles - bar-
ring a financial miracle, I proba-
bly never will. Just the same, and
possibly only because I learned
British history so well in school, I
feel that England is the hub, of the
world. Pinpointed still further,
the centre of England is its Queen
and her family.
If I, at this distance, can feel
that way about a country and a
Queen, how much more• strongly
the Monegasques must feel about
their tiny country and its rulers.
Prince ,Rainier and. Princess Grace
are fortunate people and I wish
them every happiness.
It seems redundant to mention
dial phones now after they have
been in operation for nearly two
weeks, but I am struck by the
sense of satisfaction obtained by
manipulating the dial with firm
accuracy and perfect results. I
hope my accuracy continues to
stay with me and doesn't betray
me as my typing sometimes does.
It is disconcerting, to say the
least, to be typing 'on. a fine high
flood of what seems to be inspira-
tion and find, on inspection, that
the wires have become crossed in
some mysterious way and half the
words have letters transposed
Right letter - wrong order. Per-
haps I should page my subcon-
scious for an explanation.
From Our Early Files
From the
West Window
Great credit is due to Mrs. J. D, Thorndike,
who in her position as part time teacher, at the
Clinton Public School has done a great deal of
instruction and assisting of the youthful speak-
ers there; to her husband for his influence as
past zone commander of the Legion and as
chairman for recreation in the zone; and to them
both, for their continued interest:
Without Mr, and Mrs. Thorndika, it is
doubtful that the project would have'been start-
ed in the first place. Without them, a number
of youngsters would be the poorer of invaluable
training.
JUST A BOY
Got to understand the lad-
He's not eager to be bad;
If the right he always knew,
He would be, as• old as you:
Were he now exceeding wise,
He'd be just about your size;
When he does things that annoy.
Don't forget-he's just a boy.
Could he know and understand,
He, would need no guiding hand;
But he's young and hasn't learned
How life's corners must be turned.
Doesn't know from day to day
There is more to life than play.
More to face than selfish joy,
' Don't forget-he's just a boy.
Being just a boy he'll do
Much you will not want him to;
He'll be careless of his ways;
Have his disobedient days.
Wilful, wild and headstrong, too,
He'll need guidance kind and true;
Things of value he'll destroy,
But reflect-he's just a boy.
Just a boy who needs a friend;
Patient, kindly to the end;
Needs a father who will show •
- Him the things he wants to know.
Take him with you when you walk,
Listen. when he wants to talk,
•His companionship enjoy,
Don't forget-he's just a boy.
School Bus Tenders
Clinton District Collegiate
Institute Board
Grou Stanley Township, two routes, approx. p 1- daily mileage 204, approx. number of
pupils, 80.
Grou Z-.-Village of Blyth, Townships of Hullett, p Morris, East Wawanosh; 3 routes-ap-
prox. daily mileage 114; approx. number
of pupils 104.
Group 3 Village of I3ayfield, Townships of Gode-
rich- and Tuckersmith; 3 routes-approx.
daily mileage 232; approx. number of
pupils 1I3.
'PAO& TWO
Clinton Mews-Record
Tenders by Groupings Only
All buses must meet the requirements of the
Department of Motor Vehicles clnd the Department of
Education.
For further particulars apply to the secretary-
treasurer, Lowest or any tender not necessarily ac-
cepted,
SEALED TENDERS to be in by May 5, 1956,
14. C. LAWSON,
Secretary-Treasurer.
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