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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1957
WHAT'S HAPPENED THE WORKERS?
'FORTY YEARS AGO and even more recent-
ly, Clinton had an active knitting. Red Cross
group.
Now, although each year the people of
Clinton make an excellent showing with their
financial contributions " toward the Red Cross,
there,is apparently no knitting being done.
The work is still needed. We read that
the Seaforth branch is facing a quota of 100
pairs each of men's socks, boys' socks and girls'
socks.
Why aren't the Clinton knitters interested
in this kind of service?
WILL NOT CLOSE
RUMOURS THAT RCAF Station Centralia
might be closed have apparently been satisfac-
torily cleared up.
According to the Huron Expositor, the idea
of closing the Station is in line with Announce-
ment that Defence Minister Pearkes made some
time ago, that radical changes will be made in
the defence budget.
"Huron with two RCAF establishments, is
in a particularly vulnerable position, and perhaps
by virtue of the money saved by a curtailed
RCAF budget may be called on to provide more
than its share of the cost of implementing the
many expensive election promises of the new
government," editorialized the Seaforth paper.
IVleaniwhile the editor of the Exeter Times -
Advocate went right to the top, through the
Huron member, Elston Cardiff, and obtained the
statement from Major General G. R. Pearkes
that "Centralia will not be closed."
It is expected however that some changes
may be made at the Station when the NATO
training plan ends. Already it has been announ-
ced that when RCAF Station London closes,
some of the personnel and work will be moved
to Centralia.
STANDARD TIME
WITH THE return to Standard Time, sunset , year, the evening rush hour and the twilight
hour produce peaks on accident frequency charts.
At this season, when the two conditions coincide,
the thoughtful motorist,will increase his alert-
ness and care. ,
comes around five o'clock and the evening' rush
hour comes in the period of transition between
daylight and darkness. At • any season of the
FASHION
• TO THE SEDATE folk, usually along in
their years, the return of the crinoline has been
a triumph. For many a long season they had
regretted the"disappearance of this very femin-
ine bit of frippery, but the crinoline made" a
comeback, one of -those startling reversals that
could happen only in the world of women.
Crinolines are back and the teenagers are
wearing three, four and five at a time to make
those fulsome skirts billow out in softness. The
effect is engaging for it melds the old with
the new; tradition has for a moment become
NOTE
modernity, In today's world of man-made moon
the puifly-skirted young maid dressed for a party
brings back the gentility of mid-Victorian draw-
ing rooms.
Unfortunately there are few of those rooms
left. Most homes today have much smaller
rooms and -in many the low -slung coffee table
-has replaced the elegant furniture ` that once
was. So the blend of yesterday's flouncy fash-
ions, set in today's decor, results principally in.
more coffee cups being knocked to the floor.
—The Printed Word
FOOD COSTS.
(Hanover Post)
PRIME MINISTER DIEFENBAKER'S re-
mark in Commons that an announcement will be
made "within a very few days" about setting up
• a Royal Commission or some .other body to in-
quire into price spreads on farm ,products as
between producer and consumer comes as no
surprise in light of election campaign promises.
But if C.C.F. party members think that re-
sult of such an inquiry will show that profits
are the villain in food prices, they are likely to
be sadly disappointed. Table published recently
in U.S. News and World Report, based on official
U.S. figures, makes it clear beyond doubt that
lion's share of spread between prices at the
farm and prices paid to consumer go to meet
labor costs.
Talble appears below:
U.S. FOOD DOLLA1t.
1947
51.2 cents
" 24.7 cents
2.2, cents
2.7 cents
4.4 cents •
Farmer's Share
Labor's Share
Transportation
'Federal Income Tax
Profits
Other Charges 14.8 cents
(Such as packaging, fuel, electricity,
State and local taxes).
Notable thing about what has happened in
last ten years to U.S. food dollar is that labor's
share has risen sharply while profits have de-
clined. Same thing, it is fair to assume, has
been happening to Canadian food dollar.
Now
38.6 cents
33,2 cents
2.8 cents
2.8 cents
3.0 cents
19:4 cents
rents,
SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley)
Something very sad is going on.
across Canada these days. In one
small town' after another, the local
theatre, once the frown's foremost
centre of second-hand sin and sex,
violence and valour ,excitement
and ecstasy, is darkening its for-
mer bright spot on the main street,
closing its doors, to stand there in
bleach reproach; mute testimony to
the havoc that is being wrought on
our culture by that one -eyed mon-
ster, the television set,
* * * *
I read the other day that the
theatre had been closed in my old
hoihe town, and it gave me quite a
pang, like learning of the death of
a boyhood friend, still in his best
years. For some of bhe most for-
mative days of my life, that thea-
tre drew me into its black maw
with the awesome ease of a whale
yawning to let one small herring
swim inside.
* *
' As a small 'boy, I wept, shiver-
ed with fear, screamed with laugh-
ter and almost died of sttapence, in
that theater. In its thrilling, dark-
ened interior, I chased Indians
with Tom Mint, fell desperately ie
love, for the first of many times,
with Marlene 'Dietrich (then not
even a mother, let alone a grand-
mother), and thundered through
the jungle on the back of Tantor
the Elephant, with Targan,
* * . * +F
1 remember the first time I was
allowed to go at 'night, me
picture was Lilac Time, 1 was
eight, the oceasion was special and
I was ineffably thrilled to be sit -
tang In the gallery with myig
brother. I remenber the first talk.
leg picture: Whoopee with Eddie
Cantor, What an experience! The
mush; ran in* rely head for weeks.
1 remember going to every mat-
inee I could Manage. Money was
scarce alt those days, and raising
a dime was harder for a kid thari
:raising a dollar now: Sometimes it
tock lite a solid hoax to Wheedle
the sum out of my kid brother, an
industrious type who had a news-
paper route. I always owed him
about $1.83, and he'd fight to keep
the amount from growing, but the
call of "the show" was so strong
en me that I had superhuman pow-
ers of persuasion, and could have
talked my way past St. Peter un-
der its influence.
* * * +r.
There was a matinee Monday,
Wednesday and Saturdayain those
days, and it taxied my ingenuity
to make all three, but I seldom
missed. If I couldn't find any em-
pty beer bottles to sell, and my
brother was adamant in refusal,
I'd hit up my pal "Egg" Slegg, an
equally ardent aficionado of the
silent screen, but one with a little
more money. If .he had only one
dime, we'd buy one ticket,'and
both try to sgeeze past George
Hurtle, the ticket -taker, He knew
What we were doing, and if he was
in a good mood, let us both in.
* * * *
One time, r was completely sty-
mied. '1 had to go to the show to
see if Tarzan got away from the
crocodiles who were converging on
hire last Saturday, I got his last
six cents from; my brother, but
couldn't raise another sou. It's
about thirty years ago, so I guess
nothing will happen if 1 admit I
swiped the other four from my
mother's purse. It was the one
time . the show wasn't worth it.
The sunfagun got away frost) the
crocodiles . and I suffered deep
pangs of remorse for weeks.
.k wonderful part of my cultural
edueatiori in those days, though I
didn't realize it at the time, was
the music installed in me at the
show, when they were still run-
ning silent pictures, Down in the
pit, watching the picttire and mat -
citing its every Mond with dotty
summate skill on the p15110, sat
Lornie Noonan. How he could
make you sweat as the wheels
started coming off the stege coach.
How he could make you weep with
hot, salty tears at a touching
moment!
* 4. * A:
My wife is'still astonished, know-
ing I have no musical education,
when I whistle for her the entire
Overture to William Tell, Raeh-
maninoff's Prelude in G Minor, or
Liebestraum. I don't know what
they are, of course, but I never
miss .a note, I learned them at the
show, while the heroine was cliff-
hanging, or bhe villain was trying
to talk her into a crafty week-
end in the city.
* 4' 4: 4+
This went on for years. I was
alternately in love with some
movie star, breaking bones trying
to emulate one of the heroes, or
lying awake nights in sheer panic
after seeing a good murder story,
with lots of strangling, My pa-
rents got Worried and forbade me
to go to the show, I went anyway,
in the face of threats, pleas and
demands. 1 prdbably gat a dozen
complexes out of it, but 1 don't
seem any more queer than the
next fellow,
x +r * �+
During the teens, the theatre
Was different, but equally thrill-
ing place. In its comforting dark-
ness, the most timid boy would
find the courage to reach shyly for
the hand of his girl and sit there,
clutching it fiercely until both
their paws were slippery with
sweat,
And if the girl whose hand I
clung to on many a wonderful
Saturday afternoon, with a teen-
age crowa in the gallery, reads
this, I hope she won't be eTnbar-
assed, because 1 remember it fond-
ly and tenderly. It was one of the
very nicest parts of growing up.
Ne * *
I'm sorry of you've been bored
by these reminisconse, They start-
ed from rtly horror at the rapid
decline of the sirialitown theatre,
Row people can sit and watch that
Appalling junk on `l'V, when !Micro's
a first-rate movie at the ideal
thaw, 1 can't understand, When
the theatre in their own town
goes dark, those who have enjoyed
a thousand experienecs in it will
be sorry. And none will more bit-
terly regret It than your humble
Serteant.
From Our Early Files
10 Years Ago
Clinton New Record
Thursday, November 13, 1947
Eph Snell will be judging sheep,
but not showing, at the Royal this
Year. . William J, Dale 15 taking
his heavy draught team, and a two
year old, as well as a stallion of
his father-in-law's to show' at the
big fair,
Nelson MoLarty, Auburn, has
just shipped 200 bushels of butter-
nuts and 269 bushels of walnuts,
to the seed extracting plant -at
Angus,
J. W. VanEgmond was re-elected
head of the liolmesville Concen-
trated Milk Producers Association,
Group Captain E, A. McGowan,
laid the wreath at the cenotaph,
for RCAF Station Clinton. Clin-
ton Citizens' Bandunder the +baton.
of A. C. Rdbinson, assisted with
the music.
Murray Roy, Londesboro, will
represent Huron County Junior
Farmers at the National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago this month.
Bayfield has purchased a fire
pumper and trailer from the town
of Goderich for $1,000.
25 Years Ago
Clinton News -Record
Thursday, November 17, 1932
Monday was a lovely autumn
day, fine enough for outdoor
sports, and the Horeshoe Club was
busy again after a few days halt.
This latter sport was indulged in
jay its enthusiasts every month last
year•
At the memorial service, each of
the school children carried a .pop-
py, and as they marched past the
cenotaph, pinned it to a pillow
placed .there for the purpose.
Reprinted from the New Era of
1892: The Clinton Organ Co., this
week made a shipment' of 15 of
their excellent organs, some going
to England, others • to Nova Septa
and Manitoba. This company,
with increased staff and facilities,
is moving along the high road of
success.
Also for 1892: the management
of the News -Record is changing
from that of Mr, Whitely to Mr.
Todd and the editors in their fare-
well and how -de -do wished that
Clinton should have a "live board
of trade."
Some unseemly confusion in To-
ronto over whether or not to have
a holiday on Remembrance Day
was gently chided and the editor
rerlia.rited: The veterans are not
going to Jet the day turn into
"just another holiday" and public
opinion is going to be too strong
for the opposing ,forces. They
might just as well surrender grace-
fully' first, as wait and do it un-
gracefully later.
40 Years Ago
Clinton New bra
Thursday, November 15, 1917
The New Era will raise sul?s'crip-
tion rates 50 cents a year, and
about the middle of January will
be requesting. $1.50 per year.
Ari 'order in council from Otta-
wa prohibits the export .of sugar
to British possessions without a
license. This will end the sending
of small parcels of sugar by Clin-
ton residents to their relatives in
the old Iand. This practice had
reached considerable proportions.
The Rev. E. 0, Porde, new Bap-
tist minister, took his first ser-
mon on Sunday morning.
Gordon Cuninghame has the dis-
tinction of being the first buyer
in Clinton of the Victory War
Bond,
Brown's Fire Sale continued, and'
with the additional offer that with
every purchase of $25' or more the
customer was to receive a choice
of either a mahogany or,.walnut
bench, free.
In.
Memoriam
Cards
An appropriate card. ack.
nowiedging a donation to the
Canadian Cancer Society, in
memory of the deceased, will
be sent to the bereaved fam-
ily.
Ask the funeral director, or
contact the local Branch of
the Perth -Huron Unit, Cana-
dian Cancer Society.
For further inforahation and
free literature write
. Mrs. Neville Forbes
RR 1, Clinton
Phone HU 2-'7438
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Clinton, phone HU 2-6635
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