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THE CLINTON NEW ERA THtw PLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Arnetnameted. 1924
1! 0 411 published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario .Population 2,902
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1959
CONSUMER'S SUBSIDY
BORROWING FROM A plan used with ap-
parent great success in Great Britain, the Dairy
Co-ordinating Board of Huron has snggested to
Ontario and Canadian Government representa-
tivei, the idea of a consumer's subsidy, to help
keep the price of dairy foods low for the can-
sumer, while at the same time the farmer would
be allowed to make a fair profit on his produce.
The public has long been used to hearing
of "farm subsidy, butter subsidy, support prices
on milk, etc." and the general belief seems to
be that farmers get an awful lot of help from
the rest of the country. In truth,, the total
subsidy paid to farmers is reckoned at about
four cents per person per ,year in Canada.
Other industry support figures are a good deal
higher.
Huron farmers however, recognise the fact
that all these things are not particularly good
publicity, and so they are suggesting that aid
be called, and rightly so: a consumer's subsidy.
In the case of butter, for instance, it would
apply this way: If, to provide a fair price to the
farmer-producer it were necessary for butter to
sell at 70 cents per pound, and in order for the
consumer (that is the housewife) to buy it, the
butter must sell for 60 cents, then the govern-
ment would be asked to pay the ten cents dif-
ference—thus subsidising the purchase of the
butter.
As we see it, this would eliminate surpluses
if necessary and would provide the householder
with the type of spread he really prefers if only
he could afford it, In the meantime the farmer-
producer receives the amount he requires to
make butter production a profitable project.
Besides moving stocks of butter, the con-
sumer subsidy would be an encouragement of the
great dairy industry, which also involves con-
centrated and powder milk, cheese, fluid, whole
and skim milk—as well as the feed industry
and numerous by-products.
This seems a fairer way to assist the home
owner get butter at a lower price, than the price
support plan is. Under the support plan method:
if butter goes on the market at 70 cents, only
those who can afford to buy 70 cent butter,
would be able to buy it. Then the government
would buy the rest of it at 70 cents and put it
into storage. Those who could not afford 70
cent butter still could not have butter, and
would have to buy a cheaper spread. But in
the meantime the tax dollars of those poorer
people are still oging towards the purchase of
that butter bought and stored by the govern-
ment,
At least under the consumer subsidy plan
even the poorer families could use butter, and
the government would not be faced with huge
stocks of the stuff at certain times, and the
storage costs which must be connected with it,
THE NORTHERN SPY FOREVER
From the Financial Post we learn that
the Northern Spy—to many, king of the apple
world—is facing a decline both in Ontario and
in Northern New York State where it was or-
iginated. Fruit-growers, it is said, are turning
to other varieties believed to be more popular
or with superior keeping qualities.
Down the Northern Spy may be, but it is
not out and we insist that it will be the glory
of Ontario orchards for many years to come.
The Spy is found at its finest along the shores
of Lake Ontario /in Durham and Northumber-
land Counties, in Southern Ontario in the vicinity
of London and in an apple-growing area on
Georgian Bay.
Apples are grown, of course, in British
Columbia and Nova Scotia, but for the Ontario
apple-eater, none of these "foreign" fruits are
in the same class as the good old Ontario North-
ern Spy. —Bowmanville Canadian Statesman.
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the gathering, if he knows it, and
relate an anecdote; thank the la-
dies at some length for the splen-
did dinner, and regale his listen-
ers with a fuuny story; tell those
present they are the salt of the
earth and it is an honour to be a-
mong them, and wind up with a
final joke. They'll go home claim-
ing that he was the best speaker
they'd heard in a coon's age. *
As I am a coward, it produced
a special terror in me when I
realized that I didn't know a sing-
le funny story. When I was a
young rip of a bachelor, I had
quite a fund of them. But when
I got married, I discovered that
women, at least the one I got,
have no sense of humour.
• *
When we were first married, I'd
come home with some real rib-
splitters, and try to share them
with her, but by the time I was
finished trying to explain them,
I'd be roaring and she'd be crying,
so I gave up.
• *
The very last time I tried it
was a couple of years ago. I
heard this story and thought it
would knock even the Old Girl
out. You all know it. The two
keen golfers on the ninth tee,
ready to drive, when the funeral
cortege came along the road bord-
ering the golf club. One golfer
took off his cap and stood with
bowed head until the procession
had passed. His friend asked the
reason for the reverent gesture.
"Least I could do," he said, when
he had clouted the ball. "I was
married to her for over thirty
years." * e *
The tears were running down
my cheeks as I told this one to
my wife. She looked at me as
though I needed a shave, then
asked rather crossly: "Why was-
n't he at the funeral?" Since
then, I haven't even bothered to
listen to jokes.
* * *
So, to cut a long story short, I
had to make my speech without
any jokes. And boy, was it dead,
In fact it was as dead as the wife
of the Englishman. You know
the one. Two Englishmen met in
their club. "Sorry to hear you
buried your wife, old chap," said
one. Replied the other: "Had to,
old boy. Dead, you know."
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ROY N. RENTLEY
Public Accountant
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Phone HU 2-9677
CLINTON, ONTARIO
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Seaforth: Daily except Monday &
Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Thursday evening by appointment
only.
Clinton: Above Hawkins Hard-
ware—Mondays only-9 a,m. to
5.30 p.m.
Phone Mater 2-7010 Clinton
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G. R. CLANCY
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(successor to the late A. L.
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REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. WINTER
Real Mate and Business Broker
High Street — Clinton
Phone RU' 2-6692
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Office MU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-7556
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Officers 1958: President, Rob-
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sident, Mistsir l3roadfoot, Sea-
forth; teoretany-tteaturer, Noma
Jeffery, Seaforth.
Directors: Sethi H. MoTiNvingo
Robert Archibald; Chris, Leon-
hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Trtwartba,
Clinton; Win. S. Alexander, Wan-
ton; 3, 11. Malone,Seaforth; Harr-
vey 1nl1eP, Goderich; S.E. • par,
Brueefienci; Alistair Broadtet,
Staforth.
Agents: Wm, Leiper Jr., Loud-
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Selvwyaai Baker, Brusleas;
Munroe, Seaforth.
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Canadian Postal System compares
favorably with the best in the
world, This in a largemaseire
is due to the time and effort" cIP-,
voted to the service by so Many
of our people, who have held var-ious 130W1,944 of responsibility ov-
er the years. The Postmaster
General and Myself both hope that
you will fully enjoy your retire,.
Mont,
--G. A. Boyle Deputy Postmaster.
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40 YEARS AGO
Clinton New Era
Thursday, Januery 16, 1.919
Clifford Lobb is the new asses-
sor for Goderich Township,
L. 0, and Mrs. Lashbrook and
Miss Rheta, Mitchell, are visiting
relatives in Goderich Township,
Albert F. Glen has been engag-
ed as rural mail courier for Hen-
sail route No. 2,
The Clinton Knitting Company
has opened a clubroom over the
Molson's Bank for their employ-
ees and the opening event will
be on Friday evening, A player
piano has been installed and the
young ladies of that firm will
spend many a pleasant evening
there.
Carl Draper was at Seaforth
last Thursday night to referee a
junior hockey match between Mit-
chell and Seaforth. The visitors
won by a score of 7 to 4.
Mr, and Mrs, John Tiplady vis-
ited their daughter Mrs. Cliff
Keys, Varna.
40 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday, January 16, 1919)
William Jenkins, who sold his
house at Hohnesville last week,
has purchased S. S. Cooper's house
on Orange Street and is already
in possession, The purchase price,
we understand, was $2,500. This
will make Mr. Jenkins a hand-
some home and the News-Record
wishes him and family a long
and happy sojourn in Clinton.
The women of the Patriotic So-
ciety have in inind a daring pro-
ject which, if worked out, will
furnish scope for their energies
and provide a much-needed hospi-
tal for Clinton.
The roads are in a bad state
just now—neither sleighing nor
wheeling—heavy drifts and bare
ground alternately.
Mrs. Govier and Miss Lily mov-
ed to Londesboro this week to the
house vacated by Mrs. Lee.
Last week I had to make a spe-
ech at a banquet. Now, for a pol-
itician or a preacher, a tycoon or
d teacher, or even a plain ordinary
bee esser, there's nothing more
pleasant than to be invited to ad-
dress a gathering. 'It's second
nature to them. They take to it
like a pig takes to swill.
* *
But for hundreds of thousands
of simple, inhibited Canadians like
me, it's about as simple as swim-
ming Lake Superior in your long
underwear. * .
When we stand up, rubbery-
legged, hands sweating, white as
death, and face all those people
looking at us expectantly, it's
nothing short of a case for the
S,P.C.A. *
Our minds go as blank as a sud-
denly-drawn window blind. Our
tongues cleave to the roofs of our
bone-dry mouths as tightly as ever
Cleopatra clove to Mark Antony.
Our Adam's apples become even
as pomegranates. Our little sheaf
of notes, over which we laboured
so hard, flutters like a bride's
bouquet.
*
It wouldn't be so bad if people
who invited you to be guest speak-
er gave you a topic. But they
won't do it. .They're too polite.
When they ask you to volunteer
for the Torture of the Seven
Deaths, they say: "Why, any-
thing at all. I'm sure that any
thing you give us will be worth-
while."
• *
Which is very unfair, for us who
become moronic when confronted
by an audience. If somebody ask-,
ed me to give an address on the
Roman Empire, or the Lost Cities
of the Amazon, or the Ancient
Chaldees, I'd be prepared to do
some research and make a stab at
a speech, supported by notes car-
rying heads, sub-heads, shrunken
heads and dry little jokes that fit-
ted in here and there. Nothing
to it.
But I went into this one cold,
was slaving away at my speech,
however, and had worked out
rather a neat turn of phrase or
two, when it suddenly struck me,
with the stifling pain of a blow in
the throat, that I had no jokes.
tx *
Now, as everyone knows, an af-
ter-dinner speaker without jokes
is about as much use as a wagon
wheel without spokes. He may
have natural eloquence, a good
topic, a fine, appearance and a
commanding manner. But with-
out jokes, confronted by 200 peo-
ple, who have just stuffed them-
selves with turkey, in a warm
hall, he simply can't get through,
He might as well be talking to a
couple of hundred seals who have
just cleaned up a ton of fish, * * *
And the coward who knows
this, however poor a speaker he
is, is always, welcome as a Speak-
er, becattse he has a collection of
hoary stories, All he has to do to
make a wonderful impression is:
tell the audience how delighted he
is to be there, and tell a joke;
mention vaguely the purpose of
25 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday, January 1$, 1934)
Walter F. A. Naftel, editor and
proprietor of the Goderich Star,
died in his 55th year, He had
been engaged in newspaper work
since graduating from collegiate
and at the time of his death, was
president of the Huron County
Press Association.
Paul Hovey, who has been tak-
ing up flying and is now a full-
fledged instructor, was in town
prior to leaving for China to take
a position as flying instructor.
Paul's old Clinton friends will
wish his success and a safe re-
turn to his home land.
Harry Ball left last week to
resume his position with a British-
American nitrate mining company
in Chile, operations having been
discontinued in the South Ameri-
can republic late in 1932 owing to
political disturbances. Mr. Ball
was employed last year in geo-
logical work in Rouyn, Quebec,
10 YEARS AGO
Clinton News-Record
(Thursday, January 13, 4949)
Whoever heard at a dandelion
flower, in full bloom, being pick-
ed in this district on January 9?
That's what "Mitch" Shearing
was able to do at the Shearing
summer cottage at Drysdale on
Lake Huron. And at the Maitland
Golf Course at Goderich, seven
members played 14 holes of golf.
The course was reported as be-
ing as green as summer time and
the air as balmy as spring.
Clinton's new mayor, Robert Y.
Hattin, took office and successcful-
ly steered Council through its in-
augural meeting in the Town
Council Chambers. Following the
meeting, His Worship entertained
the council, the Clerk and the
press, at an informal gathering
at the Snack Bar for lunch.
Miss Margaret Shoebottom has
received word that she has been
successful in passing examinations
for Nurses' Registration.
Auburn Postmaster
Gets ApOreciation
After 30 Years Service
(By our Auburn correspondent)
A testimonal card of apprecia-
tion for over 30 years service as
postmaster of Auburn, was receiv-
ed by Alfred Rollinson last week
from the Postmaster General, Hon-
orable William Hamilton, The
card read as follows:
"On the occasion of your retire-
ment from Postal Service, I desire
to express to you, appreciation of
your faithful service you have
rendered to Canada, during more
than 30 years, and I wish to ex-
tend to you, my sincere thanks,"
Deputy Postmaster G. A. Boyle
also sent a letter which reads as
follows: "It is a pleasure on be-
half of the Hon. William Hamil-
ton, Postmaster General, to fore-
ward you the attached testimonal
card as an expression of apprecia-
tion of your long service in this
department.
"I also have many years at
headquarters a n d throughout
Canada and this has enabled me
to appreciate the fact that the
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