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Clinton News-Record, 1959-11-19, Page 2From Our Early Files 40 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, November 20, 1919 David Centel= leaves this week for Fort Qu'Appelle, $ra-Sle, w ere his sen Roy Cantelon is seriously ill at the Military Hospital. The young soldier returned over two years ago in ill health. Mr. Can- telon's business will go on as us- ual, and hog prices, etc., may be obtained by calling up phone 105. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pattison and Mr, A. Pattison left for Ariz- ona, to see if the climate there will benefit Mr. E. Pattison's health. Some of our soldier boys have greater battles to fight after the great war is over. Edgar's many friends hope the change will do him good, John Irwin, superintendent of the Government Railway at Cal- gary, visited in town. Mr. Irwin is a son of the late Richard Irwin and is well known to the older residents of Clinton, It is 37 years since he started to work at the GTR station. Phalen's orchestra supplied music at McNeil's restaurant on Saturday night. 40 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Monday's London Free Press carried very good pictures of Maj- Tee...Me/rgan, Lieut, H, C. Lawson and Lieut. J. 0. Combe, Clinton, who were attending weekend tactical exercises at the Medway Farms of Col, J, E. Sr's:amen, near London, The Woman's Association of Wesley-Willis United Church held a bazaar in the Council Chamb- er. Miss L. Brigham, president, and Mrs. A. T, Cooper, ex-presi- dent, were stationed at the door to welcome patrons. The attrac- tive posters were the work of Kathleen Cosens and Kathleen Cuninghame, and the Christmassy decorations were a reminder that the festive season is just around the corner. C. W. Draper, M. Elliott and J. Wiggington were in Seaforth at- tending a district meeting to ar- range a hockey season. It was decided to form an OHA group of intermediate teams in the towns of Goderich, Clinton, Sea- forth, Mitchell and Wingham, Miss Emma Plumsteel and Mrs. Roy Plumsteel have returned "af- ter a visit with Mrs. Chesney, To- ronto. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, November 20, 1919 T. J. Monaghan, while at work in the machine room of the Do- herty Piano Factory, gave his shoulder a wrench that laid him up- for several days. A few days later, A. V. Quigley, operating a jointer in the same apartment had the misfortune to injure the two middle fingers of his right hand. He will lose the tip of one but it is hoped that the other will be saved. A. E. Irwin, Bayfield, was in town on Monday. Speaking of the wonderful weather this fall he said: "The roads are the best I've ever seen. They are like pavement all the way and people are plowing on every farm." There is a general feeling that rain is needed, however, and as winter seldom sets in until the swamps are full of water the probability is that we shall not have much winter before Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Colclough returned from their wedding trip. and are getting settled in their new home on the seventh of God- erich Township. 10 YEARS AGO CLINTON NEWS-RECORD A series of minor burglaries in district stores about midnight Wednesday last, has the police baffled. The stores were in Brucefield, Clinton, Londesboro, Ripley and Teeswater. W. M. Aik- en and Son's store, Clinton, was entered by way' of the cellar win- dow on the laneway at the rear of the store. About $53 in bills and silver was taken from the till. Holmesville United Church WA and WMS chose an excellent date —last Saturday—for their bazaar and tea in the Council Chamber, Clinton. It was "Clinton Day", and with hundreds of extra peo- ple in town, it meant the ladies were sold out by four o'clock. Many persons also came later for the excellent cold plate supper. C. V. Cooke, K. C. Cooke and Wilfred Denomme * attended the Al De Mero school of Designing in London last week. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Douglas, Meaford, visited over the week- end with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pep- per and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lay- ton. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Putting forth a different view-point on the CTA. revo- cation vote to be held car November 30, was this letter which was published in the Zurich Citizens News, Writ- ten by a minister of that vil- lage, it takes another look at the situation: DISAGREES The Zurich Citizens News,• Zurich, Ontario. Dear Mr. Editor: When a newspaper reports the facts impartially it is fulfilling a valuable service to the commun- ity. It is then that its readers are best able to form an accurate opinion on a public issue. There- fore let me commend you for the research and effort put into "An Historical Outline of the C.T.A." It is one of the most enlightening pieces I have yet read concerning the November 30th vote which is to decide, as someone else put it in last week's paper, which liquor law we desire to live under, and not a case of "wets" against the "drys". On the other hand, those far more numerous articles in support of the C.T.A., I have felt are sadly lacking in factual information. Many generalised statements are made, but these seem to be based much more on an extreme atti- tude toward the problem than upon factual information and im- partial observation, It disturbs me also to hear about the way churches have been telling people how to vote. Might they not even resent this insult to their own judgement based on the facts which so far have been' difficult to determine? I seriously question such inter- ference especially when it is done in the name of Christ, For this reason I find offensive a state- ment attributed to Mr. Moulton in which he drags the name of Jesus Christ down to the level of saying that if Huron and Perth and the C.T.A. are wrong then Jesus Christ and his Disciples are wrong. This to me is an irrever- ent use of the Holy Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which we as Christians must guard against. I for one cannot subscribe to such a statement. Sincerely, PAUL FISCHER. Zurich, Ontario, November 16, 1959. Here Is Your Chance To Save Money And Stock Up Your Winter Supplies 10% Discount On verything In The Store This is strictly cash, from the store only—No Deliveries No pane orders on this stock-clearing Sale This means you get many articles below cost 11•••••,* THIS IS FOR TEN DAYS ONLY SO HURRY—HURRY as there are Many Lines we are out of Already All accounts must be paid in full by November 30, lc ,. in order for us to give you a letter of credit recor,wnendation. We think our customers are the finest people in the world. We surely have appreciated your business in the past. We regret having to do this but we hope we be able to see you all again in the near future. STANLEY'S Red & White Betty and Burton Stanley Basf-aess and Professional — Directory 4/1•••••••MINOW,INE11/11. A. M. HARPER CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 E HAIR DRESSING CHARLES Cold Waves, •HsOtUy ISilcitiEgttOinFg,BEanAdUTY King St., Clinton Ph. HU 2-7065 C. D. Proctor, •Prop. INVURANCE Insure The Co-Op Way AUTO : ACCIDENT : FIRE WIND : LIABILITY : LIFE P. A. ROY HU 2-9357 Rattenbury St. W. CO-OPERATORS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747; Res. HU 2-7558 Salesman: Vic Kennedy Phone Blyth 78 J. E. HOWARD. Hayfield Phone Bayfield 53 r 2 Ontario Automobile Association Car - Fire - Accident Wind Insurance If you need Insurance, I have a Policy THE McHILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head. Office: Seaforth Officers 1958: President, Rob- ert Archibald, Seaforth; vice- pre. admit, Mist= Broadfoot, Sea- forth; secretary-treasurer, Norma Jeffery, Seaforth. Directors: JOhn H. MaEvving, Robert Archibald; antis: Leon. hardt, Bornholm; E. J. Treyvartba, Cllinton. ' Wan. S. Alexander, Wal- ton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Hard vey Fuller, Goderich; J, E. Pepper, Brucefield; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaterth, Agents: Wm. Leiper jr„ Lond, esboro; J, F, Prueter, Brodbagen: Selwyn Baker, Brussels: Ente Nia.mroe, Seafortia, INSURANCE Family Security Term Life Insurance On the Best Terms OCCIDENTAL LIFE If interested call or write W. C. FOSTER PHONE 317 BOX 2 92 Huron St. E., Exeter, Ontar MORE PEACE OF MIND PER PREMIUM DOLLAR OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF Hours: Seaforth: Daily except Monday Wednesday-9 a.m. to 5.30 p. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 12.30 p. Thursday evening by appointme only. PHONE 791 SEAFOR Clinton: Above Hawkins Har ware—Mondays only-9 a.m. 5.30 p.m. Phone HUnter 2-7010 Clinton G. B. CLANCY Optometrist — Optician (successor to the late A. L. Cole, optometrist) For appointment phone JA 4.72 Goderich PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY Public Accountant GODERICH, Ontario Telephone JA 4-9521 Box 478 RONALD CA, McCANN Public Accountant Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON. ONTARIO REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER, Real Estate and Business Bro High Street Clinton Phone 1W 2-9692 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a year United States and Foreign: $4,001 Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) Do you know that in the U.S. the teenage population has a buy- ing power of $80 billion a year? A chap from the States told me that the other day, and I was suit- ably startled. Or maybe it was $8 million a day. It doesn't matter. I presume the same is true in Canada, proportionately. Let's say there are four million teen- agers in Canada. A conservative estimate of their direct spending would be an average of $2 a week, each. That's $8 million a week, $416 million a year. • * * Add to that their indirect spend- ing, that is, the money spent by their parents on clothes and cars for them, foods and fads for them, chooling and spoiling for them, and they are probably the most expensive and economically in- fluential segment of society ever spawned. * Rather a shocker, isn't it? It was not always thus. Only in the past generation has the age group between 12 and 20 fastened on the body of society with a vampire's tooth, and inhaled with gusto. Never before in history has com- merce and culture danced attend- ance on the maudlin mind of the teens. * * * I'm not complaining, or saying it's all wrong. I'm merely observ- ing. Nor do I blame it on the kids. Start feeding a new pup choice morsels from your table, even though you know it's wrong. Pretty soon he's clawing at your leg if you're not handing it down fast enough. Next thing you know, he's a grown dog, is sitting at the table with a bib below his jowls, and gets snarly if you give him the half of your steak that has the gristle * * * This adulation of the adolescent was non-existent when I was one. And don't give me that pap about to-day's teenagers being all mixed up and confused. People of that age have always been confused and mixed up. The difference was that we didn't know how to take advantage of it, and we didn't have enough money for anybody to be bothered with us. * * Perhaps it is money that has supplied the motive power for the cult of the teen, which has smoth- ered society, in the past decade, with something that has all the grace, charm and vitality of a inelletiouthed marshmallow. *** It began in the 1940's, when the war-time and post-war boom produced easy money, the like of which honest plugging people had never seen. Parents, delighted and ill at ease with their newfound affluence, passed some of it on to their kids. For nothing. Not for Working, but just so they could hold up their end with all the other kids whose parents had giv- en them money for the same tees- on. It was not long before the she pies of society smelled a fat new market. Sociologists gave them a hand up by turning the full can- dlepower of their searchlight on the Youth of To-Day. The youth responded, as youth always will, by pushing for a place at the trough. * * It has made them believe that they are enjoying the most excit- ing, the richest years of their lives, which is pure crap. It has played hell with family life, be- cause it has assured them that everyone who is not a teenager is either infantile or an imbecile. * * * Don't ask me for the answers. I just have the questions. The only thing I can suggest is to cut off ruthlessly their finance s. Which: would bring down about our ears a torrent from the soft drink companies, the record com- panies, the drive-in movies, the people who specialize in clothes and shoes for teens, and every- body else who has a finger in that big juicy pie. * * Don't think that I am attacking the teenagers, or that I have a for- mula for revamping society. It's just that I have a problem. I have a son who is 12. When I was 12 I wanted to be a cowboy, Tarzan- of-the-Apes, a great explorer, or, on dull days, maybe just a mil- lionaire. You know what my kid wants to be? He wants to be a teenager. It's very depressing. Beattie Funeral Home Details are so competently handled by our staff that seldom does the family re- alize there are over 40 in- dividual services or steps in- volved. The same efficiency . Regardless of how much or how little you spend. AMBULANCE SERVICE ANYTIME * h. And thus, in the 1950's, emerg- ed full-blown that phenomena— The Teenager—master of all he or she surveys, as capricious as Catherine the Great, as misdirect- ed as a monsoon. One can only look forward to the 1960's with utter foreboding. * * Glorification of the teenager has had several results, all of them dire. It has unleashed a veritable flood of garbage in the fields of entertainment and publishing. It has convinced even the more sen- sible of our youth that they are as important as the sychophants say they are. *LI KE IT OR 1,1,,IMP IT • AS THE (!8C HAS MOPED THAT THE WINNIPEG-EDMoNibN 44ME IS NoT CRUCIAL, IT WILL Nor LSE' INSTEAP, WE WILL. DIVE You "pocroR SUTURE'S oTHER SCALPEL"! .„?; • -.se. • gal • ' :411Ar, 4451:g.t..1 ft • • .1,st;t4p,9;tzeesez.470,026,-.0;,: PAGE. TWO .a4NTON NEWS-ggeoRP "..1HURSDAY„ NOVEMBER 19,, 195 PAGE. TWO .a4NTON NEWS-ggeoRP "..1HURSDAY„ NOVEMBER 19,, 195 0 gt a a u L. 0 THOSE RO ONE OF THE less understandable of driv- ing follies is the disregard of road markings. Un- fortunately, it is a misuse of the roads that is widespread, among drivers of every kind. Why does it happen? Every driver knows that markings are for the protection of all who use the roads. Why are they ignored so repeat- edly? Other violations such as excessive speed, illegal or selfish parking, presumably offer some advantage—in the mind of the driver, at least. But it is difficult to understand the motivation of the motorist who habitually stops half way over the crosswalk, or straddles lanes. He can get nothing out of it— apart from black looks, horn blasts, and an increased chance of getting into a hospital ward. —the business of getting a job done right, with the least possible amount of friction. All of these things enter into the problem of knowing how to live in our modern world. Opportunity is knocking in this county, A course in leadership training is •being offered throughout a 14-week period, by men trained in the Dale Carnegie method. Everyone knows of the book, or has read it: How to Win Friends and Influence People. If you want help in ap- plying those principles—if you want to learn how to fill your particular niche in the world a little better than you do now—don't let opportunity go away unanswered. Enroll in the course and learn what experts in the field have to offer. Y FINANCING of difficult driving, probably over ruts, or through mud, until spring. We feel that part of the problem lies in the apportionment of grants, but some also is due to the rule that a municipality must budget each year for the expenses of that year. We may not budget for a surplus. That means we cannot build up a bank balance, from which we can draw during years when big projects are planned. The result is that during the first part of the year, before the taxes are due, a town, or a township must borrow money. Interest paid on this money no doubt helps the banks, but it is of no use in reducing the taxes. If a town could budget this year for a surplus next year, at least to see it through until tax money is in, we feel sure that it would •mean a reduction in taxes. This ties in also with the roads problem, for if we were not so utterly dependent upon that sum of money coming in as a grant each year from the provincial government, then we could go ahead with plans, and even if some work had to be held over until the next year, it would not be such a financial burden, TO BE COUNTED which will salve our conscience, at least for a short time. If there s any way in which surpluses of food from Canada and from the United States can be put into the hands of those who need it— without strings attached for them, or for the countries in which they live—then let us take the necessary steps. We are our brother's keeper. And in the modern world, our brother is sometimes thous- ands of miles away and of a different colour. That should make no difference to us, as we ful- fil the demands of our conscience—without con- trolling our imagination. AD MARKINGS It is just as easy to conform to, as it is to disregard the guidance of marking lines. And very much safer. The good driver observes all road directions, without question. It is no bother to him to do so. There is no strain in keeping four wheels to one side of a white line, instead of two. He feels at ease, driving at the correct speed in the correct position. It is automatic for him to keep within the protective boundary of the lane lines. The habitspattern is so strong that he gets an instinctive quickening of alertness whenever it becomes necessary to cross the boundary. A good driver, says the Ontario Safety League, does not leave the comfort and protect- ion of his lane without sufficient reason. The possible saving of a couple of seconds is not a sufficient reason. Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW E RA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor THROUGHOUT EVERY organization, and every occupation in our town, (in fact in the County of Huron and in the widespread nation of Canada) there are people who would be hap- pier, and who would make more money pro- bably, if they were more comfortable when on their feet talking to a group, or selling an idea. Salesmen, councillors, store clerks, teachers, executives, farmers, housewives with a job on the woman's association to which they belong, all could benefit by training in the art of talking and getting along with people. Emphasis today is on the progress which can be made through the mind—the communication of ideas from one person to another, or to groups RATHER SILL THE WAY of conducting municipal business has become an unwieldy monster which suffocates us all, and mounts up the cost of municipal taxes, way beyond commonsense. For instance: the method of applying grants to road expenditures. A town such as ours, must each year decide upon the work to be done, then get engineer's plans and estimates, then get approval of the Municipal Board, then call for tenders, select the firm they wish to do the job, and then Wait until the work is begun. One thing is sure. If the work is not done within the current year, then the grant from the provincial government will not cover it. In other words, if Clinton spends $10,000 this year on road work, then the percentage of provincial grant is paid on it. But if some of the work planned hangs over into 1960, then it must be- come part of that year's work, and automatically reduces the amount of grant available for road work done in that year. The result is that our roads work is being done during poor weather, and we face months WE IVIUST STAND WE ARE • responsible for the many thous- ands of unfed families. When we comment blithely that it will upset the economy of those other nations if we arrange to send food to them, we are not answering to the dictates of our own heart and our own be- lief in man's responsibility for his brother. As a well-known leader in farm organiza- tions said this week in Clinton, "We are only controlling our imaginations to relieve our con- science," in other words, we are burying our know- ledge of hungry young children, and their de- feated, hopless parents, under an explanation