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Clinton News-Record, 1961-03-09, Page 4Page 4—Clinton Nows-Record--Thors. March 9,, 1961 • Editorials , AS. EXPECTED 40 Years Ago. (UNTON NEWS-0E00RO ThursdaY, li.fureh 10, 1921 Fire destroyed a barn belong- ing to jowett,Bayfleid. Robert SpackMan had been VS- /rig the barn to store his thresh-. ing outfits during the winter, Three separators were destroy- ed, Leonard C, Sabine, young Toronto druggist who was fat. ally shot in his store by burglar, was the husband .0f a former Clinton girl, Miss Jennie Shannon. Fred C. Hanley of the Say- field Road is having sale of ,his farm and farm stock and intends going west. Mrs. T. J. Watt has been in Goderich during the past week on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs, (Dr,) Taylor, who is now improving. Miss Mabel Rathwell of the Bayfield Line, Goderich Town- ship, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rathwell of town, for a few days. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, March 10, 1921 Mrs. jarnes Livermore was taken to Clinton Hospital for a serious operation, but was re- covering nicely, The contract of wiring and supplying fixtures for Blyth Community Hall was let to W. Wedlock, Clinton, for $1,000. Miss Margaret Torrance, Port Arthur, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Torrance. B. 3, Gibbing% was impoving at Biltmore Hospital, where he underwent a serious operation on his jaw. M. D. MeTaggart received his new McLaughlin sedan on Saturday last, It is certainly a dandy car. Charles Lockwood purchased a 100 acre farm near Westfield for $4,100 and will take pos- session right away. Mrs. William Mc lath visited her daughter, Mrs. N. W. Tre- wartha, Holmesville. 25. Years Ago 034.mrox NEWS-BECOBB Thursday, March .5, 1936 Bentwishes were extended to Andrew EIVIScon4 Bayfield, who on February 29 passed his twentieth birthday and thus joined the octogenarians of Hayfield. Edward 4. Jenkins, B.A., a graduate of Toronto University, who had been general secretary of the London Y,1VI,C,A, since 1919, was appointed to the general secretaryship of the Ottawa Y.M.C.A., as .a recogni- tion of his ability as an ad- ministrator of "Y" activity in its various phases, Mr. Jenkins is the youngest son of the late Thomas Jenkins of Woodlands Farm, Huron Road, and a bro- ther of T, R. Jenkins and Miss Mary Jenkins who live on the homestead. 10 Years Ago ()LINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, March 8, 1951 In connection with the Pente- costal Church project, permit for $15,000 having been applied for by K. L. Sweigard, pastor of the church, to erect a church on, Victoria Street, the applica- tion was, tabled to allow coun- cil to consider the site from the standpoint of future town plan- ning, Norman W. Miller, 55, Coder- Jell, County Clerk of Huron and formerly of Clinton, was killed in a highway crash on King's Highway 21, eight miles south of Goderich. He was issuer of motor vehicle licenses at Clin- ton and later assessor and tax collector prior to his appoint- ment as County Clerk, About 20 Goderich Township farmers over whose properties the Hydro Electric Power Com- mission of Ontario proposed to construct a high power line from Bayfield to Holmesville, met in the schoolhouse, Bay- field, for discussion and plan- ning. Letter to the Editor Thanks ,Worn The Editor, Clinton NewS*TteCord, Dear Madam: On behalf of our Tuberculos- is. Association, 1 wish to thank you and your capable staff ter all their support over the past year. We especially appreciate your assistance during the Mass Survey and the Christmas Seal campaign, It is of great interest to your readers to know that the con, tributions to the campaign amounted to $12,40$.79, an in- crease of $240 over last year. While money is necessary, the constant search for unknown oases is what will determine our success. Only the maxi- mum use of case-finding facil- ities will help us to reach the goal of a tuberculosis-free county. This is why you hear us talk about tuberculin test- ing and chest x-rays, the only way to find these unknown cases, By presenting this situation before our county, you perform an important health education service for our citizens. Your readers will be inter- ested to know that the Inter- national Union Against Tuber- culosis will hold its bi-annual meeting in Toronto September 10-14, 1961, Few countries have tuberculosis under control as well as we have in Canada, a fact for which we are very thankful. Our county people are invited to attend this meet- ing where 66 countries will be represented. Again we thank you sincere- ly for such fine public service in helping us bring the facts about the tuberculosis situa- tion before the public. We can only do what the public helps us to do by their contributions to the Christmas Seal Cam- paign. Gratefully yours, Harvey A. McDermitt, President, Huron County TB Association. Box 100, Seaforth, March 6, 1961. SUGAR and SPICE Clinton Lions Club Begins Drive For Sale of Easter Seals This year the ra on tit of March becomes the month of hope for more than 15„000 crippled' children and teenagers in Ontario who have been at- liCted by accident, disease ow disabled by certain =clitoris from birth than usually mean despair and dependence on others.. Again this year the Clinton Lions Club is promoting the sale of Easter Seale. One-half of the monies colleoted locally stays right in our own com- munity .for crippled children's work. Donations this year should be sent to B. W, 'Cor- nish, treasurer of Clinton Lions Easter Seals Committee. The month-long Easter Seals campaign will be opened on March' 2 'in 226 communities in Ontario by service clubs striving to raise $875,000, That's the price that must be paid in 1961 to make life better for youngsters who would other- wise find it harder—if not im- possible 'to become self-reliant and self-d'epend'ent citizens. During the 38 year history of the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, Easter Seal contributions have paved the way for a program which now provides 27 specially trained nurses working from 16 district offices, 'who serve as liaison with the service clubs across the province, seeking out crip- pled children and directing them to treatment centres, pro- viding them with home nursing skill and teaching • parents what to do to help handicapped little ones take advantage of medically prescribed plans of rehabilitation. In five 'camps, unlike any other camps in the country, hundreds of youngsters will have a chance at summer vaca- tions, barred to them otherwise because they cannot play exact- ly as other children do. In these camps, counsellors with know- ledge of what to do, teach the kids to enjoy life, to learn bow to care for themselves, and to give many of them, hope which their conditions have not ex.- oused Easter Seals too .enrol the services of leading physicians •and surgeons who give their time and skills at the clinics which the society and the ser- vice clubs organize at strategic centres in Ontario, where local doctors may bring their young Patients for examination and recommended treatment, From the dirties the children go to hospital if necessary, or back to their homes for a program of planned therapy or training supervised by the society's nurses. In the field of _cerebral palsy the society's Easter Seals have made possible advances that are dramatic even though the task is painfully slow and expensive. At various centres through- out the province, teams of nur- ses and doctors are teaching children to walk, to talk, to feed themselves and dress themselves—to become helpful family members instead of helpless victims of a condition that once spelled hopelessness. A contribution to the Easter Seal campaign means a mem- bership in a crusade of mercy and service to children, who, through no fault of their own, are enormous burdens of at. ftiotoll, but who need a little help to carry those burdens much more lightly. 0 GOOD WILL CLUB TO MEET MARCH 11 The Wesley-Willis Good Will Club will meet in the church parlour on Tuesday evening March 14. Mrs. L. Jervis has chosen for her topic "The Unit- ed Nations." Group 3 is in charge. Business and Professional 'rectory A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO. Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2.7556 THE McK1LLOP MUTUAL PYRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. McEwing, Blyth; secre- tary-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode- rich; 3. E. Pepper, Brucefiekl; Alisthir Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon- desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton, REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker • Hight Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Goderich, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4.9521 478 RONALD G. McCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further Charge - Clinton—Mondays Only 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Above Hawkins Hardware G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38-tfb (By W. B. T. SMILEY) notes from dear old ladies in their eighties, One of them, ob- viously written with great dif- ficulty, ended, ". . .and I can tell you, it's no fun being 89," and made me deeply ashamed of the beefing I do about little aches and pains. * * * One gal was born the same day I was and likes the birth- day columns. Betty Hall of Tillsonburg trained as a nurse with my kid sister, who taught her how to smoke. Margaret Farnell of Edmonton says her husband was in Six Group, Bomber Command, and enjoys the air force reminiscences. Roger Hartzel of Neepawa, Man., along with about 50 oth- ers, wonders how The Old Battleaxe likes •being called The Old Battleaxe. As a mat- ter of fact, she rather enjoys it. She's a pretty sharp-look- ing doll, and it makes her glow a bit when she meets strangers and they exclaim, "Surely YOU'RE not the OLD BAT- =AXE!" in amazement. There's a good chance that she's going to have to be at her best to hold me, though. Now that I'm a popular idol, with 151 letters, she's going to have competition. One lady wrote to say that if I ever went farming, she'd go into partnership with me. Another said I was better looking than she'd expected, and that she just loved me, She rather spoiled it by add- big that she sends the paper each week to her granddaugh- ten Still another stated flatly: "Any time your Old Girl leav- es you, I shall be waiting here with a beer to cheer. Old Maid." * * It's amazing—but no news to weekly editors—how far some papers travel. Mrs. Lillian Sm- yth of Leader, Sask., sends her paper to her children in Seat- tle, and from there 'it goes to California. Many others report- ed similar skullduggery. I was deeply hurt that I received only one letter from my old home town of Wiarton. It was from Bert Sinclair, the town clerk, and read: Dear Bill, thanks for putting your address in your column. We didn't have it here at the office. This is not exactly a fan letter. It is just to inform you that your 1960 taxes are still owing, plus $5.62 interest." I'm plan- ning to answer every letter, and I can assure you, that one is going to be the bottom of the pile. I can't begin to pass along all the messages I received, but will only add that they were generous, kind and interesting. There wasn't a scurrilous one in the lot. Thank you, gentle readers, with all my heart. It's pretty nice to know that, while there may not be any great demand for me in Hollywood, London or New York, they wait for me an Watford, go for me in George- town, eat me up in Egansville, hang on my every word in Hantsport, and love me in Leader. -AND REAP THIS WHIRLWIND 110 The vote for hog producers committee members here on Monday went off smoothly Its was expected, A lack of voters from the far off corners of the county was evidenced in that no can- didate was elected from the four townships farthest away, However that could almost have been predicted, too. A majority of the seasoned members of the hog producers association were, elected, and probably this could have been predicted as well, but on the morning of the voting, there would have been few takers for Well a bet, The four Free Enterprise men new to the group who were elected certainly will gain in experience and wisdom during the next 12 Months, and this will do no harm to anyone, most certainly not to themselves, No one could have predicted how many of the nearly 6,000 hog producers in the county would have come to vote. That 1,184 made the trip to Clinton was gratifying, even though it could hardly be termed a fair representation from the producers throughout the county. The main task of the group elected, will be to join with the ,12 committeemen from 'Middlesex •County on March 15 and select We like the suggestion for a Canadian whose hobby is heraldry. Says she: whose hobby is heraldry.' Says she: "We would interpret in heraldic language that very typical legend of our Dominion crest, 'A Mare usque ad Mare' (From Sea to Sea), by two vertical blue bars on the left and right side of the white field, meaning the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. "The white field, meaning Canada's clean past (compared to that of war-ridden coun- This writer was one of a party of weekly newspaper publishers, the directors of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, who called on Prime Minister John Diefen- baker to present a brief. Though we don't personally lean toward any hero worship where government leaders are concerned, we found this face-to-face conference quite im- pressive. The strongest impression, perhaps, was the human qualities in the prime minister. Unlike his TV appearances, in which he tends to be very serious and unsmiling, in personal conversation his eyes frequently sparkle with humor and his remarks are spiced with dry wit, the jokes often directed at himself and his government. Mr. Diefenbaker was accompanied by several cabinet ministers, who commented on and invited, amplification of many points in the brief. This document, presented by the weekly men, was the subject of some unmerci- ful panning in the daily papers the following day. The dailies suggested that the entire presentation was worthless because, in their view, there were too many compliments for the government. Their attitude may have been influenced by, the fact that they have never been invited to such an intimate meet- ing themselves. Actually, the brief was written in an effort to offer constructive suggestions on many of • Canada's problems, and to bring to the prime minister and his cabinet, the opin- ions and concerns of Canadians in the rural areas. The fact that the PM devoted consider- ably more than an hour out of a busy morn- ing to discuss the suggestions offered seems a fair indication that some of them had merit GLAMOUR UNNEEDED (London Free Press) SO OTTAWA is going to try to glean- orize the potato, In an effort to aid this country's growers some deep thinkers in the nation's capital will try to promote spuds in all their varied forms. Why can't the housewife do this? No hungry husbands need to be sold on the infinite variety of the potato, which can come to the table creamily mashed, batter- fried, hashed brown, roasted golden, sliced and scalloped, or served au gratin, What man ever forgets the first potato he baked in the coals of a camp fire deliciously flavored with ashes? Ottawa must surety have more urgent Matters to attend to than the glamorization of a tuber. which has delighted gourmets since time initnemorial. one of their number to represent District 10 on the Toronto Board, With that one man will go a lot of faith, hope and trust that he will do what he can for the betterment of the hog producers in Huron and Middlesex in the public market place. It was rather amazing that the 'Voting Should be as close as it turned out to be. This should serve as a suggestion to each elected man that though hundreds of men voted for him, other hundreds did not, but preferred other representatives, With this in mind, the seat of the elected may not be too solid, but at least he is made aware that there are others of other opinion with which he must reckon, The answer is a state of compromise on many things without surrendering basic free- doms and basic beliefs. The solution should be at least as suecessful as the welding of the French and English nations into the Cana- dian nation we know and love, and its wel- come to those of other countries who may wish to make their home here. A One-sided type of government or law, will not attract others, nor will it provide a healthy atmosphere for those who already reside under its care. tries) and wide open future, would have in its middle a red Maple Leaf, it color stand- ing for the blood of those who died for Canada and the love of all of us for our country. "In the red-white-and blue, we would maintain the same colours we have had for so long a time and which, therefore are famil- iar to us. Flying alongside the Union Jack, it would be very simple indeed but it would have quite a story to tell—a' story of which we all would feel a part about a country of which we all want to be proud. Certainly the visit left us with the deep conviction that not too many men in this country would want Mr. Diefenbaker's job. Only a few hours after he had devoted his attention to the brief from the weeklies he was facing the new crisis presented by the death of Mr. Lumurnba in the Congo. The constant demand for lightning changes of mental application must be exhausting beyond imagination. PAW MARKS On the floor I see the marks of muddy footprints, My favorite chair is graced with long grey hair, The window pane has smudgy little nose marks, But you know, I love to see those dear marks there. There's a bone behind the davenport I fancy, A rubber doll lies lonesome on the floor, A little leather harness on the table, A dog leash on the handle of the door. I know they're out of place and look untidy, But yet, I think I like them on the whole, rhey makaa house a home, a place that's happy, A little puppy's paw marks on your soul. —W. J. Hiekmott, Jr. WILT THOU NOT The days are cold. The nights are colder The young ones, and the ones who're older Huddle in their misery. Day after day they sadly wait, , • Give them thy hand, ere it's too late To raise (them from their misery! These are thy neighbors far away. And He said, on that far-off day 'Help 'them for thy love of Me!' Be not like those whom Christ did chide For passing on the other side. Thy neighbor NOW bath need of thee. Wilt thou not help a Refugee? —G.F.H. WHO, ME? "You watch the man who drives ahead, And the man whb drives behind. You, watch to the right, You watch to the left, You drive with a cairn, clear mind. But the man you really have to Watch On the highway, you will find, Is the man behind the man ahead, And ahead of the man behind," Quoted, and endorsed, by the Ontario Safety League. What Others Say . WE LIKE IT (Exeter Times-Advocate) MULTITUDE OF CONCERN (The Wingham Advance-Times) Chilton News Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Elot. 1861 Couple of weeks ago, I sug- gested, with the delicacy of a Percheron, that it might be a good idea if I got some fan mail. Just a token—about a million letters, We were going to show that Pierre Benton, with his. average of 30 letters a day, what real fan mail was. We were going to fill •a truck with letters, drive to the city, dump the entire million in his office, and sneer, "There! Howdaya like THEM apples, Buster?" Well, all I can say is that I'm going to look pretty silly, pushing a wheelbarrow full of letters down that highway. Come to think of it, though, we didn't do so badly. Berton writes a column a day, and gets 30 letters. I write a col- umn a week, and I get 151 letters. Putting it roughly, I get five •times as much fan mall as Pierre Berton. Say, this is sounding better all the time. Who does that guy think he is, anyway? As I write, the letters are still coming in at the rate of about 10 a day. We topped 25 three days in a row. "I've never had such interesting mail in my life. Main reason is because it's all about me. * * Mighty flattering it was when the first letters were from newspaper people, who read the column before it gets into •their papers. One of the first to arrive was from Ant Reyhdal of Atikokan, a lino- type operator who writes better than most editors. Four typed pages, lively and sardonic as only a lino operator can be. Oddly enough, two of the earliest arrivals were from readers of the most faraway paper on the list, the White- horse (Yukon) Star. Fred Heck sent a pleasant note and Rusty Erlam kept it to a brief "I'm witcha boy." Then they began rolling in from all directions—the west coast, the Maritimes, the pr- aise provinces, Ontario and Quebec, and a dozen or two different places in the States. It's pretty exciting to know that Ted and Ruby Midgley are reading your column in their trailer in Chula Vista, California, just about the same time Molly Blackburn. of Mid- dle 1Vlusquocloboit, Nova Scotia, is picking up her local weekly to have a look at Sugar and Spice. Mrs. Liles Gillet, a Swiss- born lady who loves Canada, scans it in Warwick, Quebec, before sending it to her son in England, and Madeline Van. der Zanden, right across the continent in Forest Grove, Or- egon, flips through the Red Deer Advocate to get tut the column, It's thrilling to know that you pack enough punch to make harassed housewives kick the kids out of the way, sit down year among the breakfast disheS, and pen a tote of encourage- ment to "keep it coming.° It's delightful to get mash THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 Arnatgaffiated 1924 Published every Thursday at the Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,000 • • • I. A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • • • WILMA O. 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