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PRUNING OPERATION
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 24, 1921
Mrs. Theron Bottles, who had
been visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. McIlwalin of the 4th
concession and with other fr-
iends at Porter's HA left for
her home in the west.
Fred Hanley rented his farm
to Len McGee and had a sale
of stock and implements. His
intention was to go west for
the summer and possibly to re-
main,
R. A. .Robe4rton purchased
the dra.ying business of Ed.
Scruton.
Goderich Township was sh-
ocked by the sudden death of
Mrs. J. Reid Torrance at the
early age of 36. She was Fan-
nie A. rendsay, daughter of
Mrs, David Lindsay, and had
apparently been in her usual
good health.
Mrs. O. E. Erratt, Auburn,
visited at the homestead,
Woodlands Farm, Huron Road.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hewson,
Toronto, visited the lady's par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Co-
ok, before leaving for Pasa-
dena, California.
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 24, 1921
Mrs, Brunsdon and children,
Blyth, were visitors with the
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs
W. L. Mair, Rattenbury St.
Wind blew down part of the
old rink which was being wr-
ecked and gave the building
a great shaking up.
An auction sale of furniture,
etc., held at the Commercial
Hotel drew a large crowd.
Prices were good and auction-
eer Elliott worked hard to get
the bids.
The little daughter of Mr.
Perdue, of Sutter-Perdue, gave
her famiy a few anxious mom-
ents when she left her grand-
mother's but failed to return
home. Search was made and
the little maid was found at
an auction sale.
Signs of spring were noted:
crows, robins, clucking hens,
new millinery, maple syrup and
people moving.
25 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 19, 1930
After holding Durham to a
tie in two previous games, Cl-
inton Colts faltered in the th-
ird and deciding game played
in Galt. The score was 6-2
for Durham, who also won a-
gainst Acton 7-1 in their next
game.
The Ever Ready MIssion Cir-
cle met at the home of Mrs.
J. W. Nediger. The president,
Miss Helen Nediger, conduct-
ed the business meeting, with
Miss Dorothy Stelck in charge
of the study period.
A group of men interested
in forming a Lions Club met
to hear Mr. LaChance, Ottawa
explain the workings of such
clubs. The organization was to
be completed at a meeting the
following Monday.
Dr. F. G. Thompson addres-
sed the Home and School Club
on "The Prevention of Com-
municable Diseases". Mrs. Gor-
don Cunninghame, president,
was in the chair, and Miss
Ellen Charlesworth played a
piano medley of Irish selec-
tions.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 22, 1951
Harry D. Ball bought an or-
chard property on Raglan St-
reet from. Miss Dolly Cantelon,
Alderman G. "Skip" Winter
was appointed a commissioner
for 'Wiling affidavits, etc.
The sap pails on the maple
trees were catching snow in-
stead of sap. Easter was the
earliest in several decades, and
apparently in the middle of
winter, over a foot of fresh
snow having descended.
Clinton's vote on the issu-
ing of debentures in the a-
mount" of $300,000 for the er-
ection of a new public school
was planned for May 14.
Fire of unkown origin caus-
ed heavy damage at Huron
County Home, completely dee-
troseng a large shed and con-
tents. The large barn was sav-
ed, although it caught fire
several times, and the blaze
was prevented from spreading
to the main building, 200 feet
distant.
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From Our Early Files
feel rejected by my Dad, be'
cause he never paid any atten-
tion to us, except to give us
a dime once in a while. And
I thought he was a dandy
father.
Perhaps if I had been a prod-
uct of a Broken Home, I might
have amounted to something. I
never got a chance to 'be Em-
otionally Disturbed until it was
too late to cut any capers. But
just 'because I didn't have the
opportunity doesn't mean that
I'm going to deny my children
the chance of being delinquent,
You'll have to excuse me now
while I go down stairs and start
a fight with the old lady,
Though TB Most often at-
tacks the hinge, it is also
found in many other parts of
the body, including bones, brainy
spinal Cord covering, skin and
abdonlinal organs,
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The men's clothing industry is ready
with the British Look—and it thinks it has
a winner, reports Ray Magladry in The
Financial Post. It follows the Ivy League
and the Continental styles—fashions which
have given the industry substantial zip over
the last three or four years,
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Features of contemporary clothing are
short coats, cut-away fronts, thm trousers
and the "leggy" appearance. Clothing Men
describe The British look as having man-size
shoulders, full chest, gently shaped waist,
wide flap pockets, generally in a three-but-
ton short coat, trim trousers More vests may
be seen with it than with current styles.
Clinton News-Record
THE CLINTON News-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924
Est. 1881
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
A, L, COLQUHOUN, Publisher
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WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor
THE CLINTON NEW ERA
Est. 1865
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Monday morning, the patrons of the
Clinton branch, Bank of Montreal can once
more do their banking at the main intersees
tiers of the twin The staff is moving in this
weekend.
This means that once again there will be
two banks at the main corner. Forming the
heart of the community, these institutions,
Where money can be stored, invested, exchang,
ed, and numerous other services given, are a
part of the nay-to-day We of nearly everyone
in the community. Along with the Royal
Bank of Canada and, more recenaly, the
town's own Credit Union, the Bank of
Montreal provides a service without which
modern-day living could not be aocomplished.
With the building of the new Bank of
Montreal Branch, the main corner of Clinton
has been given a modern look. As a back
drop, the high buildings which were erected
in the 1880's possibly leave much to be de-
sired from an esthetic viewpoint, but they
We're all for driver training of teenagers.
We're not sure, however, that we can
agree with the many who support the extra-
curricular instruction in high schools. And we
certainly don't concur with their opponents
who insist it is a parental responsibility.
Training of our young people who come
of driving age has been left to the parents
for too many years and now look at the
results. The slaughter on our highways in-
creases with too large a percentage of the
blame attributed to the young drivers who
treat motor vehicles as playthings.
Parents, it's been conclusively shown,
can't teach their children to drive well. Many
adults themselves don't know how—they
learned by the disastrous trial and error
method. The average parent does not have
the patience, knowledge or discipline to make
a conscientious driver of his child.
The demand grows to make driver-train-
ing a part of high school education. Current
legislation gives school boards the authority
to provide extra-carricular courses. This news-
paper once supported this system of training.
Where it has been given, statistics show it
has paid off. The American Automobile
Association calculates that for every $1.00
invested by the schools in driver education,
$2.60 is returned in accidents prevented.
Despite this strong argument, there are
important objections to providing instruction
in the school. The first most obvious one is
that driver training is not education in the
proper sense of the word. It is not practical
to employ a teacher, university-trained to in-
struct in literature, history or mathematics,
to waste his talents on driver training. Quite
properly, we feel, the teachers' federation has
opposed it.
We all abhor the thought of cruelty in-
flicted on a child. In our environment, a
child's world should be a place of comfort
and happy seetirity, and we flatter ourselves
that now, more than ever, we have succeed-
ed in providing such a place for our children.
We are saving them from polio, tuber-
culosis, smallpox, and other dread diseases
that have threatened them in the past, and
we provide them with more creature com-
forts and shining baubles than our forbears
could have imagined. Yet with all our at-
tentions, all of us who at any time have
charge of a child are burdened with the
knowledge that nearly 2,000 of our young
people are killed in Canada every year by
accidents.
Home accidents are taking well over half
of this toll of young life, and yet ironically
this environment could be made the safest
place in the entire child's world, A child's
.are buildings which have proved their worth
through the years of -Clinton's history, and
welt they may do so again,
It does a people no .harm to ,have these
links with the past, to remind them of the
days of their fathers, and the many benefits
which they enjoy which are due entirely to
the thoughtfulness and good planning of their
ancestors,
Will it be easier to save money, when it
is deposited in the lovely new bank building?
We doubt it.
Will it be easier to borrow money in
this modern establishment? We doubt that,
too,
But, certainly the structure is a thing
of beauty to behold; a pleasurable place for
the staff of the branch to work; a roomy
office in which customers can do their bank-
ing business; and a credit to the community
as a whole.
Little consideration appears to have been
given to placing the responsibility of training
on what appears to us to be the logical group
—the police. Who is more conscious of the
need? Who can better relate the importance
of good driving? Who is in a better position
to know the traffic laws?
We suggest a police-administered driver
training system would have many advantages.
First of all, it falls directly in line with the
responsibility of accident prevention. Second-
ly, it would give police a constructive func-
tion which would help to elevate public re-
spect. Thirdly, it would help develop a new
generation of drivers with the proper under-
standing of the job police must do on the
road. Fourthly, it could encompass those
youth who might avoid high school instruc-
tion by dropping out of school at the age of
16—and it is this type of youth who is in-
clined to be the worst offender on the high-
way.
True, attendance at such courses might
not be large on a voluntary basis. However,
if such training reduces the risk of accidents,
insurance companies should be prepared to
provide lower rates for persons who have
passed a police course. This would encourage
both the parent and child to take advantage
of it. Then, if the courses prove successful
and the demand grows, the taking of such
a course could become a compulsory require-
ment to securing a licence.
Municipalities and police officials might
complain about the time such instruction
would take from regular police duties. But
it would seem to us a good investment of
public funds to take one constable off general
patrol for three hours a week to provide
driver instruction.
safety in the home depends largely on two
things, both of them adult charges. First,
he must be protected, as a helpless infant,
from such accidents as suffccation, drown-
ing, fire, falls and poisoning. It is the job
of the parent to make sure hazards which
could cause these accidents are well under
control.
But this is only half the job. It would
be impossible, as the child grows in strength
and curiosity, to shield him from all hazards.
The second half of our responsibility is to
begin to educate him as early as possible.
This education must anticipate, rather than
follow disaster. He must learn increasingly
to protect himself.
The Ontario Safety League points out
that cruelty is no less painful to the child
for being inflicted inadvertently. And to
omit to arm today's child against the lethal
weapons which surround him, is to commit
a cruelty against him.
(By W. 13, SWOLEY)
Do you know that we're get,
tins to be a nation of? We're
getting to be a nation of child-
worshippers, And personally,
I'm becoming a bit nauseated
by the whole perverted bus-
iness,
When the ane:ent Hebrews
began feeling their oats, they
built themselves a golden calf,
and you know what happened
then. We're in the process of
building ourselves a golden kid,
and we'll deserve everything
that's coming to us, when the
Lord grows tired of our sillin-
ess.
* *
I keep reading things that
make my hair stand on end
with sheer horror at the idola-
try we're committing, Just the
other clay, I read in the paper
some remarks by a professor of
psychology at the University of
Montreal. He claimed that a
disturbed child* becomes delin-
quent because he is convinced
he is meant to be.
The professor said: "For in-
stance, a child is sent on an
errand with the admonition to
bring back the change. There's
an insinuation there that the
worst is expected of him. Slow-
ly he builds up this image of
himself, and accepts himself as
the black sheep of the family."
From there, apparently, it is
only a hop,- step and a switch-
blade knife to a criminal gang.
Now, isn't that the damnedest
poppycock you've ever heard?
Of course a child is warned to
bring back the change! It's
the first thing you do when
you give him a dollar, and you
tell him at least three times
more, before you let him out
the door. I'd rather have a kid
came home with the change,
and feel like a black sheep,
than come home with six comic
books and new proof that the
old man is an easy mark.
4, ,K
et used to be that when a
child was a mean little beast
that nobody, including his par-
ents, had any use for, every-
body steered clear of him, and
he grew up to be a business
tycoon, or a great artist, or a
brilliant politician, or just a
plain, ordinary, miserable adult
that nobody had any use for.
Nowadays, when you encoun-
ter some vicious little brute
you can scarcely keep your
hands off, you are quickly told
that there's really nothing
wrong with him except that
he's emotionally disturbed. He's
never forgiven Mom for slapp-
ing him on the 'bottom to make
him go in the potty. Or he
hates his Dad because the lat-
ter has rejected him—wouldn't
join him in a game' of kick-
the-cat.
With the aid of the Reader's
Digest and Liberty, we now
have more amateur psycholo-
gists in Canada than we have
unproductive gold mines. And
they're all agreed that it isn't
the fault of The-Children-Poor-
Things, it's the parents who
are to blame. Tit never seems
to occur to these modern swam-
is that there might be anything
wrong with the kids. Not a
chance. Children now occupy
the position of mingled res-
pect and awe once reserved for
such dignitaries as the Royal
Family and the Devil.
And the kids revel in it, of
course. There's nothing a mod-
ern kid enjoys more than hav-
ing an old man who drinks, oe
an old lady who runs around
a bit. It qualifies him at once
for the Broken Homes Club,
and gives him an. Open Sesame.
to any kind of conduct he feels
like pursuing, No longer is he
lazy, bad-mannered, surly, gre-
edy or ill tempered. He's Dis-
turbed.
Nye 4—CIIroten News-Record Thurs,, March 23, 1961
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All I Can say is, look around
you, chaps. There are certainly
some children who have a rough
deal .and are upset about things.
But it has always been my con-
tention that kids are tougher
than a sixty-cent steak. And if
they're not, look at all the
rich emotional experience they-
're piling up.
No, it's the parents I want
you to look at. They are the
really emotionally disturbed
people of our time. The Wo-
men who should be enjoying
the marital delights of young
middle-age, gaunt and haggdrd
as they scramble for new Sac-
rifices to heap around the feet
of the golden kid. The been
down, worn-out fathers, des-
perately trying to be a chum
to their children, It is to them
that my heart goes out, * *
X don't know, maybe trri just
jealous because I was born
thirty years too soon I was
year never able to hate my mother
for more than twenty minutes,
even when she walloped me
With the yardstick. Nor did x