Clinton News-Record, 1961-03-30, Page 4THE CLINTON NEW .ERA
Est. 1865
25 Years Ago .
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Thursday, March 26, 1936
An Arrow bus on the Ooder,
tioh,Strattord run left Highway
8 one mile east of Mitchell,
struck a hydro pole and rolled
into the ditch, Mrs, Nellie Est-
len, sister of Mrs. J. F. Roger-
son, Clinton and V, Franks, CO'
inton Collegiate staff, were sl-
ightly injured,
Captain Garfield C, VanStene
late of the 161st Huron Regi-
ment, died in Vancouver. He
was a native of Brussels.
David Meisner who was con-
victed a year previously for
the kidnapping of Mr, Labatt,
Leaden, was acquitted by a
jury at a second 'trial and
walked out a free man. He
was a native of Huron County,
born in Astifield Township.
Arthur Cantelon's house on
Huron Street was remodelled
into a double house, for rental.
10 Years Ago
CLINTON NEWS-RECORD.
Thursday, March 29, 1951
Tenders were called' for the
construction of nine new RC
AF buildings, six of which
were for living quarters.
R, R. Bellinger, game over-
seer for Huron County, stated
that fishing at night with
'lights and spears definitely was
illegal.
In a thoroughly Hibernian
setting, a program entitled "An
Evening with the Irish" was
presented in St. Joseph's Ch-
urch Hall. Accompanists for
the musical numbers were Mrs.
John Bourne and Miss Mary
Phelan.
Holmesville YPU planned an
entry in the Goderich Drama
Festival. Cast for 'the play,
"Strange Road" included Pam-
ela Saddler, Dora Heard, Kath-
leen Holmes and Ewan Ross.
Proctor Palmer was director
and' Sybil Palmer stage direc-
tor.
SUGAR
and
SPICE.. .
(By W. B. T. SMILEY)
This is the fag-end of the
year. Winter has retreated as
sullenly as a rattlesnake with
an ulcer. Summer is as remote
as heaven. And the citizens of
Canada are at the end of their
tether.
In most northern countries,
winter is the bad time. The
Fins and the Swedes and the
Russians do most of their sui-
ciding in the melancholy of the
long, dark months. Not Can-
adians. We are too busy curl-
ing and going to meetings and
watching the hockey games on
television.
No, we get through the win-
ter famously. It's around the
end of March that Canadians
begin to brood, to draw in on
themselves, to eye each other
darkly. About this time of
year, -though an outsider would
never suspect it, most Canad-
ians are as mad as March
hares. * * *
What's behind it all? First,
it must be remembered that
we have just come through a
hive-month siege by a fierce,
determined and implacable
enemy. We have fought gal-
lantly and well, but our nerves
are frayed, our bodies racked,
and our galoshes holed. Second,
though the siege is raised, and
the enemy has moved off, the
relief column is at least a
month away. Our starving
souls must feed on something,
and there's nothing around to
eat but people. * * *
There are terrible scenes in
our homes, as men and women
chew at each other and child-
ren snap at their parents. In
offices, bosses snarl and sec-
retaries weep. In schools, tea-
chers run amok and hurl them-
selves headfirst at blackboards.
The March madness takes
many forms. Hopest, upstand-
ing citizens spend hours crouch-
ed over income tax forms,
trying to diddle the govern-
ment. Elderly ladies stumble
around their backyards in rub-
ber boots, peering wildly at
the ruins of last year's herb-
aceous border.
Other men drive far into
the country and' sit alone on
a little bridge, bitterly watch-
ing rainbow trout leaping up
a little waterfall. Other women
die their hair puce, or start
frantically painting their
kitchens.
* * *
There's nothing unusual a-
bout all this. It's simply that
the residents of this country
have entered that miserable,
wet, cold, frustrating, dismal
season that delights in the
name of Spring, gladsome Sp-
ring. We might as well be hon-
est about it, Spring in this
country is a hideous nightmare
that may last from the end
of March to middle of May.
Because we •are a people
Used to Doing, rather than
Thinking, we find spring an
excxueiating experience. There's
nothing to DO! Curling is a-
bout shot, and it's too early
for boating, gardening, golfing
or fishing. It's the mating sea-
son, prestimably, but everybody
is so irritable it's rather a
waste.
In, Other springs this wait-
ing period, this spell of mad-
ness, has resulted in near-
tragedies around Our place
I have seen myself pick Up a
coal shovel and batter a harm-
less old furnace with it until
I dropped from exhatietion.
have seen ire, wife trembling
OK, OK, 50 I GIVE ALL
THa Kips AN EGO! BUT
IF I HAVE To Go DOWN
ANY CHIMNEYS, I QUIT/
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THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD
Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881
Published every Thursday at the
Heart of Huron County
Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000
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A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher
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WILMA b DINNIN, Editor
This country should have more people
like Men Mills. And we can have, merely by
epprepiating him, and others like him, just
a little 'bit more.
Hearing this singer. on CBC's Juliette
Show Orr Saturday evening,. was like a strong
fresh breeze, blowing through the haze of pop
tunes and jazz which comes in never-ending
waves from .tin-pan alley in the USA,
When Juliette wondered out loud why
such songs are not done oftener, certainly she
has the answer, herself. With a half-hour
at her disposal each week she •is doing a
fairly good job at encouraging Canadian songs.
But she could do ever so much better. Mr.
Mills could be a monthly visitor to the
Juliette Show—end his repertoire of songs
would not be used up in many years,
Surely there is enough radio and tele-
vision from our dear 'neighbour to the south,
on which United States singers and tunes can
be exploited without our own people repeating
(St. Marys
The Canadian Statesman of Bowmanville
suggests that if the O'Leary Commission is
seeking sources of more advertising dollars
for Canadian publications, there is more than
$38,000,000 right close at hand. This is the
gross commercial revenue gobbled up in one
year by an agency of the very Government
which put Mr. O'Leary to work at finding
relief for publishers!
Television is a new and glamorous form
of advertising, tempting to the manufacturers,
and made even more tempting because the
States makes it available cheaply. Because
the CBC is supported by the public 'treasury,
it can look upon advertising as so much gravy.
If an advertiser refuses to pay the full cost
of a program, CBC can and often does give
him a special deal. This was revealed under
In his budget speech a year ago, Finance
Minister Fleming forecast that the old age
pension fund would net show a deficit in
1960-61. In theory it has been supported by a
2-2-2 per cent levy on corporation, personal
income and sales tax. This was hiked by the
present government to three per cent, ap-
parently ending annual deficits which totaled
$650,000,000 since January, 1951. Most of the
deficit has been paid off from "general tax
revenue." Presumably the three per cent
levy is considered "special." -
Mr. Fleming said old age pension pay-
ments in the fiscal year ending March 31,
1961, would be $590,000,000, which indicates
895,454 recipients. There is a Kitchener reso-
lution going around—Stratford aldermen on
Tuesday rejected it in committee—proposing
that the pensions be paid from age 65. (From
age 65 to 70, government assistance is now
given but only on means test.)
What would pensions at 65 cost? That
is not hard to determine. Canada's popula-
tion over 65 at the 1956 census was 7.7 per
cent, which on the latest population total is
1,371,678. Deduct the known total of pen-
them,
It does Canadian theatre no good to
have plays written in the United States, about
United States scenes, be played by Canadian
actors and actresses continually, with no
attempt at original locale, and plotting,
We understand that there is a lack of
good material coming from Canadian sources
to use on all of the CBC shows, and certainly
we would all get tired of mediocre stuff. But
we need more Canadian writing, more Cana-
dian acting, more Canadian songs and singing.
Quit country is rich in material for the
historical and the present-day writer,
On the one hand view folk like W. E.
Elliott, who in Goderich is writing of the
many bits of historical interest in the area.
On the fictional side, think of 1Vlazo de la
Roche (well known here and abroad) and her
more than 50 novels of the Whiteoaks of
Jalna, a Canadian family with old-world
antecedents and connections and others.
Journal-Argus)
questioning at a Parliamentary Inquiry.
To make the situation more alarming, the
CBC seems now to be intent on becoming
more commercial than ever. Mr. Ouimet, the
new president, points with pride to increased
commercial income, whereas the former presi-
dent, Mr. Dunton, took the attitude that CBC
was not interested in being too commercially
competitive. This new attitude is a serious
threat to publishers, including the weekly
newspapers which are in no position to offer
cut rates.
Surely the treasury-backed CBC which
now spends $90 millions annually, ought to
be limited in the number of advertising dollars
it is allowed to grab by these bargain-rate
devices.
sioners, and you have 476,184 who would be
added to the pension list at $660 a year and
draw $314,281,440. Add this to the $590,-
000,000 and you get $904,281,440. If everyone
from age 15 to 65 were working, they would
have to contribute an average of $86 each
to the pension fund. Thousands are not gain-
fully employed, so those who •have jobs would
undoubtedly contribute at least $100 each.
Everyone who buys food, clothing and shelter
contributes to social services.
The U.S. security fund pays $73.40 or
thereabouts to male recipients but the system
is contributory. Even so, Prof. Robert Clark's
report to the Canadian government two years
ago expressed the opinion that Canadians do
riot earn enough to provide the high rate of
security pension -available in the United States.
On the other hand, CCF leader Hazen
Argue in a speech at Markham a few weeks
ago came out for an old age pension of "at
least" $150 a month, "in keeping with the
wealth of the nation." Anyone who wishes to
figure out the cost on that basis is free to
do so; we've run out of ciphers.
dian unions are controlled by U.S. labor
bosses. It is also clear that Hoffa's move is
am early manoeuvre in a campaign to open
war on the CLC. He wants, plainly, to take
over 'everything that moves on the North
American continent'."
WEE MAN
While walking one day thru the woodlands,
A little wee man I did see.
In politeness I dropped him a curtsy.
He said, "Top of the morning to ye!"
Then he said "May I ask where ye're going ?"
Says I "To Saint Patrick's Parade."
Then says he, "May I walk along wit' ye ?"
Says I, "You are welcome, indade!"
And so we went on then, together,
With me in my bonnet of green
And the wee fairy man on my shoulder,
'Twas the nicest parade ever seen.
Now myself, I've not seen the wee people
For not all are able to see.
But this little tale that I've told you
Is just as my Granny told me!
.P0. 0..4--411inton Newo,Record-,-Thars,.., March 30, 1961
Editorials ,
BETTER THAN ANYTHING
Like a demagogue of ancient and Imperial
Rome, James R. Hoffa, oaesa: of all U.S.
teamsters, swept into his Canadian satrapy
recently to speak to the captains and lieuten-
ants of Canadian teamsterdom, says The
Financial Post in an editorial.
Cheer after wild cheer rang out as he
promised to personally lead the Canadian
teamsters to wage parity with their U.S.
cousins. Indeed, in the grand tradition of a
Roman proconsul he provided circus and
promised bread.
Now that the heady excitment of it all
is over, it's devoutly to be hoped that the
Canadian teamsters decide to run their own
show, The Financial Post declares, continuing:
"Responsible Canadian teamsters, like all
thoughtful Canadians, know his idea that
Canadian truckers should be paid the same
as U.S. truckers is so far removed from the
economic facts of life in this country that it
is bound to do the Canadian teamsters more
harm than good.
"His promise to personally lead the Cana-
dian truckers into contract negotiations is an
unwanted intervention in Canadian affairs. It
places Canadian teamsters in a subservient
position and perpetuates the idea that Cana-
40 Years Ago
CLINTON 19,r4W.S-0,C0413
Thursday, Meech 31, 1021
The Adolescent Act, passed
at lest session of Parliament
and becoming effective Sept-
ember 1, 1921, required that
children be kept at school
16 years of age, Children
who were 15 and had been
Working for a year would not
however; be forced 'back to
school.
Townspeople were reminded
to eel). 100 when phoning chief
of police or the fire hall, not
17 as formerly. According to
provincial regulations all towns
in Ontario were required to
have the same fire bell number
and 100 was easy to remember.
This was, in Clinton, formerly
B. R. Higgins' number, which
was changed' to 57,
S. McCool and George East
opened a garage on Albert
Street.
What Others Say . . •
CBC THREAT TO WEEKLIES
OLD AGE PENSIONS AT 65
(Beacon - Herald)
NO TRUCK WITH HOFFA
Clinton News-Record
Learning To Move Tongue
Children who are crippled with cerebral palsy very often are affected notonly
in the movement of their arms and legs, but also in their speech. Here, a
young lad is taught what most boys do without thinking — how to move his
tongue from one position to another—a very important part of speech therapy.
The Easter Seal Campaign currently being conducted by Service Clubs in 226
cities and towns in Ontario must raise $875,000 . . . this is the minimum
amount needed to help the more than 15,000 crippled children.
with homicidal intent on cat-
ching me chipping pieces of
coal with my nine iron when
I was supposed to be cleaning
up the basement.
* *
In some countries spring
may be a season for light
hearts, for love, for song and
laughter and dancing. But in
the true north, strong and fr-
eezing, it's a gray time of
waiting, of despair, of the
March mania.
You can't have a light heart
when you have a heavy fuel
bill. I defy 'anybody to fall
'in love in Canada in March,
Your song can't be -heard above
the howl of the wind. The
only people who are laughing
axe being taken away by the
boys in the white coats. And
it's pretty awkward dancing
when- you're up to the knees
in mud. * *
Oh, I'm all right. I haven't
snapped yet. But my wife
and kids are looking rather
sinister these days. And some
of my neighbours are beginn-
ing to act mighty peculiar. And
don't tell me that old lady who
tried to push me in front of
a moving cart at the store
the other day was completely
sane. In the spring everyone
in this •country except me goes
slightly mad, mad, I tell you,
mad, Hee! Hee! Hee;
During the past year, lead-
ing physicians' and surgeons
of hospitals specializing in or-
thopaedic services attended cl-
inics held at strategic locations
throughout Ontario for the
benefit of crippled youngsters.
The out-clinic service pro-
vided by •the far flung facilit-
ies of the Ontario Society for
Crippled Children has develop-
ed under the closely related
co-operation between the Soc-
iety and the 226 service clubs
which each year conduct the
Easter Seal campaign, to fin-
ance assistaace to help crip-
pled children. In addition to
helping finance the treatment
of crippled' children from their
community, the service clubs
help with the clinics by trans-
porting youngsters and help-
ing to provide accommodation
Out-Clink for Crippled Children
Made Possible by Easter Seals
for those who cannot return
immediately.
The Society and the service
clubs organize the clinics under
the 'medical committee which
enrolls a volunteer specialist.
The latter includes literally
every top specialist in the field
of medicine and surgery which
are necessary to the children's
benefit.
Plans for clinics are laid well
in advance, through local of-
fices of health, public health
nurses and local doctors, the
Society's nurses locate and vis-
it crippled children, report
their needs, and plan their at-
tendance at clinic. Oil a plan-
ned day for instance, children
from hundreds• of miles around
a community, such as Kirk-
land Lake will gather there.
To meet -them will be special-
ists in orthopaedic surgery and
other branches of medicine to-
gether with local doctors who
diagnose their conditions and
prescribe treatment.
Clinton Lions Club sponsors
the program locally. For your
contribution — mail to D. W.
Cornish, Clinton.
If treatment can be provid-
ed locally, the local doctor
then supervises it. If treatment
is required in a big city hos-
pital, arrangements are mane
for transportation and hospital-
ization by the Society.
Over the years thousands of
crippled children have attended
such clinics, have received tr-
eatment, have benefitted from
the follow-up programme pro-
vided by the Society's nursing
services. These nurses, espec-
ially trained in orthopaedics,
follow up every case, teach the
mothers how •to carry on the
theraphy prescribed by the
doctors, and see that every-
thing required is provided for
the children.
For the 1961 Easter Seal
campaign, which is held from
March 2 to April 2, there is
a minimum of $875,000 needed
to carry on this and other ser-
vices. Everyone is asked to
respond to this great need by
answering the message they
have received from the Clinton
Lions. '
Business and Professional
Directory
40 Years Ago
CLINTON NEW ERA
Thursday, March 31, 1921
Beet Levis left for Oshawa
to bring back a truck for John
Selioenhals of the Clinton Flour
Mills. Mr. Lavis recently pur-
chasedl 'the old' bowling alley,
to be moved' to his own prop-
erty and used as a store room
and work shop.
J. B. Mustard' announced the
price of soft coal to be $16
for April.
Farmers bringing cattle into
town for shipping and also de-
livery drivers were gaining dis-
favour with the residents for
allowing delivery rigs and bo-
vines to mark the boulevards,
which were softened by the
spring breakup.
Mrs. Cecil Simpson, Bruce-
field, visited relatives in Tor-
onto.
Mrs. Jack Tipiady of the
Base Line visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cliff Keys, Varna.
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