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Clinton News-Record, 1961-06-01, Page 2Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Est. 1865 Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,000 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher 0 WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a year United States and Foreign: $4.00; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Prints of Pictures appeatint in the Clinton News-Record (by staff photographers) Are Available Place Orders at the Offite HU 2.3443 .0. PRICE LIST • •• 8 x 10 — $1.51) 5 x 7 — 1.00 4 x 4 — 2 .50 Allow Ten Days For Delivery Clinton News-Record "The HOMO Paper with the News" 56 ALBERT STREET HU 2-3443 a 0 ell 0 * • • •e 0 1.0 All-Canadian Jet Link Canadians will be within a few jet hours of the far reaches of the earth when Canadian Pacific Airlines inaugurates 600-mile-per-hour DC-S jetliner service on its transcontinental route June 1, 1961, Hawaii, the Orient, Holland, and southern Europe will all be linked by Canadian Pacific jet flights, making rapid connections with the jet domestic service between Montreal, Toronto, Winni- peg and Vancouver. Montreal is the gateway to Lisbon and Rome, while from Vancouver, the jets wing their way to Amsterdam, via the polar route, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Honolulu. Among the tourist attractions now only hours removed from Canada are such sights as the entrance to the Famed Shinto Shrine at Kyoto, Japan (upper left) ; the beaches of Honolulu, where handsome Hawaiians exhibit their prowess at throw-net fishing (lower left) ; and the ancient Tiber River which threads its way through the Eternal City of Rome (lower right) where the Castel Saint Angelo and the dome of St. Pet- er's dominate the skyline. (Canadian Pacific Photos) SUGAR and SPICE . . Tomorrow, be forty-one. It occurs to me that the "fast four decades have been an in- teresting period, not only for me, but for the world. Let's have a look back and see what happened. to the pair of us. When my mother presented my father with a red-faced, under - sized, squalling brat in June, 1920, the world was a fine place. The Great War was over, democracy had triumphed, prices were good, and that gr- eat leveler of society, the Mod- el T, was about to 'start turn- ing pious, sober men into red- faced, cursing maniacs. The next decade was the time of the self-styled "lost generation" — the era of the flapper, the coonskin coat, 'the rumble seat, the hip flask and jazz, But I'm afraid they didn't mean much to a skinny kid with freckles, growing up in a small town. The things I remember are: the old silent movies, with the plane player thumping out the William Tell overture as the climax neared; endless summers of hot blue sky; two fat, home- ly little girls who used to gang up on me and kiss me after school; off for a family picnic every Sunday in the 1923 Chem with the side-curtains; and my kid 'brother following me ev- erywhere I went to my unut- terable rage and disgust. That must have been just about the best decade the world and I ever had, a heedless and happy time. My parents were as solid as the earth itself. My dad was always good for a dime, if I worked him care- fully. My mother was always there with a kiss or a hug or a cool hand, when I was hurt or scared or sick, The world was a pleasant place then, too. What I re- member most vividly is that it (By W, B. T. SMILEY) was so quiet and easygoing, compared to the world of to- day. Men worked 48 or 50 hours a week. But very few of them had ulcers. Women had none of the appliances they have today, But they didn't need sleeping pills. People walked mare, Everybody put his car up on blocks in the winter, and nobody drove at night, unless he had to. On summer evenings, people sat on their verandas, and visited, and drank lemonade. Everyone forty or over knows what happened in the next de- cade. Our economy came apart at the seams and the world entered the long,, grinding years of the great depression. Can- ada suffered less than some, but enough. People swallowed their pride and went on relief. Thousands of men rode the rods from town to town, looking for work, begging for food. There was no work. Those who had jobs took pay cuts without a murmur, and lived in fear of worse. My dad hung on grimly, but lost his business in the end. At fifty, he had a wife and five children, no job and no money. We made out. My mo- ther took in boarders, sold home baking and pinched the pennies until they bled. My dad took any work he could get. I remember one job was selling coffins. He sold three in three months, and his total commissions were about $60. Out of this he paid his car expenses, meals and lodgings, on the road. It was a difficult time to be an adolescent. But I have wonderful memories of that decade. First love, in high school. Playing rugby in the fall mud. Square dancing half the night at country dances. My first job, sailing on the Lakes. First interest in world affairs, and a burning desire to go •to Spain with the Inter- national Brigade, but too young. The Thirties ended with a bang, when we went to war. Before I was swept away on the stream, with the rest of my generation, I had a year at university, by sheer luck. That was a good time. The "phoney war" was still on, and we squeezed every drop of juice from our student days, knowing they were of brief duration. I don't know what happened to the Forties, They went by in a blur of excitement. Over- seas, pubs, girls, friends, opera- tions, prison camp, back to un- iversity, scuttled by a pair of brown eyes, married and a father before I rightly knew what was happening. Then the Fifties, as I en- tered my thirties. Into the weekly newspaper business and working like a dog. Delighting in my babies. Thrill of the first second-hand car. Fun of buying an old house and fixing it up. Satisfaction in turning out a good paper, sometimes. Good fishing and hunting. Good fr- iends. But the world speeding up, the big bomb hanging there, the job always demanding. And now, in my forties, we'll see what the Sixties have in store for me and the world. Already, a new job, new fr- iends, new interests, for me. New fears, new threats, new weapons, and new worlds, for the world. All I can add is that I'm supposed to be at the dangerous age. I hope the world isn't. There hasn't been a dull moment in the last four de- cedes, for either of us. I hope we're both around to tell about it, when I enter my seventies, in 1990: Business and Professional Directory INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insurance — Annuities CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE CO, Clinton, Ontario K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Representative: Bun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Phones: Office HU 2-9747 Res. HU 2-7556 THE WicKILLOP MUTUAL Foie INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. 1VICEWing, Blyth; seCre- tary-treasuret, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth. Directors: John H. MOEwitig; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- ander, Walton; J. L, Malone, Seaforth: Harvey ratter, GOde- iith; Wm. R. Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Win. Leiper, Jr., Lob-desbero; V. J. Lane, RR, 5,- Sea-forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Jamea 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 ' ACCOUNTAN1 Goderleh, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4-9521 478 RONALD G. MtCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office Mid 13.0sidence Rattenbuty Street Fast Phone HU 2-9877 CLINTON, ONTARIO OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN. Oculists' Prescriptions Pilled Includes Adjustments At No Purther Charge Clinton—Mondays Only Ph. HU 2-7010 9.00 a.m, to 5.30 p.m. Above HaWkins hardware Seaforth Weekdays except Mondays, ground floor. Phone 791 G. B. CLANCY, O.D. ouTossETutsT For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38-tnY A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMMTON STREET GODERICH TELEPHONE JA 4-7562 ItOw.tmonalmsommsommormommnommoMmiftwarnomilmalooMOOMOM•Mmesoft•Minmonalonimmil FREE FREE PLAYTEX PANTIE GIRDLE with the purchase of a regular Magic Controller All Sizes Available 2 Girdles for only $9.95 Now' is the time for SHORTS PEDAL PUSHERS BERMUDAS SKIRTS SUMS You Can't Go Wrong. With SEA QUEEN SWIM SUITS or BEATRICE PINES SWIM WEAR See them now at Ladies' Wear and Dry Goods ,CLINTON HENSALL EXETER iumisoosoopoorawasummimmumiosiossmixourmairsaiumowsk with POP TOPS and BLOUSES To Mafch KAW.SMW•rx,..., W1a HAVE urged people to come out to the Clinton Spring Show many times before. This is a message of the same sort. We do so, not only because the Fair has suffered some financial diffi- culties in past years, and needs all the friendly support that it can get, but for another more important reason, We believe that this agricultural fair is a worthwhile effort on the part of town and country, We believe that it is part of the heritage of the district, and a tradition which we should not allow to disappear. Too many things which have prov- ed their worth in educational, and ent- ertainment value have passed away in recent years. This spring show is one which we can keep, and by gentle changes each year, adjust the format IT SEEMS as if most of our writ- • ing has to do with schools and agricul- ture. After all, food comes first (then of course shelter), and education, train- ing, learning, seems to place a quick third in importance. The school year is nearing an end. For many, this week will see the com- pletion of the year, and in a great num- ber of cases, the end of formal edu- cation. AFTER READING this parents who are having trouble keeping their teenagers in school may decide to for- get all about the adage that the better the education, the richer the inner life, the happier the soul. Here are some figures from the Institute of Life Insurance, Every year of high school adds $16,000 to lifetime earnings. Each year of college adds an extra $25,000 to these earnings. The man whose education ends with public school will make, on aver- age $178,000 in his 40 years or so of work. The high school graduate will earn $243,000 during his working life— and the man with a college degree will make, on average, over $347,000. Our embattled parents could quote Kurt R. Swinton, president of Encyclo- paedia Britannica of Canada, who re- cently pointed out that two thirds of to meet the approval of the visiting public. Pride in one's community is a marvellous thing. Pride in the events which are carried out is also a mar- vellous thing, The fact that the Spring Show goes on at all is a marvellous thing, And we feel this way, because it is a terrific example of how an after- noon and evening with all the aspects of a three-ring circus comes into being through the efforts of dozens, even hundreds of people. If even one person stays away, 'who should, or could be there, then the whole tenor and atmos- phere of the air is changed in some small way, The Spring Fair is what the direc- tors, the exhibitors, the trades people, and the spectators make it, Come on out and have fun. Never, of course, in the life of man, can we note a time for the end of learn- ing. It is a continual process, and goes on at a great rate if we permit it so to do. The end of school is but a beginning in the great experience of living in the modern world. Our best wishes go to all those students about to take their first giant steps into thiS world of com- petition, fierce struggle, and wonderful satisfactions. those unemployed today have no more than an elementary school education. With rapid change on the technol- ogical front, it is obvious that the jobs will go more and more, to those with skills and training. Parents and others able to in- fluence the youngsters should, Swinton says, point out the practical advant- ages in job advancement that accrue with education—and remind the teen- agers that most of the unemployed laboring force left school at an early age. There is also a moral here for the parent who is reluctant to lay out a thousand or so a year to see his young- ster through university. If a degree can give a $100,000 advantage in earning ,power over a lifetime then most sac- rifices are worth the making. So don't talk to Bill and Suzie about spiritual satisfaction. Talk about dough. That will keep them at school work. Clayton Dixon is New President Huron BAC Group The Heron Deanery Chapter of the Brotherhood of AngliCan Churchmem met in Se Paul's. Church Halt Wingham on . WecleeedaY, May 24, Represent- ea there were the parishes of Whighten, 'Ocarle, Fordwich, Brussels, Bleth„ Clinton, GMT- erieh. and Bayfield, New clergy to the Deanemer introduced to the gathering In-eluded Rev, P. Dymond of St. Clinton, and Rev. Vii. L.. jelnerings, Brussels. Discussion centred .around plane to ,aseist Oandielates ,for the ministry, of which the Deanet'y is expecting' several to enter Heron college this coining September, Election of officers reeeeted in the 'following being chosen: past president, Herb Bridle, intore !President, Clayton on, Clinton; first vice-president, Sam Anderson, Gedereee; see,. and vice-president, Eric 'Swit- zer, Clinton, Mr. Dixon appoint- ed Laurie Slade, Clinton to be secretary of the chapter for the corning two-year term. John Cochrane moved a vote of thanks to the ladies for the splendid banquet, and the meet- ing closed with the benediction. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 2, 1921 The tower of the Public Lib- rary has been painted, Clinton's efficient steeple-jack, "Jack" McCosh, being the artist. W. D. Black and J. °amo- ebae, Tuckersmith Township, shipped a carload of cattle from Seaforth through the U.F.O. to Toronto. Among them were ten choice baby beefs. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Nedi- ger, Seaforth, spent May 24 with the family of Mr. and Ws. W. J. Nediger at Bayfield. 0. W. Potter and J. A. Ir- win( are at London today at- tending the Methodist confer- ence. Miss Edna Perinebaker leaves next week to spend six weeks with friends in Toronto and Oshawa, 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, June 2, 1921. A coroner's jury feunke‘t Emerson Libby came to his death due to an accident when he touched a 'grounded pipe with one hand while having hold of a live electric wire with the other. Miss Daly Nediger, Hamilton is visiting her brother, Council- lor W. J. Nediger. Erskine Euans has taken a job working on the farm of R. Jenkins. Goderich Township. J. T. Crick has been appoint- ed. Massey-Harris agent for Cl- inton and is now in charge of the agency. An orchard grub has 'got ".into the local orchards and is play- ing havoc with the trees. It is feared the trees will not bear fruit for two years after this attack. The summer price of egg, stove and chestnut coal was $16.00 per ton delivered. THE BIG VOLT Construction will begin this year in Northern Ontario on North America's first major 460,000-volt transmission line— double the highest voltage now used in the province. The line will link new Ontario Hydro power idevelopments on the are- mote James Bay watershed with populated areas to the south. Page 2,- ClintonNews,Record Thursday, June 1, 1901 Editorials Come To The Fair Saturday The School Year What Others Say . . What A Year Of School Will Do (The Financial Post) •„•:,;": . • :•X From Our Early Files 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, May 28, 1936 Miss Frances Brydone of the Collegiate staff has resigned her position( and will teach in Toronto, where her home is, next term. Dr, Fowler, W. H. Cowan, Howard Cowan and Gordon Cuninghame, Clinton, Harold Turner, Goderich, Carl East, Toronto, and Roy East, St. Catherines, went to Baieede- dore for the weekend and holi- day. Stewart Cook has taken over the Lag Cabin Lunch Room at Bayfield, for the summer. Ferg Carter will assist him. Mr. and Mrs. John Hartley and little daughter; Jane, visit- ed with the lady's mother, Mrs. J. A. Ford, and Mr. and Mrs. F. 0. Ford, Miss Lillian Elliott, Clinton, spent the holiday at Varna with her aunt, lens. Nelson Reid. Mrs. Watson, Forest, was a weekend guest of Mrs. Laid- law. She accompanied Miss Ef- fie Laidlaw, who teaches at Forest, home for the holiday. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, May 31, 1951 Among the 750 students, re- ceiving degrees at University of Western Ontario, London, on June 2, will be Misses Ruth Wilson, 'Lizbeth Sloman and Margaret Colquhoun, Innovation of a night show in front of the grandstand seemed to take the fancy of Clinton Spring Show patrons, and it was well patronized. Clinton and District Chamber of Commerce is attempting to take some action to have the Bayfield Road, which has been in very bad condition, improved. Robert Allan, Brucefield, sc- ored 2,670 points to capture first place in the Huron Coun- ty Seed and Livestock judging competition !and won a trip to Chicago. Elwin Merrill and Beeson Sutter were among those pres- ent at Five Oaks, a new school for lay workers near Paris, and witnessed ethe planting of five oak trees, one to represent each of the five central conferences of 'the United Church of Canada.