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Clinton News-Record, 1961-06-08, Page 2SUGAR. and SPICE... What this country needs nPre then.. ,an tithing, in these trying times, is more conservatives. Now, don't go all ohalky and trembly like that that. I don't mean Diefenbaker Conserva- tives, I mean good, old-fash- ioned, conservatives, for the past couple of de- cedes, "conservative" has been practically a dirty word, Peo- ple were as afraid' of being coe- sidered conservative as they are today of being considered conformist. Lying awake and lonely in the small hours last night, I realized suddenly, with a flash like a camera bulb that at heart I am a conservative, It was such a shock that I sat bolt upright in bed. This woke my wife, who lurched to her elbow, turned on her bedside lamp and moaned, "Wha.ssat?" This, in turn, dist- turbed my daughter, in the next room, She yelped in her sleep, rolled over abruptly, and crush- ed the cat, who sleeps beside her. He squalled and dug his claws into her. She hollered'. All thise woke Hugh, who stag- gered out of bed' and went to the bathroom. * * The sound of running water was too much for the rest of us, and there was a steady proces- sion to the place, which wound up with me having to go down and let the oat out. He wouldn't came back in and twenty min- utes later, standing there, shiv- ering and calling him and worrying a little because we're not sure it's 'a boy cat and he might get pregnant if he was out all night, I consigned the The 1961 census is expected to show a population of about 18,200,000. This would be an increase of better than 4,200,- 000 since 1951—the equivalent of another Province of Quebec. Regional offices of the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics working on the 1961 census are at St. John's, Halifax, Mont- real, Ottawa, Toronto, Winni- peg, Edmonton and Vancouver, (By W. B. T. whole conservative issue to the appropriate place, But 'this inotning„ on sober second thoughts, I realized 'that I had truly seen the light, that I was a .died-in-'the-wool con- servative. I experienced a vast wave of relief, as thought I had just emerged from the confes- sional, or had, just been awaken- ed from one of those dragging, nagging, not - quite - terrifying bad dreams, * * * You've no idea what a re- lease it was, to shuck off that false-face of liberalism I've been wearing all these years, =com- fortable, I felt better and bet- ter as the shabby, borrowed layers of 'tolerance, reason, and desire for change peeled off one by one, and left me an honest, naked, intolerant, illog- ical, prejudiced, small-c con- servative. "Oh, boy!" I chortled. "No more having to get sore at anti- Semites. No more having to be nice to Irishmen or Armenians or Negroes, unless I like them. No more having to be tolerant of half-ba.ked religious sects. No more pretending that wo- men are as smart as men. It's wonderfully refreshing to 'be able to look at life through your own sharp prejudices and emotions for a change, after years of gazing 'at it murkily through t h e thumb - printed, thick lenses loaned by small-1 liberalism, No longer, for example, must I put up the slightest architec- ture. Now I can say what I think: that new churches look like either tents or silos; that you can't tell a new school from a new factory; that the new split-level homes, with picture window above and garage yawning below, resemble one- eyed harpies who have just been delivered' of monsters, by caesarean section. * Oh, I'm going to enjoy my conservatism, I can tell you. An immediate project in mind is the formation of a small-c con- servative men's club, with one purpose in view getting Wo- mem out of our hair and, back in the kitchen. We'll start in a small way of seeking legisla-tion forbidding women to smoke in public. This would keep about 50 percent of them at home., Another thing that's going to give me a lot of pleasure, in my new life, is squaring around some of my liberal fr- iends. There's one who is al- ways complaining about the lack of tolerance shown toward minorities, in our society, Next time he opens his mouth, I'll say, loud and dear, "You're a fine one to talk about tolerance, when you can't stand' the sight of your own mother-in-law;" Next time one of these birds starts bleating about the poor, starving people of Asia, I'm going to pull out a $20 bill end suggest, "Let's kick in' $20 each and send it to CARE, right now." That'll turn him green. * * * Asa Conservative, naturally I'm going to come out pretty strong for some things. For ex- ample — lower taxes; cutting off the baby bonus; 'dispersal of revolutionary organizations like the Women's Institute and the Canadian Legion. But I'm going to throw my weight and influence just as strongly against other things, such as: letting American tour- ists stay in the country be- tween sundown and sunrise; dr- inking while diving off any- thing higher 'than a dock; beat- ing children with anything thicker than a pool cue. From now on, no more hid- ing behind that phony liberal- ism. Let the chips fall where they may. I'm going to pro- claim my real ideas, regardless of prejudice, lack of tolerance, or' any of the rest of 'that bol- shevik jargon, I'm going all out to preserve the status quo, and if that doesn't work, we'll try the quo vadia Better stand well back so you won't be splashed when I'm blown to bits by a bomb hurled by some wild-eyed member of the CCF. Business and Professional Directory I 1 A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON STREET GODER1CH TELEPHONE JA 4-7662 REAL ESTATE LEONARD G. WINTER Real Estate & Business Broker High Street — Clinton PHONE HU 2-6692 PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. 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DINNIN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pelage in advance Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 United States and roreign: $4,00; Single Copies Ten Cants Aullueized tug second OWNS mail, Post Moe Depactinent, Ottawa Aye THERE ARE TWO' SIDES TO EVERY' STOGYI The patient's side may not be as pleasant as yours, Bo considerate, and always observe "Na Smoking" signs posted In the hospital, They aro there for the safety of the patients, VISITS SHOULD RE ENJOYED NOT ENDURED For the welfare of.our patients, please observe good visiting Proictitth From Our Early Files 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 4, 1936 About 30 friends of Miss Ann Stewart met at the home of Mrs. Ida Ohowen and presented her with miscellaneous gifts of china, silver, linen, crystal, etc, SS 6, Tuckersmith, of which Miss Edna Jamieson, is teach, er, has a quilt on exhibition in the agricultural representative's window. It was made by the pupils and will be sold for Junior Red Cross work. Council passed Bylaw 8, wh- ich prohibits cemetery plot holders planting any shrub, tree or plant in their cemetery lots. The idea is to have a uniformly neat and well cared for ap- pearance, , which can best be brought about by smooth sod- ding. Miss Dorothy Cornish has taken a position in the office of the Exeter Creamery arid began work this week. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 7, 1951 Miss Ally Lou Thompson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Fred. C. Thompson, Clinton, was one of a record class of 71 gradu- ates from Victoria School of Nursing, London. Clinton District Collegiate In- stitute !held its first annual "Award's Day". Feature awards were school crests 'to Cameron Maltby and William Nediger, both of whom majored in all school activities, schdlastic and athletic. Mrs. Stella Parsons (nee St- ella Perdue) Los Angeles, Calif. is renewing acquaintances in town, her first visit in 41 years. Varna-Goshen United Church, has exteeded a call to the Rev, T. J., Pitt, at present in the Newfoundland Conference. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McCly- mont, Varna celebrated their silver wedding quietly on Sun- day, with all their family at home with them. Presbytery Meets (Hensel]. Correspondent) The Presbytery of Huron- Maitland met in Carmel Pres- byterian. Church, Hansen, on Wednesday morning, June 7 with the purpose of placing a call for the congregation of the church to Rev. D. Ross MacDonald, Springhill, Nova Scotia. The meeting waS well rep- resented by the congregation who received every assurance that presbytery would do ev- erything possible to have this call confirmed'. Rev. Neil Me- Comble, Ripley, presided. Min- isters and elders from various places were well represented'. Rev. Dr. D. J. Lane, Clinton, clerk of the Presbytery took the minutes. 0 Census questions on income to be 'asked' at one household in Hive will be completed in pri- vate by the individual, and sealed until they reach the cen- sus office. Score One FATHER'S DAY TS THIS coming Sunday, and if ever a generation of fathers deserved a, special day to them- selves, we feel that those of the North American Continent of the present time, certainly do. We've become disgusted with the many comic strips, movies and tele- vision scripts in which Father is held up to ridicule, and is proven in many ways not to be "quite bright". It's time this attitude was changed —or we'll find ourselves raising a gen- eration of young people without proper appreciation of the role a father plays in the home and community. One television story we like for its good attitude in this regard is "Father Knows Best." That one is of the United States. A comic strip has lately become a must for daily reading in the Globe and Mail, Toronto, and it is about the SELDOM DO WE complain about things Clintonian. The weekly newspaper editor is dedicated to a building up of the com- munity, rather than a tearing down. This principle we adhere to. However, there are times when a scolding is due a community, and in this particular instance, we feel the scolding is long overdue. This can be taken as constructive criticism, and as such will be helpful. If taken otherwise, it may still be helpful. For one thing,. why was the Can- adian flag not flown from the flagpole at the Clinton Community Park on Saturday? 2,000 people, including hun- dreds of children were in attendance. The flag-pole looked naked and forlorn. Secondly, why was there no par- ade to the spring show? Yes, we know -there was a band, and a Cancer float, and a draggly trail of youngsters kept barely in two lines as they made for the park gates, and free admission. But there was no parade. A YEAR OR TWO ago Prince Philip made headlines in Canadian pap- ers with a reported statement to the effect that the standard .of physical fit- ness in Canada was low. Recently, Sir Julian Huxley was reported as saying that the Canadian city in which he was a guest was "drab." The late Sir Thom- as Beecham, after a few days in Can- ada, during which time he must have been quite busy in his own field of music and could have had little time to listen to radio programmes, neverthe- less was able to produce for reporters a sweeping condemnation of Canadian radio. The comments of Brendan Behan on Canada, after some misadventures here, were mainly unprintable. Generalizations such as these us- ually have a core of truth, which may be why they are annoying to Canadians who take them seriously when they are made by distinguished visitors from the British Isles. On the other hand, such generalizations could be made about al- most any country. All Canadians are not physical supermen. Neither are all Britons. Canadian cities are drab, if one looks for the drab spots. So are London, MR. JUSTICE Dalton Wells of the Ontario Supreme Court has earned the thanks of all working newspapermen by ruling that a source of news informa tion need not be revealed in Ontario. In doing so he rejected a British Col- uznbia precedent, in which a newspaper was forced to reveal the source of their information in two cases. He held the decisions in British Columbia were not binding on Ontario. "Only in exceptional cases and at the discretion of the judge should news- papers be forced to reveal the source of their information," he said during an attempt to get information from the Toronto Telegram on a series of 1959 articles by Frank Drea, that paper's labor reporter. In some states to the south of us, notably in New York, where a woman columnist went to jail rather than tell where she received information which resulted in a libel suit, it has been held that sources must be revealed, even For Fathers Luckies, This couple' is fat and frankly middle-aged. Their children are not beautiful. They don't have a set of quintuplet puppies which never grow up. They are a normal family with interest in small things, and the light comedy is built around ordinary house- hold chores. The Luckies we believe, must be Canadian, although we missed any publicity which may have been publish- ed about them before they began to appear regularly. Fascinatingly, if Mr. Luckie says his wife should not buy a new hat, she accepts the fact and loves him for his decision. This is the sort of thing' which we enjoy, and we believe that many others in Canada probably enjoy, too. Fathers have lots of responsibilities bless him — good luck to all such on their special day and throughout the year! Clinton seems unable to provide the enthusiasm and ambition to make up a good parade. This was not always so. We hear from those who have lived here many years that the old boys re- union in 1950 had a dandy parade. If so, that was the end of them, for we have seen none since. Even the centennial of the Fair, which was the perfect opportunity for a fandango of a parade, brought out a straggly bunch of kids, and one or two half-hearted attempts at depicting life a century ago. Rural communities can put on a good parade. Witness the centennial at SS 3 Stanley for example. Visit Zurich fall fair in which the merchants take a loud and colourful part; or the Bay- field Fall Fair. It's all very well to say there's hardly enough people at the fair to warrant much of an effort. That's just the time-worn argument of which came first, the chicken or the egg. If the parade is here; if the enthusiasm is here — then certainly the people will be here. Manchester, Rome and Paris. Some Canadian radio programmes are poor, but could be matched with some of those emanating from the BBC. What might be more annoying to Canadians if they stopped to think is the number of closer neighbors who know little or nothing about Canada. A recent television programme showed an inquiring reporter asking San Francisco residents, picked at random, some ques- tions about Canada. To the question "What is the capital of Canada?" one out of four answered correctly. One of the others thought the capital was On- tario, one frankly didn't know and the third didn't believe that Canada had a capital. Asked for the name of the Can- adian prime minister, one San Francis- can, the same who correctly answered the first question, again answered cor- rectly. Two of the others didn't know and the third thought he was someone with a French name (Laurier, St. Laur- ent?). The San Franciscan who amaz- ingly scored 100 per cent in the in- formal quiz show turned out to be an immigrant from Holland, who had never visited Canada. where it means that the newspaperman betrays a confidence. It is no one's business to read the mind of Mr. Justice Wells when he laid down his decision, but it is easy for anyone who thinks about the matter to realize he has driven a strong spike into the props which keep our press free. Rather Dubious Honour (Hensall Observer) Students of the Derby Technical School in England claim a new record for smashing a piano into pieces small enough to shove through a nine-inch hole. They did the job in 14 minutes. The previous record was set by two Manchester University under-graduates last year. They took 32 minutes. Such is the state of higher education (?) in Merrie England. Here we push beds. Or baby buggies. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, June 9, 1921 Council acknowledged the gift of a drinking fountain rec- ently placed In 'the station park by the Giele' Auxiliary, who re- quested that it be added to the town waterworks. system. The matter of the night mil- stable's time clock came up again in council. This time it was not a question of regulat- ing it or winding it or punch-. ing it properly, but of locating it, the contraption having been stolen. A reward of $5 is to be offered for information leading to its recovery. R. E. Manning, manager of the local branch of the Royal Bank leaves Saturday for a trip to the west, He will meet his sister, Mrs. Weir, et Sarn- ia and they will visit relatives in Manitoba. Miss Gertrude Wallis, Hal- mesville, is home from Toronto University for the long vaca- tion. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, June 9, 1921 The Community Memorial Hall at Blyth was officially opened, the finest hall of its kind 'outside of the cities. Hon. Manning Doherty, minister of agriculture, gave the 'address to the huge crowd, 1,500 in the building and many more ut- side. Milton Wiltse has had, its barn moved and raised: and will put a cement foundation under it. J. W. Andrews advertised for 100 strawberry pickers. He has 12 acres of berries. Mr. and Mrs. John Torrance announce the engagement of their youngest daughter Marg- aret MacDonald to Mr. •George Ferguson Foote, Pont Arthur. The Huron Regiment goes to camp at Carling Heights, Lon- don, for nine days training commencing June 10. Letters to Editor HOT NEWS Clinton News-Record Clinton Ontario Canada. Dear Sir: Enolosed please find cheque for $3.00 to cover subscription for another year. The paper is about three weeks old when it reaches here but it is read as though it were 'shot off the press." It might prove of interest 'to some of the boys at RCAF Station 'Clinton that Herb Mel- lish, Sr., was picked for the All-Star team that won the UK and European Babe Ruth ch- ampionship in August last year. Sincerely, Mrs. Herb Mellish 46 St. Lawrence Blvd. Radcliffe-on-Trent Notts., England. June 1, 1961. Ed. Note: Herb Mellish Jr,, is a product of the Kin-sponsored' minor baseball league in Clin- ten 411111•0111611•1111111111•••n ••••••••14, PETER'S Modern MEAT Market HU 2-9731 "The Home of Quality Meats" Rump Roast 69c FOR YOUR FREEZER: Choice Sides of Beef FRONT QUARTER 39c lb. Average 110 lbs. HIND QUARTER 5k lb. Cut and wrapped to your own specifications. Good Luck MARGARINE 33c lb. Page 2---Clinton News-Record Thursday, June 8, 1961 Editorials Long Overdue What Others Say . . • The Canadian Image (The Printed Word) Revealing News Sources (Hanover Post)