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Clinton News-Record, 1961-09-21, Page 2'0' 1% ‘11"‘' • Li *13*. f SUGAR and SPICE... From Our Early Files Business and Professional Directory A. M. HARPER and CON PANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. GODERICH CLINTON Phone JA 4-7562 Phone HU 2,-7721 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, September 22, 1021 The Commercial Travellers Association is suggesting that Thanksgiving Day and Armist- ice Day be celebrated at the same 'time, Two new machines for turn- ing flax were on display at the Clinton Flax Mill last ThurS- day. Owen Geiger, the flax man at Hensall will operate them for the balance of the season, Lieut. Col. C, W, Peck, VC, MP, will be the first president of the Canadian Legion, the new soldier body, Already some 70,000 veterans have applied for membership. J. Schoenhals of the Clinton Flour Mills used a truck to take bags of flour from the aid to the mill. They could make the round trip in about 20 minutes, It kept the two men in the railway car jump- ing to have the bags filled when the truck got back for the next load. Jimmie Fax will put on his costumed songs and stories at the Pastime Club show next Wednesday. Chief of Police Fitzsimons 'has received word that any light on a pivot is banned from use on a motor car. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, September 22, 1921 The street fair for the hos- pital auxiliary had to be held indoors owing to the equinoxial gales. Winner in the baby show, for twins was Mrs. Wal- ter Downs; for two year old, Mrs. G. Tomlin; under one year old, Mrs. Q. Hale, Mrs. Gandier, Mrs, Andrews. The street from Elliott's liv- ery to 'the hospital was' roped off, and gaily lighted for the purpose. Dr. Gandier's lawn was used with lights, booths, tables and even a stage. About $750 was raised. At present Doherty Piano Factory is hiring 100 men, and producing about 30 pianos a week. In the first six months of the year they produced 627 pianos. There will be two carloads of apples shipped by rail this week. The Goderich Township school fair was held at Porter's Hill on Saturday. On the farm of Mr. Holtz- hauer near Londesboro a cob of corn was found with 20 rows and 50 kernels to the row. S. B. Stothers, agricultural representative, 'announced he had hired a man experienced and available to cull hens. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NESVS-ItECORD WII0rsdaY, September 17, 1930 Collectors of old coins in the neighbourhood appear 'to in- clude Mrs. Edward Glen, Stan- ley Township; W, 3, Vodden, Goderich Township end W. L. Johnson. Registration at the collegiate is 172: 75 boys and 97 girls. Forty years ago it was. noted that the freighting of apples by wagon was beginning to tell on the roads leading to the station and freight sheds. Our suggestion in that .Huron County should have a museum, and -Clinton, in the centre of the county, is the logical place. On the instigation of Frank Sills, councillor at Seaforth, a. meeting of representatives of each municipality in Huron County, will meet to discuss what can be done about tran- sients. 10 Years Ago CLINTON' NEWS-RECORD Thursday, September 20, 1951 Clinton Chapter No. 266, Order of the Eastern Star was instituted with Mrs. Sidney Jones the first Worthy Matron, Mrs. Stelle McRae was the as- sociate matron. Worthy and associate patrons were Sidney Jones and Leslie Harding. The grand jury at the fail assizes in Goderich recommend- ed a new court house as soon as possible with plans to in- clude a jury room for women. Hullett Township has' ap- proved annexation by Clinton of seven acres' for the new pub- lic schodl, but on hearing from residents in the area fronting Highway 8, did not favour the annexation of this further resi- dential area. Badminton season is under way on the two courts in the town hall, with annual fees of $5 each; $4.50 for students. P. J. McCauley, accountant at the Royal Bank is secretary-treas- urer of 'the club, WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY Portraits, Albums of Choice Design Commercial Photography, etc. Jervis Studio 130 Isaac St. HU 2-7006 26to30b A Terrific Buy! For Roasting or Frying Chickens Oven-Ready •;3 r g se. 26c lb. Chix-Legs-Breast 43c lb. For A Complete Selection Of: Beef - Pork - Veal - Lamb and Cooked Meats Shop At PETER'S Modern MEAT Market HU 2-9731 "The Home of Quality Meats" Ansummorm 11111111111.111MMIIIIIIII Tai-County Campaign For The Blind HURON COUNTY OBJECTIVE $6,000.00 Send Your Donation Today to: JOHN LIVERMORE, Clinton, Otnatio. (By W. B. T. SMILEY) And she couldn't swallow a morsel. Nerves, Our annivers- ary coincided with her debut as organist in the church. She hadn't slept •a wink all night, but had dozed off after four tranquilizers at 'dawn. What a clay! It was about 280 degrees' in :the shade, but her hands were as cold as a coroner's kiss, and she had a faraway look in her eyes that I'd never seen before except on the faces of people who were wetting their pants while in swimming. Briefly, she got through the ordeal without even fainting once. But the couldn't miss, with the rest of the family praying as they'd never prayed before, that Mum wouldn't make a bollix of it. I thought I heard a sardonic snort from away up in the sky, as she was graciously accepting congraula- dons after the service, To round out the week, I went back to school an Mon- day, and there was Joe, sitting in a front seat, his ape - like countenance wreathed in as sat- anic smile. Joe is a friend in human form, as I found out last year. He was so disturbing that he almost made me break a life-long rule never to hit any- body bigger than myself. He hadn't showed up in the first two weeks of school, I figured he wasn't coming back this year, and life looked like a bowl of borscht, compared to the flagon of hemlock it res- embled last year, with him in the class. And there he sat, leering at me, as cute as a baby gorilla. Do you know what that char- acter said to me, as I fumbled for my blackjack? He said, "sure glad I got you for Eng- lish again, Sir. I allus like, to get a good teacher. We wuz lucky 'to get each other 'again, wuzn't we?" It was like having your legs cut off at the knees by a, sythe. You want to run, but ,all you can do ,is groan. As I said, sometimes I wish life would stop being so interesting. 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 McKILLOP MUTUAL FIVE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John E. 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, Code- rich; Wm. R. Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair Broa.dfoot, Seaforth. Agents: Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon- desboro; V. I. Lane, RR 5, Sea- forth; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James Keyes, Seaforth; Harold Squires, Clinton. THE WEST WAWANOSH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Head Office, DUNGANNON Established 1878 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President, Brown Smyth, R 2, Auburn; Vive-Pres., Herson Xr- win, Belgrave; Directors, Paul Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George C. Feagan, Goderich; Ross Mc- Phee, R. 3, Auburn; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John V. Mac- Lennan, R. 3, Goderich; Frank Thompson, A. 1, Holyrood; Wm. Wiggins, R. 3, Auburn. For information on yOUr•in- surance, call your nearest direc- tor who is also an agent, or the Secretary, Durnin Phillips, DUn- gannon, phone Dungannon 48-. 27-tfb OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined OPTICIAN Oculists' Prescriptions Filled Includes Adjustments At No Further 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. OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone JA 4-7251 GODERICH 38-tfb PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT ROY N. BENTLEY PUBLIC ACCOUNTAN1 Goderich, Ontario Telephone Box JA 4-9521 418 RONALD G. McCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office and Residence Rattenbury Street East Phone HU 2-9e77 CLINTON, ONTARIO REAL ESTATE ' LeONARD G. WINTER Real Ettate & Butlfiesis Broker High Street Clinton PHONE HU 2-0360 WITHIN TWO months the term of present officials (to all practical pur- poses) will be over for 1961 in the town of Clinton. Municipal elections will be held early in December for the 1962 terms. This same timing holds true for the townships in this area. Mayors, reeves, deputy-reeves and councillors, as well as school board members will be reaching decisions about whether they will be prepared to serve the public again, Right now, the public should be deciding whether they want the pres- ent officials to continue to serve, or whether they would prefer some other persons to represent them. Regarding Clinton, we would re- mind the ratepayers, and the residents that the job of governing our growing town is no child's play. It requires men of vision and men of action. It requires men and women who can look ahead to what will be in our town in the future years. It requires men and women willing to devote many hours. (sometimes leisure hours) to serve the THOUGH WE DON'T always see eye to eye with the editorial opinion presented in the Toronto Telegram, we were quite pleased to see a news report in that daily last week concern- ing a suggestion made to the School Board in Smith Falls. The chairman of that group sug- gested that a part of the new Canad- ian Bill of Rights should become part of the opening ceremonies each morn- ing in every school room of that town. We would like to see this taken up in the school rooms of Clinton, and in fact across the Dominion. The section reads as follows: "I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to THERE WAS a sadness in every- one here, as elsewhere across the world, following word of the death of Dag Hammarskjold. A few years ago none of us could spell that name, much less pronounce it. In the short time that Mr. Hammerskjold has been secretary- general of the United Nations, he has radiated a sort of confidence which is rare in modern times. Somehow we rarely heard of any- thing that Mr. Hammerskjold did. He was not subjected to the harsh light of publicity, as other great leaders in our time have been. Now, since his death, we read that he was a shy bach- elor, who once said of his office, "I would say there is no neutral man, but there is, if you have integrity, neutral action by the right kind of man." The world is a sadder place, know- NEWS THAT some 4,000 em- ployees of a major manufacturing con- cern in Ontario are to be laid off for the month of September because of the drought in the western prairies points up again the fundamental interdepend- ance of the various industries which make up the Canadian economy. In recent years and in the wake of our growing population, the Canadian farmer has come to depend increasingly on manufacturing industry to take a substantial proportion of his produce for processing and domestic consump- tion. The half of industry's earnings which go in taxes have also furnished governments with much of the revenue out of which the farmer is "protected" by means of price supports and sub- sidized freight rates. In consequence, farming families have had a bigger stake than ever before in the wellbeing of manufacturing and that much more reason to support it through their pur- chases, Now, once again, it falls to THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 ati I lo sr town well, In the rural municipalities, also, the task of governing becomes more complex with every passing year, Here, too, are required men and women with diplomacy, with skill in the art of man, aging municipal business, and who can see ahead to what is best for the peo- ple who live within the borders of the township. Too often, men in public office lose sight of the fact that their job is to serve the people. They are not the bosses, They are the employees. ' Though pay in actual currency may be very small, or non-existent, the worthwhile pay which public men re- ceive is the honour and glory (not to be underestimated in anyone's life), and in the satisfaction of a job well done. First, however, the voter (in other words the residents) must take thought to nominate, and then elect the men and women they feel will be able, and are willing to do the job of governing well, The time is NOW! worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I think wrong, free to choose who shall govern my count- ry. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all man- kind." This is a good bit of writing, and it expresses what we feel for our own Dominion. It would be a fine replace- ment for that wishy-washy pledge to the flag which some areas of Ontario have stolen from below the border, and have taught the children to repeat. (If you have ever sat in on a morning broadcast of that simulated kinder- garten thing on local TV stations, you will have seen it, and heard it, and even once is too often.) ing that this Mr. Hammerskjold, who was the "right kind of man" has met his death in the jungles of Africa. But let this fact be. stressed. There is no justification for allowing the death of this one man, however great, however fine, to plunge the world into a period of war and the ultimate slaughter of thousands, maybe millions of others. Throughout our younger years, first in learning, and later in teaching Canadian history, we became continu- ously more aware of the utter futility of that first World War, which we learned, began because of the assas- sination of one man. Whether or not Dag Hammerskjold was assassinated — we should not per- mit the world to me swept emotionally into a conflict which might end life for all, and most assuredly would mean death or hardship to many. many of the nation's farmers to ex- perience a really bad year. As important as agriculture is to the national economy, it does not occupy the place of prominence it did a rela- tively few years ago, and the degree of industrial expansion and diversification that has taken place since the last major crop failure a quarter of a century ago will undoubtedly help cushion the west against the worst effects of this year's blow. Even so, a bad year for the farmer spells trouble in one form or an- other for most of us. Manufacturers and retailers alike must expect sales to be down in the hardest hit areas while consumers across the land will sooner or later pay more for foodstuffs, And so it is that the fortunes of all of us are bound Up each with the other — east with west, farmer with manufacturer, consumer with both. We are one nation and the misfortune of any one industry or region is the mis- fortune of all. Page 2 Clinton News-Record Thum', Sept. 21, 1.961 darcc .. THE TIME IS NOW "I AM A CANADIAN ." DEATH IN THE JUNGLE What Others Say . . . One Nation (Industry) Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Amalgamated 1924 Est. 1881 *iv LA SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 4 United States and Voreign: $4.50; Single CopieS Ten Cents Authorized as second cleat. mail, Post Office lepartment, Ottawa Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,225 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher • WILMA D« DINNIN,. Editor year Sometimes I wish life would stop being so interesting. There are moments when I'd like to relax, fall into a pattern of gracious living, and coast quiet- ly downhill to the grave, like a Christian gentleman, secure in the knowledge that St. Pet- er was chewing his nails with impatience as he waited to con- duct me to a quiet corner of the place. But it doesn't seem to work out that way. There's always some gigantic foofawraw in progress, either in the world at large, or around our house, to keep me upset, confused, excited, roaring mad or ex- hausted. Take the Berlin crisis, for example, By the time this appears in print, you, gentle reader, may have been blown sky-high by a nuclear missile. If this happens, feel free 'to cancel your subscription. And please accept my heartiest con- gratulations for being out of it all, and give my regards to God, eh? * * Personally, while I'm not a pacifist, I would not go to war with a four-year-old pygmy ov- er Berlin. I am about as con- cerned over the rights of the Berliners as they were over the rights of the people of Warsaw in 1939. I know, I know, there are many wonderful. German people. And I've met quite a few of them. Call me intoler- ant, prejudiced, or what you like, but I've felt a slight cool- ness toward the race since half a dozen 'of them tried to kick my brains out, in a station yard in Utrecht, seventeen years ago this month. That reminds, me. I had a letter this week from an old friend, Gene Macdonald, editor of the Glengarry News. It seems that the 22nd' chieftain of the Macdonald clan was out from Scotland this sum- mer, visiting among his kins- men in Glengarry, Ontario. There are more McDonalds and Macdonells and Macdon- alcls in Glengarry than the Campbells wiped out at the Massacre of Glencoe. Anyway, Gene was talking with The Macdonell, and learn- ed that the latter was an old Spitfire pilot and an ex-prison- er-of-war, He asked the chief if 'he'd known me there, remembering that I was in the jug. "Sure I knew Smiley", exclaimed His Chieftainship. "He bunked' right across the hall from me in Stalag Luft." It turns out that he was called "Mac" in prison camp, There were approximately 800 characters called "Mac" in our camp, so I can't place him, but it just goes to show you, * * Speaking of prisoners, I learned Sunday morning, at a fairly unholy hour, that it was fifteenth wedding annivers- ary. First I knew of it was when the lady who was lying beside me, eyes shut tight, pushed' me toward the far edge of the bed with one foot, land Mumbled, "Leesha can door gerneeztim brekfuS nour annv- rsry," And if you think that isn't a shocking way to be a- wakened on a warm September Sunday morn, wait till it hap- pens to you, Well, I got her seine break- fast, The blasted kidS, who are always up with the birds, were already gathered ,around the table, just like young rob- ins, gaily discussing the swim X was going to take them for, as I stumbled and groaned ar- ound the kitchen in bare feet and shorts. They scoffed three sliced peaches each, and four of my special Runny Scrambled Eggs, before X could get a bite to the Old Girl.