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Civilization has taken majes-
tic forward strides in the past
fifty years or so. Half a cen-
tury ago, people had cellars
below their houses. In these
cool caverns were found such
things as: pickles and preset.-
yes; barrels of apples; turnips
and potatoes covered in dirt
to keep the frost out; and
eggs kept fresh in white stuff
called water-glass.
Then came the furnace, and
the cellar became g basement,
with a plank floor. Now it
contained bundles of news-
papers, a stone crock and bot-
tle capper for making home
brew, boxes of limp love let-
ters, old 'trunks full of older
clothes to be dragged out on
Halloween, and the winter's
supply of coal.
Not many years passed be-
fore the basement received an-
other face-lifting. With the
advent of oil or gas heating,
a cement floor was installed,
The basement became the
laundry-room cum workshop.
The belch of the sump pump
was replaced by the swish of
Mom's washer, the hum of her
dryer, and the whine of Dad's
bandsaw; as she kept the fam-
ily clean and he happily fash-
ioned Jiggly-legged tables and
rickety trellises.
* * *
Between the second and third
world wars, when everyone was
building those inverted straw-
berry boxes with attached car-
ports, the basement was again
transformed. During the Fort-
ies, the Fifties and right into
the Sixties, apparently intelli-
gent people poured millions of
dollars into these curiosities,
which were known as "rec-
reation rooms,"
They installed television sets
in them. They built elaborate
bars in them. They jammed in
pingpong tables and d'art
boards and juke boxes •and
fireplaces and record players
and pool tables and panelled
walls and tiled floors and neon
lights. They did all this for
two reasons.
First of all, they wanted a
place where their children
could play, happily and safely.
And where their teenagers
could have friends in, and
dance, and eat hot dogs, and
have good, wholesome fun. And
second of all, their living rooms
were so small that it looked
like a poker game in a Pull-
man when they invited another
couple in.
For generations, these good
people tried to get their child-
ren and their guests to go
down and enjoy life in the
"recreation room." The small
kids, quite sensibly, refused to
have anything to do with them,
preferring, like normal child-
ren, to play out in the mud
and on the road. After one
dismal evening of "recreation,"
with mother or father dashing
down the stairs every twenty
minutes to make sure they
were having a whale of a time
the teenagers avoided them
with alacrity.
And guests, lured to the rec-
reation room by the hope of a
drink, seized it in one hand,
looked around, whistled, said,
"Boy, this musta setya back
plen'ny," and headed right back
upstairs for the kitchen, where
the real party inevitably took
place.
* ,, *
It was not until the 1960'6
that the cellar-basement-laund-
ry room - workshop - recreation
room achieved real dignity, and
attained its true and lasting
status in our society.
At first, it labored under the
rather insipid name of "fall-
out shelter". In fact, what br-
ought up this whole train of
thought was finding an old
newspaper, dated 1,961. / came
tterogiS it when I wag pulling a
thigh-bone off Aunt Mabel's
skeleton, back in the corner
there. I needed it to carve a
new soup spoon,
Anyway, there was this clip-
ping, ten years old. Priem Min-
later Diefenbaker — that was
when there ueed to be what
they called a "government" —
announced that he and his wife
and staff would go into an or-
dinary fallout shelter should
there 'be a nuclear attack, Ap-
parently that was bates? they
Started firing the salvos of
glandular gas.
Uncle Dttd, who was quite a
kidder before his second head
(By W. B. T. SMILEY)
went mental, told me one time
that Mr. Diefenbaker wasn't
killed in the first attack. He
died of apoplexy when someone
inadvertently let it slip 'that
the contractor who had built
his shelter was what they used
to, call a Liberal. * *
At any rate, it wasn't long
before the "fallout shelter" be-
came known as what it has
been called since the "living
room." Maybe it was because
they were the only places
where anyone was living. Un-
like the people I mentioned,
who never recreated in their
recreation rooms, we really live
in our living rooms. And I
must admit, it's pretty darn
cosy, when you get it fixed' up
as nice as ours.
The first few months were
pretty rugged. We had to shoot
quite a few people who were
too lazy or too poor to pro-
vide themselves with living
rooms, and tried to horn in on
ours. But we were able to use
the corpses as rat-bait, which
kept fresh meat in the pot at
the same time.
When Granny died, the
smell was rather disagreeable,
but we solved that by crushing
Early Acadians
Lett Their Mark
There couldn't possibly be
any far away fields greener
than the pastures of the Tan-
tramar Marshes. For centuries,
this 80 square miles of lush
ground in the provinces of New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia has
fed and fattened some of the
finest cattle the country can
produce. I remember once be-
ing told the salt content in the
hip high grass of these famous
flats was responsible for pro-
duction records I believed
every word I was told until
my visit this summer to the
Maritimes.
Lucky for me our guide and
driver on this CN Maple Leaf
Tour is a school principal. Le-
gend can be exaggerated but
history, at least to a school
teacher, is sacred fact. As we
rolled along the Trans Canada
highway toward the border be-
tween the two provinces, he
introduced us to the Acadians
and the part they played in
protecting these fertile fields
from the head waters affected
by the Bay of Fundy. In their
home land of Brittany, they
had learned how to build.dykes
to hold back the sea. Today,
after 200 or more years, the
undulating mounds they con-
structed of grass covered,
brick colored clay, still pro-
tect the land so that it can be
cultivated as productively as
any upland.
This modern age has caught
up with the more primitive way
or storing marsh hay in small
barns. These have dotted the
horizon for years, but are now
falling into disrepair, appealing
only to artists who see in their
leaning demolition, a picture
that will soon fade from the
Marttime scene. Today the
hay is cut, baled, stored or sold
in a matter of hours. During
our first night's stop I admir-
ed picture frames that enhanc-
ed oil paintings of the area,
I was told some enterprising
and imaginative person had re-
claimed the weathered boards
of the little marsh barns for
this purpose. At least they will
have some sort of perpetuity.
The name "Tantramar", by
the way, was derived from the
French name "Tintarriarre"
meaning loud noise. It was
given to this region by early
French settlers because of the
noise of the ntyraid wild fowl
which frequented the area in
spring and fall. Every place
name in this part of Canada
has a meaning and musical
lilt. Micmac Indian, French or
Gaelic, they roll off the tongue
like a fugue.
Inoian Legend
We followed the Glooseap
trail to Five Islands. Often
shrouded in heavy fog, the is-
lands are called, perhaps rath-
er =imaginatively, Moose, Dia-
mond, Long, Egg and Pinnacle,
But there is nothing unimag-
inative about nature. Back
drop for the scene is a penins
sula of rich iron oxide soil,
towering in a barren red cliff
to the border of green conifers
fringing Its top like the fea-
thers on an Indian chief's War
bonnet. Glooscap, an Indian
god, is supposed to have thrown
huge hunks of the red earth
at the beaver in it fit of anger,
This, they legend says, settled
in the sea to form these is-
everybody's olfactory nerve.
We missed' our lights for a
while, after the generators•
went, back in '64, but we've
got used to it, and the kids
are blind anyway, so it doesn't
bother them a bit. They're as
happy as morons, In fact, eh,
—well never mind. The main
thing is they're happy.
They're just as cute as can
be, swimming in the big water-
hole at the north end of the
living room. Of course, those
webbed feet are a big help.
They can swim twice as fast
as I could, when I was a kid.
And they're as healthy as trout.
As a matter of fact, maybe
that's because they live on the
same diet—wo -ms. Of course,
they get lots of greens once
a week, when we serape the
mou'd off the walls. That stuff
is full of penicillin, too, if I
remember right.
All in all, we're about as
happy and snug a little family
as you'll find, if you can find
one. And I'm certainly glad
we're living in an age of pro-
gress, not back in those dreary
days when a "living room" was
called a cellar, or a basement,
or a recreation room,
Diary of a Vagabond
BY DOROTHY BARKER
lands. They stand so close to-
gethet that they are believed
to have been one piece of land
at one time.
To me they look almost ed-
ible, especially the largest of
the five which sits in Minas
Basin like a round, two-layer
devil's food cake slathered
with fudge icing. Moose Island,
our guide remarked, is suppos-
ed to be the hiding place of
pirate treasure, but the only
real treasure discovered to date
is this panorama of beautiful
seascape.
Let me back track for a
paragraph or two. Our first
night was spent in the Fort
Cumberland Hotel at Amherst.
Inland gateway to Nova Scotia,
Amherst is a manufacturing
centre of ever ten thousand
population. We were to get
used to huge Victorian mans-
ions, entirely constructed of
wood that became a familiar
site in all Maritime cites and
towns. iOn this first night we,
who inhabited apartments or
ranch type homes, walked for
blocks along tree-lined streets
gaping at towering homes and
wondering who did the house-
work in these three-storey
clapboard structures.
Inlanders Gorge
Our tourist palates were
tickled by our first FRESH
sea fish meal, with home made
rolls and pie. All of us on tour
were inlanders, who only rec-
ognize a swordfish from a pic-
ture and salmon when it is
done up in a carton stacked rin
a supermarket's frozen food
counter. We ate heartily, fear-
ing that this might prove to be
the only perfect meal of the
six days that lay ahead. We
needn't have been so greedy.
Don Frost of Nava Scotian
Guided Tours, who plans these
limousine trips in conjunction
with the CN railway, has dis-
covered the finest eating and
sleeping accommodation the
Maritimes have to offer.
During the second day we
visited Haliburton House which
I wrote about recently, and
Grand-Pre Memorial Park in
the "Land of Evangeline."
Shades of my school days,
Longfellovv's poem began to
sing in my brain. "This is the
forest primeval; but where are
the hearts that beneath it leap
ed like the roe, when he hears
in the woodland the voice of
the huntsman? Where is the
thatched roof village, the home
of Acadian farmers . . . "
Longfellow never visited
Grand-Pre. He learned about
the evacuation of the Acadians
in a roundabout way. The tra-
gedy of Evangeline and Gab-
riel was first told to. Nathaniel
Hawthorne in 1838, by the
Rev, Horace Lorenzo Conolly.
A year or two later, Haw-
thorne went to dine with his
friend Longfellow at Cam-
bridge. With him was the l,ev.
Mr, Conolly, At the conclusion
of Conolly's story about the
lovers, Longfellow was said to
remark, "It is the 'best illustra-
tion of faithfulness and the
constancy of woman that I
have ever hear or read. He ask-
ed Hawtherne, Who had first
heard the story and who was
also a Writer, for permission to
use the tale as a poem. Today,
More than a century later,
pupils are still struggling to
meteorite the romance of this
haunted pair.
egg: 2---Clinton .News-Record---Thursday, Oct 5, 1961
Editorials . • .
CONGRATULATIONS, OBA CHAMPS!.
AT LONG LAST, Clinton can
boast of an Ontario baseball champ-
ionship.
Members of the Legion Juvenile
team, did themselves proud on Sunday
afternoon, and came through in a
wonderful show of thrilling baseball in
the eighth inning to wrest the champ-
ionship from Bowmanville,
People of Clinton and area can
well feel proud of these young lads.
They've come through about ten years
of baseball training, offered through
the enthusiasms of the local branch of
the Legion, and through hours of ded-
icated instruction by their coach and
manager.
But without that almost indescrib-
able will to win, which they displayed
in the Community Park last weekend,
this team would have been another in
our town's long list of OBA finalists.
This juvenile team is remarkable
in a number of ways. Not the least of
these is their spectacular move this
summer from the "C" classification in
which town teams have been classed
owing to population count, into the
larger "B" classification, where they
were pitted against towns from 3,000
to 10,000 people.
The change of classification came
in Mid-year, but the lads took it in
their stride, and meeting strange teams
from new towns, went on confidently
to win over all,
We have a tradition of great ball-
playing in Clinton.
In the days of the big intermediate
home-brew teams, just after World War
2, Clinton Colts were in there with the
best. They came close to the Ontario
championships twice, but didn't quite
make it,
Now we can see the beginning of
a new era of sports-conscious people
with more and more attention being
put upon the job of providing healthy
recreation for our young people.
This juvenile team is the product
of the good work done by service clubs
in the past. Now they are being split
up, many of them already with jobs
out of town. But there are younger
boys coming along, each with ambit-
ion to become Clinton's second provin-
cial champions. They •deserve the best
that the town can give them, in support
and encouragement.
It's time for more participation
by the town as a municipality in the
sports and recreation facilities of
Clinton.
NOTHING WR ONG WITH US
THERE'S CERTAINLY nothing
wrong with Canadians when it comes
to matching up with people from other
nations,
During the past week, a young
Canadian farmer, William C. Dixon,
Brampton, won the world plowing
-championship at Grigon, France. And
two days before another Canadian,
Peter Bryan faced the top professional
racing drivers, Stirling Moss and Oliver
Gendebien and ended the Canadian
Grand Prix ahead of both of them.
After all the greater percentage of
Canadian citizens is made up of those
enterprising people who left the Euro-
pean nations with the idea of making
a new home for themselves. Canadians
have done this and more.
There is no reason that our count-
ry cannot continue tci• produce champ-
ions in every race, including that most
important one, the race for peace.
What Others Say . .
THE ONES WHO PAY
(The Printed Word)
ALMOST STARTLING is the st-
atement made in a recent book on
inflation by Melchior Palyi that wage
earners pay the cost of wage increases.
Perhaps this is too broad a state-
ment, but if all the wage earners in
the nation are granted wage increases
and the result of such wage increases
is to bring about price increases, it
follows clear'` that consumers, who
are wage earners, are paying the cost
of their own wage increases.
The low man on this totem pole is,
of course, the person who is living on
a fixed income. He is not in position
to demand comparable increases., Oth-
ers who would suffer are the ones who
don't get their demands in until the
price increases have been in effect for
some time.
Back in the First World War and
its aftermath the school teachers and
the civil 'servants were the victims of
prices that were getting out of line
with their salaries. Nowadays it seems
likely that the teachers' organizations,
having learned something from their
pupils of yesterday, are right up in the
procession. The retired teachers are the
ones who are not benefiting from the
current increase in the cost of educa-
tion.
Those Costly Minutes
IF YOU don't think tithe is money,
consider the following:
A man who Makes $5,000 a year
earns 41/2 cents every minute he works,
or $2.55 per hour, in a. typical instance.
The $10,000 a year man is paid nine
cents a minute — or $5.10 per hour.
(Statisticians note: These computations
are based on a five-day, 40-hour week,
minus three weeks for vacations and
statutory holidays.)
So now, when someone says: "Wait
a minute," you'll know exactly how
much it is costing you — or your em-
ployer. — (Industry)
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From.
CLINTON
Thursday,
Hensel'
$25,000 school,
the continuation
has caused
A Wirigham
sentenced to
at Goderich
of the Ontario
sedation.
ions of swamp
during August,
Bradnock
tractors for
Auburn, have
ress, and now
with their
ing on the
drain,
Old Home
fell short
by about $800.
ing it up
the committee
accounts so
It's a •great
horn sport
expense.
Pumpkin
be assured
Three pounds
tea may be
son .te Co,
store for everybody.
CLINTON
Thursday,
School fair
town hall,
in the alley
Principal Bouck
Model School'
over 475
school bearing
children of
tinctive costume
Results
report several
es: T. Snowden,
Bart Levis,
Keys, Robert
Woocis, Mrs.
ner, Mrs. Metcalf,
Unique
field fair
clock made
field, nearly
and with
and face of
of pebbles
polished and
Clearing
stoves was'
due, with some
at $30.
E. S. Livermore
ed with •a
a book, on
CCI. The
pupil will
erect.
s--
40 Years
NEW
October
plans to build
school
an overflow,
man
six months
following
He had sold
whiskey
and Jenkins,
the Sturdy
made
have
tractor ditcher
last portion
Week at
of making
Instead
out of town
decided
much on
life to
at the other
pie crop
this season,
of
bought from
for 95 cents.
Our
Attendance
Temperance
Ago
ERA
0, 1021
a new
classes
has been
in jail
a breach
As-
five gal-
for $75
con-
drain,
good' prog-
Snell Bros.
work-
of the
Goderich
expenses
of mak-
funds,
to pay
the dollar.
be a tin-
fellow's
seems
good black
John-
The
Ago
6, 1921
in the
shown
the hall.
Clinton
parade
with each
in .dis'-
decoration.
Fall Fair
nam-
R. Stirling,
W.
C. Truem-
J. Toms.
the Bay-
Hess, Bay-
feet high
The frame
is made
stones
coal
& Per-
and some
present-
from
this clever
with int-
NEWS-RECORD
its banner
McClinchey,
was a grandfather's
and
Dr.
and
at
to
of
N.
oil
Early
25
Clinton
ervise
students
E. S.
his position
Elgin
will give
practice
Mr,
Verger
in the
ents,
liott,
The
offered
school
celebrating
of the
program
the two
supper,
the Rev.
merly
ors Day,
souvenir
ested.
the Rev.
president
ference.
Wheat
oats
selling
ter at
10
Rev.
pastor
Baptist
the Dryden
in Northern
There
the Bell
Clinton,
agency
all time
Ray
'tor in
signed'
branch
Dr.
resident
named
for the
George
being
five years.
'Clinton
baseball
the OBA
Orangeville,
there.
Hartley,
Elliott,
terson,
Garon,
and Jack
CLINTON
Thursday,
Brucefield
CLINTON
Thursday,
Enrolment
the Goderich
a
and
and
Mr,
of
at
at
25
R.
of
and
of
W.
On
Livermore
in
were
home
Henri
permanent
girls,
church
illustrated
Minister
ylei r Iles
Years
October
Lions Club
dental inspection
at the public
has
as' magistrate
Oxford district,
his time
Aylmer.
Mrs. Harry
married
of the bride's
and Mrs,
Beauty
$2.50.
United
the diamond
with a
of events, Included
Sundays, a
Beverley Ketchen,
Brucefield;
an At Home
booklet for
of the
W. A. Bremner
of the London'
listed' at
45 cents.
$7.75 and
cents a pound.
NEWS-RECO/SD
Ago
le 1232
will sup-
of
school.
resigned
of
and
to a law
Schellera
at Staffa
par-
Frank El.,
Shoppe
waves for
Church is
jubilee
week-long
are
hot fowl
lecture by
for-
WA visit-
and a
all inter-
church,
is also
Con-
$1.02 and
Hog were
dairy but-
Ago
BA, BD,
Auburn
gone to
charge
with
in
collection
opened.
is at an
inspec-
has re-
medical
former
has been
Education
Ontario.
purchased
after
'the past
midget
move into
defeating
on from
.are John
Rick
Ken Pat-
Robert
Jenkins
40 Years
October
was held
with livestock
south of
'of the
led the
children,
each school
or
of Bayfield
well-known
J.
Robert Blair,
Geiger,
Mrs..
exhibit at
by S.
seven
a stand.
the clock
and small
varnished.
sale of
on at Sutter
at $20
was
folding umbrella
his departure
career of
be watched'
office
Gibbon,
Huron
co-publisher
Jack
Gerry
4, 1951
Years
NEWS-RECORD
October
Clair Clark,
Clinton and
Churches has
-Eagle River
Ontario.
are 21 employees
Telephone Company
and a new
is to be
at CDCI
high of 292.
sanitary
since 1949
will join the
the RCAF.
J. Dunlop,
of Clinton,
Minister of
Province of
Ellis• has
Signal-Star,
for
Lions WOAA
champions
semi-finals,
and going
the team
Robert Carrick,
Carter,
Jim Howes,
Holmes,
Cowan.
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Head Office, DUNGANNON
Established 1878
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President, Brown Smyth, R 2,
Auburn; Vive-Pres., Herson Tr-
win, Belgrave; Directors, Paul
Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George
C. Feagan, Goderich; Roes Mc-
Phee, R. 3, Auburn; Donald
MacKay, Ripley; John F. Mac-
Leman, R. 3, Goderich; Frank
Thompson, R. 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
RONALD G. McCANN
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Office and Residence
• Rattenbury Street East
Phone HU 2-9677.
CLINTON, ONTARIO
REAL ESTATE
LEONARD G. WINTER
Real Estate & Business Broker
High Street * ClintOn
PHONE HU 2-6692
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