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Clinton News-Record, 1961-10-12, Page 2• Di OM A BINGO RAP..; SUGAR and SPICE... From Our Early Files 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 13, 1921 The prime minister's visit to Clinton le the first since 1908 when. Sir Wilfred Laurier visit- ed the town, T, Nott recalls that when he came to Clinton 50 years ago, winter set in on October 18. Goderich Township council has inetrueted the clerk to pre- pare a by-law prohibiting gyp- sies or wandering parties with- out visible means of support fr- om camping on the public highways. Some farmers have been troubled by such visitors destroying fences, disturbing hen roosts, etc. Mr. and• Mrs, Sherlock Keyes were married October 10 at Beeehveciod Farm, Goderich Township. They will live in their new home near Varna, the old historical IVIcAsh farm. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ransford, M. G. Ransford, W. Jackson and Mrs. J. W. Shaw are in Ot- tawa and IVIontreal this week attending the annual conven- tion of the Canadian Ticket Agents• Association. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, October 13, 1921 The Hon. Arthur Mieghen, Canada's gifted' prime minister, will be in Clinton and• Goder- ich next 'Wednesday, and will make an address in the skating arena here at two o'clock. Donald Ross died suddenly at Brucefield while loading a flatcar with lumber for Mr. Geddes. The Rev. W. D. Mc- Intosh officiated at the funeral Coffee is 55 cents a pound at Johnson and Co. W. T. O'Neil, the Hub Groc- er, asked "How much of your grocery bill 'is for food. How much for frills? Buy food "by the pound" from our sanitary counter. In an, article pointing out what a Canadian was, this par- agraph appears; A Canadian worth the name will tell the tax officials the truth, the wh- ole truth and nothing but the truth about his income — he will tell the truth 'even when it is damaging to his side of the case. James D. Howatt, of the El- yth gravel road:, has disposed of his farm to George Bean, Colborne for $10,000. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 8, 1930 London Conference Young Peoples Union will hold a th- ree-day convention in Wesley- Willis United Church this week- end. Thomas Fulford's garage on Rattenbury Street suffered ex- tensive damage on 'Saturday evening. At the 11th annual Huron County Amateur Athletic Ass- ociation track and field meet in Exeter, Clinton's Olive Fin- ch earned the trophy for eh- amplon intermediate girls, John J. Heggarcl, Seaforth lawyer, who pleaded guilty to the theft of $150,000 'in secur- ities from his clients, was sen- tenced on Saturday in Coder- ich by Judge Costello to three years in Portsmouth penitent- iary. A lenient sentence was levied since Mr. Haggard had already suffered much punish- ment from having been brought back from Los Angeles to face trial, and the publicity given the case. Two Toronto brokers, McLaren and Fletcher, with whom Huggard had been deal- ing are still in Goderich jail awaiting trial on similar ch- arges, 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, October 11, 1951 Thomas Pryde has been nom- inated' for conservative candi- date in the next election for this riding, No other names were placed 'before the conven- tion which was held in Hensall. Goclerich Bluewater Band is playing a concert in Clin- ton. Included among members are Donald' Andrews, cornet; Richard Elliott, clarinet; Ken- neth Ashton, saxaphone; Wil- liam, Shearing, trombone; Jack Cowan, cornet and John Hart- ley, cornet. Building permits included $10,000 for Maple Street Gospel Hall, A total of $26,800 in per- mits was passed by council. Ex-mayor Robert Y. Hattin will lead' Clinton Progressive Conservatives in the coming provincial election battle. Group Captain Sherman R. Burbank, formerly chief inst- ructor at the Radar and Com- munications School, RCAF St- ation Clinton recently receiv- ed his promotion. He is at AF- HQ Ottawa. BELL LINES by W. W. Haysom your telephone manager EXPERTS IN TELEPHONE SERVICE Installer Ron Paterson is one of the Bell folk around Clinton whose job it is to provide you with the best in telephone service. When you request any changes or addi- tions to your service, Ron or one of his fellow craftsmen, comes to your home and does the work skilfully and effic- iently. We're proud of these men and happy to have them represent us, As a representative of the Bell, Ron is more than an installer — he's an expert in telephone service. He knows, fot example, that the busy modern housewife finds the kitchen one of the handiest places for an extension phone. But more than that, he can advise her on the best location for such a phone, as well as the most suitable style and colour. lie can also suggest the type of phone that would be most suitable for any room, including the bedroom, where a bedside telephone bring8 a feeling of security at night. Say "hello" next time you see Ron, or one of his follow installers, in your neighbour- hood. (You'll know them by the familiar green Bell truck.) Ask them to show you the different colour and: styles of phones that are available. They will be glad to talk it over with you. If you wish to order a handy extension phone for your home, simply call us at HU 2-3401 and we'll be glad to send one of ow' installers out to see you. rfl MR. TOM KELLY, recently'. appointed Installation and. Re- pair Foremah, is located at • Clinton. Mr. Kelly is in charge of the Plant forces in the Gode- rich territory consisting of Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter, Crediton, Centralia and . Mr, 1(elly, with our company since 1916, comes to- our ter- ritory from London where he gained much experience to well qualify him bar his new position' ur Clinton, • We are glad to welcome tom to this area. 0 Here's one thing we'd like to remind you of those handy Yellow Pages in the bank of your telephone directory. With fall house cleaning hi full swing, It's the greatest way to "hunt" all over town fOr what you need. Cleaning stlp- plies, plaint, repair people.--you name it and you'll find it in your Yellow Pages. You save time and steps wheh you use them, ee002,0 i THE CLINTON NEW ERA Est. 1865 (By W. B, T. SMILEY) during that eventful decade of poking his nose into all the hectic, turbulent currents of small town life. Then into the teaching, and thankful I like the youngsters. It would be pure hell if one didn't, And here's another Thanksgiving gone by, and I've only begun to touch the things I'm thankful for, I wish they'd hold it twice a year, Letter to the Editor WORD FROM CHURCHILL Clinton News-Record Dear Madam: Please find money order for our subscription to your pap- er. I was most surprised to find it was due again'— time surely has gone quickly this past year, and it has been a very busy year for us. St is a great challenge to us to be preaching in this vast Northland and our experiences have been many and varied. It is a real thrill to watch the spiritual growth. We had hoped to visit good old Clinton this year — but we have been ask- ed to stay far another year at least, so unless the Lord dir- ects otherwise, we're happy to do His will. You may be interested to know that our baby — Daphne (now' 18 months), has been in a cast from the armpits to her ankles, in a frog-like pos- ition and I had to fly to Win- nipeg twice, to a specialist, and now I 'have to leave her in hospital here every 8 weeks or so, to have new casts put on. (Daphne was born with dis- located hips, which wasn't 'dis- covered until she was walking). .My husband made a low cart oh wheels, and that is how she gets around the house, but she is very happy and contented, although heavy and difficult to carry. However, we are very thankful for the goodness of God, it could be worse! It will be a great day in our fam- ily, nine months from now, when we hope and pray that she will be able to walk nor- mal. I'm so glad that I know Jesus Christ in a personal way, for He has wonderfully sust- ained us, in this our most sev- ere trial and we know that He has a reason and someday wea 11 understand. We still enjoy your paper and note with in- terest the different news etc. Sincerely, Audrey and Ken Sweigard Box 154 Churchill, Man. Young Newlyweds Honoured By Their Neighbours Neighbours on the 16th and Maitland Concessions gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Farquhar to honour Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lawson, newlyweds, on Friday, Septem- ber. 29. Progressive euchre was played. An address was read by Miss Lois Jones •and the couple was presented with a lovely mirror by Harry Oakes and Alvin Jones, Delicious lun- ch was served by the ladies. HURONVIEW AUXILIARY TO MEET OCTOBER 16 The Huronview Auxiliary regular monthly meeting will be held •at the home on Mon- day, October 16 at 2.30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Business and Professional Directory II A. M. HARPER and COMPANY CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 33 HAMILTON ST. 7 RATTENBURY ST. E. GODERICH CLINTON Phone JA 4-7562 Phone HU 2..7721 INSURANCE H. E. HARTLEY All Types of Life Term Insutance — 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 MoKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office: Seaforth Officers: President, John L. Malone, Seaforth; vice-president, John H. McEvving, Blyth; secre- tary-treasurer, W. E. South- gate, Seaforth, Directors: John IL McEwing; Robert Archibald; Chris Leon- hardt, Bornholm; Norman Tre- wartha, Clinton; Wm. S. Alex- antler, Walton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; Harvey Fuller, Gode- rich; Writ R. Pepper, Seaforth; Alistair Broadfoot, Seaforth. Agents; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Lon, desboro; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Seas 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, It 2, Auburn; Vive-Pres., HerSon Ir- win, Belgrave; Directers, Paul Caesar, R. 1, Dungannon; George C. ream, Goderich; Ross Mc- Phee, R. 8, Auburn; Donald MacKay, Ripley; John F. Mac- Lerman, H. 3, Goderich; Frank Thompson, R. 1, Holyroocl; Writ Wiggins, R. 3, Auburn. For information on your in- surance, call your nearest diree- tor Who is also an agent, or, the secretary, Durnin Phillips, Duri, ganuot, phone Dungannon 48, 214tfb 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 Bak JA 4-9521 478 RONALD G. McCANN PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Office and Residence RatenbUry Street East Phone HO 2-9677 CLINTON, ONTARIO REAL ESTATE LEONARD G WINTER: Real Estate & Busltiese Broker High Street s-e Clinton PHONE" Hall 2.6492 to higher service for his country. It has been many a long year since this particular area has contributed a man to either the provincial or federal house, Would it not be a 'logical thing to suppose that a man or woman with the ability and inclination to go further, should now be taking the first steps on the local political scene? Perhaps we already have members of municipal boards or councils, who have higher politics in mind. Certainly, even if we have, more would not go amiss, Canada needs great men, We need leaders with imagination, and a know- ledge of our country at first hand. What better place to begin learn- ing what makes governments work, what the democratic process is, than. in municipal council or school board, or public utilities work? CLINTON AND THE. surrounding rural municipalities are only about six weeks away from nomination day, and the need to name those they want to govern them in the year 1962. We have long been aware of the value of good leadership at a muni- cipal level, if things are to go well and smoothly with the local scene, Far from being a "joe job" with no future, the task of serving your fel- lowman may well lead to more import- ant tasks, and a rewarding life, Note the many men in provincial and federal politics in Canada, who first became interested in politics on the local level. School boards and councils are the proving ground—in many cases the whetstone — which creates the knowledge and enthusiasm which makes a man want to run for a higher office, and which gives him the know-how to win an election and proceed from there And One in the Hall ONE EVENING at least this week, there was no room in Clinton Public Hospital for any more male patients. One had already been placed in a bed in the hall, which cannot be considered the best place for a sick person. If any accident had occurred that night—there were no rooms available in which to place an injured person— although probably in an emergency, someone in a room could have been moved into the hall, and a particularly sick person could be placed in the room. The whole thing reminds us of the thoughtful type who tried to get a room at a hotel in a busy city, and was told there was no room for him. So he asked, 'If the Duke of Edinburgh asked for a room, you'd give him one, would- n't you?" Of course the answer was "yes". "Well," said the thoughtful type, "let me have his room. I happen to know the Duke isn't coming to-night." But this kind of thing does not work in a hospital. A hospital bed by itself is no good without a great number of people, trained and equipped to give a patient service. When the number of hospital beds is limited, it also means a lack of personnel to do the work in connection with additional beds set up in halls. With our provincial hospital scheme in effect, need for more hospital beds is acute. And no hospital that we know of is saving one for the Duke of Edin- burgh, so that you can use it when the Duke doesn't come. The responsibility of creating more hospital beds, and all of the services that go with them, comes back to the people. The people apparently want a provincial hospital scheme. The people want the good treatment they are as- sured of in a modern hospital. The people (and that means you, me, and all of us) must be prepared to dig down and find the money to staff and equip more space at the hospital, and Amalgamated 1924 • ir '0% SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable/ in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $3.00 a United States and Foreign: $4.50; Single Copies Ten Cents Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa WHITE LEAF COFFEE MUGS REG....39G each 6 FOR 1.59 Full 8 et, Capacity with at- tractive loaf pattern. Asserted colours of Pink, Brown, Blue or Ball and. Mutch Phone CLINTON HUnter 2-9505 Page 2-.--Clinton News-Record---Thorsv t, 12, 190 Editorials , We Need Men and Women Published every Thursday at the Heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario — Population 3,225 • A. L. COLQUHOUN, Publisher S WILMA D. DINNIN, Editor CERAMIC MILK PITCHERS Reg. 79c - 53c - TV TABLES - 52.25 SET OF 4 TV TABLES and STAND ▪ $9.95 METAL SERVING TRAYS 18x13 - 89c General Steel Wares PRESTO Steam and Dry ELECTRIC IRON $16.95- General Steel Wares Automatic Electric KETTLE Reg, $11.95 - $8.89 What did you do on Thanks- giving Day, this year? I hope you didn't just loll around the house all, day, drinking beer, and watching a group of thick- shouldered, thickskulled young gorillas moving a small brown ball back and forth on a large green field, Some years ago, I decided to set aside Thanksgiving Day as my annual day of giving thanks. If this seems revolu- tionary, you may as well know that I also combine with. it Remembrance Day, which I don't enjoy on November 11th, because it's too cold and 'bleak and sad, then. As a result, each Thanks- giving, I turn my thoughts rig- idly away from the lingering green of the golf course, from the rainbow trout skulking deep, from the sun and shadow of the partridge-startled woods trail. Each year I try to spend Thanksgiving, or some part of it, in remembering and giving thanks. It's not a particularly religious production. This is all taken care of the day before, when we go to church and the minister reminds us all we have to be thankful for, and of all the starving people in the world, and we sit there belch- ing gently after our bacon-and- eggs 'breakfast, and wishing he'd cut it short so we could get out and enjoy a smoke. No, I don't flop down on. Thanksgiving Day and render lengthy and tedious thanks that my children are not mongol- oid idiots, and that there's oil in the tank and food in the' frig and a few dollars in the pocket. When you do that, it's difficult to keep a touch of superstition, of the knock-wood variety out of the whole bus- iness. What I do is concentrate on all the good things that have happened to me in the past, and give thanks for them. 'I. For example, I'm thankful that I had the parents I did. That's a piece of blind chance, and I was luckier than most. I learned a lot of good things from them, and I just wish they had lived long enough to realize it. My mother taught me to hold my head up, and "If you haven't something good to say of a person, say noth- ing." My dad taught me, by example, something that has been proved' even more valu- able — how to get along with a woman who never stops talk- ing. And my youth was good, too. Football in the fall, and going steady with a first love. Read- ing everything I could get my hands on, far into the small hours, and dozing through sch- ool next day, Roaring off with year the boys to a country dance of a Friday night, and sparking the firm farm wenches who are all mothers now, and gray. Off to the university, a dash- ing foreign correspondent well disguised as a hick of a boy. * And then the war, and all the dear, good, hilarious friends and the fine times, and the big scares. Most of the friends were killed, and it hurt some, But now I give thanks for them, that they'll never grow old, and bald', and sunken- checked, and pot-bellied, and hardeyed, and -sick, There was lots to be thank- ful for after the war, too, says this little note that's been pushed in front of my nose. agree. It's been a happy wonder- ful experience, every day of our marriage, and there's not many fellows can type a thing like that with one hand', and the others 'twitted up between their shoulder blades. Then there were the bless,- ihgs of fatherhood to be thank- ful for. Two rare ones we got, With the big brown eyes and wagging tongue of their moth- Or, and the sweet nature of their dad, And cheap as dirt, They've cost only abant $8,000 each to raise, But the dividends are starting to flow back I can now wear my son's socks, and do, when can't find a pair of My own, and I'm sure I won't be out, except after dark, And ten lively years in the newspaper business, and I sup- pose a Man 611001d be thankful he Was never horsewhipped, shotgunned or even fisticUffed thus have more beds to put sick and injured people in when, necessary. Just through what avenue the peo- ple are able to apply this money, re- mains to be seen. Some is available through taxes paid to the municipality, which is forwarded to the county coun- cil, and returns as a hospital grant. Some possibly will be available through money that is paid by various taxes, to the provincial government, and is returned from there in the form of a rant. In either case, the money comes from the people. Spending the kind of money we must spend on hospital care, it makes sense to us that as much money as possible is obtained in some direct fashion from the people, rather than straining it through government of- fices, before getting some of it back. One way in which Clinton and area people can help their hospital directly, and help it provide the extra services which we all would like to have (if necessary) is to support the Hospital Auxiliary in their major fund-raising scheme of the year, the penny sale now on. The money contributed by you in this fashion will go directly from their hands into the furnishings which will be very necessary in the new wing of the hospital, whenever it is built. The main part of the money neces- sary to build and staff the new wing will probably have to come from grants at the municipal, county or provincial level. Possibly it will have to come from all three of these places. How- ever, the money for equipping and furnishings could, well come directly from the pockets of the people who are going to be making use of it. Let's not forget that our turn in the. hospital may be next, and the best that people can provide for each other in time of need, may seem all too small at that time. Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Est. 1881 2a-FOOT TROUBLE LAMP SET Reg. $2.98 -$2,29 WHITE TOILET SEATS Reg, $4.69 - $3.99