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Clinton News-Record, 1964-09-03, Page 14NEW DEADLINES FOR NEWS-RECORD ADVERTISING S Half Page and Full Page Advs. Friday Previous AU Other Display Advs. Must be in by Tuesday Noon. Classified Advs.-,-Tuesday 6 p.m. All Correspondence and News Stores---Wednesday 10 a.m. Clinton Nisios-Reaord 56 Albert Street Clinton Office Phone PHONES News Phone 4824441 4824444 Page .. .4eectinton. .New4-Record,411mrs.. Sept,, 10, 1944 Editorials • The Pedestrian's S.O.S. Following, three Pedestrian acci- dents in Clinton during the summer months, Clinton Police Chief Russ Thompson has offered the following single word as the key to traffic safety in Clinton. COURTESY. Had COURTESY been used by alt the six prineipals involved, the three accidents might not have happened in Clinton this summer. It is unfortunate that COURTESY is just about the only avenue to safety left open to pedestrians in the Town of _Clinton, True, there are speed limits which motorists are obliged to observe. There is also a set of traffic lights at the in- tersection of Highways 4 and 8, There are also pedestrian cross- walks along. Albert Street. • But these—as far as we can de- termine-,---do not provide any real safety for the pedestrian. Motor vehicle traffid is not required by any town bylaw to yield the right of way to pedestrians using the cross walks. The onus is on the motorist to be COURTEOUS about letting pedes- trians across the crosswalks, but there is no law that states he, must stop. True, judges and juries would like- ly treat severely any motorist striking a pedestrian in a cross walk zone, but this is of little consolation to the pedes- trian who has been maimed for life in an accident. In Clinton, the only place where a pedestrian is safe-guarded by law while crossing a street, is at the intersection of Highways 4 and a' He is safe there because of the Highway Traffic Act which states unequivocably that no motor vehicle or pedestrian may cross , against a red light. The Act provides a fine for viola- tions. Chief Thompson points out the traffic lights have a cycle of 55 seconds: 25 seconds red; 25 seconds green and five seconds orange. Thirty seconds, he suggests, is not too long for any pedestrian to wait for a traffic light change. This matter is not COURTESY, ,but law as well as common sense. However, at other street crossings, the pedestrian takes his life in his hands. Motorists unfamiliar with Clinton can- not be expected to see and cannot in, deed see (while travelling at the 30, mile-per-hour speed limit) the painted crosswalks until they are almost on top of them—and the pedestrian. The answer is to follow the steps taken by Toronto and other safety- conscious centres where Crosswalks • have been set up for the absolute safety of the pedestrian. We have all seen such crosswalks indeed the crosswalks we have in Clinton are a 50 per cent start in the right direction. The safe crosswalks of which we speak have the same painted stripes on the street surface. They are additionally marked by signs on either side and overhead. Pedestrians within the white lines are safe from assault by automobiles, and woe betide any automobile driver who strikes them! When a pedestrian wishes to cross the street, he waits until he spots an opening in the traffic stream and steps out into the crosswalk, pointing his hand ahead of him so it can be seen by motorists. • While he is in the crosswalk zone, no car may cross its boundaries. The rules are simple and easy to enforce. Toronto, for example, has thousands of these crosswalks. Clinton needs only four. One across Highway 4 to the Post Office, and three others strategically located along the Main Street.. The traffic lights provide a fifth safe cross- ing place. It would take pedestrian educa- tion, motorist• education, several bylaws and a certain amount of money for the new signs. There may not be as much traffic here as in Toronto and other large centres, but our citizens and children are just as important to their families and friends as those in other cities. And what is any amount of money when it comes to saving a life? May It Rest In Peace THE SCHOOL BELLS are sound- ing their. clangings across the country- side these days and the carefree young- sters of one week ago are to be seen lugging home piles of books and loose- leaf binders and their empty lunch pails. The leaves are quietly suffering their kaleidoscopic prelude to death and the air is taking on that sharp, clear. • smell of autumn. There aren't many lawn mowers clattering in the short, chill evenings, and the girls aren't wearing their shorts after the sun goes down and the shad- ows get long in the late afternoon. Already one hears talk of "next summer" and "this winter" and so it won't be long before resort areas in this region come alive on chill October weekends to the rasping of saws and echoes of hammers as shutters are pounded in place on cottage windows and doors. The cicada shrills only infrequent- ly, and in swamps and, reed patches the crows and blackbirds are gathering for their long haul south. The flashy cars with American license plates are all south-bound this week, crammed with boxes and suit- cases and somber-looking children. Iced tea isn't at the top of the menus these days and the businessman's lunch starts off with soup. Bathing suits and summer clothes and fishing equipment are on sale at most of the stores and the coal, fuel oil and fire wood dealers are taking stock and rubbing their palms together. Garages are - placing orders with their head offices for snow tires, wind- shield defrosting solvent and automob- ile chains. Hunters are oiling their guns and stocking up on ammunition. This is the time to do all those things you planned to do "this sum- mer." There are only a few days left to get them all done. Soon it will be time, to decide what to buy Aunt Mabel for Christmas, and to spend a few dol- lars on anti-freeze and to move the gin to the back of the bar and move the brandy forward. Because it is the death of another summer. Just A Little Common Sense FIVE CHILDREN have suffocat- ed and a sixth narrowly escaped death during the past month inside unused refrigerators. Two of the dead children were Canadians, and three were Americans, These accidents could have been prevented with a little common sense and clear thinking, Anyone with an unused icebox, refrigerator or other airtight chest should make sure it will not kill a child through suffocation by removing the door. This is a sure and simple method for preventing further tragic deaths of this type. Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated 924 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Est. 1865 Published every Thursday at the Est. 1881 0 1 * de, Hbart of Hufon County Clinton, Onttillo ,—. POpulation 3,369 • • AB 4 DAVID E. SCOTT, Editor : C. g* A. L. COLQUHOtJN, Publisher go • 4 % Signod cootrIbutleint Is fhb poblIcatlee, are The C U L fit ' opinions of Moe *Ohms only, and do not necessarily entiens ibe views 4rf this newspaper. Asstheritrod as second class mall, Post Office bepartment Ottawa,- and for payment of postage In cash SUISCRIPTION RATIN: Payable in advance — Canada and Groat *Nem $4.00 a year; United Stites and Foreign: Silk Slagle Copies Tea dents CCNR 11 A ilia Meadow • • . . . Near Bayfield (News-Record Photo) SUGARand' SPICE (By W. 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McKnight of the London Road has .something of a curiosity on his farm tin the , shape of .a cow with healthy . triplet calves. The annual conference of the Huron 1?ro$1:pyterit4 Wom- en's Missionary Society was held in •CaVext :Church, Ex,eiter, on Tuesday, :September • 0, A meeting of the Huy on County Fruit Growers' Coun- cil was held in the Department of Agriculture office on Wed- aesday, September 3, • The flowerbed on the Post Office square and that in front of Counter's Jewellery Store are ablaze with color just now and a delight to the eyes, In this year of plenty, when the barns .are filled to over- flowing, there is one crop which ins not up to the mark. That is honey. 25 -Years Ago September 14, 1939 Members of Zone 10 of the Canadian Legion gathered in force in Exeter on Sunday for special services. The Dramatic Society of St, Patil's Church have been in- vited to present th:eir play, "Simple Simon Simple" at Myth on Saturday night. A mass patriotic meeting will be held here Saturday • night When 'the most vital topic of 'the day "Canada's Position in the war" will be explained by special speakers engaged for 'this occasion. Huron County Constable William Gardiner of Holmes- ville, will take up duties in the northern section of the county within a week. No flower show w.111 be held Brucefield this year, the directors of the Horticultural Society 'cledded at a recent meeting,- InStead the members will endeavour to organize a bee to improve -the grounds at the Brucefield cemetery in St- anley Township. Hensall Car. Crash Causes $500 Damage HENSALL — Damage tot- alled $500 but no injuries were reported following a two-car crash Friday at 'the intersect- ion of Elizabeth and King St- reets here. Police Chief E. R. D:avis said cars driven by Gary Law- rence, of Hensall and Ward Knox, of Clinton, were involv- ed. The station wagon. driven by Mr. Lawrence was owned by Al's Supersave Market, Hensall. September 1949 OrganUattion meeting for inton Old .Home Week 1950. was held in the Council Chain-, ben_ Town Hall, Thursday ening- last, with ..mare than .60 shareholders in attendance, Tuckersinith TownshiP cll met in the Town flail, Sea- forth, on Saturday evening, Septernber B. All members were present and Reeve Arthur Nicholson presided, Members of Stanley Township Connell' and Ross Scott, representing Brucefield Fire Department, attended the meeting with a view to discussing ways and means of increasing •the fire fighting capacity of Brucefield. Fire Department. Clinton Colts went One up in their Huron-Perth Baseball League finals ,with Hensall, whipping the visitors 16-9 in Community Park, Clinton, on Monday afternoon before the largest crowd of the season. . The time has been extended for the ratepayers of Goderich Township 'to procure their dog tags, until September 10, and after that date anyone found violating, will be prosecuted according to law. Record enrollments for the academic year, which com- menced Tuesday morning are reported by Clinton District Collegiate Institute and Clin- ton Public School. (CDCI re- ported an attendance of 249; the public school reported 376 students.) 10 Years Ago - September 9, .1954 A petition from 29 citizens of Clinton on Tuesday night requested the Town Council to pass a by-law prohibiting the keeping of chickens, livestock, etc., within the town limits, Three Huron County "bottle clubs" were raided by provin- cial pollee Friday night, and seizures of beer were made in' each instance. The big church shed at Br- licelield is finally being brought down. One of the few of its kind still an existence, late last week, work was begun on the corrugated steel roof, and yesterday the remaining ex- panse of metal was removed: Enrolment at the Clinton Public School yesterday w a s 497, and principal George H. Jefferson predicts over 500 pupils by the end of the week, "Huron County beans are as good as any in the world", was the statement of president Doug McKelvie at the annual Bean Festival held in Hensall on Labour Day. • HOUSEHOLD MIMIC 443bEintki 35A West Street—telephone 5244383 (a114:W* 16i Sigruil Starr) Summer: Who Needs It Waning summer ,;c sad time, in a. way. The halcyon days are nearing an end. The sun has lost its burning, bak-, ing strength. The nights come sooner, and cooler. Young lovers who have had a summer affair` part with a last embrace, desperate prom- ises 'to write, and a great heart wrenching, a feeling that some- thing is going to be lost, irretrievable. And they're right. There is a slightly forlorn lonely air about th:e beaches and the resorts and the sum- mer places. They have acquir- ed a certain air of shabbiness that goes with the end of sum- mer. Canadians fall asleep every year, in June. Lulled by the whispered, scented promises of that lush and lovely month, they dream of dazzling- beach- es, pine-scented woods, fun and sun, health and happiness. Middleton VIA Regular Meeting Held Wednesday The Women's Auxiliary of St. James' Church, Middleton, resumed their regular schedule of meetings with the September meeting in the church Sunday School room last Wednesday evening. The president, Mrs. Ray Wise, opened the meeting with a seasonal poem. The Scripture and minutes were read by Mrs. John Grigg. Regular prayers were saki in unison and the roll call word was "light." There were 12 members, one visitor and the rector present, Mrs. Jolm Storey, the prayer partner secretary, reported she had received Word from Miss F, Hawkins that Mrs. Yoshiki Nonaki, 'the prayer partner, is visiting in Ontario and observ- ing, kindergarten proeedure in Various centres. A card Was sent ito Miss Nonaki from the St. james Branch of the WA, welcoming her to' Canada. It Was dedided to send thank you cards. to those who kindly sent donations to the baking sale. A card of 'thanks vvaS calved from the Dutet It was decided to sell Christ- maS cards again this year and Mrs, Edward Wise. Will be in charge of this Drojeot The programme consisted of two lively Seottish dance num- bers contributed by Miss Joan Mrs, Den Yfidclieton Conduct- ed a kitchen contest and sev- ere.' tied 'for first , place. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, October 7 in, the church base- ment. Mrs, Viola VanEgmond Will be' guest speaker and Will demonstrate the crafts taught at the Ontario Hospital, Gotle- rich, where she is a Meniber of the Staff of occupational apy. The rector, the flair.- Harrisen bloSed the meeting with tower', And then the dream turns into the reality. The sizzling irritation of 'the -July heat wave, • when they have decided, for a change, to take their holidays in August this year. And the cold, we't blanket of August, which turns camping trips into shivering family feuds, cottages into miniature. mental institutions, and resort owners into wild-eyed neuro- tics. But don't let this end-of- summer sadness bother you. It is phoney. Canadians are not really sad as summer ends. At least, they're no more sad than I am, when I dream I'm flying to Hongkong with Eliza- beth Taylor, and I've just drif- ted off with her head on my shoulder, and she shakes me gently and leers into my eyes and says, "I think I WILL have a double brandy", and I suddenly wake up and the Old Battleaxe is shaking my shad- der, the one with the bursitis in it, and mumbling, "Gemme a •drinka wodder," Summer in 'this country is an 'absolute fantasy, some- thing in which no sensible Canadian would put any more faith than he would in his Ir- ish Sweepstake ticket, or his old Aunt Ethel who has chang- ed 'her will six time's. Summer in this country is a fraud, at illusion. Every time I lie out in the backyard, on the green grass, with the green trees enclosing a circle of blue skv above me, I shake myself arid pinch myself, until I know it's a dream, and that if I tried the same 'thing four Dear Sir: / am a ratepayer who thinks several changes should bemade real soon around our town which will save the taxpayers money. , I saw in,your paper that the town officials are running the town, Well, each one.has a job to do if he will look after it. I am not trying to be smart, blit I don't miss very Much. The reason I write letters to your"newspaper is because TOw Council has a habit of filing my letters and sometimes it has cost 'them money to do that. For one thing, the take-away pipe on 'the Town Hall roof has been Off for months. What is the sense of having such a pipe if it is not working, properly? And the drinking fOuntain in the teem square is not connect- ed at the .base so you have to be careful when you aro having a drink for fear it will fall over. The water pressure also is so strong water Will Coble up and squirt yoU hi the face if you're not careful. I have noticed some Catch basins &Mind town have boon covered over with earth, It IS not sense to have eatch months later, I'd be buried under three feet of snow. That's why I feel no real sadness as summer draws 'to a close. The Canadian summer is about as real as Gilbert and Sullivan. In fact, I am elated at the thought that another It w o months of muddling a r o un. d with visiting relatives, irration- al golf balls, reluctant fish and lippy kids is at an end, As any true, red - blooded Canadian knows, fall is 'the time when we begin to live again. We love It. We come alive. We stop dreaming. We look at our kids with clear eyes, after the opium- dream of summer, and find they've grown four inches. We look at our Stomachs, after two months of barbecued chic- ken, french fries and dairy queens, and find they've grown two inches. We look with loving eyes at our schools and realize with some joy 'that it's only a few days until we can take advan- tage of our position as tax- payers, and get rid of the kids for the best part of each week. We look at our country and see it with new eyes, It's beautiful. Not a tourist in sight. We look at our soft, soppy, silly, summer selves, and real- ize that this, 18 not what life is all about. And we give a dim silent Canadian cheer for the fact that it's all over once again, and we can get back to the serious things of life. Like having a 'baby, Or running for the school board. basins if water can't get into them to be carried away. I guess the town is too busy to take care of them, though, Some attempt has been made to cut down 'the weeds but the job is such a mess you'd 'think a cat had been pulled through there by his tail. Where are the men to cat around the trees and ditches and side, Walks? Reeve Agnew says he and his men can't be everywhere at ante, but council used to hire extra men for town work when they 'got behind and that's all the time these days! It's a poor eXctisel You hear them say there will be big changes if they are elected to Council — but they are in council new and see how they are doing. It's true you can't please everybody but if a person speaks to some councillors about these 'things he is treated as if he was a Stranger looking Or a shave at .the town'S ex- ponse. outs sincerely, VETOM.A.s• IZPPiNGTON, :171 Spencer Street, Clinton, Ontario, Letter to the Editor .