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Clinton News-Record, 1968-11-28, Page 2Clinton'2 .. News-Record, Thursday, November 28, 1966 Editorial comment Vote on Monday • The men and women nominated for seats on the new Huron County Board of Education and the Huron-Perth Separate School Board are ready to assume the awesome responsibility for educating 17,000 young people in Huron County and overseeing multi -million dollar budgets which will make education the county's largest Lusiness. No. voter can ignore his personal obligation to participate in the selection of these school trustees — to make sure that his share of that huge responsibility is conveyed to the best men and women available. . Confusion is produced by the sheer size and novelty of the systems being created, The time for people to make themselves familiar with the details has been unfortunately short. But the most important thing for any individual to do is certainly the easiest — just go to your regular local polling place on Monday and cast a ballot. Advertising in this .newspaper may help you to evaluate the nominees. They Will be out and around in the next several days, anxious to find an open ear on any undecided voter. Voters in Hensall, Blyth, McKillop and those other' municipalities with the usual election of local government officials, have only to pick up the school ballots and make a choice. The anticipated large turnouts in these precincts makes it that much more important for voters in Clinton, Hullett and municipalities without local elections to 'be sure their voice is heard and not drowned out by their neighbours. Clinton provides 'a good example. It is in a district with Blyth, Hullett and McKillop — a district,which will elect two men to sit on the 14-member Huron County Board of Education which will 'run all public elementary and secondary schools in the county. 'There are two -nominees from .Clinton,. two from -McKillop.„ one each from Blyth and Hullett. Clinton voters, outnumber voters in any of the other municipalities in the district. Clinton is the site as well .of Central Huron ,Secondary School. Town Leaders believe at least, one of the two seats from the area should be filled by a Clinton: man, but it depends on Clinton voters turning ,out .in numbers larger than thdsp in McKillop where there is the added .attraction of council elections. T.here.should be no reason for a voter staying home. Nominees will provide transportation if it is requested. Municipal clerks are available to explain anything which .is not clear to a voter. Every municipality in the county will select trustees for the Huron County (public school) board. In addition, separate school supporters 'across Huron will elect one trustee to sit on the Huron County Board. Separate school supporters will also pick trustees to represent their local areas on the two-county Huron-Perth Separate School Board. All the elections take place on the same day — Monday, December. 2 and voting will be at the usual polling stations in each municipality. Where there is also an election for township officials, it too will take place at the same time. Hours for voting in the school elections will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. One editor last week said: "It is evident we are at the education crossroads where old routes must be forgotten and new avenues explored." "Voters should be looking for men and women of action, positive thinkers, determined workers who will stand alone, if necessary, when the going gets tough." One present local school board member said: "All we can,do is hope that the people realize the vast implications of this thing and get out to the polls." ' Yeti Canadensis A Canadian relation of the Tibetan ,abominable snowman has been located and positively identified, according to information released by the Canadian Ski Patrol System. The Tibetan 'abominable snowman, known as a "Yeti," was for many years thought to exist only in remote and snowy areas of the Himalayas. However the Canadian Ski Patrol System has long been aware of a persistent breed of mammal that leaves its 'sitzmarks' on practically every Canadian ski hill. The ski patrol, through a six year computerized study, has now identified this mammal and has found it to be a remote Canadian cousin of the Tibetan Yeti, the "Yeti Canadensis." Although the Yeti Canadensis resembles an Ordinary skier, it is ,easily identified on the ,sIsi slopes, b,y v pine' oaf more of the following characteristics: wears loose or floppy clothing that gets caught in ski tows; is alvVays out-of-condition; never takes a ski lesson; schusses the ski hills, colliding with skiers and trees; stops in the middle, of trials, blocking the path of other skiers; either eats too much or too little before skiing; and never takes a rest. Ski patrol research shows that, while Yetis form only a very small percentage of the ski population, they account for almost 100 percent of all ski accidents. Recognizing that Yetis are undesirable creatures, that must be exterminated, the Canadian Ski Patrol System has organized a campaign warning skiers to "Look out for Yetis." MEPOtm/6 etiSYfivaveg. 1,00.15.1.°4- Clinton News-Record Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 9,475 ER OE M ERIC A. McGUINNESS - Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN - General Manager Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance — Canada and Great Britain: $5.00 a year; United States and Foreign: $6.00, Single Copies: 12 Centt 10 sAFEl l 0 01 A106 0 $40 VIN6 WEEK PectiveR17 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Established 1865 Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1st 9:45 a.m.-Sunday School. 11:00 a.m: - Morning Worship. Business and. Professional Directory OPTOMETRY .4, E, LQNGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays, 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482.7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240_ R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 RONALD L. McDONALD CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 524-8263 INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTAT Phones: Office 482-9747 Res.. 402-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482,9693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE REAL ESTAT INVESTIVENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 H. C. Lawson, Res.: 482-978 J. T. Wise, Res.; , 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis - 68 Albert St. Clinton 482-9390 Attend Your Church This Sunday NOTE — ALL SERVICES ON STANDARD TIME ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T. EVERYONE WELCOME ".".."0".".".•".074-044.0".".-0%.9".."..01.0"0"..0%."" Wesley-Willis - Hoimesville United Churches s dliwREVT.AJA/101/VATT,;C:D., BA:•.-,13:D., D,D.; Minister U11.;.3t1 MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1st WESLEY-WILLIS 9:45 a.m,;--Sundiy School. 11:00 a.m. - Worship Service. Sermon: "HOW MUCH LS DEVOTION WORTH?" Saturday, Nov. 30th, 8:15 p.m. - "VARIETY NIGHT" featuring 3-act play HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. - Worship Service, 1:45 p.m. - "WHITE GIFT" Sunday School Service. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1st 10:00 a.m.-Morning Service -- English. 2:30 r m. — Afternoon Service - English. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" • EVERYONE WELCOME - ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1st The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director 9:45 a.m. - Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. - SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Eyeryone Welcome PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Victoria Street W. Werner, Pastor Sunday, December 1st 9:45 a.m.- Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. Worship Service. 7:30 p.m. Evening Service. MAPLE ST. GOSPEL HALL. Sunday, December 1st 9:45 a.m. - Worship Service. 11:00 a.m. - Sunday SchooL Speaker: John Aitken,. Shelburne 'Tuesday Prayer and Bible Study THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Offices - Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: * Town Dwellings * All Class of Farm Property * Summer cottages s * Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents; James keys, RR 1, Seaforth; V, J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wm. Leiner, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. Me ttILLOPMit-OW' FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley They do , remember' From .Our Early Files 55 .years: ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA November 27, 1913 Major H. T. Rance has been appointed' a justice of the peace and is now qualified to sit. on cases. He will take Police Magistrate Andrew's duties in his absence. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Leary of Mitchell were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Watson over Sunday. Mr. Leary, in speaking to the New Era said he was surprised at the good roads Clinton had. Everyone admires our Macadam Roads. Mr. H. B. Chant, Superintendent of the Clinton Electric Light, was in Toronto last week for four days, attending the Hydro Electric meeting. The rapid growth of the rural mail service is shown by the fact that during the past three months no less than 197 post offices were closed through the estaL.ishment of new routes. 105 post offices were closed in Ontario. 40 years ago. THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD November 29, 1928 Mrs. D. B. Kennedy has, returned from Blyth where she spent a fortnight with:her sister Mrs. Watson. 7 On Thursday last Messrs. Recently I wrote a column about Remembrance Day. It may have had a touch of bitter- ness in it. But so many things have come up since then that thought you might he interest- ed. ' First of all, a light note. A lady in Ontario remembers something from away back there. "During the First World War, my husband came home on furlow from Belgium. Al- though his pass said he was clean and free from lice, while we were riding on the under- ground in London, I watched the lice crawling up and down on his coat collar. So I had to scorch all the seams of his clothes as soon as I got him home, and shave all his hair off him everywhere to get rid of them." Next, at our school we had the usual Remembrance Day service. But it wasn't the usual one. This year, we let the stn• dents plan it. They threw out the draggy old hymns and a lot of other things. Instead, against a back- ground of old songs from both world wars, a student read a commentary he had written himself. It began with, "In Flanders fields, the poppies blow . . ." It was simple, and moving and honest. Then everybody sang that haunting folk song, "Where have all the flowers gone?" They went to young girls, and the young girls went to soldiers and the soldiers went to graveyards and the graveyards went to flowers. Then the Roll of Honor from our school. Sothe of the older teachers can't take this, They went to sehool with the boys on the list. Last Post, silence, Over. The students were Silent and solemn and involved. Afterwards, in the class• rooms,' we discussed the 'serv- ice and the clay, I'd' brought along some photos and souven- irs. They were fascinated. Af- ter an incredulous look at the cocky young black-haired fight- er pilot, and then one at the harassed, gray-haired teacher, they pelted me with questions, Then came that magnificent CBC documentary on World War I, with. Raymond Massey‘ Harold Stinson: and William McDool of Bayfield returned from a hunting trip to Muskoka. Each bringing home a deer,. Miss. Jean Ford has returned to London after a fortnight's visit at her home in town. Mrs. O. L. Paisley was in. Toronto a few days last week and attended the Winter Fah, Mr, J. (.1, Sloman has gone on' a visit to his son Fred Slonian, teacher of the C.N.R. Car School, up north. 25 years ago THE. CLINTON NRws,R,ECORD November 25, 1943 Gnr. Harold Fremlin, who has been with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Newfoundland, for the past year, has returned to Canada, and is a visitor at his home in town. Mrs. Adam Boyd returned to her home in Gravenhurst on Friday after having spent a couple of days with her sister, Mrs. John E. Howard, Bayfield. Mrs. Mervyn Batkin spent the weekend visiting relatives in Toronto. Miss Cecilia Denomme of Biantford spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Denomme. Misses Jean Cameron and Helen Lavis Reg. Nurses from St. Thomas, are visitors at their respective homes in town. 15 years ago THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD November 26, 1953 Mr. and Mrs. William Chowen, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stanley visited relatives in Detroit over the weekend. Mrs. Thomas Darling and two children, Murray and Heather, have returned from spending the past four months visiting relatives in Great Britain. Mr. Darling motored to New York on Tuesday to meet them. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cuninghame and Miss Florence Cuninghame were the weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cuninghame, Owen Sound, who combined birthday and pre-Christmas festivities poor to Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon cuninghame leaving to'spend the winter in British Columbia. " old soldier, wounded on those fields, narrating. It was spell- binding and horrible. I kept hooking for one of my five uncles who were there, driving mules, dragging through mtici. Finally, came the folllowing letter. Because it's personal, no names, no address. "Dear Mr. Smiley: I have just read your article entitled 'I Shall Never Forget', and . . . I must write to you. "I am 33 years old.and I do not consider Remembrance day 'a drag, a sentimental journey for old and middle- aged squares.' My father fought through many of the worst battles in World War I. He was a machine-gunner. He never talked about his experi• ences, except for once, when he told me of a little village that he had seen far below him in a valley in France . . . He said only that he wished he could have died and been bur- ied there, He never said any- thing ,about the War, but he dr'a'Lnlicie was hell for him and for all of us, Mamma said he was terribly changed when he came home from overseas. He died When he was 61, and he military funeral and he was as much a casualty of the War as if he'd died at Verdun. He just took longer to die. "I was 18 when he died and up until I was 16, 1 almost hated him for the drinking and the trouble. But I began to understand him and by the time he died, we knew and liked each other, "Since then , I've learned more about the War, and I've made certain that my children know about it too. So, on Re- membrance Day ; we go to 'the parade, and pray at the Ceno- taph with the veterans, and the kids know that it is not just for a Grandpa they never knew, but for all the people who fought and suffered in all wars , , And even the young. est boy, four, understands a little bit of it all. "It will be a long time be. fore everyone fogets. Thank you so much for a very touch- ing article." Thank you, for a very mov iiig tribute. 10 years _ago. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD NoVember 27,1958 Mr, and Mrs,. Jack 13, Fotheringhani -and. Mr,. and Mrs, Naylor, Hamilton, spent the past weekend with Mrs, Fotheringham's mother, Mrs. 0. 'Venner land other friends around Clinton, Mr, and Mrs. Ron McDonald, Jimmie and Lynda, spent the weekend in Georgetown. Mrs. George Reid whb has been visiting her 'brother, H. A. Stinson, Bayfield, for the past three months, left on Tuesday for her home in Flaxeombe, Saskatchewan. Mrs. Priscilla Elliott was a recent visitor with friends and relatives at Goderich and Porter's Hill, OBITUARIES MRS. MORTON COR LESS Funeral services were held November 19 for Mrs. Morton 'r. Corless, a resident of Clinton for 48 years who died November 17 at Huronview Home where she resided. She was 86 years old and her health had been failing for several years. , Mrs. Corless, the former Permilia Colquhoun, was born DeCember 11, 1881 in the Mitchell area, a daughter of the late James and Margaret Colquhoun. She and her husband lived in northern Ontario for 12 years following their marriage in 1908: They moved to Clinton in 1920 and remained here since. Mr. Corless, who' resides at Huronview, is a , former town cleric-treasurer. Mrs. Corless was a member of Wesley Willis United Church, was an active member of the church choir for 12 years and an enthusiasi'e member of the W omen's Association and Women's Missionary Society. Besides her husband, Mrs. Corless is survived by a son, Benson, ictf Canpbellford, Ontario; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Dorothy) Breakey, Zurich; a sister, Mrs. Arnold (Laureen) Hill of Toronto and three grandchildren. Another son, Alvin, was killed in military • e 3 The services last ,week were Beattie Funeral Home, ^linton, with the Reverend A. J. Mowatt of Wesley Willis Church officiating. Burial was in Clinton Cemetery. Pallbearers were H. E. Hartley, Douglas Thorndike, Charles Nelson, H. Kingswell, Wilfred Jervis and Milford Durst. Flower bearers were John Corless and Richard Breakey. -MRS. WILLIAM LASKER Funeral services were held last Saturday in Stratford for Mrs. William .R. Lasker, the former Flassie Gibbings, sister of two local men. She was 67 years old and died at; Stratford General Hospital a week ago after a short illness. Her husband died 13 years ago. The brothers in this area are Warren of Clinton and Percy of Hullett Township. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. David (Evelyn), Petrie of Brantford, three grandsons and a sister, Mrs. Leslie Lasker. Pallbearers at the Saturday service were Glen McKnight, Dick Lasker, Ed Dalmage, Douglas Bell and Bob Gibbings. Burial was in Avondale Cemetery. MRS. IRENE MacKENZIE Mrs. Irene 'MacKenzie, 76, a native of Hullett Township, died suddenly in Victoria Hospital, London, on November 20. The former Irene Elizabeth Carter, she was a daughter of the late William and Elizabeth (Connell) Carter 'and was married in 1932 to Donald R. MacKenzie of Lucknow who died five years ago. She lived near Lochalsh for 36 years and moved to LuCknow only a month before her death. She was an active worker in the North Ashfield Presbyeterian Church and was treasurer of the Maitland Presbytery for 11 years. She is survived by one brother, George W. Carter of Londesboro. Funeral services were conducted last Saturday at the MacKenzie Memorial Chapel in Lucknow, with the Reverend Ken Rooney officiating. Temporary entombment was at South Kinloss Mauso' um: Interment will. follow at Loehdale Cemetery, Pallbearers were Gordon Finlayson, Duncan Fairish, t'wan macLean, Walter Dexter, Bill Ross and Oliver MacCharles. Flower bearers were Wildon Robeitson, Thomas Inglis, Earl Howes and Finlay MacDonald. 75 years ago . THE CLINTON NEW ERA November 24, 1893 Mr. W. Doherty is, sPending a few days in New fork combining business With pleasure. Mr. George Theobalel, of Brigden, instead of moving to London at the end of the year as :',Announced, will move to Clinton and take a term at the Collegiate. Mr. W. Foster, of Orangeville, has not yet moved into the house owned by him on Albert Street but will do so in a day or two. There was fair sleighing at Stratford on Friday, while there Was not even snow here.