Clinton News-Record, 1969-01-16, Page 2Qliinton News -Record, Thursday, January 16,• 4969
Friends in n•
A newspaper writer in .London told
recently of a Young woman who suffered
a seizure and collapsed in the centre of
the sidewalk on a busy street. Shoppers
passed by uncaring.
in such a time it is heartening to come
across stories of involvement, to realize
how many people reJect the apathy which
allowed '3$ persons to ignore the screams
Qf a New York City woman being stabbed
to death,
And we are happy to. note that Huron
QQurity seems tq have a fair share of Good
Samaritans, judging from the stories of
motrists who helped One another in this
month's snowstorms.
We were on the receiving end of such' .
help on the highway not long ago and can
appreciate its value. But we think the best
story so far is one which comes from Bill
Haysom, Bell Canada's manager for this
district.
(Vlr. Haysom was a guest at CFB
Clinton for the base commander's levee
on New Year's Day. He set out on the
drive to Goderich via Highway 8, but soon
found himself in •a line of cars which
struggled as far as Taylor's Corner, then
yielded to the elements and came to a
halt.
Visibility was nil and snow was
accumulating quickly on the roadway.
After a few motionless moments, a couple
climbed out of one of the cars, bundled
up in warm clothes and took to the trail
on foot.
The pair trekked down the centreline
the several miles to Goderich, leading a
dozen or more cars in a manner which we,
are told is occasionally seen when heavy
fog is encountered in England.
Braving the brisk winds and blowing
snow, the two often had to shepherd the
cars one by one over and through large
drifts.
But when the convoy was approaching
town, the two volunteer guides
disappeared and none of the grateful
drivers know whom they have to thank
for the "rescue."
We worked once in a community
which called itself "The Friendly Village."
It often deserved 'the name, but we can
see now that it had no monopoly.
oyal choice...
We can, if we ,wish; or,.if .we;; just let
things slide, ;grossly over' ,,populate,: the
earth.
We can, if we so wish, pollute the land
and the water and the air.
We can, if .we so wish, exterminate
any or all'animals which might get in the
way of our farms or our cities.
We can, if we yvish, convert all the
jungles and the deserts and the swamps
and the mountains into some form of
usefully productive land. I dare say we
could grow strawberries on the top of
Mount Everest if vve really tried.
We can, if we so wish, cover the whole
landscape with concrete to give all the
motor cars a chance to drive about at the
same time.
If we can do all these things, surely we
can decide what sort of habitat we would
like to live in first, and then make ,plans
and arrangements to achieve it. I don't
aspire to speak for anyone else, but 1
know what sort of habitat I would like to
see. First i would like to see a stabilized
world population so that we need make
no further demands on land resources. I
would like to see farming techniques in all
countries developed in sympathy with the
needs of wild population, but to the point
where no one need go hungry. I would
like to see all land users show reasonable
concern for the consequences of their
plans so that mankind's needs for food
and power and water, highways and cities
can be met without unnecessary or
avoidable destruction or dislocation of
wild populations and the balance between
them. We have the power to do all these
things now, but we cannot do them until
more people come to understand what is
happening to the world's wildlife and
come to see the vision of what the world
could be like and until there exists a
general will and determination to get it.
This, in my opinion at least, is where
conservation societies can play such a vital
part. H R.H. The -Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh
to the Canadian Audubon Society,
AMOK"
Bayfield Harbor seen from Pioneer Park
Photo by Bedchamber
MRS. J. W. NEVIOOMBE
Mrs. John W, (Elizabeth)
Newcombe, mother of Clinton
pharmacist Walter Newcombe,
died January 7 at Clinton Public
Hospital after a short illness. She
was ' 84 years old and lived at
Huronview.
Mrs. Newcombe was born in
Auburn on February 28, 1884,
daughter of the late William and
Betsy (Straughn) Cowan. She
was married .on September 1,
1910, in Goderich and had lived
all her life in Goderich when she
and her husband moved to
•Huronview in 1965.
A member of Knox
Presbyterian Church, she was
also a charter member of the
Order of Eastem Star and a
member of Rebekah Lodge
which she formerly served as
grand noble. She had taken the
degree of Chivalry in the
Rebekah Lodge.
ip, AI, Besides . her a ,husband ;at
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sons, Reg and Bill, both 'of
London; four grandchildren and
two great grandchildren.
A funeral service was held
from Lodge Funeral Home in
Goderich last Friday with the
Reverend G. L. Royal from
Knox Church officiating,
assisted by the Reverend R. U.
MacLean of St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church in Clinton.
Pallbearers were John
Newcombe, Jim Howson, Ted
Bissett, K. F. Wilkinson, Harold
Hibbertand Orville Stanley:
HUGH W. LADD;
Hugh W. Ladd, 61, died
Tuesday morning at Clinton
Public.. Hospital after a
four-month illness.
A native of Clinton, he was
born October 8, 1907, a son of
William and Nellie Ladd,
attended Clinton Public School
and lived here all his life.
Mr. Ladd is survived by his
wife, the former Reta M. Elliott,
'of the home address, 209
Victoria St.; four sons,Jack of
Stratford, Donald of Exeter,
Paul of Goderich and Frank of
Clinton; five daughters, Mrs.
Joan Cantelon and Mrs. Ivan
(Margaret) Pickett, both of
Clinton, Mrs. Ken (Kathryn)
Harris and Mrs. Jack (Mary)
Dietrick, both of Holmesville,
and Mrs. James (Barbara)
Howard of London; and two
sisters, Mrs. Bob (Kate) Reid of
Hannon, Ontario and Mrs, Bruce
(Helen) Sivers of Lambeth.
Funeral services were held at
Ball Funeral Home, Clinton, last
Thursday afternoon with the
Reverend J. S. Sharpies
officiating. Interment was at
Clinton Cemetery.
Pallbearers included Mk.
Ladd's four sons, along with two
of his sons-in-law, Mr. Harris and
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BARBARA RATHWELL
Funeral services were • held
January 8 for Miss Barbara Ann
Rathwell of RR 1 Brucefield,
who died January 5 at Clinton
Public Hospital where she had
been a patient for three weeks.
She was 21 years old.
The Reverend Donald Stuart
of Brucefield conducted the
service at Bali Funeral Home.
Interment was at Bayfield
Cemetery.
Miss Rathweil was born April
4, 1947, in Clinton, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D'Arcy
Rathwell.
Besides her parents, she is
survived ��'by two sisters, Mrs.
Flo Jean Turn of* Stanley
yd .( ) eriq,� „ S nay
Township and ••Mrs: -Robert
(Patsy) Norman of Holmesville,
and four brothers, Gerald of
Stanley Township, William of
London and Bruce and Donald
of the home address.:
Pallbearers at the funeral
included her brothers, with
Robert Norman and Paul Cundy.
Flower bearers were Robert
Cundy, Steven Tyndall, Steven
Rathwell and Gordon Caldwell.
Miss Rathwell was a
granddaughter of Roy Tyndall
of Clinton,
LINDSAY W. EYRE
Funeral services were held
on January 7, for Lindsay W.
Eyre, 66, of Brucefield, who
died suddenly on Saturday,.
January 4.
The service was held at the
Bonthron Funeral Home,
Hensall, with the Reverend E. D.
Stuart officiating. Interment was
in Bayfield Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Cal Horton,
Jack Taylor, Aldie Mustard, J.
K. Cornish, John Broadfoot and
Harold Lobb.
An I.O.O.F. service was held
at the funeral home Sunday
evening.
Mr. Eyre was born in
Tuckersmith Township, the son
of the late George and Elizabeth
(Wren) Eyre and moved to
Brucefield 39 years ago.
He was a member of
Brucefield United Church, of the
I.O.O.F. Lodge, Brucefield and
Amber Rebekah Lodge Hensall.
Besides his wife, the former
Anna Pearl Douglas, he is
survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Arnold (Nora) Keys, RR 1
Varna and Mrs. David (Verna)
Reid, Clinton; one brother,
Campbell Eyre, Seaforth; one:
sister, Mrs. William (Annie) Cole,
Hensall and eight grandehitdren.
PEARL ANDERSON
Funeral services were held
January 7 in Hensall for Pearl A.
Andersson of Varna who died at
Hurorlview December 29 at the
age of. 70.
The services were held at
Bonthron Funeral Home, with
the Rev. Murdoeh Morrison of
Varna officiating. Interment was
in Baird's Cerrietery, Stanley
Tawnshtp.
Pallbearers were Jim
McAlIisLer, 11,R 1 I'ur eh; Ralph
Turner, lfen.all; David 'Turner
and William 'Turner, both of 1111
1, Varna; Edgar Willem t I Fait. 1
Zurich, and Gerald Rathwell of
RR 1, Brucefield.
Survivors include a sister,
Mrs. Eimer (Helen) Turner of
Varna.
MRS. MARY E. WATSON
Mrs. John G. Watson, of
Goderich, died at the. Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital on
December 31, following a short
illness. She was 55.
Mrs. Watson was born Mary
E. Stirling in Goderich
Township, on October 20, 1913,
a daughter of D. A. (Sandy) and
the late Pearl Stirling.
. Mrs. Watson was a graduate
of St. Mary's School of Nursing,
Stratford, in 1935 and was a
member of North Street United
Church.
• She was predeceased by her
mother and a sister, Miss
Florence Stirling. Surviving are
her ' husband, John G. Watson,
step -children Mrs.- Frederick
u,giarbara), SchuGh„r, Etobicoke;
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Letters
Who remembers
'ale Banks?
Dear Sir:
In the early 1$80's a Capt,
Neiiie Banks of the Salvation.
Army was posted to Clinton to
commence her work in Canada
after having been sent out from
England.
Her name is linked with the
history of a very interesting
two -masted Atlantic schooner
but whether this link is .a .true
one has been the object of a
Fruitless search on the part of
mY wife and me for three years.
It is just possible that
someone in Clinton possesses a
keepsake or momenta which was
given by Capt, Banks when she
• left Clinton to come down to
the Canadian Maritimes.
If any of your older .readers
have such a momenta or
remember anything about her
particularly, whetter she had a
second Christian name, I would
be most interested to hear from
them.
G. E, Robinson, M. B.
Montague,
Prince Edward Island
January 8
father, D. A. Stirling, Goderich;
a sister, Mrs. Ralph (Margaret)
Jewell, Goderich; and a brother,
William Stirling, Goderich.
The funeral service was held
at Lodge Funeral Home at 2
p,m. on Thursday, January 2.
The Reverend J. Donald
MacDonald officiated assisted by
The Reverend W. J. Maines.
Interment followed in the
Clinton Cemetery, •Pallbearers
were: Watson Sheardown,
Stewart Watson, Gerry Ginn,
Ben Whitely, William Jewell, and
Bruce Sowerby.
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Minor hockey week
Minor Hockey Week starts
next Friday. It's a big week in
the lives of a quarter of a million
young Canadians playing
Canada's National Sport. Don't
send;- TAKE y,Qur boy to the
;arena ,-..and stay; to, see him
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SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill Smiley
A New Year's Eve party
Hope you got through the
trying holiday season as well
as we did. All you 'flu victims
have my sympathy. I tottered
about for ten days, a tot here
and a tot there, not quite des-
perately i11 enough to stay in
bed, and therefore getting little
sympathy.
Kim spent the festive season
going. to' bed at 2 a.m. and
getting up at 2 p.m. Mostly
because of a new boy friend,
who is • out on bail. That's
right; he's out on bail.
My wife did her best to set
fire to the house, one Sunday
night when I was at church.
For years, I've been telling her
to burn junk in the fire -place:
paper and wrappings and box-
es and such.
She finally caught on, So did
the evergreens with which she
annually decks the mantel,
when she threw into the fire a
cardboard box about two feet
by four.
She stood there, paralyzed,
watching the joint go up in
flames. The only muscle work-
ing was her tongue. When that
stops working, she'll be ready
for the cold, cold ground. She
screamed: "Kim! Kim!”
And Kim responded nobly to
the ..crisis. Upstairs, she came
down' like a bomb, seized a
basin of water from the kitch-
en sink, and hurled it With
unerring aim all over the fire,
her mother, the rug, and the
hi-fi, Did the trick, though,
Speaking of Kim and fires,
she had a New Year's Eve par-
ty which caused more turmoil
than the Battle of the Boyne
did in Ireland,
It wasn't that she demanded
a big spread or a hired orches-
tra or anything like that. She
had only one requests that We
get out before the guests ar-
rived and stay but until they
were gone.
The normal respohSe of a
father to such a Stipulation is
to smack his hand on the table
and roar, "O.K, No parents, no
Party!" Which he did, about
eight times.
Finally, by some circtlitotrs
route known only to families,
We arrived at a compromise of
sorts, There would be no
drinking, Undesirables woridd
be :severely policed by Kim
and tWo of her largest girl
friends, and two boys who
would be personally responsi-
ble to me, by George, or else.
There would be no gate-
crashers. See policing, above
(Gate-crashing is a norm at a
party in a small town, where
everybody in the teen world
knows everybody else and af-
ter all, what do you say, Dad,
when somebody arrives at the
door with a big, silly grin 'on
his big, silly face and asks,
"Can I come to your party,
Kim?")
It was resolved that the food
would consist of potato chips
and pop. "How can you be so
square, Mom, kids don't eat at
parties?" Later, Kim gracious-
ly allowed her mother to make
about 480 sandwiches.
It was agreed, after a motion
by me that went something
like, "If you think I'm going to
walk the streets in a blizzard
on New Year's Eve just be-
cause a stubborn brat like you
doesn't want her parents
around just because she's hav-
ing a party for a gang of de-
generate teenagers, then
you've got another think com-
ing, young lady!", that the party
would end at 1.30,
It's a • long story, but she
finally kicked us into the snow-
drifts at 9 p,rn. It was too
early to go anywhere. We
drove around the block a few
times, my wife peering desper-
ately toward the house en each
circuit.
We dropped in on sick
friends, to get warm, or sick,
and guess who ran straight to
the phone and called home.
The response was chilly: "Yes,
Mother, No. Nobody's drunk.
Will you please stop bugging
me, there's somebody at the
door?"
The old lady called fotir
Mere times from as many dif-
ferent places. Responses greW
even chillier. We arrived honte
at 3 am., ready to face the
debacie: a wasteland of broken
dishes and trampled grapes.
And sitting there with her
out -on -hail friend, listening to
records, was the Cheshire cat
herself, The house was clean aS
a funeral parlor. They'd been
working like dogs for an hour.
No burns, no broken dishes,.
no scratches on the grand
piano. Nothing. including the
430 sandwiches, about 12
potnds Of fruit, and all the
bread and nuts in the liotlse.
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Attend Your Church
This Sunday
OI`NTARiO STREET UNITED CHURCH
"THE FRIENDLY CHURCH"
Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th
,: 9:45r a.m,->�Ssunday, School.,1 Icy : 1i
..,t ;i.:Jr. ,<:Ui rr 3rl non ) b
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship
EVERYONE WELCOME
Wesley -Willis --•• Holmesville United Churches
REV. A.J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D., Minister
MR. LORNE DOTTERER, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th
. WESLEY-WILLiS
9:45 a.m,;—Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. — Sermon Topic
MAN'S INSATIABLE HUNGER
HOLMESVILLE
1:00 p.m. — COMMUNION SERVICE.
1:45 p.m. Sunday School.
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th
10:00 a.m. ••-Morning Service -•- English.
2:30 p.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 PF;ESbYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th
9:45 a.m. — Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship.
Boys from Midget, Bantam, Pee Wee
hockey teams will worship with us.
Everyone Welcome
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and Squirt
MAPLE STREET GOSPEL HALL
Sunday, January 19th
9:45 a.m. — Worship Service.
11:00 a.m. -- Sunday School.
Tuesday, 8 p.m.
Prayer meeting and Bible Study
Speaker: James DAVIES, Simcoe
ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
The Rev. J. S. Sharples, M.A., Minister
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19th
Morning Service and
Sunday School — 10:00 a.m.
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Victoria Street
W. Werner, Pastor
Sunday, January 19th
0:45 a.ni: Sunday School.
11:00 a,m. Worship Service.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
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