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Clinton News-Record, 1969-02-13, Page 2"-Klinton NOM -Record, Thu.rsdaY, February 13, 19$ r M Morn! comment Need cooperation As the air over Canadian citie$ laecomas dirtier and the watersof our Fake$ and rivers murkier, it becomes .ever easier to discern the dangers of air and water pollution ,- dangers not Only to the urban centres, but to the .entire nation and its people, The Canadian Institute on Pollution Control met recently in Hamilton and heard an ,industrial utilities expert warn that pollution is a threat to the orderly function • of our society and to the economy of the country., In many pities of the U.S. and Canada, said A. C, Elliott, of the Steel Company of Canada, "democratic social structures are directly or -indirectly threatened by a number of serious problems — unemployment, inadequate .education, poverty, overcrowded slums, crime, civil unrest and ,.. environmental pollution." Industry is often blamed as the real villain, solely to blame for our present predicament. But Elliott noted that a survey in the U.S. showed that out of 140 Million tons of air pollutants poured into the atmosphere annually from all sources, only 25 percent comes from industrial sources. An additional 25 percent comes from household chirrineys, apartment complexes and commercial buildings. The same conference was told that antiquated garbage collection and disposal methods are endangering public health. , Garbage disposal methods have changed little in the last 2,000 years and mankind is threatened by an avalanche of solid waste. The Canadian Chamber of .Commerce headlined a recent newsletter. "Pollution -- A Problem for all Canada." Pollution is a national problem, it says. In a few generations, Canada's national heritage of rich soil, clear skies, crystal lakes and inviting rivers has come under threat of deteriorating into a vast sewage system. • The problem is, of course, a complex one. It will not be solved easily or quickly,, nor will it be solved without the ;expenditu.reof vast sumsof money;.. 1Nevertheless; 'public pressure is' mounting and governments are showing more concern about their responsibilities. in facing up to the issues of pollution. Pollution destroys things of � value, depletes our resources, despoils our landscape and threatens our whole environment to such a degree that eventually the good life may perish. Local governments in Huron County fear the prospect of regional government. But pollution and waste disposal are regional . problems. The Ontario government will have to solve them on a regional basis 'unless municipalities work together. to find the answers. Both Clinton and Goderich have open dumps, primitive piles of rotting garbage, and both must find better ways and places to dispose of their refuse * Goderich will soon be forced to stop polluting the Maitland River and Clinton's town dump is good for only another year or so. Friendly rivalry and competition for industry or business have their places, but petty bickering and parochial outlooks will only accelerate the move toward regional government and the dissolution of existing municipalities. Goderich Township . lies between the Towns of Clinton and Goderich. With the Town of Goderich looking to the township for landfill sites, it would seem an appropriate time for Clinton to consider its own inevitable need for a disposal site and study the possibility of some sort of joint' project. When two or more neighbouring municipalities partieipate in a modern landfill operatikn, it can be made efficient, economical and truly sanitary. Whether a joint project is practical in this case we don't know. We don't inagine anyone else knows --- and doubt anyone will until the idea is investigated. SUGAR HOUSE Mob) by ,'tleG Those degrees bug me Some pretty earth -shaking events occurred around our place lately. First of all, my wife has taken up curling. Perhaps "ta- ken up" is not the right. phrase. "Falling, down" might be closer, ' t::e, W' The -first time shetepped on the ice, her feet went to heaven, and her bottom went to the other place. The earth shook (you must have felt it) and she has the purple poster- ior to prove it. She has fallen only about four times per game since, and has mastered the art to the point where she can look up from her sprawl with the in- jured innocence of a pro hock- ey player trying to pin a penal. ty on the guy who didn't trip him. For years she has looked down on the sport, She thought the curling club was a place where men went to drink, smoke, play pool and poker, curl, and get away from their wives. And she was right, Now she has learned that it is a cultural . centre where women go to drink, smoke, play bridge, curl, and get away from their husbands. And she's right again, as usual. But as long as she can do it with me, and keep an eye on me, she feels it is one of Can- ada's grand old sports. I used to get home from the eurling club at midnight. Last time, we got home at 3 a.m., after being invited somewhere for "coffee". I wish I could get the same price for that coffee that the distributors do. Anyway, the Old $attleaxe has been hooked. She doesn't know a hog froth a hack, a skip from. a drop-out, but with Hugh's old stretch ski pants on, and Hugh's old skiing sweater on, she's the prettiest curler on the ice. If she could sweep that ice the way she earl. sweep the kitchen floor, we'd be in the money every time. The second earth -shaker around here was Kim's per- formance in the piano exams for her degree in music: Not only did she knock off a first-class honor mark, but she topped the list of candidates, She can now add the letters Clinton News -Record Tut CLINTON NEW ERA IattiblHshed 18S5 Amalbitittiated THE i•1uktiN NEWS -RECORD 1924 Established 1881 Pubitehed Every Huron At the Heart Of Huron County Clinton, O0ta00, Canada Population 075 ERIC A. MCGUINNESS _.,.. Editor J, HbWA1tb AiTKEN General Manager Atithtlriked as Second visas Melt b... the i'ost (Mica b . _.. . y.apartment, Ottawa, and far'payment bf pk ih, cash SUBSCRIPTION I AT55: Payable iti advance Canada and Oareat Etrita nt $5.00 a year,. U'ntited States and Ooreign $6.5O, Singh Copies: i tent& A.R.T.C, after her name. That's longer than my degree. That cost me. Kim phoned, collect, between music lessons in the city, and my wife phoned every relative between here and Zanzibar. Batt 'for one viid and ., glo. ..i rrQsls',thought; i�tb`3 nt, I ,it lams, over. After an accumulated 30 years of music lessons among her brother, .her mother;; and herself, 1 thought 1 was home free. . No more wincing as 1 wrote out cheques for the conservato- ry. No more trucking the kids all: over the country, in bliz- zards, to play at festivals. No more sweating through per- formances. No more getting up at a quarter to seven to take her to the bus. No more. It scenes 1 was wrong. My wild and glorious moment was only a moment. She wants to carry on with lessons. And her mother is thinking of resuming lessons. And Hugh will be around one of these days, bro- ken, crooked finger and, all, ready to go back to it. We now have two A.R.T.C. diplomas in the house. They look beautiful, side by side op the living -room wall. It's like sitting in a doctor's office. But what really drives me out of my skull is that not one of them can play anything. As soon as the festival or exam is over, they take new pieces, and the old ones are dumped over- board. So, during any 11 - month period of the year, no: body in my family has learned the new pieces, and they've forgotten the old ones. Ask anyone to play a piece, for company, and you get the familiar whine, "I haven't any- thing ready," I never heard of a guitar- player or, a mouthorgamplayer who lost his repertoire over- night. But 1 am here to testify that a piano player of classical MUSIC can't' even whistle a tune, most of the time. Aside from two degrees on the well, and two pianos around my neck, all I've got out of the whole thing is three people who think they are gift. ed, talented, and couldn't play "Mary tfad a Little Lamb", without six weeks preparation. Give ` to 'mart fend oa Veientine s Day This Valentine bay remember all the hearts you love With a gift to your Heart Fund: your contribution will help fight our Number Otte Health lnemy Tt) A1LT 13ISIi ASSE. For the heart in your lite and ' the life in your heart, give to ybttr Heart Feundatiott. „remember, More will live the triad' yeti give: Send your contribution to the Canadian He'a'rt Fund,- 241 davenport Road, T`orbnto 5, Ontario. lri reading the headlines qt last week's paper, there was ,a report of gelr 'tog producers. lleing :a hog producer myself, I woriid like to .eonin1en,t a few words OPUt t-luron. County rankipg..third in :hog,prodeetion. 1 tf14 we. have .the best breeding steels available anywhere. We have an abundance• of feed right at our doorsteps ,(local grown -corn anad other grain, plus western grain at Goderich), Good barns are just deteriorating because they are not put to use for any livestock. Why could Huron not place :first in hog production? •.1 blame this en the fact that we have the poorest market anywhere in Ontario. I do not like to eriticiza Joseph Corey because he does an A.1 job on handling. sometimes, 1,400 bogs In one day! . Perth County as well as Waterloo County both have packing plants and, in addition to that, Stratford and Kitchener marketing yards are receiving hogs four 'days a week. • Huron has' only one Hog producers' marketing yeard. Why could we not ship hogs - from there at least two or three days a• week? Many neighhours and myself at intervals like to ship our hogs on Mondays.. The nearest place ' then is Stratford, Lucknow or Harriston, only to find that our hogs get, slaughtered at London or Burlington. I hope that in this coming year the -.board members of our Ontario ' Hog Producers' Marketing Board will take a serious look at our marketing conditions, Don Greidanus RR 1, Londesboro More letters on page 11 ''-ill►I„„„,11„„,„„„,,„„I„„„..„,„,„11111,11„11111111111111111111,...I„„I,IiI11@►111111„i11111 ,,,,,...„ 1 The Empty Pew ,_ By W. Jene MillerES ;Ill(11111111111111111„111111111111„111111111111111111I1111111111111I,1111111111111111111111111111111111„1111, flung 111111111 Many decades ago, the Christian white -folks were singing songs like, "Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the Negroes were consoling themselves with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Today the white -folks are hollering, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye,” and the Negroes are facing shotgun fire o declare, "We Shall Overcome.” The greatest single revolution of: fins con lury' is the, c hange: in tlir drnainir &incept of history. The Greeks. I'or 500 years, still c'ohsidered history as a static process or repeated'events. They spoke of Homer as just having died centuries after his passing. Romans reached their pinnacle and had no way to live in the future, so they rotted and died, 13ut, Christians considered themselves possessors of the full knowledge of the ways and will of Clod, and set out to participate in it. They plotted ways to • thrust their witness before the eyes of the world. Stephen was martyred and the apostles, also, but they thrust their lives and their death in the face of mankind. The missionary enterprises of the last century were predicated upon the belief that God was alive and at work 'in history, Sure, successful and wealthy Christians, then as now, became captured by their vested interests in the status quo and resisted change. But martyrs, from St. Paul to Martin Luther King, have demanded that the world acknowledge the fact that it is under the judgment of the Living God. John Wesley wrote the Queen in vociferous language about,,, English women being, chained, literallry..,, chiained, to mining.,i carte ,e i ndustrialists. Today, the Buddhists of Asia are capturing the "dynamic concept of history", as the Communists captured it in 1917. The magnificent Vatican Councils were directed at bringing Roman Catholicism back to an awareness that God is acting. God has vested interests, too. He invested His son in them. Jesus described them in Matthew 25: "I was hungry and you fed me; naked and you clothed me; sick and you...," The question is not whether God's Will will be done, but who will do it. Of this you may be sure: only those who live for tomorrow will get there. From our early files 75 years ago 25 years ago Clinton New Era February 16, 1894 Telephones have just been added to the office and home of Mr. D. A. Forrester, to the store of Taylor & Sons, and to the offices of Dr, Shaw and the News Record. The blizzard of Monday blocked the late train from Stratford which got Stuck near Mitchell and was not able to proceed on its way until Tuesday afternoon; consequently, there were no trains east until it had 'got through. The general depression of trade has it bad effect upon the Salt business for at present there iS literally nothing doing. Utter stagnation alone describes the condition of the trade. There is seemingly no demand whatever for an article of such time necessity. .'55 years ago Clinton New Era February 12, n14 Miss J, 1-1111 who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Will Piutnsteel for the past two months, returned to her hertrte in Oxbow Sack, last. week, Mr, Norntan 1~ itzsitnens left on Tuesday for Detroit. Miss PearlHusband- of IIngersoll spent a few days with her sister, Mrs, IC, Chown. Herb Gooier' of the Base Line had a wood bee 'Ott Friday afternoon and held a dance in the evelaiti+. Clinton News -Record February 10, 1944 Pte John 'Mac' Cameron of Toronto Spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cameron. Mrs. Harold McPherson left last Week for St. John, New Brunswick, accompanied by her mother, Mr's. Geo. Taylor as far as Montreal Jack McClinchey of London spent the weekend with his parents at Holmesville. 15_ars ago gQ February 11,1954 Mr, arid Mrs. Carl Coat spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lockhart, Owen Sound, H. E. Hartley spent several days last week attending a refresher course sponsored by the Canada Life Assurance Company and held at the Queen's Hotel in Stratford for the London Branch. Miss Ethel Blair and Charles Guest, London, spent the' weekend with the forther's parents, Mr. and Mm, Robert („lair, Bayfield, 10 years ago i ebruar'y .12, 1959 Mr, and Mrs. Clifford Lob's are in Enid, Oklahoma, upending a. few weeks with their daughter and son�iti�lttw'r Mr, and Mrs. Balton Chabtt. \ \ \ , \ . \ \ \ \ . \ , , \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ , \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ S usiness send • Profs Directory OPTOMETRY •I, E, _,.ONGSTAFF QPTQMETRiST Mondays and Wednesdays 0 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482,7Q1O SEAFORTH QFFIC,E 5274240 R, Vil, Bali., OPTOMETRIST The Square, GOQERlCH 524-7661 RONALD L. McQONALP CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St. Goderich 524-6253 s!!n i \\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\' INSURANCE K. W, CQI.OUI•IQUN INSUI ANC>r .St RFA4. g$TAT Phones; :Office 482-9747 i e;. 482.7804 HAI. HARTLEY Phone 482-65$3 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — BEAL I;STATF INV ESTiVENTS Clinton Office; 482-9644 H, C. Lawson, Res.; 462-9703 J. T, Wise, .Res.: 482-M5 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air,Master Aluininuiri Pours and Windows and Rockwell Power Tools JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis -- 68 Albert St, Clinton — 482,93$U THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY M`KItLOP stlz'ug. FiRE INSURAJ KE i> - COMPANY Office --= Main Street SEAFORTH Insures: • Town Dwellings • All Class of Farm Property • Summer Cottages - • Churches, Schools, Halls Extended coverage (wind, smoke, water damage, falling objects etc.) is also available. Agents; James Keys, RR. 1, Seaiorth; V. 3. Lane, R.P. 5, See - forth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., • Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Seaforth. Give ... so more will live HEART FUND SERV1C Attend •Yotiir ; C ire ' • . : 61,/•,41) nnhGAP • ' This Sunday ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A. Organist: MISS LOiS GRASBY, A.R.C.T, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16th 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School. 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, FEBRUARY 16th WESLEY-WiLLiS 9:45 a.m,;—Sunday School, 11:00 a.m. -- Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "THE BELATED MiND" HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m, — Worship Service. 1:45 p.m, Sunday School. CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16th 10:0b a.ni. •••Morning Service— English. 2:30 p.m. Afternoon Service — English. Every Sunday, 13:30 noon, dial 680 CHU), St. Thomas listen to "Beek to God Hour” • EVERYONE WELCOME ..w ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH' The Rev. R. U. MacLean; B.A., Minister Mrs, B.Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, ,FEBRUARY 16th 9:45 a.m. Sunday Schott'. 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship. Everyone Welcbnte PENTECOSTAL CHUI CH Victoria Street W, Werner, Pastor SUNDAY, I`LBRUARY16th 9t4S anti.- Sttnday Sehoel:. .Bb a.rtt, VVorshfp Service. 7130 {i,tti. - Evening 514-4 la: MAi L.E STREET GOSPEL HALL SUNDAY, PEBRUAR?16t 9:45 a tt Worship Sehtfte 11;00 a.nt.... Sunday Sebes Thursday, 8 pfm. -- Pray* Meeting and Bible Study peaker: JbHIN.MARYfil 14awkbsvilfet.