Clinton News-Record, 1969-02-20, Page 22 Clinton News,Recorcl, ThursdaY, February 20, 199.
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Editorial comment
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Note: The following editorial appeared last wea
in the Huron expoNitor, Worth. A 'thong!?
)vritlen ptipr to ilp'sjveek',v meeting of the board,
We believe if is gill timflY and applicable to the
present siotatiop,
Members of the Huron County Board
;; QtEducation face a major decision next
• vveek.. when they . determine where the
-Offices of the board will be located.
Since at the moment all of Huron is
,40-volveci there is a natural concern across
Tt*t,OPunty that the choice will reflect
tyyltelYinot only is best for all the citizens
clday but also in the days ahead when the
...county as we know it may well become a
portion of a new and larger municipality.
'For" this reason perhaps there is .a
• particular concern that Huron Council has
taken a positive stand on the question and
has recommended Goderich as a site for
• -the board's headquarters. Council has
gone so far as to make an entire floor in
the recently Completed assessment
building available as accommodation,
The reason the County ,advances for
becoming involved in the school question
is that with the school board based in
Goderich, Huron or Goderich could be
favoured as a possible centre for further
regional government.
. „There was a time more than a century
ago, 'when the Huron tract was first
Settled; Goderich was the logical point
from which to carry on the affairs of the
1istrict since then the most convenient
qiansportation was by water. With the
advent of roads this reason no longer is
Valid. Located as it is on the lake
Goderich is not central to Huron nor can
it become central to any common sense
and economic region that might be
created. We .are flying, in the face of
• reality and doing perhaps irreparable harm
to the,overall and long term economy of
the county if we persist in thinking
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While these are considerations that
will be present in the minds of the board
members, what will be of even more
concern will be an awareness that a close
•1ipnce of the board and the county is
1,.c6rary to the conceptions underlying
rti creation of the new county
educational units. As explained by the
Minister, the new boards were designated
to permit the educational process to stand
on its own feet. Under the new county
'
:educational system what functions of the
board and county are parallel to a degree
that makes it necessary or even desirable
they share accommodation?
• The county acted wisely in designing
the new assessment building to provide
some room for expansion. But surely the
estimates of this potential requirement
were not so out of line that sufficient
space for the board's requirements can be
found without seriously cramping the
.activities of the assessment department.
Too, there is the overriding question of
whether or not the county should be in
'the rental business,
When he spoke here in January on the
• occasion of the board's visit to Seaforth,
board chairman John Lavis said that in
the matter of a headquarters site the
board eventually would choose the site
•that would be of the most benefit to the
• Huron taxpayers who support the board.
• Certainly the people of Huron have
confidence in the board and in the
objective and forward-looking manner in
• which it will make a choice. They will
• await the decision with interest.
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FRESH. TRACKS
LETTOR
10/ the editor;
•May We commend Y94 highly
* your coverage gif tile student
wk -out at • Central Huron
Secondary School.
'We wish the Isidore was large
enough fp r identification or
these nngratefel ones.
While this (leiTiOnstration was
014 comparison with the
havoc Wrought at Sir George
Williams' University, it was in
SenPO prompted by the same
We feel that Bruce West put it
most cogently in The Globe and
Mail re this outrage.
`-!If•the apostles of
permissiveness can't learn
anything from it, then .God help
us
• "Of the old school"
Crashes put 14,opo
Is hospitalbeds
"One way to comprehend the
enormity of our traffic accident
problem is to consider the
,ecorioinic : loss, one facet of
Which is the cost of medical
treatment. In Canada, fourteen
thousand hospital beds are
occupied permanently by traffic
victims. Those who have
strtiggied with the financial
.;.; nightmare of trying to get a new
hospital built in their
Community can fully appreciate
how wonderful it would be if we
started driving in a way that
Wotild,release a large proportion
.. • ,sr of these 14,000 'reserved' beds."
POW by. McG •Quote from George Lacy,
;President, of the Ontario Safety
• • • Lague, 'and Chief Engineer,
• Chrysler Canada Ltd.
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lam not impressed: •• . ,•• want to speed up the military
• When • youth long to-.ke -war, and slow down the war on
• independent oftheir parent., yet ,poverty or prejudice; when the
refuse to prepare to earn a living; preacher is expected to face
when adults complain abOut • hatred to oppose liquor, but to
February • is sacine•s•S youth lacking responsibility, and soft -peddle his witness against
then refuse to seriously stud; •hatred.
• 2 .
February!
I find you very
Hairy,
Not to mention
Contrary,
Weather-wise.
Driving is scarey
In February.
One ultist beivary
•tEyen there .than ;
4,anttar-riki
Milk in bottles
From the dairy
Freezes on the porch
In February,
And it's not
A very merry
Business
Cleaning up the ruddy mess
when the bottle cracks and the
milk leaks all over the
Refrigidairy.
Sorry, chaps, but I've been
conducting poetry -writing
classes this week. And at the
same time wading through
drifts, trying to get my car
started in the good old sub-
zero, battling my way through
40 -mile -per -hour blizzards, and
helping bury an old mate.
Not conducive to a lyric col-
umn about the longest -shortest
month in the year? Right.
As you can see from the
above, the poetry classes have
been going very badly. Imagine
having a teacher who writes
such garbage trying to breathe
Life, Imagination, Experience
into your creative poetic soul.
It's enough to turn a kid off
poetry for life.
Normally, February is a
month in which nobody in his
right mind can be found north
of the 49thi parallel. Unless he
hasn't the money to escape.
That's why there are so many
of us lurching through snow-
banks, noses dripping, eyes
watering, coughs racking.
We're either out of our minds,
or poor. And in many cases,
both.
And if we're not out of our
skulls when the. month begins,
we're ready for the straitjack-
et and total sedation by the
28th. Thank the gods it's not
Leap Year.
All 1 needed this year, to
garnish my February complex,
was to help bury an old mate.
He wasn't old in years, and
he wasn't a life-long friend,
but I'll miss hint Our paths
crossed and re -crossed since
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we both made the .ridiculous
decision to become teachers,
about nine- years ago.
During our • teacher -training
summer courses, surrounded
by hot -eyed, Panting,: .youth,
just out of university and hap-
py in the knOwledge, that. the
world tAeirS for,the ask
n gy...svetaiirt of 414 fter1;,toget her,
-in vas'ii. mitinalldefence pact ciPsi4
gentle cynicism.
I'd been through. ra.-w-:Sr-and a
period of carving a1Wing out
of a pretty tough toaSt.: of a
world. ,He'd been themight, a
terrible accident, broken neck
and the works, years of pain -
filled convalescence. We'd ,both
emerged, - battl&scarred but
banners still flying,from a
decade or so. of marriage . and
children. •• • •
We weren't exactly student
militants, but we . shared a
hearty scorn for and..., a ;quiet
amusement • at • the :establish-
ment, the keen,typesk the' push-
ers, the scremblers4the -sPar-
rows trying; to. make 'like _ea-
gles.
So we gravitated, encl.., the
friendship, sporadic and, cas-
ual, lasted. After some" years
we wound 1up'; in the same
town-, teaching- in; the.. same
school. •. ' •
•
We golfed together
lot because- we ..enjloyed:.,"the
pace. It was leisurely, good-na-
tured, and 'We' both practised
one-temnanahip. .without serte
pie, You know: the loud
scratch of a match:it the. top
of the other's backswing; the
coughing fit when the other
Was making a' 'delicate jolt;
the gazing into the sky' when
the other hit a grounder; »the
gently • raised eyebrow ,lien
the other missed the bail lout-
pletely and, ,almost broke his
back in the process. •
.
And we kept a fairly good
eye on the yardarm. If thesun
was over it, we marked the
occasion in the usual manner.
And many a late summer after-
noon, we sat •under'. the oaks
and diseusSed, without ran-
cour, the foibles and. .follies of
the world, white 'out -wives and
the squirrels Mattered in the
background.
Vll miss the Old Boy. And so
much for pebruary.„,,
so more will live
CANADiAlt
NEART,-FtIND
•
when church members, hold
grudges against others, and Pray,
"forgive us ---- as We forgive
I am not impressed:
When political ' rallies' Start
with, a prayer to a loving God
and end by preaching, hatred to
inerr. when .politician& talk of
freedom andlibertY, and figure
ways yetienv it 'to Minorities;
when newspapers editoralize
against government subsidies,
while using subsidized mailing
privileges.
am not impressed:
When people complain about
the lack of morality in our land,
and do not attend -church
regularly; when church nembers
want the "old time religion",
and don't practice it, either;
when church, membersget angry
at hearing "God is Dead% and
equally angry at hiving tO:actlis
if God lives., •••
• •
I am not impressed: ; •
When people say the death 9f
our boys in war is bad, and then
get angry at those whOro, they
call "peaceniks"; when -people
I am not impressed:
When people want an
invitation to attend their own
church; when people say they
have %taken Up. the cross of
Christ, and use every excuse to
avoid church work; when people
complain if theVrearelferleaver
town, and don't attend wherVb
luiPOtheie, ;MOJA PliZ
1 am not impressed:
When people who belong to
the country club say the Church
'dist& too much; when people
'who .'do not tithe wonder why
others do not give more; when
People who complain about
inflation do not give any more
to the church.
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lam not impressed:
When people brag about their
attendance at civic clubs, and
apologize for their attendance at
church; when people who do not
read the paper, complain that
• they don't know what's going
on; when people who don't
know what to do on a rainy
afternoon, talk about living
eternally.
rom 9vr early files
75 yearviago
Clinton New Erli-
February 23, 1894
Mr. Y, MeLealt :Alte
coming member - for '84th
Huron, wasin-town hist weel,
• Mr. Horace Newton; wito for
several years has conducted,:it
successful business at POrter's
Hill, is anxious to dispose Of the
same and is offering. it for sale.
This is a good change "for
someone, as the ' point is an
excellent stand.
Mr. Thomas NeilanS has again
been awarded the contract fo'r
carrying the man between
Seaforth and Harlock; he has
faithfully performed the same
work for 20 years past.' • •
55 years ago.
Clinton New
February 1941914
Niagara power was turned on
Sunday evening in Clinton at title
transformer station At „, 'the
Waterworks plant, but owing to
a few butn-outs the itiriOns
churches were in darknest and a
number of the houses ' that
happened to be on thoee
circuits. •
The eost of feeding, :UW
people in the Muni .County
House ot Refuge is.tintly,.92
cents per day. '••
Mia May Smith tett 611,
Monday for Throat) till tli0 in
the Millinery openings,
Miss BeSsie Davis telt And
broke her artn at the. tint ih�e
skating On Tuesday attererion,
•
• 40 years ago
February 14, 1929
A • •
G. D. Roberton visited
-Brussels friends last week.
Mersa Start of Currie is the guest
• of her sister, Mrs. 0. W. Potter.
Misses Dora and Freida
Schoenhals visited Mrs. McCaig
of Galt recently.
Miss Florence Cuninghame is
attending the Provincial
Horticultural Convention in
Toronto this week.
February 21, 1929
Miss Ida Walkinshaw leaves
today for Toronto where she
wifl spend a little holiday with
'her Sister.
• Miss Jane Gilchrist, who has
been in Saginaw, Michigan, for
several years, has returned to
Clinton and intends making her
home with her Slater. Miss
Pilehrist's friends welcome het
• back to the old town.
• Mrs. 1. H. Fraser of Regina
spent part of last Week visiting
Mr, and Mrs. J. G. Medd and Mt.
lett Saturday for Toronto where
she and her daughter will spend
. ,the, remainder of the winter,
• returning to their hotne in the
West in the spring.
'25 years ago
• ' Clinton News..ttecotd
February 17, 1944
. 'Mr, Clarence .1. Livermore of
'thesley ha purehaSed the
',Egg:Grading station and Poultry
Plant from N. W. "Iltewartha and
"took possession early this week,
• Mrs. Andrew Procter and
14
39 St. David S. Goderich
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
• Pastor: REV. GRANT MILLS, B.A.
Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
9:45 a.m.-Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship
. EVERYONE WELCOME
Evening Unit meets Monday, February 24, 7
for Pot Luck Supper
p.m.
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 23rd
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• . 9:45 aum;-Sunday School.
• 11:00 a.m. - Morning Worship.
Sermon Topic: "OVERCOMING THE BLUES"
HOLMESVILLE
1:30 pan. - Youths Own Service - All Welcome.
2:30 p.m. - Sunday School.
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
". SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
V9:09.a.m:'-Morning Service - English.
-2:30, p.m. - Afternoon Service - Dutch.
Every Siiiiday,•12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas
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ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister
Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director
• SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
9:45 a,m. -- Sunday School,
Rangers and their leaders.
oBr nr oi nwn iWe so, r schui Pb,
A welcomes
•• to
10:45 ajliG:u-idesM, gScouts,
PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Victoria Street
) W, WArner, Pastor
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd
9:45 t.s.ro. -- Sunday School,
11:00 a.m. -Worship Seriiice.
7:30 p.m, -- Evening Service.
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Hawkesville
Doreen spent last Friday in
London and attended the Wings
Parade and Graduation at
Crumlin, when Cameron Proctor
received his wing as navigator.
Miss Freida Schoenhals spent
last week in Toronto on
business.
Miss Josephine Stirling,
Bayfield, has returned home
atter having visited her sister,
Mrs. Hugh McLaren, Port Elgin.
15 years ago
February 18, 1954
Mrs. Dia Cornish was visiting
in Dearborn, Michigan, With Mrs,
George Thur102,-, last 'week.
Maurice Radford, Niagara
Falls, N.Y., Aceompanied by
Miss Mar ie ; gerlinquette,
Clilopiwa, Ontari9, visited over
the Weekend at the former's
parental home on Princess
Street,
Mr. and Mis, • Herbert
Hirkhatti, Londcin, Visited the
latter's parents, Mr, and 11,
Emerson Heard, Bayfield,
Sunday.
10 years ago
February 19, 1959
Mrs. Robert Gilles
Toronto, (formerly Ha
Gandier) Was a weekend gues
Mrs. Royce lVfacatilay, W
here, she attended the gol
Wedding reception for Mr,
1Virs, J, Cree Cook.
Jim Higgins returned
Toronto on Monday atter ha
spent several days with
parents, Mr, and Mrs, J,
Higgins.
With February almost o
more than twice as much s
has been used on County to
in Huron County this sea
than last winter. Officials
are concerned over a seartit
sand and Salt for the icy ro