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Clinton News-Record, 1969-12-11, Page 4AVOID FRAYED CORK DAMAGED PLUC HERO. .,fow m afew • WOO fiRfPROVF,I 5.00. tru.syegAvgg" LI5E ONLY. ,L10141ING SETS BEARING TI-N5 SEAL U5E GLASS A5135TOS SNOW, FIREPROOF ' DECORA T10145' KEEP AWAY FROM NEAT C14005E A 4RE514 TREE,BEND A NEEDLE-IF IT BREAKS REJECT -TREE • .1T5 -roo USE ONLY Oh/ 15-AMP CIRCUIT (•)(1 4 TIZ.E ABOUT CfP.0414$ MAKE A rRi..51-1 DIAG- ONAL CUT AT BUTT KEEP TREE IN REGULARLY-FILLED WATER CONTAINER Ontario Safety League TORONTO a Ajt.2411 An unforgettable Christmas gift for Tommy Douglas 4 Clinton, ,NeWS-fiecord, Thursday,.Opcembpr.11, 1,969 'ffittioriat' comment Scare the habit out Canada, playing Charlie McCarthy to the United States' Edgar Bergen, banned cyclamates — the supposedly cancer-causing artificial sweetener in soft drinks and diet foods — just days after the U.S. did. The question is — if Canada can ban cyclamates so fast and on such slim evidence — why not cigarettes? The number of reports linking cancer with smoking must now fill rooms down at Ottawa. But our legislators are afraid to stop the sale of tobacco. Evidence against cyclamates was much thinner than the indictment of tobacco. Some 35 rats were fed cyclamates over a ,104-day period — 11 developed bladder cancer and 19 got preliminary cancer symptoms. But when Health Minister John Munro announced the ban, he noted that a 150-pound man would have to drink 500 cans of cyclamate-sweetened pop each day for his entire life — to get the same dose as those test rats. Asked.how he justified banning the sweetener and not tobacco, Mr. Munro said it was a matter of being realistic Canadians would obey a ban on the sweetener — but ignore a ban on smoking. GovernMent officials are gun-shy after the shambles of prohibition. It taught them that it is not easy to ban a produce to which large numbers of people are addicted. Few People are hooked on no-cal drinks — but millions are addicted to cigarettes. The only solution seems to be education. Most schools carry on anti-smoking campaigns from the lowest grades — rising to a crescendo in high school. Because of this, great numbers of children are frantic with their parents for continuing to smoke. Education may not save the present generation of smokers — but it is scaring the habit out of their children. — Unchurched Editorials United Church Board of Evangelism and Social Service. Getting through to Trudeau When the Empire Club meets in the gilt-trimmed ballroom of the Royal York Hotel, the backdrop for the head table is a modified cross of St. George with a coat of arms and a Union Jack much in prominence. If there is any organization in these parts that might appreciate the legacy of the British raj or the importance of England's "residual colonial responsibilities", it shoUld be the Empire ,Club. Was it not in that very room that members of the club hissed former newscaster Stanley Burke when he attempted to raise some of the travesties being carried out in Biafra in the name of those "residual colonial responsibilities", with one of the architects of British policy, Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart? It is all the more remarkable,'then, that the same members who scant weeks ago said they didn't want to hear dissent could now give a standing ovation to Dr. E. H. Johnson, moderator of the Presby,teri@n Church of Canada and vice,chaiir,thari of the Canairelief organization flying food into Biafra. Especially after Dr. Johnson had described the role of Michael Stewart's Government "as one of the most shameful chapters in British history", a role that if pursued would result in the Biafra area becoming "half cemetery, half concentration camp". Surely by now the message should be getting through to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Government. Surely now he can get out behind the troops and march.—Toronto Globe and Mail, December 8 The white gold of Christmas Thousands of children in India and Korea would settle for a single cup of milk on Christmas morning. You can give it to them so easily. Just one dollar will buy 100 children a cup of milk. So simple, and yet — you will be giving the priceless gift of life. We cannot aid everyone this Christmas, or any other Christmas, but if we only help a handful, we we can .sit down to our own Christmas dinner with an easier mind. If you can spare it, send a dollar today to the Unitarian Service Committee at 56 Sparks Street, Ottawa 4. Somewhere a child is waiting for your Christmas remembrance. All's well that ends well trnO"' 4 . • i 1.1 . u rEs. ALL SERVICES ON TIME . STANDARD . ONTARIO STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor: REV. H. W. WONFOR, B,Sc., B-Corn., B.D, Organist: MISS LOIS GRASBY, A.R.C.T, ' SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: "TILL 1-1E,conngp.',!, 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 WESLEY-WILLIS SUNnAY, DECEMBER 14th "9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 11!00 a.m. — Morning Worship. "TIME FOR THE CHRIST CHILD" '4,10LMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. — Church Service. 1:45 p.m. — Slinday — All Welcome — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH ' SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th 10:00 a.m. — Morning Service. 2:30 p.m. — Afternoon Service. Every Sunday, 12:30 noon, dial 680 CHLO, St. Thomas listen to "Back to God Hour" — EVERYONE WELCOME — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN, CHURCH. The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister ' Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship — BAYFpalstEoLrD: LBesAliePTCIlSernTenCsHURCH SuUncry hoAsYc,Do: DECEMBER a.m. M0BER14th Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,, 8:00 p.m. Prsayer meeting and Bible study THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario WeelFly Newspaper ,Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class Rail registration number — 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 ERIC A. McGUINNESS — Editor J, HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 'rim now Cl" RADAR IN CANADA THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY• 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, Seaforth; V. J. Lane, RR 5, Seaforth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., Londesboro; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; Harold Squire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, Scaforth. _ Why does a man stagger out to work when he's unable to do it properly, is a threat to every- one around him, and is prob- ably shortening his own life by three or four years? This is the sort of rationaliz- ing I was doing this week when I took not one, but two days sick leave, That makes six days in ten years. I'd been coughing like a kan- garoo with consumption. Blow- ing my nose was like trying to stop Niagara Falls with Klee- nex. I was dizzier than a bat at high noon. I ached from stein to gudgeon, and I couldn't de- , cide which was aching more. It's boring, I know. But the 'flu is always boring. Except when you have it yourself. Then it's fascinating, When you have it, you know that nobody has ever been as ill as you. Especially those phonies on TV who stay in bed, drink plenty of fluids, and stuff themselves with aspirin. My wife is a great comfort at such times. She invariably says, "You're going to die with that chest cold!" And then she sits, back and starts counting on her fingers, The term insur- ance, the life insurance. When she begins to look a bit .nasty, I realize I haven't enough insurance to keep her in affluence. That's about when she calls the doctor, so I'll get better, so I can take out more insurance. The doctor, of course, always settles everything. He says, "Hmmm. Got the 'flu, eh?" Na- turally I've got the 'flu or my wife wouldn't have called him. If I had merely a broken leg, she'd probably set it herself. But you can die with the 'flu. - And the doctor says, "Take plenty of bed, stay in aspirin, and drink lots." This always brightens me up, and I pull out of the slump within a week, provided I don't drink too much. But there's a moral question involved with the 'flu. Should one go to church, school or business, and hack, sneeze, cough and spit all over the congregation, the classroom or colleagues? The answer, I think, is an unequivocal "yes," provided we have the strength. That's the only way in which we can maintain one of our few, great old Canadian traditions: spreading the 'flu. We have spread two things in this coun- try since pioneer days, 'flu and fertilizer, and we mustn't stop now. Spreading the 'flu is not without its merits, provided it is done with tact and timing. As witness. On Friday, night we were supposed to go to the annual ball of the year. You know the sort of thing. Every town has one, Five percent of the men. want to go, and 100 percent of the women. It's a chance for them to wear their wigs, make the old man spring for a smashing new dress, and dis- cuss for the next week what ridiculous things the other women were wearing. After wheezing and sneezing for about three days, I was looking forward to it as one might look forward to his own funeral. So sick was I that even the thought of having to shine my shoes made me feel faint. That was bad enough. But somehow we'd been finessed into having an after-the-ball party with 30 people guzzling food and drink. I didn't see how I could get through it, alive. Yes, Vitginia there is a San- ta Claus. To my delight and her horrore my wife woke up Friday morning hacking and gasping and as feverish as I, I'd spread her the 'flu. She hung on till afternoon hoping ' for a miracle recovery but then had to throw in the towel and cancel everything. That probably saved my life and about $100 so the 'flu can't be all bad. The talk had turned to memorable Christmas gifts and, surprisingly, each of us could remember one particular present above all others. None, however, was quite so memorable as the one described by Tommy Douglas, a gift that was, as he put it, "of incalculable value." The story went back to an early year of the "dirty thirties" shortly after Douglas was ordained as minister of the Calvary Baptist Church in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, • a period long before his decision to enter politics. , Then, as now, . Tommy had a strong interest in boys' work and so, on a day when 11 delinquent youngsters were to appear before the Weyburn police magistrate he went to court to do what he could for them. They were a wild-looking bunch, dressed in cast-off clothing, boys from broken homes and homes where the depression had brought grinding poverty. They'd been involved in just about every conceivable trouble that boys can manage. "Maybe it was because it was a week before Christmas and I hadn't got over my sermon on the• spirit of the season," Tommy recalled with a laugh. "In any event I ended up having all 11 boys committed to my care and then wondered what on 'earth I'd do with them. All I think of was to take them home. Well, to march in with those eleven ragamuffins was quite a sight. I'd been married less than a year, but that was one time my wife nearly went home to mother." The boys promptly got baths vipwcwr-Kmir.,mh • 75 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA December 14, 1894 The mildness of the last week has called some wild flowers from their winter sleep. Dandelions in full bloom were gathered on the 2nd concession of Stanley as late as December 11. When the House of Refuge Committee met at Goderich last week, it had nearly sixty tenders to go through before its report could be prepared for County Council. Their recommendation was that the tender of Mr. S. S. Cooper at $9,874 for the completion of the building be accepted. It is no small compliment to a young man like Mr, Cooper that his should be the successful tender in a contract of this size and one thing is certain, the work will be pushed forward with all the expedition possible. The building is to be completed by October 1895. 55 YEARS AGO THE CLINTON NEW ERA December 17, 1914 Last week Mr, Charles Lovett and son James, took over the and hair-cuts. Members of Douglas' congregation donated clothing. Others arranged for them to take odd jobs after school so that they might help out financially at home. Best of all, from the boys' standpoint, they became a part of the church's athletic program that Tommy — no mean boxer for his weight — had organized. "It was a funny thing about those kids," Douglas recalled. "They didn't know how to play. They could fight. Fight at the drop of a hat. Knew everything e xetent „ -4.1e . , Marquis. of Queensbury rules. They could pick a lock. They could get into a building and out again and you'd never know how they got there. But until we got them into basketball and boxing they'd never learned to play. It' was a wonderful thing to see them learning." With things going this well it was a blow to Tommy to have a visit one Sunday from a store-keeper. The boys, it seemed, had broken into his shop. They'd stolen chocolates, soft drinks, cigarets, a complete assortment of confections. He was determined to press charges, the shop-keeper said, when they were nabbed. Tommy went directly to their "secret" hide-out and caught them red-handed gorging themselves on candy and smoking their hot cigarets. "I didn't have to pretend to be sore with them." Tommy remembered. "I was good and sore. I told them I was going to have them all committed back to the magistrate. I told them I'd had my fill." implement business of Little & Miller, and are moving the stock to the East half of the frame building on Huron street, next door to Scruton's butcher shop. Mrs. George Thomas Baird and George Norman Baird of Stanley Township visited friends in Toronto at the end of last week. Mr. Hugh McGregor and Mr. George Thomas Baird attended the Fat Stock Show in Toronto with show cattle and realized fair prices. Robert Smith had a plowing bee on Saturday when his neighbours assisted him to plow 'on his farm which he recently bought from Charles Clifton of the Base Line, 40 YEARS AGO December 12, 1929 The two young men who stole the Rorke car in Clinton a few weeks ago were given a year at Guelph to consider the matter. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Grant left last week for Florida to spend the winter. "Billy" took along his bowls and it is expected he will enjoy some games while in the balmy south: Mr. S. C. Andrews and Alex, Alberta, is expected home this week to visit his parents, Magistrate and Mrs. S. J. That night in Weyburn's Calvary Baptist Church the congregation, was swollen by exactly 11. The boys sat through the service, striving to look angelic, as Douglas vividly recalled, and when it was over they trooped into his study. "I proceeded to give them my very best lecture," he remembered. "Pretty soon they began to sniff and cry and the tears flowed. They'd brought with them all that was left of the loot. Their spokesman said that it was all to be taken back to the store in the morning and they would make good on what they'd taken. They all agreed that things would be different, that it wouldn't happen again. It was a fine reconcilliation." Then, as they began to leave Douglas' study, one of the boys stopped and came back to Tommy's desk. Nearly 40 years later the leader of the New Democrats could remember him as if it were yesterday. "I'll never forget him," he said. "He was the toughest of the lot. He could pick a lock with a hair-pin and he could fight anything his size. He was thin and wiry and he looked like a terrier." Slowly, with an effort that was against all his instincts, the boy began to empty his pockets and to give Tommy Douglas the gift that he prizes as highly as any he ever received. "There was my watch, my pen-knife, my fountain pen and several other items," he recalled. "It was all there — everything he'd stolen from my desk during the last half hour." Andrews, who on Tuesday next celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary. 25 YEARS AGO December 14, 1944 Miss •Eleanor Plumsteel of Ridgetown spent the weekend at her home in town. Lieut. Hawkins, C.W.A.C. Kitchener, spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. W. T. Hawkins. Miss Mae Davis has returned from a visit with her sister in Detroit. Mrs. Benson Corless has just received a cablegram stating that her husband Benson Corless has arrived safely at his overseas destination. Pte. Ellen MacKay, C.W.A.C. London, spent a forty-eight hour leave with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. H. R. MacKay, Bayfield, over the weekend. 15 YEARS AGO December 9, 1954 Mrs. Al Taylor (nee Margaret Porter) is visiting here at home With her parents until the Christmas holiday, She plans to Work in the John A. Anstett store Until then, when her husband will arrive for Christmas OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF 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 PETER J. KELLY your Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada Representative Office: '17 Rattenbury St. E. Clinton 482.791,4 leave and they will return to Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, together. Mrs. H. Sloman visited her sister, Mrs. L. Heatherly, Toronto, over the weekend. Dr. Paul Walden, London, spent the weekend with his wife and small daughter Julia, at "Sylvan Acres," Goderich Township YEARS AGO 10. December 10,1959 Mr. and Mrs, L. Burley and niece Miss J. Whiteroft, London, spent Sunday with Mrs. A. INSURANCE K. W. COLQUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 LAWSON AND WISE INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS Clinton Office: 482-9644 J. T. Wise, Res.: 482-7265 ALUMINUM PRODUCTS For Air-Master Aluminum Doors and Windows and AWNINGS and RAILINGS JERVIS SALES R. L. Jervis — 68 Albert St. Clinton — 482-9390 Adams and Miss Brigham. Mrs. Charles Draper and Helen, and Miss Jean Smith, Brussels, spent Sunday with Mrs. David Steep. Mrs. R.H.F, Gairdner, Bayfield returned home on Saturday night after having visited her sisters in River Forest and Evanston, Ill. Miss Beverley Beattie, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. George Beattie, was crowned Miss Huron Chapter Credit Union at a luncheon Saturday noon in Hotel Clinton, Miss Beattie is Huron's entry in a province-wide contest to select Miss Ontario Credit Union,