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Clinton News-Record, 1971-03-18, Page 44 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, March 18, 1971 Editorial comment The mess is coming After the winter we've just gone through it seems a little harsh to speak of spring in a bad way but those who remember last spring know spring Won't be all joy, The problem is that once the snow goes the garbage that has been gathering all winter in corners and snow drifts becomes all too obvious. The town looks a little shabby. Remember the tons of broken glass that lay all over town last spring? Remember how it lay there well into the summer because there was no effort to clean it up? The time is now to plan for the future. One way other towns have tried to promote a general clean-up is through a clean-up campaign. Some towns set aside one week during the early spring and designate it a clean-up week. During this week trucks from the works department are available on call to haul away junk not normally accepted by the garbage men from homes and businesses. It would be a good project for some group in town to undertake to gather up broken glass, bottles and discarded pop cans. And while we're at it, why not a whole clean-up campaign for the summer. Grants under new government student aid programs announced this week might be available if we formed a group to clean up along the Bayfield River or in areas such as the pond by the high school. It would be surprising the difference such a campaign could make in the appearance of our community. It would look a million dollars better for a 'few dollars investment. Canada, a double dealer! It's not pleasant to think of Canada as a double dealer 'in the field of international politics, but when it comes to a question of oppression in southern Africa there is little doubt that our government speaks with a forked tongue. We say we deplore apartheid yet we pour investment dollars into the country and even spend public money to advertise the opportunities for capital gains in Namibia. Similarly we are horrified at the tales of atrocities in Angola and Mozambique but are easily fobbed off with the excuse that these are internal matters between Portugal and her overseas provinces. And so we sit at the NATO table with the agressor and remain silent. Recently our Prime Minister made representations to Mr. Edward Heath deploring the fact that Britain sells arms and frigates to South Africa to "defend the Cape Sea route against Russian warships." Yet Canada herself sells parts for repairing guns to Portugal. Mr. Trudeau admits that Canada's policy is inconsistent and says: "we should either See the big tax Every once in a long while, something comes through the mail that is priceless. Much too'good to throw away. This week we received a copy of The Byliner, a magazine especially for press writers, editors and photographers. It contained a timely article on taxes and stated that "it's a challenge to a newspaper to make it (the tax scene) as interesting as possible by using creative approaches to help keep readers informed, capture their attention and to help them meet their (tax) deadlines. March is traditionally the time when people begin to think about income tax returns and T-4 slips and all that sort of thing. We feel it is a challenge indeed to make taxpaying as painless as possible. We have discovered a little story which may put the trace of a smile on yoiir face and stop trading or stop condemning." Recently four Canadians authored a Black Paper and made constructive suggestions for the improvement of Canadian policy towards southern Africa, They are Prof. Cranford Pratt of the University of Toronto, Dr. Garth Legge of the United Church, Board of World Mission and two former CUSO volunteers, Richard Williams and Hugh Winsor. So far their suggestions have had a disappointingly cool reception in Ottawa. There are many non-military ways for Canada to help the oppressed countries. The Black Paper, for instance, suggests an investigation into the economic involvement of our country with southern Africa, with a possible termination of present trade agreements — even at the risk of reciprocal treatment for Canadian goods. We may not be the biggest or most influential nation in the world but it's a sorry day for Canada if we can't survive without such doubtful favors. —Contributed, turn that frown upside down, just for a moment or two. Those of you who have children in Grades 1 or 2 will be especially delighted by the following story which tells the whole tax tale in simple "primer" fashion so that even a seven-year-old could understand. Clip it. Save it. It's priceless. SEE THE TAX. SEE THE BIG TAX. PAY THE TAX. PAY THE BIG TAX. NO MONEY. NO MONEY. OH! OH! RUN, FATHER, RUN. RUN FAST. RUN, FAST. GODERICH SIGNAL-STAR Only half the list of Smiley's troubles SEZ THE LITTLE OWL.. 41( \kit 41. j/L "IF You REALLY WANT To GET LOST, READ A COMPASS CLOSE 1-0 mErat. os.recrs. DEVIATION CAN fag' 'DISASTROUS. EVEN P. KITCHEN KNIFE CAN THROW IT OFP zo.DEEREEE. T'Ry IT IN TI-IE KITCHEN ' OUT Nor (....1.;%.4$794-z.,— 0.4 THE 4„,.1 WOODS: -il THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amal 1924 gamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number * 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES:. (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year.; U.S.A., $7.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON Editor J. HOWARD AITKEN — General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart 'of Huron County a Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA Early spring on the river Sunday afternoon No fighting words March is a time for madness in this country. t have lain on the grass with a girl in March, studying for exams. And I have waded through snow up to- the bellybutton, in the same month. 'This is enough to make Canadians a bit more psychotic than other nations. March is as unpredictable as a pregnant female, as precocious as an eccentric old man. "Mad as a March hare" is no flight of the imagination. You don't have to be a hare to be mad in March. All you have to do is look at the body of your car, at what the salt and sand have done to it, and you get mad. All you have to be is a mother with soaking, muddy small children tromping in and out, and you get mad. Ail you have to do is total your fuel bill, and you know you are out of your mind to live in such a clime. All it Lakes is a note from a friend in the south, who asks how high the snowbanks still are, and says he expects to come home about the first of May. All you need to do is think of next month, and realize that the average Canadian givesup ,a third of his income in taxes, and you can go right around the bend, Our nerves are stretched to the snapping point by the rigours 'of the last four months, and it doesn't take much to brealcus, Ellen a little thing like forgetting to get your car license plates before the deadline, or forgetting to pay your hydro bill in time for the discount, can make the most stable of us crack and go roaring after the nearest person with the nearest blunt instrument. I haven't quite blown a gasket yet, but I can feel the pressure building up. My wife has been off her oats since Christmas. Having two kids in University is like walking around with two large leeches clinging to you. Half a dozen people want me to` speak to a similar number of completely dissimilar groups all over the geography. I have a 'hundred letters to write. My boss is bugging me for a detailed plan fre s new workroom for my „Lament, and I couldn't design he interior of an outhouse. I'm in charge of two public speaking contests and two essay contests, both with looming deadlines. The cat did it again on the floor last night and is going to the glue factory if it happens once more. The C.N.R. has phoned five times to tell me I owe them $1.09, which was their mistake in the first place. The guy who shovels my drive with his plow has put his rates up 50 per cent. I have 60 essays, 75 tests, and 130 exam papers to mark. I have stubbed the second-littlest toe on my tight foot and the nail is dangling by a painful bit of gristle 'or something. I missed two crucial shots and lost out on the big prize hi the last curling bonspiel. The lock on the bathroom door has been gone since Christmas and people keep getting locked in, instead of locked out. So, all in all, if you hear a small 'POP" one of these days, it won't be the wax in your ears cracking. It'll be little, insignificant tne. There. I know there's nothing more boring than other people's troubles. But I've got about half of them off my chest. And you must feel better to know that someone in the world has as many troubles as you. And of course there are some things on the black ink side of the ledger, too. There's the "winter break" as they now call what used to be the Easter holidays. A whole week in which to do nothing but mark exam papers. There's the prospect, in about six weeks, of getting the leeches off my back (and into the unemployment lines). And there's the sheer pleasure of not getting up in the dark every workday. The sun shines, waterily and occasionally. There's a glimmer of hope that that peculiarly Canadian monster — winter ---, having vented his orgy of rage, is beginning to die of sheer emotional exhaustion. Unless the old brute throws one more senile but devastating blow at us. It would seem there's a good deal of confusion in this country about the monarchy. A Canadian who has not actually lived in Britain, exposed to the climate of allegiance and the day-to-day influence of the crown, is apt to make a fool of himself in even discussing the subject. Several of them did one night this week on my favorite "hot line" show when, anticipating the next visit of the Queen, the moderator suggested that a free and critical discussion of the role of royalty is impossible in Canada. This opinion, hopefully in the name of controversy, was immediately squelched by the fact that a free and critical discussion promptly ensued, though it seemed to me that the phoner-inners missed the significance of the issue by a country mile. That point is the simple fact 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 16, 1961 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church was filled on Tuesday afternoon as friends and family of the late Mrs. D. J. Lane paid their last respects to a woman held in high regard by all who knew her. F/L the Rev. C. A. MacLaren, protestant chaplain at RCAF Station, Clinton, was guest speaker at the Hensel' Women's Institute March meeting, speaking on "Citizenship and Education." tie stressed the fact that the home is the greatest factor in the forming of a child's future life. The arena committee of Clinton Lions Club held a successful carnival at the Lions Arena last Friday night. Preceding the actual carnival the host Lions took no pity on their Kinsmen opponents in a broomball game, winning 1-0 on Joe Murphy's goal. Jack Scruton, in goal for Lions, earned the first shut-out of his career. Experience alone beat out the faster, younger Kinsmen. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 15, 1956 A group of Clinton businessmen have been quietly carrying out a survey 'during the last few months to determine the feeling of the buying public towards Friday evening shopping in 'Clinton instead of the usual Saturday night. Of the people contacted, the majority ate reported to be in favour 'of Friday. Clinton's `new" 'Colts are the group champions of the homebrew :section of the W.O.A.A. Big-8 for 1955.56. 'They brought the first group crown to Clinton in font years by 'defeating 'Watford Atoms 9-6 that we In this country are so remote, geographically, intellectually and emotionally, from the real and vital influence of the monarchy that we can only consider it hypothetically. Whatever lip service we pay to affection or loyalty to the crown is no more than a token or a form of self-consciousness. The institution is not a daily part of our lives, has no weighable effect on us for good or evil. If there is uncritical or dishonest reverence, as' the moderator made bold to suggest, it really is nothing more than ennui. The tumultuous acclaim which greets Her Majesty or her representatives during their infrequent visits to these shores would seem to refute this. Yet as a man who has covered five royal tours I am convinced that it is not the monarchy, as such, that is cheered, but simply the personages. It is nearly on Tuesday night to take the best of seven series four games to one. Henry Carter, now at Ripley, has been appointed to the position of station agent at the C.N.R. station. Mr. Carter is known to many in this district, and was at one time an operator here. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 21, 1946 Major Alder M. Jenkins, U.S.A.A.F., who has been commanding officer, U.S.A.A.F. Detachment No. 5, at Clinton for the past four years, has been transferred as commanding officer, U.S.A.A.F. Electronics Training School, Sequoia, California. Before departure, Major Jenkins informed the News-Record that radar, television and other technical equipment to value of $1,000,000 has been donated by the United States Government to the RCAF for use at R and C School, Clinton. Thomas Pryde *announces that he has accepted his son, John B. Pryde, into business partnership. The firm name of Cunningham and Pryde will be discontinued. In future the business will be conducted as T. Pryde and Son, Memorial Craftsmen, Exeter, Clinton and Seaforth. Tuckersmith, McKillop and 'fibbed Townships joined with the Town of' Seaforth to pay official tribute to the servicemen of the four municipalities at a large banquet in two churches at Seaforth, 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record March 19,.1931 The front street has been swept this week to help along the removal 'of ice and it is impossible, for example, to distinguish between a welcome to royalty in Toronto or Vancouver and a welcome to royalty in New York or Washington. That sort of proprietory, possessive response which is characteristic of a British crowd simply doesn't exist in Canada as a mass reaction though, of course, it is the reaction of many individuals. I would go so far as to say that the interest in the actual activities of the Queen or Phillip or Margaret or Charles or Anne is no different and no greater in Canada than it is in the United States, a royalist-hungry nation if ever there was one. Much is made during these visits of the phrase "our queen." Great care is taken to identify her as "Queen of Canada." Yet there is, at best, a transient feeling of identity with the crown. hoped it will be clear and dry long before the Spring Show Day, April 2nd. Miss E. Snider, pianist, Brucefield and organist of the Clinton Presbyterian Church; Miss J. McLean, elocutionist, Clinton; Miss G. Lammie, violinist, Hensall, and Mr. J. Thynne, violinist, Brussels, took part in a concert on Friday evening last in Goderich, given under the auspices of the Knox Presbyterian Church of that town. A driving hint — If you are inclined always to insist upon your right of way remember that you are likely to have the fight of way some day in an ambulance returning from an accident. 55 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era March 16, 1916 Rev. Frank C. Harper of Willis Presbyterian Church has been offered the Chaplaincy of the 117th Battalion, Simcoe County under command of Lieut.-Col. John B. McPhee of Barrie. Mr. William Wallace, General Manager of the Crown Life, was The vast crowds in the streets dissolve as the royal limousine passes out of view and return to their daily lives without any more conscious affinity with the monarchy than before, however much they may have been moved by the personalities or the spectacle. Indeed, the evidence of recent visits suggests that there may be a declining interest in such appearances and that even the 'symbolism of a 'field trip into the'dornain' is 'On the Wane. All of thig explains' why' the' "hot-line" moderator's opinion that we are somehow intimidated or afraid of a critical appraisal of the monarchy is groundless. Such debate, to get off the ground, relies on the presence of a strong anti-monarchy spokesman and there are few of them outside Quebec. The moderator, himself, was hoist on his own petard, as we in town on Friday last and while here called on The New Era to smell the ink can again,, as he said. Mr. Wallace for many years was in the newspaper game, both at Orangeville and afterwards as city editor of the Toronto Daily Star. The New Era and the Knitting Factory will be hitched up to the Hydro power by the end of the week if all goes well. The various motors have arrived during the past week, but on account of the snowstorm the wire men could not string the wire this week, The New Era expects to be attached by Friday night. 75 YEARS AGO The Clinton New Era March 20, 1896 Allen Turnbull has disposed of his livery business to Messrs. Harvey Davis and John McCool, who will close up the stable on Huron St. formerly occupied by Mr. Davis and continue the business in the premises occupied by Mr. Turnbull, Beattie Bros., Winghain, have purchased from W. J. Paisley, of Clinton, the four-year-old mare Wanetta, a sister to the famous used to say, because 'he could not bring himself to leap up with a cry of "Down with the Queen!" He could only rationalize on the fact that the crown doesn't mean much to this country and on that score he has no vocal opponents. The only possible answer he could expect would be, "So what?" While a Malcolm Muggeridge or a Lord Altrincham could once enjoy delicious notoriety in Britain by attacking any aspect of royalty (though both were always careful to assert their , loyalty to the sovereign) a man hopeful of similar notoriety in Canada would be doomed to the sharpest of all disappointments, the public yawn. It simply is not a vital issue. The bold critic of royalty, like the bold critic of the Arabian system of harems, may be provocative and interesting, but is unlikely to be locked in mortal combat. mare Wanda, recently sold by this enterprising firm for $2,500. Wanetta gives promise of being faster than her sister. The drill shed on Orange Street has been pulled down to the infinite relief of residents in that vicinity, for it was supposed to be sleeping place of many a tramp.