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Election choices - the candidates
Charles MacNaughton — fast afoot, can
sidestep difficult questions faster than
Toronto Argonaut's Leon McQuay can
sidestep tacklers.
Tends to become ,apoplectic when
tackled by a tough question he cannot
avoid, which could mean serious trouble
for him if Stephen Lewis heads the
official opposition.
Also troubled by a severe case of "the
f ederal-government-is-to-b lame" disease
Which strikes whenever someone asks him
about something that is wrong in the
province.
Ken Duncan — Ken who?
, Mr. Duncan started as a virtual
unknown and with the full power of the
great Liberal machine in Huron behind
him, may just end up that way too.
He'll likely hold his own because there
are enough died-in-the-wool Liberals and
dissatisfied Tories around who won't vote
NDP to give him votes despite the
non-campaign being fought for him.
Paul Carroll — Nice guy. Will make a
good member some day when he grows
up, but right now he's just in the wrong
riding.
Not enough voters in Huron are ready
for his brand of mild socialism yet,
especially farmers who greeted him with
deafening indifference at the Huron
Federation of Agriculture meeting last
week.
Election choices. - the parties
To set the record straight before we
begin, it would be fair to say that the
News—Record believes the Liberal Party
under Robert Nixon provides the best
alternative for a Conservative government
that has been in power too long.
Premier Davis and his campaign .
planners have tried to project the image
that there is a new wave with new ideas in
control of the government and the party
but a look behind the facade shows it just
isn't so. For one thing, it was Davis
himself who brought in the costly county
boards of education whose benefits have
yet to be proven. He wouldn't Ile premier
today without the support of Charles
MacNaughton and Darcy McKeough, two
of the other big men behind John Roberts
who helped lead the Conservatives in their
plan of consolidation and centralization.
McKeough was behind initial planning for
regional government which may be the
most expensive and disastrous move the
government has yet made if it is allowed
to proceed in its present manner.
Davis backers have made much of his
decision to stop the Spadina Expressway,
of the decision against extending aid to
separate schools, saying they took great
courage to make, More important than
courage though was sheer political
shrewdness Newspapers across the
province told of what a "difficult"
decision Davis had to make on the school
question but only Harold Greer writing in
the London Free Press really looked
behind the decision.
Mr. Greer pointed out that the odds
were in Mr. Davis' favour in the decision.
For one thing, there are more
non-Catholics than Catholics in the
province and "they are not disposed, to
put it mildly, to see public monies spent
on the Catholic high schools". There are
also, he pointed out, a large number of
Catholics who are not sure they like the
idea of more aid for separate high schools,
and these too would agree with the
decision.
Mr. Greer also observed that though
Mr. Davis claimed he did not want to
make it an election issue, he purposely
left the decision, which could have been
made in the spring, until just days before
the declaration of an election, And then
his decision was the One everyone knew
he would make in the first place.
Likewise, the Spadina decision was
based on numbers as much as on the
belief that the city is for people, not for
the tar, Davis knew a great many people
in Toronto would worship him for closing
down the highway. He also knew that
people in other parts of Ontario would
like the idea of the government calling off
its spending spree in Toronto.
So it was a good decision politically,
but by grandstanding it, • Davis- may
actually have hurt his cause. For one
thing, it has become obvious that he
didn't have an alternative in mind when
he made the decision. For another, when
he called off the expressway, several
miles, complete with overpasses, were
ready for paving. The houses have been
torn down, the money has been spett, but
all Toronto will get is a muddy hole two
miles long.
Robert Nixon, while agreeing with the
philosophy behind the decision, said the
unfinished road that had been built
should be paved, and he has kept up the
fight. Many people are now agreeing with
him, and some are even wondering if it
woui,in't be better to finish the whole
Spadina before calling off major
expressway building in Toronto.
But if we could be sure that Davis
would continue to scrutinize and reverse
old policies (the Conservatives of course
backed the Spadina in the first place), it
might warrant giving him a chance to
govern. However, as stated earlier, the
leader of the party may be different but
the same policy makers are still at the top
of the party.
At this crucial point in the province's
history, the News—Record doesn't think
we can stand another term of
Conservative rule with its policies of
Centralizing of power in Toronto. We feel
that in rural area especially, large scale
regional planning is out of the question at
the moment. Therefore we support Mr.
Nixon and his fight to decentralize power,
to give the local municipality more power
in its own affairs. Some reorganization of
local political boundaries will obviously
be necessary but it would be better if we
redesign our own government as we are
beginning to do in Huron County rather
than having Toronto telling us what to do.
Mr. Nixon's plan to pay 80 percent of
education costs will give the
municipalities more financial room to
work to solve their own problems.
Why support the Liberals rather than
the New Democrats?
For one thing because the NDP seems
to have a hodge podge of programs with
no common thread running through them,
while the Liberals seem to have worked
out a comprehensive program over the last
couple of years. Secondly, it is hard to
know just who runs the N.D.P. At all
times there seems to be a battle within the
party between the moderates and the
radical waffle element, If the party should
gain power, the Waffle might gain power
within the party and we would not be
getting the government we elected.
The Liberals have fresh minds to look
at what 28 years of Conservative rule have
done for Ontario and keep what is good
and throw out what is bad. We feel that
this is what the province needs right now,
a good housecleaning. That is why the
News—Record supports the Liberal party.
We don't necessarily buy all their
policies such as the separate school
OuestiOn, but on the whole, we think Mr.
Nixon and his colleagues will give us good,
stable government,
There is one area we'll take Davis over
Nixon—he spends more money on
advertising which is great for a newspapers
balance sheet.
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4 Clinton News-Record, Thursday, October 14,1971
Editorial comment ,
H is t ory in pictures v======q= Guest
editorial
Love aloft
The first thing I did when I
got back from an assignment in
Japan the other day was to
hurry to my psychiatrist, Dr.
Gottlieb, and fling myself with a
happy cry upon his confessional
couch,
Gottlieb was busy throwing
paper darts out of the window
of his seventeenth-storey office,
but, finally, with ill-disguised
contempt, he gave me his
attention.
"What now, clown?" he
asked in what I thought to be a
somewhat less than professional
manner,
"Sometimes," I said, "when
you hear the thunder of an
aircraft in the night sky, it is
well to remember that an air
hostess is on duty up there,
looking after her passengers."
"You don't say," Gottlieb
said.
"Not for her," I said, "the
certainty of bricks and mortar.
She rides the sky in a metal box,
ready always to console, to help,
75 YEARS AGO
The Clinton New Era
October 16, 1896
At the end of this month our
cheese factory will close down
after its first season's business.
Taking everything into account,
the season has been a
satisfactory one, and it is
expected that next year the
output will be much larger. Mr,
Hill was fortunate in securing a
first-class cheesemaker, and is
Worthy of renewed confidence.
Despite the inclemency of the
weather the Blyth fair was a
success, The variety and
excellence of the exhibits, the
new and commodious grounds,
and the crowds of people
proclaimed that Blyth still leads
the county. The concert at night
was well-attended.
55 YEARS AGO
'The Clinton New Bra
October 12, 1916
On Saturday evening Mr, Jack
Middleton of Goderich
Township, tame into town and
gave the soldier boys on the
streets a basket of peaches. It is
needless to say the boys enjoyed
the treat.
Each year the shooting season
records a long list Of accidents
due to carelessness of hunters in
the forest and in the use of
firearms. A gun going off
accidentally and killing the
owner, climbing over fences wi th
a gun cocked and loaded, or
shooting at a companion in
mistake for an animal are
stereotyped causes, With the
knowledge of the danger of
firearms, it is surely incumbent
upon hunters to exercise every
precaution and keep continually
before them the motto "Safety
First."
to serve—if necessary, to save, It
is to her that the passengers turn
in doubt, in distress and in
danger—and they never turn in
vain."
"You are quoting from
something," the doctor asked
suspiciously.
"From a radio talk by one
Jerrard Tickell," I admitted,
"but only to get my point across
to you. I'm in love again, madly
in love again."
Dr. Gottlieb gravely took a
pipe from his desk, put it in his
mouth and blew a few bubbles..
"Go ahead," he said testily,
"for 80 bills an hour listen to
any thi ng."
"I have just flown to Japan
and back," I said, propping
myself on one elbow. "On each
flight there were three
stewardesses aboard—two fair of
skin, the other with the fine
saffron complexion which makes
the Japanese woman rightly
renowned for her beauty."
yesterday. Upstairs is the
antique show, where many
things of interest are on display;
furniture, clothing, chinaware,
pictures, books, guns, fossels,
etc„ a visit to this department is
well worthwhile,
25 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
October 17, 1946
Clinton Boy Scouts and Wolf
Cubs held a very successful
Apple Day On Saturday, October
12. It is understood that $294,
the amount collected, set a new
record for Apple Day.
15 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-ilecord
October ii, 1956
The play, "The pack Fifty"
and other numbers in the
centennial program presented in
the town hall on Fair night are
being repeated by request of the
many who were unable to find a
seat in the hall that night.
Remember the date, Thursday,
October 18,
A week-long "Mission to the
Nation" is being carried out by
the United Church of Canada
during the week of Octohdr
21-28. There will be over 100
Preaching Missions carried out
across Canada.
10 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News,Reeotd
October 12,1.961
When talking to a pedestrian
near the main intersection
yesterday, while watching
workmen clear away the three
damaged vehicles., we
commented that the Wright arid
Ley hut rie truck cab was
squinched between the car and
13a 11-MacauleY's truck. The
pedestrian looked a little
confused arid we found he'd
never heard of "squinclied"
before. So we explained that
we'd used it for some years, and
it iS a word Made- up-of squeezed
and pinched, Very handy word
in some places.
"Let's have no vivid
reporting," the doctor
interrupted. "Just the facts,
please,"
"Well," I owned, "there's
been nothing like it in my life
since I first fell in love with
Hope Lange on television."
"How about when you
rattled in here after your
appendectomy?" Dr. Gottlieb
asked, "I recall you babling
something about being
hopelessly gone on four nurses
in Ward E."
"The symptoms are
identical," I agreed. "The
Goddess Syndrome, as I recall
you putting it. The cool,
detached worship of the superior
female utterly beyond reach.
What paragons they are, Doc!
Full of dignity and puprose in
their snappy uniforms, yet
utterly feminine." I lowered my
eyes and crimsoned, "One of
them tucked me in somewhere
over the frozen tundra of the
Aleutians at 27,000 feet."
"You reacted this way to all
six stewardesses?" Dr. Gottlieb
queried, a flicker of interest in
his stoat-like eyes.
"That's what alarms me," I
replied. "You know me—the
devoted husband, father of
three, ex-leader of the Snake
Patrol of the Cub Scout. Am I
reaching the dangerous age,
Doc?"
Dr, Gottlieb circled the room
Recently I wrote a column on
the subject of what the
individual would do if he or she
had one year to live. I asked for
suggestions from readers arid
have received quite a few,
Perhaps the most interesting
ideas came from a Grade 9 class.
Their teacher had suggested my
topic and asked them to write an
essay on it, The results were
revealing, touching in some
eases, rather horrifying in others.
give you a sampling,
reproduced just as they were
written, grammar and spelling
intact.
In most cases, the boys were
brief and pungent, The girls
tended to write what the teacher
might think was worthy, with a
few notable exceptions. They
waxed romantic and dramatic.
The boys were blunt and honest.
Grace: "About a month
before I was to die I would go to
a church every day talking to
God and then later to a priest."
Lyrim "If I had one year to
live I would quit sell , leave
home and go live with my
brother in Montreal. When died
well I guess I die."
Debbie: "I would quit school
And .,.go to Las Vegas because
My mother and father—said it is
the best place to go if you want
to win money After I go there I
am going to go all over the
world, Then I will go the the
hospital and just wait until
DIE, But I will have a wonderful
time before I go. THE END."
Obviously a hedonist,
slowly, a study in deep
concentration, methodically
working his yo-yo.
"You're the fifth case of this
type in a week," he said.
"Indeed, I am thinking of
preparing a very long paper to be
called `Gottlieb's Theory on
Stewardess Fixation."
"Then I'm not alone?"
"By no means," the doctor
said. "Lock a bunch of
men—and usually rather dull
men—inside an aluminum cigar
with a woman who is capable,
attractive and dedicated to
serving them, propel this
improbable cigar into the wild
blue yonder, severing its
occupants from the comfortable
reality of their everyday lives,
and naturally they all get a little •
squirreily in the cranium, as we
psychiatrists put it, Why, I
remember a flight to Honolulu
last winter. There was this little
auburn-haired stewardess.,"
"Please, Doc," I interrupted.
"I'm paying you."
"Go, and consider yourself
cured," Dr. Gottlieb said,
making out his bill. "I've an
outer office filled with new
patients and I must be through
with them by four when I see
My psychiatrist."
"New patients, Doc? I asked.
"Hundreds of airline
stewardesses," Dr. Gottlieb said.
"Got some of the weirdest
problems you ever heard,"
Cindyt "The first thing I
would quit school be ause
what's the use of getting an
education if you don't have time
to use it." Good thinking,
Cindy.
Barb: "I would quit school
leave home and take lots of
money. Then I would travel all
over by my thumb. Have cops
after me and get all kinds of
trouble,.."
Susan would smoke in front
of her parents and come and go
as she pleased with
housework or baby-sitting to`Vo%
"and probably get anything
wanted, especially from my
dad."
Bonnie: " I would like to
leave school, leave home and go
With a motor-cycle gang for a
year_heve cops after me all the
time and getting in lots of
trouble, And about one month
before I was to die I would try
to take a trip on speed and see
what it really did. And just live
in freedom."
Tom: "I would borrow 5,000
and make a formula to blow up
the world just before I died I
would blow up the
world."That's one way out,
Torn.
Jim: "I would like to turn 18
and quit school, start clrinking,
get my drivers license and start
orking" There's a
combination,
Tom: I would get leave of
school and bum it all the way.
And by a snowmoble and a
bigger boat."
Frank: "I would go to bankl
and borrow 20,000 and go have
some fun. First I would go and
steal a ear and smash it up,
would buy a lot of food and give
it to Care. I would go to
Toronto and steal a bunch of
junk and sell it to somebody,
would get into fights. I would
burn down the schools and
factors." The schools and
factors?* There's a nice,
wholesome kid.
Steve: "First I would quit
school, Then since Pm 18 go out
and get stoned (bloody
After about a week recovery I'd
buy a .303 and shoot Prisedent
Nixon (good). Then go to the
electric chair and go the fast
way.
Jim: "I would ward to go all
over the world with my wife also
I would write a will leaving
everything to my wife and
would donate my eyes to a blind
person:" He must have a girl
friend.
Mike: "I would like to drink,
eat arid live it up (have stag
Parties, Noose, lots of girls, food
and money.) About a month
before I die will arange my
funeral."
As I said, just a sample, but it
makes you think, I've used only
bits, but theresa pattern, About
80 percent would leave school at
Once. About 50 percent would
leave home. About 90 percent
would travel around the world.
About '60 percent think bank
managers are philanthropists.
About 20 percent are idealistic,
the rest materialistic.
Rather frightening, what?
No. 31, Royal Air Force Radio School, Clinton, Ont. on June 10,
1942. In the foreground is the silo called "Cocks' Folly". When
the original farm buildings were being destroyed to make way for
the RAF station, Wing Commander Cocks, The Commanding
Officer refused to let the contractors tear it down because he felt
it was a mark of distinction. The passing of time has proved him
right, The contractor gave it a lighthouse top and atop the
lighthouse, RAF personnel fixed a few dipoles to make it look
like a sort of radar beacon array and they advised any curious
visitors "that it was needed for training purposes." In the
background, Station Headquarters and the farmhouse which was
used as the Commanding Officer's residence until the mid 1950's.
POLITICAL. FOOTBALL
The fate of the facilities at
CFB Clinton is still very much
up in the air, and, unfortunately,
it is turning into a bit of a
political football.
An editorial in the
Liberal-oriented Seaforth
Expositor last week was critical
of the fact the Ontario
government had not moved in
quickly to take over the base
and put it to use as it has done
in other parts of Ontario.
It even suggested the future
of the Clinton base "could be
solved in minutes" if Ontario
made good on its assurance of
establishing a Conestoga College
satellite in Huron and decided to
use CFB Clinton for this
Purpose. Failing that, the
newspaper sees nothing wrong
with moving the Department of
Agriculture out of its high-priced
headquarters in downtown
Toronto and into Clinton.
While the Liberals in Ottawa
may only take a few minutes to
come up with their decision to
close down the two CFB bases in
Huron and toss hundreds of
people out of work and drain
the economy, it is unreasonable
to assume the provincial
government should be solely
charged with filling the void.
If the base is, in fact, suitable
for the headquarters of the
Department of Agriculture, why
not let the federal department
move their operations to Huron!
Or, if we want to use the base
for educational purposes, let the
Canada Manpower people use it,,
rather than Conestoga College.
Obviously, the entire base is
much too large for the latter to
consider in whole anyway.
But enough of this silly
political bickering, with the pots
calling the kettles black. What is
needed now is some
co-operation between the
various levels of government,
and not name-calling.
Hopefully, a buyer who can
put the base to practical use will
be found when bids are accepted
next week.
Failing that, the federal,
provincial and county
governments should sit down
and see how each could combine
efforts to find tenants to keep
the facilities active.
A few light industries, a
satellite of Conestoga College, a
year-round recreational training
school, a retraining school for
Canada Manpower, etc., etc.,
could just do the trick.
—Exeter Times-Advocate
40 YEARS AGO
The Clinton News-Record
October 15,1951
The Hospital Fair is on,
opening in the town hall
Bizarre answers to a year to go