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Clinton News-Record, 1970-01-08, Page 44 Clinton NeW$7.13ecord,. Thursday, janUary La, 1970 Editori al ,comme4 Thank God *e're- 'through. The announcement that Canada has withdrawri from international hockey competition must .be welcome news to everyone, whether a hockey fan or just a proud Canadian. At last we've had the guts to take an action we should have taken years ago. Hockey used to be one way Canada built its prestige,internationally, When. European, teams improved to the point where our amateur players (usually Young, and inexperienced or old and ,past their prime) could no longer win easily the great hypocrisy started. Under international rules our players who earned a living by the game were ineligible because we called them professional. Yet in Europe, where there was no professional status, players could" make , hockey their sole job and still be called amateurs, therefore remaining eligible for international play. $0 every year for the last decade We'Ve sent over our fifth or sixth best players to get slaughtered by the Russians, Swedes and Czechs and cried, when they lost because we couldn't send our best players. crying can get to 'be a habit and it certainly isn't good for the morale of a country. This year, with the world tournament to be played on our own soil for the first time, it appeared that we might at last have ootten a break, especially' when it was' agreed to let nine professional players play on any team. The reversal of this decision on Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland left our official% no other decision than to withdraw from the tournament. Thank goodness they did pull out. After beating our heads against a brick wall for ten years, it should feel great to stop. Clubs help snowmobilers There is no doubt about it, for better or for worse snowmobiles are here to stay. With nearly 100,000 snowmobiles in the province and the number mushrooming every year, the snowmobile has become a definite part of the winter scene.' They can be benefitial by providing recreation• for thousands, but they can also be a detriment to safe, peaceful enjoyment of winter. The ideal place for snowmobiles is in the country where they can zoom across open fields with little nuisance to others. But unfortunately, not/ every one who wants to own a snowmobile can live in the country, and those who live in • towns don't want •to have to go to the country every time they wish •to enjoy their sport. The result is that snowmobiles can be seen (and heard) ripping up and down streets after every snowfall. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't that something about a snowmobile urges its driver to get off the • road, and in town that leaves nowhere but on people's lawns. Somethit .eise about a snowmobile seems to attract drivers to drive them late 'at night when the streets are clear of other traffic. As a result, many a sound sleeper has been jarred from slumber at three in ..the morning. After several years of enduring this growing annoyance, homeowners are at the point of. rebellion. Complaints have led many municipalitiet to ban the machines from the streets. Indiscriminate use of snowmobiles can now lead to fines in Kitchener, Listowel and W.ingham and more towns and cities are joining the list every week. Recently, Ontario Deputy. Transport Minister Walter Macnee announced that new regulations governing snowmobiles will be introduced at the next session of the legislature. He expressed concern over the rising number of accidents and deaths among the snowmobiling set. These are the facts facing all those who, follow this growing sport. The careless actions of the few who turn into maniacs the moment they straddle a machine, have put the.' enjoyment of the sport in jeopardy for the thousands of considerate owners and operators. So far, only one weapon has been effective for the snowmobilers who wish to maintain their freedom. In many areas they have formed snowmobile clubs which have set up areas which are off limits to club members (such as hospitals, schools, etc.) and generally policed the actions of members to make sure they do not make a nuisance of themselves in urban areas. Voluntary restraint is always preferable to law, and it is to be hoped that more snowmobilers will follow the example of those who have made the clubs esUccess in other areas. If not) they will be subjected to tighter and tighter regulations which could take a lot of the enjoyment out of the sport. Smiley's forecast You probably have some pre- dictions for the 1970's, as I do. Let's see how they match, Remember, this is for the whole decade, not just 1970. Let's get rid of the Ilirty ones first. There is going to be more ,and more racial trouble. And this means more and more violence, hatred, killing and cruelty, both •physical and psy- chological. The whites are going to be beleaguered, and are going to fight back ruth- leasly, most of them. There is going to be more and more pollution: noise, air, water, despite the strenuous efforts of a vocal minority to do something about it. The al- mighty buck will continue to dictate policy in this field. Taxes will go on rising and inflation will go on inflating. The only solution would be rigid controls of wages, rent, food, etc., and no politician will have the guts to impose them. And if he did, the public would raise a holocaust of hue and cry that would send him smartly back to his law prac- tice, The standard of living will increase, and so will the stand- ard of dying. We'll have more things, and we'll kill ourselves faster getting them. There Will be just as many• poor people in 1976 as there were. in 1066 and probably more people talking about it, ,oanci doing less. People will drink more and think less. The drug scene will make the Sixties look like a Sunday school picnic where somebody had too much lemon- ade. The Vietnam war will peter out ignominiously. The Com- munists of North Vietnam will take over. There will be vicious purges. And then the Vietnamese will go about their business of rebuilding and liv- ing. Millions of today's hippies will be sick with arthritis and kidney trouble, will be on wel- fare and wondering why they. did it. The Arabs will continue their efforts to wipe out the Jews and get some bloody noses in the process. Husbands will continue to beat up their wives on Satur- day night. Or vice versa. Education will go through its lowest swing of the pendu- lum in 100 years, as the disci- pline of learning is replaced by having a ball, doing "projects" and talking when you ,haven't anything to talk with, or about. Canada will become a very junior partner of Uncle Sam, Inc. That is, if it first doesn't became a gaggle of minor republics with about as much international prestige as Monaco. Sounds like a •pretty Sordid SeventieS, doeSn't it, But it won't be that bad. That's the big picture; and big pictures are often third-rate; as witness most of the big-screen movies you've seen lately. In the little, subjective world. Where the individual_ lives, it isn't all black. Babies will continue to be born and chuckle and have their little soft bellies blown on and be precious and funny and utterly delightful for a few years. And the foul brown mud of March will gradually give way to' the lush green grass of May, and the dead black twigs of winter will become the green mist of April and the 'rich joy of June. And the brutal winds and biting cold of February will inevitably turn into the broil- ing brown beach of July. And . the wheat and the peaches will turn to gold. And the potatoes will come up plump and firm and scabless, And the fish will be fat and the beef will be beefy. And perhaps you will do something good ,and kind. And perhaps someone will say something that makes you think you are worthwhile. And perhaps you Will have model teenagers (hah!). And perhaps you will grow in understanding and love. And perhaps your eat won't have kittens. Personally, I think the Sev- enties will be like most of the other ages of man: black and white; 'grey and orange, blue and gold. Well, all we can do is wait and see, chaps. But don't hold your breath waiting for my predictions to be wrong. Just carry tn, and live each day as a precious gift which will nev- er come to you again. Happy Seventies. THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated Established 1865 1924 THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 Clinton News Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) s,econcl• clasS mail registratiOn ntinriber 0817 SUBSCritirrioN RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7.50 KEITH W. ROULSTON t ditor J. HOWARD AITKEN — Oeneral' Manager Published every Thursday at the heart et Huron County 4 Clinton, Ontario Population 1,475 THE HOME OP RADAR I)" CANADA Photo by Ron Price BULLRUSHES IN A WINTER SCENE The broad beams of lady curlers. ONTARIO. STREET .UNITED "TVg FRIENDLY CHURCH" Pastor.; REV, II, W. woNFp ft, 449m,, Organist; MISS .!4:95 GRASBY, SUNDAY, JANUARY -8;48 a.m. Sunday .School, 11:90 a.m.-•-• Morning Worship, SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER Reception of New Members Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D, Minister MR. LORNE. DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Coirectin SUNDAY, JANUARY 11th WESLEY--VVI LIM Sunday School — 9:45 a.m. 11;00 a.m. — Service of Holy Communion and Reception of New Members. HPLMESVILLE 1:00 a.m. — Service of Holy Communion, 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School. —ALL WELCOME ' CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.D. Services: 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. (On 2nd and 4th Sunday, 9:30 a.m.) The Church of the Back to God Hour every Sunday 12:30 p.m., CHLO — Everyone Welcome — ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH— The Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A., Minister ' Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JANUARY 11th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. • Madeleine Lane Auxiliary will meet at Church on Tuesday, January 13 at 8:15 p.m. BAYF'IELD BAPTIST CHURCH • Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, JANUARY 11th Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evening Gospel Service: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,, 8:00 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study' mom•1•••1 =WI MINI7 calW ff411:: =r op,/ OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET Fey Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Squire, GODER ICH 524-7661 THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR YOUR AD 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 S.••••••••"‘•••••.'•••••••••00.00,041. \\NAV\ \ ••••••••••• \ ••• \\NO. Business and Professional THE IVIcKILLOP 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 6, Seaforth; Wm. Leiper, Jr., tendesborn; Selwyn Baker, Brussels; ffarpid Stiire, Clinton; George Coyne, Dublin; Donald G. Eaton, *forth, It's only a few months ago how that I was girl-watching in London, Paris and Rome, where women are women and' a splendid sight to behold, and this,may explain why it was such an inopportime time. to be introduced to Canadian ladies' curling. I . know that they're ladies because one of them happened to be the wife of my closest friend. It was his idea that we should drop in on the bonspiel, if I have that right, and watch his wife's "rink", if I have that right, in what he assured me was a crucial match,. asaire'd rile' "The dals' ha've 'really gone out for the sport." Well, fascinated was hardly the word. Appalled? Yes. Dumbfounded? Absolutely. But not fascinated, not fascinated at all. Indeed I haven't felt this melancholy about the opposite sex since the day my sweet mother put on her first pair of Slim jima Taking sex out of it entirely (which, Lord knows, is what they've done) curling is probably the looniest game ie the world. It is played with rocks, including those in the heads of the participants. It is played on ice, of all things, which alone qualifies it as not only the strangest of games, but also the most uncomfortable. Any relatively sane person who knows that ice was meant to be broken up into 75 YEARS AGO January 2,1895 "The Clinton News-Record, has just entered upon. its 17th year and it seems to improve with age. In fact it is one of the very best weeklies in Canada and is a credit to the town in which it is published." — The Mitchell Advocate. At. J. C. Stevenson's Furniture Emporium, "a fine oak Parlor Suite, in Tapestry Plush, handed, assorted colours" was available at $22.50 cash. January 9, 1895 Council of the Town of Clinton will be same number as last year. There will be three men at the board who were not there last year and two untried men. Council now stands: Mayor, Robert Holmes; Reeve, A, McMurchie; Deputy-Reeve, D, B. Kennedy; Councillors, J. C. Gilroy, Jacob Taylor, T. McKenzie, J. McMurray, S. S. Cooper, Chat, Overbuy; T. C. Bruce; and W. C. Searle. Among Clintonians who attended the Christmas assembly in Seaforth. on December 26th were: Mrs. Jas. Fair Jr„ Dr. Shaw; Misses Fair, Rance, Worthington and McMurray and Messrs. M. McTaggart, R. J. McDonald, N, MeL. Fair and Tr. Jackson. 40 YEARS AGO January 1930 Miss Jean Falconer of Paris Silent a few days at her home last week. Miss Luella Walkinshaw of Toronto was home for Christmas. Mr. J. G. Sloman visited his son, Mr. Fred Slornan at Capreol for Christmas. Mr. W. H. Mutch of Hamilton came home and spent the, Christmastide with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mutch. • January 9, 1930 Colonel Combe was returned to, the office of Mayor. The bylaw allowing for the granting of More than one pool room license carried by a majority of 141. There was a "buy-at-home" campaign being boosted• by Clinton merchants to prove values equalling any to be found in larger towns or cities could be procured in local stores. Miss M. G. Rudd returned Saturday from Flint, Mich. where she had spent some weeks owing to the illness and subsequent death of her brother-in-law, Mr, George Ran ball. , 15 YEARS AGO JanuarY 5, 1955 K. Beecher Menzies, foriterly of Londesboro, and recently of London, began practising Law here in Clinton on Monday. Dr, and Mrs. J. W. Shaw ere celebrating their 68th wedding anniversary today: Dr. ShaW, now 98 years old, and his wife Were married on January 6, 1897 and have made their home in Clinton Over sinee, besnite adverse weather least possible advantage this would surely be it." My mind, as I said at the beginning, kept going back to the women of Europe, the elegant, charming, alluring, graceful women of another culture, and I had to fight back the salty tears. Would any of these women be seen dead in a curling rink? Would , Madame Pompadour curl? Would Brigitte Bardot or Vanessa Redgrave or Margot Fonteyn volunteer as the "skip" — skip? — of a "rink" in a refrigerated barn? Here you have the Canadian `housewife a"' brisk and really awfully nice girl when you know her — all got up in funny, lumpy costumes and "cute" tams as if for some kind of horrible Hallowe'en masquerade, heaving "stones" in an ungainly motion and then violently sweeping with a . broom, all unbecomingly flushed with exertion. Why, it's enough to make a man's blood run cold — or even colder than it already is in this echoing deep freeze. I got out of there fast, I can tell you. I'm a growing boy with warm, romantic illusions about women' that I don't intend to give up lightly, even if it means taking a boat to more civilized climes. Oh, yes, my friend whose wife was out there told me that curling is 'called "the roaring game." No man ever felt that he had a chance with a roaring woman. conditions, a representative group of county officials. and local citizens gathered last Thursday afternoon for the official opening ' of Patterson Bridge at Auburn. Mr. and Mrs. John Snider, well-known residents of Clinton celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage on December 29 with a family dinner at their home, Albert Street. `25 YEARS AGO January 4, 1945 Air Force headquarters, Ottawa, announced on January 1 that F.O. W. F. Cook had been rewarded the D.F.C. President of the Clinton Red Cross Society for 1945 is Mrs. W. A. Oakes. During the Christmas season, a very happy afternoon was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cuninghame when Mrs. Cuninghame was hostest to a young group of carollers from St. Nat Church. 10 YEARS AGO January 8,1950 The inaugural meeting of Clinton Town Council on Monday was preceded by a roast geese dinner served at Hotel Clinton with Mayor Burton A. Stanley, siipported by the ``first Lady," MM. Stanley, as !was. Projects outlined for 1960 by Mayor Stanley included naming streets and slumbering houses; suitable sign§ leading tothe community park, so that visitors Would be able to' find it hew rest rooms to' be built; repair of sidewalks within the town, little pieces and dropped, tinkling, into tall glasses, cannot watch them without wincing. Since the game has almost no athletic, aspect beyond shoving the "stone" — stone? — along the ' frozen surface the chilled participants must keep • their spirits and their circulation bolstered by vigorously sweeping the ice with brooms. It is either that or' get stoned in another way. Broom-sweeping, in fact, appears to be about 98 percent of the game, all the more remarkable when it involves a member of'the qgir Sex who": might freely volunteer that the broom is the symbol of female slavery. All of this could be Understood as a man's hobby. Men are notoriously idiotic about such things and will do almost anything as an excuse to get out of the house, even sweeping ice. I, myself, often drag little pieces of wood or metal behind a boat for no apparent reason. But when it becomes a pursuit of women, when it becomes yet another long step away from all that is cherishable and feminine in our girls, then it behooves a man to launch himself in the full orbit of protest. As I watched 'these resolute ladies I kept thinking to myself, "If a woman-hater spent years trying to devise, something that would show off females to the