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Clinton News-Record, 1970-01-15, Page 3ONTARIO STREET. UNITED CHURCH "THE 1 Rilrfy 3LY cliWRcH" Pastor: RFV. H. W. WIDNFQR, B,Se, B,Corn,gi.(5, Organist: MISS LOIS GRASE3Y, A.R.c.T. SONPAY, JANUARY 18th 9:45 a.m. -- Sunday School.— .11;00 a.m. — Morning Worship. Sermon Topic.; 'When The World Tries To Pit You into its Mold" , 8:00 p.m. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Service in ,We'SIOV-Willis United ChUrch. ,Holmesville United Churches .REV. A..1. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., is.-P„ -p.p., Minister MR. L,PRNE .DOTTEP.ER,.Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JANUARY 18th WESLEY-WILLIS Sunday School 9:45 a.m. 11;00 a.m, Morning WOrshiP. Sermon Topic: "FAITH FOR THE '70's" 0:00 p.m. — Week of Prayer for Christian • Unity Service. All Welcome HOLMESVILLE 1:00 p.m. — Worship Service. 2:00 p.m. — Sunday School. — ALL WELCOME — CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, Clinton 263 Princess Avenue Pastor: Alvin Beukema, B.A., B.O. 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 — Wh to world of winter Photo by K.W.R. 4 Clinton NeVY5'..RPPPrOt. 'Ihprgigy, Jontiay. 5, 1970 ithforiatIment Fire protection could be better in light of the recent tragedy of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lobb of RR 2, Clinton, a suggestion put forward by Bob BroadfOot of Brucefield last week seems to make a lot of sense. Commenting on the fire that destroyed the Lobb house, at the Huron County Federation of Agriculture directors meeting here in Clinton on Thursday, Mr, BroadfOot suggested the formation of some sort of central dispatching unit for fire departments similar to the dispatch centre recently, set up for area ambulances, in Seaforth. He pointed out that the Clinton fire department had the fire under control When they ran out of water, and the house was lost. The Clinton department has no tanker truck but both Blyth and Brucefield, have tankers and both could easily have reached the scene on time if they had known of the emergency,\, The use of tanker trucks is a necessity in fighting farm fires, yet it hardly seems necessary for every fire department in the county to own one. The ambulance dispatch centre is too new for us to know how well it works yet, but if it works as it, should, the concept could certainly be used for fire protection. The concept of a switchboard manned at all hours of the day at a central place to dispatch all fire brigades in 'the county should be explored thoroughly. The dispatch centre would be able to Pinpoint the scene of the fire and decide what department was closest to make the call. Often in 'rural fires it is fiord to tell whet department is nearest to the scene, With two-way radio equipment in •all emergency vehicles, the departments could keep in touch with the dispatch centre and if additional help was needed, ° it could be obtained without delay. If, for example, the Clinton brigade was answering a farm fire and found itself running low on water it could contact the dispatch centre by radi6 and have a tanker truck from Blyth or Brucefield on the way in minutes. Since only one man is required to man a tanker, there would be no need of calling two complete brigades to the fire unless both were needed. One essential of any such centre would be that it have a toll-free number which anyone could dial from anywhere in the county. The dispatch centre would cost money to be sure but would save money too in the elimination of unnecessary duplication of equipment. And it ,would save several farm homes and buildings every year, perhaps even lives. End of an era tHe CLINToN NEW E13A Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECOR 0 1924 Established 1885 ' Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly NeWspaper AaSociation and the Audit bureau Of Ciretilation (A130) Sedond class mail registration nurnber 0811 SUEtsCklOtION RAits: (in advance; Canada, $6.06 per year, $7,50 Kelti4 W. ikOlit8tat tditor J. HOWAlii) AITKEN derietal Maria er . , • Published every Thursday at the heart of 'Huron county Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 HOME OP RAPAP IN CANADA `Then there was this fine, big girl with very few clothes, on ...' they still have me on the books for the 24 lessons I never used? Young people nowadays don't seem to .have this mania for bettering themselves by correspondence. It surprises me that Charles Atlas is still in business. I'd have guessed that the day of the Scrawny, Skinnychested Weakling was !,!* 38c to 40c; Eggs, 30c to 50c; Live hogs, $11,75. Monday's voting• returned Col. H. B. Combe to the mayor's chair for a third term over S. S. Cooper, Mrs. N. W. Trewartha to the reeveship, over ex-Reeve Langford. ' Dr. Graham, who addressed a special Meeting of Presbytery in Wesley-Willis United church yesterday, is a son of the late Rev. Mr. Graham, who was one time pastor of Rettenbury Street United church, Clinton. Mr. John Whiteman, one of the oldest, if not the oldest, citizen of Kippen receiving congratulations, hi which all join today as he passes another milestone, being 98 years old, 25 YEARS AGO January 11, 1945 Born, in Clinton Public Hospital oft Thursday, December 28th to Mr. and Mrs, Jack Henderson, a daughter, Janet Marie, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shaddick and family of Clinton visited with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Thos. VairserVice, Lorideaboto r on Sunday: Pte., Ellen MatKay, returned to London on Sunday having had her leave eXtentied two days owing, to illness. faith in advertising, I wouldn't over, • have believed that CharleS.pould. ,may Ng.* have kept so youthful, Lord, it's 'York School Ort, Magic is fully a quarter of a century ago existence. I enrolled in that one, that I enrolled in his Dynamic too, and for the same mason Tension Course — absolutely that I'd,t.gone to Charles, Girls, .f FREE — yet here he was, that is ' obviously as vibrant and muscled The/Magic School caught me on the rebound from the. dynamic tension apparatus, promising wild success with the young ladies • through legerdeMain. One of the tricks they sent me was a vanishing playing card, an ace of ,spades with about eight yards of heavy-duty elastic attached to it. I vividly recall nearly decapitating myself when I made by debut. There was the pistol-shot sound of that ace of spades whacking into my forehead'. Inadvertently I had inventedrick. the Vanishing Magician T It wasn't just these frivolous things that turned me on. I was always sending away for introductory booklets describing brilliant careers that might open for me in piano tuning, practical It never discouraged me, refrigeration, physicial therapy, though. I never blamed Charles. SWedish body massage, I just quit and went on to bartending, commercial art, mail-order ukelele lessons, all jujitsu and hotel management, I free and easy, provided by the even once aspired to be a National ' Ukelele School of Professional Ventriloquist and Chicago, Illinois. I wonder if suffered a minor attack of Have you had a party lately? If you haven't, don't. It will murder you, physically and fi- nancially. We hadn't had a big bash for several years, and decided it was time. We went carefully over our list of friends, neigh- bours and people-we-owe, and came up with 68 names, We cut it ruthlessly to 20. And we wound up with 31. The main point, when you're giving a party, is to be pre- pared. Leave nothing to the last minute. Check the little things. Have you enough wood for your fireplace? I discovered I had two chunks, but with old fruit baskets, cardboard boxes,. and the bottom step of the cellar stairs, managed quite nicely. Be sure your wiring works. The switch for Our bathroom lights hadn't worked for four days, and I couldn't get an electrician because they were all in Florida or somewhere. But we installed candies, and some of the ladies who used the facilities cable down glow- ing, They hadn't looked so glamorous' in years. Have a latt-minute look at your sidewalks. They might seem all 'right to you, but not all people are mountain goats, I cheeked mine about half an hour before the party. Back walk was fine, if one had snowshoes. Shovelled it out. Front walk was fine too, Ex- cept for a four-foot bank of solid ice and snow between the street and our sidewalk, a gift from the town snowplow. I went at it like a man look- ing for a heart attack, and almost hoping I'd have one„so the damn party would be can- celled. I could feel my fresh deodorant going up in smoke, the sweat running down my nose, and the old ticker run- ning like a snowmobile. Fin- ished, feeling as though I'd run the Boston Marathon, just as the first guests arrived. But those are merely the lit- tle incidentals that go with - having a party. It took four weeks of planning and three solid days of domestic labor, plus so much money tears as big as tea bags come to my eyes every time I think of it. A week later, the house still reeks of garlic, and we're nib- bling with total uninterest at left-over casseroles of some ex- otic dish called something like Marmosette. The guests, their palates deadened by a Mafia combina- tion Of Martini and Rossi, seemed to like it. Perhaps you'd like the recipe, if you're dense enough to have a Party. First, you must catch the marmots. This is your problem. Ptit them through a rneatgrin- der, gently. Simmer with on• ions, celery and the insole of an ancient ski boot. Drench the mess with garlic, oregano, chili powder, tabasco sauce and any- thing else you find on your shelves. Place in casseroles and heat through. Serve promptly, when the guests have been in- to the Mafia long enough, Oh, I forgot the 'cheese. Grate about eight pounds of cheese and sprinkle it over the casseroles, And one more thing. Be sure you have enough. We had enough. For sixty. These are just the basic in- gredients for a party, of course. Add one wife who hasn't slept for three nights because one daughter has de- cided that university is for mo- rons, and you get the real fla- vor. Then pout in thirty-odd peo- ple, the odder the better, who have apparently just crossed the Sahara without water-bot- tles, and stir. You've got a party. And, you can have it. Then, of course, there's the garbage. Yov'd have thought we were running a hotel if you'd seen me trucking it out afterwards. Not that it wasn't a swinger. The Christmas tree almost fell into the party, and ray wife almost fell into the oven. But we sang carols off and on, mostly off, and everyone had a roaring good tithe, or so they roared as they were leaving. And you are all invited to our next party. In 1g84, I'll tell you, kids, the nostalgia just oozed like nectar the other night when none other than Charles Atlas popped up on Peter Growski's splendid radio show and it become apparent instantly that he (Charles, not Peter) still had the world's most vice-like grip. If I hadn't such a child-like as of yore, My own vice-like grip having gone to ruin, along with everything else, it made me wish that I'd kepron with the Dynamic Tension Course. ANY kind of tension would be better than the kind I got. I was a pushover, almost to the day I was wed, for the sort of painless, effortless, self-improvement program that Charles offered. As it turned out, his involved an enormous coil spring and, while I hate to say it, it was neither free nor easy. My dream of being transformed "In Just A Few Short Days from a Scrawny, Skinny-chested Weakling into a Mass of Solid, Live Muscle" never got off the launching pad. 75 YEARS AGO January 16, 1895' The Huron News Record The name of the Grand Union will be changed to Hotel Clarendon. The Many extensive improvements to the Hotel Clarendon will be completed in a few clays and a bus will be put on next Monday. For the information of several exchanges The News-Record might say that no town in the province has better streets than Clinton, except for a few days in spring and fall. And this should not require much wrestling to remedy,. For those Who do not wish to get vaccinated, a simple remedy. Take att ounce of cream of tartar to a pint of boiling Water, taken when it gets cold, say a wine glass full Several times a day, will have the desired results, and by some medieal authorities it is thought to be more effectual in ddtinteracting the smallpox than even vaccination. It is certainly worthy of a trial, and -it is pleasant to take. 40 YEARS AGO January 9,1930 The Markets: Wheat, $1,25 to $1.28 barley, 70e; Oats, 65O; buckwheati 80c to 83et Butter, lock-jaw before abandoning it. Oh, yes, and there was the Magic Art Reproducer which appealed to me because of its assurance that no talent — none whatever! — was required. The fellow in the ad was shown with his Magic Art Reproducer (hawing a live model, a fine big girl with very few clothes on. It was just the sort of thing that seemed •.,a swell career for a sc.rayvnY; skitin,y-chested weakling. The kit . itself contained only a selection of animal pictures by Rosa Bonheur. No girls at all. There was hypnotism, too, and I remember the ad for the Globe Hypnotism School in every detail. "Want the thrill of making someone do exactly what you order?" it snickered. And there was a picture of a man hypnotizing a fine, big girl with very few clothes on. I remember too, an all-purpose series of lessons that promised, "Be Popular! In Any Company! Anywhere!" ' This was the bargain of all the miracle mail-order courses. For 50 cents you got 25 lessons in French Self-Taught, the Art of Kissing, Police Ju-Jitsu, Tap Dancing, Fortune Telling by Cards. Interpretations of A Thousand Dreams. Ready-made Toasts, A Thesaurus of Jokes Guaranteed to make you the life of the Party and an assortment of fool-proof measures to loosen the iron grip of shyness. I blame only myself that none of it worked. Still, as. you can see, it was all a great lesson in humility. 15 YEARS AGO January 13, 1955 Plans are well underway for the Second presentation of the Clinton Ice CapadeS and Miss Hago comments upon the fact that for a group of youngsters , spending their second season 'on figure skates, the Clinton kids are doing remarkably Well. Some one with time' on his hands mentioned to us that Clinton •still boaats hitching rings. They are iron rings embedded in the cement at the edge of the sidewalk. Though the sidewalks need re-doing in the most urgent way we still Wonder if the old hitching rings could riot be left as a sort of symbol of Clinton as she used to be. 10 YtAfts AGO January 14; 1960 Irvine Tebbutt„ RR 2, Clinton, was reelected chairman of the Clinton District Collegiate Institute Beard at the first meeting, Peter Caron-, son Of Mr. and Mrs. A. Garom Beech Street, is in licispital since TtieSday tit n fig suffering from coneussion, lIe received the injury during juvenile hockey practice in Clinton Lions Arena, ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Rev. R. U, MacLean, B.A., Minister Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JANUARY' 18th 9:45 a.m. — Sunday School. 10:45 a.m. — Morning Worship. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor: Leslie Clemens SUNDAY, JANUARY 18th 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 .1 , /I INSURANCE •101110111•1. :•1111.1=11•010 J. E. LONGSrAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 LAWSON AND WISE R. W. BELL INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE OPTOMETRIST INVESTMENTS The Square, GODERICH Office: 482-9644 Clinton 524-7661 J. T. 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When the early settlers needed meat they slaughtered one of their own animals—a steer or a pig—and during the cold weather one carcass would supply the needs of a family for quite a spell. Warmer weather necessitated, more rapid consumption and no doubt led to the practice pf neighbors taking turns at the slaughtering and then sharing the meat. It was only a step from that arrangement to the organized beef ring, where • slaughtering was on a systematic basis and the sharing' was recorded as was the supply of stock for slaughter. The beef ring was only one of many ways in which farm people worked together. Their co-operative efforts sprang from the needs of a pioneer society in which survival without neighbors was , impossible. How those times have changed! There is little need today to share anything. Combines, tractors and automatic devices have eliminated the need to depend on the neighbors for help to get the big jobs 'done. The operation today is much more efficient. The hay comes off before it gets wet, Grain is harvested at the correct moment. The cattle and hogs are sold on the open market and the farmer's wife buys her meat, from the butcher just like we townsfolk do. Efficiency has been achieved, but something a great deal more valuable has been lost in the process—:for it takes more than a weekly card party to bind the residents of a community into a true neighborhood. The real cement was interdeoendence—an ,actual reliance upon the loy.alty••Of good neighbors in times of need. The change is inevitable. It was bound to come, but older country people look back with nostalgia to the times when the work was hard, the neighbors were friends and the fun was made—not bought — Wingham Advance-Times. We had a ball, I think K. W. COLOUHOUN INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE Phones: Office 482-9747 Res. 482-7804 HAL HARTLEY Phone 482-6693 "