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Clinton News-Record, 1970-07-23, Page 4Look to the tourists Recently, the farmers up in Wingham got together to run a farmers' market to sell fresh fruit and vegetables and products from their farms for the townsfolk and tourists. They opened on a Friday morning and ran out of things to sell long before they had planned to close. The project was a hit for everyone involved. You might wonder how the merchants in the town felt since the farmers would be selling things that might ordinarily have been bought in their stores. But the fact is that it was the merchants who instigated the whole plan. They were smart enough to realize that something that attracted people to their town was a benefit to all of them not just those who benefited directly. They knew that the more money that came into their community, the more money would eventually find its way, into their stores. r Its rri Soething'We could' all leatii'Tti6' merchants of Clinton are getting together this weekend for a sidewalk sale in which we wish them all success. Perhaps if it goes over big they will realize the value of such promotions to themselves and to the community. Living so close to the lake, yet not on it, we tend sometimes to be a little envious of the lakeside towns where the tourist dollar runs freely. We tend to forget though, that we:sitit the junction of two of the major highways feeding tourists to those resorts, that we have first crack at thoSe dollars before they even'get to the resorts. It is time we began to take advantage of our situation by encouraging those tourists to stop for awhile on their way through and by making our town so interesting that they will drive the ten miles back from the lake on a Saturday to shop. Street carnivals, sidewalk sales and farmers' markets are all methods of promoting .this, interest. And maybe if we work hard enough at it, we can come up with some knew ideas of our own. Our instant garden W. G. "BILL" RIEHL ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES Calendars & Gifts Magnetic Signs For Cars & 'Trucks "Display Showroom On Wheels" , 24 NORTH ST. —CLINTON OPTOMETRY J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 4827010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODER ICH 524-7661 DIESEL— 'Pumps and Injectors Repaired For All Popular Makes Hurd') Fuel Injection Equipment tlayfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971 INSURANCE K, W. COLO.! HOU N 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., s. N. \ \ • \ \ \ • \ •••••• • %. \ • \ pink, don't sink! Be water wise! Learn and practise water safety every day. .mussimmasiiimosmommildnioft: THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD EStablished 1865 1924 Established 1881 Clinton News-Record A member Of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Atsociation, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (AEC) second class mail registration number 0817 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $6.00 per year; U.S.A., $7,50 KEITH W. HOULSTON — Editor d. HOWARD AITKEN Generrai Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron county Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OE RADAR IN CANADA \itti VA4. In the Toronto Daily Star one day last week, a reader had a letter to the editor complaining beeause a policeman had caught him walking across the street against a red light and gave him a summons for $22. The man claimed the city should not be so rough on pedestrians, especially since he was a student. Anyone who has watched the goings on at the main intersection in Clinton can't feel too sorry for him. Since the new "walk" and "don't walk" signs were installed last year it would seem that at least a third of the population of Clinton can't read and is colourblind to boot. Driving up to the corner can be a harrowing experience for an unexperienced driver. Pedestrians wander hither and yon across the corner as if it were their back yard and they were out for a stroll. Some even walk diagonally across the corner, Some of the drivers to be sure are not much better, travelling the wrong way on one-way streets, using the turning lane when they are going straight through the intersection, and some even parking their cars in the turning lane and leaving them while they go off for a little shopping. So we don't feel too sorry for that Toronto man 'and his fine for breaking a law. We just wish our police would. become as energetic as the Toronto policeman who nabbed him.' AIrL .Y.1.1CVS '.$4.4VICg4: DAYLIGHT' TIME PNTARIQ STREET UNITED CHURCH "THE PRIENOLY cHyRci-, Pastqr: REV. H. , WONFOR, 13 B.Sc., .Conn„ p.p. Organist: MI$S LOIS GRA$BY, SUNDAY, JULY 26th 1 1:09 Morning Worship and Junior Congreqation (Wesley-Willi; congregation will worship In Ontario St. Church until the end' of July). Sermon Subject: "IS IT COURAGE WE NEED?" Rev. A. J, Mowatt , Wesley-Willis -- Holmesville United Churches REV. A. J. MOWATT, C.D., B.A., B.D., D.D, Minister MR. LORNE DOTTEP.ER, Organist and Choir Director SUNDAY, JULY 26th HO LMESVILLE 9:45 a.m. — Morning Worship WESLEY-WILLIS The congregation will worship at the Ontario St. United Church until the end of July with Dr. Mowatt preaching 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 — 4 CI 'Mon News-Record, Thursday, July ?3,1970. Editorial ireiment We don't core if you think we're right or wrong We Care only that you think. Crackdown at the .crossroads Beware the baritone Country pond ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MR. JOHN TURNER — Speaker Mrs. B. Boyes, Organist and Choir DirectOr SUNDAY, JULY 26th We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A. 9:30 a,m. — Morning Worship. SUNDAY SCHOOL DISCONTINUED FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS -ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN- CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 26th , TRINITY 11:30 a.m. — Holy Communion and Sermon. CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, JULY 26th Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. BAYFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY, JULY 26th 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. It's high summer, with a hot sun, a blue sky and perfect conditions for sitting at the picnic table typing this column. But there's something wrong, something off-key. It took me a while, but I've got it. Instead of the lush green jungle that used to encompass our back yard, there are splotch- es of color everywhere, destroy- ing the solid green effect I'm so used to. My wife has been off on another of her wild, off-season bursts, like doing the spring house-cleaning the week before Christmas. It all began with one rose. She received a large rose-bush, ready for planting, as a gift. Our rose bed, like the rest of our flower beds, was suffering sev- erely from malnutrition and neglect. They were like children who undergo the same treatment — stunted and retarded. Our roses had shrunk to three, one dead, one dying and one which produced about two tiny blooms a year. In a fit of ill-considered fury after some barbed remark from my wife, I went out and dug up the lot and planted the new ohe. 1 should have put it quietly in the tool-Shed and let it die a natural death. It only took the one log to break the jam: The rose was a beauty, It looked so lovely and so lonely that the old lady, no gardener, sent me out to buy another. I got a dandy for fifty cents, age, sex, color and kind unknown, but dubious. The boss was disgusted, but we planted the thing anyway. Then she bought two more and stuck them in, with peat moss, fertilizer and invocations to the gods. I thought that might bring a little peace, but she'd caught fire. In a flurry of self-disgust, she went at her window-box like a wolf coming down on the fold. It was a dilapidated object that runs along the side of the garage. I rather liked it as it had been for several years, with the fresh, green weeds spilling down over the side. But there was no reasoning with her. Out came the weeds as if they were scorpions. Off I went for a carload of zinnias, begonias and other bewildering things. Work- ing as carefully as a surgeon, so the window-box wouldn't fall off the wall, she planted it and gaVe it a coat of paint. But we had some flowers left over. That meant I had to dig up a corner of another crumbling flowerbed, and we planted the leftovers. I was confident this was the end. She hasn't even pulled a weed for years. No such luck. Blazing with enthusiasm, or simple insanity, she Shot me off for another carload, zinnias and Marigolds. By the time I returned, she had weeded the front half of our moribund tulip bed. She had dug little' holes and set in them a handsome row of orange and yellow marigolds in half an hour. An instant garden. Now she has her eye on the old peony bed. Once a mass of green and bloom, it has shrivel- led to a few sickly plants producing eight blooms. It seems it is to be dug up and completely replanted with another exotic species. With all this new beauty, of course, we had to buy a new water-sprinkler. The old one was perfectly all right. It cost $2.95 ten years ago and. water' would still come out of it, though it didn't really sprinkle any more, just shot out two jets in opposite directions. New one, $11.00. She's fascinated, and keeps me moving it about all day, from one flower bed to another. "No, no. Move it another two inches to the right." It's all ridiculous, of course. Even I know that you don't plant flower beds in the middle of July. They'll all be dead in a week, either from the haste with which they've been ripped from the womb and thrown into life, or from simple drowning. I liked the old jungle, with the odd tiger lily, struggling up through the Milkweed, or a few hardy daisies reaching for the sun. Why can't women leave things alone? My wife,and I are invited to a party this Saturday night at which we are going to hear at least an• hour and a half of Newfoundland folk songs, most of them having something to do with• squid-jigging. Not even the host, I expect, knows that we're doomed to this concert, but I know because a man call Walter is also being invited and Walter has been suffering for several years from a severe case of addiction to squid-jigging ballads. , Since he, too, is a newspaperipan we're freqqently invited to the same place and I've taken a kind of clinical interest in his technique. He usually begins it with an anecdote that I once thought mildly amusing, but which now tips me off that he is, sure enough, going to perform. The conversation may be about Newfoundland or it may be about dialects or it may be about old men or it may be about young women. One of these subjects is bound to come up at any party. That is Walter's cue. "The Newfies have a picturesque speech," he will say. "I recall standing with an old fellow on a street in St. John's when an attractive girl went by. I said something to him about what a stunner she was and the old gentleman turned and looked after her. `Aye, she is that,' he said. 'I likes to see a woman with a bit of a twitch to the flank'." The chuckles have hardly died away before Walter is saying, "That reminds me of one or two 75 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 24,1895 Miss Eva Sparling has again taken the position of telegraph operator at the 'Point Farm. There is a large number of visitors there just now. Miss Shannon, of London and Miss Allan of LondeSboro are the guests of Mrs. Thomas Rumball, Messrs. Bower Bros, have been Making extensive improvements to Jackson Brothers store. With hew shelving, a liberal supply of costly paper, paint, varnish and kalsomine the premises are much improved. The Office is one of the neatest and most inviting in Western Ontario, It is estimated that about 100 Clintonians are camping along the lake shore and basking in the sun in Bayfield. 65 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 22,1915 The Doherty Piano Co. have recently made a shipment of a piano to Dr, and Mrs. R. U. Struthers, Honan, North China. Mayor Jackson, Reeve Ford, Police Magistrate Andrews, Chant of the Hydro plant, and br, Shaw, chairman of the attended the official opening of the London and Port • of the colorful, squid-jigging songs. Would you care to hear one?" And there goes the evening. It isn't only Walter. I seem to be fated to be in the immediate vicinity of that familiar guy with the big, beautiful baritone Who turns up at every gathering determined -to bare his vocal cords in unforgettable melody. Only last week at a small soiree in a hotel room one of the clan was deep into Shortnin' Bread before I could bolt for the tioor. 4 was confronted with the miniice.bf hearing him'through or leaping nine floors into a canvass awning. It was not an easy decision. Like those proud fathers who carry a gallery of snapshots of their children, the party singer seems incapable of keeping his gift to himself. You and I sing, if we must, in the privacy of our bathroom. Walter's breed hungers for an audience. I've spent so many evenings peering dejectedly into the vibrating tonsils of these men of song while they ran through their customary gamut, ranging from Macushlah to the Whippenpoof Song, that I've developed an extraordinary fleetness of foot in reaching the nearest exit. But, like Walter, they're often in full voice before you realize what's happening and will carry on until either the police or laryngitis move in. Their cold, calculating patience is inhuman and they will, if necessary, wait hours for just the right situation. Stanley electrified railroad. Miss Bessie McEwan has been engaged as teacher of S.S. 5, Hullett, for another year. 40 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 17,1930 Miss Helen Nediger has taken a position in the local branch of the Bank of Montreal. Miss Dorothy Manning has accepted a school at Hurondale and Miss Dorothy Stirling one at Sheppardton. Harry Watkins, Chatham, is holidaying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Watkins, for a couple of weeks. The Huron Regiment, returned from camp on Friday evening after spending a fortnight in the open. Captains Morgan, Currell, and Lieuts. McKnight, McIntyre, Vord, Thompson were in charge of the Clinton Company. Frank. McEwan took first prize and Brenton Hellyar second in "C" Company for marksmanship. 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 19, 1945 At a special Meeting of Council, the resignation of Thigh Cameron as assessor and tax collector, on account of illness, was accepted with regret. Wesley Vanderburg vvas appointed to the position. They are particularly tricky in the case of gatherings where liquid refreshments are being served. While the happy guests innocently lower their resistance with grain spirits the singer watches them from narrow, hooded eyes, gauging the exact moment when they'll be ripe for the kill. One method is what I call The Backhand Request. In this case The Voice hums a tune to himself, staring at the ceiling until a polite or unwary neighbor asks, "What's the name of that song?" The words are hardly spoken before the minstrel leaps to his feet in full voice. Later he is able to say that he was asked to sing. Another approach is the Stooge or Plant who waits for a lull in the conversation (always when I am about to utter some incredible witticism) and inquires, "Have any of you heard Walter do his version of The Blue-Tail Fly?" Before the guests have had a chance to shout in the affirmative Walter is up and away. The Stooge, need it be added, is usually a singer himself and willing to settle for a duet if not a solo. Then there is, of course, the gregarious chap who encourages the other male guests to form a friendly quartet about the piano and promptly erases their harmony with his double-forte moose call. It makes life pretty miserable, I can tell you, for a man who is never asked to play the harmonica he carries with him constantly. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Carter have received word from their son Ross, who is overseas with the Canadian Army, that he has received the rank of Major. A large crowd met the noon train on Wednesday to welcome home Cpl. Willard Aiken, elder son of Mr, and Mrs, Moffatt Aiken. He has been overseas with the R.C.A.F, 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July 21,1955 Norman Livermore won the contest for the vacant seat in the Clinton Town Council. Defeated was William G. Riehl his first bid for a seat on council. Miss Rose Snowden's large barn, an historic landmark, fell prey to flames of unknown origin early Tuesday, The Clinton Boy Scout troop will be promoting international good-will next week when soy ScOut Explorer Troop No, 128, Indianapolis, Indiana, will take over the Clinton camp site on the Maitland river. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record July E.1, . 811d 21a,19d61: had the Misfortune to fracture her left wrist while attending a WOAA Midget baseball game. The folding chair on which she was sitting tipped over and she fell backwards on het arm. Mr. and Mrs. G.' D. tecit and son Gary, who have been spending their holidays with Mrs, J, Huller and Mr. and M. William Batkin, left for their home in Greenwood H.S. Mt. and Mrs. Clark Ball and family left for the west coast on Wednesday and intend visiting friends and relatives in Alberta on their return home.