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Clinton News-Record, 1970-07-30, Page 16capacity and that expansion is limited unless the present sygem is extended, it would appear as if we had better get cracking if we intend to keep up with the rest of the region in growth, The authors of the :report seem to have done a very good job of compiling facts and figures to form a base for a clevelopinent plan for the region which will come later, But one aspect of the report is very disturbing. This is the complete lack of recognition for any centre of less than about 3,000 POOL/lotion. It may be all very well for planners in Toronto to write off small villages such as Blyth and. Hensel! as too small to, be part of their giant plan but What about the people who live there? Do they deserve to be cut off from all expected growth? The point is, that some of these smaller centres may be better suited for growth than the larger centres. It's evident to most people that Hensall, with less than a third the population of Clinton, has several time the number of industrial jobs. Yet, if the planner ignore Hensall in their plan, the chance, of any more industry finding its way to the village would seem to be remote. And there is another, more fundamental question that should be asked. Do you want your future planned for you by government policies? If you don't then the whole concept the government is working under is wrong. However you feel, you should let it be known. Write to the News-Record and write to Charles MacNaughton, M.P.P. for Huron (and as Minister of Economics, responsible .for the while plan). Let us know how you feel before the• plan goes any further. a name A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper AsSociatibn, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation, (ABC) second class trail registration number 0817 SU6SCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, S6.00 per year; U.S.A.,. $7.50 KEITH W. HOUSTON --- Edit& J. HOWARD AITKEN 4-, General Manager Published every Thuile* at the heart of Huron County Clinton, Ontario Population 3,475 THE HOME OF RADAR IN CANADA „111 11; 75 YEARS AGO . The Huron News-Record August 7, 1895 Miss Belle Cree, of West Superior, is borne for her holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Alexander were in Detroit part of last and this week visiting friends. A movement is on foot in Creditor to have the German language taught in the Public Schools two days in each week. It has met with much favour, even among the English element. Mr. Robert Ross, of the London Rd. Brucefield, is erecting one of the largest barns in this county. It is 110 by 65 feet and the wall 15 9 feet high. Mr. E. A. Coombs MA has left for Richmond Hill where he has Secured the Principalthip of the High School at a salary of $1000. ,a year. 56 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record . August 5,1915 File Chief Harty 'UMW attended the tireirien'S Convention at Thorold on Tuesday, Mitt Marjorie' Chowen has taken a pOsition On the post office Staff. Cliff Whitinore, sea of Manager Whitmore, of the Clinton Motor CarWorks has built an auto for himself. It'IS on the plan of a racing ear, •;a1, Clinton's tax rate will be 291/2 mills. Postmaster Scott is on holidays. He is at present at Carleton Place. 40 YEARS AGO ' The Clinton News-Record July 31,1930 G. H. Jefferson has taken the Sheppard house on Townsend St. and will move his, family into it the end of the month. Nelson Ball and family, Mrs. C. Lovett, Messrs. G.D. and R.A. Roberten, F. Fingland, Dr; Fowler and others attended the school reunion at No. 9 Hullett on Friday last. Thomas McMillan who has represented the riding of South Huron far four years was elected on Monday. Mrs. r ry Twitchell, Windsor, spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Murray Mcgwan.- On her return she Was accompanied by het &tighter, Betty, who has spent Some time with het aunt, 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 2, 1945 Miss Fannie Lai/la is being much feted prier to her wedding to Cpl. Wesley P. Haddyy RCA?, On August 6. 13.J. RethWell had a Very SitccesSfill barn raising last week. Three of our town boys are . 16;juag: 6, listed as likely to arrive next Sunday aboard the Alcantara. They are WO1 Gerald Fremlin, LAC, P.A. Axon, and F/0 K. W. Colquhoun. Mrs. Gordon Marshall and small soh Bobby, spent a few days in Stratford recently. Charles 'Bud' Harris, Toronto, spent his holidays here at home. 15 YEARS AGO The Clinton News-Record August 4,1955 The trucking of mail will replace trains for the mail service between London and Wingham, It will mean that London mail will arrive in Clinton at 9:25 a.m. instead of the customary hour of 12:20. The average weekly wage paid in Canadian manufacturing reached the all.time high of $55.36 at February 1,1955, Miss Barbara Taylor, Varna, , who has been attending Goderieh 13Usiness College has joined the staff of Canada Packers Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy Path accompanied' by Miss Thorne Speat took a motor trip on 'Thursday last to See, what the Shore opposite Bayfield Was like. 10 YEARS AGO The Clinton Newt-Record August 41060 Alt 18 ton btitge being Calendars & Gifts Magnetic Signs ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES For Cars & TnickS "Display Showroom On Wheels" 24 NORTH ST. W. G. "BILL" MEHL -CLINTON 'transported from Owen Sound to a dredging operation at Dayfield harbour last Friday Was damaged in an unusual accident at the CNR overhead bridge. A pipe apparently Was too high for the bridge and caught Oh the strueture. Considerable damage Was done. J. M. Wedlock' this week assumed the job Of Seeretary-treastiret_ of heron Co-Operative Medical Services, whose offices Are on Albert St., Clinton He Stleceeda Bert Irwin, Itft 2 Seaforth, who has been secretary-treasurer` since the co-Operative was formed in 194/. J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET For Appointment Phone 482-7010 3EAFORTH OFFICE 527.1240 R. W. BELL OPTOMETRIST The Square, GODEIR ICH 524-7661 DIESEL Pumpt and Injectors Repaired *Fir All Popular Makes. ,Huron Fuel Injection Equipment BaYfield Rd., Clinton-482-7971 4 Clintrtn:News-Record, ThursdaY,,A491.14 6, I97P Design for development One thing that is more evident than ever following the release of 000 FQr Development: Phase One, is that Huron. County is very much the poor brother economically of the four counties in the Midwestern Ontario Region, Oyer and Over again, on page after page of statistics the depressing fact comes through that while the richer counties of Waterloo and Wellington are well above the provincial/4\1009e for income and services, we in Htiron are on the low end of the ladder and along with Perth, are pulling the regional average down. Take for instance one page of the 175-page report which lists priorities for the four counties of the region as to whether high, medium or low priority should be given for economic development, In this listing; Huron is given high priority in nine out,of ten categories, such as increasing' per capita income and productivity, reducing out-migration, and increasing manufacturing. Waterloo, on the other hand, had nine listings of low priority and one of medium in the same categories. More promising is the fact that the whole region is below the provincial average for crime per thousand and Huron is at the bottom of the scale. Depressing in the report though, is the ranking Clinton makes in many of the important points of attracting industry. If Huron is the poor, brother of the four counties in the region, it'would appear as if Clinton is the poor• brother of all the towns in the county: For instance, we rank low on the scale of availability of industrial sites with a limited acreage of unzoned land available. The report says our sewage system and water system are working at or near Give it Another Civic Holiday has come and gone and a few dozen more Canadians have left the earth. Civic Holiday always seems to be one of the busiest holidays of the summer with parks and camping grounds booked full before most people even hit the road from their homes in the city. It's dead in the middle of summer when the heat starts to become unbearable and restlessness reins. But it's sort of a forlorn holiday, without even a proper name. July 1 has .a whole host of , names, ranging from Dominion Day to Canada_ Day to . C+nfecleiation Oay, buttthevfirst Monday, I in' AuguSt limps weakly along` With the Civic Holiday tag. The city of Toronto has done something' about the situation. Since it is a holiday declared by the city, Toronto has 'decided to give the holiday a name The Smileys in action What a nay to wine- a light; and some day a famous Can- ''all as Etienne Brule. or Sam breezy column. The rain is adian painter. Champlain might have over 300 coming down so hard and The exhibition was in the y ears ago. steadily, for the third day in a house of another talented young The only nautical terms I'm row, that even the birds are artist, Hugh Niblock. Delightful sure of are: "The sun's over the walking. The cat had made a evening. Punchbowl, coffee and yardarm," and "time to splice mess on the floor when I came lots of talk. The Smileys, as the mainbrace." But I would down. Threw her out into the usual, were the last to leave, surely admire to have a boat like rain and saw my garbage can on except for a draft-dodger and his that, stand tall at the tiller and its side, the contents spewed all very pregnant wife. They make snap Captain Bligh-like orders to over the lawn. Coons. pottery in a nearby village. He my wife, as our host did. Oh, well. The sun will shine loves Canada. Nice young chap. You should have seen that again. The cat will make a mess Quiet, gentle, honest, poor girl scrambling around, „ again. And the coons will pry off We made it to the car about 3 luffing the jib and raising the the garbage can lid again, God is, a.m. ' me lugging a large painting mainsail and struggling with the presumably, in His heaven and and the old girl a big 'chunk of anchor. Her knees were red raw all's wrong with the world. But sculpture, on trial. Got home, from kneeling on the deck while it's the only one we have, and while I was putting the car she hauled away at something or It hasn't been all bad this away, the police called. Asked other. week. Tuesday, a good soak in my wife if our car had been We slid into a cove as silent the sub at the beach, and a brisk, stolen. Slightly baffled, she rep- and secret as it was .500 years 12-yard swim. Wednesday, a lied that we'd just driven home ago. Delicious supper after splic- game of golf with the only in it. Cop asked her to check and ing a couple of fractured main- person I know who can turn me make sure. She was about to give braces. Then came the storm. from a jovial duffer into a him an argument when I arrived Thunder, lightning, bath-tubs of thin-lipped, emotional hacker - and told him no. Seems they'd rain. Very pleasant to be a my wife. Same old pattern, 1 try seen it parked, had been keeping landlubber, sit in the cabin to give her a few tips. She gets an eye on it, and we had slipped drinking coffee and watch sore and tells me to shut up and off with it when the patrol car through the hatch skipper and try to hit a decent ball myself. was going around the block, wife, in oilskins, hoisting anchor Third time she tells me, I get Bizarre incident. Congratulated and getting under way. Fine trip sore and the rest of the game is police on their efficiency. And home, 40 miles of sailing behind, played in gritri and stony silence, so to bed. and only three people scared out with only the odd sneer to break Friday, fair and fine. Good of six. the ice. It's the same as the way show, as we'd been invited Daughter Kim home Saturn we play bridge together. yachting. Fair breeze, good skip- day, sick of squalid job in By Thursday, we were speak- per, hot sun, blue sky, hot squalid city, lip curled when she ing again, and that night went to chowder, cold drinks, and con- saw the art-work and heard of an exhibition of modern art. The genial company, the boat trip, snapped: "So artist is a former student of It wouldn't be hard to get you've joined the jet set, have mine. Now I know what he was hooked' on sailing. It's virtually you?" Jealous, . doing while we were studying voluptuous, spanking along at Not eXactly. We haven't , about six knots, sails taut, and enough fuel for jets, It's back to King Lear. He was doodling. none of the stink and noise of a clipping the hedge tomorrow. Powerful doodling, to judge motor-boat. It was like gliding . But it 'S nice to fly once in a from his work, Gilbert Gignac, into another world, out arriong while in this world of infinite son of a very Proud carpenter Me-green silent islands szeintit variety. -emei.0.0•%•......."-- -- --lee-a- # Noe- -4 THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1865 1024 Established 1881. Clinton News-Record, --- Holmesyille United Churches REV.. A. 4... MQW 0707. C.0„ B.A., s.o„ p.o„ motor MR. LORNE _pipTTERE.R, organist And Choir Director SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th WEST-EY-WILL IS 11;00 a.m. — Morning Worship and Junior Congregation. (Ontario St. Church will worship with. Wesley-Willis Church during August). Rev. H. W. Wonfor, preacher, Sermon Topic: "THE PARABLE OF.. JOTHAM" Mrs, Betty Rogers, Soloist this Sunda 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 — The congregation will worship at the Wesley-Willis Church during the month of August with Rev. H, W. Wonfor preaching. AfJCES. ALL 'SERVICES ON PA141.0HT-TIME ONTARIO STREET uNITp CHURCH ,THE'rrarotiO, CHURCH,, Pastor: REV. H, W. WON, F9R, Ei•COTThi 8.0, Organist: MISS LOIS GRASSY, 0LiNPAY, AUGUST 9th. Blyth station: the trains are • silent 2096.,...& • :AW. se The retirement of three of the blokes I most admire in our business occured this summer. I attended the traditional, farewell rites with assorted emotions. We all drank, laughed, envied and grieved. Which is, I believe, standard procedure in any shop when the good ones are sent to pasture. I found myself thinking, after the customary convalescence, that a function of this sort might be most educational for any young man about :to carve a: Career: ParticUlarly for ,• said to be- aunierouls, whose" primary concern is security.. These three • fine men happened to be of a type who demonstrate both the rewards and ' the perils, curiously inter-laced, of being truly dedicated to a life's work. The rewards, of course, are obvious, The quiet satisfaction of the long performance. The affection and respect of their colleagues. The alertness, vigor and youthfulneSs that comes from being . consistently, genuinely interested in your trade or profession. The solid core of accomplishment. No speeches • were made, happily. Had they been, those familiar compensations for compulsory retirement would surely have been duly noted. What would not have been noted, the unspoken sentiment that marks every such ceremony, is 'that it's always a mighty melancholy occasion. It seemed to me there was a cruel, if unconscious, irony in the whimsical invitation to one of the parties. We were to gather to celebrate "the release from tor' of harness the salt mines" of our old friend. The unwitting sickness in this joke was that all three absolutely hated to go. The salt mines were their life. They were loyal to the salt mines, wedded to them, absorbed in their significant part over the years in the efficiency and prosperity of the salt mines. "Release", then, was an unfortunate word. "Wrench" would have been closer to the truth, Talking to them, murmuring the, congratulations- and regrets Ahate, somehow einergek ,as gli'Ypocrisies, I felt 'two strong, .reactions. • The first, and easiest to state, was that involuntary retirement at an arbitrary age, inflicted upon men who make the calendar meaningless, may often be a senseless waste in which everyone loses. I am convinced that the conditions for being removed from the active list should be either the willingness of the man himself or the decision from above that it is in the interest of himself or the firm that he step' down. Sixty-five should be the age of assessment and choice, never the age of compulsion. My second reaction was that there seems a kind of law of diminishing returns in retirement, that the more a man puts into his work and consequently the more he gets out of it, the more intolerable it is for him to leave it forever. Retirement as a reward for service, in other words, is a prize that may have the least value'for those who have best earned it. It might be argued, then, that a young man on the threshold of a career, studying the example of these three friends of mine, would feel a certain nervousness aboutliving his all to a vocation when it seems to hold this inverse promise of a 'penalty at 65. Why knock yourself out, they might ask in the vernacular, when it's going to make it all that harder to adjust when you're put on the shelf? I suppose the answer to that is thatIhese men, painful though it icriay4be :for them to leave, have 'Won the' right for contentment and happiness ahead. They can truly say, though it probably hasn't yet occured to them in their abhorrence of inactivity, that they've had fulfillment in their, careers, that they enhanced and enriched their calling. Unlike the man who simply went along in captive tedium or resignation, they can look back with lasting satisfaction and ahead with confidence that they've earned the sweeter life of leisure. If the usual vapors of feeling useless or dispensable are intensified by having been so wrapped up in their work, at least they can begin the quest for a new life on a pension without guilt or regret. The fact that that new life might be even more purposeful and challenging than the old, crowded, if they wish, with new experiences and adventures of the mind and spirit, is the one, final hurdle. With that attitude, even for such men as these, there surely can be retirement without tears. ST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Interim Moderator Rev. G. L. Royal We mourn the passing of Rev. R. U. MacLean, B.A. Church and Sunday School discontinued for the month of August. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY INSURANCE SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th TRINITY XI 11:30 a.m. — Holy Communion and Sermon. THE, REV. CANON F. H. PAULL CALVARY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 166 Victoria Street Pastor: Donald Forrest SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th Sunday School: 9:45 a,m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Evangelistic Service: 7:00 p.m. T: RAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH - -.."4 BAYFIELD BAPIIST CHURCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 9th 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. Clinton 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 Clinton - 482-8190 itself, without waiting for someone else to suggest one. They've called it Simcoe Day, .00t after the first governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe. • It isn't often we advocate following a policy set in Toronto, but perhaps they have an idea there. Why shouldn't we name our holiday after some personage who played a vital role in the history of Clinton. Since we aren't expert on the contribution of the various founders of the town, we will refrain from suggesting possibilities, but we are sure some suitable name could be suggested. The history of a town is too easily o forgotten: Everything possible should be done to keep it alive for succeeding generations. Perhaps the holiday is one way of doing it. Of course in the long run, people will probably go right • on calling it Civic Holiday no matter what the official name. <*.