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Clinton News-Record, 1972-08-24, Page 4"We're in hick — it's full of groceries!" A killer turned chicken Ed for Comment Hager plaulog leapfrog Publicly these days, Robert Stanfield is crowing over the fact that a former Liberal cabinet minister, Paul HeOyer has joined the ranks of his Conservative party. It shows, he says, that people are turning from the Liberals to his party for leadership, But is he so happy privately, one Wonders. Hellyer is a strong man who says and does what he likes and isn't adverse to stepping outside party policy. He did it many times in the Liberal party and provided a good deal of ammunition. for Stanfield and his colleagues when they tried to prove even Trudeau's own party couldn't stand him. Heflyer was the man who pushed through unification of the armed forces, a policy the conservatives have always condemned. It was only months ago that Stanfield said he would split the forces into three units again. How can all Hellyer's critics now slap him on the back and honestly say what a good guy he is? Much the same goes for his housing policy which was his major job under Trudeau and which eventually led to his split with the Liberals because they wouldn't adopt his policies. The Conservatives didn't think much of his policies either. Then, there's the fact of what Heflyer is in himaelf, a Man who wants to be number one. Most people believe that the biggest thing leading to Hetlyer's defection from the Liberals is that he was still angry at being beaten by Trudeau and couldn't stand being number two under the strong leadership of the Prime Minister. Stanfield's hold on his party is not as strong as Trudeau's, How will Heliyer react to these conditions? Will he be, happy with a less strong hand at the helm or will he try to push his way to the captain's cabin? The addition of Heflyer could make or break the Conservatives. If he can curb his bull-in-a-china-shop way of doing things, then his obvious ability could help the party, particularly if they should form the next government. If he continues his head-strong activities as in the past couple of years, he could really hurt the party.— The Blyth Standard. Smoking is for chinthegs Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem in this country. A cause of chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease, and other serious illnesses. More than 300,000 people die prematurely each year from smoking- related diseases. How can we combat this enormous problem? Our society....says Surgeon General Jesse Steinfeld — has been tremendously successful in solving some public health problems, When no responsible action was demanded of citizens. For example, we have purified our water supplies, banned cyclamates, prevented sewage for entering our drinking water, pasteurized our milk, made certain that meat products did not transmit trichinosis or tuberculosis, We immunized our citizens against smallpox, polio, and measles. But how about when the responsible action has to come from people themselves? When people must exercise and choose proper diets to avoid obesity and arteriosclerosis? When they must restrict alcohol intake? When they should quit smoking? Speaking specifically about smoking, the Surgeon General asks, "What is the role of government beyond education, when education doesn't do the job?" There are almost 45 million Americans still smoking. The Surgeon General considered two possibilities: limiting the amount of tars and nicotine in cigarettes; and raising' the cigarette tax, Although the Surgeon General has not suggested banning the manufacture and sale orcigarettes, some prominent health experts have. But the spectre of prohibition casts a dismal shadow over this prospect. Action has already been taken by 29 million ex-smokers, To find out how to join this group, contact your local tuberculosis and respiratory disease association. It's a matter of life and breath. Round two, disaster three 'lye get letters A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau Of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number — 0817 !sUESCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) Canada, $8„90 per year; U,S„A., $950 JAMES E. PITzGEnALb--Editor .1. HOWARD AITKEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' A Clinton, Ontario Population 3,476 We ROME OP RADAR IN CANADA 4--Clifton NeW$-Recort ThursdaY, August 4`i, 197g There is a movie called "Suddenly One Summer.", something like that. This is more or less the way I feel towards the end of this one. For one thing, the weather has been generally rotten. My heart has ached for the campers, the tenters, as temperature drops, the winds blow, and I turn up the thermostat on the furnace. As I write, its more like late October than August, But there is nothing much I can do about that, its happening to everybody. However, somebody is definitely out to get me. I don't know whether its the Lord, fate, or the devil, But its too obvious to be merely coincidental, It, or they, started with my car. Almost six months ago, a gentleman backed into the front of it. He's a mechanic and promised to have it fixed, rather than pay the almost exhorbitant insurance rate. It is still not fixed, Not his fault. We made a date for July 31st and my wife busted her ankle and in the confusion, I forgot. But it's still not fixed. Next, I was at a public gathering, where there were a lot of cars parked. Somebody, and he was NOT a gentleman, snuggled up too close to me. The only calling card he Left was a deep indentation in my left front door, Third. And that was my wife's fault, not mine, She was yakking at full steam, somewhat, like an organ with all the stops out, It happened at a highway motel where we'd had lunch, backed up, knowing there were no cars there and hit a light standard that shouldn't have been there. It was solid brick, It made a boomerang of my back bumper. There went another hundred bucks. Here's where I'll go along with Ralph Nader and company. The bumpers they put on cars today are not bumpers, but junkers. A generation ago, a bumper bumped and didn't give an inch. The thing that was bumped gave. Today, they seem to be a combination of plastic and spaghetti. I'm convinced that if you ran into an adult male hummingbird at 50 miles per hour you'd lose your $100 deductible on your bumper. Well, to cut a short story long, the car is pretty much of a disaster area. Front grill bashed in. Chrome strips buckled and ripped off. Back bumper a bummer. Motor still great, but whole vehicle now in classified ad section as a "bodyman's special". As we all know, accidents come in three's. Well I had my three and thought whoever was out to get me should relax for a while. Not so, As I mentioned, my wife broke her ankle and a week later I broke my toe. She groans and bobbles around in a walking cast. I groan and hobble around. I never realized before just how important a big ton is in the process of ambulation. Something like a fish trying to swim with his tail cut off. Oh, it's a jolly, lively place around our house, We should be out at the beach, doing a fancy crawl stroke, calling cheerfully to each other about how terrific the water is today, Instead, we're stuck in the house, doing a fancy ettiwl up and down stairs and calling baleftilly about such cheery things as getting the garbage out, doing the washing, preparing dinner. Do you know what happens to a couple of love birds in a cage who start getting on each other's nerves? One of there pecks the other to death. Then eats him, or her. Well, I'm pretty tender and my wife is very tough, so I'm keeping a close eye on her, I gave her a big hug the other day. It's her left ankle, my right toe, they collided, we both yelped and there were mutual recriminations. Next time, I'll hug her from behind, or sideways, or something. But this is all trivia. I await, cringing, the third accident in the second series, And it will probably be on the phone any minute. I was idiotic enough to lend my car to daughter Kim and her husband. They took off in the poor old battered brute a couple of hours ago, for the city, where they have to apply for student loans, register for college, find a place to live, and all such. They both drive like chimpanzees who've had three lessons. They might just make it, But if they do, my oak tree will snap in a storm and crash on my neighbour's roof. Or, get a hernia carrying out the empty beverage bottles. Or my wife will slip on her gimpy leg going downstairs and break her other one. It's not that Pm superstitious, It's just that I have this immutable hunch that Somebody, up there, or down there, is trying to punish me for all my past sins, all at once, And now, if you'll excuse me, Im going to soak my toe in ice water and sit, shoulders hunched, waiting for the next blow, As an employer of White Leghorns I have decided to set up the world's first pension plan for hens. This will create a sensation in the chicken world with which, to my horror and surprise, I ani so intimately acquainted. Things have not been going any too well in my hen house. To begin with, one of the girls dropped dead a month ago, although she had been healthy and happy until the last and, indeed, laid a splendid egg an hour before her demise. As soon as I discovered her body I hurried to Mr. Evans, the man who knows all about chickens, I sometimes suspect Mr. Evans is sorry he ever said me the White Leghorns. I am always pounding on his door at midnight, a shawl about my head, asking him to hurry to the side of my brood. He never does, though. Mr. Evans, like all poultrymen, is a fatalist, Anything can happen to a chicken, he says, including dropping dead for no apparent reason. Not a week later another pullet--if, indeed, they still are 10 YEARS AGO AUGUST 23, 1962 To-morrow is flower show time in Clinton and all afternoon and evening from 3 p.m, the exhibits will be on view in the town hall. This exhibit is open to everyone, whether or not a member of the horticultural society. Prize lists are available from Miss Luella Johnston, president of the society which is sponsoring the show, or from Clifford Epps, treasurer. Generally the most colourful section of the show are the gladioli, but the roses are also lovely. There are special classes for public school children. 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 21, 1947 Jousting with the weatherman proved an interesting pastime for the members of Clinton Citizens' Band and of the nine guest bands at the big tattoo held on the spacious Drill Square of RCAF Station, Clinton, Wednesday evening. Despite lowering skies and spotty rain drops, the bands outlasted and played these nuisances, carrying through their lengthy program and then ended the whole thing up with a huge dance in the Station Drill Hall to the music of the RCAF' Dance Band Trenton. The next sitting of the Supreme Court Assizes opens at. the Court House, Goderich, on September 8, with Mn Justice Goriest presiding, 40 YEARS AGO AUGUST 25, 1932 Last Thursday August 18th, Clinton girls journeyed to pullets--got out of the hen house and met what was obviously a horrible end. This particular hen (I'll call them hens from now on) was always trying to escape and frequently she did. Whenever this happened she was chased by cats and dogs and just generally had a wretched time of it. It never daunted her though. She always wanted to get out. As Mr. Evans says, chickens are kind of crazy. Well, she did get out that particular night and in the morning there was an untidy pile of featb,ers on, the ground. Coon, Mr. Evans said, with his cold and eloquent shrug. Thus my flock was cut to four and included in this four was a malingerer, a no-goodnik hen who just loafed around all day sneering at the other hens as they dutifully mounted the nests and went about their miracle. Mr. Evans had already briefed me thoroughly about "broody" hens and I knew that now it had happeded to me. My hen wanted love, love, love. She's lost all interest in Palmerston and defeated their girls 8-6 between drenching showers which made the diamond miserable to play on. But we hope Palmerston will return the game in the near future, and we wish to have a crowd of Rooters out to encourage the home girls. The Collegiate Institute will re-open on September 1, at 9 a.m. for registration and the Public School will also re-open September 1. The members of the Band wish to acknowledge their gratefulness to all those who patronized their garden party last week, 55 YEARS AGO AUGUST 23, 1917 A meeting of the Women's Patriotic Society will be held in the council chamber on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 25th, to consider holding a bazaar sometime in the fall. All members are requested to attend. On Thursday evening of next week, the Clinton Kilty Band will hold a grand concert and garden party in the Recreation Park. The band will furnish a good program. There will be several booths in charge of the members of the Patriotic Society with whom the band intends to divide the proceeds. We will soon have better roads in the country now that most farmers are buying motor cars. 75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 25, 1697 garly last Friday morning some amateur burglar endeavored to gain entrance by the rear to Holloway and mundane production and I was down to three eggs a day, maximum. I felt kind of ashamed to go again to Mr. Evans (I'd already been to him that week about a matter too delicate for the ears of anyone but a poultryman) and so I went to Mr. Ormiston, the Irish old-age pensioner who lives near us, a man with a ready answer for everything. "Kill the bord," Mr. Ormiston advised, "and have me to dinner. OI've a bottle of muscatel of want yez to try." Mr. Ormiston then gave me elaborate instructions on the procedure which boiled down to cutting the hen's head off. He made it sound like a lark, as if we ought to take a picnic lunch along, and it wasn't until I was walking back home that I began to think of it as murder. ' After pacing up and down in the back yard for an hour I went to the woodshed, got the hatchet and walked resolutely out to the hen house. I fancied I heard a slow roll of drums, but it was probably just my temples throbbing. Morris's tailoring and furnishing store, where Mr. Morris was sleeping. A pane of glass which had been patched was evidently pressed in and a glass goblet inside fell to the floor and was smashed, the report of which awakened the lonely inmate. On the Dear vlditor: I attended the ratepayer's meeting in Hayfield last Saturday as I thought this would give me an insight into the administration here. I have just retired from the Armed Forces with close to 28 years service and I am contemplating taking up residence in Hayfield. It appeared to me this meeting was run very unparliamentary and the information that was brought forward appeared one-sided. There were, on occasion, points brought up the explanation of which left some things to be The four White Leghorns all rushed over to the wire netting to greet me, a scene I'd enjoyed hitherto and which made me feel like a gentleman farmer. I found I was holding the hatchet behind my back guiltily and wore a horrible smile on my face. "Chook, chook, chook," I said. The hens looked at me apprehensively, obviously sensing something sinister. I sat down on a stump and watched them for a minute. They'd been a poor investment, I realized. What was it my wife had said? Fifty cents an egg? Well, perhaps. Still, it was always a won,derful feeling to know that they were mine and certainly my city friends looked at me with new interest when I spoke in an offhand way about "my hens". I looked then at the guilty hen and discovered with a start that her cold glass eyes were on me, accusingly. "Chook, chook, chook," I said foolishly. I got up and walked slowly back to the woodshed and put the hatchet in its place. Heck, I was thinking, I've been in love, myself. appearance of Mr. Morrish, the would be burglar disappeared, There is every appearance that an attempt was made to the store of confectioner Witls. Unless some people change their way a long-term in the penitentiary will be their reward. desired. At one point in the meeting a gentleman, whom I found out was Mr. "Red" Garon, asked the chairman to be allowed to give his past knowledge of the matter at hand. As Mr. Garon was not a ratepayer, he was, in my opinion, very rudely denied the opportunity to speak, This I felt was very detrimental to the meeting. I later found the chairman's name and was shocked to find he was a former military man of a high ranking commission, G. Taylor London, Dear Editor; I would like to take opportunity through your pa to clarify the position of family with regard allegations made before and the Bayfield RatePaY Association meeting ha Saturday, August 19, 1972. 'I notice calling the meeting st such that a libel suit could ha been launched against men* of the executive, which cout we chose not Oa take wishing have harmonious relations w the village, We attended the meeti expecting an apology for t untrue statements so unjust made on the notice which w sent out under the signature Brigadier G. L. M. Smit Brigadier Smith was inform as President of the Associati of the untruth and inaccuracy some of the statements on t notice one week before t meeting. Had he acted like rl officer and gentleman, he wou have at the outset explained the meeting that the notice w inaccurate in many particular I feel that the people t Hayfield are owed a explanation of these particulai and that the reputation of m family should be cleared of a the rumour which has arisen a a result of the notice. Blue Anchor Investment Limited has not laid claim to al the river flats west of Siddals the Federal Governmen purchased a good deal of thi from the previous owner Mr. A Garon in 1968 as he could hav explained to the meeting had h been given the courtesy of hearing. The fishermen have ever, right to store their boats on th; Federal property, as they do and they have never been tok by us that they could not do so I would like to know who bar been informed that twig buildings were to be torn down Why would any reasonably association publish surf nonsence without ever consulting the persons agains whom the statements wer( made. 'There is an 'area of 25 fed beyond the end of the whar which is owned by the Federa Government and so far as w( know, the public are allowed t( launch their boats from then and are doing so every day of the week. Our claim to ownership is b3 deed and if our claim is unfounded it would mean tha every other ratepayer of tin! village might well examine his own deed to see whether In should expect the public to be it his backyard. We are not prepared k "bulldoze our way into contro of the village property", al alleged in the notice. Thi reverse is the fact; that we hole the title deeds; the village ha, no deed to the lands involve( and by implication the notic misinformed the ratepayers tha the property was not ours. Yours truly Sine Heroic Hayfield Dear Editor: On Saturday, August 19a 1972, I attended a meeting o the Hayfield Ratepayers Association to explain to th ratepayers many of the fact that I know about the matter fo which notice of the meeting ha been called. Had I been give the opportunity to speak, I coul have clarified muc misinformation to the benefit o the ratepayers. I had believed that th meeting was to be held fo proper information to be gainer Because the Chairmar Brigadier Smith, ruled me out t order when I requested a opportunity to speak, I do no believe that the chairman reall wanted to have the meetin informed of the true facts. Thi may in time prove to be ver costly to the ratepayers. "Red" Garo) Clintor THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 •, • we get letters THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated Established 1865 1824 Clinton News Record