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Clinton News-Record, 1966-02-03, Page 2Page 2—-Clinton N ews-Record—Thu rs., Feb. 3, 1966 Editorials ... WHAT IS this skiing thing which takes children onto the hills With their whole families “gping too”? What about skiing attracts the middle-aged to the top of the slope and back again 'till afternoon even if they have no children to entertain? And what is there about skiing Which makes young ’teens and twenties leave the TV and even the skating rinks to actually go outdoors to play? There’s the attraction of “some thing different”, of course.- For long enough we’ve read about skiing in Sweden and the Rockies and the Swiss Alps and wondered about going there. Maybe there’s some social status attach ed to the sport. Maybe it is the “affluence of our society.” Skis and the accessories which go with the sport are riot cheap. You need more cash in your pocket when you begin to ski, than for skating or even tobogganing. Maybe its the enticement-of sports on TV and other media letting us fill know that ski slopes exist. This, com bined with over-exposure to the TV screens must-have its effect. We suspect that the chance to act ually get' outdoors and meet nature face to face has a great deal to do with the ski resort trend. No matter how plush the ski-lodge is—and no matter how easy the lift to the top of the What Is This Thing? slope—when the skier sets off on his own—he’s really independent. There’s no one holding his hand, steering his toboggan, nor cushioning his fall, He’s far from the soft cushions of the lodge bar, or the chairs at the side of the rink. There’s snow, some trees, air, gravity, speed, his skis and poles and that’s all between him and the bottom of the hijl. This is a personal sport if ever there was one. Maybe the thrill of danger is a trifle stronger than in some games. Whatever it is, the move to the ski slopes has been made in earnest— and even southern Ontario people are on the way. SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Clinton Minor Hockey Day Saturday, February 5 Age is a quality of mind. If you leave your dreams behind, If hope is cold, If you no longer look ahead, Then you are old. But if from life you take the best, And if in life you see the jest, And if love you hold, Then, no matter how the birthdays fly, No matter how the years go by, You are not old. r —Anon.2 Ever been on shift work? Most nurses have. Many in dustrial workers liave. Farmers,, executives, merchants, office workers — and until recently, teachers — have not had that delightful experience. First time I ran into it was in my £jrst job, when I was 17 — back ip the middle ages, sometimes known as the Dirty Thirties. I have been a stalwart champion of the working man ever since, It was a stoamboat on the Great Lakes. Seven days a week. For a dollar a day. I worked the graveyard shift, Except that in those days it was a shift and a half, from midnight to noon. And it seem ed to be rolling a little every midnight. Just enough to make you queasy. Sick at heart, sick at stom ach, we groggily made our way to the galley, about 11:30 p.m,„ for “breakfast.” The night cook was a jolly Oriental gentleman called Sing. He couldn’t sing, And he could n’t cook, either. But his heart was in the right place. He knew we' needed sustenance for the 12 hours ahead. Chuckling merrily, he’d pile our plates with greasy eggs, greasy, ham, greasy fried pota toes. Sometimes, for a change, th ere’d be greasy sausages and would Boston as you Cream 1 • • G. Hill Questions Board's Finance Method " export markets. Further reasons for opposing the proposal are: 1) If additional facilities are built they should for wheat, barley well as beans. 2) The trend of plying 'growers with seed, fertil izer, and chemicals necessary tor production will soon force' the Bean Board into competit ion with farm supply co-opera tives. ■ 3) It is extremely difficult for an elevator to operate ef ficiently on .one commodity only. 4) The Bean Board should en gage an activities that will bene fit all growers rather than growers in certain areas. 5) It is impossible for the Ontario bean marketing chain to 'function harmoniously so long as private dealers are re quired by the Bean Board to •collect from all beans market ed, a levy which will be used to* compete with the trade. 6) Co-operatives would be willing to provide this Facility, if the Bean Board were not in the market. 7) The Bean Board should devote 'its immediate attention to consolidating *its position so that it could attend to price making activities, such as con trol of exports or even control of the entire crop using dealers as agents of the Board. A vote will be held on Feb ruary 8-9-10. I Sincerely hope all growers will' become well- informed so ’ uat they can vote wisely. Yours truly, GORDON L.‘ HILL -----------0----------- ean Co-ordinator Ponders What Makes Emergency The Editor, Clinton News-Record. Dear1 Sir: Your editorial Thursday, Jan uary 27, 1966, “Ontario Beans” expressed an opinion of doubt ful merit, for these reasons: 1) Your criticism of farmers fax’ attending farm meetings to* discuss farm problems does not encourage farmers: to have in terest *in the activities of their organizations. 2) You do not give ’ sound reasons for your support of toe Bean*. Board’s project. (That Bean Board directors are sin cere is not sufficient reason to support their proposal to build additional facilities. The pro ject should be ■ economically sound.) 3) One of your statements is not quite correct. Early in December directors of the Bean Board attended district annual meetings and stated it was their intention to finance additional facilities by sale of shares. The. meetings supported this proposal. Thirty days later the direct ors had changed their minds and want to finance the project by a levy on all producers. I suggest this is taking action “overnight”. ? From aits birth, until four years agd the Bean Board did- a good job of maintaining bean prices at realistic levels. During the last four years our bean . price has been maintained, not by the Bean Board but by the ■ British market, which has been keen tor our export. Last fall prices on the Brit ish market rose dramatically. Prices in Michigan were also raised accordingly. Prices in Ontario did not raise until the bulk of our crop had left farmers hands and. then raised only fractionally. Wiliy didn’t Ontario prices keep pace with the export mar ket? Why 'didn’t the Bean Board inform growers that this condition existed? Should the Bean Board erect the proposed facilities they would be in a position, with their two plants, to handle 30% of the crop. This quantity is not large enough to give them any Significant influence ' on . the market because one private dealer now controls 65% of the .crop. Any benefits from, the new plant will ibe in the form of 'better “pick” and better mois ture tests, which will be avail able only to those growers who can deliver to it. This isn’t good enough. We neied a program which will at least keep our domestic price on a par with be available and com as dealers snip- Norman Watson Vice Chairman Of O.F.P.M.B. Everett Biggs, Deputy Min ister of Agriculture*, has an nounced that Norman Watson, agricultural representative in Haldimand County, has been appointed! vice-chairman of the Ontario Farm Products Mar keting Board. Mr. Watson, who will re sume his new duties on Febru ary 1, brings to* the position a wide knowledge of Ontario agri culture having had several years of experience in the ex tension branch and as a prac ticing farmer.-----------o----------- There are 850 employees at Expo. X Editor, Clinton News-Record, Clinton, Ontario. Dear Sir: I note with interest your edi torial in the Clinton News- Record dated January 27, 1966 and I believe that what you write is correct in many instan ces. I wish to thank you most A Word From In Explanation Editor, Clinton News-Record, Clinton1, Ontario. Dear Sir: I note with interest comments on the front page of your paper regarding procedure followed at County Council. May I say I appreciate those remarks very mudh for usually one’s name appears only when someone has a complaint, more often than When someone is handing out credit. In connection with the pro blem of space, I might, say dur ing the January session we are very limited in the number of people we can accommodate, and unfortunately Supreme Court is usually in session at the* same time as County Coun cil. Therefore we are unable to use the more spacious Count Room. The Court Room would be an ideal set up as far as spectators are concerned but there again would not prove as convenient to County Council as they require their desks, etc. We like to encourage spectators at any time during our sessions of County Council and we par ticularity have on many occas ions invited school children to attend in a body to see how County Council operates. We are quite concerned that a great many of our students do not fully understand the func tion of municipal government; furthermore a great many of them do not even know the name of their own mayor, reeve, or members of council. If we can be Of assistance to anyone in this line or any other functions of our office, we would be only too pleased to do so at any time. Yours truly, • JOHN BERRY, Clerk-Treasurer Goderich, Ontario, January 28, 1966. sincerely for the positive refer ence to Emergency Measures in Huron County,. The legislation in its present form, having been in force for a considerable period of time, is perhaps unreali'sitic in some instances. However, you might be interested to know that the Emergency Measures Act of 1962-63 has been amended, in 1965, chapter 36, which covers the old *chapter 41 and the am endment reads as follows under 1(b): - (1) An emergency means a real or apprehended war, inva sion or insurrection' proclaimed to exist under the War Meas ures Act (Canada), or (2) A natural emergency de clared to exist under Section 3. In essence, it is the responsi bility of each Board, Commis sion or other branch of Gov ernment designated by the Lieutenant Governor-in-Council to formulate a plan to provide for the continued functioning of the necessary services of the department or branch of gov ernment in the event of an emergency. In view of this, it would ap pear that a good many opinions would be forthcoming concern ing the continued functioning of the necessary services and I would say here* that (1) ambu lance service apparently is not the responsibility of the govern ment and (2) it would be; inter esting to arrive exactly at the point where and when an emergency occurs. ■ The main purpose of Emer gency Measures is to formulate a plan under which govern ments may work successfully in continuity when 'the disaster taxes the ability of the local services beyond their capacity and I believe that small local emergencies might activate the Emergency Measures Organiza tion if the* Warden of the Coun ty Who holds the activating au thority had authority' from bread fried, ip, grease. Even a 17-year-old stomach, the human organ that most closely resembles a cement mixer, couldn’t take it. We used to push the greasy gob around the plate, and settle, for some greasy coffee. But the clincher, the thing that really made our stomachs heave, that made us rush from the gallery to our jobs qif clean ing but the lavatories, was toe dessert, Triumphantly, Sing Sling out, “You like nice Cleam Pie? I got” Now, probably know, Boston Pie is a rich, nauseous concoc tion of custard topped with cream, Almost 30 years later, I still gag when I see it on a menu. As you may have gathered, I didn’t hke shift work then. And it hasn’t improved much during the intervening years. This year, at our School, we're on a double shift. A com bination of post-war baby boom and bureaucratic red tape have produced a situation in -which the populations of two entire schools, some 2,000 students, are sharing a building intended for half that number. The school board had two al ternatives. They could have each student hold another stu dent on his or her knee all day, or they could run two shifts. They favored the former, be cause it would save on teachers, lighting and books. But some parents were pretty annoyed ait the 'idea of their 88-pound daughters holding a 200-pound football player in their laps all day. So the school board fear lessly compromised, and voted for the shift system. And that’s why your faithful reporter lurches out of bed at 6:15, Wildly groping for the alarm clock, has a coffee break, if there is one, at 9 a.m., and eats lunch about 10:30 in toe morning. In theory it’s wonderful. Teachers have all afternoon to sleep,, golf, curl or hunt, and the evening to prepare lessons. Good for the students, too. They have their homework all .done by dinner time, and can watoh TV ©I’ wash their hair, or go to the poolroom. All we have to do is get to bed a couple of hours earlier than in the good old days. In practice, it’s horrible. Wives persecute husbands in the afternoon with shopping, scrubbing, repairing, nagging. If you sleep in the afternoon, you lie stark, staring, insomniacal, at night. If you-work or play, you fall asleep in the middle of dinner, baked potato chewed. Nobody goes to bed any lier than they ever did. And what we wind up with is a pe dantry of red-eyed teachers', frayed at the edlges, facing a gaggle of yawning teenagers, some of whom were up at 5 a.m. to catch the. school bus, every morning at 7:45. ear- higher up. This is a problem which most co-ordinators would be very happy to resolve and with the Emergency Measures Branch of the Provincial < Government holding' a conference in Toronto on March 29, 30, it is hoped .that the co-ordinators will have an opportunity to present such a conundrum for clarification and definite action with a start ing point formally established. Best personal regards, and if we may be of any assistance you, you have but to* ask. Sincerely yours, W. STUART FORBES Co-ordinator. January 31J 1966. 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From Our Early Files •r specials as follows: carnation milk, 2 large* tins, 17c; sliced pineapple, 2-16 oz. tins, 29c; Blue Boy Coffee, 1 lb. 37c; Maple Leaf Lard, 2 lbs. for 19c. Epps Sport Shop, has been do ing a lively business' lately by supplying .almost all the RAF at Port Albert with skates and a number of the officers and their wives with skis. Mrs. David Steepe of Clinton held the lucky ticket in a re cent draw contest put on by Lobb’s Grocery for the four and a half pound Christmas Cake. The South End Red Cross unit will meet at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon*, February 12th at the home of Mrs. John Middleton. Please come prepar ed to quilt. All ladies of the neighbourhood are urged to at tend. 75 Years Ago TIIE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, February 6, 1891 BRUCEFIELD — An elo quent and stirring missionary sermon was preached last Sun day afternoon in the Methodist Church by the Rev. Mr. Harvey, of Guelph. The action of Mr. Y. M. Mc Lean* was magnanimity itself. His name was freely used as a possible candidate, and he has a few supporters who would have liked to see it put to a ballot, but he declined other wise, and showed clearly that he had the heist interests of the Reform party at ’heart. o CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 2, 1911 The Collegiate Board met last evening and re-organized. Major McTaggart, who has been a member for several years', was chosen chairman and Principal Treleaven again ap pointed secretary-treasurer. A meeting of those interested in the extension of the Goderich Township Rural Telephone Sys tem was held in the school house at Taylor’s Corners on Wednesday of last week, with a large attendance of those inter ested in the matter. Prof.' Brown, who has had charge of the organ in Wesley Church for the past couple of years, has1 senlt in his resigna tion, having accepted the organ in Knox Church, Galt, which, by the way, is the largest Pres byterian congregation in Can ada. 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 4, 1926 At St. Paul’s rectory, Strat ford, on Wednesday of last week, Miss Mary N. Argent, youngest daughter of Mrs. Mar tha Argent of Clinton and Mr. Clifford Epps, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Epps of Varna, were quietly married, the Rev. H. W. Snell performing the ceremony. BAYFIELD — The mails were held up here on Thursday last owing to the terrific storm and blocking of the roads with snow. Mail carrier A. C. Bran don made connections with the train at Brucefiield on Thursday a.m. but wa's unable to make the return trip until Friday noon. The piled up snow on the west side of Albert Street is being removed this week, giving the merchants on that side a chance to see what we on this side are doing. 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 6, 1941 The T. R. Thompson Superior Store was advertising weekend The Ontario Safety League reports a sign seen in front of an auto body shop: “May we have the next dents?” • • the Corporals’ opened its doors last operation o*f the Commanding Officer W/C R. F. Miller, AFC, RCAF Station Clinton's newest establishment Club Friday evening. Clinton Public mission is giving serious con sideration to' the drilling of a third well to supplement the present supply otf water, follow ing the visit of experts here a couple of weeks ago. Utilities' Com- CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 1, 1951 Jack Clegg, young Stanley Township farmer, was elected president of Huron Central Ag ricultural Society at the annual meeting in* the Board Room, Ontario Agricultural Office, Saturday afternoon. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, February 2, 1956 John Parker, owner of Par- Knit Hoisery Ltd., Clinton, has been elected outer guard of the Mocha Temple, Ancient Accept ed Order of Nobles of the Mys tic Shrine, London. Rev. D. J. Lane was elected president of the Clinton* Citi zens’ Horticultural Society for the second consecutive term at the annual meeting held in the town hall last Thursday even ing. Last week first installations of new dial telephone sets were made for McKhlop Telephone System customers by John Kel lar, linesman, and his assiSt- Through the courtesy and co-ants. 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