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Clinton News-Record, 1966-08-11, Page 3Page 2—Clinton News-Record—Thurs,, Aug. 11, 1966 Rambling With Lucy (LMcy Rt Woods!Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW Established 1865 Amalgamated THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD 1924 Established 1881 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clinton, Ontario, Canada Population 3,475 A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER El i® ® Signed contributions to this publication, are the opinions of tha writers only, and do not necessarily express the views of the newspaper. Class Mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage In Cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In advance — Canada and Great Britain: $5.00 a year; United States end Foreign: 6.50, Single Copies: 12 Cents. ERA Motorbikes Demand Common Sense Driving Clinton and district appears to have its quota of two-wheeled traffic menaces —the new fad of motorbikes. We have not had a death in our immediate area caused by motorcyclists, but they are creating a nuisance on streets and high­ ways. In Monday’s Globe and Mail, three of the weekend traffic deaths reported were operators of small motorcycles. They ranged in age from 16 to 25. While attending the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association conven­ tion in Saint John, New Brunswick, last week, a former editor of this newspaper clipped the following editorial from The Evening Times Globe of that city; it should be a, warning to cyclists in our own area. * * it , “MQTOR CYCLISTS would be wise to take to heart the safety messages issued by police this week in the wake of many accidents in Saint John and district. “The two-wheeled vehicle is harder than the four-wheeled to drive — or drive well, anyway. For a start, you need to maintain proper balance, par­ ticularly with a passenger. “It is also obviously more risky. Skidding is more liable to happen. With­ out a windshield for protection, rain can be not only uncomfortable ibut can cut the driver’s visibility seriously. Goggles are a must in order to 'avoid sudden blinding by an insect or dust. A pot-hole that merely jerks the steering-wheel of a car can hurl a bike into the ditch along with all aboard. And in a collision bike riders are at an obvious disadvan­ tage. “On top of all this the motorcycle operator must face all the hazards of modern highway travel that everyone else does. “There’s only one answer, and it’s quite simple: Use commop sense. That means handling the machine with the utmost respect for its power and obey­ing the riiles of the road even more closely that the average motorist. “With the right attitude, the motor­ cyclist can expect to enjoy for a long time the freedom and pleasure his ‘set of wheels’ gives him. Without it, he might just ;as well drive directly to the nearest cemetery.” From Our Early Files ' • History Of Salt In Clinton Area SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley LAKEVIEW CASINO Grand Bend A Visit To FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 THE COMMANCHEROS 75 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, August 14, 1891 A certain young lady used rather expensive kindling to start a fire the other morning. A relative, was visiting her and wrapped' up $15 in some old paper for safe-keeping. The par­ cel got dropped on the floor, and the lady of the house, thinking it was nothing but a ball of old newspaper, used ilt to start the fire with. The White Star steamer, Ma­ jestic, has broken ia record from Queenston to New York. Time: 5 days, 18 hours and 18 min­ utes. United States Secretary of Agriculture Rusk has been' in ■ New York trying to run down certain firms said to be ex­ porting horse fleslh to France as prime Texas or Montana steer meat. It is said that Mr. Crews, hotel keeper at Benmiller, has rented the old Ilrancestown hotel, Exeter north, and will shortly take- possession thereof. 55 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 10, 1911 Sir Wilfred Laurier will open the Federal campaign at the town of Simcoe, Norfolk County, on Tuesday afternoon, August 15th, and will be accom­ panied by the Minister of Cus­ toms and the Postmaster-Gen­ eral. “If the Amerioan flag does not go to London, Ont., next week the Detroit-London Old Boys don’t go”,' declared George Moore, president of the London Old Boys Association of Des troit, when asked what action would be taken as a result of the removal of the United States flag from the street dec­ orations. The town of Seaforth has purchased the 13,000 volt elec­ tric equipment from the water, light and .heat Commission of St. Mary’s for the sum of $1,000 .The sale was made by the Hydro-electric Commission, and. the equipment will be transferred to Seaforth, by the Canadian General Electric Company. ............................................. .........~ " Years * CLINTON NEWS-RECORD ' Thursday, August 12, 1926 Devotees of golf, and indeed those (interested in sports and sportmen generally, will be in­ terested' in knowing that Wal­ ter Hagen, the world famous golfer, and at one time world champion, was -a visitor last Friday at Bluewater Golf and, Country Club, Goderich. The paving .on the Huron Road has been almost finishod as far as the 4th concession, where the contractors will leave this end of it and go back to Goderich, working from .the town back to the 4th. On Monday morning Chief Stong was notified that one of tine inmates from, the Houis’e of Refuge had left the. place and started into town, that he had stabbed another inmate, in­ flicted. .severe injuries and was believed to still have possession of his knife. 10 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 16, 1956 A special class in the domes­ tic Section of the Bayfield Fall Fair has been added this year since 1956 is the Centennial! year of the fair. This is for a three-tier fruit cake, suitably iced for the occasion and enter- •ed in the class. A bank account has been opened under the name of “Clinton Community Swimming Pool Fund”. The Kinsmen Club of Clinton and the Huron Fish and Game Club, Clinton, have already pledged $1,000 each to the fund. Harold s E. known in this week certificate announced with. regard to his work as an insurance salesman. -----------o----------- Hartley, better Clinton as “Hal”, received his framed recording an award • early this spring 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 14, 1941 The War Services Committee have opened a Recreation Room over the hank of Montreal for all members of the Radio School, Air Force', Navy and Militia. They are invited to make it their home while in town. Reports have been circulated quite frequently during the past number of months concern­ ing a fourth airport to be. es­ tablished in Huron County. It is generally agreed now that a 900 acre tract of land in the Crediton and Centralia districts of South Huron will be the scene of a new air' field. Weekend Specials advertised in local stores: Cresia, 3 lb. tin, 65c; Aylmier Veg. or Tom. soup, 2 tins, 17c; Maple Leaf cooked ham, per lb., 60c; Maple Leaf fresh cheese, per lb., 30c; Ivory Flakeis, lg. pkg., 25c; Van Camps Tom. Juice, 48 oz. tin, 25c. OMSIP Questions and Answers QUESTION’: How does an individual who ;has just moved to Ontario obtain OMSIP cov­ erage? What are the require­ ments? ANSWER: An applicant must have resided in Ontario for a continuous period of 90 days immediately prior to the date of application. Persons applying within 30 days of meeting this residency requirement will re­ ceive coverage and benefits on the first of 'the month, following the initial premium payment. Should a prospective subscriber not make application within 30 days of completing residency requirements, coverage will start three months after the first premium is paid. Salt was discovered at Goderich 100 years ago. The Sifto Salt Company (a division of Dam- Tar Ltd.) the largest pro­ ducer of salt in Canada which owns and operates the salt wells and hard rpck mine, will erect a cairn opposite the jail in the County Town to mark the event. It will overlook the spot where it was discovered and mounted on it will be a one-ton block of rock salt. Reading about this prompted Lucy to make enquiries about Clinton and Seaforth. She could still recall the row of chem­ ist’s bottles containing ^samples of salt in John Ransford’s office window back of the Molson’s Bank. Fred Sloman was interested in history, she was told he might know when the first salt well was drilled. He' didn’t know but he volunteered to make enquiries, but he could .only obtain guesses as to dates, “Clinton salt has somewhat lost its, savour,” he remarked. In the end, after putting Mr. Sloman and others to con­ siderable inconvenience, Lucy got Carl to “burrow” through a drawer containing old newspapers wherein was the desired information — much to her surprise! It was in 1870 that the .first salt was brought in north west of the CNR station behind what is now F. Hudie’s mill. It was known as McGarva’s Salt Works. Three men were interested in it: a Mr. Combe, a druggist, who came to Clinton in 1858 from Wakefield, Yorkshire, and bought out la Mr. .Smith. (He operated the drug store until the salt boom.); John McGarva, sand associated with them a Mr. Laycock, editor of the local weekly paper, but the day they struck salt was very .hot-—it was in July—.and he got a sunstroke and died. Shortly/after this, John Ransford who had .been born in England and emigrated in 1868 to Clinton, and his brother Richard established the Stapleton Salt Works. They were adjacent to the house built by their father, Henry Ransford, now owned by Mrs. Willis. By 1879, .according to the Huron County Atlas, the Rans- fords operated both the McGarva and Stapleton salt works, producing 300 barrels per day. Mr. and Mrs. Fred .Sloman and Lucy’s husband Cart are .amongst the many who recall the towers of both works. When a young man, Cart went to Stapleton for salt to use in storing the hay in the mow. / After Goderich .and Clinton, the salt boom hit Seaforth, Coleman and Gouinton employed 60-75 men; Grey, Young and Sparling, 20-25 men, and there was also a Merchants’ Salt Company, But in time these industries petered out in Clinton and (Seaforth. Lucy was browsing through some old cook books recently. She enjoyed the recipes in imagination—even extra, salt is prohibited on her restricted diet. How many housewives ever stop to think of the importance of salt in thear cooking? And in pioneer days with limited refrigeration it was even more important. Salt is necessary for man and .beast. In the early days the deer gathered at the “salt licks” near St. Marys. The cattleman sees bis .herd rush for salt put out in their pasture op certain days — sometimes in- troughs, sometimes in small heaps on the ground. Generally used in conjunction with the loose salt .are the salt blocks. In days gone by, salt was sown sparingly as fertilizer with wheat and peas. Lucy was reminded of Inspector J. Elgin Tom, Goderich, giving the scholars a little lesson on control of the larvae of cabbage butterflies when he visited Bayfield Public School. “Sprinkle the cabbages with a watering can of water to which salt has been .added (Lucy has forgotten the proportion). It will .kill the caterpillars and run down the cabbage stem .and act as a fertilizer for the plants,” he explained. And went on to add how much better it was to use that than any poison which would be injurious to man. Lucy tried it once but as she recalls, it had to be applied fairly frequently. And she never was able to grow such .great • big healthy looking cabbages such as envisioned by Inspector Tom — but perhaps that was due to the light sandy soil of the vegetable garden. > In keeping winter roads open to motor traffic, the On­ tario Department of Highways is perhaps the largest single consumer of salt today. It keeps the roads open but is the bane of the automobile owner today in its propensity to rust bodies. This (area is fortunate in having a generous supply of both salt and water available in case of shortage. In the area of Clinton and Seaforth, drillers for oil ,and gas invariably encounter salt. In 1954 the Imperial and Sun Oil Companies joined in a deep drilling project for gas or oil , on the farm of George Wilson, Concession 4, Stanley Town­ ship, opposite Baird’s Cemetery. They struck .granite at 3,490 feet and were forced to stop. They went through three dis­ tinct layers of salt (300 feet in all) and between the 500-550 foot level struck .pure crystal salt 100 feet in depth. The dril- • lers sprinkled it on their sandwiches. About the 700 foot level they got into an underground river and for three days their grindings were washed away by the current. In the analysis there was a trace of iron but no oil or gas. The rust on the stones in the river shows and iron content in the soil, Mr. Wilson told Lucy. The Hometown Spent a week in the old ■hometown recently, and, as usual,* it was anything but a rest. The weather was per­ fect, but tiie hospitality was exhausting. It’s not really my home­ town. I didn’t grow up there, physically. But I spent a dec­ ade there in the newspaper -business, and maybe I grew up there in other ways. Any­ way, when you walk down the main street, and every second person stops to shake hands and ask about your family, and 'tell you what their kids are doing now, it’s your hometown. A small town changes and yet remains the same. A few businesses have changed hands. Some of the stores have.new fronts. The paint on the hotel has been changed from passionate purple to ghasitly green. The shady, tree-lined street on which you used to live has been raped: the stately trees cut to ugly stumps, as the street is to1 be widened. But the biggest changes are the people. The young men you used to work and play with are grizzled or as bal'd as eggs. The young •women you used to look at with Some interest because of their big eyes are sagging and dentured. The lovable kids' that your kids used to play with 'are hulking adolescents’, some of them delinquents' with police records. And your old partner, once apparently indestructible, is taking eight different colors of pills. Despite the changes, there is continuity as comfortable as an old fishing hat. The Chamber of Commerce is still fighting over store hours. Thie Industrial Commission is on the verge o<f announcing a huge new industry. The fire brigade races periodically to the town, dump, where the in­ cinerating process has got out of hand because the caretaker has bagged off for a beer. Some of the local charac­ ters have gone to their' re­ ward, but many are still a- round. The* local lawyer still plays his electric organ be­ tween clients. The local mil­ lionaire. still lugs bags of salt and feed into the back of his ’66 model, and lugs it out to feed his cattle. The barber, with whom you once shared, a riotous Legion zone rally, still quips with his customers, though he went off to1 fight in a war over 50 years ago. The canny Scot chortles' as he tells you his shore lots ate now going over $4,000. The same' waiter insults the same customers, in the pub. The same beer barrel in human form sits fin the sarnie seat in the same pub. The same people still come to 'the- same cottages. Except that the pregnant young ma­ tron was a skinny kid in bare feet last time you saw her. And the handsome young chap who works at the sum­ mer store was 'a tyke called Johnny-Cake last time you , Saw him- However, it's good to get back for a visit. And it's never uneventful. Kept my hand in by writ­ ing a few new stories for the paper. Took the family to the Indian reserve; same1 beauti­ ful view and easy-going in­ habitants. Dropped in on old (Continued on page 6) -.- ............................ V Wedding Pictures JERVIS STUDIO Phone 482-7006 OIL BURNER SERVICE AND SUMMER CLEANOUTS Make Your Arrangements Now Before The Fall Rush SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 THE BRITISH MODBEATS LET'S 60 KIDS .. 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