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Clinton News-Record, 1966-08-18, Page 4Page 4-~-Ciint<>n News-Record—-Thurs., Aug.18, 1966 Editorials .,, 1 / ' Canada a Leading Export Nation THE IMPORTANT role played by international trade in the Canadian economy is evidenced by the fact that Canada ranks fifth among the leading countries of the world in mer- chandise exports, In 1965, pur exports amounted to $8.7 billion. Our country has a record to be proud of in aggressively increasing its world markets, particularly in the cate gory of the highly-manufactured finish ed products of secondary industry, the export of which has increased by 160 per cent in the last four years. ‘ ■ This kind of performance must be not' only maintained but increased at a steady rate if Canada is to achieve its full economic potential and provide em- ployment opportunities for the hundreds of thousands of new workers expected to enter the labour force in the next few years. Given world conditions conducive to rapidly growing world trade, Canada can meet her export potential only if her competitive position remains strong and if export opportunities are aggres sively sought out and exploited. The maintenance of a strong competitive position depends largely on maintaining reasonable stability of prices and costs (‘including taxes). This requires con-, certed and co-operative action by gov ernment, labour and business in cutting expenditures and restraining, wages and prices. J Monopoly—Capitalists’ Delight I SUGAR AND SPICE L i by Bill Smiley Bigtime In New Edition Available Quick Canadian Facts The Bigtown .CHARLES B. DarrqW/ celebrated his 77th birthday on August 10. .The name will mean little to mosit people, f. but the invention that turned this one- time unemployed heating engineer into va millionaire long ago, became a house hold word: “Monopoly.” Ironically, it . was right after the 1929 stock market crash that Mr. Dar row'devised this game about’money. . The first few sets were crudely made by hand. Mr. Darrow couldn’t sell it „ to -a manufacturer. It was far too ' cornplicated, took much too long to play. It ‘ wasn’t until 1935 that Parker ■ Brothers put it on the North-American- market and it instantly became the most popular 'game they ever sold. • t At the time, its success was attrib uted to the depression. People wanted to feel rich, to throw money around, - to buy and sell property. But even in today’s prosperity, “Monopoly” remains as pqpular as ever. ’ To date, more (than 35 million copies have been sold around the world. Instead of “Park Place” and the “Boardwalk,”, foreign versions have “Diplomatstraden,” “Boulevard Saint Michel,” “Hofplein Rotterdam/’ “Trafal gar Square.” ' 1 j There is still no version of the game behind thb Iron Curtain. The rules and rationale of “Monopoly” are anathemas in socialist- societies. It will be a wopderful and signifi- ' cant day for the world when this is no longer true — when Russians, for in stance, sit around a piece of cardboard bargaining over “Gorki Prospekt” ■ or “Red Square” and collect 200 rubles when they pass “Goski.” — The Strat- > ford Beacon-Herald. / Trade Can Lead To Better Understanding farm output has been haunted by fail ure and frustration. We also may be justified in feeling encouraged that Russia’s continued dependence on foreign wheat to teed her own population and to meet her commitments elsewhere suggests that she is in no position to reassume aggres- _____ sive policies. The Soviets appear anx- prise "of our farmers who are taking . ious to trade, and trade may once again .full advantage of scientific advances.; prove to be a bridge to -better under- ‘ Apparently Russia’s program to expand ‘ standing. f , CANADA WILL derive many bene fits from the new big wheat deal with Russia. It means such things as con tinued prosperity for western farmers, •farm equipment makers, and the trans portation industry, j The fact that Canada can produce wheat in such quantities and of excel-' lent quality is a tribute to the enter- ! Safety On The Tractor , Burning desire iof most city ’ people in the blasted hiqiat of mid-summer is to flee from the concrete canyons and head north, where there is cool, blue water and golden sand and you sleep under ■blankets.. Wejl, we live, in the north, CQmparatively, and usually it’s just ais the city denizens picture it. But Lliis summer, after sleeping under nothing but a film of Weat for three weeks, we decided to refuge itoom toe hleat. How dip you get it? ■. farther north? Nope, helad south for toe city and1 ' check into an air-conditioned hotel. With a swimming pool. It was done on impluse, • with no roopa reservation. We were lucky. After 'four phione calls, we found1 ourselves en sconced in a fine big room, cobl as a tomb, overlooking’; the swank swimming pool. And yet 'it was. right ip toe heart Of toe city.Very pleasant. Ftaee park ing' and free fice cubes ap pealed to my Scottish'(Strain. We called a few people, and by 8 .o'clock the joint was on the gallop, and the room was filled1 with every thing ‘from teenagers to a grandmother who had just > knocked off her 79to birth- nay and wa^ prepared to cele brate the event till dawn. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and,by _ll p.m. all had gone toeir various ways. What to do? Too late for din ner .or a shbw.> Too early for •bed. My wi.ilfe, who turns into a Go-Go Girl when she -gets into a hotel room and hasn’t any meals or dishes or laundry to worry about, suggested we-hit the coffee-house circuit. My daughter, whose foremost de- ' sire is, to do just that, but by .herself, demurred. “Who wants to go there with parents? And besides, I hear they don’t allow old people into them.” “Whaddya mean, people?” Lady and her Old Man. When toe kid (realized there wasn’t a hope of get- . ting into that teenage jungle -on her own, she graciously permitted us to go along. And that’s how wie found ourselves’ -ita famous, or infa mous Yorkville, at midnight, seek Head ybu old chorused her Old with ‘about 4,000 young people ■strolling up and down toe sacred couple of blocks on their nightly pilgrimage. Within five minutes, we’d been spotted by one of my students, who seemed de- lighted to qatch Mr, Smiley (in itihe ;a|at, so to- speak. We took refuge in a cellar joint. Maybe I’m getting old and' crusty. But toe coffee houses have changed greatly, and for toe’worse, in the five yeiarls' . since I’ve been there. Then, they were run by en- ’ tousiastic amateurs, you coiqld! spend a - whole evening for >a dofllar and a quarter, and toe music was providled* by young lousy, serious Now cial There’s a stifflish cover charge, coffee is 50 cents a walllop and rotten, and tile music, provided by groups whose sole purpose seems to be !to drive you right out of your 'Sku‘11, is one great blast of electronic noise and shout ing. Ironically, the places have become too expensive for most of toe.young people they were originally intended for. Perhaps that is why they walk up and down outside in one vast, rolling crowd that lis always potentially, a mob. . Oh, well, it was b. good weekend. Wie had budgeted for one night only. But we ■didn’t wake up until check- in'g-out time, it was still steaming hot outside, and the girls came up with some of that weird feminine logic which proved that we could afford it if we cut 'down on something or .other. So I was hooked for another 24 -hours of pretending to be a million aire. We loafed, swam, watched toe real rich people spoiling thelilr kids, had an, Italian din ner, and took in Eric Nicol’s comedy, catching three seats in (toe second row by pure luck. Enjoyed' it, -but’ I’m ■afraid it will hit Broadway about the same year I win the Nobel prize. And home Sunday, up the highway north, rested and re freshed, and laughing all the way at those sun-burned, ex hausted vacationers pouring south, on their way back from toe Sizzling north to the tropical City. folk singers, some some 'gooid/ but all anid rather sweet. they’ve gone commer- 4 A new and enlarged edition of Quick Canadian Facts, the pocket annual pi fqictis abo.pt Canada, has recently been re leased. 'jihis low-cost, up-to- date, comprehensive reference book covers history and geo graphy; population, government and politics, toe economy, in dustry and finance. It is a val uable addition to any household or office library,, and many high schools now recommend it to flhelir students as' a study afcf Now in its 22nd annual ed ition, this, 160-page, 60-cent paperback lis distributed through book stores and leading news stands, .and ‘is published by Quick Canadian Facts Limited, Box 699, Terminal. A, Toironto, , Thie book, is crammed witb facts but lit’is a long way from being simply a -'Statistical re cord. For instance, there’s the' color of the country’s history' in thlis lead paragraph, from the section on "transportation: “The lakes land rivers were Canada’s first travel ways. The Indians did not knoiw toe wheel and ;had no '-Wheeled vehicles, ■but, their birch-bark cainoe was, nlearly ideal for the White man’s, inland exploration and for the fur trade, The word canoe is toom the 'Spanish ‘canba’, used 'by toe natives of toe Caribbean to 'denote a boat. West coast, Indians fashioned dugoiut can oes; some, made lirlom cedar trunks, carried a crew of fifty, often for sigia voyages of hun dreds of miles. The Eskimo canoe was the skin-CQivfeifed kayak, a one-man huntingenaft, or the umiak, a large open vessel 'Something like a whale boat. But it was the birch-bark canoe that Europeans adapted to thdir needs. By their com bined' labor an Indian and hiis wife could construct one .in about two weeks. The balk canoe was light and easily por taged, and even serious damage could be patched or caulked with resin on the spot. The war-canoe was the .pattern for toe fur traders’ great freighter canoe which, manned by, a doz en voyageurs, could carry two tons of merchandise. Eight can oes often covered the distance from Font William to Montreal in ten days. One of toe handi caps faced by officers of. the Hudson’s Bay ‘Company in their rivalry with toe Montreal-based North West 'Company was the difficulty’ of obtaining birch bark canoes .Since the birch tree' is not found lin the Bay area.” Here is an excerpt from th'e Section- on the weather: “The" highest temperatures: officially recorded in Canada, in southern Alberta and inferior British Columbia, have been 115 de grees-; the lowest on record, re ported from Snag, in toe Yukon Territory lin, February, X947, )Ls 81 degrees below zero. Precipi tation L liigJbdSt on tbs west coast iin some -places averaging over 100 inches, annually; the Atlantic provinces average 40 inches, southern Ontario and Quebec 35 inches, interior Can ada from the Rockies fo the Great Lakes 15 to .20 inches, the northern Territories 10 inches” Here is the proper flag proto col: “It is proper etiquette to hoist the flag each day at sun rise and lower it at sunset; It is left flying all night only at sea. Used as an indoor decora tion, the flag should be gather ed land not permitted- to fall be low toe level of toe eyes of a seated person, A worn and un- serviceable’-flag should be burn ed ■ ito« prevent its1 undignified and- improper use.” An .'item on population growth: "The greatest. expan sion occured in toe first years of this century as the wheat growing possibilities pf tiip West .became known and the railroads — building at the rate x# three miles a day in all toe- years from 1900 to 1914 made possible the fuller devel opment of the country. In those years nearly three million im migrants came to Canada and 1913 set the all-time peak of 400,870,” * The new edition of Quick Canadian Facts certainly quali fies for the description of ‘‘the Canadian pocket encyclopedia.’’ .. Chemical poisoning of foods is hot uncommon, toe . Canadian Medical Association points'* ouf, One of itihe most frequent types results when acid foods' are placed 'in cadmium-plated utem sils such as' pitchers or ice trays, and sufficient cadmium is dissolved to cause serious ill ness. . . * THE 15 mile-an-hour farm tractor and the 150 m.p.h. sports- racing car will soon have one thing in common— roll bars. < For those not too well acquainted with it, a roll bar is that piece of .tube steel which rises protectively over the driver’s head and is supposed to keep him from being crushed in case his machine rolls over or lands upside down-' in the ditch. Farm Imachinery manufacturers are beginning to offer roll bars as optional tractor equipment. This reflects partly their concern with farm'safety and re cent criticisms of the manufacturers heard from the industry. The Canadian Medical Association convention this year, for example, endorsed tractor roll bars. A Massey-Ferguson Ltd. spokes man says that all manufacturers will- be offering optional roll bars and safety frames and seat belts within a year. • It can be taken for grant ed that when Parliament re convenes 'in the fall, all op position parties will'-be sound ing off on toe subject .of another linjerease in old age pensions. The debate, unfor tunately, will not be guided solely by a search for toe course that would be best for ure, for if all 1,100,000 pen- all, both for those who are too old to work and need more money ito live on land for those who are at work and '. Will have to provide the. money. The prelude to the debate — the discussions that took place in the House just be fore ithe . summer recess — Showed very clearly that none of the opposition groups- can resist the urge to put politics first when it comes to pensions. Thelir combined at tack finally forced the gov ernment to make a statement of policy that was obviously premature. Under the pressure ■ of a filibuster sparked by the ■ .NDP on the phoney issue that the opposition was striving to melt the governments’ hard heart, Welfare Minister Mac- Eachen committed the gov- eminent to, guaranteeing a minliimum income of $105 a month to all age pensioners.' Initial cost, he said, would be about $225 million and new revenue measures to find 'the money are under considera tion It is not clear how the Minister arrived at this fig- . sioners were -given an extra ' $30 a month the total annual cost would be nearly $400 million. It is being .assumed that the government hopes to deal with toe pension hike on toe basils of what is called a neg ative income tax program. Under this arrangement all pensioners- would file an an-, nual income tax (return, rather than just those who have a taxable (income. In those buses where the indi vidual’s total income was be low $105 a month, or $1,260 a year’ the government would anake up the difference. It would be a sound1 scheme be cause it would help those who need help without bonussing those who do not. It is pos sible that Welfare Minister MacEeachen based .his esti mate of $225 million, as op posed to a probable $400 mil- lion for a universal pension increase, on this negative in come tax idea. Sound or not, the fact is that this is a pretty sophisti cated method of paying pen sions. It would take a while to educate the public on the mechanics and' advantages of this quite different, system. The question is whether the opposition would' permit the government the time. Stanley Knowles of the NDP is al ready on record as sayling that such a system' would be ia form of means test and . would rob old people of their dignity, a criticism that is as illogical as saying that filling out an ‘income tax form and receiving a rebate is an em barrassment. At least Some of the op position will be demanding' a straight $30-per-mointh pen sion hike to all, regardless of income or need. But this would be no favor to the workingman, who must pay the increased pension cost ■eliither through 'higher direct taxes or higher indirect taxes that show up in higher prices and living costs.;—By C.' J. Harris, editor of The Clip- Sheet. From Our Early Files Congratulations a're extended to Misses Jean Hogg, Mary R. Stewart and Ruth MdMato on their success in obtaining their Art certificates. The’ barnyard has its Sia mese twins too, -as wieil as the circus. On toe farm of Ernest Stromberg, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, are two chicks, hatched from one 'egg and joined to gether at the breastbone a's far back as the wings. From the classifieds: Razor Blades Sharpened—Safety Ra zor Blades sharpened. Satisfac tion guaranteed or money re funded. Single edge 3c; double edge 4c. J. E. Hovey, Druggust, Clinton. 75 Years Ago THE CLINTON NEW ERA Thursday, August 21, 1891 Mr. John Wilson has his fall wheat in for next year, it was sown on the 11th of August. Ten aores, who can beat this. Mr. H. L. Peine, of the Com mercial Hotel, has received a new stock of Kuntz’s. Lager, fresh! On Tuesday last Dr. Milne, of Blyth let toe contract for toe erection of a (handsome brick ho,use three lars. Mr. has been granted -two weeks holidays, commencing on Mon day next, consequently no books will be changed for that time, but the library will be open for one hour every evening. that is to cost between and four thousand dol- James Scott, librarian, I ERA ering of the Clans at Edin burgh, this month, it included as one of its pipers, Pte. D. A. Reid, son of Bob Relid, former Seaforth resident, and gTand's'on of' Mr. >and Mrs. William Ladd, Clinton. Betty Parke of Clinton Dis trict Collegiate Institute, has just completed her two weeks’ leadership training course at the Ontario Athletic Training Camp. On the night of the clos ing banquet, Betty was the proud recipient of her distinct ive honour crest. 10 o Clinton News-Record THE CLINTON NEW Established 1865 Authorized as Second Amalgamated 1924 Published Every Thursday At The Heart Of Huron County Clintoh, Ontario, Canada * Population 3,475 A. LAURIE COLQUHOUN, PUBLISHER • El - ® ® Signed contributions to thh publication, era the opinions of tha writers only, and do not necessarily express the views of the newspaper. Class Malli Post 'Office Department, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage In Cash SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In advance — Canada and Great Britain: SS.00 a year; United States and Foreign: 4.50, Single Coplee: 12 Cents. THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Established 1881 55 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday/ August 17, 1911' Mr. A. D. Sutherland of Sea forth has some fine Black Or pington chickens hatched from eggs' he received by mail from Manchester, England1.. The new Rectory for Trinity Ohurch, Blyth, is being pushed toward completion. The roof is on and inslide work 'will begin ait once. We are pleased to learn that E. Rannie is arranging to erect a large hardware store 36 feet wide adjoining the store he is now completing, for himself. This will greatly improve to at side of the street. Mr. V. M. Diehl of Stanley Township had a colt .born on August 10th with only 3 legs,, the front right log being miss ing, Just a shoulder blade. It ife perfectly sound otherwise and as doing welb 25 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 21, 1941 .Four mliles out of Exeter a new- airpart- is now an assumed .fact. Resident engineers have taken up their location there and land surveyors will soon be engaged in laying out the runways. Mr. J. H. Bmnsdon of-Clinton, announces toe- engagement of his daughter,' Marian Clare, to Mr. Clayton Francis Dixon, son of Mr., and Mrs. J. F. Dixon, Clinton. The wedding will take place in,September. Weaken^, specials as advertis ed by local merchants: Whytes Weiners, 1 lb. 25c; beef or pork liver, 1 lb. 15c; pork chops, 1 lb. 27c; peianut butter, ,20 oz. jar 21c; Vanilla extract, 8 oz. btl. 17c; Com syrup, 5 lb. tin, 55c. CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 23, 1956 A proposed temporary time table has been set up by th'e post office officials for mail truck service through Clinton from Stratford to Goderich .ancl Stratford to Kincardine. This service is scheduled to go into effect on Monday, / October 1 since the Post Office has receiv ed word from the Canadian Na tional Railway that mail ser vice by tralin will be discon tinued then. Did' you know that last Fri day was the 60th anniversary of the day in which’ gold was discovered in the Yukon. A children’s auction was held at toe homie of Dr. R. G. Hunter on Saturday afternoon. So pop ular was this Second auction that it will .probably become an annual event. The sum of $18.50 Was realized for the Pibneer Park Association. -----------io----------- 40 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Thursday, August 19, 1926 Monday’s papers announced toe results of summer courses in Art and physical culture. 15 Years Ago CLINTON NEWS-RECORD Your hometown paper, Clin ton News-Record, had the hon our of , achieving fourth place in a nationwide “Better News paper Competitions,” conducted by the Canadian Weekly News papers Association, for best all- roUrid newspaper in Canada in its circulation class. When the nationally known pipe band of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders of 'Can ada flew to Prestwick, Scot-, land, to take part in the Gath-. OMSIP Questions and Answers QUESTION: What is meant by examination of toe eyes by refraction? Why is this exclud ed from .OMSIP-coverage? ANSWER: This is -generally defined as examination of the eyes by means of lenses and various tests for toe purpose of flitting corrective lenses (eye glasses). Examination of the eyes by refraction is excluded from OMSIP as it is felt Such a service is not truly a medical Service, Health Tips < from the CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / One problem common to every household; and especially to those where children are con cerned, is that of incidental cuts, and bruises, the Canadian Medi cal Association reports. A 'bruise results when exten- sliive haemorrhage from tiny blood vessels occurs beneath the skin following .a blow to the surface of toe body. The skin may or may not be broken. This ordinary bruise is. best treated immediately by /the ap plication of, cold compresses or ice wrapped in cotton. If the bruise lis extensive or Associated wiito pain and apparent’ inability to move parts on toe arms or legs, medical attention should be sought. A wound ar out ‘is a break in the skin which .allows toe es cape of blood from tire cut sur face and also toe possibile en trance of bacteria .germs into the body. The wound may vary from a simple cut caused by a sharp instrument such as a razor blade or knife, to a large, irregular cut with jagged' edges. The most important consid eration in the treatment of, cuts is the amount of haemorrhage or bleeding that occurs. If the cut is small with minimal bleeding, ' the application of an ordinary antiseptic such as mercuro- chrome or methiolate and a bmall dressing will usually suf fice. The bleeding stops and no infection 'develops. If the cut’is more extensive, and particularly if bleeding is qulite. free, the bleedliing should be kept under control by toe ap plication of direct pressure to toe wound, over a pad if avail able, and , a doctor should be sumimone'd or toe patient taken to th'e neatest hospital, toe CM A advises. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRY ' ■. .. ■u— INSURANCE J. E. LONGSTAFF OPTOMETRIST Mondays and Wednesdays 20 ISAAC STREET 482-7010 SEAFORTH OFFICE 527-1240 ' K. W. 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