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Clinton News-Record, 1973-06-21, Page 4NEWS,RECQRD, -THURSDAY, JUNE gl, 1973 Make the laws enforceable There'S been a lot of static of late in government bodies, ranging from municipal councils to Queen's Park, Surrounding a reported suggestion by Minister of Natural Resources Leo Barr nler that a motorcyclist's park be located near Grand Bend, It was Indicated that a number of such parks had been discussed by the ministry in Toronto. As the storm developed It became ap- parent these parks would not be for the exclusive use of "bikers", but open to everyone, including motorcycle travellers, Even that idea, which would allow anyone to use the park who wished to take the chance, went over like a lead balloon in the Grand Bend area. Grand Bend seems to be all in favor of tourism, but not bikers, since they claim, with considerable justification, that groups of motorcyclists have caused the community a fair amount of trouble over recent years. The Pinery Provincial Park near Grand Bend is now closed to motor bike campers. There is little doubt that Mr, Bernier's intentions were the best. After alt it is unfair to discriminate against an in- dividual group in connection with the use of public parks, At least it's unfair to exclude the whole group since it stands to reason that ALL bikers can't be ALL bad. This brings up the real crux of the problem. How does the province best police its parks ",so that the majority of campers can enjoy their outdoor travel without harassment from rowdies, be they bikers or anyone else. The problem was brought a little closer to home over the weekend when officers of the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Povincial Police raided a party at the Conservation Park near Ben- miller, solved. Companies should conform Scuffles broke out between police and the youthful campers and charges were laid ranging from liquor violations to assaulting a police officer, Although some may have been, all of those Involved in that party and the en- suing mix up were not bikers end police say the park was full of young campers, the majority of whom were well behaved. To our way of thinking this destroys the suggestion that motorcyclists should be excluded from public camp grounds or the possible thought that no One under a certain age should be allowed to camp unless chaperoned, The real question is "How do we police our parks so that the trouble makers are kept in line or evicted before that can start trouble of such a magnitude?" In the case of the Conservation Park it is explained that Police do not have the proper laws passed by the province to carry out proper policing. If this is the case we can only urge the Province of Ontario to speed up its machinery, Once the hands of the police are un- tied a demand for more vigilant , police protection would be in order but first the . officers must be given effective laws to enforce. Those opposing the establishment of a park set aside for —motorcycle campers are right though, at least to a point. A special camp would only congregate un- desireable elements in a confined area and make it more difficult to police than ProVicTing no camping facilities will not solve the problem either. Bikers will still come to Grand Bend, and finding the door slammed in their face, even those who would normally cause no trouble will form a common bond with the rowdies and the problem will not be A Hullett township farmer was recently charged by police with moving a piece of machinery that was too large to be legally moved on a public roadway. The equipment was a large cultivator which, even When sections on each end were folded up, was over the 14-foot limit allowed (with a special permit) for travel on a public road, If this was a piece of equipment the farmer had made himself, the charge would have been right and just. But the man in question had purchased the machine from a reputable machinery manufacturer. Someone once said: The law is an ass. This seems to be one of those cases that prove the point. How can it be legal for a company to manufacture a machine and sell it to a farmer, but it not be legal for the farmer to move it on the roadway? Is it reasonable to expect, in this day and age when a farmer must have several hundred acres of land to make a living, that a farmer should either take his machinery apart or move it by truck every time he moves from one of his farms to another? It is time government stepped in and made some sense of this ridiculous situation either by putting the clamps on the machinery companies to prevent them selling this triachineryor 'by making it legal ror faeriiei to move it on the road. It would seem the former suggestion makes the most sense because there is no doubt there is a hazard with extra wide machinery being moved. Action should be taken at once before any more farmers pay the penalty that should more rightly be assessed to the machinery companies. ,'- Blyth Standard "What's this supposed to be — a casualty front the cod war?" The diet craze we get letters Ordinary Readers My views on education don't seem to upset the Minister one whit. He just goes around with his eyes shut droning that hyp- notic chant: "The standards of education are not declining the standards of education are not declining the stun ..." However, my views do seem to strike a cord or a nerve or an open wound among a good many other people. A recent column on education has attracted more mail than anything I've written since I churned out, "Sex and the Editor," That was when I was a weekly editor, and it was a hot number, I can tell you. There were no leftover papers that week. I know, You want me to reprint it. Sorry, I'm a school teacher now, and as everyone knows, except a lot of teachers, , school teachers must maintain the highest standards of morality, sobriety and taste, Besides, it was harmless. Just a device to sell papers when cir- culation was slumping a bit. Where was 1? Oh, yes, letters about education, Following are some excerpts from letters received from ordinary readers, if there are such creatures. I've never yet met a person who considered himself ordinary. And why should I? We're 'an extraordinary lot. If you don't believe me, take a good look at yourself, then at your neigh- bouts, then at our "leaders", They may be a lot of riffraff, but there's not one who is or- dinary. From a merchant: "You have stated publicly what a great many of us think, but our means of comtnunication is not at; wide as yours. The Mickey Motise-and Donald Duck cour- ses they have in high schools and so-called colleges now would be a big joke if they Were not doing harm to out young agree with me ab people and were not so costly .., It would appear from the reports of the meetings that all is beautiful in education land and seldom is heard a discouraging word. In our local brain factory, the students seem to be running the sideshow." From a mother: "We have seen the system deteriorate rapidly. We have a son in last year law and one daughter in her last year university who managed to be outstanding students who could read, write and spell and didn't have wise and wonderful sex education in the school. What has that brought us? An epidemic of v.d. and related social problems." She goes on: "Another problem is too many working mothers, Women's Lib will hate me! One of our finest teachers told me he could tell in a week which children had mothers in the home, and which ones had working mothers." From an ex-teacher: I am one who was educated in the old way and used to love gram- mar class 0. My daughter, who is a Grade 2 teacher, says what terrible English the children use,,, I'm sure that the high school students of today who are dropping their language courses are doing it because they don't have the basic English grammar," From a minister: "Let the put in a word for poor spellers .., Teachers insist that spelling laws are like the laws of the Medes and the 'Persiane—un- changing, unchangeable, as it was in the beginning, 15 now and ever shall be ... So generation after generation we persist in foisting (or is it foysting) the spelling quirks of the middle ages unto our children," It's foisting, but I agree, 'THE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated THE HURON NEWS-RECORD Ettablished 1865 1924 Establithed 1881 Clinton News-Record A member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assbciation, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) second class mail registration number — 0817 'SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (in advance) 'Canada, $8.00 per year: U.S.A., $9,50 JAMES E. FITZGERALO-,---Edifee J. HOWARb AITKEN General Manager Published every Thursday at the heart of Huron County' r Clinton, Ontarits Population 3,475 ROME OF RADAR IN CANADA out education From a teacher: "I do not wish to needlessly send your blood pressure up another point, but sorrow likes com- pany and your May 24th article was welcomed in our school as a most timely and , healthy counterbalance to the irresponsible article from the Blank County Board of Education .,. our board likes to be very avant-garde in the rush towards doomiday." Hey, teach, there's a split infinitive in your opening sentence. Well, that's just a sampling of the letters, I don't agree with everything they say, but I'm pleased there is evident concern about the quality of education. And I don't plan to keep hacking away at the subject. There's nothing duller than a farmer who can talk about nothing but farming, an editor who can talk about nothing but newspapers, or a teacher who whines all the time about education. It's near the end of June and I'm too hot and tired to get ex- cited about much of anything, I've just crawled out from under an avalanche of 255 essays and short stories which I marked in my "spare time" and I have almost ceased to care how anybody spells anything. And I must say that there's a tremendous interest in education during that last week or so. Guys and dolls who have spent approxiintktely as much time this year on their school work as I have spent being a millionaire have suddenly lost all their apathy, They come up to their teachers with the most appealing, wistful smiles and wonder whether they are going to be recommended, or whether they'll have to write the exams, They're pitiful and pathetic, but they'll see that old Smiley has a heart of solid steel. Or butter, In our recent tour of the province, in town, village and hamlet, we found women dieting. I could hardly wait to get home to issue an emergency bulletin on the subject of the female form. In the 10,000 advertisements for reducing tablets, elixirs, pills, potions, calorie sub- stitutes, massage tools, "health spas" and devices for weight- reduction, much is made of women's need or duty to at- tract the male. Not since the heyday of Waldo Demara, the great im- poster, has there been such a spectacular pretence as this illusion that it is all for the boys. No more than one out of every hundred females slims for that purpose. Show me a woman who is on Metrecal or Swedish milk or Minvitine and you show me a woman who is reducing because of other women.' The so-called svelte figure is not only de rigueur among the fair sex, but modern fashion is tailored almost exclusively for the emaciated types best typefied by those models in Vogue who, through diet, achieve results hitherto TEN YEARS AGO JUNE 20, 1963 This morning John Anstett and staff' at Anstett Jewellers Limited are officially greeting all customers, and showing off their newly-renovated jewellery store. During the next nine days all persons visiting the store will receive a draw coupon on over $300 in prizes. The prizes were donated to the Anstett firm by wholesalers and suppliers. ' E.S. Forbes, London, a for- mer senior officer in the RCAF was named as Huron County's Emergency Measures Co- ordinator at Council sessions in Goderich last week. He was one of 42 and commences duties on July I. Members of three Clinton minor hockey teams had an op- portunity of looking at one of the sticks GOrdie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings used to win the N.H.L. scoring title last year and also viewed some of the face masks worn by Jacques Plante and Terry Sawchuk when they attended the Clinton service club's hockey ap- preciation banquet, Saturday, Dennis Riggin, a sub-goalie for the Red Wings was the guest speaker for the occasion and gave the youngsters an insight into the life of an N.H.L. goalie and answered a host of' questions from his attentive audience, 15 YEARS AGO JUNE 19, 1958 Deer Lodge Park, just north of Bayfield, has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Owles, Goderich, Mr. Owles is On the staff of Sheaffer Pen, Goderich, They plan to operate the park associated only with concen- tration camps. The proof of the pudding, as they say, is that Vogue may be found on the dressing-tables of most style-conscious women while their husbands are more apt to be gravely or wistfully studying the full-blown, volup- tuous female form as delineated in such magazines as Playboy. I, myself, subscribe only to Popular Mechanics and Groat's Stamp Review, but I believe that there is much significance in this. It is true, of course, that some men, confused by our nonsensical and arbitrary stan- dards of status, are flattered by the possession of a lean and hungry wife. These are the kind of men who once bought automobiles with enormous, comical tail- fins which, though hideous, were thought to be a mark of affluence or prestige. It won't be easy, but for the purpose of this essay we'll just have to ignore that type. Most men are more sensible, more discerning and, when it comes to women, more positive in their concept of ideal ar- chitecture. on the same basis as the former owners, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Proctor, have done for the past five years and possibly will enlarge the enterprise. There are ten cottages including the owner's home. A "million dollar" addition to the County Home at Clinton was given approval by Huron County Council, in session in Goderich last week. At the time the present ad- dition to the home was built, a master plan was prepared which provided for future ex- pansion. During a period of four years the number of people in The Huron County Home has in- creased from 66 to 103 with every indication of further in- creases, On Tuesday evening at the kind invitation of Mrs. Royce Macaulay, members of the Girls' Club of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church were at the Macaulay summer cottage for a potluck supper, Two members were presented with gifts: Miss Ann Shaddock, bride-elect of the month and a faithful member of several years and Mrs, Howard Cowan, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary. 25 YEARS AGO JUNE 17, 1948 Clinton arid District Cham- ber of Commerce at its monthly meeting in the Town Council Chamber declared itself solidly behind the proposal to erect 25 to 50 additional houses in Olin, ton' for veterans of World War II, President G,R. Foster was chairman. Under the joint auspices of Clinton Citizens' Band and Clinton Lions Club, a large It is a fact, I think, that men are much more interested in women than women give them credit for, that a great deal of their idle time is spent in the enjoyment of contemplating the physique of woman esthetically or with actual calisthenics in mind, This is an honorable, noble, decent and good thing, though widely misinterpreted in the blood-less, love-less society of North America. If it is true, then, that women are reducing for each other you can see the risk involved. If they are becoming less womanly, less appealing, less worthy of study through slavishly following edicts of fashion and conformity that are woman-dictated, then they must accept a decline in the in- terest and affection accorded them by men. A woman, in short, striving to emulate the sex-less, skeletal, angular clothes-horses of the fashion periodicals through diet may well be paving her own road to oblivion with reducing tablets. It is time that dieting women who are not actually obese began to think more of the Band Tattoo was staged in Community Park Monday evening of last week, featuring RCAF Central Air Command . Band, Trenton; Stratford CNR Employees ' Band; St. Marys Citizens' Band and the local band. During the evening, a rainfall was a marring incident, but the performers carried on to the end. G.G. Agnew acted as master of ceremonies and expressed thanks to the RCAF for the use of the sound truck and floodlights. 40 YEARS AGO JUNE 22, 1933 A charmingly arranged and carried out cup and saucer shower was given at the home of Mrs. E. Wendorf last week in honour of Miss Grace Evans, a soon-to-be-bride, when a num- ber of her girl friends were present. Another bride was showered when Miss Clete Pepper, who was married on Saturday to Mr. J. McGregor of Stanley, male, to preserve with pride and confidence every splendid curve that nature has endowed them with. Women should give earnest consideration to the obvious and transparent taste of the thinking man who admires pulchritude in bundles and not in the tubular form. They should realize that the fashion dictators have set up entirely false standards, that what they decry as plump is really perfect, that what they decree as perfect is really awful, Let these women know that the very symbol of the lovable woman, physically, is the Italian in the lusty, magnificent, queen-sized package and that the average North American male would rather watch one of them on the silver screen then spend en- tire evening in the flesh with the voluntarily under- nourished specimens of high style, If you'll hold still for a man's view, dearie, that's it. Stay as sweet and round as you are or you may just become as out-moded as those tail-fin jobs on the used car lots. was given a miscellaneous shower at the home of Miss Viola Fraser one evening last week. The Huron County Press Association meets in Goderich tomorrow, Friday, June 23rd with morning and afternoon sessions, which will be held at Park House, next to Harbor Park. The morning will be taken up in discussing matters of interest to publishers and in the afternoon it is expected that Mr. J.A. MacLaren of the Barrie Examiner and Mr. D. Williams of the Collingwood Bulletin-Enterprise will be the outside speakers. 55 YEARS AGO JUNE 20, 1918 Life Won't be worth living if you don't register on Saturday, You will not legally be able to collect your wages, ride on a railway or steamboat, lodge or board at any hotel or boarding house, and for every day you are unregistered you are liable to a fine of $100 — must keep registrars posted es to all your movements. Dear Editor: The federal government's of, fer to turn over to the province' taxation of tobacco and liquor as a means of financing health services is so ironical and odious that it must be challenged on the basis of prin- ciple, Both levels of government are aware that tobacco and alcohol are the causes of major public health problems in Canada. To make health sere ' vices budgets dependent Upon continued use of these hazar- dous products is morally wrong, Certainly increased con- sumption of liquor and alcohol will necessitate increased health expenditures, but this inverse relationship is a poor basis for funding health programs. The federal offer would provide a monetary incentive to increase sales of tobacco and liquor at a time when the medical profession and others concerned with the public health including governments themselves - are endeavoring to reduce consumption. Dr. D.L. Wilson President, Ontario Medical Association Dear Editor, Three cheers for Dwight Strain, minister at First Baptist Church! According to the June 14 edition of the News-Record, he has helped to bring twelve families from the high unem- ployment St. John area of New Brunswick to Huron, an area with a chronic labour shortage. I hope this makes any able- bodied Huron county resident receiving monthly welfare cheques feel guilty enough to get busy. I really can't blame the happy recipients; rather, it is the fault of our socialistic, highly bureaucratic govern- ment. Sincerely, • .1- MI5 ..,,k11 Deeigrah Eoyes , Op in ion s n order that News—Record readers might express their opinions on any topic of public interest, Letters To The Editor are always welcome for publication. But the writers of such letters, as well as all readers, are reminded that the opinions expressed in letters published are not necessarily the opinions held by The News—Record. 75 YEARS AGO JUNE 17, 1898 The Blyth cheese factory has disposed of the May make of cheese to Mr. Steinholf of Stratford for 6 7/8 cents per pound. This township (East Wawanosh) can boast of having one of the finest country chur- ches to be found in the County, of Huron, with an unusually large congregation, We refer to Westfield Methodist Church. It is a commodious brick building, with basement for Sunday School, is free from debt, excep- ting a small amount that stands against the driving shed. It is one of the appointments of Auburn Circuit and the corner- stone of the building was laid by W. Doherty, the well-known organ manufacturer of Clinton. Messrs. Doan and Son have, we understand, practically decided not to rebuild their tannery, the state of the leather business is too uncertain to warrant it.