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Clinton News-Record, 1967-05-04, Page 3^Shirley Keller ■ 4 •' 'ft From My Window- T I LI elepnone Of all gadgets to -my ■house, the telephone is the most disturbing. Just when I think I will pLtll it put by the roots ' because. it called me from the . basement only to stop ringing ’ When I drew near, I get the. i^repressilWie urge to talk for a’ half hour with the girl down the Street. Then I’m betwixt and be tween, not knowing whether my . telephone is a blessing or a burden. Very few homes * are without, a telephone. It was once a Sort of status symbol like the MRS. (REV.) LITTLEFORD Passes Away At Baltimore, Lived Near Here ' ‘Mrs. Osborne R.' Littleford, the former Halcyon ' Frances Chandler, died at" her home to Baltimore, Maryland, on Sun day, April 30 to her 50th year. Born to Oshaiwa, site was a daughter Of Mrs. Chandler and the late Rev? E. F. Chandler and’ lived at Walton as a child, and .later at Kippen. - Mrs. Littleford's 'husband, Rev? O. R. Littieford has fre- ’ quiently taken services in , St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Clin ton during August for the past several years. They have a cot- - tage at-the Goderich Summer School beach. As . well as her husband', Mrs. Littleford vis survived by three sons, a' daughter and ’ four . grandchildren. .She. is also sur- _ vived ' by her mother, Mrs. E. F. s Chandler of Paridrill; one brother, Ian Chandler of Beau- harnois, Quebec, and five sis ters: (Helen) Mrs. Norman Al exander, Londesiboro; (Roma) Mrsf Lome Acheson, Dundalk; (Dorothy)' Mrs. William J. El liot, ParkhiM;/. (Jean) Mrs. A. G. Adamson, Ottawa .and (Shir ley) Mrs. Donald Irish, Water loo. SUNSET DRIVE-IN THEATRE Highway 8 — Goderich At Concession Road 4 Largest Screen in Huron . ' - County ■ dolor TV of today, buitmo' ihore?r : Telephones are so widely in use • that many people frely on, the ; telephone book as an addhess , diredlory, and they just 'can't' • irnagine Why ewryonQ 't^n^t list ed th'ere -£or conVcpience sake > if for nothing else. Our telephone foisgins to ring at a veiy early hour each day, By eight o’clock ip- the motrh- .' ing the receiver ph • our . tele phone is Warth to the touch, and we have been brought UP date o n fanuily' happenings, business deals, work schedules, homework assignments’ and aif- ter-four. acfrdtiiek * B y t en o'clock' We have conducted a committee meeting, organized a birthday party, directed a lost traveller, and ordered a week's groceries witliout stepping' out of the lviing room. The telephone always, beckons’ when the dishwater is just the right temipenaiture, in tihe mid dle of' the showdbwn’ scene on television or • somewhere be tween the taleom powder and the dry diaper. Th® 'line is busiest when, you have five minutes- to get to. the hair dresser's, a broken Water-pipe or six calls to make before your husband finds out you’ve ac cepted that chairmanship you promised you would turn down. Children learn to use the telephone before they have mastered the *’ art of speaking. Our. year-old son knows that a telephone goes to your ear and that- you must speak’ a- little,' ■listen a little, speak a little more and so on. Our daughter has discovered it is a simple matter to find out' if the other girls are welaatfn£ slacks or-skirts to the painty. Our eldest son is happy to do slix math questions, white a paragraph and study 'a whole chapter in his science book if he has a telephone and a sym pathetic someone .on the other end of the line. •. Personal visiting is cut to a minimum, because dt is such an easy way out to pick up the trusty telephone and chat for an hour or so without having to dress up and go out or clean up and serve coffee. , , ' Letter writing is getting to . be too' much of a chore because for only a few cents more we can. call long ^distance and* speak' to our family and friends as if -they ware in the next room. It> has ‘even been known to deliver babies by phone and —- heaven help me. — get married ■by .phjmql/: ■ ',/: worrtos ‘diay .ever ,ppme^vfbjat iqlePhbpe^' /become ihstrum^tos' by which wq caii'tune zm 'pictures, of -the folks we call, 'our house and the people to it will1 have to take Pri ;a ’.heYV.ibofc Either fa-' ther? must1 rofraim fibril apswer*? tog the telephone to his under wear and I’ll have to get the Jiouse tidied’ up before noon or We’li bq. fpr,eed to let the Bell invention ring unnoticed '-- until,, a more reasonable hour of the. day. ■ " •- . * VyEEKENDS ONLY Double Features " r . FRIDAY and SATURDAY " MAY 5 and 6 , :, . B9SARAiMi| I 'iffiSfVAIteHKj ' mKAPOIEON SOLO" . *■ “McCALLIJM^. nnmliLr * H,T"PROVIHE METROCOLOR, -r- arid — SECON D’FEATURE Bullet- Fury! • - TjCHMCOMXgr*^- • Admission $1.00 per person Children’tinder 12 in Cars Free Main Feature Starts at DUsk St. Mark's Guild Hears Topic On Arctic Life ' AUBURN—The Ladies' Guild of St. Mark’s Anglican Church met at .the '(home of Mrs. Sam Daer where Mrs. Andrew. Kirk- connell presided for the meet ing. and was also pianist. Scrip ture was read by Mrs. Thomas Haggiitt and prayers were tak en by Mrs. Orval McFhee. An instrumental was played by1 Mrs. Robert J. Phillips. . The missionary topic was taken by Mrs. Donald Cart wright. She read' the article in the Living Message entitled .“A Snapshot of Arctic Life’’ as told by Rev. Douglas Dittrich. The Bible study on the Third Commandment was continued "by Rev. G. E. Pakenham, Mrs. Kirkconnell thanked all who. had taken part and turned the meeting over to’ the president, Mrs. Orval McPhee. ’ The minutes were read ’ by secretary Mrs. John Daer and treasurer Mrs. Andrew Kirk connell gave the findneiar'state- ment. The travelling apron re ceived a penny for eadh letter in Canada’s Expo’ 67. The, roll call was answered by each ■member .paming their favorite spijng flower.' The meeting Was biased With pwayqr by Mr. Pak- ehham. jf Central Huron Secondary School PRESENTS 1867 & All That '. A-'' " ' . . • " “ ■ .7 Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6 at . • ’ *' CHSS AUDITORIUM. CLINTON <• AT 8:00 P.M z ' ‘ . Admissions $T,00 per person MMm ■ Summer Assistant. ■ . Coming. To 'Moron s From Lindsay v -/ Murphy,- 23, from Land- say, in Victoria County, ' will be helping with the ,4-H‘ Club work* tbl? summ?r\ in Huron county./ *•<’■? ; -/ .jThrj has ■ attended . Kempt* Ville Agricultural. School ’fQt' one year and hW ihMf pleted .his.- firtrt year ’-sEit* the Ontario Agricultural College, in the Degree 'Program.. . *'His expertenc® in, 4-H work will help .him greatly with the 4-H program 'as" he compietedy 23 4^H^pro jpcts of his own. John has also been quite active' to junior farmer workin his home co.unty. Last/ summer Jolm ■jymjkeid' in Fiwi'tenac County ns a'summer -asslisfiani. , ? ' ■ "°We welcome'John to'Huron County and we avb sure he will contnibqte gygiatly 'to the. 4-H months/' says D. G, Inglis, ex-, tenslioh assistant for JJur.on' County. • , ’ 3? SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley /./,;>/by Bill Smiley Remember the Battles? 'There’s'nothing like a good, old-fashioned family fight on' ” Saturday night,'to relieve the built-up tensiOiig: of the week, cjhar'. the air, -and ’get every body , squared'' around for a quiet Sunday. ..Fk>r centuries this .was a tradition in 'many, families.’ Bfut/ like so many of ;,oiir other fine old. customs, this.; one ,thas .beeriyvirtuaUy de-' ' stroked ,by television, i' Don’t get .me. wrong, I don’t ■ mean''’the1-kind of; thing to which . .the brutal, .' dirjunkeii., w husband lurches home, beat's, up his whe and kids, robs the . sugar bowl and piggy banks of their .pennies, and 'staggers back tte the-Tuh and ’Pearl. • ? This happened, of course. And still does. Bpt/T mean .-- . the ordinary famiiify fight.. The father, decent, working man, has gone (up-town Saturday '■ .^afternoon, with his $1.50 allowance' He’s boughtapack • of fags and 'had three or four beers. He’s mildly merry. His wife -.has done the week’s shopping? She has lug ged four bulging, bags of grub ( .a block to the car. She has/ slaved to prepare a good sup-^ per. The baiby is. crying, just for the hell of'it,. The., teen age daughter iS’.whiriang about going to a. dance With a* known hoodlum. The 12-year old son is still Out fishing, 'it’s almost dark and he’s probably drowned. And.. ■ her feet hurt. And the dinner'is ruined. Because the old man., is late. Twenty minutes late, , already.- , Well, there’s .a dust-up. Pa . comes to with' a’happy smile, ■ and the old 'lady peels the . hide right off hihu The boy' comes to grinning,"with two speckled trout,, apd gets . a . cuff on the ear .'•The. daughter <whfhes on and 'is' sent to. her room* “fhe baby, no slouch at the game, yells like a ban shee,-ito get sbme/attention: And -ji’s ah over, like a summer storm,-Pa is asham ed for cuffing the kid. 'Ma 'is ' ashamed for.blasting Pa. The boy gets doubles on dessert. Ma and Pa -plead witp. the girl to go'out with the hood, who really isn’-a hood after all. Trie baby gets a bottle right to the’.mouth and shuts up* , . 7 . . ’ The . kid cleans 1 his fish.. Ma does the dishes dreamily.' Pa goes/out and. roots around J our way of life. PARK 4- the rosebush. Bis flies’out,. at rtthe hoot bf a .(horn. Baby burps , andtomiles in fris sleep. ", That’s the way it Was? not too,, long ago. But teieviusion has wrecked it, Nowadays, ib-* -stead vof talking out .pur ag- .-. gressiops on each other, „we huddle /before th16, Great So-, porific on’. Saturday1 nights,r‘ dinner baianced' on our knees. We. pour all/our aggressions intp a staff ‘body-check otr. a_ ■'■saloon brawl in a Western/ , result, the1 fine old .family figh,t.; on a: Saturday • night ; has. degenerated into a querulous’ quibble'about who’s” .going to get up and fetch a beer during the, commercial. ..;/Howev'er^ I am glad to say, although the -family -fiilghit is; dying, , it is not . quite extinct. The other, day 'j read, with growing /fasoihatiion, of, a ' ,Ch:ristmas Eve • squabble that 'has to rank With one of the great ones.’ It took place last December 24th, 'arid the legal aftermath 'iis now in progress. As the newspaper reported it, this young fellow admitted . he drank between 30 and 40 z bottles of beer during the d'ay. r That is ‘some ,beer- ^drinker.1, You try putting down about"' four gallons of beer the __ day before Christmas,, or ' “any other day, and I guarantee you’ll have a belly, the shape, and a nose ibex hue/ of S. Claus himself. Not to mention the1 beers coming out your '-‘ears.- ' \ ' • . ■ It gets better. The Champ, as we shall call him, had an ■t ..argument’ with (his 'brother, ' who threw him. out of the ■ ’ house. Imagine the glug and undaunted1,. The Champ climib- " ed a tree. Maybe ha thought. it was a pear tree anti he was . a partridge. Who knows, . Anyway,-', brother stepped outside .‘with a shot-gun. He riaimed he fired*a. shot in the .airj not knowing The Champ • was up a tree. ,But several peileits entered .the latter’s ‘ anatomy. \ The champ testified that he < couldn't remerhber swinging /his mother-in-law around by her h)Uir,' although he did ad mit having a fight with heir. It sounds like 'a swinging ’-.party. I’m just as glad I -wasn’t there, but "’it proves that the family fight still has a little^ steam in it, . even ' though, itis disappearing from tfrdm page li . ' • ■ "V r ’•?' '* <•.'’■ ■' /' • comcmd^y # hospital’s to.■fbwy treat ‘ • ■*-/"' ! 'Translation of‘ research 'into the putdbase and .ufi^zation. of ' new" cquipnient- fo^ -.care is .mu<h faster today. Fop ex- ampie4 - it. took 39 .fbr- the electroeardiograph '(developed in 1903) to become a standard Japspkal tool, Thfe • M'“ hot the today,./rather "the opposite. And,what was' up-to-date yes>- terday may be literally' obso lete’ today tri the q^plbdtog health care field, V /' 1 spiralling" inflation also be takep into consideration' by those who question'the-,’costs of building and' equipping hos pital facilities,’ . Between* , the planning stages, approval, rais ing of money and .final con struction, the ' cost may sky rocket 10, 15 or even 20 per ■cent. Many times 'hospital beards encounter problems be-, cause of this and fljnd1 them selves going back tp: the' 'com munity and the government for more financing, or settling for Jess than they originally plan ned. ’ <7 Modern hospitals have four basic functions, -The, first, of course, is patient care. Another - <of the hospitals’ primary func tions is to teach arid train health Workers through formal and informal programs- to hos pital schools and to-service pro- grams. i Because hospitals are the major source tor,,,,, skilled health personnel, most other community health jobshare fill ed by hospital-trained people. ’ Thirdly, research in conjunc tion with uhiversitiies and the 'statistical data, gathered by all hospitals are- helping »to win the constant war on disease/ Hospitals also.-participate to preventive medicine through special . public <^ 'education- pro grams and clinics. Some region al hospitals even serve as poison cppfrol^ centres. Twenty-five y.ears ago only 37 per Canadktn birtlis cqrivd iubabies ^4- 'bdt' bf XOOQ/’ . Today, p?r jegfti of the births ■ are in hospitals/■ and infant deaths bayd ’decreased by more than 60 per* cent/ This is only one of the myriad’- ways in which the modem hospital is saying and maintaining life,. ’ " According to the''Dom.inlon Bureau of Statistics, ip .1964,. some 1,000 general' and allied special hospitals in Canada re-i .ported 3,900,000 patients, for a total st^y of 34,000,000 patient days at an average cost of 326.87 per day. The total frill for all of Canada's 1381 hospitals ampupted ’ to 3083,568,166.00 that year.. Ar® hospitals costing us too much? This question should ■* be answered with an- , other. , “What .is it worth to. the indi vidual and hlis family to be alive1 'and healthy? What is it worth to know ‘that there is a place a person can go to get' the best posibie treatment available any- wben? in the world today, and to Imow that there are skilled hand’s and the latest 4 equip ment needed to help restore health and prolong Jife?" * / I hostesses will ,be Mrs; Nevins, and ’* Mris. • Mrs, jbhn ClintonianClub Meeting Wei, May 10 The Clintonian Club will mqe't .on Wednesday, May 10 at Mrs. Mack Falconer’s home at 2 p,m. Thq Mrs, Bafley, Fred' 'Moto' 0—.... WesleHYillis UCW’sTeMeet The Btariight Circle meet in the church ijariort on Monday,‘ May 8, at 8:3Q p.m,, Mrs, Dumoixt will speak on ’’Labrador”. Mrs. Dckq. Jefferson is in charge of the .program, >K * / ,di . 'Fidelity Unit will meet to the’ church parlqr on May 9 ait. 2:30 p.m. Miss K* McGregor is in charge of the program* Roll call; name the country from which your forefathers came. >)i ,* Ijc WO-HE-LO Unit will meet on Thursday, May 11 at 2 p.m. Dr. A. J. Mowatt Will speak on China. The-roll call: name your favorite' flower and why you ■like it . ■will / Thursday/Moy 4, 1967 Clinton News-Record—Fg. 3 ■ "3 ■' . ' ' . u' * HURON - QENTfiNNIAI, SCHOOL BRUCEFIELD for September 1967 bn Wednesday, May 17 9:00-12:00 1:00 - 3:00 Parents should bring immuniza tion records and proof of age, Pupils eligible for kindergarten must be 5 years old before January 1968. School Phone Number 482-3330 A. MATHERS, Principal. 18-9b I i $100 . To Arena Fund y The Ladies Conservatian. Club of Clinton voted at the regu lar meeting to donate $100. to ward the atena fund, and to plan- for. additional money for' the ..campaign* ’to this coming months. ■■ . Members also gave $10 to thb Canadian Cancer .fund.- Following 1 u n ch, several games of btogo were enjoyed. f i / \ V Here’s a new idea from the Royal Bank for anyone who. wants his money readily available, but working. It's . BONUS SAVINGS ACCOUNT—an investment earning 434% interest, calculated on your minimum monthly balance,and paid semi-annually. No chequing privileges to tempt you in a weak moment. Now your money can earn ’434%, be readily accessible, yet completely safe and secure while it is working for you. If this 434% sounds interesting, you should look into a new Royal Bank BONUS SAVINGS ACCOUNT as a wise investment You can bank on it... at the Royal Bank.I Hr2/o / ■ ROYAL BANK You can bank on the Royal / < • / Member: Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation X ■X, A> * \ I Government action. responsibilities. This advertisement 7 +allo lmi i lAihaf thmraratells you what they are. s / a Company can describe newinvest- All Star Cast 16-7-8b DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL AND CONlMElifelAL AFFAIRS ' MAY4-5-4 THEATRE E GODERICH Aonthe square FIRST RUN FILMS IN* AIR CONDITIONED COMFORT Entertainment lb Our Business A’ \THURS., FRI., SAT. r 4 . ' •' ........u- . _________ _____ ......,..........v „ Adult Entertainment "Shows ait 7:00and 9;35 p.m SATURDAY MATINEE ONLY — MAY « WREblBLE MR. LIMPETT' . , Showing at 2:30-^ Regular Matinee Priced , TECHNICOLOR' _ /®EroM®nRQB8®| ffanoB-swwMuw I FftOM WARNER BROS. 3 ’ - * gw..A.. Adult Entertainment --- Shows at 7:30 arid 9:20 p.nrti. Comlng Next *‘THB TRAP Important changes .in the Securities ings in their companies, and must * ments is controlled by the Act. One ’ “ .. important change is thatthe prospec tus myst always be written in simple, clear, non-techniCal language. Another requires the prospectus to , be published in two stages, with a • pause of at least ten days between the two. The, preliminary prospectus is for information only; trading can not begin'until the final prospectus is published. The effect will be to, give dealers and InVestors.-t/me to ‘ think. Further information This Adver tisement* gives' only .a brjef outline of .some ofthe more important changes . . in the Securities ActT96& and .the . / Corporations Act. Nothing in the Act relieves the investor of the respon- sibility. of, making sound' decisions bASed on’ good Advice. Your lawyer, broker, or other qualified- investment Adviser^Vvill bo able to givA you fuller information; or copies of the Act can be obtained from the Ontario Secu rities Commission, 123 Edward Street# Toronto- 2, and from the . Queen's Printer# 26 Breadalbane ' Street Toronto 5 Act, 1^66, andJn.the Corporations Act became law on May 1 s,t 1967. The new legislation, will have far- reaching; effects. It sets standards which everyone in the investment business must follow. It says exactly "• how certain vital procedures should . bScarriedout,Hde^ndsaWII^^ of informationjrom companies offer- y ing shards to the public, ahd makes that information fully available to .every interested citizen,. Here are five ways in which the ^ectirftiDs ADt Will help the people of Ontario. ’ report changes as they take place. This information will be made avail-’ able for public use. ’/ .Take-over bids New regulations govern the procedure to. be followed when one company tries tb obtain /control of another by share purchase. ' which the -offer is to remain open, and a 7-day period during which the, shareholder approached may change7 ■* his mind. Any investor involved in a . take-over bid will now be kept fully informed. . ' Proxies U Oder the new Act detailed information must be given whenever' a Company asks for-a proxy vote, to. be Used on the shareholder’s behalf; The shareholder must be told exactly1 Who is to use his vote, Arid What his' interest is. The company is limited in the way the Vote can be used. The result will be to give the absentshai;©- holder a more effecti ve voice at corh- pahy meetings. ? . * Financial Disclosure The new Apt requires companies to make a full report, of their financial situation to . the Ontario Securities Commission every year.These reports will be made available to the public/ . . Insider Trading Insiders of com panies (senior officials and major 4 . shareholders) must how keep the The prospectus The way in which Commission informed of their hold- a Company can describe new invest- ' ' Hon. H. L. RowriW, Minister of Financial and Comntercia! Affairs '■