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Clinton News-Record, 1974-07-11, Page 4"Mammy — what's food'?" +CNA Member, Oshadish Communh, risvesospow Misociallan ItAindhot. Meow vies* Miiirttlation Published riery Thundly si Clinton, Ontarld Editor Jamie Pitagereld General billblegert J. *Ward Aitken 0400nd Class Malt 111tr41106 no. 0811 WA OP HURON COON -tot 'iloo4 0* 110,00 Jo tANADM, An election lesson Last Monday's decisive Liberal victory came as a surprise to most people who are regular political observers, The man- date given them by the Canadian people Was unexpected to say the least, and it appears as If many people made up their minds at the very moment they marked their ballots. But the Canadian electOral system is slightly warped and the Liberal victory, in popular vote terms, isn't as large as the number of seats they obtained, A 43 percent vote for the Liberals if translated into seats, would only give the Liberals 128 seats, and a minority government, hardly a:walk away victory. Both the Conservatives and the NDP were hurt by a vote which is counted on individual riding rather than on a popular vote basis. Conversely, the . Liberals would have picked up more seats in a province like Alberta, where all 19 went to the Conservatives, Many observers viewed MondaVs elec- lion as an endorsement of the Liberals and a rejection .of Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield's, wage and price con- ,thal proposals, but a closer analysis will show, that things are not that simple, NI it takes is a mere three percent Of, ference in the popular vote frOM one party td the other to give one party a mandate, and the other defeat. If only • three more out of one hundred people had voted. Conservative, then we would have Robert Stanfield today as our Prime Minister, The Liberals, then, should not view their victory as an overall endorsement of their policies, nor should they see it as a complete rejection of the Conser- vative policies. Inflation is still a serious problem that needs to be brought to a halt, swiftly, Let's hope the Liberals don't lose sight of that goal because of their victory at the polls last Monday. Population, mankind' The population problem still is referred to as the world's biggest time bomb of all, according to the United Church. And there is some justification in presenting such an image, although the explosion of population will be gradual rather than sudden. Nevertheless, leading statesmen and demographers around the world, as well as concerned groups and individuals, keep sounding various, warnings. The United Nations estimates that the world's population was one billion in 1830, and took 100 years to double. By next year, world population will have doubled again to four billion, and by the end of the century, an additional one billion-persons will be added every five years: Mahkind cannot afford an oiler`-'- crowded planet. In Bucharest, Romania, there will be a world population con- ference, sponsored by the United Nations, to discuss problems of over- puzzle crowding, as well as possible remedies, It will be held in August. What kind of remedies can humanity seek? The main weapons are world-wide population control progranit designed to educate Many millions of people. It sim- ply is riot enough to tell a mother she should not have any more children. The education process has to be thorough, and preferably gradual, if there is to be success. • Better world population education programs will have to be devised. Around the world, and particularly in poorer nations that cannot afford widespread health care, more maternity and post-natal centres will have to. be built. With careful planning and co- Operatiort,"'"'the ridpulation control programs now under way can be speeded up. And with imagination, mankind's ticklish population puzzle can be solved, thus benefitting all of us who live on this planet. Sugar . and Spice/By Bill Smiley It's been a long, long time ---clANTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1974 Editorial Comment ve get letters ,461, 411 . , ...... Fok• This column is going to be a little tough to write. No, there hasn't been a death in the family. Not quite. But I wasn't too sure I wasn't going to bleed to death (through the eyes) when I tot- tered out of bed at seven this morning just two hours after tottering into bed, It was all that reading. My brother-in-law, Jack Buell, brought along oh a visit some old high school football pic- tures, and we spent most of the night, barely stopping for food and drink deciphering the names under the photos. There we were, in the late 1930's, looking so young and sweet and innocent it would make your eyes water. One pic- ture was headed: Undefeated Champions of Lanark County. That was a great year, I reckon. Come on, now. How' many of you have ever been on a team of Undefeated Chem- pions of anything? We talked and laughed a lot as we identified long-forgotten faces and our wives muttered away contemptuously in the background. They thought we were behaving like a couple of schoolboys. We were. Right in the middle of the front row, holding the ball, was Les Douglas, quarterback and team captain. He wasn't a big guy, but he was solid bone, thescle and grit. He ,coOld always claw his way that extra five inches for a touchdown, through Sit hiritidred pounds of enemy flesh. He was a great 'hockey player, toe. Made it to professional, But he was born twenty years too soon. There were jilat too many great hockey players in those days, and he didn't quite make the NHL, though he led the American Hockey League in scoring for several seasons. Today, he'd be knocking off about. $60,000 a year, Flanking, him in the photo were Bob White and Tom Har- per. Tom could run with the ball like a rabbit with six guys shooting at him. Bob White was my best friend, through high school. He wasn't ,huge, either, but when we needed a few yards, there was no question of who would get the ball. Bob would take a plunge at anything the size of a doughnut hole, and always come up with the necessary years. We all hated school, except for the sports, but. Bob White was bright. Today he'd be going to college and becoming an engineer, or something equally useless. But in those days, there was no way. No students' loans, no grants, and ding few affluent parents. If you got a job in a factory, you were lucky. Last time I saw Bob was in London, England, during the war. It was ih the lobby of the famous, or infamous, Strand Palace. He Was checking out, I was cheating in. Hello and goodbye. He had completed one tout of operations On bombers and was about to begin his second. On which he was killed, Beside Bob in the picture wee Johnny Ilogg, A nice guy, who was forced by his parents to maintain a much higher . standard of intellectual and cultural life than the rest of us pooltoorn bums, He played 'the violin. He passed his subjects. He was a clean-living, good- looking lad, just, the type you'd want for yourself, though he had a distressing habit of drop- ping crucial punts. As I heard it later, they found Johnny lying in a rubber dinghy , in the Mediterannean. Dead. He's been shot down, wounded, parachuted, got into the dinghy, and died, Then there was Les Morris, a boy with a terible home life, a terrible birthmark, and a per- sonality to go with both. But he was also a terrible, terrifying tackler, who could hit a fancy- dancy halfback so hard that the guy didn't know he'd been am- putated at the knees until he tried to stand up, And Norm Davis. He had the speed of a gazelle, and the grace of a gnu. He idn't come back froth the war either. There were quite a few more, but Old Jack, my brother-in- law and myself, didn't belabour the•tragie theme. We laughed until we were porple.in the face at all the things we had got away with, not all the things that had got away with so many of us. It, was also nice to tee Our coaches, Earl Fleming, teacher, such a handsome young man can't believe We called him "Old Flett." J.C. Cosgrove, 248 pounds of science teacher whet could wipe two recalcitrant students off their stools with one hand as easily as I could wipe the dust off the Win- &Atilt, if such a silly thing ever occurred to me. As you can see, this has been a hard column to writer And probably a mighty difficult one to read. Just dogs It seems to me now, looking at Andrew, that all the dogs in my life have been pretty much the same dog. They've all been mutts, Andrew himself is typical. Nearly everything he does reminds me of an endless row of dogs whining at the gates of my memory. Like Andrew, it seems now that they all sat loosely on one hip and never square on their flanks the way most dogs sit.. Like Andrew, they all had the same outleolt on the world, a combinatiot of amiable curiosity and just plain bewilderment and in the dogs that reached an old age this always remained. I am thinking now of a brown spaniel named "Rex", who never really solved the wonderful mystery of a log fire and was gazing incredulously into one until the day when, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, he died. Andrew is perhaps a little more awkward than any dog I ever had, but they were all woefully short of grace, A couple walked off-centre, unaware of this death blow 'to their dignity, and one named "Mike" with a strain of 10 YEARS AGO ' July 9, .1964 ' The employees of Fischer Porter (Canada Limited) Traf- fic Division have been placing traffic meters on roads and streets in the area to determine which streets and roads bear the most traffic. Depending on their findings, the repairing and widening of some streets will have priority over others. A steady soft summer rain which started late Tuesday and drenched the Clinton district with an average of one inch of rain by mid-morning Wed- nesday, is credited by many area farmers with saving entire crops of spring grain and beans, David E. Scott has been ap- pointed the editor of the News- ReCord. A cream-coloured rose blossom grown by Miss Hattie Courtice, Clinton, and exhibited 'by her sister, Miss Sybil Courtice, of the same ad- dress was judged champion at the Clinton Rose Show last week. Mrs, Cam Proctor, Raglan Street, won the top prize in a draw at the official opening of the Ball and Mutch "Crest" Hardware and Furniture store. She was presented ' with a Zenith washing machine. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Shepherd have turned to' their home in Clinton after spending two weeks with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, Ross I+nggart of Stettler, Alberta. Doug Farquhar and Jack Van Egintinci, R.R. 1, Clinton, attended the Jersey Judging School at the farm of Keith bloodhound in him always proceeded with his. black nose an inch above the ground and frequently ran into the sides of houses. They have all been mongrels, a word meaning, mixture of breed and full of love. Many people buy dogs with some purpose in mind, To retrieve fallen birds or to point at, game or because of the character of a thoroughbred. I would like to say Chat I have bought my dogs becaitse prefer the sdbtle shadings—a character that; come from a more abandoned ancestory. I don't. however, Nine out of ten of the dogs I've had were bought, recklessly and on a sudden whim, merely because they looked lonely in a pet shop win- dow or as if they'd be kind of friendly to have around the house. They are not .good for anything fancy and when other people talk about the exploits of their dogs (a fellow told me last week about his red setter which keeps freezing to a point at a. caged canary) I have nothing to say. Danbrook, St. Thomas, on Monday last, 25 YEARS AGO. July 7, 1949 Youth welfare work in Clin- ton and district will benefit to the extent of about $2,500 as a result of Clinton Lions Club's annual Street Frolic last week, E.H. Epps, general chairman of the committee announced today. Rev. Hugh C. Wilson, for- merly of Brussels, was inducted as the new minister of Wesley- Willis United Church, Clinton, on Thursday evening last, Lewis Elston Cardiff, Brussels, , Progressive Sortser: vative, was re-elected to the House of Commons for North Huron on June 27, by an of- ficial plurality of 521 votes over Robert Scott Hetherington of Wingham the Liberal, in, chiding the service vote. It is only a matter of time um til the "wig-wag" at the CNR level crossing at Victoria Street (Kings Highway 4) within the town limits, becomes a reality. Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Beattie and two children, David and ' Beverley, spent the past week in Wiartott, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Paterson. Huron County Old Boys of Toronto held a very enjoyable picnic at Hugh Park, Toronto, on Friday evening. About 100 members and friends attended, A program of exceptional in- terest to a large and en- thusiastic audience was the music recital given in the Parish Hall of St. Paul's Anglican Church on Monday evening, June by the junior Choir and pupils of May R. MacKinnon, R,M,T, 50 YEARS AGO July 10, 1924 The following students have been successful with their Nor- mal and college of Education courses: Alvin K, Leonard, F.R. Hale, Mary McIntosh, and Emily Hunter. A gala day was held on Thursday last in Neil McGregor's Grove, Stanley, when about 600 members of the community and former mem- bers were on, hand for a re- union of Baird's School. This school had been taught for 50 years by the late George Baird. Miss Etta Hardy has accep- ted a position on the Tiverton Public Staff and Miss Daisy Nediger will have charge of the Middleton School. Norman Geddes and Weldon Hovey were in Goderich on fingers his whole appearance changes and he looki up with idiotic joy: "Bess" stands out in my memory becatise she was the only consistent dog we ever had, She was always gloomy and sleepy. We had stwo dogs then. Porgy and Bess. Porgy and I never really understood "Bess". She was a white cocker with kidney-shaped patches of brown, She would lie by the hour with her jaw resting on one paii4.6 in an 'attitude; like "The Thinker" and everi"ag"a puppy no amount of goading by Progy would stir her into a frolic. She would merely roll one bored eye in his direction in a gesture of weary distaste. I never saw her tail send a signal of pleasure. Instead, when pat- ted or admired, she produced what I can only describe as a slow smile, It was a shock to everybody who knew her when we went out to her kennel one morning and found her sound asleep, surrounded by ten newborn mutts. The only thing we could figure was that, she walked in her sleep. Saturday, playing with the County Town baseball team when they defeated Lucan. Also on the team are Earl Cooper find Bill Carrick. Jimmy Reynolds is manager. ' The Clinton baseball team defeated Bayfield 4-2. Misses Beryl Salter and Nellie Cowan have been ap- pointed delegates to Goderich Summer School from the On- tario St. League. Charles Shipley and Colenso Salter have been on a trip to Toronto and Muskoka, David Beacom was at Goderich on the Glorious 12th arid completed 'his 7th walk. Dr. and Mrs. P. Hearn and family are holidaying in Hamilton and Toronto. 75 YEARS AGO July 13, 1899 Pear Editor; • The Canadian electorate mush. feel a strong sense of relief that the '74 election: is over, and that it came Opt as it did. Not so much that the Liberals won, and not SP much. for a majority government, IAA a firm showing of the people's. .deaireaa. stark contrast to the uncertainty of October 1972, The outcome is a result of a combination of things, bilingualism was less an issue this time; foreign ownership slipped from the foreground; David Barrett needed his fingers slapped and got his 'knuckles skinned; David Lewis needed his backside paddled and got a good boot; greedy -Bob Stanfield `celled for a freeze and got a cutback in- stead. Stanfield wrongly interpreted the 1972 election result as a call for a Tony administration. Actually, the voters wanted to discipline the arrogant govern- ment and its naughty leader. Apparently Trudeau got the message. He promised to do better and did better, The parliament predicted to last two months had nine lives. Believing Trudeau's promise to do better, on July 8 the electors gave him their approval to proceed without the indecision of 1972 • Hopefully, Bob' Stanfield has learned two things: one, if you have a consuming lust for power, you must at ' least (thinly) conceal it; and two, that Canadians do not enjoy nor support a campaign based on mud slung at a government that tries its best while ham- pered by a cut-throat op- position. Especially when the "mud" is inflation and could be slung at anyone who hap- pened to hold the reins right now. - When you punish a child, you give him another chance. In 1972, we punished Pierre Trudeau. In 1974, we gave him another chance. With a well- regulated amount of discipline, he may turn out to be not such a bad kid after all. After the spanking.. of October '72„ the., mandate of July .8 may.just-ptit the-,lovernment on its best„, behavior. And with a majority of only seven seats in the House, we may see a lot more M.P.s in regular session and attending the votes on legislation. Perhaps this parliament will prove to' be the most effective we've had in years. Reg. Thompson Clinton Alevre4lsoord readers it. en'. coureged to express their opinions in letters to the editor. however, such opinions do not neceeeerily represent the opinions of the News-Record. Pseudonym may be used by letter writers, but no letter wIN be published unless It can be vedlied by phone. A fruit and ice cream social at Mrs. Geo, Hill's on Monday evening July 10 was a great success. The proceeds are to aid the Sunday School. A very pleasant affair took place at the home of Mr. R. Miller, Summerhill, on Friday evening of last week when a number of the members and adherents' of the church here met and presented Miss Flora Miller with a handsome gold watch. • Judge Johnston and his wife after spending a pleasant time in Boston and New York, retur- ned by way of Niagara, and were visiting in Toronto last week. They returned to the Sault on Saturday. Mr. Al Miller of Clinton, spent his first. of July vacation ,at his home in Lucknow. • THR HURON NEWS•RECORD # Established 1881 The Jack Scott Column 101 'SI t, all From our early files • • • • • •„, •One of my editors, for exam- ple, is fond of telling of his hun- ting dogs which apparently do 'everything but drink 'rye and shoot the birds down, It would probably add little to the con- versation to mention that I once had a dog which barked angrily at the rain, probably figuring it was up to no good. I have long ago given up trying to train my mutts to anything but a sense of shame about ,marring the living rem rug. All. of my dpgs,have heeo sensational-`' at'"retrieving fish - heads', bringing' them proudly to lay in their master's lap, but no amount of patience will teach them to bring back a stick, To a dog they have looked at, the stick, then back to me, with a look which was patient, full ,of love, amusement and iricomprehensicgt. Andrew himself is probably the worst-named dog we ever had. He was called that for his donor, but he was born to be a "Pal" or "Rover." I mean, he is so dog-like! There is a deep sadness in him, Observed unawares, he appears to be pondering some immense problem. But if you snap your 411111116.111. THE CidN'IDN NEW ERA Established 1865 Atpaigarriated 1924