Clinton News-Record, 1974-07-18, Page 44,-CIANTON NBWS.RFUORD, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1074
Editorial Comment
Feelings of jog and sadness
Ontario Hydro's delsion, announced
last Tuesday, that they will NOT be
building a nuclear power plant
somewhere In Huron County will be
greeted with mixed feelings by those in
the County,
For those persons who were buying
land around the lake for speculation so
that they could make a big profit, the
disappointment will be great, especially
for their bank accounts, The land can ,
now be used again for its proper use,
farming, at greatly . reduced values,
which would seem more sensible..
Many others will also view it as a
disappointment because the extra
revenue that is paid to the construction
men and other associated trades won't
be coming into the area.
On the other hand,.the announcement
of no nuclear plant will be cheered by
many, including those in the area who
fought it because of its hazards to the
environment.
Many others in towns and villagesNill
let out a sigh of relief now that the large
influx of persons won't be coming into
the area and disturbing traditional
values held by the local citizenry,
When the Bruce Nuclear Development
came to Kincardine and surrounding
areas, many manufacturing firms went
The gossip game
Most of us take delight in discovering
the follies and sins and shortcomings of
others and in chatting knowingly about
them. Gossip does bring us some cheap
comfort, giving us nice feelings of
superiority. Our weaknesses and
failures do not seem, so serious when we ,
can compare them with the monstrous
ones of some people we know. We like
to gossip because it generally makes us •
feel much better about ourselves, says
the United Church.
Behind much of our gosSiping is the
mechanism the psychologists call
"projection". There is the tendency to at-
tribute to others our own reprehensible
attitildes and feelings. A London
psychiatrist, Dr. J.A. Hadfield, has com-
mented on this tendency:
"In judging others we trumpet abroad
our secret faults. We personalize our
under because they were unable to pay
the same high wages enjoyed by those
working at the Hydro plant. That burden
too, has been lifted in Huron,
Another factor that would have spelled
trouble for municipalities in Huron was
the cost Of services, such as roads and
sewer lines that would have to have
been provided for the large influx of
workers.
In Bruce County, the Bruce Nuclear
plant is going to result In a $24.5 million
deficit for Kincardine, Southampton, Port
Elgin, Kincardine Township and Thew-
ton. The deficits, according to a recent
study carried on in Bruce, would be in-
curred by the provision of additional
water, sewage, and recreational
facilities.
Ontario Hydro has said' they plan to
locate the plant elsewhere, probably
where there isn't as much opposition,
not where it would cover up irreplacable
farmland, in the heart of Ontario's food
basket,
The many who stood to gain 'by the
Huron nuclear plant will be upset, no
. doubt, that the plant isn't coming here,
but in the long run, its far better to leave
Huron as a predominatly agricultural
region, than an industrial zone, with a
massive suburb surrounding it.
unrecognized failings, and hate in
others the very faults to which we are
secretly addicted. Like the lark fluttering
with agitation over her nest, we exhibit
most flagrantly the very thing we would
hide."
Think about that the next time you are
tempted to assist in the distribution of
malicious rumors about someone you
know.
Censorious gossip generally tells
more about the person who does the
gossiping than about the victim. In
Albert. Camus'. novel,-- "The Fall",, the:—;
narrator, giyeaTthie,warning,Aogihis
t'AgOPle;liAterf to judge' fh 'Order
not to be judged themselves... The
judgment you are passing on others
eventually snaps back in your face,
causing some damage."
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There is a fair bit of panic in
the financial world these days.
One of Germany's big banks
failed. The stock market is
more like a swamp than a
market. Inflation is scaring the
wits out of people and even
politicians.
It was inevitable that some
of us bigger figures in the finan-
cial and business game would
be affected personally. Sure
enough, I've been caught in a
personal bind and I don't know
whether to go for broke or go
for the hills.
I've been a pretty big
shareholder of a stock called
Peel Elder. I have 25 shares.
It's a long story and I've told it
before. But I got in on the
ground floor, as we say on Bay
St. and Wall St. These are a
couple of well known streets in
the financial world. One of
them runs down to the bay, in
case you want to drown your-
self When the market is slum-
ping. The other has a wall for
pounding your head against in
the same eventuality.
Well, as I was saying, I got in
early, Was discharged from the
air force with a couple of
thousand bucks the paymaster
had thoughtfully put away for
me while I Was in prison camp.
I had decided I wasn't going
to slug and sweat all my life
just to make a living. I was
going to make it fast, and make
it big.
I looked the field over pretty
carefully, searching for a career
with a built-in escalator. And
the field looked right back at,
me With a cold and steely eye,
saying, in effect, "What do you
know how to do, besides
crashianding an aircraft in a
plowed field?"
There wasn't really much I
could answer to that. So,
thought, "The heck with the big
corporations, when they can't
recognize talent, drive and
sheer ability, even though these
are' staring them right, in their
cold, corporate eye,"
The final straw arrived when
a personnel manager at Bell
Telephone told me warmly that
yes, he thought there might be
a real future for me with the
company, and yes, he thought
he might find a place for me in
three or four months, but I'd
have to start at the bottom, like
everyone else.
It turned out that the bottom
was sweeping floors at
something like $48 a week.
Even in those days The Bell
paid good wages. That's
probably why they have to ask
for a rate increase every couple
of years, to compensate for
their incredible generosity to
their employees.
Anyway, the bottom didn't
have much appeal. I'd had
something in mind more like
Vice-President in charge of
Public Relations,
So I shook him warmly by
the hand, with that sincerity
that only a V-P in charge of PR
can muster, thanked him, and
said, "Mustn't take any more of
your time. I have to dash to the
Royal York for lunch with Jack
McClelland of McClelland and
Stewart, then catch the after-
noon train for Montreal, where
President Crump of the CPR
has been trying to get hold of
me for a week. By the way, if
you get sick of The Bell, look
me up in a year or so, and I
might have something for you.
Just. contact Bill Smiley
Associates, Incorporated, not. to
mention Limited."
At least I left him with his
mouth open, but. I Was seething,
inside. Some people seethe on
the outside, but I always do it
Anyway,. I strode out of
there, muttering, "All right,
O.K. If that's the way they
want it. VII go ii. alone,
destroy them all within five
years. plunge into the stock
market and buy them all up
and have mergers and
conglomerates and caviar and
all, sorts of stuff" Even then,
young arta inexperienced, I
knew the jargon of big business.
80 I plunged, I was like a
hutter6V plunging at a hull
elephant.
Oh, I didn't just roar around
buying up companies. I didn't
buy just any old stocks. I wish I
had. I bought some so new the
ink wasn't dry on the cer-
tificates.
But I proceeded with
caution. I wasn't going to be
taken in by some smooth-
talking operator working out of
a telephone booth.
On the , advice of my lan-
dlady's sister, who hail her hair
done every Wednesday with a
friend who baby-sat. for a
prominent. stock-brocker's for-
mer wife, I decided t.o plunge
into Northern Ontario gold.
My first. choice was a lucky
one. I bought. into a company
with a property so rich that
even the moose who used it for
.pasture had gold fillings in
their teeth..
And I didn't fool around
with penny stocks. That's for
the little guy with two hundred
bucks to invest, No, I went for
the solid, blue chip stuff.
I snapped up one thousand .
Shares of this stock for 22 cents
a share. Within two days it had
shot up to 23 cents. I was on
my way, and I've never looked
hack since. It hurts too much.
In three weeks the stock wasn't
listed on the financial paged.
still think it was because some
linotype operator was sore
because some of us were
making fortunes, and he left
the name of the mine out of the
list through .sheer spite.
But all this is getting us
nowhere, started out to tell
conglomerates or con-
dominiums or whatever they
call (hem are ganging up to get
hold of my 25 shares of Peel
Elder, They've offered to buy
(been for $13 a share and I
could have sold theft a month
ago for $I1.16 a share.
There's something fishy
going on, and if I can get to the
bottom of it, I'll expose the
whole thing in next week's
cOlumn. Just hang in there and
Wait. 1 don't want to see other
simple stockholders get, hurt.
10 YEARS AGO
July 16, 1964
Mr, .Jim McCullough was ap-
pointed as Sports Editor and
advertising salesman for the
Clinton News-Record,
Barbara Turnbull, of RR 2,
Brussels, recently was presen-
ted a diploma and
congratulations from the staff
of ,Wingham and . District
Hospital for having the highest
scholastic standing in theory
and clinical work.
A fourth police officer for the
Clinton Police Department was
appointed Monday night. Leroy
Oesch of Paris, Ont., has been
appointed • to fill the post, and
'will start Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mid-,
dleton and family returned
home on Friday from a motor
trip to Sault Ste. Marie where
they Visited the lady's mother,
Mrs. Sundstrom.
Nancy Elizabeth PePper
became the bride of William
Charles Millson on Saturday,
July 11th.
Prank Burns recently retired
as mail carrier for RR 2,
Dublin after 40 years service.
boring that time, Mr. Burns
travelled more than :320,000
miles without an accident,
mostly by Model T Ford, ,
About 300 former pupils and
teachers froth across western
Ontario and Michigan recently,
attended what may be the last
reunion of SS 7, Osborne
Township. The 94-year-old
school is being closed this sum-
mar along with seven others.
Watson Webster of Varna
repeated history on Saturday
when he won the best drummer
award during Glorious Twelfth
celebrations here Thirty-seven
years ago, Mr. Webster's father
Robert D, Webster, also of
Varna, Won the same honor.
Mr. Webster used the same
right there,
"Supposing you're a guy who
takes a drink. Okay. You get.
into -a new town. What. hap-
pens!. Sure. You invite the
buyer up to your room for a
couple of cold ones. Or maybe
he invites you out to his house.
''And •maybe•'hiS wife - figures,
btere',,s 9„,ch n ep,,to, get„ the;,
o man ut of the house.' So, she
has a gal for you. it's a party.
Weil, next time you go back
there, same thing, Habit-
forming, see? You're exposed to
it.. Even the worst-looking
travellers get it.. But what are
you going to do? Spend every
night. in your room watching
the wallpaper?''
"Your wife hears about it,
right?" I asked.
"Every time," the traveller
said, "It's like they had a
special newspaper about. what
you do Out of town. But that's
not what really burns her."
drum sticks his father used on
that day.
Orland .Johnston has joined
the sales staff of Lorne Brown
Motors Limited. Formerly with
Goderich Motors Ltd., she is
well known in this area having
successfully conducted his own
business in Brucefield and also
in Seaforth prior to moving to
Clinton.
25YEARS AGO
July 14, 1949
The most important business
transaction in Clinton in some
time was completed this week
with the sale by Richmond
Hosiefy. Limited, head office.
London, of its knitting mill
,located on Albert Street, Clin-
ton, effective August 1, 1949.
Mrs, A.D. Beaton, one of
Clinton's older residents,
celebrated her 89th birthday on
Saturday.
Due to his removal from
Clinton to Brockville where he
will be employed with
Canadian Silks Limited,
Trustee Gordon R. Ross han-
ded in his resignation at the
July meeting of the Clinton
Public School hoard,
Cattle, on the whole, are in
very good shape, because of the
excellent recuperation of
pasture since the weather im
proved about a month ago.
Wheat cutting is almost corn-
pleted„ except fields which are
to be combined. Farmers in the
north, where the grain is not as
far advanced, have been quite
alarmed :this week with out ,
breaks of Army worms.
Mrs. and Mrs. Ellwood Epps
returned Monday evening from
their postnuptial motor trip to
North Bay, Nipigon and Fort
William, and have, taken up
rodrlinice no Kiln.' St.
"No?"
"No. It's the way you act
when you get. home. Look at it
this way. You're on the road,
everybody's working for you.
Porters, bell hops, clerks,
waitresses. Breakfast in bed if
you're that kind of guy. On the
road you're king. Get home and
you're just a, bum...And, don!A.,.
forget, you've been selling,
selling, selling. You want. a rest
from that,. You don't want to
have to sell yourself to your
wife. There you are, expecting
the same kind of service you got.
on the road and she wants you
to act like Paul Newman,
maybe."
"I can see where (here might,
be friction."
"Higher divorce rate than in
Hollywood." he said, mourn-
fully tapping the magazine.
"Is selling really so tiring?" I
asked.
"Every( hi ng' psychology,"
50 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1924
Thursday was a gala day for
the Baird community, Stanley
Township, when a reunion of
the scholars of the famous
"Baird's School" was held in
Mr, Neil McGregor's grove. In-
vitations had been sent out to
about 800 people in alt parts of
the country and somewhere
about 600 responded.
Veterans of the Great. War
resident in the County of
Huron with their wives and
friends will hold a monster pic-
nic in Jowett's Grove, Bayfield.
The Knitting Company is
closed for stock taking and the
knitting room is also being
redecorated. When ready for
work again, it will be very
cheerful and bright.
The New's Record had only
reached Holmesville last week
when a phone message came to
J. Cunninghame who had ad-
Dear ditor:
The ministry of natural
resources is .currently resear-
ching the history of the old
Point Farms Hotel which was
located near Highway 21 just
north of Goderich. Point Farms
Hotel was the first summer
resort in Western Ontario and
an important element in the
social life and economy of
Huron County during the late
19th century, We are hoping to
incorporate the history of the
hotel into the new recreation-
interpretive program being
The Maitland Valley Conser-
vation Authority will be spon-
soring the new mascot-editor,
Rocky Raccoon, in the weekly
newspapers through-out the
Maitland River Watershed,
It's Rocky's job to let people
know what the Conservation
Authority is and what it does in
its efforts to promote proper
management and to protect our
natural resources. Rocky hopes
also to 'make the public "con-
servation conscious" and
wishes to let them know how
Maitland Valley Conservation
the salesman said. He crossed
his legs, carefully adjusting the
-knife crease in the conservative,
grey trousers. "Say you're ap-
proaching a new account. Okay.
You introduce yourself. Then
you look out. the window and
say, 'Wow, this little town is
sure growing .That'll
talking, .--and have a
chance to figure him." I had
the feeling he was figuring me.
"If he's an old guy and
you're young-looking that's the
tip off." the salesman went on.
"You're all ears. Let him talk.
Boy, are you eating it. up. You
get. the father-and-son angle
right away. Whoever he is,
don't argue with him. He'll say
something about. Pierre
Trudeau. They all do. You say,
'Well, there's no doubt he's
made mistakes' or something
noncommital like that., Don't.
be too positive. Politics can
vertised a kit bag he had found,
that the owner had left word
there concerning it.
Miss Winnie McMat.h and
Miss Jeans Farquhar have been
engaged to fill the vacancies on
the Public School staff.
Miss Rena Pickett has
resigned as assitant at the Post
Office after serving for quite a
number of years. At present she
is enjoying a holiday in the
West.
Bert Marshall and Will
Hovey have taken a boat trip to
Kingston,
Mrs, Harry Fitzsimons and
sons, Ross and Norman 'are
holidaying at Fullerton.
75 YEARS AGO
July 20, 1899
Mrs. 'T. • C. Delgaty and
family have returned home to
Brucefield after a three week
visit at Mitchell.
Miss Ferguson is spending a
4eveloped at Point. Farms Park.
Since the hotel was rieStrOYed.
in 1915,. there are still Man.y
people in ,Huron County who
remember visiting the hotel on
picnics or family outings, who
worked at the hotel, or who
stayed there during' their
vacations, We would very much •
like to talk to anyone who
might remember the hotel, We
are also interested in. any old
photos, lettere, diary notations
or other mornent.os which might
relate to pe2ple's activates at
Point farms.
It is. exciting and surprising
to find memorabilia in attics or
scrapbooks which might relate
to local history, -
Any assistance that you
could lend to this project would.
be appreciated, and we would
ask you to contact Laura Malis
at Point Farms Provincial,
Park, phone 524-7124,
Yours truly,
W. Dan Mansell
District Manager
Authority can assist others
through its many conservation
programs.
Presently, a Bluebird
Management Program is
proposed by the Maitland
Authority.
The Bluebird was near the
point of extinction until concer-
ned individuals began
programs to help nurse its
numbers back to a survival
level.
Since, South-western Ontario
is in the Bluebird's breeding
range, Maitland Valley, Con-
servation Authority would like
to know the location and
nature of any program under-
taken by private individuals or
groups who have tried to
remove the Bluebird's name
from the list of endangered
species.
If you have any information
it will be welcome at the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority office at Box 5,
Wroxeter.
Watch the paper for further
news from M.V.C.A.'s Rocky
Raccoon.
louse up a sale quicker than
anything. So you're on guard
all the time and nothing's more
tiring than that.."
"Who are the toughest
customers?"
"Women buyerS," the,
salesman. said without
hesitation. ,"They're all 'the
F'rgtit:e • wiitnen'a keini g
t.o take over from men some
day and they want. to show you
how smart. they are. You can't
give them the old sales treat-
ment.. You've just got to listen.
Next. t.o women there's the guy
who is the great kidder, the one
who likes to tell the dirty
stories. He thinks every
traveller has a few new nifties.
The hardest. thing I do is laugh
at. old jokes."
The salesman gave a little
mirthless laugh. "Oh, it's a
tough game all right," he said.
"Guaranteed to Make any man
a monster,
few days with her parents in
Bayfield.
All kinds of crops look well
with the exception of fall wheat
and it. has also picked up well
lately.
A good deal of hay cut last
week was spoiled owing to the
showery weather.
Kelly Bros. had a good bee
hauling lumber from their saw
mill to the furniture factory at
Seaforth one day last week.
They got upwards of 50,000 feet
hauled in one day.
J.R. Taylor of Danville, Ont.
and .John Joynt of St. Helens
have purchased a site in
Lucknow on which they are
going to start one of the largest.
apple evaporators this side of
Toronto.
Miss Edith Robson, who has
been visiting for the past couple
of years in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, returned home the
first part of this week.
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The traveller
The man next to me in the
inter-city bus was (his side of
40, smooth-shaven, nattily
dressed. The overall effect was .
as if he carried a small sign
saying, "I am a success." He
was reading the newest,
Reader's Digest. We. had., not
'Spoken Until he turned
.:0P)i* to me wit,11',A,-:tiMIrtZ
"Listen to this," he. said.
"The highest. divorce rate is not
among • Hollywood stars"
(significant pause) "but among
commercial travellers." He
closed the magazine with a
.slap,
"Not true?" I asked.
"Sure, it's true. But just that.
alone! Why doesn't somebody
really write what the commer-
cial traveller is up against?
Now take this divorce
business." He levelled -a long,
well-manicured index finger at.
the magazine. He could have
,sold me it. for eight dollars
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