Clinton News-Record, 1975-06-19, Page 4Stat -control'
ague Inc.,F$ ;t ie United Churcl
iited'. fs rules'rec tly to shut out tai
'at' Il In fr'ow this, ,, year's basehail
playof fs. Y".Seems, 't atwan's rbeen W,1n-
nl► tee oftenw i ,.t
etl,'the. r,""off. c nal", reason. -
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ttle 'League executives is even, ;:mno
hys.tp'rical, They, announced they
couldn't afford' to ferry in,teams`froi
places ';because' they ,have
'alQ ii.$250i000 in court battles
eaer�p,i�ng.giris,from plsy�,ii on
`ams! a i
Moe: .DrOlck, director, of
Canadian Little League Inc... "ever-
time we were sued by a mother Wan-
ting her daughter on a boys' team, we
had :to hire a lawyer t answer it."
- ,, ,ontrea14 $I orts• column lSt JO
dbertson , a+ dly.t
nythl,ngi 0r ,ore demeaning, than 16411 V,
i,'bunch of',OrientaIA 'It'$,exposing
n erica' . r'ed.blooded young athletes,
/�'�^ potential., ?d■ye/�■fAeatt}■!' the., pre -teen
femJnist t.1110.,!e•, T, mint 1,'"
Robertson said -the ',whole infantile
controversy makes him want to "throw
Isn't it time Canadian', .aches and,
parents, laugi ed The`entire Pressure -
cooker, ,win-mad
ressure-cooker,',win«mad Little Lea ue
0.g system.
cleat out of existenc0 We shoul.d set -
up more .community leagues .to serve
ALL,* boys and girls interested In
playing, team sports - `teach them
fixpertise, sportspeopleship — and let
hem havesome FUN,
!afrit lease for dad?
Until recently,. most senior
managers would have simply laughed
off the idea of granting new fathers a
paternity leave. But an increasing
number of parents - particularly
younger ones - are asking for it, write
James E. Bennett and Pierre M.
Loewe in The Financial Post's special
series on women inbusiness.
So far, most of these requests have
been for short leaves - `two days to a
week - with pay. This enables fathers to
be present at the birth and to look after
the family affairs (inciuding the other
children) while their Wives are in the
hospital - all'of which is difficult to do
while working full time - without any
income loss.
While practices vary from company
fo company, a number appear to make
such arrangements informally under
leave provisions that cover weddings,
funerals, and'otheliiiluch family events. J;?
Few, if any, Canadian firms, however,
have any explicit paternity policy, says
The Post.
A ~.number of younger couples are
beginning tq ask for another kind of
paternity leave: a longer (three -six
months; -or even a year) leave without
pay, but witha guarantee of the same Oncg a day
or a similar job back upon return.
In contrast to the past, . many
younger.. couples now believe, that, if
the wife significantly contributes to the
joint income of the couple, the husband
should in return participate in the
tasks traditional-+ held by the woman,
including bringing up the couple's
(chi Idreq.
ANOTHER COMPLAINAI Tr10 5E., You .-ABOUT THE GREEN ?APER BEING RACIST, MR. ANDRAS-
The Jack Scott Column -
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Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiler
In defensive of yanks
As regular readers of this column are aware,
there are a great many things thatbother me. On
the whole, I'm glad of it. May I neverbecome one
of those people who are never bothered about
anything, or if they am -don't -have -enough gins
to say or do anything about it.
The list is endless: --Celsius temperatures;
those silly organs at hockey games; strident
Woemen's Liblpers; stupid male chauvinists;
gutless politicians,; lawless unions; greedy big
business; chicken bureaucrats; tire -squealing
adolescents of any age; mindless beer ads; town
engineers who want to cut ddwn trees; snotty
hotel desk clerks; 'religious fanatics; ripoff
artists in the social services; the Receiver -
General of Canada;, most administrators; most
people who make more money than I do. I could
fill a column.
This should make me a very disturbed young
man. I, use the term advisedly. How come
everyone is getting old but you and me?
Fortunately, this has not happened. There are,.
so many things I like that I am usually i ��a� state
of happy balance, like a fat lady going on VEiet of
ice cream sundaes. -
However, there is one thing in this country that
gravels me thoroughly. It's a nasty thing,
spreading like a cancer, as difficult to fight, and
just as fatal to the people infected.
That thing is the steady growth in this country,
fostered by a small,, often vicious, but vociferous
minority, of Anti -Americanism.
I don't think it has yet grown to uncontrollable
"proportions in the corpus Canaciensis; and I
hope it can be cut out with some rigorous surgery
in the right places.
It's a creepy', crawling business, and the
healthy mind can be smeared with it subtlely,
without even noticing its existence.
It's hard to pin down. You can find it among
educators, in the press, among politicians,: and in
varying degrees of shrillness throughout the
media.
breeds. Germans and Scandinavians - were
Squareheads. Italians were Wops or Dagoes:
French were neither Canadian nor Canadien.
They . were,Jrags or Peasoupers_ Ev-er-ybod.
-• from Easter; Europe toy *' tri
�.�Gwas
Hunkie. A btack .person wag Nigger. And a
Jew? -Well, -a- Jew -certainly -wasn't Jewish. He
was "just a Jew." The only thing lower than any
of these categories was a woman:
Think I'm romancing? It sounds pretty ugly,
doesn't it? But I was there, gentle reader, and so
were many of you. .
With education, enlightenment, and a fine
performance by most of those lowly immigrants,
came. a change in atmosphere, It became
fashionable to be "tolerant," a word that has
always made me squirm.. -
But not before the private schools, and the law
societies and the medical schools and the golf
clubs had' had'their Wasps, -only barricades
knocked down. It was ugly in this country.
The grandchildren of those earlier prejudiced
people showed a remarkable lack oi, that
narrowness. Canada was becoming -an `oasis of
freedom for the individual. People were leaning
over, backward to prove they were liberal and
"tolerant,"
And now all that narrowness and secret hatred
seems to be channeling itself into Anti -
Americanism.
People in .this country talked endlessly about
Watergate, as though such a sewer of corruption
were peculiar to Americans. They sniggered
about -the antics of American leaders.
There was a particularly nasty type of
something near gloating when the Americans
pulled out of Vietnam.
There was and is a proliferating of popular
articles about the Americans owning Canadian.
industry, buying up Canadian property.
Let's put an' end to this slimy business. Let's
look at our own dredging scandals and lawless
• I've in mind today bringin
in o i e I ve been leading this past week at the cottage and
es
k d f 1 f g you some notes on the bachelor
pecially to advocate to you housewives the Scott One -A -Day -
method of home -making.
One hears so much about the drudgery endured by, Mrs.
Homemaker, as the radio fellows call her that you wonder if all
convinced that they don't. ' =-"'
Even a dumb male, out on his: own, soon learns that there's no
easy short-cut around the preparing of meals, the washing of
dishes,the swee}�ing up, the bed -making and tidying up.
It was the realization of this that brought about my One -A -
Day method. It is simple enough: you just attack everything at
once. Except for the three sessions over a hot Coleman stove I
do absolutely nothing with the cottage until after dinner when
the gadgets and appliances mean anything and I, for one a
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in one mad, furious swoop of industry, I repair the day's
damage -
Naturally, this calls for the use of an inordinate amount of
cooking utensils, chinaware and the rest since nothing is used
twice. I have simply reserved a large cupboard where I consign
every dirty pot, pan and dish the moment it is used. I just close
�' the cupboard door and — hesto! presto! --they are out of sight
` Ali dht of mind.
(Even , my neighbor, Art Hookef, a permanent bachelor who
drops down occasionally for coffee and to chuckle at the
amateur, has had to admit that I keep a trim ship, little
suspecting what lies behind the closed doors.
It gives me a surge of satisfaction when, before retiring, I've d
unions.
There's hardly a woman I know who doesn't complain about
the difficulties of planning and preparing meals' and, while I
donTwant to unnecessarily infuriate any of these ladies who
may read this, I'can't understand it at all.
Of all the facets of operating a home (even a two -and -a -half
room home such as this), cooking seems to me the most
fascinating and rewarding, I can think of no male vocation that
comes close to it in realizing a sense of accomplishment.
Novelty it may be, but there's a solid and primitive pleasure in
the sound and smell of somethingfrying in a pan.
Indeed, all the mechanics of, --it, the decision on the day's
menu, the shopping in the crowded bazaar that is a country
store, the opening of the packages and the act of cooking, itself,
provide me with an almost childish delight.
No column I've ever written ever gave me nearly the
satisfaction I got lastnightfrom a pan full of superbly fried
scallops, •each a delicate golden brown nugget, and when
Hooker, who was my guest, gave a reluctant grunt of approval
it was all I coulddo to stop simpering with pride. -
a. I tell you, an experience like this makes a fellow wonder- at
-the amount of grtim-bling that comes from housewives and their
envy of the male in,what they fancy is a more adventurous life.
Why, this job has everything to negate tedium. If it is done
well,' you know it is done well, which can't be said of many
masculine endeavors. It is tremendously important,
tremendously challenging. It is something that may be made
ier and more efficient by new techniques, by planning and
evising. You're your • own boss. You have that strong
got everything washed and swept. I face each new day, as I end a
each old one, impeccably and with a merry song. How many d
homemakers can say that?
Another thing that's intrigued me, as a temporary housewife,
is this business of cookin
wareness of accomplishment unknown in nine out of ten jobs
one by men.
What's that you're saying, my dear? Would I want more than
a week of it? Well, really, don't women ask the most unfair
questions.
From our early files ...
10 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1965
Corrie's Red and Whi
Foodmaster which had ju
completed -Er".. successful four -da
official - opening on Saturda
night, could have had the shorte
business life in Clinton's history
a fire had not been checked. Th
fire on Sunday afternoon brok
out again in. a pile of carton
which '' the owners had bee
burning earlier in the day.
A .testimonial dinner last wee
at the Hotel Clinton honoure
departing CHSS Principal D
John Cochrane who has bee
appointed an inspector o
Secondary Schools by the Ontari
Department of Education. Als
onoured at the dinner wa
Lawrence Dendrpme, who ha
been chief custodian at CHSS fo
the past 25 years:
- Art enthusiasts' from the nigh
school Art ass . o-114rs.--:Ras
Tomato Juice 48 ox. tins, sold
for 23c; Choice Tomatoes 28 oz.
te tins, were 16c; and Campbell's
sVegetable Soup was 2 tins for 23c
Y at Rumballs this past weekend.
Y Clinton Public School's annual
st field day winners were Joyce
if Hawkins and F. MacDonald.
e The weather has been very cold
e - just -two' degrees above freezing
s last night. The crops are quite
n slow in growing and gardens are
k - not up to their usual growth.
d Mrs.. W. A. Oakes and two sons,
Harris and David, are spending -
. the summer cottage near tale.
n Dr. Oakes also was with them
over the weekend. After a short
° vacation, Harris plans to take a
o cadet course at Valcartier,
s Quebec. -
s Dr. R. G. Hunter, Toronto,
r spent the weekend with his wife
and family at Bayfield.
Many honest nationalis e..: h 1 Cl f
are tak. ..
e a w
an I ... r ._
.r . � tr sta .'secretl �
P y heerrn �l°ien 'the -'Ya ,
-eve g`° nks `Middleton took ske
�l� n tch
d
ft ad
�r
�` pude x th - �
;evident'
�:. ,,
an
pe s to` Bay -field flarbonr los
Wednesd€t'y to capture thI•ough
drawings some of the activity
there at this time of the yearn
Mrs. William (Bev) Chowen
has been honoured by other
members of the Kinette Club of
Clinton by being selected as the
'Kinette of the year". The annual
award is made to the Kinette who
as -,done the most for her club
uring the year.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hudie, who
ecently Moved to Clinton from
their home on the seventh con-
cession of Goderich Township,
were honoured with lovely gifts
from the members of St. James
Church, Middleton.
County engineer James
Britnell will represent Huron at
the Canadian Good Roads con-
vention in Saskatoon next Sep-
tember, all ,by himself. Council
Inst Wednesday adopted a
recommendation that he be
, "authorized 'to attend".
25 YEARS AGO
June 22, 1950
In an old fashioned building
Bee", 55 • men threw up the
ramework of a new barn, on the
Firm of John . Anderson, two
Iles west of ippe1r, - in five
ours last p'rida .
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Trinity Anglican Church,
a-y.field celebrated its lOOth
ir�jhday at a service there this
act Sunay.
W. V. oy of Clinton sold more
).Operative Life insurance than
y othet agi:nt h Canada during.
of"il'itt a nrovoyattrycimoti t,
/ - - ..F . ♦. - " „a.,• .. «.. ..• w r » a
.� ,�- _�. � )ng�a.bloori..rx �.
been oS��btY�
e.w
h
Can�dxdri has Y er�m
Warped
war: into: ta:.....,�nti-=,
,..,.. _..,,.. � .It's.- notrT
-. Anti,. ..,,,�� ��,-;;t�e:�,,�': faUlt'r that they're rich and
°` `is t.ttiere t'no rxista :ATIXeY•e 1s-. owe'rfi 1. They didn't seize our industry. We sold
no real connection. The former is healthy. The it to them. -•
latter is sick. France and Britain virtually ignored Canada
,This has always been a country loaded with when this -country was abuilding. We owe them
prejudice, whatever you may think. A couple of nothing.
generations back, the Anglo-Saxons of this fine We could have a lot worse neighbors than the
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free country. of ours looked down their noses, Americans; in fact almost anyone I can think of.
etren though their own background was an Anti -Americanism is chiefly petty envy, and is h
English slum, a Scottish croft or an Irish shanty. found only' among those who are petty and en- d
_ They spoke bluntly and disparagingly of lesser vious.-We're too big for that.
r
Mr. and Mrs. William Mutch
s, and-slit'-Dougla ,a`"1C� ie?alnd;li ve _.
been vacatieniwith1 r,
tkefr.
William Mutch, Sr.
The Clinton's Lions Club
decided to sponsor a contest for
the most attractive and best
decorated residence- in Clinton
during the Old Boys' Reunion
here, August 5-9,
50 YEARS AGO
June 25, 1925
The Clinton School of Com-
merce reported a very successful
`r year.. 'All graduates have ob-
tained positions in, the week
following the exams and • a
number of students had received
medals for typing from both
Remington -Rand and Underwood
Companies. Miss Mary Grealis of
Clinton was the first student in
the school's history to win a gold
medal in typing.
C. F. Libby of Boston, a former
well-known Clintonian manager
for the Clinton Knitting Com- 1
pany, spent the weekend in town
as the guest of Mayor Fred
Jackson. Mr. Libby was on his
way home from California.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Hall and •
Miss Evelyn left Saturday for a
Winnipeg where Mr. Hall. will
take in the meeting --of , the 1
Canadian Weekly Newspapers
Associatiotr;-now in session. Mrs,,
men's arents, 10'ir. `and 11Rrs.'
:TILE CLINTON NEW ERA Amalgamated
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THE HURON NEWS -RECORD
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the University of Toronto. just above the ground. We hay
Rayfield will celebrate its 50th had but a light sprinkling of rai
birthday as a village at a special for a month and if it does no
sports day scheduled for July 8. come soon, some of the crops wil
- Among the students and be a total failure.
teachers who are vacationing at - The Messrs. Olgivies are
their homes include: Miss Jean erecting contiguous to their new
Hogg, Stewart McBrien, Echo mill, a salt block ninety feet by
Bay; Miss Jessie O'Neil, Kit- one hundred and thirty in which
chener; Miss Mary McMijrchre, the exhaust steam will be em -
Toronto; Miss Clete Ford, and ployed in evaporating the brine
Miss Dorothy Rorke, St. Thomas; so that the salt manufactured by
Miss Ruth McMath, Ayr; Miss M. this process will be so much clear
Gibbings,.London. gain. If the demand for Salt this
75 YEARS AGO summer is , not very large,
June 29, 1900 thereby causing a rise in price,
Mrs. Noble of the Huron-, Road salt properties have not been
and daughter have been back on _very renumei-ative. At present
a visit to her sons in East none are running.
Wawanosh. • The presence of a number of
I. D. Pickard -who has been laborers in the village of Lon -
teaching the young natives of desboro adds to its lively ap-
.Dakota for the past 18 months, pearance. The railroad itself is
returned to Holmesville last being pushed forward with much
week, looking as if he had not rapidity
'suffered math tihji'trCa11'y by ;h+i's
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DearEdttar:
Since the'yoliith. of °lilta?i"
have been liberally slandered;
in our heretov 'n paperand the
London Free Press lately, '.
someone shod say, something,.
to offset 'the mean. , and..,
scurrilpts remarks which have
been so freely - spat about.;'.
Naturally, 'when one: thinks.' of
vandals, one thinks 'of youn.
vandals; after all, none of otic';,
older citizens (shall we -say:
Mature?) is ever guilty of.;
reproachable conduct of any;,,
sort, right? So the first thing to
do when vandalism or mischief
occurs, is•tp jump on the town'; ,.'
younger folk with both feet, and
say nice, quotable things ,
guaranteed to produce hard -
feelings.
I am certain we all support
the wok ' done in the
beautification programme, and
we wish to see it continued. B -t
undue fuss is being raised ovr
the breaking of three (3) young
trees; op the island between
Victoria and King Streets (in
front; of the butcher shop).. In
the firsfplace, the trees in that
particular location are far too
small. They don't have trunks;
they have stalks. To snap one
takes a second, and. just a flick
of the wrist. - Tempting, for
some people.
The location is tempting, too.
- Who ever had the idiotic idea of
placing vulnerable saplings
just where they are handiest for
a destructive person to attack?
Into the bargain, these trees
are only feet from the hotel
„door I suppose no one con-
sidered the possibility of a
boozy patron weaving across
the street and bending a tree
down to his ,own level.
ISowever, drunks are nearly
non-existent in Clinton, aren't
they?
If not harassed by vandals,
these trees would still have
struggle enough for survival.
They stand in a space about 30
inches wide, pavement on both
sides, and only a few feet apart
in the row. What a spot to plantf
trees! And what • about- - the -
pipes, cables, etc. down there'
among the roofs? No problem,
eh?
Traffic from the pool hall has
been suggested as a menace to
the saplings. Now, anyone
heading to, or returning from,
the pool hall, must go out of his
way to encounter these trees.
Gee, if this .establishment
causes so much trouble,' why
doesn't the town simply buy it
and convert it into municipal
offices, or a cat pound, or
something? Come to think of it,
why not hire ' some pie -eyed
piper to lead all the kids away
to the city and send them back
in -twenty years when they have
- become fat and stupid �� and
tame enough, not to cause any
problems? Just settle right
down completely.
Councillor Roy 'Wheeler
stated,. when discussing the
official Centennial Tree's
r. 'planting: "Don't put it on the
main streets or they'll break it
off, unless it's 100 feet thick."
The only tree I am
acquainted with, which is'100
feet thick, is the British
Columbia giant redwood. While
many of'us would like to see
some of those in downtown:
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absence. e . Biz 1 kns.,. the . n .. ... . ,..
very well and comes home only wyr �'
because the wish it. r�o�ee't down the drain
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The strawberry festival was a
decided success. The evening Dear Editor:
could not have been more • Well, it looks like another
pleasant. The rowd - was the worthwhile project is 'going
largest ever witnessed at a down the drain! We four girls
gathering in Holmesville. The are very disappointed with the
proceeds amounted to $110 and response on registration day
will be used to purchase an organ for "Creative Wonderland".
for the League and Sunday
School.
A. Graham, the contractor Federal government and 'it
from ,London for the new would be very heartbreaking to
granolithic walks, has started have'to cancel it now. As there
work on High Street. Ott Wed- is no financial charge to the
nesday the board walk was parents, ,the lack of response
removed and the preliminaries must be due to soniethin'g else.
began to lay cement early next We agree that registration day
week. was not well publicized as we
The supply has been as usual
good in dairy products and must accept some of the blame.
vegetables' have been largely in , We depended on the response
demand., Strawberries • are in of last year's project and the
arge quantities, while ' -cherries words of encouragement to
are commencing to arrive and of dontinue it this summer, but it
which large shipments are ex- seems that the Words were
pected. • spoken without any meaning.
Mr. Jas, Twitchell , visited a We have .worked very hard in
Hamilton lumber firm last week tyle lsttlni
nd was shown a new prot:ess ep r g of "Creative
which causes shingles and W'onderland', . and have relied
umber ,to .betorne fireproof. He
was so thoroughly convinced of
the efficacy of this metlibd that
e has arranged for a carload of
umber 10 be tronte4„.. '
1OO EARS A'GO
lune 24,1915
The long spell of dry w>oathor Is -
crlously affecting r the el'ops in
hls soetion► ,Alntost .'all° havo.
cased to grew, and they are only
This project Is funded by the
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on it for our summer em-
ployment. Three of us.- were
counting 'on this job for ' ek-
perience as well as funds for
college in September.
There are few activities for
pre-schoolers in Clinton,
especially during the summer .
Months. With this pro ect, we
had hoped to �rovide
youngsters with . the op-
portunities for social in
teract ion, self-expression,
creativity, and much more.
We are willing to hold one
more registration day. If the -
,response is not greater we will
be forced to disappoint the few
that have registered, as well as
ourselves by cancelling
"Creative Wonderland."
We will even accept
registration over the telephone.
If you wish to contact any of us$
Our next registration date will
be next Wednesday evening,
Jtxne 25 from 7 'until 9 p.m. in
Clinton's Town Hall. '
Your support 'will be greatly
appreciated.
Hull- and Miss Evelyn.- go ort -to jt
MelviileoSask., to vlsitirelatives 1
and Mr. Hall will join them there
at the. conclusion Of the press
convention,
E. S. blverme're has been s
awarded the,, W4 'Babortsan °t
price in Constitutionait fliStory at c
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Thank you,.
Marilyn Holmes'
Marilyn tleaVe
W innlf't'ed Bradley`
Pat Prooteri,
Clinton,