Clinton News-Record, 1976-04-29, Page 4Much a'ii
- as they did before a
it patients
deadline. Ely al
open long a
by tha
1st. -
he hospital board and the citizens
Action Committee . have now moved
into another phase of their battle
against the TOi h., s to Save OW hospital.
,and they need all the verbal and moral
support we can muster.
Many people say that the fight is
over so what's thesense. If the hospital
officials and a few hard working
citizens had not continued the fight, we
would have been closed in March.
#al Is st
ire still
MI ', an
in the
r fro,
VerY
tinuing.
Continue -to
t'ie May 1st
Clinton will- be
the arbitrary decision
ernment to be closed by ,tune
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the spirit of taxing
In a rather humorous comment in a
column written by Bill . Batten in the
Exeter Independent News of last week,
Bill noticed that the Liquor Control
Board is not the only dispenser of
Spirits to be zeroed in .upon by the
taxman. The provincial government
has now commenced a study on taxing
churches.
"Imagine", says Bili, "the ushers
hustling around with the collection
plate on a Sunday, feverishly scrib-
.
They
as'.
Ont
#l) ensure
quip t with
0444 0*
10000 hot;r
Ds patients.
g.o quick
ewe ging to give that pp �.
without a fight? Are we going to let
down. aft our predecessors whohave
dedicated their lives and money? Are
we goh!g to 1et the Conservative
lackies close something they don't
even, own? There should be an em-
phatic NO!
Thegovernment and the other
people
of -Ontario must be shown that we love
our hospital as dearly as a member of
our own family, so if you're asked to
help, either by a vocal protestor just to
volunteer a few hours of your timet
pleaise give willingly. An old adage is
applicable here: "United we stand,
dividedAwe fall."
bong out receipts: Blessings, 75c,
reassurance premiums, 50c,
philosophy. 65c, PLUS entertainment
and sales tax."
And appropriately notes Bill, "while
the choir dutifully sings 'Bringing in
the Sheaves,' or perhaps that should be
'thieves.' "
"The province may even have a
footnote at the bottom of the receipts,"
Bi -it notes, " Sintario tickets available
at the door on your way out."
Su
ar and Spies/By Bill Smilcy
The big tie
When you manage to totter through to
what is euphemistically called these days
"middle age," you are supposed to be able
to relax a little, slow down, take it easy,
enjoy all those things you never had time
for before.
After all, your kids are grown up now,
and on their own. The mortgage is paid off,
or nearly. Passion is not exactly spent, but
let's say that you don't exactly turn to jelly
atthe sight of a big buzoom.
If your health is reasonable, you should
have a quarter-century of mellow living
ahead, time to travel, to contemplate your
navel, to read all those books, to cultivate
your own garden, before you art quietly
shuffled off toxone of those institutions with
the ghastly names, like Sunset Haven or
Trail's End Paradise.
I am here to state, quietly but with grim
ferocity, that this is one of the Big Lies
perpetrated by our society on young people
when they are raising their children.
It's a lot of poppycock, chaps. Take my
advice and have all the fun you can while
you're young. Go to Europe, buy a farm,
take a year off. Do what you want to now,
because you won't have time when you're
middle-aged.
I just sat down here for a minute, to stop
my head spinning, and it struck me that it's
the first chance 'I've had to sit down and
take my usual cool perspective of life for
weeks.
Life is not exactly a gay, mad whirl when
you're middle-aged. It's more like a case of
the blind staggers.
Just for example. If we're not running in
one direction to see our two grandsons,
we're running in another to see their 83 -
year -old great-grandfather.
• Recently, in a wave of good feeling, we
decided to treat my daughter and her
husband to a night out. They are students,
•broke, and never get out. So I hawked up
the price of dinner and a show, and my old
lady told them we'd be delighted to baby-
sit.
Fine. Any grandparents would do it. But
it was akin to a disaster. First-born
grandbabby, Pokey, was so wild with ex-
citement at seeing his favorite toys, ser-
vants and sycophants, that he ran around
the apartment like a demented chipmunk,
up and down over the furniture, leaping
into arms. jabbering and laughing and
roaring with defiance at any effort to cool
him down.
And the other guy, the Iittle,lat new one,
is a bawler. He doesn't even bawl at the
drop of a hat. He bawls at will'. A.tid at Suse.
That's my wife. I'm Will.
The youngcouple left at 6:30, baby
•
asleep. Pokey fed. Two minutes later, the
bawler was at it. Two hours later, he was
still at it. Somewhere in there I'd managed
to stick our dinner (a frozen chicken pie) in
the oven. At 8:30, my wife was sitting with
him on her knee, trying to give him a bottle
with one .hand and spear a bit of chicken pie
with the other. Across from her, I sat with
Pokey on my knee, feeding him every
second bite of my meagre portion.
ISt 9:20 we had them both asleep. We
collapsed. At 9:45, little fatso woke up and
bleated for titty. He scorns the bottle.
Suffice it to say it was a long evening.
But that was unusual, you say. Most of
your il'fe'is pretty tranquil and even in tone.
Well, that's what you think, Buster. I didn't
even curl this past winter, and scarcely had
time to blow my nose.
Right now, aside from a full day`s
teaching, I am doing the advertising and
publicity for the., school Open House,
preparing to be a guest on a panel
discussion and modelling for an art class.
In my spare time, I mark papers and
prepare lessons.
Modelling, did I say? Yep. I'm a model.
The art department at the school wanted a
live model. They conned ine into it by
pretending they wanted somebody with
character in his face. Well, I have lots of
that: wrinkles, broken nose, bloodshot
eyes, the lot. Later, I discovered the reason
I was chosen was because I was the only
teacher who had a spare that period, except
for one woman teacher, and she refused to
modehn the nude.
I didn't. ' Iwas all for it. So were the
student painters. But the puritanical old
administration wouldn't allow it. They
were afraid they'd' have girl art students
fainting all over the place. Not in awe. In
horror, So I have to do it in a loincloth, with
a mask over my eyes so they won't know
who I am.
You think I'm busy? You ought to see my
wife. Aside from her regular housework,
she teaches piano, knits and sews
(simultaneously, it seems to me), prepares
the income tax return, chooses and uses
new paint and wallpaper, runs around
trying to find clothes for two grandsons,
and gallops down to Simpson's order office
to return things three times a week (it was
she who put Eaton's catalogue out of
business) . And we haven't even started on
the garden yet.
So. Just a word of wisdom to you young
people. Don't swallow that bromide about a
serene middle age. It's about as serene as
Saturday night in the corner saloon.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Ye. won't have time when ye're old and
gray.
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Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend
Schoolday pranks
Many adults are shocked by the things the kids get away
with in school these days.
The ministry of education can't seem to decide which is
the best teaching system. First, they closed the small one -
room schools and, built huge new ones with dozens of
classrooms. Now they're tearing out a few partitions. The
result is some noisy classrooms run in an unorthodox style.
With the banishment of the strap, the teachers lost much
of their control over the students, and a few parents contend
the kids now have the upper hand.
"Things were certainly different back in our schooldays,"
we adults contend.
Or were they? Think back and be completely honest.
Didn't more go on than reading, writing, 'rithmetic and
minding the Golden Rule?
Of course, most of us were model students; but we can all
recall our schools' mavericks. They were the ones that
stood tacks upside-down in the teachers' boots and
developed a deadly aim with their erasers.
On class hikes through the woods, they always managed
to find a patch of leeks and to stuff themselves. They were
subsequently relegated ,;oe end of the line by their
teacher and fe'tiaw' studeii h�' alike. When they returned to
the classroom, they sat alone. Perhaps they thought, if they
became unpopular enough, the teacher would send them
home.
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' Before\ the schools had running water, a different student
was selected each day to fetch the water from the well. The
trouble -makers were the ones who took short cuts through
.the back windows; some of them didn't return until the next
morning.
When the students weren't allowed to leave the school
grounds between nine o'clock in the morning and three in
the afternoon, it was considered daring tosneak down to the
creek for a swim during the lunch hour. One fellow
remembers the day he and two pais were spotted by their
teacher's boyfriend. For the next two weeks, they spent
their recesses and noon hours inside.
The true pranksters were dedicated to contriving new
stunts, and each one had to be bolder than the previous
ones.
For example, two bigger boys took advantage of a heat
register, about 3' by 3', in the centre of the floor. They
removed the cover and were threatening to swing one of the
girls over the gaping hole when the teacher came running.
In a local school the back door opened at the end of a
cupboard. A former student recalls that someone balanced
a pail of water on the top of the cupboard and the edge of the
door, which stood ajar. The next person to open the door
was the teacher.
Three other boys took a goat to school one morning. they
went early for the purpose of arriving before the teacher.
(I'll bet it was the only time they went early.) They teased
the goat until he was in a rage, and when they saw.the
schoolmarm coming,, they turned him loose.
Meanwhile a lady remembers one of her teachers - a nun
wearing a long black habit. After the May 24 holiday, a
couple of girls saved some fire crackers. They sneaked, up
behind the nun, while she wrote on the blackboard. One of
them gingerly lifted her skirt, while the other slid a
firecracker under and lit it.
Isn't it shocking what the kids got away with in school back
in those days?
From our early files
• • at •
10 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1916
The fourth addition to Clinton's secondary school since it
way constructed originally, will cost just a little over
$506.900 to build, according to a contract awarded Tuesday
night by the Clinton District Collegiate Institute Board.
John Hayman and Sons Co. Ltd., London, was the lowest
bidder among four tenders received and opened by the
board last Thursday night.
Approval was received yesterday by Mel Graham, clerk
of Stanley Township, from the Ontario Municipal Board to
proceed with the building of the 16 -row school. near
Brucefield.
Next Wednesday. May 11 is being observed as National
Hospital Day at Clinton Public Hospital. Clinton Hospital
will be joining hospitals throughout Ontario and other parts
of the world in celebrating National Hospital Day. It will be
a day when all people in the community will have an op-
portunity to pay tribute to those hospital people who
maintain the healthy order of our community.
During 1965..Clinton hospital admitted 1,558 patients, up
89 from 1064. Other statistics at the hospital include: 196
births; 5,122 x-rays; 680 ,operations; over 100 employees,
full and part-time, including nearly 40 nurses;` last year's
payroll was nearly 5292,000.. •
Bayfield subscribers of the Tuckersm.ith Municipal
Telephone System can learn the proper technique of dial
phoning by attending a demonstration in Bayfield Town
Hall on Monday, May 9 at 3 p.m. The changeover to dial
''goes into effect at 3 a.m. on Sunday May 15.
Over 200 Air Cadets from the Stratford, Kitchener -
Waterloo. Galt and Guelph areas visited their- unit to
take part in the sixth annual Inter Squadron Drill and
Sports Competition.
25 YEARS AGO Y _.
Mav 3.1951
A distinguished honour has come to Huron County in the
election of Rev. David J. Lane, minister of St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church, Clinton, and Knox Presbyterian
Church, Bayfield, as moderator of the Presbyterian Synod
of Hamilton and London. He succeeds Rev. Donald
Machines, Ridgetown.
A plebiscite for property owners of Grand Bend to decide
whether the village will become part of Lambton or Huron
County will be Reid not later than May 28, a joint committee
from the two county councils has decided.
Rev. W. J. Woolfrey., for the past five years, pastor of
Ontario Street United Church, Clinton, and Turner's
Church. tuckersmith, has accepted an invitation to the
pastorate of the Tara circuit, Bruce County, west of Owen
Sound . Mr. Woolfrey will be succeeded here by Rev. A.
Glen Eagle.
Effective Monday next, May 7. John D. Butler, will
commerce his duties as assistant Agricultural Represen-
tative for Huron County, with headquarters in Clinton and
residence also hare. He succeeds Fred O. Wilson, who left
April 1 tc return to active farming operations with his
father.
At the April meeting or' Huron County Health Unit in -the
filth Unit offices, Ctintt-' n, Friday last, Dr. RA. Aldis,
MOH, in presenting his report. said that measles, mostly
red, have been prevalent throughout the county and that,
they seem most common n the central part of the county,
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Huliet Township.
Despite efforts of small boys to frighten it away and the
urge of some "big" boys to- take a pot shot at it, the swan is
still down at the river at Bayfield. •
Clinton's baseball Colts will be active again this season in
the Huron -Perth Baseball Leagbe, an OBA Intermediate
"C" group.
50 YEARS AGO
May 6, 1926
Major Jackson, at the council meeting on Monday night,
stated that he would give instructions that the by-law for-
bidding the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks was to be
strictly enforced. As a consequence, a number were hailed
before the magistrate yesterday afternoon and paid fines.
Clinton's band concerts will be given in. Recreation Park
this summer. This ought to be quite an ' advantage.
Motorists can drive into the park and find plenty of room to
park within listening distance of the bandstand, while those
who have no cars can go up in the grandstand and sit in
comfort during the concert.
Mr. Hit. Sharp has moved from the house hews been
occupying on King Street to the double residence o Mr. A.J.
Holloway, the old Fair residence. Watson -O'Neil -at the
home of the bride's mother, Denfield, on Saturday. May I,
1926, by Rev. Mr. Shore, Gertrude A., daughter of Mrs. E.E.
O'Neil, to Frank G. W. Watson, son of Mr. David Watson
and the late Mrs. Watson. For some time the groom has
been engaged in the grocery business here.
Markets were: wheat 51.35; oats. 40 to 45 cents: buck-
wheat, 60 cents; eggs. 20 cents to 27 cents ; butter. 35 cents to
36 cents; live hogs. $12.50:
75 YEARS AGO
May 3. 1901
The Furniture Association met in Toronto the other day,
and "tabled" its reports. It would be'plane to anyone that all
the chairmen were present.
Business is starting to boom at the Central Creamery. On
Wednesday Mr. Baskerville, the manager, started to make
butter every day, the average 300. Ib. per day. but in a week
or so he expects to have a turnout of 1500 Ib. daily. and even
2,000 Ib. if •possible. There are four on the 'staff, Messrs.
Macintyre and Johnston, oI London, having joined, but a
force of half a dozen or so will be on hand and the establish-
ment will be kept going day and night. At present three
wagons are on the road gathering cream, and in a month's
time some 25 or 30 will be employed drawing milk.
Prospects point to a busy season here.
The Rattenbury and Clarendon hotels have been rushed
with travellers lately, particularly the forepart of the week.
At the former on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the
registration , run up to about 50 each day.Clintora will soon
have a horseless- carriage. We understand J.P. Tisdale has.
given an order for a steam automobile for which T.
McKenzie has built him a house.
The trout season opened on Wednesday. May 1st_ Now we
will hear of fishy stories.
Seeding is going ahead in the country, judging from the
way the stores are disposing of seeds.
The high school entrance examinations-wilIbeginon June
26th. at 8:45 a.m., and the department exams begin on July
.-2nd ft the same hour. Candidates who purpose writing on
these examinations, must notify the inspector either
directl3i or through the principal oi the school which they
attend.
Mears
Dear Editor:
The Meals on Wheels,
Committee of Community
Care Services (metropolitan;
Toronto) -incorporated 'is
planning an Ontario con-
ference for Meals on Wheels
groups es well as . for in-
dividuals or groups whct
might be contemplating
starting such a program and'
who are looking for in.,
formation and supportin.
getting started. The con-
ference is planned from the
evening of May 8th, to 3 p.m.(,:
May 20th. It' rill be held at
Villa Colombo, a newly
opened Italian Home for the
Aged in Toronto.
Information pamphlets
have been mailedto all those
Meals on Wheels programs
throughout Ontario of which
we are aware. However,
there is every likelihood that
some operations have been
missed.
The cost is exceedingly
reasonable - $25. for
registration which includes in
addition to conference ex-
penses. two lunches, one
dinner, in addition to an
evening reception for all
delegates on 18th May:
Those people ,.wishing ac-
commodation Tuesday night
through to theconclusion of
the conference will pay $40. to
cover bed and two breakfasts.
In other words; the total cost
is 565.
Anyone who wishes further
details is invited, to contact
Community Care Services
(Metropolitan Toronto)
Incorporated- at 185 Bloor
Street East, Suite 224,
Toronto, M4W 3J3. Telephone
416-961-3885. Total
registration is limited to 200:
Sharing
Dear Editor :
The proposed closure of th
Clinton Public Hospital as a
active care facility will affec
not only the people of Clinton
but the population of Huro
County.
The decision to close th
Clinton Public Hospital i
irrational, morallywrong and
unjust.
The most disturbing aspect
of the whole situation is that
the people ' of Goderich and
Wingham have been deceived
into believing that nothing
could be done to prevent
Clinton being closed.
Had there been co-
operation . between all
Hospitals in Huron County,
with each willing to accept a
share of the cut backs,
Clinton could have remained
as a viable active car
facility.
I would hope that when the
axe falls again in Huron
County, and let's make no
mistake about this, there will
be further cutbacks. that the
people of Huron County will
unite and insist that the
cutbacks be shared by ail.
Doug Coventry,
Clinton, Ontario
Guns
Dear Editor:
As a representative of the
Firearms and Responsible
Ownership Inc., organization,
1 am corresponding here
regarding a matter• of the
greatest urgency- This is in
Sonnection with the Peace &
ecurity legislation, Bill C-83,
which is now in Second
Reading in the House of
Commons. A section of this
bill contains new amend-
ments to the Firearms
Section of the Criminal Code
which, if passed, will contain
all the avenues necessary for.
`putting a swift end tr, .sts
legitimate actittilesoni mor..
than three million law-
abiding, tax -strangled
Canadian firearms -owners.
The implications of this bit
to farmers cannot be un
derestimated, and in thei
interest, we of F.A.R.0. fee
that they should be im
mediately made aware of i
.,,,and of the awesome results i
will most certainly brin
about.
In this connection, I has
written an article on Bili C-
- a copy of which you will fee
enclosed. We are providin
copy of this article to all run
newspapers in Ontario in th
hope that they will print it,
order that farmers can
informed and be aware of t
magnitude of what they
be facing
(continuein dterms on pang'