Clinton News-Record, 1976-06-17, Page 4Sart or lishiest
A. smell boy stood fore bea candy
punter. _His ems were wide, the
goodies so tempting. He had to have
Ow.. A quick look around and into. his
,picket a handful.
A story. so, oke that it hardly bears
reputing` ;What kid hasn't. beam
140M0011 and 9iv0n. into the temptation,
'only t0 suffer the pangs at conscience
• 1111 ,night to the • point where the
candy' became. tasteless. .
'But ther'e's, more as tete United
.. chiirch was told .one Sunday recently
by a pastor who was witness to -the
whole thing. Mom was standing with
-her back to the kid. She turned just as
the dreadful deed was •doese, Her
reaction?
"For heaven's sake, Johnny, don't do
that, a policeman might see you."
Perhaps more than anything that
Illustrates the morality - or lack of. It -
that threatens the very fibre of our
sociefy. Don't do anything dishonest,
unless you'res sure you can get away
with it.
The disease cows. in many names -
ihew morality, situational ethics,
passivity. tolerance - but its face is the
same. Dishonestyis okay as long as
you don't get caught.
SO how does .lohnny i earn? He only
learns to watch far police more closely
,- aiW his 'conscience will cease to Prick
him. After. all.. Dom. pads. the eKpetrst
account, Moth brings home towels:
from the hotel, the other kids cfieat at
school and everyone, thinks they're so
smart. .
:Politicians condone everything but
an open revelation of their actions.
Athletes place winning ahead of all
else.
Anyone who disagrees is dismissed
as an old-fashioned square, a corn!npn
scold. Expediency is the anter of the
day.
The moral fibre of a nation depends
on honesty, integrity and the ability to
distinguish between right and wrong
whether we get caught or not.
And integrity begins in the home.
Strike. '00 - directors .es
Dennis McDermott's recent call for a
general -strike by all Canadian
unionists might very well do what.
organized labor wishes, and that is to
defeat the Trudeau government on the .
issue of wage and price controls. The
Canadian head of the United Auto
Workers said recently that he thought
labor had the will and the ability to
ing off the first official general strike
in nadian history.
• Perhaps it does. The United Church
wonders though if this is the best way
to dramatize the very real opposition --
and in some ways very justified op-
position - that labor . has for wage
controls.
At a time when suspicion with almost
all aspects of public life is at an all-
time high and when tensions between
groups already- is exacerbated, will a
class strike achieve the long-term
stability which will serve labor's ends
as well as those of a l I Canadians?
A general strike would have enor-
mous effects on people already the
hardest-hit victims of inflation - the
-aged, the poor, the minorities, the
disabled and the voiceless. It may well
defeat the Liberals but it will also
heighten ,tensions in a society which
has long prided itself that class dif-
ferentation Was not our way in a multi-
racial, multi -cultural society.
Perhaps the recent decision by the
West German government to place
workers on the boards of directors of
all large firms, chosen by labor and
accepted as equal partners and in
equal numbers with management
would be a more positive step.
Lack of productivity never solved
inflation. Canada,' with the second
highest strike figures ' in the Western
world, does not have a good record of
productivity. The West German idea of
having labor equal to management on
corporation policy-making boards
would give workers the voice they need
in the boardrooms and might ease
class tensions which exist today. At the
same time safeguards against ex-
pl*itation by management would be
guaranteed and a united front to
combat inflation would be mounted by
the two groups most -able to combat it,
labor and management.
And Canadian labor on boards of
directors? What an innovative idea and
what better way ' to Canadianize all
those major U.S. subsidiaries and
other multi -national corporations
which dominate the economy of
Canada.
Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiler
This age is golden
It seems. when one looks around. that the
Great Revolution of the 1960's has petered
out. as most revolutions do. And, as usually
happens after a revolution. the pendulum is
swinging toward conservatism.
The Savage Sixties. featuring a vicious
war in Viet Nam. student uprisings. draft
dodgers. the growth of strident feminism,
and the blossoming of four-letter words in
the mass media. have simmered down into
the Scared Seventies, when inflation and
unernploysnent are the bogey -men.
Most obvious evidence of this is the race
for president in the States. There's not a
liberal in sight. It's like a game of musical
chairs in which every participant is
striving to be a little farther to the right
than the guy who made the last speech.
I'm not entirely unhappy about this swing
of the pendulum. While revolutions often
produce freedom. they also produce ex-
cesses, and that of the Sixties was no ex-
ception.
It produced a violence, a callousness and
a viciousness that was probably un-
paralleled in western civilization's history.
Remembce? The kids were ow drugs. The
parents were on the booze, Cops were
called pigs. Language that would shock a
sailor came out oflhe mouths of babes. It
was fashionable to be filthy if you were
young. Hard rock replaced anything
resembling music to be listened to. Cults of
various degrees of obscenity flourished.
....._Pilluggings multiplied. Hijacking hit the
headlines.
' It Was a nasty. nervous decade for
society to grope through. and as a basically
conservative person. I'm glad it's fading.
• even though it has left a fair bit of detritus
as it ebbs.
Not .11 of it was bad, of course. Many of
the old shibolleths ,were swept away and
replaced by something saner. The social.
political and economic statues of women
took a giant step forward. There was a new
honesty: as much of the stuff our parents
used to 1510114118 under the carpet 'was pulled
out, looked at, squarely, and found to be
merely fisisty, not frightening.
. Th*re was a new and healthy skepticism
toward politicians. culminating in the not
ss ;i eredibk discovery that seam war*
livers. anneal trades, some bods.
Our institutes of higher Learning got a
good shake-up. and their traditional
stuffiness swung toward something verging
on license.
In short. a lot of the phoniness of our
society was exposed for what it was. A lot of
rocks were turned over, and a lot of things
crawled out from under then, and died in
the hard, clear light.
That's all to the good. Every revolution
must crack some eggs to make an omelet.
And every revolution inflicts wounds. some
of them savage.
But society is the sum total of in-
dividuals. And. just as an individual who
has been mugged, knifed. , raped or
otherwise abused. must retire and -tend his
wounds, so must society. There must be a
healing time.
Perhaps the Scared Seventies is such a
time. Certainly there is a trend. Hard rock
music, hoist on its own petard, is being
replaced by country and bluegrass music.
Transcendental meditation is replacing the
acid trip. Most people are fed up with' the
pure pornography that has flourished.
Event that sacred cow, hockey. has turned:'
people off, including aficionados. with the
mindless. but contrived violence of its goon
shows. Hijackers are harried and hunted
down.
Maybe, just maybe, we're in for. a brief
Golden Age. in which the arts will flourish.
revolt; will become a thing of the past,
excellence will be restored as an aspiration
of the young, and children will honor their
parents. But dart hold your breath:-
Maybe.
reath:-Maybe. just maybe, movies will start
• having a plot again. And policemen will be
pals. not pigs. And music will be enjoyable,
not excruciating. And vandalism will
vanish. But don't•hold yoisr breath.
Maybe, just maybe. tows engineers will
go around holding hands and singing, "I
think that I shall never see. A sewer lovely
as a tree." But don't hold yea breath. •
Maybe. just maybe, politicians will start
letting their left hand know what their right
hand is doing, and removelotk hands from
the pockets of the taxpayer. Baat don't hold
your breath.
I't • realist. I don't hold my breath. But
I'M also is optimist. $e, wihatever- it's
w ortlh, welcome to the near Gams* Age.
Odds n fids - by Elaine Townshend
Saga of a city coon
The most exciting "hunt" I've witnessed recently took
place in the wilds of a back yard in London.
It began on a Friday afternoon when my sister's neigh-
bour mentioned in an over -the -fence conversation, "I saw a
coon go into your woodpile last night."
Like a shot. my sister's three kids darted to the small pile.
After shifting a few blocks and peering through some
cracks, they squealed in unison, "I see him! I see him?!"
and managed to drown out their mother's .warning. "Stay
away from -there!"
When their father came home, he took charge by phoning
the humane society. The reply was. "We don't remove wild
animals from city property. Your woodpile has obviously
attracted the coon and probably other rodents as well. Why
don't you move it?" After .a pause, he added, "The only
other solution I can suggest is to hire an exterminator."
The problem of what to do with the raccoon was tem-
porarily shelved, and during supper. the kids were
strangely quiet. In the evening. the oldest boy. Dave. went
for his usual visit to the farm where he boards his riding.
horse. Two hours later he returned with a box trap and two
tins of sardines.
"The trap Wrongs to -my friend. He said I could use it."
Dave answered his parents' silent questions. "The sardines
were on sale. I'll use the sardines for bait. and when the
coon goes in for the sardines. the door'll shut behind him. It
won't hurt him". Finally Dave mustered up the courage to
ask the inevitable. "Can I keep him?" -
"No! He's wild. It would be unkind to cage him." came
the prepared reply..
"Well, if he has babies. can I keep one of them?"
4
"No!"
"Then if I catch him. can I turn him loose somewhere in
the country?"
"That's more like It." `r
After deciding what to do with the coon when he caught
him, Dave set up the trap in the back yard near the wood-
pile. Then he asked his sister to let him try it out on her cat.
"No way!" Jan snorted.
'It won't Must him, and he even gets a sardine."
"T don't want my cat eating your sardines, and I don't
want him in your stupid trap. No way!"
By eleven u'clock, four-year-old Brian was sleeping
upstairs. and Dave was parked at his bedroom window
downstairs scanning the shadowy yard. The rest of us were
watching TV in the rec room next to his bedroom.
Suddenly he thundered past us shouting. "I got him t I got
him! I heard the trap shut. I got him !—
Up the stairs and out the door he raced with his dad and
his sister on his heels. His mother's caution, "Don't scam
the..." was interrupted by the bang of the back door and the
sound of a little voice from down the hall calling, "Mom my.
Mommy, what's goin' on?". -
A few minutes later the three returned; the lather was
chuckling, the sister looked smug and the trapper seemed
sheepish. "It was a cat," he muttered as he shuffled back to
his look -out.
By morning,a second cat had triggered another false
alarm and had eaten half the bait: Meanwhile. the coon
slept in his den.
The "hunt" didn't climax until the second morning, and
next week I'll tell you how the saga of the city coon ended. •
From our early files
• . .
le YEARS AGO
June 23, 1115 '
At a special meeting of 'Clinton
Town Council last Thursday
evening, the building committee
of Clinton and District Com-
munity Centre was given the final
OK to instruct their engineer to
proceed with plans and
specifications for the new centre.
A.E. Kialy and Associates Ltd..
Peterborough is the firm which
has been engaged by the com-
mittee.
Orval M. Jantzi. Zurich. has
been appointed assistant
superintendent of "Huronview".
�CHuron County Home at
nton. it was reported by the
Board of Management. Reeve
Ernest Snell. East Wawanosh,
chairman to Huron County
Council.
The new cenotaph in Clinton
Library Park was officially
dedicated on Sunday afternoon.
Erected the week previous to
November 11. 1965: the cenotaph,
honouring Clinton andarea men
who died in World Wars 1 &
was unveiled at the armistice day
service.
Completion of the multi -
thousand dollar project recently
represents an ins'tesstment by the
Departnt of Nakional Defense
in the cntinued future of elec-
training at Clinton's
dar and Communications
Sc 1. The large white. "golf
ba " Radome'has been given a
ne lease on life. Housed within it
is ` complex, search radar
equi eat upon, which has 'just
been cdmnpleted a major
modernization project including
replacement of the original radar
antenna with a new type in•
corporating latest technology in
the radar. Te:school will now be
able to use the equipment to train
radar technicians for the
Canadian Forces:
Luckwow and Wingham High
School Districts have been
amalgamated undera joint hoard
to be knower as Huron -Bruce High
School District Board.
The Women's Auxiliary of St.
James Anglican Church Mid-
dleton, celebrated its 75th an-
niversary on Friday afternoon of
last week with a special meeting
held in the church. About 60
persons attended the event held
in the historic old church, which
has served as a' landmark and
hallmark in this community
during the past century.
25 YEARS AGO
June 21,1!11
W. Cameron Henry. University
of Western Ontario graduate. son
of William Henry of, Brucefield.
has been granted a Sir Joseph
Ftavelle fellowship valued at
5750. at the University of Toronto.
Under the fewllowship he will
study his Ph.D. in philosophy.
Dr. John A. McIntyre. only son.
of Dr. and Mrs. H. A. McIntyre.
Clinton, graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine. University
of Toronto. Friday last.
Bill Munn, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Munn, Seaforth, has obtained his
private pilot's license from ,the
Department of Transport,
Ottawa nn the completion of a
course at Sky Harbour Aprport,
Godcrich.
Lorne J. Brown, head of Lorne
-Brown Motors Limited, was
installed at the dinner meeting in
St. Paul's Parish Hall. Tuesday
evening of Last week. as president
of Clinton Lion's Club for 1951.52
Huron County Council has
decided to deal with the Canada
Temperance Act,— CTA. an act
which has been in force in Huron
since 191.3 but the Temperance
Federation says that since the
council had nothing to do with
bringing the CTA into three. it
has no place in having it set
aside. Only four counties now
have the• CTA. Council's main
reason for having the Act set
snide is That it is a most un-
satisfactory method of con-
trolling the sale. distribution and
consumption of alcoholic
beverages.
The hydro changeover from 25
to 60 'cycles. in Hensall. was
recently completed.
Clinton Colts were shut, out 5-0
by the Mitchell Legionnaires last
Tuesday evening. Mitchell now
leads the Huron -Perth League in
a tie with Lucan. while the Colts
are ensconsced in fourth place,
tied with Clinton RCAF.
SO YEARS AGO •
Joie 24.1926
The following Clinton students
at the University of Western
Ontario were successful in their
examinations: Miss Eileen
Atkinson, Harry Ball and Charlie
�$hipiey.
The YPS will hold the first
beach party of the season on
Friday night near the south pier.
it is hoped that the members will
all be present and remember to
bring their own cups and spoons.
This year Clinton is to be the
mecca for all followers of the
LOL living in South Huron. North
Huron. and South Perth. We are
fortunate to have the celebration
here as rivalry was keen among
other towns for the privilege.
St. Marys defeated Clinton at
lacrosse. local players being: W.
Fulford. F. Mutch. J. Mutch. W.
Mutch, R. Middleton. N. McNeil.
L. Snazel. C. Fulford N. Cook. K.
Robertson, E.A. Fines. R.
McEwan.
Rev. A.A. Holmes will preach
his final sermons to Wesley -Willis
congregation on Sunday as co-
pastor of the church. Rev. Mr.
Holmes plans to retire after
serving the Methodist(and lat-
terly United) Church for 40 years.
Miss Dorothy Rorke. elder
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.E.
Rorke, graduated from Alma
College last week. having the
honour to head her class and to
win the , Senate prize. a
beautifully bound volume of
Shakespeare's works for
proficiency in senior expression.
Markets were: wheat. 31.30:
oats. 45c to 50c; buckwheat. 70c:
barley. 60c; eggs. 25c to 29c:
butter, 30c to 32c; live hogs. 313.
75 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1111
The cornerstone of the new
Methodist church.t to replace the
present Rattenbury Street
edifice) will be laid by our justly -
popular and highly -esteemed
friend. Mrs. W. Doherty. at 10
a.m. on the 1st of July.
O. Olson will soon have his cold
storage plant ready for the large
supply of produce which he ex-
pects to handle at times. The
place is about 12 x 12 foot apar-
tment and air tight. having long
galvanized pipes to contain the
ice which will make the tem-
perature at about freezing point
or a few degrees above. He can
store away some 7,000 dozen of
eggs or 12.000 lbs. of butter at
once.
The livery business which has
been carried on by Schrenk &
Warrener has been changed.
Owing to A. Schrenk being
connected with the McCormick
Manrg Co. as its implement
agent at Clinton his time will be
fully devoted to it and he has sold
out his interest in the livery
business to R. Warrener. It will
'now be styled and run by
Warrener Bros.. who will be
found -reliable and obliging men
to everyone and will keep first-
class and up-to-date turnouts.
The latest phone added to the
local list was that of Newcom•
be's. No. 96: this now makes 88
phone subscribers.
Today. the 21st. is the longest
day in the year. There will be 15%
hours of sunlight.
The Provincial Commissioner
pf Highways has given publicity
to the expenditures on road
improvements by the various
counties during the ten'years 1889
to 1898. Statute 'labour was
• estimated at 31 per day and upon
this basis the total expenditure in
cash and labour for the ten years
amounted to upwards of
318,000,000, and Lambton was
5500,801. Huron 5311.382: Bruce
1443.279: Grey $800.043 ; Mid-
dlesex 51.064.888; Perth $634.209.
Correction
The News -Record regrets a
mistake in Rose Show ad-
vertisement in last week's
Number six (6) should
read: One Bloom Hybrid Tea,
any other colour; and number
seven•a (7-a) should read:
One Bloom Peace. any other
variety. We regret any in-
convenience Otis has caused.
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• Earthquake
Dear Editors:
The Branch of Earthquake
Tectonics, U.S. Geo:ogisal
Survey is studying three
earthquakes which - had
epicenters in' your county's
general region. We are trying
to ascertain the damage these
'earthquakes caused and just
how far away from the
epicenters these damages
were felt. We have discovered'
that newspaper accounts of
older earthquakes are an
invaluable tool ih making
such judgements.
Therefore. I am requesting
a copy of any information
yourpaper might have
published regarding these
three earthquakes. Anything
recorded is useful, even if
only a few lines' long.
Especially useful are
eyewitness accounts of
earthquake phenomena .-by
citizens and descriptions and,
or pictures of damages.
The three earthgk'hs
are interested in are '
follows: September 4. 194
Earthquake centered in
Massena. New York;
November 18, 1929 - Grand
Banks of Newfoundland
earthquake; February 28.
1925 (March 1. Greenwich
time) St. Lawrence River
region.
Any information you, could
offer will be greatly ap-
preciated. Many of the United
States newspapers which I
have sent this letter to, found
that publishing my letter
generated an enthusiastic
response from the general
public. prompting them to
write recollections of their
own experiences with these
earthquakes. These citizen
reports are very valuable to
us and made for an in-
teresting newspaper story.
Sincerely yours,
Lynn M. Watson
Geologic Field Assistant
U.S. Geological Survey,
Denver Federal Center
S. Denver. Colorado 80225
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encouraged to express their
opinions in letters to the
safer, however, such opinions
de nit necessarily represent
the opinions of the News -
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Pseudonyms may be used
by letter writers. but ne tether
will be published t neess it can
be verified by phone.
Consertatire ?IPP_
says arenas
warned vea r.t atgo.
Jack Johnson. Con-
servative MPP for
Wellington-Dufferin-Peel. i
concerned about the amount
of misinformation
surrounding the closing of,,.
unsafe arenas. He refutes the
"facts" of NDP members
such as Gill Sandeman. MPP
for Peterborough, who stated
in an NDP newsletter of June
8 that: "area townspeople
were not informed until the
winter was well under way of
arena closings'.
"Sandeman should know
better". says Johnson. "The
municipalities were given
seven years advance notice
regarding the closing of
arenas if unsafe conditions
were not alleviated."
Indeed. the Honourable
Bette Stephenson stated in
the Legislature on June 7: "In
1969. municipalities were
warned that their arenas
would not. in .fact, be fit for
human habitation for short
periods of time as a result of
the lack of capability of their
roofs. In 1970. they were
notified: again they were
asked to send in engineers
reports in 1971, 1972 and 1973.
We requested that in-
formation because of our
concern for the public
safety."
"Certain Liberal MPP's
also questioned the closings''..
says Johnson. "With no
„ factual basis, they have been
blatantly arguing that arenas
be left open. in fact.
engineers reports support the
fact that the arenas were not
capable of sustaining heavy
loads of wet snow and the
possible input of high winds."
**Clearly these opposition
members care nothing for t
lives of those involved with
these arenas which have been
declared dangerous. Should
:he Ontario government wait.
until a fatal accident occurs
(continued on $age 7)
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