Clinton News-Record, 1977-10-20, Page 4PAGE 4—CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1977
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Do it now
Many many times in the past,
politicians in Huron County and indeed
most of the residents, have said that we
don't need regional government, that
we can co-operate with each other on a
wide variety of subjects ranging from
health care to library systems. We
have said we can run them ourselves,
much better, and much cheaper than
,any provincial bureaucratic body
could.
And for the most part, we have
proved we can do it, and do it well.
The county runs a host of services in
Huron very efficiently, everything
from social services to sanitary land
fill sites.
But we can't stop now, and stop
progressing. And one example is the
police central radio dispatch system
that is proposed for the five towns in
the County, Seaforth, Wingham,
Exeter, Goderich, and Clinton, all of
whom run their own municipal police
forces.
There has been some agreement' on
the need for the dispatch system for
keeping the police forces in touch with
each other, and with the man on the
beat, but more is needed.
And the sooner the system is put into
effect, the better. It would offer 24-hour
service that is now a necessity in police
work, and it would allow them access
to wide range of services, including a
central computer, and in this day and
age of high speed travel, the police
need all the help they can get in
chasing the increasingly agile
criminal.
Although the initial cost would be
high, about $70,000 for establishing it,
including monitors and radio towers,
the provincial government would pay
75. percent of the cost, through the
Ontario Police* Commission recom-
mendations, and it would cost each of
the , towns $4,135 annually to pay the
five member staff.
Because Ontario Police Commission.
Chairman Elmer Bell is an Exeter
native, and is retiring soon, this would
also seem like a political opportune
time to set up the system.
There- is still some in -fighting bet-
ween Clinton and Goderich as to where
the system' should be located, but to
this untrained observer, a central
location in the county, equal distance
from all the towns would serve all the
best, and that location is Clinton. Not
only is Clinton the centre of the county,
but it is on much higher ground than
Goderich, and the radio signals would
carry to all points better.
Eventually, we would like to see one
central emergency number that people
could call in the case of emergency,
and get police, fire or ambulance
.services. All municipalities could
share iri that one, including the
townships.
Now there are at least three dozen.
different numbers for all the police,
fire departments, and ambulances,
and unless you happen,°for instance, to
know what fire area you are in, a costly
delay in dispatching the proper
department could mean a severe
economic loss, or maybe even a life.
Decision seems wise
It would appear; that the recent
decision of the Perth -Huron Steering
committee ° against formation of a
district health council for the two
counties was a wise one. It also ap-
pears that there is already some doubt
about the merits of such councils even'
among those already organized.
A spokesman for the council which
includes Middlesex and several other
counties to the south has said there is
immediate need for clarification of the
council's power and areas of control.
Someone from yet another health
council has expressed his fear that the
authority and effectiveness of local
hospital boards is endangered.
Doubts of this same nature have
been heard by people who are con-
nected with or well informed about the
operations of regional governments. In
fact the entire concept of regional
control is being seriously questioned
and' the provincial government has
been noticeably quiet about forming
any more regions. - from the Wingham-
Advance
Sugar and Spice/By Bill Smiler
Ah, Women
There is something delightfully in-
consistent about most women which can
make strong men moan and gnashtheir
teeth but .provides a certain amount of
inadvertent hilarity to those of us who have
given up long ago.
After years of blowing every nickel we
made, the old battleaxe and I decided to
start saving some money for our old age.
Neither of us will make it; I because tIfe
old corpus will likely cash its ticket before
that time, and she because she'll never
grow old. But it seemed a good idea at the
time.
I had no idea what it would lead to. But it
did. First thing I noticed was that it cut
down severely on my extra -curricular
activities.
"Hey, sweetie, is it OK if I join the poker
club this fall? They need me. They play so
many old women's games that they want
someone to teach them how to play real
poker. It would practically be the same as
teaching.night school."
"Bill, you know perfectly well the answer
is no. We can't afford it, We're trying to
save money, not throw it away."
No use reminding her that on the couple
of occasions I played with these infants of
the game I came home with so many
quarters in my right-hand pocket she
thought I'd broken a leg as I limped in the
door.
"Uh, dear, there's to be an old fighter
pilot's reunion in Edmonton this October.
Golly, it would be kinda nice to sneak away
for a few days and see some of the old..."
"What do you do at those reunions?
Besides tell lies and drink?"
"Well there's a whole program.
Speeches. A dance. Wives are invited.
Howja like to go? They're a great bunch.
Guys'll be there from all over Canada and
the States. Australia. Britain. We didn't do
a thing all summer. Let's get away from .it
all."
"From what all? You mean from me.
You know I wouldn't be caught dead at a
fighter pilots' reunion. A bunch of boozy old
men standing around, half -pickled, waving
their hands in the air. What would it cost?"
"Well, there's just the air fare. And the
hotel. And the convention fee. And a few
odds and sods. For the two of us, it would
come to only about $700. And if you were
sure you didn't want to come, I could make
it alone for $500."
Stony silence. Not a word, a gesture of
encouragement. She went off, rather tight
around the lips, to watch TV. I sat and
pawed rather wistfully through the reunion
literature. Next day, when I came home
from work, •it had all disappeared. There
was amman Piet of ashes in the fireplace.
But that's not all our saving binge has
affected. I'm not that, selfish. I'm not going
to kick up a fussjust because my social life
has been wiped out s� that I can have a
hamburger and a half, instead of splitting
one, when I'm an old dodderer,
No, there's a lot more. My wife, in her
zeal to save money, has started reading the
food ads for the first time in her life.
Could any of my readers use 20 pounds of
flour? The old"lady uses approximately five
pounds a year, for frying fish and stuff. The
other day, be 'ause it was half price, she
bought a 25 -pound bag. It sits in the kitchen,
moved from one location to another, like
one of the seven dwarfs sleeping off a
hangover.
The house is filling up with bargains. She
bought 12 ,cans of peas at 30 per cent off. We
never eat canned peas, preferring the
frozen ones. We'll never get rid of them
unless she makes a massive canned -pea
casserole and invites all our friends to
dinner. We would then have no friends.
Yesterday she came in gleefully and
dumped a whole bag full of razor blades in
my lap. Half price! By the time I get half
way through them, an orderly will be
shaving me in some Sunset Heaven.
I go into the bathroom and literally
stumble and fall over sticks of roll-on
deodorant which are spilling out of the
drawers. There was a special on them, and
we have enough to pass a few along to our
eventual undertaker.
Any day now, I'm expecting a truck to
drive up to the back door andunload half a
ton of potatoes, because they are .10 per
cent offe.when bought in bulk.
Open the freezing compartment iris; the
fridge to get 'a couple of ice cubes, and you
are liable to be brained by an avalanche of
frozen hamburg, 10 pounds of it at 45 cents
a pound, wrapped in half -pound packages.
That's 40 hamburgers. I eat about four a
year, grudgingly.
I was thinking of having some brickwork
done on my house this year. But bricks ire
expensive. I think I'll use frozen margarine
instead. We got a great buy on it: 37 cents a
pound, and we have 82 pounds in the
basement.
We have two beaten -up old cars. It was
always a decision: which one should go in
the garage. No more problems. Now they
both stay out on the street. The garage is
full of turnips, squash, vegetable marrow
and cabbage, every one a -bargain.
There's no question. We're saving money
right and left. And just the other day, my
wife announced the coup de grace. If we
move quickly, we can get a terrific deal on
a new dining room suite. It's been knocked
down from $1,800 to $1,500.
Any readers who are having trouble
saving money ii1 these troublous times need
only drop a line. At Smileys', The Price Is
Right.
"Guess what? We're five . to ten years ahead o
our time.
EDMoON7
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Odds 'n' ends - by Elaine Townshend
Musical messages
Do you remember the musical
questions "Does Your Chewing Gum
Lose It's Flavour On The Bedpost
Overnight?" Do You Know The Way to
San Jose?" and "What Goes On When
The Sun Goes Down?"? Some song titles
are confusing, such as "Walking My Cat
Named Dog," "Looking In To See What
Condition My Condition Was In" and
"My Girl, Bill." -
A song has been written for every
'aspect of life. For example, truck stops'
are immortalized in "The Old Home Fill
'er Up And Keep On A Truckin' Cafe,"
and in "Bill Jones' General Store, if we
ain't got it, you don't need it."
Food seems to be a popular subject.
Breakfast is referred to in "Milk And
Honey And Captain Crunch And You In
The Morning," and "The Roots Of My
Raisin' ,Run -Deep" was inspired by the
composer's favourite cereal.
The Beatles sang about "Strawberry
Fields, Forever," and Johnny Cash
admitted, "I. ate all that strawberry
cake."
Life is likened to a lemon tree:
"Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon
flower is sweet; but the fruit of the poor
lemon is impossible to eat."
Everyone needs help at one time or
another: "Help Me Make It Through The
Night," "Please Help Me I'm Falling
and "I'll Get By With A Little Help From
My Friends."
A problem, such as "Satin sheets to lie
on; Satin pillows to cry on; Still I'm not
happy; Don't you see?" might be an-
swered with another song, "Slide off of
your satin sheets; Slip into your long,
soft mink."
Do you remember the songs about
romance and mobility? First, there was
"Love And Marriage, goes together like
a horse and carriage." Then there was
"A Bicycle Built For Two" and "Come
Away With Me Lucille In- My Merry
Oldsmobile."
, Now, there is a new twist: "I've got
the hoss and she's got the saddle; we're
gonna ride side by side."
Who says the romance has gone out of
pur music? Of course,' some situations
don't work out. For example, "You
picked a fine time to leave me Lucille,
with four hungry children and a crop in
the field."
Leave it to a Canadian to do a take -off
on that hit: "You picked a fine time to
leave me Margret, with three hungry
children and I'm lbsing Quebec; ' Sure
I've got Horner, but I can't hold Horner.
What do you mean by 'I bet!"? You
picked a fine time to leave ' me,
Margret."
Sorr'e songs express the opposite
sentiment; "Thank God and Greyhound
You're Gone" and "If You Won't Leave
Me, I'll Find Someone Who Will."
One song sums up a fact of life:
"We're all making the best of a bad
situation.'.'
The first verse goes like this: "I know
,a lady, a mighty fine lady; her husband
worked so hard he lost his mind, he
thinks he's a chicken.
• I saw him the other day just a scrat-
chin' and a peckin' in the yard. Well, it's
none 'of my business. But I asked the
'lady if she ever thought about takin' him
to a doctor. ", 'I've thought about that,'
she said, `,But he don't do no harm. And
he don't eat much, just a little chicken
feed. . . Heaven knows, we can use the
eggs.'
"She's just making the best of a bad
situation. Reckon I'd do the same if it
were me."
From our early files .
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5 YEARS AGO
October 19, 1972
Ian Gibb. of Clinton hurled a
snowball at the News -Record
photographer Tuesday afternoon,
October 17 to celebrate the first
snowfall of the season. The storm
dumped more than half a foot of
wet snow on Clinton and district
leaving some roads slippery and
many children happy. Bean ana
corn growers weren't too happy
though, as the weather set the
already late harvest back
another week.
There will be four candidates
on the ballots voters will mark on
October 30th , -
When nominations closed last
week four candidates had
qualified. They were T. Edward
Bain, Fitter, 150 Quebec St.;
Goderich, official agent, Barbara
Campbell. student, Goderich;
Robert E. McKinley, farmer and
businessman, RR1 Zurich, of-
ficial agent, Kenneth Parkes,
farmer, RR1 Varna; Charles H.
Thomas, farmer,' Brussels, of-
ficial agent, Ivan Kalbfleisch,
retired, Zurich; Mrs. Shirley
Weary, teacher, 216 Wellington
St., Goderich, official agent,
Herbert ' Klopp, - farmer, RR3
Zurich. -
According to Huron returning
officer Garnet Hicks, there are
36,620 names on the voter's list,
almost 6,000 more than were
eligible to vote in 1968.
Miss Catherine Hunt, Home
Economist for Huron County
presented a certificate to Jayne
Snell, RR1 Londesboro, who was
named winner of ' the Huron
County's Women's Institute
bursary at a WI rally in Auburn
last week. Jayne , daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Snell is
presently studying home
economics at the University of
Guelph.
JO YEARS AGO
'October 19, 1967
Provincial treasurer Charles
McNaughton was a two to one
shoe -in in the provincial election
in Huron County Tuesday.
At latest count before press
time, Mr. McNaughton had
• polled 8,343 to Liberal candidate
Dr. G. Morgan Smith's 3,723
votes. NOP candidate John C.
Boyne, trailed with 1,340.
Mr. McNaughton has
represented the riding since 1957.
He held a steady lead throughout
as the returns came in but ran
into trouble in a few isolated
polls, where the vote was close.
Official opening for Huron
Centennial School just south of
Brucefield takes place tomorrow
evening, Friday, October 20. On
hand to take part in the
ceremonies will be the Hon.
William G. Davis, Minister of
Education and University Affairs
for Ontario.
There is every indication that
there is a bold catnapper at work
in town.
Last week on Friday 13, a four-
month -old cat was reported
missing by its owner, Mr.
Rempel. Story goes that the
sleek, black pussy was seen last
as.it was admired and stroked by
a passing pedestrian.
Mr. Rempel has ruled out the
possibility that the feline left
home in search of "com-
panionship" because. the animal
was not at the "tom-catting
stage."
If the cat has actually be en-
ticed away; it was undoubtedly
the act of a cat lover who
assumed the animal was lost or
abandoned. Still, to pick up a
black cat on Friday 13, takes a
special kind of bravery, worthy of
mention.
25 YEARS AGO
October 23, 1952
One of Huron County's town-
ships now 'has the distinction of
being the only township in
Ontario to have a legible name on
every mailbox, Usborne
Township, way down there to the
south of us. The Junior Farmers
of that township undertook as
their project, the task of painting
every mailbox and of attaching
metal nameplates on each one.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Graham,
Brucefield, were married at the •
home of the bride's parents on
Saturday, October 4. The bride is
Betty Ann,' only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, Clarence Parke, Zurich.
Her husband is the youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Goldie Graham,
Brucefield.
The newly formed Kinette Club
appointed its officers: president,
Mi� Jean Iansofi; vice-
president, Mrs. Irene Buckley;
secretary, Mrs, ybil Fletcher;
treasurer, Mrs. Mary Brown;
registrdr, Mrs. Patricia Gregg;
program, Mrs. Evelyn Speaight
and Mrs. Shirley Kay; bulletin
editor, Mrs. Betty Sorrell. 1
Operating in conjunction with
the Clin, nn Kingronri f 1uuh,
Kinettes will meet every second
Monday night. Their aim it to do
community service work.
Sidewalk improvements on
Victoria Street certainly help
walking conditions. Time was,
when one could hardly trust one
foot to know where the other was
going, but had to keep a close eye
on each of them. People were
mistaken for deep thinkers. They
trudged along, making numble
sidesteps when necessary and
hardly had time to say "hello" to
a friend.
50 NEARS AGO
October 20, 1927
Have you procured lights for
your horse-drawn vehicle yet? If
not, you may be getting into
trouble, if not with the police then
with somebody's power -driven
conveyance. That little point of
light will be a great protection to
you.
The last issue of "Shoe and
Leather Journal" carried an
article about Mayor Fred
Jackson and a picture of him
taken in a merry mood, The
writer tells Mr, Jackson's
methods of salesmanship, -etc'.,
and also recounts some of the
stories which Mr. Jackson keeps
in the back of his mind regarding
early days.
The Journal also reproduces a
qouple of advertisements which
originally appeared in the News -
Record as "samples of the kind of
advertising that has helped to
keep business coming to
Jackson's store.
The euchre and dance given by
theClinton Fire Company on
Thursday was well attended and
those who were present voted it a
success. Cards were played until
about eleven, when refreshments
were served and the floor was
cleared for dancing which was
kept up until after midnight.
At the Star Theatre, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday - October
27, 28, and 29, The Campus Flirt.
Yes, sir. Here's our Bebe, the
Comic Campus Flirt, featuring
Bebe Daniels.
Hallowe'en supper in the
Presbyterian Church on
Tuesday, November 1 from 5 to 8
o'clock under the auspices of the
Ladies Auxiliary. The menu will
be cold roast dressed pork, jellied
chicken, scalloped potatoes,
salads, pickles, rolls. pumpkin
pie and whipped cream, lemon
pie and coffee. Adults 50 cents -
children 35 cents.
The following appeared in last
week's issue of the Goderich
Signal regarding a recent ap-
-pointment by the Clinton town
council: "Mr. Charles V. Cooke,
formerly sexton of Maitland
cemetery, who removed some
months ago to Clinton where he
has been carrying on a florist's
business, has been appointed
caretaker of the cemetery there.
The Clinton people are to be
congratulated upon securing the
services of a man so capable and
painstaking as Mr. Cooke proved
himself to be while in charge of
cemetery here."
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What
you!
think
Speedy
Dear Editor:
We have been receiving the
Clinton News -Record for
some time now and the mail
service has been quite good,
generally receiving our copy
on the following Saturday .or
Monday via our rural
delivery which arrives at out"
home at 10 am.
But today, October 14, we
hit the jack -pot. We received
the October 13 issue in this
morning's delivery.
For your information, wee
live 270 miles from Clinton
which makes this "`'delivery._.
practically impossible, -
However, I am enclosing
the "Mast Head" from your
paper including the date in
proof of same.
Keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Hyatt,
RR1, Picton, Ontario
(Editor's note: The post
office deserves all the
credit! )
Roy
Dear Editor:
Just a reminder to you from
the Roy Jewell Appreciatio
Night Committee, that the
night of October 20th is
rapidly approaching.
Our committee hopes that
any friends of Roy, either*
individuals or organizations,
that wish to participate in
supporting the fund, will do so
before -that night, and it will
be especially appreciated by
the committee if the donation
could be received by our
Treasurer, Mr. Derek
Newton, Middlesex County
Building, 367 Ridout Street,
North, London, Ontario, N6A
2Pi, by Friday, October 14th.•
If , you have already
responded to our request, we
extend our thanks.
It would be appreciated if
cheques or money orders
could be made out to "The
Roy Jewell Fund."
Also, the ticket committee
would appreciate that if your
organization would like to
have some tickets for your
members, if these could be
obtained from your county
Agricultural office as soon as
possible. The sale of tickets *
has to be reported by your
County Agricultural Office to
the Chairman of the ticket
committee, by Thursday,
October 13th because of
catering guarantees.
Apart from the main
purpose of this being an
evening of appreciation for
Roy Jewell, it certainly will 40
be an evening of enjoyment
and fellowship, with an ex-
cellent dinner topped by
dancing to the Lionel Thor-
nton Orchestra.
You co-operation and
interest in this project is
greatly appreciated by the
committee, and we certainly
will be pleased to hear from
you.
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