Clinton News-Record, 1979-05-17, Page 4PAGE 4--CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1979
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Chemical suicide
For a million years or so, human,
beings have been developing their
bodily defences against the earth's
natural hazards -- things Iike
smoke, dust, disease, decay, and
various kinds of predators and
parasites. Those who were less
able to. survive didn't. Those who
were better equipped to survive
passed on their strengths to their
descendants.
But now, in a single lifetime,
defences built up over untold
generations have been rendered
useless. They have been bypassed,
by a ,host of new hazards. Dr.
Donald Chant, vice-president of the
University of Toronto and founder
of Pollution Probe, stated that
there are now about 150,000 man-
made chemicals in the world and
new ones are being added every
year. "Yet we know precious little
about most of them," he said.
"Some of them may be as deadly as
DDT."
In addition, each , of .these new
chemicals contains impurities
about which we -'know absolutely
nothing, Dr. Chant stated not
even what most otthese impurities
may be, let alone their effect on
human life and the world as a
whole.
And however these substances
are used, in the end they are
dumped, or escape into the en-
vironment, filtering their way into
the food we eat, the water we drink
and the air we breathe.
So, should civilization give up on
'progress?' Should we go back to
the caves? No. But we can and
should 'demand greater maturity
from our business and scientific
communities.
We ought to view the years since
the Industrial Revolution as a kind
of adolescence. Like a teenager
risking a lifetime as a cripple for a
few minutes of- thrills, we
recklessly filled our ' skies with
ashes, our' rivers with pulp mill,
wastes, and our lakes with. toxic
:trickles from mines.
It's time we grew up.
Unfortunately,' in the present
situation, each individual -cannot
simply look;• fter .his or -her own
safety. We are too dependent on the
actions of others. We should expect
-- we should demand -- that. those
who produce the new chemicals
will test them for risks, beyond any
doubt, and will have enough...sense
of. responsibility to control what
they use.
It's the least one can expect from
adults.—Unchurched Editorial
"The doctor cured my insornnia — he's got me following the election campaign,"
« » Call his name and Herbie comes
Herbie not boaring running, his stubby legs almost trip-
ping over each other, his nose in the air
wondering what's up and his wiry tail
wiggling.
His eyes are big, bright, and full. of
curiosity and a touch of mischief.
Nothing escapes his notice. His ,dusty
nose always seems to be searching for
food. .
One pink ear flops forward; the other
flops backward. Both perk up at the
sound of rustling feed, an opening door
or a friendly voice.
He'll stand beside you, as long as you
scratch behind his floppy ears, and he
won't even complain if you tug them
playfully.
You'll be his friend for life, if you rub
his tummy when he rolls`bv'er. `Initially
rolling over was a trick taught by an
ambitious human, but Herbie soon
discovered he could use it to get a
tummy rub from almost any
u=nerable hufnan.
Herbie is a normal playful, three-
month -old pig who thinks he's a pup.
Herbie was the smallest in a litter of
piglets born last winter. (The word
'.'runt!' isnever used in reference to
Frail little Herbie was not expected
to live long, especially after his mother
stepped on his leg and left him with a
permanent limp.
He was allowed to roam the barn at
will. His curiosity led him to make
friends easily, and he became ac-
customed to human companions.
Everyone marvelled at his stubborn
will to live, and Herbie became the talk
of the stable.
He seemed to thrive on the attention
and the coddling, not to mention the
extra chop he managed to sneak from
the bin each day.
Although still small for his age,
Herbie has become healthy and
rambunctious. He isn't quite as
friendly as he used to be, perhaps it's
just because he's growing older or
because of the influence of other swine
that have been brought into the barn.
The-- farmer ,sold Her to • his
granddaughter; after all, he couldn't
sell him to just anyone.
No one mentions the words "sold" or
"owned" in front of Herbie. He might
remembering
our past
Herbie for fear of offending him.)
be sensitive aoout that; he thinks he's
king of the corn crib.)
His new owner plans to raise him for
breeding purposes. If she can't keep
him, she hopes to sell him to someone
who will appreciate Herbie's unique
qualities.
Herbie isn't just any old hog. He
reminds me of Arnold of TV fame.
Remember the situation comedy of
several years ago called Green Acres?
Its reruns have been popping up on the
tube lately.
A city couple moved to a farm, and
their- _ neighbour had a pig named
Arnold that watched TV from his
favourite chair in the living room. He
even turned the set on and off.
Herbie hasn't 'learned ' to handle
switches, yet, and I don't think he's
even, seen a•television. But he's young;
he can learn. Most people, who know
him, claim.._Herbie: already has. more
Can't vote
Dear Editor:
If the way the enumerating has been
conducted for this coming election is
any example of the way Canada is
being run. from Ottawa, it is no wonder
the country is in such a mess.
Here in Clinton, whole streets of
people are not on the voters' lists.
Many of these people have lived here
for years, some of them all their lives.
No enumerator called on them or
telephoned them. Those who tried to
find out in time whether or not they
were on the list had to make as many as
six phone calls, taking up a minimum
of an hour of their time, often a great
deal more,. in order to discover who
their'enumerator was and where their
particular list was posted. The voter
should not have to go to these lengths of
responsibility. to verify his or her right
to vote.
Why can't the complete list for
Clinton be posted in the Town Hall and
in the Post Office? And why can't rural
lists be posted in the township clerk's
office? Why is that so many.people who
are listed have no street adresses, just
"Clinton?"
At that, Clinton voters, and all those
in the Huron -Bruce riding, except those
living in Goderich, can still vote on
May 22 if they can find someone else in
their poll who is listed to go with them
to vote and vouch for their identity.
Anyone in a community of over 5,000
(Goderich - and London, Sarnia,
Toronto, where large omissions from
the lists have also been reported) is
unable to vote if they were not on the
list and didn't find out in the brief
period allowed.
I was out of town during the week the
enumeration took place, and I am
going to be away on „May 22. Last
Thursday, I went to both the Con-
servative and , Liberal Committee
rooms where I found out neither I nor
anyone on my street was on the voter's
list. The Liberal Committee people
phoned the electoral officer in Exeter
and phone calls were made to Ottawa
as well. I am unable to vote at the
advanced.pall, or even by. prox.y... I .have •
lived in my present home eight years
and in Clinton for 33 years. Why won't
anyone believe I exist?
How can, this election be, a valid one,
with -so :many people:- entttred :.toJ'rte-
�cbaras ct r. th'tn Arnold, arzcl_h s.ciro.opy unahle't6do'so
. - -.
earcertainly give him an un- .
forgettable face. Yours sincerely,
Who knows? Herbie the hog from Mrs. M.G. Bell,
Ontario Canada could be Hollywood's Maria St.,
nextg i star. Clinton
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a look through
the news -record files
5 YEARS AGO
May 9, 1974
A Clinton man, Gordon Duern of Rat-
tenbury Street, has come up with a plan for
a new town hall for the Town of Clinton that
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sugar and spice
Year of the child?
So this is the Year of the Child. Well,'
you can have it. And them. Our society
is -breaking up fast. First, in the 60s, the
teenagers, took over. They got into
drugs and politics and violence and
dropping out and corn-munes and health
food and free loveandripping-off the
government and driving their parents
to drink and depression.
Then we got into Women's Liberation
Movement. Raucous and intelligent
women trying to upset a perfectly good
system ..that has been working well, on
the w)iole, `l'or about 20,000 years. We
should never have given them the vote
back in '21 or whenever,
They have wrecked family life,
population growth, and the economy by
their ridiculous demands. They have
psycholgically castrated their
husbands and turned the occasional kid
they had into a whining brat who thinks
that love and whatever else. he wants
are more important than a good whack
on the bum.
They have sent the unemployment
rate soaring by sailing into the job
market in their hundreds of thousands.
Just because they have high skills or a
university degree, they think and say,
quite openly and without shame, that
they should be considered on the same
level as, or even higher than, a Grade
10 dropout male who can barely tie his
shoelaces. Sheer arrogance.
They have wrecked the educational
system by refusing to ramiain baby
factories. This has caused rapidly
falling enrollment in our schools and a
lack of jobs for male teachers, whose
wives are among the worst .examples of
tiny families and hitting the job
market.
And now it's the year of the kids.
There are series on child -battering in
the papers, articles about one -parent
children, and even child symposiums in
which the little turkeys are asked to
tom'ti'tent on how their parents should
behave, what's wrong with the world,
what freedoms they should have, and
any othet inane question a smarmy,
patronizing interviewer can think up.
We are smothered by stuff from the
media about children: day-care cen-
tres, inner city schools (slums), special t
education, gifted children, obscene T-
shirts for kids. We are harassed and
harangued by, pAests who have never
had a child and social worke up to
their ears in: stale psy,chiat and
' politicians who know that kid can't
vote, but grab the coat-tails of any
issue that receives media attention.
And -what good is all this going to do
the kids? Not much. They'll go right on
doing .,what they've always done:
dreaming, fighting, playing: being the
happy, morose, belligerent, shy,
cruel, gentle, brilliant, slow, and ut-
terly delightful little animals they've
always been.
In"Canada they'll be overfed, over -
spoiled and over here. In Africa they'll
be over -starved, over -populated and
over there. And in both places they'll be
over -loved With that weird, irrational
love of v6hildren that prevails
throughout the world, civilized or
uncivilized.
Oh, a few laws might be passed, and
many resolutions approved. But the
drunken mother or father who beats a
child will go on doing so. The ultra -
permissive parents will go on turning
out monstrous teenagers. The over-.
protective parents will go on turning
out still more monstrous teenagers.
But the great mass of kids in this
Year of the Children will be much like
every other generation : curious,
resentful of things that they don't
understand, ready to fight to death for
ideals, gradually conforming and
compromising to the realities of life,
and going on to become monstrous
parents themselves.
Now I don't speak from the seat of
the Old Philosopher, or any such
hypocritic elevation. I recently had a
visit from ^` my Grandboys, I speak
firsthand.
It was Easter weekend, and we're
still scraping chocolate off the wood-
work and picking up squashed jelly-
beans and ripped rabbits' ears.
But it was a great weekend. That
marvellous alchemist, Time, has
wrought a great change in them. They
are becoming personal friends, instead
of sibling rivals.
The destruction"was down about 800
per cent. True, Nickov kicked a ball
nto a collection of Doulton figurines,
but nothing was broken, I took the ball
away, and he didn't even have a tan -
rum.
But the TV is still working. A few
doorknobs are missing, but not all *of
them, as on previous visits. They can
eat without bibs, though Balind did get
about 80 grams of relish and ketchup
down his front when mangling .a hot
clog,.
However, he's only two and has a
grin that would disarm the devil. And
he said something that so shook me
that I went down in a faint, and my old
lady had to pick me up. I'd plunked a
peanut -butter and honey sandwich in
front of him, and he said, "Thank you,
Grandat," as casually as though I were
a waiter. I'd never heard either of them
say "Please" or "Thank you" before.
They didn't sprinkle even one can of
powder, mixed with toothpaste, on the
hardwood floors. They didn't break a
single window. They didn't annoint the
TV with cold cream. They took off their
muddy boots when they came in, in-
stead of marching over the Indian rug.
And when I said, "Don't wreck my
typewriter," or something of the sort,
they didn't blurt, ":..you,"; they said,
"OK, Grandat," or something of the
sort.
Maybe this Year of the Children has
something going for it, a whole lot more
than Sixties Sulks or Women's Lib
Nerve -Wracking.
But when is the Year of the Man? I
hope I'm around long enough to enjoy
it.
Solomon
Dear Editor:
The wisdom of Solomon, (which is
really the, wisdom of God) declares, As
a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.
(Pro 23:7).
That is to say that if a man or woman
or young person consistently thinks
proud thoughts, it will only be a matter
of time until pride will manifest itself in
the things he says or does. The same
principle applies to one who thinks in
rebellion, or perversion or per-
missiveness, or lawlessness or un -
thankfulness. These are just a few of
the negative results. On the other hand,
a man that has been taught to think
humbly, will result in a humble tt an,
or one taught not to tell lies, will end up
a truthful man,
What is taught in our schools today is
making a deep impression on the
hearts and minds of our young people.
Continual exposure to the wrong kind
he says is completely functional, would cost
no more than an ordinary building, but
would blend in perfectly with the present
architecture of the main street".
Loss is estimated at $50,000 as a result of a
fire which levelled a' barn on the farm of
David Brock of RR R 2, Hensall on Monday
night.
Clinton will definitely move up to Junior C
hockey, it was annot need last Friday night
when the Clinton Junior D hockey Mus"tangs
held their end of the year banquet in Clinton.
Don Kay,.a,member of the executive of the
'club, told about 60 hockey players and
guests that the club would be moving up to
the C hockey next year and were looking
forward to the advancement.
Falling into bog didn't stop Rick Meyer
from Clinton Public School from enjoying
his pork chop during lunch break last
Thursday along the Maitland Line. Rick was
part of the Grade 6 and 7 classes who were
out for a day of orienteering.
10 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1969
The Stanley Township Council this week
approved plans to install 10 mercury vapor
street lights in Varna.
Goderich Township has been notified by
provincial authorities that the township's
open dump is being operated in violation of
Ontario laws which prohibit open burning of
rubbish.
The township agreed to ask fora permit to
allow month-to-month operation of the dump
until some other disposal site is found.
Huron County Board of Education Mon-
day night named G.O. Phillips, present
vice-principal at Central Huron Secondary
School, as principal of F.E. Madill Secon-
dary School in Wingham.
After 15 Years without an across-the-board
electrical rate increase, the Clinton Public
Utilities Commission will boost hydro bills
by eight per cent, starting in July.
Two lieutenants in Clinton's fire depar-
tment, Hec Kingswell and Gord Dalgliesh
have been appointed by the provincial fire
marshal's office as fire prevention officers
for the town and received identification
cards from Fire Chief Grant Rath.
25 YEARS AGO
May 13,1954
Property on the south side of Rattenbury
Street between Albert and Orange Streets
has been purchased by the Bell Telephone
Company of Canada for the eventual con-
struction of a dial telephone exchange to
serve Clinton.
The property, which has a frontage of 68
feet, was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. W.B.
Seeley of Clinton.
Miss Elizabeth Falconer, a pupil of Grade
8 at Clinton Public School, was adjudged the
hest speaker at the zone finals of the
Canadian Legion public speaking contest
of ideology will turn our country into a
Sodom or Gomorrah in one generation.
So parents we should pay attention
not only to what is being taught, but
also the manner in which it is taught.
We are the ones responsible for our
children. Let us therefore be sure that
we train up our children the way that
they should go and then rest assured
that when they are old they will not
depart from it.
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Remaining truly,
E.A. Sherwood,
RR 5, Goderich.
held here in Clinton last Friday.
Bert Gliddon was elected chairman of the
Clinton and District Chamber of Commerce
at the first meeting of the newly -appointed
directorate, held in the council chamber.
Mr. Gliddon is not a newcomer to the work
of the Chamber, having been on the original
directorate in 1947 when the Clinton
Chamber was first formed.
50 YEARS AGO
May 9, 1929
They have come! Colored hats for men
are here! Have you met any of the l? No
longer are the young men going to allow the
girls to monopolize the bright colors, they
are going to share, at least in gay -hued
raiment. They have started with hats, where„
it ends remains to be seen.
The foundation of the New Stevenson -
Harris knitting mill, Albert Street, is being
laid and the building begins to take shape.
A meeting of Hydro men was held in the
Hydro Shop, Clinton, yesterday, in the in-
terests of safety first, or first aid. There
were 14 or 15 present, representing the
adjacent towns.
M. Jordan complained to Clinton Council
that he had been paying too high a license
fee for his picture house. It was moved by
Councillors Thomspon and Cooper that this
matter be left to the financial committee to
investigate.
Transportation service, long distance -
short distance. For engagements phone S.R.
McMath, Holmesville, -601r34, Clinton,
Central, Oliver Pocock, operator, 610r42,
Clinton, Central.
The paving of the London Road from
Kippen to above Brucefield is in full swing, -
and the hydro men are equally busy wiring
the same road. The farmers can now enjoy
as many comforts as their city friends with
hydro in their homes.
75 YEARS AGO
May 12, 1904
Court Selwood C.O.F. intend holding an
ice cream social on June 10 on Mr, W.
Stanley's lawn in Holmesville. The Citizen's
Band of Clinton will be in attendance. Paste
up the date so you won't forget it for it will
be one of the events of the season.
Mr. J.P. Tisdall, the only automobilist in
Huron, has exchanged the machine he has
been using the past two seasons for a new
one. The new purchase is an improvement
over the old auto and Mr. Tisdall is looking
forward to many a pleasant run during the
season.
We are glad to see that our friend, Mr.
Harry Thompson, has taken the advice of
the sages and joined the benedicts settling
down on his farm on the 16th concession last
week. May many years of happiness and
prosperity be the lot of himself and bride.
100 YEARS AGO
May 15, 1879
The business men and others in town have
subscribed a sufficient sum to pay for the
sprinkling of the streets, Kennedy's
sprinkling wagon was brought out yester-
day, and did service in settling the dust in
the 'business part of town. We believe it will
he used during the summer season.
The publishers of Belden's Atlas of the
County of Huron, announce that it is nearly
completed, and that their agent will corn-
, mence the delivery of the same in a very
short time.
Two persons engaged in a general rough-'
and -tough fight a few evenings since. It is a
shame that aged men have to sett! their
disputc�rt in this mariner.
Served me well
Dearyditor:
I wish to cancel my subscription to
the Clinton News -Record.
It has served me well during the past
four years and I will continue to pur-
chase copies when I am in Bayfield
each year and visiting the Clinton area.
My cancellation is not a reflection of
a fine newspaper, 'but a financial
evaluation of the increased rate as it
applies to me, a U.S. resident.(Editor's
U.S. subscription is now $30
because of the high mailing costs.)
You will be' missed by this reader.
The editorial page and the Bayfield
Bugle were my favorites. Dedicated
writers and a fine editor made these
pages ,come alive. Keep up tb.e,.ggdd
work. The columns were exceptionally
good.
So you see, I'm losing a lot of old
friends, your writers.
My congratulations to you, Jim
• Fitzgerald, for featuring pictures and
stories on the positive side of young
people..
If I may, in parting, add one or two
comments: continue to feature
anything that deals with the history of
Bayfield and the surrounding areas;
seek and encourage more ad-
vertisments from local area
businesses, including shops,
restaurants, theatres, etc.
Your paper is serving an area that is
well worth promoting. You are doing a
great job.
Sincerely,
Eileen' Glass,
Evansville, Indiana
Cops are tops
Dear Editor:
The national theme for Police Week
this year is:. "Working Together to
Prevent Crime".
There are three major objectives
shared by all law enforcement agen-
cies: to keep the peace; the prevention
of crime; and the detection and ap-
prehension of criminals.
Each is an integral part of the law
enforcement objective, requiring a
delicate balance acceptable to the
social climate. Any imbalance in these
goals has an immediate -effect on the
concerns of the police and the public.
It is imperative that the citizens we
serve have a greater understanding of
our role and their. share of respon-
sibility for maintaining a safe and
healthy community in which we live.
To further this goal, I extend a
personal invitation to everyone to visit
any of our 190 detachments during
Police Week.
Members of the force will be on hand
to discuss these matters fn an informal
atmosphere.
.. H. H. Graham,
Com inistiioner,
OPP
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