Clinton News-Record, 1979-07-12, Page 4O
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Lotteries gone berserk
Canada- recorded its first known
lottery -related fatality recently when
32 -year-old Newfoundlander Gerald
Roberts, an alcoholic, died after ap-
parently consuming too much booze.
Roberts, who left a wife and three
boys, became a millionaire little more
than a year ago when his numbers
came up in the Loto Canada draw..
"While Roberts' sad demise is perhaps
-unimportan°t in the ._overall scheme of
things, it raises questions about the
•methods Canada's bureaucrats turned
hucksters are using to'flog their lottery
wares across the nation, says Roger.
Worth, director of .:Public Affairs;
Canadian Federation of'- Independent
Business.
Here's' Bonanza veteran Lorne
Greene, for example; :front and centre
, on the national television network,
cajoling Canadians to= buy the $10
tickets that have . created more
millionaires than the Klondike Gold
Rush.
The provinces and regions of the
country, following Ottawa's_ lead, are
spending millions of dollars on, high-
priced, high-powered advertising to
win business away from their federal
counterparts.
The argument is not whether Canada
should have lotteries, or who should
control them. Lotteries and games of
chancehave becorne a way of life,
particularly since Ottawa set 'up Loto
Canada to help finance the debt leftT"
from' 1Vlontreal's Olympic debacle. 't
In addition, the financial support for
amateur sports and community
projects provided by .the proceeds of.
provincial and federal sweepstakes has
been helpful. -
Still,the system seems to have gone
berserk. Advertising budgets for
' virtually all of the lotteries have
rocketed as the market peaked.
NOW, federal governfnent promoters
are attempting to squeeze the small
businesses' who made the schemes so
successful.. Supermarkets are allowed
•`to sell 'Loto Canada tickets; pulling"
business away from the' corner store.
The basic question, though, •is why
'Canadians are beseiged with material
promoting the instant millionaire. In
their claim -s; few of the advertisements
mention the fact that only one buyer in
every 625,000 (the best odds) is a
winner.
The 'now late Gerald Roberts was a
winner. You can bet Loto Canada will
not be using his name in upcoming
promotions. ��<
Vorth. a rnillio.n,
Well, what is a Millionaire?
According to an economist a.:
Millionaire is a person with a net worth
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But what is a dollar?
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Editor Bill Batten of the Exeter
Times -Advocate wrote an interesting
bit recently on the , dollararid its
receding value, It certainly makes it
look as if the day of the big $10,000 a
year income had gone forever.
Editor Bill asks us, to imagine the
case of a young person 20 years of ,age
joining today's work force. Let us
. assume ' that he or she is trained and
skilful enough to command the,starting
salary 'of twenty thousand dollars per
year.
Now let us assume once more that
our subject earns a ten per cent in-
crease in salary each year end until
"Hmm, my ivatc,
- remembering
our past
they reach the age of sixty-five. Their
salary at this final -year would amount
to approximately $1,323,126 per year.
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But wait a mi un te! The worrisome
.C:..a'ritct.✓.rc:: .: 4,..,•.S.L:..._a `i fling about this proposition is that it fs
not entirely inconceivable. However,
points out the Exeter Editor, the prices
for goods and services might cause
some little difficulty for this seemingly
high -salaried individual. What do you
think. of hamburger, at $175 per pound;
shoes, $2500; dining, out, $2,000; the
price of a house, 21/2 million dollars ;
gasoline $50 a gallon; a new car, ',4
' million dollars, beer, $25 a bottle; trip
to Hawaii, $50,.000. And on and on it
could go. -
"Is there any sense to it all?", con=
eludes the interesting article.
So, what is a millionaire? -,
5 YEARS AGO
July 4,1974
After 20 years in their restaurant on the
southern edge of Clinton, Milt and Mabel
Schreiber closed their doors last Saturday
for the final time. The Port Elgin' natives
will now retire to their house beside the
restaurant. - - .;
They opened the, restaurant in January of
1954 and have served several thousand of
patrons since, ineludin,g a large number of
truckers and air force personnel.
Mr,, and Mrs. Kenneth Lynn of Bayfield
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary
last Saturday, Jude 29. '
Dinner for the • family, relatives and
friends was smorgasbord style in the
Bayfield Community Centre, which was
beautifully decorated withfresh yellow rose
buds, wedding bells and streamers. An open
reception and dance followed the dinner. '•
Cool, wet weather forced. the Clinton
Horticulture Society, to. delay their annual
rose show 'a week, but there was a good
showing of roses last Friday at'the town,
hall.
,10 YEARS, AGO
July 3,1969
Lightning set a Hullett Township far-
mhouse ablaze during a violent thun-
derstorm early Mond y morning .ands' the
resulting smoke alphyxiated William
Hunking, 79 andtifismife Rose, 82:
-- CltegferA 'A'rehlbaIii`, a •hails" f edits
,�._treas er of.t e_.,City .of_
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Brantford, has been appointed; to succeed
Harvey C. Johnston, w,lio retired October 31,•
as the administrator of iluronview:
During recent ren vations to their
Bayfield antique store, Mr. and Mrs. Donald
.Lance unearthed a variety of items dating
back to the 1890's including: some records of
_Edwards General Store; a bottle marked G.
Hewson, Druggist, Bayfield; the good old-
fashioned whalebone corset and many other
items. Of particular interest is a Dominion
Day program dated 1894, featuring the day's
events in Bayfield, including a tug-of-war,
sawing match and -races of all kinds: This
display can be seen this week in ,Lance's
store.
After the annual decoration service at
Clinton Cemetery last Sunday afternoon, •
members• of the. Clinton Legion Branch 140
Scenic Cove
After four days of driving through.
busy Ontario and Quebec, travellers
° enjoy the slower pace of scenic Nova ,
Scotia.
The province would be an "island if,'
not for the 28 kilometre (17.5 mile)
isthmus, which links it to New Brun-
swick. No part of the province is more'
than 56 kilometres (35 miles) from the
sea, and its more than 7,400 kilometre
(4,000 mile) coastline has more than
100 1ighthouses and fog alarms. -
To ,really .appreciate the .beauty .o
Nova Scotia, visitors mustleave the
Trans : Canada and travel on _arterial
• routes around the province. Tourists
`could explore the area for days and still
not see. everything.
Joan and I drove through Halifax and
'along the southern coast to Peggy's
Core - a fishing village that we had
been told was` a "must" for our
itinerary. We were not disappointed.
A few small houses are strung along
the bold rocky coast, and small fishing
-boats- —are 'tied to weatherbeaten
wharves. On, top of a. massive granite
ledge .overlooking the village is an old
lighthouse. 1eggy's Cove has the
distinction of being the first Canadian
Post Office located in a lighthouse. L.
If visitors use their irriagitiations, the
reek formations becathe a Whale's
Back, a Devil's Armchair and Basin, a
Dancing Rock, a Horseshoe,, a Bear,
and other phenomenons.
A •re:... utant nearh u st, the, l e i i�t a s
specializes in seafood at toasonable ,
prices
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Peggy's Cove has been eaOl ed a
photographers' and artists'-piaradise. .;'.
,Paintings • and ; works by total artists
are displayed in the "Marine
Studio", which 'was built in 1850 as a
general store. ,
William deGarthe,' one of Canada's
foremost artists and a resident'br
,Peggy's Cove, painted ' two beautifuil
murals for St. Johns Anglican Church
in the village. One shows Christ
walking In water and calming the sea;
the setting is Peggy's Cove with
•Lighthouse Poiniiri the background.
The second mural -depicts 'a group of
fishermen at the mercy of a turbulent
sea. :
Except for a provincial parking lot
and the lighthouse, all the property in
Peggy's Cove is privately owned by the
residents. Visitors are asked to respect
the residents' land, and thus far, they
seem to'be doing it. The rustic beauty
of the fishing village is untouched.
Peggy's. Cove has no overnight ac-
commodations for tourists, but Indian
Harbour, approximately , three
kilometres'` west, has a motel and
several cottages, and a view as en-
chanting as the one at Peggy's Cove.
Joan..and I found a cabin that seemed
almost perched on the edge of the
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oce.an: From a back porch, we watched
the sunset over the ocean and saw:gulls
'swooping near the shore., A fety hun-
dred yards away a fisherman repaired
his net. We didn't notice the absence of
TV and radio the ocean provided -all
the entertainment we needed.
The, ladle of pollution was ,another
welcome change„ The sea breezes,
which,.are described as. "bracing" and
"invi o-fai n��" sent us ,digging g in our
g g gg g. . ,
luggage for' heavy, sweaters, and'8-
ackets even though "s'
J ugh the date rwa early
June.
which explains the relaxing at-
mosphere of Peggy's Cove and other
Nova Scotia fishing villages.
.'1The fog comes and goes at will.
Don't begrudge ,.it. Wish• instead t
you were as free!"
seetns to b1Q:slow. ,
Nor e owbooksr
;DearEditor: -
I read. an article in one of our
„Canadian .,maga isles, where one critic
calls: us the bookbanners: -He says we.
want to tell the -people vvl a> ,they.should
`read. That is, not the case at all.
If some people want to read these
books let them do -so. But ve; as tax
paying parents "h ave•the right to'tell the
school board itltatwe don't want these
books to be taught in the•high schoolsto
, our children. 'Another critic; believes
that this, trend is going to continue, and
bit by bit we lose our freedom he says.
Is freedom only meant for .writers,
people who want to sell these.books to
make money, and school boards who
want them to be taught? What of the
freedom ',of the parents who pay the
---high-. cost of education-- for their -
children? Why do education com-
mittees and school, boards find it so
important that sex is taught In •high
schools?
If this is so necessary, find qualified
teachers with high moral standards
and good books. The filthy ` literature
that is on the market today .is ruining
our young .people. Is that the way to
make-them'ready for life? Teach them
the good mortals of life, then they will
know how to cope with the bad things in
life later. A third critic said we are
dealing with something that spreads
• like cancer. Has this man ever con-
sidered what these" books are doing to
the students -who are taught such filth?
If anything is working like cancer,
these 'books certainly will. The crime
and divorce rate is going up alar-
mingly. One _is going to reap what one
sows. .
The time is long overdue that the tax
payers did something about.' this. We
have'-""trus'ted :our --school boards too
much, Now their authQrity'has. chanced
into dictatorship.We are accused by
some people of not reading these books..;
I am one of the group who has read
thre.e'Of''them, not only parts, but the
entire books. First, "The Diviners" by
Margaret Laurence, which is so filthy
and profane one feels ashamed to read
it. Second, "Of Mice and Men." by John
Steinbeck, no regard 'for human life
and blaspheny on nearly -every. page.
'Third, "Lives of Girls and Women, by
Alice Munroe. Del Jordan is a young
girl who learns nature from a dirty old
man down at the river bank and other
town characters. You can find one of
this storieson page 168-169. I would urge
parents to read!the books their children
take, home or get them in the local
libraries. Twenty two .new books were.•`
added to .the list of English literature,
five of therh were called very explicit
by the London Free Press:
• One of our group tried to get one of
the books in . London, only one store -
carred' them, but the clerk said, we'
don't sell them in the front, you have to
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a:ta•the-baes oftl:&oto re.D.o e stilt
a look through
the news -record files
paraded to the veterans' plots and placed
wreaths in memory of area men who served
in World Wars I. and II and are buried in the
local cemetery.
• 25 YEARS AGO ,
July -8,1954 .
Work at the new Christian Reformed'
Church at the corner of Princess and -Per-
cival Streets is going ,apace. Foundations
are apparently poured ii'nd request has been
made for hydro, sewerage and water.
On June 28, in. Bayfield, Mrs. T.C. Bailey
entertained members of the Board of School
Trustees'; Spencer Ervine (chairman), and
Robert Blair; yv'iththeir wives and the school
teachers, Miss Grace Pepper and Mrs.
William E. Parker, at dinner at the New
Ritz Hotel.
Iri an informal manner Miss Pepper was
presented with a Benmiller blanket as a
parting gift -and Mrs. Parker with --..a
beautiful•pair of vases in appreciation of her
long years of service; for the school board.
Following this enjoyable affair, they all
attended the theatre. in Goderich, making
the trip in the school bus.
,� 50 Y)A1IS AGO
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' . &year and a half after the congregation of
Wesley -Willis _-United Church had sadly
watched their beautiful • and complete
church burrl down, leaving nothing but bare
wall's, they stood on Sunday
_.
mornin
g last
its:g.atrsr-Iappiiyi einkttarsi
ded'cad -church upon3_the-
afoundation
of the old one.
Mrs. C. Rumball, Local Manager of the
Bell.Telephone Company, announces that a
cori,siderable sum will' be spent to provide
long distance circuits between Stratford and
Clinton, as well as to renew present
equipment.
Canadians could well afford to make a lot
more of Dominion Daythan they do. Some
towns put on celebrations, but where no
celebrations are held, the day is allowed to
pass with little or no notice being taken. In
Clinton, for instance, on Monday flags flew
from the public buildings but it was only the ,
odd private dwelling which showed a. bit of
The highway is now paved through to
Brucefield and the dust is over, for which we
shall be thankful.
I'm never too tired to, sleep now. Rested
nerves make all the difference. Your doctor
will tell you how chewing relieves nervous
tension, how the healthful cleansing action
refreshes the mouth and - tones ,you up.
Wrigley's does much - costs little. Wrigley's,
after every meal.
D.H. McInnes, chiropractor -electrical •
treatment, of Wingham, will be • at the
Rattenbury House, Clinton, on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday afternoons of each
week.
Diseases of all kinds successfully handled.
75.YEARS. AGO
July .7,1994 ..
For the six months ending June 30.th, there
were 39,interments in Clinton cemetery: In
June there_.were seven and in ,May 11. the'`
_.caretaker has 20 half lots and four full lots
more to care for tha&last year. ,
• In ' one of the fastest and hardest fought .L
games of lacrosse ever played in -Kin-
cardine; the Strathconas of Clinton beat the;
"Bruce'Boys" of that town on Friday last by
ascoreof6to3.
Mr. George Johnston, formerly of
Brucefield•paid flying visit to the village on
Monday in search of a thief. Guess you can't -
catch him George.
Only. 50, cents. The News -Record will be
sent to any address until the end of 1904 for
half a dollar. Let's have your subscription
now. .
100' YEARS AGO
. July 10,1879 _
Mr. A. Fair has opened a butcher stall in
the market; this makes four regular but-
chers doing business in town. _
The most violent rain storm that has been~"
known for a long time was experienced here
on. Thursday morning, when the rain
descended in torrents for hou 's. Some of the
streets in town were flooded, while in the
country, where the 'land was low, fences
were washed out, and some freshly
ploughed fields greatly injured by washing. •
fiuesday` evening it re away at tea,
L s... b d,s.
tie, l�:okeriAtr�.ee.,_,.� _a_k:e�: �n__. tela,..
moo,
therefrom between three and four dollars,
This is the third time it has been robbed in a
few months.
A practice -has ...become prevalent in the
churches of this as well as other towns, that
is assuming the shape of an affliction on the
congregation, and should be greatly cur-
tailed. What we havereference to is the
reading of promiscuous announcements
from the pulpit. It is well enough to read
those that refer directly to the church itself,
but the making the pulpit a sort of ad-
vertising bill -board, is degrading to religion.
Ministers are not so much to blame for
this, as those who supply the notices.
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OI-IIV for travellers
Dear Editor: ,
The Traveller's Guide to the Ontario
Health Insurance Plan outlines parts of
the Health Plan that concerns Ontario
residents 'travelling outside Ontario;
and gives information for visitors and
newcomers to the province. r
OHIP pays for me"dreah'and hospital
care for insured benefits anywhere in
the world, but only at the rates ap-
plicable in Ontario. The Traveller's
Guide- details insured benefits and
say .enough. Some peop,ie aha
zi
`el make f sound tth t these
`rrriaga t a •
books. must be read by our young
people. It is true that our children are
up against many -things we as parents
never know existed, but instead of
providing them with all kinds of filth,
teach them to fight evil with good
literature. No child does get a better
outlook on life by teaching them the'
wrong things. This way we are
destroying what our ancestors have
build up, and where thousands of our
.Canadian people still want to live by.
BettyBuruma, R.R.'2, Clinton
services not covered :and informs the
'reader how to claim benefits. In -ad-
dition, _advice is given for present
Ontario residents leaving to take up
residence outside the province.
A free copy of the handy booklet can
be obtained by writing the Health
Resource Centre, Communications
Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health,
Hepburn Block, Queen's Park, Toronto
M7A 1S2, or by visiting your local OH1R
office.
Finally through
The e weather,especially e o " ` i•s,
the f
iu reditt 1
abe but.�m r
tale M r,ti e
p �. � a s
hve•aphilosophy.
a a� �an r fo
ce nln the a
o g.�
Each. mapand woman has ,a way of
marking off the 'years. With some, it's
birthdays. With farmers, '.it's getting
the crops in. With fishermen-- it's.
hauling out the old tub for, the •winter;
after the last. catch. With golfers it's
getting in one .final round before the
snow flies. And -so on.
With teachers, it's struggling
through td the end of June without
,going arotind the bend. I've' just made
it `for the 19th time •and at time of
.writing, still have most of my marbles,
though I can't.say the same for some of
my colleagues. Thly'get queerer every
year.' ,
But it is only with the silliest and
most sentimental that the end of the
school . year brings tears, a feeling of
loss, a pang of sOorreW. Most of us walk,
out at the end of June and .never really
care whether we ever re-enter the old
sausage factory.
At approximately the same time
rte ny'mothers are giving a great sigh
Of ; estgnation, looking fearfully at the
so mer, ahead, when they'll have to
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i� 24
with heir ds '.....
co. e t � hours a day,
most teachers are giiiing givinga mighty Sigh
of relief b cause the ..d of
o y o t have_toN...
cope with those same kids at all for two
entire months.
It's not that teachers dislike kids.
Perhaps`` a few do, but they usually
wind up in • the looney -bin or slashing
their
their wrists in the bathtub.
On the contrary, most teachers have
a basic liking -of young people and show
them, often more tolerance and un-
-derstanding than the kids',oWn parents
do. heY'll bend over backwards,
suggest solutions and try to motivate
the youngsters.
But there comes a point,' a sort of
sticking point, where even the most
benevolent ' of teachers' runs across a
kid who would drive his own mother
screaming `up the• wall! And one often
does. .
One of my younger colleagues is still
'nursing a cracked rib Incurred after'
breaking up alight in the cal e, aria and
chasing one of the boys involved half a
mile to the ideal park, all in• the line of
duty. He does not love andwcherish that
kid.
year; ea'r;" ihen.a teacher is
in daily contact witittapproximately 180
teenagers, with their- sexual.
repressions, their 'hang-ups, their
broken homes their dept essions there
� 1?
s �1yr
he can
kid e
r four '
three o "�
are th
barely tolerate:
These few bad apples'ar'e what make
teaching a- very .arduous. profession.
They are a daily source of irritation
with their bad language, bad habits and
bad manners. .•
• But every.: 'job 'has -its-unpleasant
aspects, and if you can't cope with a
few rotten kids, you should get a job
where you have .a rotten boss or rotten
customers, or,rotten pay.
We read recently of high schools in
--the big cities, where teaching. has
become something,like..running the
gauntlet of physical and verbal
violence. This occurs not only. in "in-
ner-city" schools, with their masses of
poor kids from broken homesand
immigrant kids disjointed by a dif-
ferent Otlilture and language, but also
from suburban middle-class schools
whose students are over -privileged,
also comefron't broken homes, have too
much money,- and are extremely
materialistic, like their parents. They
look onbteachers as something like an
orange, tobe sucked dry and thrown
away, like the peel.
Not for me, 1 couldnq. hack that.. I'd
quit, it. I'm .no ' dedicated Martyr. I don't
"a" P
—*Int a �,. unch+up with three druggies 40
:
years younger,. I don't want my tires
slashed oi'm female staff; assaulted:f
Y
atn basi'eally a peaceable coward.
Our school is not like that, and 1
gtfess•-tlisit's' -why I've hung in here so
long. When I started, I :had offers 'to
teach journalism at .,a community
college, to do public relations work, to
teach at a university. But I began to
grow too- fond of the teenagers- and•
backed away from these offers. I'm not
sorry. °
I'm no Mr. Chips. ▪ I'm not a great
teacher. But I do enjoy teenagers, with
their curiosity, their sensitivity, their
sense of 'hunnour, their developing
sel3e'i even their flashes of anger, and
always their honesty.
End of term comes, and even the
little' turkeys in Grade 9 who bedevilled
you with their giggling or their yapping
or their giddiness all year become
lovable because you know they're gone
for two, months. And you get a nice,ti'e
from one shy little girl, and O. nice card
thrust through your letter -slot by
another who has walked eight blocks to
do itis -'and a muttered, "Haveagooci-
surnmer'sit." from the worst spalpeen
in the class, andit all makes senie kind
."of sense. - '
And at 'commencement night; you
suddenly discover that those 1tihi .
py
girls in lexis and work boots, in jeans
affd sneakers, are really beautiful
young' wo en .with bos ms and
y golden
g .
„ arras and flashing a esu That those
lazy, surly, unkempt l utst tau tried d to
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