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Clinton News-Record, 1979-07-26, Page 4A E 4 7-CLINTON NEW S -RI CORD, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979 The Clinton Ngrrs.Record is published each Thursday at P.O. lion 39. Clinton, Ontario. Canada, NOM 1LO. M.nnber. Ontario Wsokl,y Newrpoper Auociation It IF raglste.tad as second class mall by the Pant office Oder the !•''J* number 11417. Th. NawtrRecord lnforporated In 1924 the Huron.Nawa,,Racord, founded in,1111, and Thi Ciinton,Nsw Era. founded In 1863. Total press run 3.00. Clinton News -Record A Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assoclation Display bdvertisinp rotes available an request. Ask for Rate Card No. 9 effective Oct. 1, 1971. Genital Manager. J. Howard Aitken Editor . James E. Fitzgerald Advertising Director . Gary 1.. Haist News editor -Shelley McPhee Office Manager -.Margaret Gibb Circulation . Freda Mcleod Subscription Rate: Canada -14.00 per year Sr. citixdn •'12 per Year • U.S.A. i.jsKolgir .,: il.ps f,—y 1Or —s w• This is borrowed too , We live in the great age of imitation. We saw the first of the phenomenon in the movies 20 or 30 years ago. One studio turned out a money maker about Catholic priests and immediately all the other producers .jumped on, the same band wagon. You don't have to go back that far. Television is full of the same mindless , mimicry. And so many TV shows play on the impossible --girls with rnagic powers; men with im- possible muscles. Even men and women who have been fitted with computerized reflexes. The ultimate in. imitation 'comes, however, with the lotteries. In a nation -which only a few years ago had a law against selling a ticket on the Irish sweepstakes we now have a proliferation of gambling schemes which make Las Vegas and Reno look like back room poker. It's not so much the lotteries themselves as the fan- tastic advertising campaigns which attempt to get us t� put ever more gold into the something -for -nothing pot. Regardless of what all this is doing to the Canadian psyche, the .com- petition -is sure knocking the tar out of the profits. There was big money, in, %this legalized gambling at first, but now it's split so many ways the future of the whole lottery is hazy.—from the Wingham Advance -Times Lottery future hcizy Editors of the Campbell B.C., Courier write: "Getting out this newspaper is no picnic. If we print jokes, people say we are being silly; if we don't, they say we are too serious and need a laugh. If we stick too close to the job, the boss says we ought tobe out hunting up news. If we're out too much, he wonders where we were instead of being here for phone calls and unannounced visitors. "If we don't print contributions, we don't appreciate genius. If we do, the paper is filled with junk. If we make -a ,: change in the other fellow's write-up, 'we' are too critical; if we don't, we are sloppy or asleep. "If we clip things from other papers, we are too lazy to write them ourselves; if we don't we are too stuck on our own stuff. Like as not, someone will say we swiped this fromsome newspaper. We•did." sugar and spice • On being an editor 'A couple of. big aiii?iiversaries are coming up -for weekly newspapers, or community newspapers, as they are called these days. ° In July, the Canadian Community Newspapers Association is celebrating its diamind jubilee at a convention in Toronto. In Wiarton, Ontario, the Echo is celebrating its 100th birthday this July. I'd like to take in both, as a member of the former for eleven years and editor of the latter for the same period. Some of the happiest years ofmy life, • as far as work goes, were spent in the weekly newspaper business. And as work goes, it went a long way- about 60 hours a week. It requires a certain type of per- sonality and outlook to be a happy weekly editor. Or it did when I was one. It's a lot different now, with young, hard-nosed editors, fresh out of jour- nalism school, imitating the techniques of the dailies. First of all, you had to have a com- plete lack of material desires. You could make a living, but you never got rich, or even well to do. • Next, you had to keep your back shop happy, the printing staff. i nd anyone `who has. ever tried to keep a printing - -staff--happy knows that it's -about-as- easy as attending a picnic of rat- tlesnakes wi£hout being bitten. Then, of course, you had to tread the thin line between being fearless, in- h dependent and outspoken, and selling h enough advertising to- keep body and p soul together. The guy who attacked town council for some nefarious bylaw, and the guy who went out and tried to h sell ads to the Six merchants on the s town council were the -same guy, very h often. There were the inevitable • a typographical errors' to harry the Obfuscated editor. In.a,wedding write- up, the bride very often came out as b the "bridge", In funeral accounts, the s pallbearers were apt to be described as "six Bald fiends" who carried the coffin tons final ,'est. In a small town; there arecurrehts of jealousy an`d antagonism and. family euds that run deep and strong. Praise, a local polltician for making a good niove, and his' third cousin from • the other side, of the family would Call you up and tell you, with vivid detail, Doug just remembered he burled five cases of beer from last • year's. shortage, but forgot rt'h.ere,.,, remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO ' July 18, 1974 A group of teenagers took Lorne Brown at his word last Tuesday, at Brownies -Drive - In. Mr. Brown had advertised the night'as being $2 per ,load, and Paul Anstett night:as Clinton rounded up about 20 -teenagers for a truckload: It works out to about 10 cents per head. Pretty cheap night outinthese days of inflation. An Ontario Hydro spokesman said Tuesday night that opposition by municipal officials and area residents Was a major, reason for Hydro suspendingplans to establish a nuclear generating station in Huron County. ' Hydro said they have no plans to review the Goderich site or consider other sites further north along the Bruce Penninsula in the near future. Instead, he said, Hydro has several alternative sites for increased generating capacity. A highly respected Stanley Township couple, Mr. and Mrs. 'Richard Robinson of the Goshen Line north, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversai ' on their lot 9, con cession,10 farm:. ' On -July -7, a family dinner was servedat - their home when they .were joined by 30 family members and relatives. 10 YEARS AGO July 17,196,9 The "balloon man"4was a new attraction 1• ..iii. - what a snake -in -the -grass your first man was. Venture to criticize, however gently, an athlete or a public figure, 'and you'd have your ears scorched by eighty-four close relatives .who normally despised. the guy, but rallied to their roots when an aspersion was cast on the clan. Hell hath no fury like a Women's Institute whose boring account of its meeting, ' including everything from who said Grace to what they ate, was cut by the blue pencil. And then, of -course, there were the drunks who would call you .up at 3 a.m. to ask you- to settle an argument about who scored the final goal in the 1934 Stanley Cup playoff. And the kooks who would call you up and try to plant a libellous rumour, or demand that jou• come out to the farm and take a picture of their home-made threshing - machine. There was always some country correspondent furious because her "nevi's", consisting of who. • visited whom on Sunday afternoon, was crowded out by a rush of late ,ad- vertising. "Why don't you leave out some ads?" , • • There was no lack of variety in the weekly business, when you were reporter, editor, advertising manager, proof reader, and general bunboy for the tyrants in the back shop. I distinctly•remember,a St._Patrick's. Day night, when there was an unex- pected heavy fall of snow. An elderly gentleman of Irish descent had been celebrating the day in the pub. When he adn't arrived home by ten o'clock, his ousekeeper called for help. The local ubs Were alerted, and the hockey rink, where there was a game in progress. Most of the male population, at least alf of the half -lit, stor••nied off to earch for the missing man. We found im, covered in snow, about a quarter - mile from his house. Back t6 the rink nd the -pubs, I • remember shouting at deaf old adies who were ,celebrating their 90th irthdays, and getting some of the most urprising answers. "Hew long has your husband been dead?" "Nah, he never was much good in bed". ' " • "To what do you attribute your long life?"- "Vas, 1 was always � good wife." And so on. To be ` suoce.ssfu l editor, r, though h no t necessa �y a geed one, youhad to II 1 � • continually straddle fences. This becomes a bit of a chafe after a whole. You hkad to be able to write on demand. I remember one week when there was absolutely nothing to fill a two -column, four inch space on the front page. In about twenty minutes, I knocked out eight column inches of sparkling prose in which the reader had to read to the end to discover that nothing worth reporting had happened that week.. It sounds as though I'm knocking the game. Not so. These are fond memories. And there were rewards, most of them intangible. It was kind of nice to be introduced to• strangers as "our" editor. It gave satisfaction when a subscriber from away down in the States dropped in on his way to the summer cottage and mid he, "Sure. liked that piece about the deer hunt." And there was a certain quiet pride in one's status. My daughter, aged eight, produced the' fitting requiem when I left newspaper work and went into teaching. . "But Daddy," she observed, "that means you're not The • Editor anymore". I sadly agreed. a look through the news -record files at Bayfield's Pioneer Park Association Rummage Sale on Friday evening, Eric Earl, in Clown garb, was beeiged by dozens of youngsters, eager to buy a balloon. One of the fastest miles clocked on the oval in Clinton's Communit Park since the track record . was `set ,8 years ago highlighted the Turf Club's annual harness racing last Saturday afternoon. About 600 spectators, a smaller crowd than in past years, watched Bachelor Girl finish a heat in 2:09.2. The record is 2:07.2. Health and public works authorities may soon be out looking for puddles on Clinton lawns in an attempt to trace the source of raw sewage and washwater flowing into the Mary Street storm drain. The best way to find who is putting sewage into the,pipe is to cap tla.e.pipe, then wait for ponding on the lawns of offenders, suggested Murray Lobb, inspector for the Huron County Health Unit. 25 YEARS AGO July 22, 1954 High on the hill in the pretty village of Auburn, four young fellows are ready t Welcome all vi tors, and especially at th tixrie of the "Centnnial`this month. While Auburn villagers are hard at work preparing for the celebration marking 100 years since the founding of Manchester, as i was then known, down belowon the river bottom, crews are working on the con struction of a new bridge. This $185,000 structure will span the Maitland River and replace the old one.built more`than 40 years ago. It will join the new road being built to by-pass the business section of the village. Workmen predict "loth of col. fingers" treatment of Wingham will be at the Rat- tenbury House, Clinton, on 'Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday forenoons of"each week. Diseases of all kinds successfuly handled. 75 YEARS AGO July 21, 1904 A meeting of the Temperance' workers -was held in the council chamber on Friday evening last. Rev. Greene presided and Mr. John Houston acted as secretary. After considerable discussion, it was decided that 'an influential deputation wait upon the ,council to.askthat a local option by-law be submitted to the people at the January election. The Temperance people seem very much in earnest and if they keep'up the fight with the same degree of determination they are now displaying, they may surprise their opponents. Rurnball and McMath, Huron Street, Clinton, the leading carriage makers. All work mnufactured on the premises and guarantied. Repairing promptly attended to. o A towel bargain to go on sale ,with the , e linens..A lot of 500 we got at a bargain and now pass along to you the same way. 500 Huckaback and Oatmeal crash towels large size, good weight; -red borders, will wash t and wear well, special value at 2 for 5 cents at Hodgens Bros., Clinton. Mr. Arch Cousens has bought the house on James Street, in which he has been living for some time, from Mr. John Johnson Jr. The price was $950 100 YEARS AGO July 24,1879 Roasted coffee is said to be a powerful disinfectant. There is a certain street in town, not long opened, on which 11 births have occurred, every one of which has been the female sex. On Friday morning last the whistle of the train leaving Goderich a rev(' minutes after 7, was heard in Clinton. And now the hard -worked editor doth feast im at his ease upon the tender radish,' California man potatoes and green peas, brought in by kind ubscribers who know the meagre fare that he poor country editor is fed on all year. Rasberries appear to be unusually bundant this year, and as a consequence arge quantities of them have been sold at ery low rates. The ruling price was $1 a pail f 20 quarts. before it is finished, but when done, it may possibly cause some of the biggest changes ever made in the century -old village. Business people are not predicting what effect the re-routing will have, but say, "We'll just wait and see." 50 YEARS AGO, July 18, 1929 Mr.• J. Hall is busy at the building of Mr. h Fred Lobb's house, which was recently • burned in Goderich Township. s Some 60 members of the Baird family met t on 'July -13 at Jowett's Grove Bayfield for their second annual picnic. They are the a descendents of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baird, 1 who emigrated. from Ayrshire, Scotland v over 70 years ago and settled on the farm o now occupied by Mr. Geo,. Baird on the 2nd concession of Stanley Township. A splendid presentation of the comedy, m "I'll Explain Everything" was given in the a Bayfield Town Hall on Wednesday of last b week by the Dramatic Club of Trinity t Church, Gast. •f The players took their parts exceedingly v well and held the attention of the large c audience, causing one laugh upon another c from beginning to end. fr Mrs. F,H, Paull played the piano between a• acts and Miss Lucy Woods gave a vocal solo. p The play was given under theauspices of the Junior Guild of the Trinity Church for which J quite a nice sum of money was netted. D.H. McInnes. chiropractor -electrical o Ladies from Hen featured at CNE Dear Editor :‘land Canada'e Highland Regiments our kilted. `Ladies from Hell" -- will be honored during the 1979 Scottish World Festival Tattoo at the C.N.E.'s °Exhibition Stadium, August 16, 17, 18 • andl9. u Guests% of honor at the '79 Tattoo include the, Hon. Pauline M. McGibbon, Lieutenant -Governor of Ontario, and officers, of many of I Canada's Highland Regiments, such as Col. Frederick A., Tilston, V.C., Honorary Colonel of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment and one of Canada's most decorated heroes of World War II; Lt. Col. Alex Percy of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlan- ders; Lt. Col. Walter Godsoe of the Toronto --Scottish Regiment and Lt. Col. David Temple of the 48th Highlanders of Canada. w Joining in the honouring of Canada's Highland Regiments of the ' past and present will be the Scots Guards and Royal Highland Fusiliers of the British Army. Also included in the Tattoo will be pipe bands from Scotland, Australia, Northern Ireland, England, the United States and Canada in more than two and a half hours i of spectacular Scotii•sh pageantry at the C.N.E.'s Exhibition Stadium. Cliff O. Hunt Toronto, Ont. .Local • sp-o;rtfest set at Listowel Dear Editor: Sportsfest is being held, in the host community of Listowel on August 10, 11 and 12, 1979.. It consists of 16 recreational •event , tournaments, through which we encourage fun, good sportsmanship, Participation, low-key competition,. and hopefully, ongoing intercommunity competitions in the future -of -these developmental sports. Sportsfest is s fonsored and organized by the Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association. The events offered are for all ages. They include archery, euchre, hor- seshoe pitching, shuffleboard, soccer, T -ball, tennis, fun run, karate, women's recreational softball, swimming,„ girls' softball, men's slow pitch, table tennis, gymnastics, and ball hockey. • The registration deadline date for these events is July 20, 1979. If you are interested in more in- formation or in participating in Sportsfest '79 in Listowel, contact your local Recreation Director or com- mittee. .Janet Bishop, Sportsfest '79 Coordinator, can also be contacted by writing to P.O. Box 41, Listowel, Ontario N4W 3H2, or by calling 291- 2701. Hope to see you involved in Sport- sfest '79. - Let's make it the greatest yet! Yours truly, Janet Bishop Sportsfest '79 Coordinator We. learn that the authorities of some unicipalities in this section of the province re in the habit of getting rid of theirtramps y giving them free passes upon the railroad o some other locality, and as this town -has requently been favored with this class of isitors in this way, our authorities have ome to the 'conclusion, if the practice is ontinued, of returning, them to the place om whence they came. A man with hair about 18 inches long, has ttracted notice on the streets during the ast week; he is selling a hair restorative. • Recently a tramp visited the home of Mr. ohn Taylor of the Ilthcon. of Hullett, and arried away a pair of good boots. They had my been worn once previously. Organized? - No' me In my ongoing search for the secret to being organized, ,I tried the advice of a wise phlosopher, who said: "Make a list of all the chores you have to do in a day or a week. Then, as you -finish each task, scratch it from the list. As the scrathces increase and the jobs decrease, you'll gain a feeling of accomplishment. With your timetable thus organized,- you'll find more time for relaxation." His intent was to list the jobs in order of their importance rather than their 'enjoyment and to do the most pressing tasks first.. But, wise philosopher that he was, I'm sure he made allowances for cheates like' me. k n My ag da went 1' a this: first, things I ,l ke to do; se and, tasks that are easy and can be done in a hurry; third, longer ancl mpre complicated chores; fourth and final, jobs I ab- solutely deplore. By doing the easy jobs -first, I quickly accumulated numerous scratches, At first glance, ,my list looked impressive, but I" wasn't- really fooling myself. I knew the few jobs that remained would take more time and effort than all the' smaller ones combined. Items, such as "scrub kitchen floor" and "clean storeroom," went from one day's list to the next and one_week's list to the next. • . , ',could close the storeroom door and forget •rt, but I couldn't avoid tromping on., the kitchen floor. Finally 1 could stand the dirt no longer. Out came the mop, bucket and wax, and at the end of the evening, I maliciously scratched . 'one more onerous task from the list. Meanwhile the storeroom door stayed shut. , ne day my niece came to visit, and I ab entmindedly sent her to the stq eooni to get something. ' In a moment, r e herr f i�f d lm ► h 'Muffled � d voice floated out too me, "11 ine, this,is 1 awful! How do you find anything in here?" I didn't say a word and I didn't pressure her . in any way. For some reason, she decided to clean the room, and I didn't interfere. I stayed out of the way, interrupting her only to check the loads of garbage before she hauled -them out to the box. Occasionally I had to explain the dif- ference between good junk and wor- thless junk. Otherwise no conflicts. developed. - When she finally finished and allowed me in, I thought I was in the wrong place. The only problem is she expects the room to look ds good when she comes back as it does now,. Still amazed at'my good fortune, I stroked the last chore from the slip of' paper. Though my list didn't end the way the philosopher intended it to and I'm no gore organized now than 1 was three weeks ago',^I gained a great feeling of satisfaction. when 1 ohucked the . scribbled list into the trash. e1 delights on purchase of Clinton organ Dear Editor: A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending an antique auction sale here in California. One of the many items to be sold was an old pump 'organ. What- really made me smile was when I looked at the keyboard and saw it was . made in Clinton, Ontario, close to my hometown of Elmira, Ontario. The sale starts and I patiently wait ,for the organ to be sold, h'inally, the 1111 rare old beauty is rolled in front of the auctioneer. 1 had no idea 1 had a chafice as I had watched dozens of people looking it over. Well,much to my surprise and a few silent prayers, the organ was mine for $170. It did not play as the foot pedal straps were broken. It looked so beautiful outside but on the inside was -an inch -of dust. It had -me scared. I brought it home and within minutes I had the straps on and was ready to try it. A4 couple pumps and I had air, pulled all the stops and hit the key. It played like a dream and my woi'ries were gone. How it ever played with all that dirt inside, I'll never know. Under it all I found the original guarantee dated 1899. It was sent to the east coast, most , likely by train and then on to England by boat. For the next 78 years we do not know where all it went, but we do know that in 1979 it is shipped to San Francisco to be sold with other European antiques. It has covered a lot of miles. - So to all you people who may have built the Doherty Organ, or know who did, and worider what ever has happened to them, 1 can tell you there is 'one in a home in Fremont, California that looks and plays as gad as the day it left Clinton, tario, Canada in 1890. Yours) truly" arry He!drich 're 'ont, California r a