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Clinton News-Record, 1980-03-27, Page 4AE'4 C• l TOS NEW •R c : THURSDAY, MARCR 27s 1980 7h!q Cliefos,fiews.RecorRi: Is ,Publish's, oech 'pwrxdey Of PM. los 310, Clinton. Qnteria. ClerteliAtr *P.A111,0, N e tMsir, Ottl,WI, 10404.1Y ASsgduti►, 9t, lat rg►gistere.l ea **and cigss mote by the Post OffiSe ender The poirott num4er 45111'° The News R*►coord inPerpgrated in 111?4 the, Huron Nows.ltacucd ieurndnd in 1441; acid The CiprttonNow gra. founded Irk 1964. Totot press run 3.541. k fritNeAtee cors lrn Cot tmunity Newspaper Afetiioft plspfey ,.dwgr'tlsIng rates ayeiMltfta• oil request. Ask for Rate Card No. 14 effective Sept. 1,10x0 General Menai/or • J• Howarri Aiikon Editor • Jamas 1. Fitzgerald AdvertisInp Rlrector • Gory 1,. Hist News editor -Shelley McPhee 0ffic. Manager . Margaret 0104 Circulation . Freda McLeod Subscrlptlgrn Rate; Canada- ' $.00; Sr. CitMen •'13.40 per year • U.S.A. & foreign •'30.00 per year Spring clean-up time. What will 3,000 Shriners, their- -.- families, and visitors see when they visit Clinton in late May of this year? Will they see abandoned automobiles, piles of rubbish, residue sand from past winters, untidy lawns overgrown with weeds and decaying houses? And what will their impressions be— when they compare it to other towns in Huron County, like Goderich, Exeter and Bayfield? Will Clinton live up to its reputation as being the arm pit of Huron County? Those are the questions Clintonians will have to ask themselves this spring, and hopefully the answer will be a big NO to the above questions. There was a big rush prior to 1975, Clinton's centennial year, to clean up the town, but that enthusiasm died when the last visitor left town, and although the town has generally been kept up, there are still some terrible eyesores that detract from those attractive properties. Now is the time for `everyone the think clean=up, it costs so little, and can pay so much. Perhaps volunteer groups could be formed to help those who are unable because of ill -health or poor funds, to spruce up their properties. • Clinton can, and should, put on a clean face for our thousands of in- ternational visitors this spring. -by JF Safe car, safe ride The Canada Safety Council has been paying a 'great deal of attention to drivers . over the past year or so because it was felt that better drivers with the right attitude to driving make for safer. roads. But that does not mean the vehicle itself can be neglected. The safe, well maintained. vehicle is one component that makes a good driver. Intentions of stopping for a school bus are useless if the brakes fail; seeing the tree at the side of the road is not enough if the steering will not respond to the driver's demands. Even a safe acceleration out of danger can be foiled by an engine prone to stalling because -it is in need of tuning. At the end of winter is one time in particular when things can go wrong. Cold weather and stop -start driving. can be hard on vehicle. Con- sequently, the Canada Safety Council has revived the Car Check Campaign, which this year will run from April 24th to the 30th. In days of inflation and expensive labour, many people put off routine preventive ,maintenance. The Council suggests they can't afford to delay something as important as safety. sugar ondspice Energy crisis Everybody talks about the energy crisis, but nobody does .anything about it. In point of fact, as we say in this game when we're not sure of either our point or our facts, precious few people know what a crisis is. As an old English teacher, I know. A crisis is a turning -point that occurs in a story or play when something unexpected gives the plot a new direction. To that extent, the energy crisis is no such thing. Everybody knewrthat oil was a non-renewable energy, just like coal and natural gas. But we went on blithely in our un- founded assurance that we could always be warm at—the turn switch, always be cool at the turn of another, kill each other in steadily increasing numbers on the highways, tear around on boats and motorcycles and snowmobiles, fly to the far cor- ners of the earth for a comparative pittance, and so on. The Garden of Eden, smelling of oil and poisoning the ozone. What a collection of nincompoops! And I do mean the poops part of it. It became a crisis only when the Ayrabs came to their senses, got us by the short and curly, and began to twist. Even then, it was more like a bad dream than . reality. Our brilliant political leader's assured us that there was plenty for everybody for another 20 or 10 or 30 or 50 years, depending on whether or not they were in power. So everybody bought a second family car, or a new cruiser. To hell with our ,grandchildren. Let them freeze in the dark. The great oil companies, with their 'conglomerates that sell everything from condoms to nylons, kept mum. And I don't mean they maintained mother. Every time some back -room genius came up with an invention that proved you could run a car 40 miles on faith, hope and spit, they gave him a million bucks for the patent and told him to disappear, quietly. They were joined in the conspiracy of silence by the vast motor car companies, so powerful they can dictate to governments. These cor- porate citizens know, and knew long ago, that they Were deliberately burning up the world's huge energy. reserves: Did they care? Not as long as the profits held up. If there is any history of this time. cottSok.LVHrt. A� Y9uttLITTLE NfhPhOIES 1K*3 on 914 HeADA4NE MK ADovt out DILL PRIEhWAN ArMEMPEA Wit N T'1 nOt.OuP MjEN, wERE 0411115 siD(CWNtja, "I need a loan to pay off the interest rate on the loan you gave me yesterday, remembering our past 5 YEARS AGO March 27, 1975 There can be no more growth in Vanastra unless a major expenditureif- made of a new sewage system at the former base, Tuckersmith Council lear- ned. The current sewage plant is running at —near -full--capacity of 100,000—gallons—per day and an official with the Ontario ministry of the environment said the Bayfield River near Clinton could not handle anymore treated sewage anyway. If more volunteer drivers can '.be„found, then a Meals on Wheels program will be started in Clinton within three weeks. Fire raged out of control last Thursday in a barn on the farm of Dirk Westerhout, about six miles north of Clinton on the Base' Line. The Clinton firemen were unable to pinpoint the fire because it had spread through dozens of partitions. The loss has been estimated at about $50,000, including nearly 8,000 chickens. 10 YEARS AGO March 26, 1970 ' One of Clinton's most prominent citizens died on March 19 at his ,Ontario Street home. Adam James McMurray, former mayor and secretary -treasurer of the Huron twentieth-century man will be 'looked on by the higher species that evolves in about the same way we look upon the dodo bird: a creature too stupid to survive. Just the other day, I went down to the licence office and paid sixty dollars for the privilege of driving a large lump of rusting metal about, polluting the countryside. I told the girl that if she'd give me the $60 back, and add three hundred, she could have the car. She refused. And I don't blame her. The twentieth century is one of charlatans, dreamers, violence and sheer naivetee. We remind me of the alchemists who flourished in the middle ages, trying to turn lead into gold. We jog in polluted air to improve our lungs and hearts. We buy smaller cars to save gas and drive twice as much ,_as we used to. We buy wood stoves at wild prices,, and firewood at even wilder. We talk about unem- ployment insurance then we do no research into these things. We are all so well-educated and literate that we have a school system churning out semi -literates who will breed vigorously and produce semi - morons. We have a greedy, gluttonous society that gobbles up all the useless •things it produces, and still can't find enough jobs for the people in it to lead a life of reasonable dignity. I could go, on and on, as you well know, but I must get down to brass facts, and propose some solutions. Here they are. ... '" There's no use going to the politicians. They are interested in votes, not principles. We need a dictator. Oh, I don't mean some megalomaniac like Hitler or Mussolini. Just a nice, kindly, benevolent dictator, a sort of Mafia - like Don of the old school, soft-spokens, but in charge. His first move would be to call in his "boys" and gently suggest the elimination of all politicians, school administrators, economists, and drug pushers, so that we could start on a clean sheet. 1 don't mean elimination in the crude way. The politicians would have to raise personally every cent they promised to spend. The school administrators would be assigned seven Grade 9 classes a' day and lunch supervision. The economists would be sentenced to twenty years of arith- noetic, and the drug pushers would be impaled on sharp stakes, at high noon, every Wednesday. :hen he'd appoint some com- missioners to get things cleared uo. I. for one, would be willing to accept the onerous chores of Energy Com- missioner. _ I wouldn't be unduly harsh. I'djust have collected, and burned, every snowmobile, power boat and motor- cycle in the country. I'd put a governor on every car so that it couldn't go over 30 miles an hour. I'd ground every aircraft on a pleasure flight, and tie up every ocean liner ditto. I'd issue an edict that"subsidized longjohns and fine every household caught with its temperature above 60 degrees. Of course, I'd expect a Cadillac and a jet liner and a power cruiser to transport me about on my various, nefarious duties. Central Agriculture Society, died suddenly in his 92nd year. Miss Catherine M. Hunt was recently appointed to succeed Mrs. Larry Wheatley as Home Economist for Huron County. 25 YEARS AGO, March 31,.1955 Saturday night closing in Clinton this year IS; a one merchant put it,, "a dead duck.” In other words, from now on stores in Clinton will open on Saturday evenings as in the past. The seed that will undoubtedly grow into another, active 4-H Club - was sown in Hensall on Tuesday night. Harold Baker, assistant . agricultural representative for Huron County, was =chairman -for the organizational meeting of the first 4-H White Bean Club in Canada. The meeting, held in Hensall Town_ Hall, was sponsored by the Kinsmen Club of Hensall. Tenders have been called by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for a five room addition to Hugh Campbell Public School at RCAF Station Clinton. Huron County scores once mote! There were no serious criminal cases on the docket at the recent Assizes in Garlerich. Mr. Justice J.M. King was presented with the customary white. gloves.. He warmly congratulated our- County on its, freedom from crime. • CKNX Wingham hal applied to Ottawa for a television license, to install and operate a TV station on Channel 8. 5:6 REARS AGO . _ . March 27, 1930 One of the most tragic things that ever happened in this community occurred on Saturday afternoon, when Hugh McEwan, a 15 -year-old Collegiate boy, was fatally shot while out for a Saturday afternoon tramp with a friend. It is supposed Hugh's gun, which he was carrying by the barrel, butt downward,• may have slipped a little and striking on the stone step below the one on which he was standing, discharged, the charge entering his body and travelling upward. Death came on Saturday last to Hullett's oldest resident, Charles F. McIntosh, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Shanahan Sr., at the age of 103 and three months. Mr, McIntosh had enjoyed the best of health during his long life and was able to go about to within a week of his death. Ernest Townshend, whose farm in west odds 'n' ends Hope and the daffodil We'll see lofs of daffodils next month. We usually do. The perky yellow flower is a sure sign of spring, it but in recent' years the daffodil in April has become a sign of something else - the annual campaign of the Canadian Cancer Society. In 1979, the 100,000 volunteers in the Ontario Division raised in excess of $9.1 million through door-to-door canvassing, sale of daffodils and other fund-raising activities. Their goal this year is $9.7 million, and their, theme is"we can do it!" The money is used for research and public education. The education in- cludes two relatively new programs - a three-part kit distributed to many Ontario schools and designed to teach students good health habits, non- smoking and cancer prevention; and an industrial education program that reached 500 firms in 1979. ° Funds also • provide patient ser- vices, such as transportation, drugs and dressings, and support the Coping With Cancer program. In addition, fellowships and bursaries are awarded. In Canada, cancer is the number two killer, second only to heart -illness. One in four persons will have some form of cancer in his lifetime. All persons will live with can- cerphobia - the fear that has plagued Man since time im memorial. Skeletons recovered in Egypt have shown bone deformations similar to those produced by bone cancers. Old of HoImesville on the Highway, had a very successful auction sale of farm stock and implements on Monday afternoon, Good prices were realized. George H. Elliott of Clinton was the auctioneer. An organization meeting of the Liberal women of Clinton and vicinity will be held in the Council Chambers, Clinton, on the' evening of Monday,Mareii 31 75 YEARS AGO March 30, 1905 In the matter of weather this is the best month of March on record. On Tuesday, and yesterday the sun shone° in all its splendor and the air was warm and balmy. They were as fine days as we ordinarily expect a .month hence. Even the "oldest inhabitant" freely admits that the weather throughout the whole month beats anything he can recall to memory. The state of the country roads the past week or so has interfered with business as driving over some of them was almost an impossibility. Indeed, many farmers put off their shopping as Tong as possible and after all had to walk 'in. However, the warm sun has worked wonders and driving is now comparatively easy. 100 YEARS AGO March 25, 1880 A couple of men got into a fight, on Tuescl,ay evening, by which one was somewhat disfigured. Both are well ad- vanced in years, and should know better than to engage in such an encounter. The- present winter has, we believe, witnessed _a larger number of tramps soliciting assistance than ever before, some of them apparently deserving assistance, while others have been the- reverse.. Recently a young man called at the house in town and asked for something to eat and on receiving some bread and butter, manifested unusual gratitude therefor and ate it with relish. On another occasion a man asked for some refresh- ments and was informed that they had nothing but bread and butter to give him, which was proferred, but he, indignantly refused its acceptance, stating that he wanted something better than that., He did notget it at that house. The Grand Trunk officials has appointed Mr. A. Duff, the Holmesville storekeeper, to be Ticket Agent here. We congratulate him on his appointment. Owing to the perseverance of the engergetic, the station is to be suitably furnished internally and platform trebled in length. Testament references have been interpreted as referring to cancer, and the fatal outcome of the disease was recognized as early as 300 B.C. Man's battle against cancer has been .a long one. Will he win? Hard- working Volunteers, dedicated researchers and cancer survivors say "yes". Pioneer researchers worked alone in ill-equipped laboratories. The organized research we are familiar with today in university, industrial and institutional settings has developed only in the past 50 years. Research has led to the control of once epidemic diseases, such as diabetes, polio, smallpox and tuberculosis. These achievements have given hope that eventually a score of other diseases will be cured as well, and one of these diseases is ,cancer. Dr. LaSalle Leffall, past president of the American ...Cancer society, spoke at the Ontario Division's conference this year. He described advances made in treatment and cure of many forms of cancer that were considered hopeless when he began practicing as a young surgeon. In a word of caution, he added he deesn't expect the type of "breakthroughs" that make media headlines but rather a gradual rise in survival rates. What researchers are doing today will show up in improved survival rates five or ten years from • now. Survival rates for individual types of cancer differ. In past years, progress, in some areas has been small; . ; ile in other areas great strides have been made. For example, twenty-five years ago most children with acute lym- phoblastic leukemia werenot ex- pected to survive as long as six months after the initial diagnosis. Today many such children are long- term survivors- with hopes for a normal life expectancy. Similarly expectations of long-term survival for many patients with Hodgkin's disease. are justified. Two of the standard forms of treatment of Hodgkin's .are based on Canadian discoveries and developments. According to Dr. Leffall and other experts in the field of cancer, the greatest hope in the battle against cancer- still lies in prevention, and that is why public education is vital. Medical scientists believe two- thirds of all cancers could be prevented. For instance, lung cancer could be practically eliminated in the future if everyone, stopped smoking cigarettes. Also the incidence of skin cancer could be reduced if people avoided over-exposure to the sun and certain industrial chemicals. Research, prevention, early detection, treatment, public education and hope are not just words; they are vital weapons in man's battle against cancer. Those of u§ who have lost relatives and friends to the disease may think "hope" is a strange word to .include in the -package. Still man's fight against cancer is an on-going one. The researchers, volunteers and cancer survivors, who are now sharing their experiences with the' puo143, have hope for the future. They believe "every great achiedemei t was once impossible," ®and the daffodil in April is just one sign of their dedication and hope. tae recd ers. Teachers do help To the Editor' Recent media -coverage of a motion with regard to teacher ; bargaining which was passed at the Annual Meeting of the 'Ontario 'Secondary , School Teachers' Federation has brought that motion into public debate. �,•, That coverage, centered mainly on one or more comments. made outside the meeting, has affected. public perception -of the intent of OSSTI to deal with a growing , problem for Ontario'as 35,000 secondary school teachers -- negotiating collective agreements with 79 school boards across the province. • In the majority of collective agreements, settiec>pen.ts are reached through a barga mg-proness-defineu in proirincial legislation. H.awever,,in areas of the province which have experienced strikes and lockouts, some school boards have taken note of the fact teachers spend considerable time and effort in quickly restoring normal operations after strikes have been concluded. It's to the teachers' credit and a reflection of their professional integrity that they do so. The difficulty for teachers is that by minimizing the negative aspect of strikes for the good of their students, they may we11 be encouraging trustees to create strike situations. To put it another way, because trustees do not see strikes as having a serious effect on their system, they seem, in some cases, to be engineering con- frontation with their employee groups in order to gain an advantage at the bargaining table. If that is the case (and the point can be argued in many areas where bargaining is now in a crisis situation) then that situation must be stopped. Thar is the concern raised by teachers last week and that is the reason why teachers are prepared to consider strong and unusual action to draw public attention to an inequity in. collective bargaining between teachers and trustees. There is legislation which provides for the orderly development of negotiations even if that development involves sanctions by either side. However, that legislation is predicated upon the serious intent of teachers and trustees to bargain in good faith and avoid :confrontation wherever and whenever possible. : If either of theparties subverts that intent, prolonged strikes which have negative effects on students result. Sincerely Margaret Wilson President Dirty play Dear Editor: In reply to the letter from Rev. Walter A. King in last week's edition regarding the Clinton versus Chesley pee wee A playoffs 1) the Chesley player who was supposedly injured by •Clinton's "dirty" playing, was injured the night before the Clinton-Chesley games started andwas playing 'hurt' (at his father's insistence) according to several other Chesley parents. 2) this same father laughed and cheered when a Clinton player was hurt by accident. 3) thig same father verbally abused Clinton coaches and fans, but got no support from other Chesley parents. Does the Rev. King see these ac- tions of his. as examples of good sportsmanship and how to "play the game"? We, as parents, would have ignored this letter if it had not centered out the coaches, who we feel deserve only credit. K. Scruton and parents of Clinton Pee Wee A's rotecting our past Dear Editor: The purpose of this open letter is to advise the general public that the Huron County Historical Society have been included in the plans of the new Library Building in Goderich. We will have a fire -proofed Archives Room and will be working closely with the Library staff to improve on the cataloguing, filing and protection. of the valuable historical documents we now have and hope to obtain in the future. The acquisition of the fire- proofed vault puts us in the better position to accept historical data from individuals or organizations. We as a Society are interested in all historical documents of early Huron County residents. We want your readers to contact tis if they plan on disposing of business or personal papers, deeds, books, 'photographs, all belonging to the past history•of Huron County settlers and their families which would be of interest to future generations, and which is our duty to preserve. If you require further information, please contact me. Sincerely, Isabel Theedom, PR, Huron County Historical Societ 78 Rattenbury St., Clinton', Ontario, NOM 1L0