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Clinton News-Record, 1980-11-08, Page 4PAG 4 CLI ToN NEW $-RECOR 't TIItRSPA , NOV i BUR + ,1980 BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1980 The CIlnteo $ * cord le poidIeb.dl -0/Cit ThwsSpx at P" Meas 31. CIMnten, Metairie. 04+w410, NI!M.T4t,' l.x s/24 l . $4ssrIptlan ilatY: r+e+lllw;,. ah.04, Sr. GltiaiKn r'14J0 per year forelin • 034.00 per year It !$ resisters* tolsecoeitc1! atoll by the post office WOE the wsr►nit awnhar N1i. The Newc-ifecord incorporated In 1$24 the Harem News.kecorr. founded In Int, and The Clinton Now• Ire. founded tri 1$ $ Teta! pre/0 run 0300.. Clinton News -Record tir+cNA. MEMBER JAMES E. EITZ.GERALD - Ed,itor SHELLEY MCPHEE - News Editor GARY HAIST . Advertising Manager HEATHER BRANDER - Advertising MARGARET L. GiBB - Office Manager BONNIE SCRIVER - Circulation 1 0 r cin MEMBER - Display advertising rates available on request. Ask for Rate Card No. 10 effective Sept. 1. 107va, Strange indeed Economist John Kenneth Galbraith cited one of the great parodoxical phenomena of the current market place in a recent address in Montreal. The Harvard University professor noted that socialism is being created by giant corporations such as Chrysler and Massey -Ferguson, rather than by socialists or govern- ments with socialist leanings. Once the cornerstone of the free enterprise system, these private corporations have now become so large they are no longer , allowed to fall and go out of business as the free enterprise system would normally dictate. Instead, he notes, they become wards of the state when they are pressed by unions and, urged by bankers to go to governments to be bailed out. The situation adds credence to those who would suggest that big is best. When a company becomes so large it can expect to be bailed out by governments, it enjoys an advantage over its smaller competitors whd still must meet the dictates and com- petition of the free enterprise system 'and the survival of the fit est.• As the tentacles of modern onglomerates reach ou farther to, e compass their comp 'tors in the free enterprise system, they foster the growing tendancy to socialism. Strange, but true! (Exeter Times - Advocate) • • Time to remember remembering our past ,.r by Jim Fitzgerald a look through the pews -record files 5 YEARS AGO November 13, 1975 ussell Bolton has done it again. For the fou th year in succession,'" the RR 1, Sea orth farmer has brought home " the Word Hay Championship to Huron Cou t.y. Ina hall where they first met, 55 years. ago, Mr. and Mrs. 'Robert Johnston cele brate'd their 50th wedding anniversary of Sunday, November 9, 1975. An estimated 400 gathered to wish them well. Commission was a whitewash by Jack Riddell, MPP We have waited two years for the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Discounting and Allowances in the Food Industry in Ontario: Two years of waiting im- patiently for some recommendations which might put an end to these unfair and destructive practices - or at least place some limitations upon them - and all we have been given is a whitewash. In fact, there seems every likelihood that the Commission's report will do infinitely more harm than good. The conclusions and recom- mendations have little or no con- nection with the testimony which was heard during the inquiry or the evidence heard by the Resources Committee and 'the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. This testimony showed clearly that discounts, rebates, and allowances have increased tremendously in the last decade. These discounting and rebate practices have a very damaging effect for both producers and consumers. The whole com- petitive market structure is warped out of shape, customers have ar- bitrary choices of products made for them, and there is far too much concentration of economic power :all along the food chain. We have heard stories of manufacturers and producers being "delisted" because they refused to pay a particular rebate, discount or allowance. Pressures brought against them by retail chains -have• been described as "oppressive and coer- cive". Meanwhile, the ' public is deprived of freedom of choice and valuable new products fail to appear' on store shelves. People had their hopes pinned in the Royal, Commission. The report ,says that it ''appears" there is rio significant difference in rebates, discounts or allonces given or received between small and large retailers and manufacturers. Surely, the Commission was established to go beyond what "appears" to be the case, and discover the true facts of the situation. The report recommends the establishment of a forum outside government to mediate problems between various levels in the food industry. Surely, the Ministry of Agriculture should take on this 'responsibility, since it is actually the Ministry of Agriculture and Food! Most unforgivable of all, in my view, the report recommends that no further inquiries be conducted into discounting practices. We all know what would happen if such a recommendation is accepted: the food chains would tak-it as carte blanche to go ahead and do whatever they wanted, without - fear of in- tervention. The situation with respect °to rebates, discounts and allowances has become even more serious since the Commission was established. There is nothing in the report that gives us any hope that things are going to improve. The report is a whitewash - nothing more or less. Rather than at- tempting to solve a problem, it will almost certainly contribute to it. sugarand spice Autumn anxiety Do you like autumn? 1 do. For me, it's the epitome of all that's best in Canada. You can have your spring, glorious spring, with its drizzles and its rnud and its chilling winds. You can have your summer, with its particular pests — tourists, bugs, visitors. And you can most definitely have winter in 'its every possible aspect. Just give me about six months of that September -October weather and you couldn't drag me out of this country to the island of Bali. I know that, according to the rhyth- m of nature, fall is supposed to be a time of dying, of melancholy, of shrivelling on the vine, or preparing for the deep, dead sleep of winter. Maybe Canadians are just con- trary, but they don't react in the way they're supposed to at all, in the fall. Instead of carefully preparing for winter, drawing in their .horns, and going around with long faces, they bust out all over as soon as that first nip is felt in the morning air. Perhaps they're just fooling th'mselves, but Canadians act as though they love the fall. They come to life. They bustle. They form committees, make plans, have parties. They even start going to church:' Perhaps it's just a last hysterical fling, a frantic escape from reality, with the grim prospect of six months' winter ahead, but they certainly burn with a clear, gem -like flame while it lasts. Where is the sober householder who should be chinking up the nooks and crannies, putting on the storm win- dows, getting in his fuel supply and battening down all the hatches for the bitter voyage that looms ahead? I'll tell you where he is, on his day off. He's standing in ice water up to his nipples, trying to catch a rainbow trout. Or out on the golf course, so dispensed by bill smiley bundled with -sweaters he can hardly swing. Or he's sitting with a noggin, watching the football game on television. That's where he is. And where's the guide -wife who should be knitting woollen socks, putting down preserves and canned meat, airing the flannelette sheets, patching the f-a-mi-l-y's long underwear and quilting a quilt? I'll tell you where she is. She's on th phone talking about what she's gol to wear to the tea. Or she's off in the car to attend a wedding. Or she'`s out playing bingo. Or she's taking in' an auction sale. Or she's sitting around with her feet uptching the afternoon movie. That's 4ere she is. It must shake our pioneer ancestors rigid to look down, or up, from their present abode, and see us preparing for winter. About this time of, year, grandfather was killing a beef, shooting a deer, salting down a hog, making apple cider, stacking vast piles of firewood and hustling his wheat to the mill. It must rot his celestial socks to look down and see his grandson hunting deer for a holiday, buying his pig pre- cooked at the m eat counter and laying in his fuel supply by picking up the phone and calling the oil dealer. And what about Granny? In her day, fall was the time when you worked like a beaver, making sausage, spinning wool,putting eggs away in waterglass, filling the 'root cellar, making candles and soap. She must do a little quiet cussing in the shadow of her lo, when she sees her granddayygghte facing up to the rigors of w?tr'ter`:' - racked by the dreadful indecision of whether to buy a home freezer or a fur coat; torn by the dilemma of whether to have the cleaning woman come once or twice a week. But, of course, that's looking at only one side of the situation. Grandaddy didn't have to worry about antifreeze, atom bombs, income tax or payments on the car:- He didn't need sup- positories, diets and a new tail -pipe every time he turned around. And Granny didn't have to cope with a kitchen full of machinery, kids who were smarter than she was and the late movie. She didn't need sleeping pills, cigarettes or psychology. -__._� Say, come to think of it those WERE the good old days. They didn't have much but what they had was their own, not the finance company's. No auto accidents, no Alcoholics Anonymous, no Apsirin. Let's stop worrying about the hardships of our pioneer ancestors and get back to sweating over our own neurotic chaos. Last Saturday, Central Huron's Senior Redmen, were able to bring home the Huron -Perth football title, the first timeqn 18 years. This win is' not s rprising to many since the CHSS boys ha a remained undefeated all season, rec rding one shoutout at that time. 10 YEARS AGO November 12, 1970 Remodelling of the former supply Ilding at Canadian Forces Base to povide new quarters for the expanded operations of .the Clinton Area a is moving ahead rapidly. Ontario Hyrdo bought the building from the department of nAtional defence last July for $70,000. Along with the supply building, Hydro acquired 3.44_acres of land which is to be used for storing vehicles and other equipment. Larger facilities for Clinton Area became necessary after it was amalgamated with Exeter Area this spring. Clintdn Mayor Don Symons salutes after placing a wreath at Remembrance ceremonies at the Clinton cenotaph on Wednesday. The ceremony marked the last time members of the forces from CFB Clinton will take part since the base is scheduled to be closed next September. Members of Clinton town council ex- pressed concern over the laxity of sen- M''tences handed out by the Courts on many. cases charged by Clinton Police. During the discussion of the monthly police report Mayor Donald Symons ndted that many persons charged with. one of- fence by the police had been appearing in court with diminished charges than those issued by the arrestin,officers. 25 YEARS AGO November 10, 1955 Huron County's Apple Queen, pretty Miss Marilyn Ashton, helped to serve some of tha delicious fresh apple- cider which was enjoyed by .more than 400 people during the Apple Festival here on Saturday. Miss Ashton was picked as the Apple Queen from the floor of the Festival dance held in the Legion Memorial Hall that night. By the way, some suggested planks for a good election program in Clinton; smooth sidewalks along Percival Street in front of the public school and along Princess in front of the high school; plans for con- version of the'old "white Elephant" school into a useful thing; review of street lights all over town with view to brightening up the corners ; promise as good government as Clinton had had throughout the past six months and add something extra. The local fishermen did not suffer too greatly from Thursday's storm. Those who had nets out recovered them the next day and it is thought that they are not too badly damaged. 50 YEARS AGO November 13, 1930 A free concert is being put on in the town hall on Friday evening by the Stratford Boy's Band. Avyeffort wiltbaii ade to start a boys' band in Clinton. Tuckersmith's West End Beef Ring intend holding their annual business meeting at the home of Mr. Fred Pepper on Tuesday evening next, November 18. Members are requested to attend or authorize someone to do business for them. Quite a number from Varna took in the concert in the new community shed last Tuesday night aria everyone enjoyed the concert put on by Mr. Bell and company. To the wea th erma n October 26, 1980 Dear Weatherman : 2 Someone suggested I should write to you before I become too busy pestering Santa Claus. I didn't take him seriously until today. I opet ed the door this morning and stepped outside. The. wind blew''me back in. I tried again, 'had snow pellets stung my face. My nose turned blue before the car warmed up. This is autumn? Winter does not officially begin until December 21. Therefore we should be in the midst of sunny, crisp and colourful fall days. Where have you been? On a Florida vacation? Granted, you turned out a few good days in early October. They were perfect. They showed us what autumn is all about. They were too good to last, and they didn't. the reader writ' letters Dear B'ditor, On. October 23 the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing on Tuckersnxith council's request for approval on Bylaw No. 11-1980 was held and concluded. The decision Was not in our favor, that is our protest against this bylaw,: making the people, &,� of Vanastra only, to pay for the original $130,000 debenture on the Rec - Centre was not sustained. However, the dispute on the issue of OMB ap- proval has now been decided. As members of one family, we are after all neighbors and all residents of the township, we had our family conflict so to speak. We needed someone from the outside of the family to settle the -argument. Now by,�allappearancest_ the argument is settled and it is time to heal the hurts and restore broken relationships. I believe that at this point the council has a real responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to take the initiative and make some real moves of goodwill and fairness to the people of Vanastra. I suggest that the present arrangement on the curling club building be reconsidered. This has been a sore point all_ along. Reconsider the present financial set- up and also make this building more available to a larger number of people of the community for various ac- tivities. After all, this was part of the original petition, a place for the people of the community. • A second suggestion is t give all the residents of Vanastra a 25 to 30 percent discount on all program and 4 membership fees of the Rec Centre for the length of the debenture. My prediction is that this gesture will increase the total revenue because ,.more residents will participate. Also this will give an incentive for more community participation in the Centre, something which is badly needed. I also believe that this type of move on the part of council will remove something of the bitterness and hard feelings of the past. The miserly 10 percent needs to be replaced with a more generous gesture of good -will. A third suggestion for goodwill on. the part of council towards the people • of Vanastra is to do something real about the park. The original petition mentioned a picnic shelter and tables. The area could really become a beautiful community park, perhaps under the sponsorship of the Lions, but with financial backing from the council. As a community Vanastra needs a local project, something of which we can be proud, something on which we can work together, which we can enjoy with our neighbors and of which we can also say, "This is ours". On -the OMB hearing, just a few comments. The whole conflict has been costly, also in some respects painful, and certainly time con- suming. What have we learned, and what are the positives? As I think back upon the proceedings, a few thoughts come quite readily. For one thing, as people, I would never want a public petition pushed on me, or push one myself, without a public meeting or meetings. Without such open public meetings, the door is wide open for a few persons to push through their particular project. Also a council, a governing group of persons elected by the people, should never accept a public petition without putting their ears close to the people. And I mean the people, not just a few activists. , I noticed from the proceedings at the hearing that the changes from an open to a closed swimming pool were acted upon by council upon the recommendation of a few! Decisions. were made by council affecting the eople`--©€- V-anastra --as-- a -whole -but -- without the benefit of a well publicized and open public meeting. This is inexcusable and should never happen again. Those who are elected by the people for the people, at least must also listen to the people, not just a few. It is unfortunate that neither the township clerk, nor the council of 1974 called to the attention of the OMB the Turn to page 7 ,at What might have been a serious fire occurred on Saturday morning last when Mr. Geo. Beadle's house in Auburn caught fire. Mr. Beadle had burned out the chimney and had gone to work inthe field when his wife noticed smoke coming out of the roof. Telephoning neighbors and calling for the aid of the chemical °fire extinguisher in the village, the fire was put out, but not till considerable damage had been done to the roof of the house. For rent, 6 -room house, electric lights and town water, with garden situated. South of railway. Rent.$5 per month. Apply to Joe Allison, Clinton. Many young people today are getting the impression that hard times means only one car to the family and attendance at the movies reduced to three times per week. 74 YEARS AGO November 8, 1906 Mr. Thos. Jackson Sr., has had his store, which was considerably damaged by a a short time ago, completely overhauled. The painting and papering was done by that master" hand, Mr. Jos Copp and the result is that the place looks even better than new. There is nobody who can do that class of work better than the Artistic Copp as witness any job that he undertakes. A few months ago Mr. R.J. Asquith of Auburn tock out an accident and sick policy with Mr. A. Hooper. A week or so ago, after recovering from a ten -week period of illness, Mr. Asquith received a cheque for $50; which very effectively helps to keep the wolf from the door. 105 YEARS AGO November 11, 1875 ' On Wednesday evening 3rd inst., the boys in town manifested their delight over the arrival of the first train on the L.H. and B. by a bonfire on the Market ground and on Saturday evening the Brucefield people delighted in the same Way. The last few days have "witnessed a super -abundance of mud in and around town, making it very disagreeable for pedestrians and others having out door work to do: It has also made travelling on the country roads somewhat difficult, but notwithstanding this drawback, a con- siderable quantity of produce has, been brought in.. - We understand a sub -contractor for the railway fence building, named Timanus, took French leave of his creditors in this neighborhood and made a bee line for the land of the free, the latter parties suffering to the extent of $300 or $400, some of them, for boarding, being ill able to bear it. Robert Jones, a young man of this place, while at, a chopping bee in Hullett, a few days since, cut his ankle very severely by his axe glancing. ' Under medical treat= ment he is progressing favorably. -- Do you have an opinion? Why not write us a etter to - the editor, an let everyone know. All letters ow published, providing the cap be authenticated, and pseudonym* allowed. All letters, however,, are, subject to editing for length or libel. by aine townshend A peculiar thing about those days was they started on Wednesday and ended on Friday. Like clockwork, the sun went down on Friday night and the rain clouds came out on Saturday. Some people, who were cooped up in an office or a classroom all week, took exception to that, sir. Farmers didn't enjoy hauling corn out of the mud, either. 1 realize your job is difficult, and nagging from me will not make it easier. But I. thought I should bring to your attention that things are getting out of hand. The damp dreary mess of the past few weeks was one thing, but this sudden cold blast is something else. I have yet to meet anyone who is ready for winter. Most agree it is too cold too soon. Some are considering mutiny. What do you intend to do about it? A month or more of Indian Summer-. - frost on plowed ground in the morning, sunshine bi the afternoon and clear skies at night - would soothe some crusty spirits."' A dusting of snow in December - enough to give us an official White Christmas but not enough to interfere with travel - would please many people. An open winter, with drifts strategically placed to keep skiers smiling and motorists driving, would be appreciated. You did a good job last winter, but let's be honest. Anything would have looked good after the winters we endured earlier in the 70s. Southwestern Ontario is notorious for its hard winters, and residents have proved their perseverance time 'and time again. Can't we break from tradition? 1, for one, believe we deserve a break today. Check your woolly caterpillars, and see what you ca-;, do about it, will you? ' " Yours truly, 0 degrees and freezing Guide gratitude 6) Dear Editor: Radar District Girl Guides of Canada would like to express their thanks to everyone that helped & "m our'bake sale a success including the mothers that donated the baking, many buying things back, the Guiders that gave up their day to work and the Pathfinders for their time and help also the public that supported our sale. Our movement has few ways ofi) making money as we cannot canvass SW' or sell tickets on draws as we have to give persons value for their money for anything we sell. But we can take donations. We are hoping this money raised will make camping easier more fun for our girls this year. Camping together as a group can a great experience for our girls eve in wet weather - just ask some of our older girls. District Camp Rep. and Guider, GladysMato