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Clinton News-Record, 1983-10-26, Page 4PAGE 4—CLDITONI WS -H ECORD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 19 3 tits Clintons itlnmro-fltrtmad hasultilatiod ouch Visninsisality at P.O. Soo 851. Clinton, ®uteri®. Ceintiniks. MHZ 11,x. Tail.: -3648. 8igtog: iption Sohn Cttw - $19.PS Sr. Chime - ®16.7* For yaw U.S.A. foreign - **SAO For yaw it is raj :stens: es =send eaves :wail) by Oen post aeon arwdor Iiia portrait noorttisa gg17. TPrm Olisouni-Sosorit incorporated in lin* tine Moron PQa+teta.8cz®rd, founded in 16181, nail *Po Clinton stews Ow. imitated in MIS. Total grows runs &)'O . incorporating 4 THE BLYTH STANDARD, r J. HOWARD AITKEN - Publisher SHELLEY Mr7PHEE = Editor GARY HAIST - Advertising Manger MARY ANN H®LLENRECK -.Office Manager A MEMBER ®Irplev advertising rotes svvrlleble ore request. Ask for Mete Card. Mo. le effective October 1, 19I3. MEMBER /Make Halloween safe Hallowe'en, children and UNICEF are three words that are closely linked with the month of October annually. October is a time for ghosts, witches, costumes and parties, and for thousands of children across Canada, an opportunity to help other children around the world through UNICEF's Hallowe'en fundraising campaign. Canadian, support of UNICEF at Hallowe'en is the highest in the world, and this year thousands of Canadian children will be out once again Trick -or -Treating for UNICEF. Because UNICEF is concerned with your child's safety, this year you will see Trick -or -Treaters wearing the new UNICEF Hallowe'en "Vest", designed to be worn over a Hallowe'en costume. Provided by Sears at no cost to UNICEF, the UNICEF Hallowe'en "Vest" is made of clear plastic and is trimmed with the retro - reflective material, Scotchlite, which has been especially designed to reflect light and is considered the best material for visibility after dark. In order to make this Hallowe'en safe and fun for everyone, UNICEF's Safety Rules ore provided as a public service by UNICEF Canada and your provincial UNICEF Committee. The UNICEF Safety Rules are: 1. Never Trick -or -Treat alone. Go with a friend or in a group. Adults should accompany young children. 2. Parents should set a curfew and boundaries within familiar neighbourhoods. 3. Youngsters should be advised against entering the house or apartment of a stranger. 4. Children should show parents treats when they arrive home - especially unwrapped candies and fruits. 5. Avoid Trick -or -Treating late at night. Wear Tight coloured, flame -resistant costumes and carry a flashlight. 6. Wear the new UNICEF Hallowe'en "Vest" over your costume so that you con be seen easily. 7. Try on your costume before you leave the house to make sure your costume does not block your view of on -coming vehicles. Tie up any loose or dangling ends that might cause you to trip. 8. Culls should be made along one side of the street and then along the other. Cross streets at intersections or crosswalks. 9. Keep your UNICEF collection box in your hand or hang it around your neck with a piece of string. Keep one hand free to balance yourself. 10. If you see someone causing trouble or damaging other people's property, stop at the nearest house and ask an adult to call the police. 11. Drivers: Be particularly careful on Hallowe'en night. 12. Residents: Check porches, steps and yards for tripping hazards. Have your coins ready for UNICEF when your neighbourhood children come to your door carrying their orange and black UNICEF box. Help UNICEF make this a safe and happy Hallowe'en for all childrgn! Behind The Scenes Remember those times when you were a kid: you wanted to wear shoes in the spring when there were two inches of snow still on the ground or you thought you were too grown up to wear long underwear and you told your mother ''but everybody else is do- ing it". Wise old mother said, "I don't care what anybody else is doing, you're my son/daughter and I won't have you catching cold/pneumonia." It was a great argument: don't worry about what other people do or say. I use it myself now that I'in a father. So how come it didn't sink M. Oh I'm not completely a fad follower. I may grudgingly admit there might be something to a new fad about the time all the trendies have decided its boring. My clothes look like something you'd donate to Goodwill ( which some trendy person would then buy and make very "in"). I don't eat at the chic restaurants when I go to the city. In fact, I'm about as out as I can be, and I like it that way. But I'm afraid I'm about as vulnerable to those very opinionated people who instantly know what is right and what is wrong as I was when I tried to convince my mother that "everybody" wore white socks to the high school dances and I just had to have some. it's just the subjects of my vulnerability that have changed. I protect myself from my vulnerability in many devious ways. I live in the country at the end of a laneway that has enough bumps to cripple one of those tough pickups that climb cinderblock mountains on the TV ads. In the winter it's even more discouraging to door-to-door insurance salesmen and pro- selytizing religious zealots unless they come equipped with snowshoes and the kind of adventurous spirit that leads people on polar expeditions. It keeps the opinionated world at a safe distance. But there are times you have to go out in the world: to earn a liv- By Keith Roulston Mg, to buy food, perhaps, heaven forbid, to go to a cocktail party. You come face to face, elbow to elbow with the perfect ones. You make some innocent remark and they let you have it. You mention going to a cer- tain restaurant and having a great meal. Well! they explode, that place should be con- demned. The food is horrid the service is worse. There's gum on the bottom of the tables and who knows what goes on in the washrooms. You admire a piece of artwork on the wall. Well! they spit. It's a cheap imitation by a no -talent fraud of an artist who should be selling shoes at a cheap discount store for all the taste he has instead of earning a comfor- table living as a painter. Isn't it horrible that shlock merchants like this make a liv- ing while great artists like ( they invariably know somebody in this category) have to struggle away painting part time from their jobs as university professors. You say something innocent about politics, something motherhood like, wouldn't it be nice if the world could live in peace. Well! they say and take off on a 15 - minute lecture on the ills of the Americans (if their left-leaning) or the wicked Reds, (if they're good patriotic business -types). You steer away from abortion to the point of jumping out a third story window if the subject comes up. You even try not to say, "nice day isn't it". You can't think of a single thing that's safe to talk about so you sit in the corner and pretend you've just come back from a visit to your dentist where you had two root - canals done. I keep a mental list of people like this. I record the color and make of car and the licence plate number. And if I ever see their car coming down our concession I run out and dig a few more pot holes M the lane. Join the non-smoking majority Two-thirds of Canadians don't smoke and feel better and happier for it. if you smoke, it's never too late to break free. Over two million Canadians have done it. You can too. Think of the advantages of breaking free from the tobacco habit: + You can save more than $30,0118 not in- cluding medical costs. That's what it will cost you at current prices if you smoke a pack a day from the time you start as a teenager until you retire. Think what you can do with all that money' + You rediscover food flavours. + Your voice sounds better. + Your breath is sweeter. + You probably have fewer facial wrinkles. + The air around you is fresher. + No smoky smell in your clothes. + The costs of cleaning walls and curtains is lower. + You help reduce the risk of house fires. And most Important of all - think of how much healthier you '11 be! Trick or treat Sugar and Spice' THERE'S nothing more exhilarating than going out on a limb. It begins when you're very little, when you eat a worm to see if he'll really stay alive inside you, or pick up a toad to see whether you'll wind up covered with warts. Later, it might be climbing out on a long, shaky tree limb over a deep pool, when you can't swim. Or it might be caught up in a tree, shirt stuffed with apples, while the voice of Geo. J. Jehovan thunders from beneath. "Come down, ye little divils; I know yer up there and I'll whale the tar out of yez and the police'll put yez away fer life." Or it might be caught in the act of swiping corn and racing through backyards and over fences, with the cobs dropping and your heart thumping and the shotgun going off into the sky. Or it might be, about age 12, smoking butts with the hoboes in the "jungle" beside the railway tracks, and having a drunk with a gallon of wine come up and start terrifying you with all sorts of obscenities you don't understand. Or, it might be, about 14 and spotted like a hyena with pimples, having to ask a girl to a party. knowing that you are the most repulsive, awkward booby in town. This is a rotten limb to be out on. By Bill Smiley It could be saying, "Don't you say that about my mother!" to the bully of your age and sailing into him, yourself outweighed 20 pounds, but your fists and feet and teeth going like a windmill. Or it could be a swimmingly exhilarating moment, like the clay when I was in high school and kissed my French teacher up in an apple tree. She was a spinster and six years older than I, but if I recall, it was a swooning experience and I think we both wound up hanging by our knees from the limb. These are some of the limbs I've been out on. Lots of other limbs. You've had yours; round limbs, crooked limbs, rotten limbs, smooth ones, brittle limbs, sturdy ones. We have all gone out on a limb. When you're young, you don't really know the difference, or you just don't care. It's climbing out on the thing that matters. Even at 20, I was climbing out on a limb, trying desperately to make the grade as a fighter pilot, sweating blood so that I could climb out on the fragile wing of a Spitfire and be killed. What an irony! Those who didn't make it were broken-hearted. And then there's the limb of marriage. Most males will climb out on the first limb that is endowed with long eyelashes or trim ankles or a big bust. Even though they know KalQidoscope The Clinton Public Hospital may be ex- periencing some financial shortages for needed equipment purchases, but problems at our local medical institution are minimual when compared to those at Royal Liverpool Hospital, London. Surgeons at the Britain hospital have been caught with their pants down because of a shortage of sterile operating garments. Some have even had to perform operations wearing nurses' skirts. In one incident that resembled a scene from MASH, Maureen Hinde's throat operation was postponed and her doctor jokingly offered, as an alternative, to operate in the only sterile garment available, a rubber apron. Officials at the 820 -bed hospital issued a public apology to the distraught patient, explaining that government health cuts were to blame for the shortage of sterile tunics. Do you suppose that that the Maggie Thatcher is trying to test the adaptability of surgical masks? + + + Our devoted Scouts and Cube will be out selling apples in Clinton on Friday evening it's a very green one, or a very brittle one, out they go. I was lucky. The limb I climbed out on was firm but yielding, green but not brittle. And I damn soon discovered that when you climbed out on that particular limb, you didn't carry a saw, but a parachute and an iron -bound alibi. However, what I started out to say was that, as we get older, we climb out on shorter and shorter, safer and safer limbs, until we are finally left, clutching the tree - trunk, even though we were only two feet off the ground. The old limbs (or the young limbs) creaked and swayed and cracked and dipped. They are replaced by the limbs of safety and conformity and security and enough life insurance. And the sad pal: is that these are the limbs we want our children to climb out on, no farther than two feet from the trunk and no higher than two feet from the ground. While they want to climb on the swinging limbs that will sail them to the skies or break and let them fall. All this of course, is a preamble to the fact that I'm still willing to go out on a limb. If somebody will fetch a step -ladder to help me get started up the tree. By Shelley McPhee and Saturday morning. Nicely shone by the Beavers, the apples will be sold to help raise funds for local Scout projects as well as for district and provincial activities. Be sure to support the Scouts and Cubs on their Apple Day drive. + + + Congratulations to the Clinton Kinettes on their recent award presentations at the fall council. The local club earned awards for Cystic Firbrosis, for the Mombassa, Kenya Secondary School for the Physically Disabled Project and for efficiency. + + + Marion Carter, of 386 James Street in Clinton had a real surprise when she got word on Sunday that her sisters were all coming to visit. It had been many years since the sisters had all gotten toegether and for the special erasion they dined out. The family group included Ruth Abraham, Betty Hillis, Minnie McDonald and Marjorie Geromette, all of Stratford, Irene Marshall of London and Dorothy Gauley of Goderich. Mrs. Carter comes from a large family that also includes two brothers, Percy of Caardston, Alberta and Bill of Owen Sound. A third brother, Arnow ivasn, cues itus spring. 1- + + Congratulations to Harold and Edna Adams. The local couple recently celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary with a dinner party at the Blue Fountain. Later they were entertained by friends and neighbors at a surprise party at their home. + + + Bayfield residents are reminded to send in their donations to the Arthritis Society in the specially designated envelopes. Local organizers are eager to wind up the canvass and in case you have lost or mislaid your envelope please call 565-2462, 565-2165 or 565- 2199 for another. -4-++ In Toronto it's estimated that $50,000 to $100,000 will be needed to set up an emergency food bank to feed victims of economic depression. In Ottawa, the government says it was "necessary" to spend X210,000 on international travel for Dairy Commission chairman Gilles Choquette. Governments have a fine sense of priorities, don't they' -from The Hamilton Spectator. WPM your s y ear Editor ilingualism - aefraud? Dear Editor: The Oxford dictionary defines fraud as deceitfulness, dishonest, artificer or trick. Webster's dictionary definition is deceit or trickery deliberately practised to gain some advantage dishonesty. We have Federal bilingualism all across Canada but Quebec, they have gone unl- ingual French, 17 per cent of their popula- tion is English' speaking ; you can't put up an English sign or you will be fined, not even a bilingual sign, your mother tongue has got to be English or you can't send your children to an English school. English speaking peo- ple are sent home from their jobs they have worked at for years because they can't speak French. There is also English speak- ing people sent home from their jobs all across English Canada because they can't speak French. On Nov. 13, 1982 speaking in Halifax to the Federation of Acadians in Nova Scotia (a French organization) the Secretary of State of Canada Serge Joyal stated that as long as he was Secretary of State of Canada he would direct his attention to malting Canada a French State; not only in Quebec but in the rest of Canada. He made it perfectly clear to his audience that he intended to use his of- fice not only to favor the French-speaking people but he would use his office to the determent of the rest of the people of Canada as can be seen in this statement, "If I have to cut back some programs, and I have already done so, there is one area in which I have no intention of using the scissors, the advancement of Franco -phone rights in Canada." He ended up by saying that we will see what the next 10 years will bring forth. This is the man who took the oath of office to represent Canada — the whole of Canada and to uphold the laws. This is the man that stood on the steps of Rideau Hall after being sworn in and told reporters that his job as Secretary of State was to strengthen the status of French in Canada. Serge Joyal and Trudeau were very much concerned over the Manitoba language question. Trudeau was out there to have a talk with the NDP leader who was going to make Manitoba Official Bilingual which means all the provincial government In- stitutions would be Bilingual, you would have to be able to speak French fluently or you could go home and a franco-phone would take your place and then they would install it in the constitution and that is what Trudeau and Serge Joyal want. He told the NDP leader to stick ,to his guns and then he called a meeting of all the members of the Federal House to discuss the language ques- tion and they came up with a resolution backing the NDP motion to make Manitoba Official Bilingual, not one vote against it. Bilingualism discriminates against, every ethic group in Canada but the P rench. Everyone has got to learn French and be able to speak it fluently before you can get a good government job, yet the leader of the Conservative party, the NDP party and of course the Liberal party, spoke in favor of it. I'm afraid if our English speaking members don't soon come out of their coma they will make this country a French state in 10 years, by the end of the next century Canada will be the largest French Roman Catholic country in the world. The cost this year to the taxpayers of the Ontario govern- ment French language program is 88 million dollars. This money is over and above the basic educational cost for every student in Ontario. Then we have the French law courts on top of that. 6 percent French 1 percent can't speak English. (Stupid English) A disgusted English speaking citizen. Asa Deeves, Hensall. Did you live in Tottenham? Dear Editor, 1984 is Centennial Year in Tottenham! ! A cordial invitation is extended to all former residents of the area to come and par- ticipate in the various events scheduled throughout the year. Several special weekends are planned including a Reunion Weekend July 6 - 8, with a host of exciting activities. July 7 could be your best chance to meet old friends and make new ones. A welcoming committee will be hosting a "meet your friends" social in the afternoon followed by a buffet dinner and a dance. If you lived here, shopped here, went to school or church here, we would like to see you again. Your presence will help to make our year a memorable one. For further information, please write to: The Centennial Committee, P.O. Box 310, Tottenham, Ontario, LOG IWO. Sincerely, Ralph Hatton, Reeve, Village of Tottenham Heritage series appreciated Dear Editor: On behalf of the Bayfield Local Architec- tural Conservation Advisory Committee (I,.A.C.A.C.) I would like to extend our ap- preciation to Mrs. Doris Hunter and Mr. George Chapman for the fine series of ar- ticles and photographs published in your paper over past months. The series, about historical buildings in Bayfield, is most interesting and infor- mative and does much to promote public awareness of our unique heritage. Again, our thanks to these two dedicated residents! Yours Truly, Arlene Kok, ( L. A. C. A. C. secretary)