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Clinton News Record, 1955-02-03, Page 2Gig TWO CiLusrr0111' 1E!S REC01 TFIUftSDAY, FEBRUARY\3; in IE CLINTON. NEW ' ERA' Firsts issue :June 6, 1865 THE CUNTON NEWS -RECORD First issue ('Huron+ News -Record) Newspaper.._; Amalgaii ated 1924 'An:Inde Independent devoted to the-Interestsofthe Town o Clinton"and SurroundingDi, str i t Poulationr 2,543; Trading Area, 10 000'Retail Market; 000 000; Rate, 4.5c per linenflat Scyornc:Circulation 2,016 Bonne of. Clinton RCAF Station and Adastral)Park .(residential)` - MEMBER: CanadianWeekly Newspapers Association°' •Ontario- uebec' ''Division CWNA• Wester.Ontario Countis ress Association '" •�. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in ,advance -Canada ,and Great Britain: 42.50 a year; United States and Foreign: $3.50; ' Single Copies Six Centel re b carrier to RCAF Station n d stral Park.. -25 cents.a'month; seven cents 1Dcltve d Y . . n and. A a , ,me a copy Authorized as second class mail, Post Office, aDepartment: Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON Ontario Canada in the Heart of Huron County. THURSDAY, 'FEBRUARY 3, 1955 POLICE PROTECTION THROUGHoUT the past`weeks negotiations We consider th at the re u sts of the coOdra' (if such they may be called) were 'being, held for additional working hours, at inadequate pay by 'Council with the.,,Police Constables of the , means that'the Councillors are dissatisfied with town of Clinton, the worst of 'the constables: Certainly if their Council set salaries for all 'e ployees and :Work were considered satisfactory,' then them instructed them to sign agethents, The changes pay -should nave remained the same, at least. inthe agreement with the police .department, Apd since general costs of living in Canada are though openly, offering a raise of, $50, in effect still rising, one could reasonably expect an iii actually lowered the per hour, wage from an- ' ' crease, if only a small .one. proximately 91 cents to 84 cents for each of the We also consider it most unfortunate that junior` constables. no. diseussion of -the-situation. was held between.; , Each man on the force was, asked to work police and council_: the equivalent of 56 hours per week (last year It seems most unfortunate if the policy of, they worked 52 hours); to maintain a telephone -trying to keep the; mill rate in Clinton at the for business purposes; and to cover for 4ach' same level for three years in a row should. mean`. other, on holidays and vacations -without extra any lessening in the quality` of police protection pay. It means at times working for 14 days in Clinton: at a • stretch, 12 hours a day. e As it now appears=the actions of Council Perhaps we "take too dim a view of the . may mean a reduction to two men.,This means efforts of the Councillors in this regard. less than 24 hours a day protectin, and also However, we consider that the handling of probably means less free time available • to the the situation in the first place was done in- a continuing of the Boys Rifle Club, which shows dictatorial manner which encouraged a like promise of being of great worth to our young attitude on the part of the police—an attitude boys. - • now resented by the council. - Why take this backward step? MUST OTHER PROJECTS SUFFER? IN 1953,' the year financing„ of .the new. public school began, the mill rate in Clinton jumped from 56 to 74 mills. This means an increase of $18 for each $10,000 assessment. Shocking? Not particularly. The people of Clinton voted on whether or not to build the new school. The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of building. A raise in mill rate was. expected, and it came. This year, however, the councillors are hard at work trying to keep the rate at the same level of 1953 and 1954. 'They are thinking of the pocket of ° the taxpayer when they make this attempt. To do it they plan to slice $1,000 from the public works committee—that means little, if any, work on the streets; • it means no * new sidewalks. Also; there is expected to be a cut in expenses on the geeral government tin - pertinent — which means little work done on the town ball. And also the councillors plan to pare expenses to the bone th the police depart- ment. Do Clinton taxpayers want this to happen?: Do you want the provision of a new school for your children' to cause the neglect of the town properties? Do you honestly wish for the reduction of police protection in town because increased educational costs have been necessary? Do you really feel that your children will in future years thank you for permitting a saving policy of council at the present time to leave them a sadly depreciated town in the way of streets, sidewalks, shabby town hall; etc.? TOO MANY BOSSES? FULLY EXPECTING that we will be criticized for. using so much editorial space on one subject, we feel that there are a few more items to be recalled to ,mind at this time when the present set-up of the Clinton Police Depart- ' ment is being threatened. We recall vividly in January of 1953- when Chief of Police J. Ferrand resigned, giving as his reasons dissatisfaction over the use of the car, the hours, and "too many bosses": The resignation was accepted with regret by council,• If Clinton accepts tse suggestion of a two - :and a number of citizens expressed their dismay man force, then the people will not be protected at losing the chief, Within the next three adequately. months, the, town was policed by another man, and a procession of constables. Then that chief If the council finds itself unable to properly resigned, giving as his reasons, hours of work, administer a police force, and if the provincial dissatisfaction over the. use of the car, and police system is called in, then the job will be done by no less than three constables and a corporal, at an estimated cost of well over $15,000. There would be no control over which men were sent here: (When quoting these latter figures to the 1953 council, M. J. Agnew stated, "We assure the "press that We can operate at much less dist and We believe as efficiently.", Instead of encouraging a job well and thoughtfully rlone, Council has seen fit to reduce. police Wages when 'both PUC and town em- ployees were given raises. • The Clinton Police Force has received com- mendation from those men high in the admin- istration of the law within the county. Clinton has a population of more than 2,800 persons. It is commonly accepted that an urban municipality should have a policeman for each,. thousand population. That means three men are needed here. In addition there is the added responsibility of the 2,500 persons at nearby RCAF Station Clinton. there was some indication of "too many bosses." Then Chief Ferrand was asked to take the job again, and he was kind enough ,to do so, though it meant giving up a steady position. Since then, with the 'help of two steady 'con- stables, working under the direction .of the police committee, the chief has moulded an efficient force, The met have been willing to, give freely of their time in work with the hogs of the tows. There has been no complaint of their job that we are aware: NO WEAK -ANKLES LEAGUE . (The Rural Scene prints"the following which ' still have a lot of fun although they are apt to sums up another angle of the sports scene. in • be tense because they may get manly tongue - nearly every modern corrunu sty). ' lashing from it e coach if they make a mistake. T BARS AGO in wintertime in one locality, The moderately skilful boys do not get as much exercise as they might but they .feel themselves to he a part of the team. The little fellow With weak ankles has a hard time. He sits on the bencli and his feet get cold. When he obtains. grudging permission to play a ,few moments he .: one puck and the small fellow with -weak ankles is promptly knocked deem by a hustling export: Would ensue... More often than not there would " He can do nothing right or useful, but to quit be two or three pucks of various sizes and , and go his lonely way is a hard choice for a shapes on the ice: This would lead naturally .to . nine-year-old. e It requires more maturity than the formation of what the sociologists now call is possessed by most of the adults who have "peer groups." The big, skilful boys would chase put him on this spot. ' one puckand the small felow with weak ankles His hurt is often justified on the grounds -would stumble happily about with other lads of that 'the organization is doing; the greatest good :roughly equal ineptness and enthusiasm. 1or.the greateat number but statistics on juvenile Today, it has become the fashion to organize delinquenoy do not prove this. The answer is 'even very young boys into regular hockey lea- . not a weak -angles league. It is better to try, ;goes. Some aspects•of this ate disquieting. Each however belatedly, to back away from so much . -team has an adult coach and the objective, quite' organization and recover something of the merry, d'requently, is to win the game. The skilful boys, . humbling poverty -pond atmosphere. -fifteen or twenty boys with hockey sticks and Skates would gather' on a rink or, more fre- quently, a frozen pond, known as Poverty Pond. Here a puck would be thrown.' down ant] a dis- organized game, in which each lad tried to keep For a . Brighter Day A. SPECIAL NOTE for Health Week from .the Cornwall Standard Freeholder: "Wiggle your toes in the morning and the •day will be brighter for you. This is especially true if you have to get out of -a warm, bed on a cold day, as who, doesn't at this time of year?' "Who says so?,; Why, Dr. 'G. K. Selborne, 'London. His advice is not to fight, the alarm clock. When it goes off, he says, start ing and—if' you feel like it-yawningi, But be sure to twiddle your -toes, too—that'simportant,. "You'll feel -better getting up. And, having " LIFE THE LIFE that counts must toil and fight; Must hate the wrong and,love the right; Must stand for truth by clay and night— This is the life that counts. ' The life that counts must helpful'_be; The cares and needs of others see; Must seek the slaves of tin to free-- ° This is the life that' counts. • —Unknown. got out of the right side of the bed, you'll- feel better all day. That's what the man says." Information Loadingto Arrest of :Vicious Killer laking 17i000 Canadian Lives Each Year (By 1 ON,KENiON, Te[egram Science R:eport'ter) Tilts is. the .first in a series of five articles.. Unseen vicious, elusive, a,killer is • loose in, Canada taking. 17,009, lives a year. -,Recently, ,1,75 men and women, tracking down clues,- held a meet- ing at Honey'. Harbor, Ontario . . tall men,. short men,; bald 'men: men of every ',type; young women; white-haired . women, all sorts of women. They had one dream in common — to arrestthe criminal They held Many clues , too many clues ... many answers :. . right.:too many answers , . none wholly Many agreed that the final.an-- swercannot be too 'far 'away. All over the world; slowly; dramatical- ly,the medical forces' are closing, in. Increasingly, "temporary" cures, or treatments that work in a few cases but not in others, are - being found,,' -Repeatedly, bits of evidence arefitting a larger mo- saic oftheory, like pieces in a jig -saw puzzle, ' How long will it be.before the final answer is found? That de- pends on whom you ask.: Some say ten years. Others less. A few point out that if any tiny, vital piece of information is lacking the final answer may be even longer in coming. But the • hunt is in full cry. Biologists, chemists, geneticists, botanists, .:radiologists, ' patholo- gists, entomologists and others are all in the pursuit - now. Re- cer`itly a Toronto nutrition labor- atory which once had no interest in cancer made a worthwhile dis- covery. All these specialists are draftees flung by society into one of the greatest` hunts mankind has ever undertaken. Let's see how cancer starts . , Suppose yourself lying in bed one night. All the cells of your body have been "'good citizens" so far. Suddenly, without warning, without any outward sign, one of these cells takes to "crime". It begins stealing food from neighbor- ing cells. ' Much of this food it wastes. It snarls up the chemical processes of your body which so far have ensured proper; food to all .parts and at the satire time it destroys your ,:appetite, .Worse still, it: begins manufacturing more delis,of its own type, and each new cell inakesmore criminals. , It is as though a. respectable man suddenly took to' murder, pillage and destruction inhis com- munity and acquired the power to turn others 'into criminals like himself,' • Soon: the ' community would be destroyed. This; is exactly what cancer ;lust 'merry ou can't get drunk on sherry'!, declared 'the gracious hostess to -a hesitant youth, .,But she is dead beverage. wronhg Sherry rs defmrtely alcooli'e e It - is made g an One huge problem in` studying cancer' is that cancer "cells are too much like• normal cells, While the effects of cancer cah be read- ily ' demonstrated, and though ;a tumor can be identifiedunder,, a microscope as being cancerous; the actual disease- remains elusive. What is cancer? knows. Nobody b y serk-? _ What causes a cell -to go ber- ` Nobody knows, Like an unidentified: criminal prowling the highways of human- jty cancer has no recognizable face. , Seek: a human killer with a "tattoo mark on his forehead ai-id he's soon' caught. But look for a quiet -spoken, average -looking kil- ler whom no, one has ever seen ! He is like a million other people and how is he tobe ident- ified? So it- is with cancer . Cancer cells multiply rapidly, but this in itself is not a nark of cancer. Normal cells do the same thing. A. baby, for instance, de- velops in his mother's womb, by cell. the multiplication of a single egg But whereas the baby cells miraculously •differentiate in hair, bone, eyes, skin, .muscle and - so on, the cancer cells do not. They simply multiply, forming a huge, unwieldly tumor: As the baby grows, harmless •chemical changes occur in the mother's body, but as cancer grows it upsets body chem- istry. It spoils its host's appetite while it takes food for itself—a process which inevitably leads to starvation. Finally, though a baby will die first if its mother starves giving her a chance of survival, the cancer grows in fine health, From Our Early Files 40 YEAR.) AGO The Clinton News -Record, Thursday, ]February 4, 1915 The town council on Monday evening appointed its officers. No change was made except for ceme- tery superintendent, that position being given to 3. W. Shobbrook. The hours of duty of the chief and assistant. were re -arranged. Serg- eant Welsh's hours are from mid- night until noon with from 6 to 7.30 a.m for rest and refreshment. Chief' Wheette?' 18 to be .on duty from 7 a,m. until- 10 p.m. The membership of the fire brigade re- mains as before, that is chief, Iiarry Bartliff;' captain,_. 3. H. Herr; lieutenant, James Finch; secretary, Iiarry Glazier; firemen, II. McBrien, Elmer 'Finch, William Wheatley, N. Kennedy, Luke Law- son, Harry Fremlin. Murray' Mc - Ewan, W. Coats, Bert Fremlin, Alex Cudmore, J. E. Johnston, W. Kennedy, The train due here from the east nt 11.15 ran into a snowdrift east of Seaforth on Monday. The engine was thrown from the track and the passenger coaches pretty well shaken up. The engineer and fire- man were both scalded. None of the nassengers were injured. Major, McTaggart, W. R. Counter and J. E. Cantelon were among the pas- sengers. The. Clinton New Era Thursday, February 4, 1015 One •of the big transformers burned out on Monday night about 7.30 and the town was in darkness. Light was restored Tuesday morn- irfr, The rani on Sunday and the Freeze-up made the streets very icy and many a one took a tumble Street chairman, Reeve Ford, had a team out with a set of harrows and they loosened tip the ice con- siderably. Clinton's Spring Fair will be held an April 1. Offieer s elected were; president, John. Shanahan; r•ire-president, Gem ee Hoare; treasurer. A. J. Tyndall; secretary, A. 7, McMurray; exeeutivc, David C€intelon, Williem Rhin, Thomas Coleman and Oliver Johnston. A Dress rennet says that the market price of beans range from $2 un accordine to quality. Yesterday - afternoon a team from :the orincinal's room- of the public school defeated an aegrega- fion from the second department, 9-5. The players were: reincinal's rnnm: Clete D.unford, Edith Jones, Ethlye Wasman, 'Sadie -Draper, Bessie Murphy, Fannie Ilellyar, Ruth'Argent, Second department: Alma, McCorvie, Pearl Gould, Ev- elyn Cluff, Agnes Walker, Amy Helyar,,Fannie Cree, Dora Schoen - 25 YEARS AGO The Clutton News Record Thursday, January 30, 1930: G. R. Paterson, for the past five years representative of the On- tario 'Department of Agriculture in Huron and Peel Counties; while in Huron a resident of Clinton, has resigned. He has accepted the Position of agricultural fieldman OFF MAiN STREET . YOU KIDS -ONE ME THE D1REOIIONS ANC1,.T'LL DRIVE YOU OUT TO T'HE'LAK E SO; YOU CAN FOE SKATE!,` By JOE DENNETF OFFidER, ONE i iD 5A10 "TURN RiGHT"- ANOTHER SA40 bt EFT ; AND THE THIRD SAlO PSrrRAIGHT AHEAD!" TRIED TO PI;.E'ASE 'EM ALL! with the American Cyanimid Co. Much enthusiasm marked the occasion of the banquet given by the Liberal -Conservative Associa- tion of Clinton community in the honour of the Hon. R. B. Bennett, leader of the Liberal -Conservative Party in Canada, The banquet, held in the town hall yesterday evening was a complete success. Miss Viola Livermore has re- turned after spending a few days with her brother in Stratford. Mrs. Cree Cook is visiting in Detroit this weekend andattend- ing the American Beauty Trade exposition in session there. 10 YEARS AGO Clinton News -Record Thursday, February 1, 1945 Gladstone Grigg, Goderich Town- ship, has purchased the Clinton branch of the John B. Mustard Coal Company. Mr. Grigg intends to take up residence in Clinton in the spring. Clinton,and Eneter juveniles tied in a hockey game on Tuesday night after ten minutes of overtime. Goalgetters for Clinton were Roy Churchill and F. MacDonald. Miss R. V. Irwin is spending a couple of weeks in Montreal. Miss Lois Reams, Woodstock,, spent the weekend with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. B W: Kearns. Miss Mildred Heard and Miss Florence Aiken spent the weekend in Goderich at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Fred Sandy. Zero weather and travel on rural roads practically at a standstill kept. many of the usual donors away from the blood clinic on '17ufrsday. To date Clinton has taken 1,512 bloods. .The annual meeting of the Clin- ton Spring Show was held ih the agricultural office hoard rooms. It was decided to hold the fair the first week in June in the park at Clinton, Officers elected were: honorary president, John McFar- lane, Sr., Humphrey Snell, William McEwen, Frank Powell, William Lobb, Ephraim Snell, John Innis; president, Roy Pepper; first vice- president Dick.J'acob; second vice-' president, Wesley Nott; secretary, a. 13. Matheson; - treasurer, A. J. McMurray,, 't from the 'fermentation of white grapes. After pressing, .the 'grapes- are "plastered" i.e. sprinkled with gypsum,to aid fermentation. After this process, reducing the sugar content' down to.8 or 10 degrees, alcohol,: • often.] in ' the form of brandy, is added to bring the win up to 18 or 20 degrees„of;alcoholic content. Indeed, even; natural. sherry is no weak Sister in the family of sweet wines; Herewith comparative' statisticsre-the aver- age percentage of alcoholic streng- th' contained in several kinds of s'weet ` wine. Claret 10.5, Cham pagne 11.0, .Sherry (natural) 16, (fortified) 20, Port (natural) 16, (fortified) 22. You CAN. get' drunk` on Sherry, Not many do perhaps, for it is `served`in•. small doses. •, But it is ideal as' a first drink".; wine for youth.., It is one- of the "innocent" • home cocktail drinks.:' This dv tisement is a er inserted by the: Huron County Temperance. Federation. ° 5-b.. r.,r CONCERNING FOXES To The Editor, Clinton News -Record ' DEAR:` SIR: A recent article in your paper regardingpaying of fox bounty in, Huron •County moved me to ex press my views on the matter. I Was against this practice when it first started'. because at that time county officials had no Guth- ority to pay it. The Department of Lands' and Forests have since given couhti S this right, - There are many who talk about 'the bounty' system. as "unspoets- manlike", "waste of money', "ful- filling no useful purpose",. "danger of destroying a useful animal", etc. All these things are a lot of non- sense, Times, have changed a lot even in the last ten years. We could not -destroy all the foxes when they were worth $35 per pelt; much :less now at a bounty of $2; and pelts worth nothing. Hordes of hunters roam the woods shoot- ing rabbits (the natural food for foxes) leaving the foxes because they are_ of no value. Foxes` have become so plentiful and feed so scarce they have turn- ed 'to killing skunks which are of more use to the farmer than foxes. Your article states foxes control mice which is true; but our mea- dow mousewhich is the mouse referred to, has become • very scarce in many districts. Mr. Dale makes this remark: "What do we do then? Hire hunt- ers to shoot the mice?" This then seems to' be the an- swer. What happened in Alrerta and Saskatchewan is happening in Ontario to -day. Rabies. At the Northern On- tario Trappers' Association con- vention held in Huntsville on Jan- uary 17, 18, 19, we were told that this terrible scourge-. is slowly creeping southward as it did in the west. Would it not be better to have less foxes and healthy ones? I have no axe to grind. We took as many foxes this year as last, bounty or no bounty. Last summer there were four dens of foxes within half a mile in any direction of ourplace and 14 dens within an area of a few square mites. This is one of the many things that will be discussed at the Hu- ron County Trappers' meeting in Clinton on Friday, February 25 at 8 p.m. , ROBERT G. JOHNSTON, President, Huron County Trappers' Association. Jan. 31, 1955 R.R. 1, Clinton. killing its victim before it • be - conies ttie.victim of its own rapac- ity. Useful Point One useful point of similarity between 'the growth of a foetus and a cancer was brought out by Dr. E. IV...McHenry and his col- leagues olleagues of the Public Health Nu- trition Laboratory, University of Toronto. The', showed that there is a big increase of glutamic acid. in the blood of cancer patients: The same sortof increase -occurs at one stage of pregnancy. Why? Thats one thing being studied. Whatever cancer is, the secret seems to lie inside the cell. This makes investigation difficult be- cause a cell measures only about a thousandth of an inch in diam- eter and contains parts infinitely smaller than that. The cancer solution has had to wait on numerous apparently un- connected discoveries. Just as it would .have been impossible for Columbus to discover America un- til someone else invented the ship, so cancer cure had to await me- thods by which the internal opera- tions of cells could be explored: (Watch future issues of the Clinton News -Record for more articles in this series.) SPECIALS W1elozets 'win keep your weight down. 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