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Clinton News-Record, 1951-05-31, Page 2PAGE TWO CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURSDAY„ MAY 31, 1951 Clt�o eves -Record The Clinton New Era established 1865 The Clinton News -Record established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 An Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interestsof the Town of Clinton and Surrounding District 'opulation, 2,600; Trading Area, 10,000; Retail Market, $1,500,000; Rate, .03 per line flat Sworn Circulation — 2,125 Newspapers Association; Ontario -Quebec Division, CWNA; Western Ontario MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Counties Press Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable in advance—Canada and Great Britain: $2.50 a year; United States and Foreign: $3; Single Copies Six cents pelivered by carrier to RCAF Station and Adastral Park -25 re ts a month; seven cents a copy Authorized as second. class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Published EVERY THURSDAY at CLINTON, Ontario, Canada, in the Heart of Hurronn Comy R. S. ATKEY, Editor A. L. COLQUHOUN,'Plant Manager THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951 Something That Everyone Can . Do their thinking and attitude to life. On the other hand there are some who have won such a spiritual victory over their ailing bodies that they are a source of inspiratioali who visit them. The mother of one of Britain's statesmen spent nearly half a century in bed, and to her bedside came the elite of the lend to be inspired ; by her courage, optimism and unselfishness. Plan to make this coming Sunday, June 3, the day in which you show at least two shut- ins -a civilian and a disabled veteran --that you care. It could be throughflowers, a gift or a letter; or a• personal visit in which you leave behind some little token of your thought- fulness. But above all don't forget them until Shut-ins' Day comes again next year to re- mind you once more. In His name who said, "I was sick, and ye visited me," let us unite in making June 3 a rare, unforgetable day for the Shut-ins and for ourselves. THIS IS A VERY ACCT•IVE, interesting kind of world. Most of us have many things to' do, and a great many more things that we are planning to do when we have the time and opriortunitY. Our very activity keeps us so busy that we tend to overlook the fact that there are a great many people who are shut out from the normal type of life by being shut in. To remind - us of these folk, and to urge us to do something for them, the first Sunday of June is set aside annually as Shut- ins' Day. Who are the Shut-ins? There is little need to ask, for every community has 'them: folk who are shut in through age, disability and various types of illness. Ndt only are they confined to the house; hospitals or other in- :atitutions,• but many cannot leave their beds. They all are compelled to lead a restricted life, and some of them readily admit that only the kindness of friends and the consideration of Visitors enable them to remain normal in June Agricultural Survey, 1951. are urged to complete the usual, June question- naire in addition to the census schedule so that the regular annual statistical work may be carried out. Statistics obtained from the annual survey are used extensively throughout the year by government departments, farm organizations and industry. International bodies, such as the World Food and Agriculture 'Organization, depend on the Bureau to supply up-to-date figures on Canada's agricultural industry. The farmer; through 'his response to the question- naires sent out by the Bureau, has a real op- portunity to help form 'a true picture of agri- cultural conditions and it is in his own interests to do so. The survey has no connection with taxa- tion. The farmer's individual form is seen only by workers in the Dominion and Provincial Agricultural offices. All individual forms are kept strictly confidential, FARMERS will be receiving through the entail, within a few days a questionnaire from the Agricultural Division of the Bureau of Statistics. This is the regular June survey of crops and live stock undertaken annually in co-operation" with provincial agricultural agencies. Commencing June 1 farmers also will be visited by an enumerator in connec- tion with the decennial census of agriculture. The information for the June survey is needed even though a census is being undertaken this year. The chief reason for •this need is that it will not be possible to assemble and add all the census schedules before the early part of 1952. Current estimates of acreages sown to field crops must be calculated and published before the end of July this year. Information on live stock numbers end disposition is also needed at an early date. Therefore, farmers Visitors In The Billions THE ROBINS, thrushes and orioles sing- ing in your garden these mornings are a few of the ten billion birds that have moved north to summer feeding grounds. If you've wondered why they fly north from the tropics instead of south, take a glance at a map of the world. As George Dock, Jr., points out in a June Reader's Digest article condensed from Frontiers, there is 50 times more land in the North Temperate Zone than in the South Temperate. And since land ex- tends longer dayluch ight in thether north northern hemithere sphere nesting grounds. Daylight, to birds, means food. Those who say that a person with a small appetite eats "like a bird" should note Mr. Dock's report on typical bird diets: "One chickadee ate over 500 cankerworms daily; a robin swallowed 15 worms an hour; a flicker's daily menu was 2000 ants; an owl's, ten mice in a night." Altitudes of migration very between a few Wing Their Way North hundred and 2,000 feat for most birds, but warblers cross the 20,000 -foot peaks of the Himalayas, and geese have been photographed 29,000 feet up. Most migrations are flown in r jumps of six to eight hours flying time. Brack- nell ack- poll warblers take six weeks to reach the Yukon from the Caribbean. But a few birds keep going for incredible distances. The golden plover travels 3,000 miles nonstop from Col- umbia to Newfoundland. Incredible. also, is the precision of flight schedules, The saline Baltimore oriole, returns to the same elm in a small village each spring. The calendar, not the temperature, decides the flight timetable. Unseasonable weather seldom alters the arrival of a species by more than a week. Migration has immense economic value to man, for the birds' summer occupancy of north temperate lands is the principle control of in- sects which otherwise would destroy all pians life. Canadians Have No Faults CANADIANS ARE LUCKY. ' Other nations have well-known faults, but our critics say we are not yet a nation and are not well known. Ergo, we cannot have well-known national faults, facetiously remarks The Print- ed Word. This gives us scope. We are not stuck with a role, like a friendly Irishmen forced to keep on being contrary, or a modest Eng- lishman condemned to being bossy, or a bag- pipe -hating Scot forced 'to fight if you run down bagpipes. Canadians can be anything within their capacity and their will to be. But only for this moment. We are on the edge of minor importance. We are runner-up for the championship of the Commonwealth and Em- pire. At the present rate, we could soon be 25 YEARS AGO The Clinton, News -Record Thursday, June•3, 1926 The death of Mss. John Shob- brook occurred at ' the home of Mrs. 'F. W. Watts, an adopted daughter. er . Also surviving v ivu1 are re an - atier daughter, Mrs. JohnCast- wright, and three sons: Char H, J W , and Joseph. The fun- eral was held from the home of Mn and Mrs. J. W. Shobbsoak with Rev. C. J. Mom -house of- ficiating. Pallbearers were Har- vey .Ifunking, John Cartwright, Fred W. Watts and J. W. Sh'ab- brook. Mrs. A. T. Cooper has been called to Evanston, Ill., on ac, count of the death of her mother, the late Mrs. Robert Seller,. ' George Burnett died at has home. Princess St. Surviving 'es well as his widow are four 'dau- ghters, ' Mrs. Townsend, Ma's. Ro- bert Dunibar, Mrs. Thomas Durr bar and Mrs. A. •Colclough. Rev. L. C. Harrison, assisted by Rev. W. H. Dunbar, officiated at the funeral. Pallbearers were W. A., D., W.; and John Jewett, Alex and Robert Welsh. Mrs. W. J. Miller had the mis- fortune to fall while getting out of a wagon at their farm in Hut lett Township and fracture a bone in her leg. Harry Ball. student at the University of Western Ontario, spent the weekend with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson. Ball, and now has left with a geolog- ical surveying party to be in the Red Lake district all summer. Rev. C. L. Harrison, W. T., Haw- kins, Misses Madelon and Har- riett Hawkins, Miss Z. Bawden, Mrs. J. Schoenhals, Mrs. C. Baker, Mrs. J. Johnston, Miss A. Foster, Mrs. S. G. Castle, Mrs. W. Ap- pleby end Mrs. J. P. Sheppard attended the Deanery meeting in Belgrave on Tuesday. ' Mrs. John Turner has been called to Hensall owing to the death of her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Sherritt. Markets were: wheat, $1.30; oats, 40c to 45c; buckwheat, 60c; barley, 60c; eggs. 20c to 28c; but- ter, 30c to 32c; live hogs, $13.75. Mrs. George Hayes had the misfortune to fall in the yard at her sister's home, that of Mrs. Walken, and suffered a fractured hip. Mrs. Hayes had been laid up most of the winter and was eagerly looking forward to the better weather so that she could get around a bit more, when this unfortunate accident had to hap- • 1• en. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McNeil and Miss Ferrol Higgins have been visiting in Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fitzsim- ons, J. Copp and E. C. Munro have been in Goderich attending the funeral of the letter s sister, the late Miss Nellie Munro. champ. Then people would stop patting us on the back; but, instead, lower and harder. We should be a well-known nation, with faults as confirmed before the world as the bumptious- ness of the Damyankee. Now, while few are looking at us very critically, is the time to get our national char- acter on straight. What kind of people do we want to be? Have we the capacity and the will to be that kind of people? We have, if the decision and effort is made by all of us. If we leave it to John Smith, along the street, we shall get stuck with a reputation for phlegm; or, if to Pierre Cote, for pea soup, or if to those two only, for binary fission. 'Let's all pitch in with Pierre and John to make it quite a country. Combine These Days CITIZENSHIP DAY on• May 23, Empire Day on May 24 and July 1 should be com- bined thinks The Finandiaal Post. "Here are three separate national observances of virtually the same fact squeezed within less than three months, and two of ,them on consecutive days." "In this welter of observances special days stand to all dignity' and meaning. This is particularly so of Citizenship Day, which in a single year has been almost forgotten. Why not consolidate all these observances in one celebration and make it really amount to something? Editorial Comment... If you must kick, kick towards the goal. If you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot on it and hang on. A' 'big man is usually a little man who took advantage of an opportunity. Business is like baseball; the hits yoµ made yesterday will, not win the game today. A chip on the shoulder • advertises the existence of more wood higher up. from visiting the Misses 'Gunne, London. Miss Kathleen Gunne accompanied her home for a few days visit, renewing acquaintances in Clinton. The Clinton New Era Thursday, d June e 1.1911 Y. o Clinton seers f ' i P.rrncal off p Lodge IOOF are: Noble Grand, Will Johnson; vice grand. W. H. Heliyar; recording secretary, B. J. Gibbings; financial secretary, J. Wiseman; treasurer, H. B. Chant.; delegate to Grand Lodge, James Tucker; representative to district meeting, J. Wiseman, J. W, Moore. John Lawson has purchased the property on Victoria St. belong- ing to Mrs. Doherty. Improvements include: Misses Doan are having a verandah built at their home; Sam Barr has had a sidewalk laid and his house painted, J. E. Cook doing the lat- ter job. A. J. Holloway and R. A. Downs are the census enumerators' for Clinton and have been getting in- structions in Goderich. Teachers at Clinton Public School wHose reports appeared in this issue include: L. Stevens, H. Oourtice, E. C. Tiplady, M. Wiltse, Minnie Ker, M. E. Chidley and;, John Hartley. Jacob Becker fell into a ditch on Ontario St. which had been opened for the waterworks sys- tem, and as a result of this fall sustained a fractured wrist. Markets were: hogs, $5.85; eggs, 17c to 18c; butter, 16c to 17c; peas, 70c to 75c; wheat, 76c to 78c; barley, 50c to 55c; oats. 30c to 35c; bran, $21; shorts, $23. Mrs. T. Hawkins and children plan to leave for Ingersoll next Monday where they will reside in future. +++�•••-++++�++a++++�4+HteWilliam Rice, Sr. returned to her Stanley Township , home with them, Mrs. Norman Baird visited her Mr, and Mrs. Waiter Baird vis sister, Mrs. Robert Varley, St. ited in Buffalo last week. Mrs. Catharines, for a few dayst 4144+. CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY HURON -PERTH UNIT TO THE CITIZEN'S OF CLINTON: Cancer Society tY heCanadian runt of t erth U Huron -Perth The at Stratford wish to express their appreciation to those in the Town of Clinton who have so wondertiu!ly supported our efforts this year, to raise money for the Cancer Fund. However, we note that there are still same who have not responded to our appeal and we would, at this time, like to remind tilem that our special effort has been extended to, the end of May. We feel quite certain that every citizen of the town would like to have a part in trying to help those who . are unable to help themselves when stricken with this disease.. Therefore, we would urge you to forward your re- mittance to 23 Ontario Street, Stratford, at your ea -attest convenience. JOIN THE CRUSADE AGAINST CANCERS 22,b Letters to Editor RED CROSS SPEAKS DEAR EDITOR: While a successful conclusion of the 1951 Red Cross drive is not yet in sight, it appears that we will at least equal and prob- ably surpass the total achieved last year and I would, therefore, like to thank you for the trem- endous assistance you gave us during the campaign. Without your outsanding support our mes- sage would not have reached half the people it did and our drive. therefore, would not have reach- ed the proportions that it has. You will also be interested to know that at the annual meet- ing of Central Llountil, 'the high- est governing body of the lined. Cross, held in Toronto recently, the Council went on record and passed a unanimous resolution thanking the weekly press for its "valued support of our Society." As you know only too well, the Canadian Red Cross has played a tremendous role in the peacetime life of Canada, just as it did in wartime. Now, with the govern- ment again callling on the Red Cross to play a most important part in the present tense period— blood and blood products for the armed forces and an important role in civil defence—it is most important that our current cam- paign go over the top. Any fur- ther help you can give us will be most appreciated. For your support during the campaign and throughout the year may I, on behalf of the national officers and myself, say: Thanks very much. Yours very sincerely, (Signed)— LESLIE C. POWELL, National Director of Public Relations Toronto May 25, 1951 Goderich Township 40 YEARS. AGO The Clinton News -Record Thursday, June 1. 1911 Officers of the Girls' Club of Willis Presbyterian Church are: Honorary president, Mrs. A. Ste- wart; president, Miss E. Chidley; secretary, Miss I. Gunn; treasur- er, Miss L. Welkinshaw. George Gordon, brother of James Gordon, died in Berlin and was brought to Clinton for burial Rev. Dr. A. Stewart officiated at the funeral, the pallbearers be- ing W. J. Paisley, Harry Hunt, W. S. and John Harland, James Shepherd and Dan McCorvie. Rev. T. W. Omens, Rev. J. E. Ford, Rev. J. Greene, James Stevens, D. Tiplady, Lorne Tyn- dall, and A. T. Cooper are in Stratford attending the sessions of London Conference The Jackson Co. has rented Hoedgens store and are using it as a store room. H. E. Rorke, W. H. Irwvin, Miss Florence Cuninghame, Edgar East and Murray Jackson assisted at the League meeting in Wesley Church. Those essisting at presentations for Mrs, Duncan Stevenson in- cluded Mrs. 3. Cuninghame. Mrs. James Twitchell, Mrs, W. S. Har- land', Mrs. James Sheppard and Mrs. Boles. C. Hoare has disposed of has stock of shoes to the Carey Shoe Co. • In the future he will keep his interests to his fruit farm and his music emporium. Robert McKenzie, student at Queen's University, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. McKenzie, has gone to Winni- peg, °Man., to spend the summer with a firm of civil engineers. Miss May Bentley has returned THE VOICE OF TEMPERANCE Mr. W. J. McLeod has for many years been a resident of Melville, Saskatchewan. He was born in Wroxeter. He recalls that in his boyhood there were three hotels in Wroxeter. At the same time there were three hotels in Gerrie, two in Belmore, one in Blue - vale, two in Belgrave, five in Blyth. one in Whitechurch, six in Wingham and also a liquor store, one at the half way mark north of Wingham. There was no lack of outlets in those days. Then the tide of public opinion turned and the bar was banished, For 40 years these communities have managed to get along very well without those over abund- ance of outlets. For 40 years the money that used to go over the bar for booze, has gone into the bills of merchants for bread and butter. Who will say that it is not better so?— 22-b (This advertisement inserted by Huron Temperance Federation). Master Brian McAsh, Varna, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Robert Stirling. Mr. and Mrs. George Colclough spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Colclough, 7th concession. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Middle- ton spent Sunday as guests of Mr, and Mrs. Eugene Earley and family. Kerwood. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon Welsh, Lambeth, and Mr. and Mrs. Wil- bur Welsh, Clinton, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Welsh, Mrs. Bert Rowden, Mrs. Deeves, Mrs. Colclough, Mrs. John Mid- dleton and Mrs. Stewart Middle- ton attended the spring meeting of the Deanery of Huron WA held in St. George's Church, Goderich, on Friday last. Fish swim upstream because it is easier to obtain food than by swimming downstream. St. James WA to Meet The WA of St. James Church, Middleton, will meet at the home of Mrs. John Middleton on Wed- nesday afternoon, June 6. There will be a quilt. Federation to Meet The June meeting of the Fed- eration of Agricultaire will be held in Porter's Hill school on Tuesday. June 5, at 8.30 p.m. Ro- bert McKercher will discuss the two-fifths mill assessment and plans will be prepared for the Field Day at Exeter. Ladies please. bring lunch; everyone welcome. OFt MAIII STNEE7 IMTEL_LIN'VA , MV DOG SWIFTV" IS A SMART DOG/ HE CAN COUNT UPTO TEN/ I. DON'T BELIEVE BUG-Et/es/ O.K."SWIFTV!' COUNTTONE! WOOF! /SEE? DIDN'T I TELL YA;GUS?' -BUT-VOU •• SAID HE COULD COUNT ToTEN --HE 0111.7 ouNTED THREE! 01-1,14E CAN! BUT j CAN ONO -COUNT TO THREE! Beautify Your Home We recommend Brantford Roofing because we know it is the finest and most economical for Canadian climatic conditions. Brantford Roofing is made in many attractive colours and styles which we will be glad to show you. See us about your needs. Estimates given without obligation. H. F. BERRY Brucefield Phone Clinton 618r52 LINEN BOLERO SUITS 10.98 DRESSES — Chambray, Sheers, Picolays, Silks, Etc. PICOLAY SHORTS BLOUSES — SKIRTS CHILDREN'S DRESSES SUNSUITS — SHORTS ETC. 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