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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1960-07-14, Page 2Since 1860 Serving the Community First lt'ublisl►ed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers a ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assoeiia""tion, Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authoued as Second Class Mail, Rost Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 14, 1960 Sewer Decision Reflects Town Finances It is unfortunate that the condition . of town finances makes it necessary to abandon for the time being, at least, long-term sewer plans in Sea - forth. Instead of building extensions in such a fashion that they would fit in- to an overall plan to serve the entire town, Council has felt it necessary to adopt a course of expediency. The change in policy occurred Monday night as council was considering ways of providing sewer service to the new St. James' Separate School on Chalk Street. Faced with a pos- sible expenditure of $6,000 for a scheme which would provide service to at least 16 potential users, and at the same time serve the new school, councillors took a look at town finan- ces arasaid "No". The School. Board will rfdw be required to build its own temporary line. The sad feature of ,;the decision is that the several thou- sand dollars that this will cost, and which otherwise would have assisted in meeting the cost of a permanent line, in the long run, will be money wasted. '; Seaforth's 'sewer program seems to have been faced with a long series of frustrating delays and unnatural problems since it was first consider- ed nearly ten years ago. There have been Changes in plans, changes in policy, each of which in its own way served to add to the delay, increase the cost and, in some cases, reduce the, effectiveness of the finished pro- ject. Certainly the troubles besetting the program cannot be laid at the door of the sewer committee, the members of which have spent hour after hour in furthering the project. But there have been occasions when correspondence , has lagged, when Council has been less than prompt at reaching essential decisions. Over- riding all local considerations has been the unnecessary and inexcus- able delays involved in the town's dealings with the Ontario Water Re- sources Commission and the Ontario Municipal Board, and the confusion • and contradictions which exist be- tween those two bodies. These problems, of course, were not factors in this week's decision. However, the financial considerations that did enter into the decision are even more serious. Today's financial problems are by no means the children of the 1960 Council, but rather reflect a series of decisions, or lack of decisions, ex- tending over a number of years. These include. the lack of support on the part of previous councils for a realistic assessment policy and little or no consistency in the collection of tax arrears. Administrative proce- dures, too,, have not kept pace ,with the growing demands of government. Unless early and positive correc- tive action is taken there will con- tinue to be occasions when lack of credit again will- make necessary de- cisions based on expediency and to the disadvantage of Seaforth rate- payers. The Ugly Truth The chairman of one of Canada's oldest and best known industries got up at the annual meeting the other day' to explain why last year his com- pany spent over $50,000,000 estab-' lishing new plants in Britain "No one regrets" more than I that at least some of these new facilities could not have been established in Canada," he said. "It has, however, become quite clear that Canada, as part of North America, is rapidly be- coming one of the highest production - cost areas in the world, • and those who intend to survive commercially cannot ignore this ugly truth." This warning from W. E. Phillips, chairman of Massey -Ferguson Lim- ited, was not just a casual shout in the futile carping about just who is "responsible" for rising costs in Can- ada. Whatever intrigue might be inferred from Mr. Philips' story, no one woul from Mr. Phillips' story, no one would suggest that an enterprise goes somewhere else to court ineffici- ency and higher costs. It goes because it has to. It is, as he says the ugly truth.—Acton Free Press. • "I saw your advertisement in the paper." Many a shopping list is made up from the advertising columns of this newspaper. Whether Mrs. Housewife goes to market pushing the baby carriage, in the family car, or by phone, she knows she will save time and money by first reading about the merchandise and services featured here. Make your advertising a helpful guide for buyers, by regularly publishing the news about your business in this paper. Ask to see a copy of our ABC report.* It gives you,complete•and audited information about the circulation that your advertising will get when it appears in this paper. *'This newspaper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Cireulation, an association of nearly 4,000 pub- lisliers, advertisers, and advertising agencies, Our circulation is 'audited by experienced ABC circulation MUditor,s, Our ABG report shows how ranch Circulation vr'e have, where it goes, bow obtained, and other facts that tell y'pu what yo get for your advertising money *belt yon use tails paper- . -SUGAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY Yes, it's true, all right. It's taken almost 14 years of quietplotting to organize it, but I've done it. 1've GOT AWAY FROM nit FAMILY. That• may not sound like much to you young people. But every fath- er, every mother, knows it's just about the next hardest thing to walking on top of the waves. * * * I'm attending the special sum- mer course for high school teach- ers. Don't ask me why. It's all rather confusing. Except that as I watched those teachers' salaries go up and up, and I pondered over that- big, fat two-month va- cation every summer, it suddenly dawned on me that I Was a dedi- cated teacher. * * * So here I am. Normally, I'd be sitting at the kitchen table. writing this, at 2 a.m. The ash tray would look as though an Indian princess had just been cremated on it. I'd be on the third pot of tea. And the Old Lady would be hollering down that I was out of my mind and why didnt I come to bed like normal 'people. * * * But I've got clean away from that bourgeois and distracting at- mosphere. I'ni sitting in a cell in a men's residence. The ash tray is piled high with butts. There's no tea. And there isn't a sound to disturb me. Except the bird in the next cell pounding the wall and offering most rude "suggestions about what I should do with my typewriter. It is only 2 a.m. * * * Ten years as a dedicated editor have left me thin, harassed, twitch- ing and with an abiding hatred of the telephone. So it is with a deep sense of nothing that I turd over the editorial .chair to my tempor- ary ,successor. Guess who' it is. This will murder you-" It's none other than The Old Battleaxe. • * * For the past -ten years, she has told me, and believed, that all.I do is sit in the office and talk to peo- ple. She has compared this leisure- ly life to her own lowly estate: scrubbing floors, doing the laundry, painting and wallpapering, putting out the garbage, and a lot of trivial stuff like that. * * * That's why I can't understand why she gets so sore when I roar with laughter, 'every.time I refer to her as the new editor. All of a sudden, she has not only changed her tune, but the words as well. She wails: "But what am I going, to do? I won't know where to be- gin." And when I tell her all she has to do is sit in the office and talk to people, she turns white. * * * She's been editor for one week now, and already she's got an ul- cer. Also a bad heart, high blood pressure, the jumping cancer, and a lung condition. I assured her that all these symptoms will vanish as soon as she gets the paper out on Thursday, and she can go back to being a plain, ordinary, neurotic housewife. Until Friday. • * . * * When this deal first came up, she was full of sympathy for me. "I certainly don't envy you," she said. -"Sweltering down in the bot old city, studying like mad, living like a monk." This was when she thought somebody 'else would be editor, and she'd be lolling around all summer, taking the kids for swims, and waiting for me to get home Friday nights. * * * Now the refrain goes something like this: "I certainly envy you. I'm stuck here with the' kids, and the paper, and the house, and you'll be down there in the city, meeting interesting people, nothing to do but sit in lectures. I suppose you'll study for an hour in the evening, then go out to a nightclub, or to• some interesting place to eat, ev- ery night" * * * I don't know how she figures I can do this on the $9,75 she's'' al- lotted me to live on, lout the's posi- tive I'm going to be hanging around cocktail bars, forming liais- ons with beautiful women, hiring it up with old friends, and arriving home every good night, gaunt, frayed and good for naught, .The, ether bxiht _ before I left four &nether wild' week of 'debaiieli- `e'ry at 'teacher's' cadge, -Hoisted out to her that this deal works two ways, "Think of the fun you'll be having," I told her. "There's • the - thrill of answering that wildly ring- ing phone at 3 a.m., excited because you know it's a big story. It may be 'only one of the town drunks, wanting to tell you about this here Letter -to -the -editor he's composing, but• you never know" * * * "And don't forget; you'll be at- tending banquets, and all sorts of interesting shindigs, as The Press. Provideedd they don't forget to in- vite you§ and there's a place left for , you; and' you take eight pic- tures and print them all, and you report verbatim the hilarious toast to the ladies.' • * * * Oh, I cheered her up with a lot of fascinating facets of, the editor's job like that,,and when`I left, she'd stopped crying and was Working on an editorial about closing the pubs at 6 p.m.- ECNOt WCP (Prepared by the Research Staff •o€--Eneyelopedia Canadiana) What Was the Tallahassee? The Tallahassee was a Confeder- ate cruiser that was blockaded in Halifax harbor by Federal warships during the 'American Civil War (1861=65). It made a thrilling es- cape by navigating at night .the Eastern Passage, generally consid- ered unnavigable. The ship's cap- tain, John Taylor Wood, came back to Halifax • after the war and re- sided there. * * * Is La Prairie in,the West? No, La Prairie is a town on the south shore of . the St. Lawrence River opposite Montreal. it is '.the seat of Laprairie County, the coun- ty being spelled as one word and the town's .name being split into two words. La Prairie was found- ed in 1667 and in 1836 it" became the northern terminus of Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, which span- ned the 16 miles between La Prairie and St. Johns. The town's situation on the St. Lawrence has made it a popular summer resort as well as art industrial centre. *, * * Which Ontario City Has Had Four '1•tames? Kitchener, the twin city of Wa- terloo and the seat of: Waterloo County in southwestern • Ontario. Swiss -German Mennonites settled. on the site of the modern city in 1800 and the community was first known as Sand Hills. It later be- came Ebytown, in honor of Bishop Benjamin Eby who is usually re- garded as being its founder. In 1824 the name was changed to Ber- lin in deference to the immigrants coming directly from Germany. Settlers in the 1820's and later were highly skilled mechanics and many diversified industries sprang up. Berlin was •incorporated, as a. village in 1854, 'as a town in 1870 and as a city in 1912. In 1916, dur- ing the First World War, the name was changed to Kitchener, after Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, who was drowned at sea in that year. * * * Who Laid America's First Success- 'ful Underwater 'Cable? Frederiek Newton Gisborne, who in 1852, seven years after coming to Canada from England,. linked Prince Edward Island and New Brunswiek by telegraph cable. This outstanding engineer and inventor, having conceived the idea of eatab- lishing telegraphic communication with Europe by way of Newfound-• land, then enlisted the co-operation of the Newfoundland government and the financial support of Cyrus. W. Field. This resulted in the lay- ing of the Cape Breton to New- foundland cable in 1856 and of the Atlantic cable in 1858. A- year af- ter coming to Canada in 1845, Gis- borne had 'become chief operator for the Montreal Telegraph Com- pany. The -next year he helped to 'foetid the British North American Telegraph. 'Ire is 'regarded• as a Plod er in `the''tle"velo meat Of tele, grajhy,in. 'America, in 1879 •be' was THE BILE TODAY The Chuana complete Bible was first published in 1857. Seventeen years earlier the first consignment of Chuana New Testaments had been delivered' to the Congo with the new . missionary, David Living- stone, who had chosen ,to serve in Africa under the influence of Rob- ert Moffat. One day Robert Moffat was ap- proached by a 'very worried native. Moffat asked hi mins trouble and the man said, "My dog has eaten one of the leaves out of, my Bible." Moffat replied, "That is easy to re- pair. I will give you` a new leaf to replace the other one." This fail- ed to relieve the man's worry for he said, "No, that is not the worst thing. MY dog will be of no use, as' he will become as tame and kind as all the warriors have be- come since they read that book. Over one hundred years have, passedsince this conversation and the Chunana Bible is still taming man's wild spirit. Suggested Bible Readings Sunday—Exodus 9:8-35 Monday—Exodus 10:1-29 Tuesday—Exodus 11:1-2, 12:13 Wednesday—Exodus 12:14-28 Thursday—Acts 1:1-14 Friday -Luke 12:13-40 Saturday Matthew 6:19-34 J• RESPECT POWER AMER A power mower is hardly an ef- ficient tool when it chops off your fingers and* toes. Its Skill at fir- ingsticks, stones and pieces of .wire In all directions_ adds to its high rating on the danger list. Here are a few suggestions from safety specialists with the 'Ontario De- partment of Agriculture: Keep hands, feet and loose cloth- ing away from .all 'moving parts of the mower. Wear good, sturdy shoes. Should the blades get to your feet, there'll be some protection, at least. ' Never leave a mower running with no one to look. after it, Know your machine. Be able to disengage the clutch at the least notice. Kadw the cutting path of the blades with respect to the mOwer housing. Never cut down a slope—always sideways. Keep people (children in particu- lar) out of the area to be mowed. Also keep people out of the range of the grass discharge opening. They can be easy targets for fly- ing stones and other hard objects. Disconnect the spark plug wire before working around the blade (such as in cleaning and sharpen- ing). Mowers have been known to re -start from the very slightest ,turn of the blade. If you have an electric mower, remember this: the blades are still whirling around mighty fast, even after you have shut off the power. Give them time to -slow down—and be safe. Boss: "I thought you Were ill yesterday, Jones." Jones: "I was, sir." Boss: "You didn't look very sick when I saw you at the track yesterday afternoon," Jones: "You should have seen me after the fourth race, sir," appointed superintendent of the Canadian government telegraph and signal service. Gisborne, born - in 1824 in Lancashire, died in Ot- tawa in 1892. �A cDUFF OTTAWA 'REPORT - IN 'SEARC$ OF INFLUENCE OT'. `AW4.-Ilintb Minister John Diefei�bakees proposal that 'there be a ,summft meeting in Canada among the 'beads of government of the isjATQ countries met_ with the reaction that it as a "good' Idea, but . . ," Ever since he assumed office as Prime Minister of Canada ?dr. Diefenbaker has been hopeful that he can establish as high a repute - tion for his Conservative govern- ment in international affairs as was held by the previous Liberal administration, On more than one occasion he has indicated that he is just a bit' jealous of the bigh re- gard held in foreign circles for Canada's former secretary of state for external affairs, Hon. L. B. Pearson, now leader of the opposi- tion, (Pearsonhad a stature in the international field among top outsiders which most Canadian's don't fully realize. One top Ameri- can magazine publisher stated "Mike said things at Washington which no American would•say for political reasons andwhich badly needed saying—and he was listen- ed to.") In search of the reputation of playing an "influential role" in world affairs Mr. Diefenbaker plays ninny cards. His latest was his bid at Washington when he conferred with President Eisenhower, earlier this summer. He discussed with the President matters connected with the future policies in NATO, saying the time had come for NATO nations to re- examine the capacity of that alli- ance to deal with the problems which lie ahead, and recalling that at the ministerial meeting of NATO last December the United States Secretary of State Herteproposed that a study be made of long range planning for the 1960's. Recent international develop- ments, such as the collapse of the Summit -Conference. and -..the Japan- ese fiasco increased the urgency of undertaking such a study in the view of the Canadian government. The United States has already' embarked on preliminary work. along these lines. The Prime Min- ister inister felt that after that study had been completed the NATO govern- ments should give early and ser- ious attention to the holding of a meeting of 'heads of government in order that those who have the. responsibilities of leadership may join in collective effort to establish and sketch lines of endeavour for NATO for the next 10 years. Mr. Diefenbaker told the Presi- dent that Canada would be pre- pared to extend invitations to the NATO leaders to hold that meeting in Canada, probably Quebec City. Shortly after the Prime , Minister had made his pitch to the Presi- dent in Washington Paul Henri Spaak, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since 1957, hurried to Ottawa. Af- ter listening to the Prime Minister outline his plan, Spaak said cau- tiously, "A good idea if there is good preparation," From Washington came indica- tions that the President had ap- proved of the plan in principle. However, Mr. Diefenbaker and Mr: Spaakwere'apparently in agree- ment that even if the other NATO members concurred, no meeting was possible or even needed until at least after the new U.S. Presi- dent had been sworn into office. The Diefenbaker suggestion re- ceived a warmer reception at home than it did abroad: Washington officials want no such top level meeting until there are specific proposals in writing for the NATO„ chiefs to discuss, In' Britain there were• indications that they were Luke -warm to the idea. It would hamper the diplomatic freedom of NATO's , .Big Three. Britain -and France like their special relation, ship with the U.S, .— don't relish sharing it with other NATO coun- tries. At NATO's headquarters in Paris the atmosphere appeared. chilly as the Diefenbaker plan was Outlined by Jules Leger, Canada's. permanent representative to the council. Early reactions °indicated that De Gaulle's France might say "no" to the Canadian proposal. The French are touchy on the soore of summit meetings following the collapse in Paris of the top-level talks when Khrushcbev pulled out. Other smaller NATO members ap- parently did not share Canada's enthusiasm for a heads -of -govern- ment meeting. Meantime Prime Minister Diefenbaker is doggedly promoting bis idea despite the pre. dominantly frosty reception so far. The principle behind Mr. Diefen- baker's proposal—the strengthening of NATO as an effective force is in the main Canadian tradition since its creation. Any questions about the proposal turn not on •the principle but on its practicality. Summit 'meetings are seldom pro- ductive in themselves, although they must usefully give symbolic blessing at the level of top politi- cal leadership to heard -earned achievement on specifics by lower levels of government. In the ab- sence of achievement on specifics,. ,summitry at best can be meaning- less or misleading (the usual case among friends) and at worst disas- trous (witness Paris and Tokyo). Mr. Diefenbaker's principle may be urgently right—but it is not new. Thus, while Mr. Diefenbaker's strong suit is high principle , and sweeping vision, Mr. Pearson's strong suit was always specific achievement on specific matters to the extent possible at a specific time. Time will test the practical fruitfulness of Mr. Difenbaker's summit approach -but to succeed some, -,pretty tough-minded diplom- acy in. depth- will . be needed to give_ substanceto the high minded pur- poses in breadth. There are two -other factors in tliii hi any other search for influ- ence. Without an External Affairs Minister for : many of its months in office, losing Sidney. Smith by death just when he was >getting on to his External Affairs job, with the • primary influence being that of the P.M. who has many other responsibilities than external af- fairs, and following after a top man by any standards in Lester Pearson, who had reached `his and Canada's zenith at Suez, the Dief- enbaker Government -has been slow to develop that day-to-day grip• which is necessary to sustain real and continuing influence in external affairs, and for which even the most imaginative top level forays from time to time are no substi- tute. There are as well the overwhelm- ing objective factors in the ,world at large clustered around the re- newed strength of the Western Eur- opean democracies and the new na- tions of Africa and Asia which tend towards • a lessened impor- tance for Canada in general world affairs (as indeed for both the United States and Russia). Yet it. is these same factors, coupled with the domestic problems surrounding defence, investment, trade and un- employment, which make a polio, cally and economically strengthen- ed NATO vital to the Canadian interest. * * * Capital Hill Capsule The Liberals heartened by their wins in Quebec and New Bruns- wick election campaigns. are going to make a dead set on the Social Credit government in British Col- umbia. That province 'is expected to, have a provincial election this fall. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 7$ years.ago. - From The Huron Expositor July 12, 1935 . Seaforth lost two games of base- ball this week, The first loss was to Zurich on Monday by a score of .9.-8. On Wednesday they lost to Mitchell, 10-6. One hundred and sixteen entries were recorded for the first annual invitation tournament of the Sea - forth Golf and Country Club on Wednesday. Many considered the course the best in Western On- tario. The garden„party held on Thurs- day last on the grounds of St. James' Catholic Church ,was a splendid success. Many flocked to Hensall from all over the district to the Old Boys' Reunion recently. The many friends of Copncillor J. J. Broderick were, pleased to see him down town this week, Mr. Broderick had been confined to his home following an accident .last winter, which caused him a broken le Council appointed the town. clerk as relief officer following the 'May- or's resignation. He had already resigned a month ago, but council asked him to reconsider it. Seaforth bowlers have had a busy week with tournaments here and in 'other towns, There were Murti& ments in Listowel, Seaforth, New Hamburg and Godericb, Tavistock, Mitchell and Stratford were pres- ent in town on Friday. County Traffic Officer Norman Lever has requested that council take action to curb the excessive speeding at the Main intersection. James V. Ryan is to be stationed there for the 'next two weeks to cheek the speeders. Councillor Murray suggested that Council ask the Government to raise. the post office clock 15 feet. "This would 'be a wonderful time to ask them—just before an elec- tion,” reeve Crosier said. * * Froin The llama E:tpositor July 15, 1910 Thursday . morning last Fair's at orehottaeenear the station. in ton, eanght fire, but the blaze was O iingul8bed before a¢rinus dnrrr- ligeas done. , A shed g ja iliiig the Yeekeen Bros.' plant, in Clinton, caught fire one day recently, but no serious damage was done, Cliaton's Mayor Taylor h'as is- sued notice offering $50 reward for information leading to the convic- tion of the "fire bug" who is ap- parently operating in Clinton at the present time. Quite a large number from the district drove over . to Brucefield on Monday evening .to .witness the return football match between Nia- gara Falls and Brucefield. We were pleased to see Brucefield come out Viet0rious,, , ; The. flax crop, of which there is quite a large acreage in this area, will no doubt pfbve, as 'in past years, quite a source of revenue to those renting lands and all those in connection with the. crop. Ice cream parlors were well pa- tronized during the intense heat of the past week. Professor Clark,• of Elora, bas been engaged as organist and choir leader in First Presbyterian Church, and assumes his new du- ties next Sunday. Mr.l Ed. Box is erecting a fine new stable on John Street, to take the place of the old one recently torn down. The Bell Engine Works are ship- ping out new threshing' outfits ev- ery week as ,rapidly as they can get them ready. No better outfit is made in Canada or the United States. From The Huron Expositor July 10, 1885 • William Vanstone and -Sons, the well-known millers of Brussels, have purchased 400 acres of pine timber in Draper. Township, near Wiarton. William Hunter, an old resident of Stanley, has been granted a patent .for a very ingenious ear coupler. We hope the old gentle- man will find his invention a pay- ing one. . : - Several of the hotels in Seaforth now keep buttermilk and deal it out to their customers, It is an excellent and healthful summer drink, and is more beneficial than beer or other alcoholic stimulants. We regret to learn that the ar- rangements for the proposed foot- ball oolball match between the retired farmers of Seaforth and_Egmond- ville, have not resulted successful- ly. The Seaforth men are loath to come forward. Mr. James McFarlane,' Stanley, has- two of • the finest calves, from Polled Angus stock, to be found anywhere in Stanley, if not in the county. One of 'them, five months did, is of a ,great weight. Mr. John Fortier, packer at Stapleton Salt 'Works, packed 100 barrels of salt per day for six days, each barrel guaranteed to be 300 Wilds. If any other patkers'from 'the district could do better, we would like•to know it. MR Milan VACUUM CLEANER V15 A SNAKE 1r5tiOutoter NE one closer tr IUM r