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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1960-11-10, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor E OA Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Ontario e.p Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations • !A n\ Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year O Outside Canada (in advance) $3.50 a Year c 4ii. AA% SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 10, 1960 Education — The Key To Canadais Future Throughout Ontario this is Educa- tion Week. In an age when the spon- sors of everything from macaroni to lettuce have succeeded in giving us more weeks than there are in the year, it is possible to greet yet an- other "week" with a groan. But that would hardly be justified in the case of Ontario Education Week, since its objectives are of the highest order and its message concerns us all. Ontario Education Week is spon- sored every year by the Ontario Teachers' Federation and co-sponsor- ed by a great many equally serious organizationscutting across all seg- ments of our society. Their aim has been, over a number of years, to throw a spotlight on local education, to bring its achievements and short- comings°to the notice of the citizens d the province. Ontario has a fine educational sys- tem, one that is second to none in North America. This can lead and quite probably has led to complac- ency, a comfortable feeling that sometimes preceeds a fall. To have a public Education Week each year is therefore a good thing. We are reminded of national and in- ternational implications as well as the local problems. We, can take pride at our accomplishments in education and, more to the point, we can come to understand our own individual re- sponsibility in fashioning a system that is the key to the future. The participation, the considera- tion of every citizen in educational problems can have far-reaching ef- fects in making Canada the kind of country in which we want our chil- dren to live. That is the purpose of Education Week—to focus our at- tention on "Education—the key to the future." Write Us, Please ! The St. Marys Journal - Argus recalls a problem that faces every weekly when, in a recent issue, it commented on the "Letters To the Editor". This is what it said, and we couldn't agree more completely: "A newspaper likes receiving let- ters from its readers. They can be a barometer of local opinion and also a source for local stories. Occasionally a constructive suggestion can be act- ed on or a wrong righted. News- papers like publishable letters be- cause they know that it is often the column that attracts most reader in- terest. "Our rules are simple. To be print- ed, a letter may be controversial, but not libellous, and we insist that they are signed. Even if the signature on the Ietter is withheld from publica- tion, we must know ourselves whose views we are printing. "Occasionally we get good letters about a legitimate complaint and sometimes criticisms about local af- fairs which are perhaps justified. We read through the letter rejoicing that some public-spirited people are con- cerned sufficiently to write about it. But then, alas, the good effect is quickly spoilt when we find the sig- , nature replaced by an ineffectual pseudonymn like 'Taxpayer'or 'An- gry Father'." by Tom Dorr (FATHER, IS THERE ANYTHUN6� (THAT TRAVELS AS FAST AS 111 VTHE ED OF LIk HT? CERTAINLY NOT! LIGHT TRAVELS ABOUT 186,000 MILES PER SECOND . HELLO, ALVM...FATHER SAYS NOTHING TRAVELS F/i.STER THAN THE S OF LIGHT.., UNLESS HE SOT TO MENTION.... -SUGAR AND SPICE By W. (Bill) B. T. SMILEY It made my blood boil to see Toronto critics picking on Marlene Dietrich when that lovely creature graced Hogtown recently with her theatrical presence. They made the brilliant discovery that Mar- lene can't sing, and annoyed her with puerile questions about being a grandmother. Of course she can't sing, and never could. But she can make the skin crawl on the back of your neck with that husky snarl. And, grandmother or not, there is more sex appeal in one long look from above those haunting cheekbones, one twist of that heart -broken smile, than in all your strutting, hip -wiggling pouter pigeons of half her age. Perhaps I'm a little warped on the subject of Miss Dietrich. She was the first woman in my life, the first member of the opposite sex who made me realize there was more than one sex. I was ten years old 'at 'the time. Don't tell me you can't fall in love at ten. Perhaps that is the only age at which your love is completely selfless, utterly pure and absolutely undemanding. I didn't even expect her to marry me. I knew she wouldn't marry any ten -year-old kid. All I want- ed to do was think about her, and nurse my pain to myself. LIVE Fawn: WANTED HIGHEST PRICES PAID -- Free Pick-up • Dublin Creamery and Poultry Packers Phone DUBLIN 68 East Huron Produce Phone BRUSSELS 66 WESTINGHOUSE DRYERS The MULTI -TEMPERATURE DRY DIAL Dryer from Westinghouse Features a Direct Air Flow System to dry clothes the na- tural way. A strong stream of fresh, warm air goes directly into•°the tumbling clothes- for faster, safer, natural drying. Three Drying Temperatures give every type of fabric per- fect care. Automatic Time Selector and big 20 -pound dump. - load capacity provide further convenience. OUTSTANDING VALUES NOW FROM $154.00 Low Down Payment EASY TERMS FURNITURE Phone 43 : Seaforth '* * * It happened at a movie. I was a young devil for going to mat- inees. In those days they had them twice a week, after school, as well as the - usual Saturday show. I had been threatened with ev- erything from the children's. aid to the reformatory; I had been licked several times; my mother had given personal orders to the theatre manager that I was not to be allowed in, and 'still I went to the matinee every,..time I could find enough empty bottles to raise the price. I'd arrive home about 6:40 p.m., my inner glow from the movie a buttress against the 9uter glow I would have shortly on my butt. At any rate, I fell for Dietrich in a movie called Morocco, about the Foreign ,Legion, in which she appeared with• Gary.. Cooper. I didn't realize it at the time, but Miss Dietrich had the role of a woman of ill repute. I thought she just worked in this bar, may- be as a singer or something. She sang, in that whiskey tenor of hers, and I was enchanted. She smiled, that`rueful, knowing smile, and" I turned to molasses. She winked, that naughty wink, and I twisted my hands until my fingers cracked. She smoked, with that mysterious elegance, 1111 my heart leaped painfully within me, I thought I would burst with pride and revotion when the pic- ture ended with her forsaking her job at the casino to follow Gary into the desert. The last shot showed her, barefoot in the sand, dragging a goat as she struck after the Legion, with the other women camp -followers. I can't describe the gallantry with which she threw back her hair and gave a splendid brave smile as the des- ert wind struck in her face. Nor can 1. I convey the misery with which I realized she thought so much of that big jerk, Cooper. ARMISTICE DAY November llth has stood out among dates and it will doubtless continue to hold a prominent place. At the same time when the Arm- istice was signed, it was hoped it would be extended into a sure and abiding peace. But the First War was soon followed by greater war and a number of lesser conflicts. The hopes of men for peace have been like "the rainbow's lovely form vanishing amid the storm." Some years ago a hearer was enthusiastic in his praise of the man whose address he had just heard. When he appealed to an- other hearer for confirmation of his high estimate of the speaker and the address, the second hear- er, in reference to the speaker, said—"W.ell, he successfully point- ed out the difficultiesin the way." And his tone of voice indicated his conviction that the speaker had not told of anything that could be done about the disturbing sit- uation. • And this is the trouble with much of the . oratory heard. There may be a fine flow of words and a dazzling flight of the imag- ination, but nothing is really said about something that can be done. I am taking my place among those who do not suggest what to do, especially in the present situa- tion over the world. But let us be content, not because "God is von the side of the heaviest artillery," but that he is on the side of those who cause is just." There were lots of girls after that: in England, France, Bel- gium. Some of these affairs were sweet, some bitter. I even asked one of them to marry me, but I was too late. She'd just accepted a proposal from another Canadian who had a big country place in Canada. It was big, and it was in the country: 200 acres of stone and swamp in Northern Ontario. Then, of course, and I know you think I'm just putting this in for self-protection, and how right you are, there was the BIG love of my life when I met the Old Battleaxe and started hewing my way through the domestic jungle. Since then the only other girl I've kiss- ed, except the odd one on New Year's Eve, has been my wife's daughter. ,I guess, all told, I've been in love about 12 or 20 times. But it never again had the impact of that first, swooning, searing sick- ness over - Dietrich. And that's why, Marlene, if the crude re- marks of those Toronto critics bothered you, feel free to call on me. My ardor may have cooled and I may not be quite as pure as I was,30 years ago, and you may have become a grandmother in the meantime, but by George, you're still the most beautiful, glamorous, mysterious woman I ever fell in love with, I wish you were MY grandmother. (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) How Did Grand'Mere Get Its Name? The city of Grand'Mere, on Que- bec's St. Maurice River not far from Shawinigan, was named "grandmother" in French because of a.rock in which -the Indians saw the likeness of an elderly woman's profile. The rock, originally in the river bed, was moved to the shore when the power dam was built. The city, founded in 1898, owes -its existence to the water. power and timber of the St. Maurice valley. The hydro -electric plant at Grand'Mere develops 222,000 horsepower. WINCHELSEA A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT A SHOT OF ADRENALIN OTTAWA—The Hallowe'en bye - elections have shaken the Liberal and Conservative parties to the core. Most politicians discount the re- sults of by-elections. They claim they are not an accurate reflec- tion of political leanings, and his- tory would indicate they are right. But the four held on -Hallowe'en may be in a different category. First, they were held in fairly representative ridings, in Quebec's Labelle, in New Brunswick's Roy- al, and two in Ontario, in Peter- borough and Niagara Falls. Sec- ond, they were considered in ad- vance to be important from a strategic point of view, Third, this was the first time the New Party, that nebulous creature now being formed by the Co-operative Com- monwealth Federation and the Canadian Labor Congress, contest- ed Federal seats. The Conservatives have for months been, uncertain whether to accept the findings of public opin- ion polls as a true indicator of their slipping popularity. They were suspicious of the polls; they knew they had lost some strength, but were unwilling to believe they had dropped that far. Conservative brain -truster s thought they would take three of the four by-elections, Royal, La- belle and Peterborough; a per- centage good enough to dispel the defeatism now troubling the party organization. It would be, they said, widely interpreted as a vote of confidence in the Government. What happened? The Tory can- didate in Royal, federal Forestry Minister Hugh John Fleming, man- aged to gain only half the lead chalked up by the former Royal member, Alfred Brooke, who is now safely ensonced in the Sen- ate. In Labelle, despite the best ef- forts of half a dozen cabinet min•I isters, including the Big Three from Quebec, Noel Dorion, Leon Balcer and Pierre Sevigny, the Tory candidate, was decisively beaten by the Liberal. In Peterborough, a Tory riding for 20 years, Walter Pitman, run- ning as a New Party candidate, won with a good majority. In Niagara Falls, Liberal Judy La - Marsh won in a walk, with a ma- jority' 10 times (5,000 against 500) that of the previous Liberal mem- ber, the late Bill Houck, who had been personally popular with ev- eryone in the riding:'" Of greater significance than the results themselves is the shift in popular vote. Back in 1958, when the Tory tide was running at full flood, a total 94,923 voters cast ballots in the four ridings. Of the total, the Conservatives took 53,- 625: On Hallowe'en, there were 90,593 votes cast, and the Tories got but 34,548 (just about exactly the 38 per cent national support shown by the last Gallup Poll). If the Liberals had picked up the votes of the disenchanted Tories, they would be filled with optimism. But the figures prove they didn't. They didn't overall, although they did pick up in all the ridings ex- cept Peterborough where they went down. In 1957, they got 36,- 229 votes in the four riding's, in 1958 they got 35,970, and on Hal- lowe'en they got 35,854 (a bit un- der the 43 per cent national sup- port shown by the last Gallup Poll). The Liberal vote didn't move at all, while the Tory vote fluctuated wildly. Where did the votes go? To the party of the political left, the CCF, or New Party. In 1957, CCF candidates won but 3,418 votes from the four ridings; in 1958 they climbed to 5,002, and in the by- elections they leaped to 20491 votes (close to double the CCF 12 per cent national support shown by the last Gallup Poll). Third parties traditionally do better in by-elections than they do in national elections. This has been the proven Canadian experi- ence of the CCF and the recent British experience of the Liberal Party. Candidates are also more The pupils of Winchelsea School and their teachers, Mrs. S. Hen- drick and Miss Marshall, enjoyed a Hallowe'en party at the school on Monday afternoon.- Costumes were displayed, prizes given and lunch was enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke at- tended a Credit Union banquet in the Legion Hall at Clinton on Wed- nesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Delbridge, Bruce and Fred attended the fif- tieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cooper, held on Friday evening at Elimville Church, and later at their home in Elimville. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan spent. Friday in London with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Maher. Mrs. Garnet Miners is spending some time - with Mr. Howard Johns and family, of Elimville North. Mr. Gary Hern is confined to St. Joseph's Hospital in London, having had an operation for ap- pendicitis on Friday evening. - Mr. and Mrs. Jack Maher, of London, visited on Saturday with Mr, and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan, Grant and Barbara Anne. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke at- tended a banquet at Kirkton on Saturday for the 4-H Club of Kirk - ton, held at the Anglican Church. Mrs, Philip Hern visited with her son, Gary, in St. Joseph's Hospi- tal, London, on Saturday after- noon. Mrs. Beverley Morgan, Johnny, Jerry, Scott and Susan, of Thames Road, visited Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Gilfillan and family visited Sunday ' with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Smith, of Credi- ton. Mrs, Freeman Horne and Mrs. Ivan Brock spent Thursday at Kitchener.' Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke and Mrs. Garnet Miners attended the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Cooper Fri- day evening_ at their- home in Elimville. * * * What Are Saskatchewan's Boundaries? Saskatchewan is the only Cana- dian province all • of whose boun- daries follow lines of longitude or parallels of latitude. The prov- ince's boundary with the North- west Territories runs along the 60th parallel of latitude, while the famous 49th parallel determines its international boundary on the south. In width the province ex- tends from the Manitoba line on the east (at longitude 101 degrees, .30 minutes, and longitude 102 de- grees west) to the Alberta line on the west at longitude 110 degrees west. From south to north Sas- katchewan is 761 miles in length. It has an average width of 335 miles, varying from 393 miles at the United States border to 277 Miles in the extreme north. * * * For about three months I was literally sick with love. My mother thought I had some disease, be- cause I wouldn't eat. She was con- vinced of it when I stopped going to matinees. How can a boy of,10 tell his mother he is desperately in love with a movie actress? Oh, I had a good many affairs after that. There was a neighbor girl who used to catch me "and kiss me heartily every tint -16 we played Run, Sheep, Run. That ended when she pushed me out of a hay mow one day just for fun, a'n41 I broke my ankle. Then there was a brief episode with the French teacher when I was in high school. This came to a cli- max when I kissed her up in an apple tree one gladsome day in spring. I thought I'd never get out of that apple tree. And there was a Brazilian girl` I met at College. She couldn't speak any English. By the time I'd taught her the language and she could say "park bench" and "kiss me, daddy," with the best of them, I'd missed so many lec- tures I hadn't a hope of passing my year, so I patriotically poined the air force. The time to get primed for the future is when you're still in your prime. * * * Where is Inuvik? This is the name of the new community constructed. by the federal government on the East Channel of the Mackenzie River delta,' well north of the Arctic Circle. When planning for the new townsite . began in 1954, it was intended that Inuvik would replace Aklavik, the well-known settlement 33 miles by land to the west on the river's West Channel. Aldavik, however, is maintaining its exist- ence although a number of gov- ernment services have •been mov- ed to Inuvik. The -move to Inuvik was made because the permafrost, silt and river floods at the old community seriously affected buildings, prevented the construc- tion of proper roads, a permanent airfield, sewers and water mains, thus creating a health hazard and hamt itIng expansion. Inuvik lies on land with 'better drainage and a lower moisture content. important in by-elections and the New Parti had excellent ones in both Niagara Falls and Peterbor- ough. Liberals in high places are re- acting in two ways to the Party's failure to pick up the dissatisfied. who votedConservative in 1957 and 1968. Some claim purely lo- cal factors were at work in Peter- borough, where the bulk of the CCF -New Party gains were made. Among these factors were high local unemployment, estimated at 4,000 and a heavily organized cam- paign rwereeffected. ubethe n1 o An older weak Liberal candidate against a young vigorous and capable New Party candidate; and, a concen- trated Liberal effort in Niagara Falls' and Labelle and even Royal as against New Party, concentra- tion in Peterborough and Niagara Falls (letting Royal go by default and not even contesting Labelle). Others interpret the results as a clear indication the Liberal party must move to the left, or get caught in the middle of the road, squashed out of existence by the Conservative Party and the New Party, a fate with which Liberals in Great Britain are very famil- iar. There has been some conflict in the Liberal Party since the 1957 election, between those who would veer to the left, and those who would try to steer a course down the middle of the road, a course well marked out by King and St. Laurent. The Party's recent con- ference at Kingston brought to- getherthose who would move left, and some conservative Liberals. not invited are still condemning Kingston as a bad move. ., For the New Party, the,by-elec- tions were like a shot of adrenalin. For many months now, it appear- ed the New Party would never get off the ground. The win in Peter- borough came at precisely the moment best calculated to spur the organizers to new efforts, and to still the critics within the CCF and CLC structure. In Niagara Falls, the other New Party candidate running for office doubled the CCF vote of 1958, from about 3,000 to over 6,000. That alone would have been heartening for Stanley' Knowles, David Lewis, and others promoting the new so- cialist -oriented party-. Between now and the next Fed- eral general election, the lessons learned on Hallowe'en will be gone over with a fine-tooth comb by the politicians and their back- room advisors. There could be decided shifts in policy and plat- forms, new tactics and organiza- tion. When the massive party or- ganizations swing into action for that next important vote, Peter- borough, in particular, will be very much in their thinking. There will be another by-elec- tion in the spring, in former De- fence Minister, now Lieutenant - Governor George Pearkes' old rid- ing of Esquimault-Saanich, on the outskirts of Victoria, B.C. It, like Peterborough, has a Tory tradi- tion, but the New Party and the Liberals, with a lot at stake, will contest it bitterly. What Mines Appear Inexhaustible? The asbestos mines in the region around Thetford Mines, Que., the largest asbestos mines in the world, were discovered in 1876 and appear to be inexhaustible: The deeper the pits are dug, the more abundant is the mineral and the finer its fibres. The city of Thetford Mines lies 71 miles north- east of Sherbrooke and 77 miles south of Quebec City. It became a village in 1892, a town in 1905, and a city in 1912. Huron Farm News Because of the recent snow and cold weather most of the cattle are now stabled or have access to shelter. Some fall plowing is still undone. There are some turnips to harvest yet. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor November 8, 1935 A sn)all earthquake occurred in Seaforth on Hallowe'en and it took citizens some time to make up their minds whether it was a prank or a real earthquake. No damage resulted, but the shock was suf- ficient to shake buildings. The death this week of Reeve W. W. Crozier will not necessi- tate an election to fill the posi- tion. Council will elect one of its members to fill the office. Thieves broke into A. W. E. Hemphill's drug and fancy goods store in Hensall early Tuesday morning, but after disturbing much of the stock, left, apparently with a, little loot. The annual anniversary services of Egmondville United Church were held on Sunday with a very large attendance at both services. Don Benninger, St. Michael's College, Toronto, spent the week- end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Benninger, Dublin. The licence plates were stolen from the car of Ted Taman, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce here. Police from Hensall are in- vestigating. Edward Jordan, St. Clements, and James Jordan, Toronto, spent a few days with their mother, Mrs. William Jordan, Dublin, who is seriously ill in Scott Memorial Hospital, Seaforth. Some mean hunter shot Mr. Sam Regele's faithful dog, and it would be • a pleasant treat for them if caught, as the game warden is investigating. Friends and neighbors called on Mrs. John Dalton, of Hibbert, re- cently to bid her a farewell and extend best- wishes to her prior to her leaving for her new home with her daughter' and son-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bowman, Mc - The young folks of Winthrop at- "This isn't our baby," said the wife. "You've got the wrong car- riage." "Shut up, you dope," said the husband. "This ones got rubber Ores," ,r tended the reception Wednesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Cuthill in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer' Cuthill, who were married recently. * * * was in London recently attending a poultry exhibition. The fowl supper in the Methodist Church, Londesboro, was a great success, with the proceeds amount- ing to $248. From The Huron Expositor November 4, 1910 Mr. A. Gardiner has sold his 100 -acre farm, on the 13th conces- sion of McKillop, to John J. Mc - Gavin, which gives Mr. McGavin a fine farm of 200 acres. Mr. William McLaren, of Hen- sall, has gone to Toronto where he has accepted a position. A needle was removed from the stomach of a boy named Howard Stewart, who lives near Clinton, by Dr. J. W. Shaw, last week. It has been bothering him for eight years. Mrs. S. Essery, of Usborne, has purchased the old Eden building which was sold by auction. At the nomination meeting held in Exeter on Tuesday last to select a reeve, Messrs, John Taylor, T. B. Carling and T. H. McCallum were nominated. It is probable that Mr. Taylor will be elected, thus saving an election. Mr. James Scott, who has been a respected resident of Hibbert for 50 years; removed his family to Exeter last week. The young people of St. Colum - ban are having the interior of their beautiful new church fixed up. The Canadian Order of Foresters of Constance held their annual oyster supper on Thursday night, with a large attendance. Quite a number of applications are being received for the lead- ership of Carmel Presbyterian Cijii'eh choir, Hensall, made vac- ant by the resignation of Miss Hart, and are to lead the service from Sabbath to Sabath on trial. Mr. 3. W. Otfw.e n, .of Hensall,. * * * From :The Huron Expositor November 6, 1885 Charlesworth and Brownell have leased the old Hill store, lately occupied by Scott Bros., and are having it fitted up for a grocery store. Mr, John Hannah, of the Sea - forth Creamery, has disposed of the remainder of this season's make of butter, August butter was sold at 201/4c and September and October at 23c. Mr. D. D. Wilson has sold near- ly all his Shropshire ram lambs at $20 each. The recent rains and snow have made the roads very bad, and business is somewhat dull, al- though the .delivery of grain still continues large. Mr. William Hall, of Kinburn, left on Monday for the Northwest, to take charge of a mission sta- tion there. By an arrangement of the Cana- dian Express Co., the dealers of Seaforth are now enabled to get their finnan haddies and sea fish from the original packers at Port- land, thus ensuring freshness and best of quality. Last week Mr. William McKay, of this town, rode from Seaforth to near London and back again, a distance of 75 miles, on his bicycle, in seven hours. A couple of school girls from Harlock gathered 1,800 apple seeds one day last week, so no person need be out .of employment. Mr. M. McDonald, of Winthrop, left last Saturday for British Col-' umbia to join his brother and take up- farming.