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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-02-09, Page 2Published, at ti R D 'tot. 4L� Since 1860, Serving the Community First SEAFORTH, ONTARIO,. every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW . Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association, Audit Bureau of Circulations O Subscription Rates: = Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $3.50 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 5 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa O SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 9, 1961 Award For Enthusiasm Might Help The Saltire Society, one of Scot- land's leading cultural associations, has instituted an award for the most lively small burgh in Scotland. The award will be given text year, to mark the Saltire's Silver Jubilee, and a large number of the 174 eligible burghs are competing, The basis of judgiwill include the sense of personal and communal responsibility of local citizens. Muni- cipal and voluntary activities will be reviewed, including sport, business, welfare, the arts, local fairs, the church and local live traditions. The Society hopes to encourage the en- deavours of the smaller communities which tend td be overlooked with the growth of cities: it is hoped that the award will give smaller communities a new sense of pride in their home towns. -. Perhaps a similar award for which Ontario towns could compete would A Worthwhile A Destruction of property by fire is a tragic event at any time. But when the loss includes the household ef- fects, the personal belongings of sev- eral families, it is particularly heart- rending. - That is why there will be a gen- erous response to a call to aid three Seaforth families, victims of a fire which last week destroyed their homes. A fund for which contribu- tions are solicited has been establish- ed by a citizens' committee. Dona- tions may be left at any Seaforth Bank. Those of us who have not faced the loss of our possessions by fire can have little idea of the description Newspaper Work An aroma of fascination surrounds a newspaper, making many persons say they'd like to own one. It is fas- cination which clings to everyone ex- cept newspaper people. They have no illusions. Now to own a newspaper, here is what you'll have to do in one normal day: Explain to Mrs. Strong why Aunt Weak's 85th birthday party was not on the front page. Explain to an advertiser why it is impossible to get him on page three. Explain to an ex -subscriber why you had to cut off his unpaid sub- scription. Soothe a lady who called her party in too late. Apologize to an advertiser for an error in his ad and smile sweetly when ,he tells you what an idiot you are. Explain why some weeks you've got news running out of your ears and other weeks the paper reads like a report on Amalgamated Steel. have the effect of creating a similar pride on the part of citizens of small towns on this side of the ocean. If a town is going to show pro- gress, to attract industry, to continue to be a good place in which to live, there must be an evident pride in it on the part of its citizens. They must profess a faith in its future, and lose no opportunity to tell what it offers. Such an attitude must apply to Seaforth, as well as to any other town, as members of the Chamber of Commerce were reminded Mon- day evening. Bruce MacMillan, who was elected President by the gathering, pointed out what Seaforth had to offer. He mentioned modern schools, fine park and swimming pool, auditoriums, rinks and active organizations. "We've got lots to be thankful for. What we need to do is to build up a bit more enthusiasm," he said. ppeal For Assistance which results in day-to-day living when such a disaster strikes. The loss in terms of dollars is in itself serious. There is in addition, how- ever, the loss of treasured gifts, of mementos of other days, of family keepsakes. There is not much the public can do in -'replacing personal items, or in making good articles of family sig- nificance. But the public can do Much, by way of providing cash to aid in the replacerhent of the day-to- day items which each of the families will require. That is why a generous donation is the least that each of us can give as our contribution to fel- Iow citizens who have been the vic- tims of fire, is Not All Sunshine Decipher scribbling that comes in written on check pads, paper nap- kins, a corner of junior's arithmetic paper, or on the back of a letter from Cousin Frank. Pet a balky Linotype that is as nervous as a dish of jello and puts you further behind when you're al- ready behind. Cope with a folder that is anti- social and wallowing in its own im- portance that can, at this final min- ute, keep you from getting a paper circulated and starts acting like a little boy who wants to go to the bathroom. Explain to a customer arriving late with . copy that if you get his stuff in, you'll have to leave some- body else out and then explain to the one you left out. The last run made, you'll feel a sense of relief—for about five min- utes. Then you start explaining why you did this or didn't do that and it starts all over again.—CWNA Bulle- tin. Start the New Year Right with STATIONERY and OFFICE SUPPLIES Typing Papers - Counter Cheque Books Bristols - Envelopes - Copy Paper Stencils Rubbers Stamps, Pads, Ink TYPEWRITERS and ADDING MACHINES Filing Cabinets OFFICE FURNITURE ONO Phone 141 Filing Supplies rr Seaforth �numlmaommmmamamugluaaummlmmmaaamuamivanmapumamamimumlmmaummmalmunmaaulmuammmmammlmaumlapmmmua uuamamaII Il l SUGAR and SPICE By BW Smiley Something rather frightening cis happening to the steady, reliable, Canadian citizen. I don't know what's behind it, but it's both un- natural and unnerving. He is 'be- ginning to enjoy the winter! Or, at least, he pretends he is. For generations Canadians ap- proached the winter sensibly. When the first snows came they put on their long underwear, a gloomy look, and a long-suffering air, and stayed as close to the fire as possible for the next six months. Winter was something to be liv- ed through and there was no non- sense about enjoying it. But this dour and honest out- look has been completely shatter- ed within the last few years. Ev- ery weekend thousands of people head out of the cities with their skis and a couple of crocks. Motor clubs hold races through the bliz- zards, over the icy roads. Curling rinks are crammed. People are spending weekends at their cot- tages, tramping through huge drifts to get in to them. The other day a friend told me he had taken his family out for a midwinter picnic, on a Sunday. The temperature was about eight above. He dug a hole in the snow, built a fire and heated some stew. "The kids loved it," he said. No ants. No flies. Aad almost no fin- gers on the smallest boy, by the time they got him home. * * * But it's not only the young who are revelling in the elements these days. Everyone is 'infected. Staff members, at our school have or- ganized a hockey team. You should hear them sitting around bragging. They may be short of wind on the ice but they're not when they don't have the skates on. Most of them haven't played hockey for more than 20 years. But they are as rabid as the local peewees. Elderly gentlemen who should be sitting at home with pipe and slippers enjoying the peaceful twi- light of their years may be found on any curling rink, dashing up and down as though the devil him- self was after them, and sweeping as though angina pectoris was a tropical fruit. Matronly ladies, who should be at home knitting bootees for their grandchildren, may be seen hurt- ling down some near -perpendicu- lar slopes, bowling -over everything in their paths, from fellow -skiers to small trees. Winter carnivals are spreading across the land with the speed of bubonic plague. At these, a few good-looking young ladies are nam- ed Queen of the Carnival, and are never quite the same again, while thousands of young ladies who know they are equally good-look- ing are not named Queen and are never quite the same again. Where is it all going to end? When are we Canadians going to stop running around with frozen grins, pretending we just love our big, white, beautiful Winter? How soon will this hysterical nonsense collapse and let us revert to our old, happy misery? * * * I, for one, can't stand much more of this jolly, healthy love - affair that we are trying to carry on with that frostly old termagant, Madame de Winter, who has been planting her icy feet in the small of our warm backs for lo these many years. Oh, it's easy enough to be trap- ped into this false delight in win- ter. Each of us has within him the tattered remnants of a small child ?vho once wallowed in snow with the grunting please of a small pig rolling in wet mud. And it's this 'buried memory of the joys of winter that gets us in trouble. The other day, for instance, I was out with my son, who was learning to ski, rather gingerly. I was egging him on to try the steep slope. "Let's see you do it, Big Shot, if it's so easy," he suggest- ed. There was no way out. I put on the skis, swallowed once, clos- ed my eyes, and pushed off, my overcoat flying out behind me. wDammummmuii Seconds later, without once having opened my eyes, I found myself at the bottom, still on my feet. , * * * And this is how we are snared. Immediately, I was ready to buy skis, take lessons, and start cry- ing "schuss" or "slush" or what- ever it is skiers cry as they skim the slopes. I was saved only by my iron will, which always comes to my rescue when I decided I'll learn to play the tuba, or write a novel, or take up Russian. But some people, who don't have the same firm control of their fancies, are caught up in the ;artificial ex- citement of winter, and go charg- ing about in the snow, uttering shrill little cries of simulated plea- sure. I have always maintained that Canada in midwinter is fit only for jackrabbits, alcoholics and chil- dren under twelve. And the soon- er we get back to our age-old feud with Winter, and forget this game of footsie we're trying to play with her, the sooner we'll re- gain our old, decent, Canadian, midwinter surliness. (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) Have You Ever Seen a Knot Flying? This knot is a bird, a kind of sandpiper belonging to the' bird family Scolopacidae. It is about the size of a robin, with a slender bill flattened at the tip. In the spring the under parts are brick red while the upper parts are mottled grey, ochre and black. In fall it is pale grey above, and white below with fine streaks on the breast. The species breeds in the high Arctic in Canada, as far north as north- ern Ellesmere Island. In the set- tled parts of the country the knot is only a spring and autumn migrant. Who Are the Knights of Pythias? They are the members of the Order of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization that derives its name from the legendary friend- ship of Dpmon and Pythias. The caydinal principles of, the order are friendship, charity and benevo- lence. Members are selected with- out distinction as to race, religion or occupation. The order was founded in Washington, D.C., dur- ing the American Civil War, by Justus H. Rathbone. The first lodge in Canada was formed in 1870. There are now about 140 lodges across Canada with a mem- bership in excess of 10,000. * * * Where Did the Methodist Faith Have Its Canadian Beginnings? Methodism in Canada had sev- eral separate beginnings. It has been said that Methodism came into the Maritimes with the con- version of William Black, This young man of Yorkshire descent went throughout the eastern prov- inces from 1781 onwards, preach- ing and organizing Methodist churches, Among the British troops that came to Quebec in 1780 there were a number whn belonged to branches of the faith in England and Ireland. In 1778 Loyalists from the United States formed a Metho- dist society along the Bay of Quinte in Ontario. and in 1791 preachers - who had braved many hardships established the first cir- cuit in Upper Canada. The first Methodist churches in North Am- erica of which there is any certain record were built in 1768—one in New York City associated with.. the name of Barbara Heck, another., in Baltimore that resulted from the labors of Robert Strawbridge. * * * What is Black Granite? Black granite is a trade name by Tom Dorr 111 1 MOTHER, YOU KNOW THAT CUTE BLONDE, DAGMAR SMITH REV. ROBERT H. HARPER A NEW PRESIDENT In one of the closest races in U.S. history it has been decided who will be the president during the coming four years. It is a wholesome fact of history that the wounds of a political campaign are usually quickly healed and that patriotic citizens join in acquisc- enee of the result. So may it be in the present time. Give the new President a chance to make good on his promises. Let prayers ascend for him, his cabinet, and all who have part in the administration of the affairs of that nation. And especially should prayers be made for the coming of a lasting peace and the build- ing of a new earth wherein right- eousness shall dwell. The only alternative is horrible to contemplate. For the modern weapons of war, we are told, could blot out the human race. And it would be well for the nations to pause before they sound the trum- pet that calls to war and save the world from suicide. Just a Thought: It is amazing how self -dependent most of us can be—until we come face to face with adversity and re- versals. At such times we must turn to friends for a helping hand and when we do, we wonder why we ever tried to go it alone. TO THE EDITOR: Editor, The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir: We are glad to re- port that the MD campaign for research funds has had an un- paralleled success in 1960. Without the invaluable publicity you have given our efforts we could of course never have done so well. Our debt to the people of the corn- munications industry cannot be measured, but we know that our ultimate victory over MD will be as great a satisfaction to you and your colleagues as it will be to the members of our own organiza- tion. Yours very truly, GUS RYDER, Honorary Campaign Chairman. used to distinguish the darker col- ored commercial stones of igneous origin. Stones so designated are not necessarily black but may be of varying shades of dark grey or dark green. Strictly speaking, gran- ite refers to a plutonic rock or deep- seated igneous rock that solidified or crystallized at great depth in the form of batholith -or stocks. There are several varieties of granite based upon the mineral composition — hornblende granite, muscovite granite, and so forth. In the stone industry, the word gran- ite is applied - to almost any crys- talline igneous. rock. One of the best and most permanent of build- ing and ornamental stones, granite can be found exposed in every province except Prince Edward Is- land. A quarter or more of Can- ada is underlain by rocks of ign- eous origin. A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT THE LAST OF THE BIG SPENDERS For months the Toronto- Globe and Mail, the thundering editorial voice of Bay Street and Tory On- tario, has been hammering at Government spending and urging the Diefenbaker admipistration to trim its sails and leave more in the taxpayers' pockets. But it appears that Finance Min- ister Donald Fleming, the Toronto cabinet representative who should be most sensitive to the feelings of the financiers, hasn't been paying (or perhaps hasn't been able to pay) attention to the editor's ad- vice. He has now presented to Parlia- ment a spending program un- matched in Canadian history, one that puts even the high -tax years of World War Two into the shade, and staggers the imagination of the householder who measures his finances in terms of next week's grocery bill. And yet Mr. Fleming argues vig- orously that his Government is keeping a tight clamp on unneces- sary spending, "It is the intention of the Gov- ernment to carry forward pro- grams designed to provide both immediate and long-term stimula- tion of a high level of employment," he explains. "On the other hand, the Govern- ment has continued to review oth- er areas of expenditure where costs might be contained or reduc- ed, and a careful screening in those areas has resulted in significant decreases." It's reassuring to be told that the increase in spending has been "limited" to $56,500,000—a little ov- er three dollars per capita for every man, woman, child and in- fant in the cdtintry—but the reas- surance is short lived when one knows that pay increases to Gov- ernment employees in the last year alone amounted to more than $90,- 000.000. It seems that we are all caught in a vise of our own creation—the welfare program that carries us from cradle .to grave on a wave of cheques from the Federal treas- ury. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, an avowed believer in the welfare stateprinciple, prefers to call them "social justice" payments. What- ever they are called, they depend on a vigorous expanding economy to make the burden tolerable; and recent figures- show the gross na- tional product in constant dollars has been at a virtual standstill for the last four years, and that on a per capita basis, it is actual- ly down. It's conceivable that a Canadian in this modern age could go through life without turning his hand to work—especially if jobs are scarce—and survive on the re- distribution of his wage-earning neighbor's tax money. Detailing his $6,730,328,000 pro- gram for 1961-62 (the Government's fiscal year opens on April 1), Mr. Fleming• serves up a friendly re minder of where the money is go- ing. Of the $221,700,000 increase from last year's total spending, statutory items—costs the Government is tied to by legislation—account for $165 200,000, he points out. Hospital insurance, op e r a t e d jointly with the province and ad- ministered directly by them, ac- counts for the biggest single item, publid relations officer! a whacking $103,000,000 more than; the figure for 1960-61. The increase is explained by two factors. The province of Quebec, long a holdout from Federal shar- ed -cost programs under the Union Nationale regime of the late Pre- mier Maurice Duplessis, joined the program January 1 to complete coverage in all 10 provinces. High- er hospitalization costs make up the balance. Population growth, a feature of Canadian life over which the Gov- ernment has little control, will boost family allowances payments - by another $15,000,000. Pensions, superannuations and other benefits paid to civil servants and mem- bers of the armed forces will eat up another $13,500000. Add $10,- 000,000 for subsidies and special payments to the provinces, $6,800,- 000 for storage of wheat reserves, $6,000,000 more for the TransCan- ada Highway program (again thanks to Quebec making a late entry into the plan) and $11,400,- 000 additional for unemployment insurance and unemployment as- sistance, and Mr. Fleming's Gov, ernment grocery bill soars almost out of sight. The Finance Minister achieves his savings in other vital areas. A sum of $25,500,000 has been pared from the Defence Department's al- lotment, mostly in the administra- tive range. The Agricultural De- partment has taken a $33529,396 cut, and spending has been reduc- ed in eight other departments as well. There is some comfort, perhaps, in Mr. Fleming's evident intention to finance the huge program by borrowing instead of raising taxes. He really has no other choice, since a substantial• tax boost at a time of high unemployment and lagging industrial production would be an act of political suicide. But for a nation which has been consistently spending more than it has earned for the last four years, the Fleming plan promises to put the country deep into a hole that will take a good many boom years to get out of in fu- ture. * * * Capital Hill Capsules The squabble over nuclear wea- pons continues unabated, but there is nothing in the estimates to suggest that the Govetenment is ready to take the plunge for its new military hardware, Bomarc missiles (minus their optional but deadly -effective hot tips). and CF - 104 strike -reconnaissance planes for the RCAF in Europe are pro- vided for. But there's nothing in the program to replace the tired, 11 -year-old CF -100 interceptors that guard our northern skies. * *"* Ottawa newsmen who occasion- ally are accused of having mis- quoted politicians who find them- selves in a hot spot, couldn't re- press a sardonic smile over the latest embarrassment of Defence Minister Douglas Harkness. Speak- ing off-the-cuff at a private mess dinner where no reporters were present, Mr. Harknes made some indiscreet comments about "ban - the -bomb" propaganda and how it should be opposed. His words were taken down and delivered to the newspapers, unbeknownst to the Minister, by an employee of his own Defence Department, a, Navy IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago: From The Huron Expositor January 31, 1936 Seaforth Juniors won t w o straight victories this week, de- feating Clinton 5-2 on Wednesday night, and defeating Goderich 6-1 on Monday. The passengers and crew of two CNR passenger trains, both run- ning behind schedules, received a severe shaking up but escaped in- jury shortly before 2 o'clock Thurs- day afternoon in a railway colli- sion in front of the Clinton sta- tion. - Many subscribers in the Hensall area received their papers late last week owing to the impassable con- dition.of the roads, Gervan Gemmell, son of Mr. Dav- id Gemmell, a fourth form_ student a fourth form student of SDHS of SDHS, • broke his arm over the noon hour on Wednesday while playing basketball. Mr. E. L. Box and Mayor A. D. Sutherland, of the Seaforth Public Utility Commission, are in Toron- to this week attending the annual meeting of the Ontario Municipal Electric Association, The death of King George V and ascent to the throne of King Ed- ward VIII has brought to Mrs. Robert Hayes, Lucknow's eldest resident, the distinction of having lived under five rulers.. The annual meeting of share- holders of the Seaforth Golf Hold- ing Corporation was held in the Town Hall on Friday evening. Owing to the storm and road conditions, many church services in the district were called off on Sunday. Mr. Scott Cluff suffered a ra- ther serious accident on Tuesday, when a horse stepped on his foot, The snow drifts at Winthrop this week, after the storm, were five and six feet deep in places, mak- ing it even difficult for horses to travel. * * * From The Huron Expositor February 3, 1911 The Hensall Gun Club intend holding a shoot for an oyster sup- per on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Persons who have not yet got their phones in Brucefield are re- quested to call for them on Mon- day, and take them home with them. - .. Mr. J. Vincent who has been employed in the electric light plant at Wingham, is going to move back to Seaforth, having again been appointed engineer at the flour Mill. At the m'unicip'al nomination a lot *as heard about the ilroapeets of a flax `afnpbtiy starting a Infill here, but since then its seems to have dropped. Postmaster Sims, of Seaforth, was in Goderich on Tuesday of this week attending a meeting of the County Postmasters. The soft weather of last week came to an end on Sunday night and as usual wound up with cold blustery weather. The E. McFaul Co.. are having the Roberts' store, which they pur- chased Iast spring, fixed up for use as a carpet and housefurnish- ings department. Mr. Clemens, an engineer from the Hydro -Electric Commission, was in town on Wednesday meas- uring up the pole line on the streets. Mr. Joseph Dorrance, who has been here from the West, has pur- chased 20 sucking colts for ship- ment to the West, and paid a high price for them. In a fire which caused about $40,000 damage in Strathcona, Alta., on Tuesday, the store of Bright & Ashbough, men's outfitters, was destroyed. Mr. A. J, Bright is formerly of Seaforth, and Mr. Ash - bough, formerly of Aylmer, is his son-in-law. Mr. W. C. Landsborough, of Eg- mondville, has been appointed ag- ent for the Hilderleigh Nurseries, of Winona, owned by Mr. E. D. Smith. Mr. Wm. Charlesworth, who re- cently sold his farm in 2gmond- ville, has purchased the comfort- able brick residence in the village belonging to the estate of William Aberhart. * * * From The Huron Expositor January 29, 1886 With the present good sleighing, large quantities of grain, pork and wood are being brought to market at Hensall. William Page, of-Staffa, who has been confined to bed with rheuma- tism for two weeks, is now suffer- ing from congestion tlf the lungs. Mr. Alex Henderson, an old Sea- forthite, has been elected a coun- cilman for the municipality of Ar- gyle by acclamation. The ice harvest has commenced, and Mr. D. D. Wilson's teams are busily at work drawing the con- gealed fluid from Egmondville dam and placing it in his refrig- erator. Mr. Arthur Forbes has added to his extensive livery .another very handsome pleasure sleigh, which he recently purchased in Strat- ford. Mr. Charles Wilson has purchas- ed a house and three lots situated south of the railway track, from ,the Gouirllock estate, for the sum of $650. Several Tuckersmith farmers are drawing cedar posts for fencing from the Township of Grey. Mr. R. Common, who supplied the citizens with ice last year, is again laying in a stock for next season. Mr. Bissel, the milkman, had a cow which gave birth to twin calves a few days ago, and con- sidering she had done her duty in this life, the bovine has since died. The poultry show is in progress at Stratford this week. Seaforth breeders are well represented. The Odd Fellows of Brucefield are rendering good service to the people of the village and vicinity this season in furnishing them with interesting and instructive enter- tainment, On Friday morning about 4:30, the large futniture factory and planing mill at Brussels, owned by James Bennett, was discovered to be on fire. Loss was estimated at $12.000, with insurance of $2.000. THE OM Y FREY bUZY,' I JUST NOTICED THAT YOU RE USING A DC'J8LE EDGE 'RAZOR BLADE TO CUT OUT YOUR PICTURES-7,'LL MAKE A SAFETY HOLDER FOR THAT BLADE ll'' /1.O1'D Fl€STIORMA HOW r, Oso M ^.OE A • �� 4�r tt LD R' CUT OFF eM� MATCH ROOK w • • 6 • • r 4 N • • r • 4 1