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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-04-13, Page 2Since 1860, ,Serving the Community First . PlAklished at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers p a ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor 41 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 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 13, 1961 Is Area Weather Becoming Warmer? Anyone living in this district over the Easter weekend, or who remem- bered the below -zero temperatures of last January, would have difficulty in believing that there is a trend to- wards a warmer climate and less snow. But that is what a Depart- ment of Transport climatologist claims. In a recent interview, Manley K. Thomas, D of T weatherman, claim- ed the East is getting warmer, the West colder. Average annual tem- perature for the country as a whole has shown a definite upward .trend during the past 100 years. The Thomas findings reported in the Financial Post indicate that Can- ada is now in the region of three de- grees to four degrees warmer all year round than it was in the mid - 1800s. For example, Toronto's tempera- ture has gone up from a year-round' average of 44 degrees in 1880 to 48 • degrees in 1960. If it were to continue for the next '50 years, this trend could prove sig- nificant to the heating and air con- ditioning industries. It would prob- ably lead to shorter, milder winters east of Lake Superior, says Thomas, who is based in Toronto,, and more frequent colder spells to the west. Weather men say the climates in northern regions of the world sup- port theories of geologists that the earth's surface is warming up all over. In the past million years there have been four ice ages. We live in the twilight of the last—the Pleisto- cene Age—and since 1900 average temperature of the earth has risen by one degree. Reasons are said to be: Increase of 10% over, the last 50 years in the carbon dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere. Increased heat from the sun. • Increased absorption of solar heat by earth's surface. But whatever the cause, a one de- gree rise has been sufficient to start the melting process in the North. Maurice Ewing and William Donn,. two U.S. geophysicists of Columbia University, say that Arctic ice has already thinned out by 40% and now covers 12% less area than it did 15 years ago. This means that warmer Arctic water is producing rising tempera- tures in the Atlantic. Canadian birds have already been caught up in the climatic confusion. Titmice, warblers, mocking birds -and sparrows, which usually migrate to warm regions during winter, don't know which way to fly these days. Their long winter , exile is not as important as it used to be, and as a result they are being seen further north than ever before in winter. Warmer temperatures have led to a northward extension of agricul- ture in every province and an almost, yearly variation in harvest times. The ordinary citizen calls to find out what clothes to wear on a night out, what the weather will be like for a picnic he plans and, if he's going on vacation,'which part of the country will enjoy the least rain." Until 1961, Canadian climatolo- gists confined their forecasts to 24 hours in advance. "Now," Thomas says, "we are issuing long range forecasts in five and 30 -day projec- tions." ,. "1 tell you, Orville, it will never fly!" But Orville was right — it flew — and today man is conquering space. You, too, are conquering space ... in a different way ... when you use the advertising columns of this newspaper. For many years, a newspaper's circulation was what a publisher said it was. 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Astio *This newspaper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, an asso- ciation of nearly 4,000 publishers, advertisers, and advertising agencies. Our circulation is auditedregularly by experienced ABC circulation auditors. Our ABC report shows how much circulation we have, where it gobs, how ob- tained, and other facts that tell you what you get for your advertising money when you usg this newspaper. SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley "Golly, Dad, are you ever old!" This was' my son's comment when he learned the other day that I'd been born in 1920, just a couple of years after World War I. You'd have thought it was immediately following the Gay Nineties, to hear his tone. There is only one comfort, as the years rush by. One's age va- lues change conveniently. When. you are 10, anybody oser 21 is middle-aged. By the time you are 15, you realize that people aren't middle-aged until they're 30 or more. When you are 25, middle - age begins at 40. And when you are 40, you are serene in the knowledge that you won't really be in middle age until you are about 55. This disparity in point of view is brought home to me with some force when I'm talking to teen- agers at school. One day we all saw a film on the history of flight. It contained some shots' of aerial combat in World War I. Later, I remarked jokingly, that I'd enjoyed seeing some of the old aircraft I'd flown myself in those days. They didn't get the joke. They really thought I'd been a World War I pilot. This would make me at least 60. I asked them sharply how old they thought I was. One particu- larly sweet girl in Grade 10 said: "You don't look it, sir." That's why a lot of us World War II veterans, who keep think- ing the war was just a few years ago, should pull our heads out of the sand. We may feel that we're still practically gay young blades, but we should realize that a whole new generation has grown up, to whom our war is as remote as the Cri- mean War was to us, at the same age. Just the same, it's fun to look back. About the same day my son was relegating me to the horse - less carriage era, my daughter, while prowling around for some- thing to read, came across my old prisoner -of -war log book. She went through it in one sitting. From time to time she looked at me curiously, cocked an eyebrow, and read on. I'd forgotten what was in that log book. But I found out. Young Kim went to her mother with it and said, "Look at this, Mom." she was pointing at two pages of photographs of striking young la- dies. I had them in my wallet when shot down, and pasted them in the book under the youthful,' silly, but harmless heading, My Comforters. Despite the fact that some of those girls are now doubtless on the verge of grandmotherhood, the Old Lady got sore. She gave the snapshots' one long, searing look, gave me another, sneered "Oh, weren't you the charmer?" and flounced off to finish her wash- ing. Kim- looked pleased. I decided to take a look through the old book myself, and spent a thoroughly enjoyable hour, like an old maid with her faded ribbons and. her dance programs. It took me .from the dreariness of early April, from the morass of middle- class domesticity, back to a time when I was young and tough, com- pletely irresponsible and slightly wicked._ There were the names, many of them forgotten, of the motley crew in my barracks. I wonder what Jannie de Wet of South Africa thinks of Canada these days?. Is Nils Jorgenson back on his rail- way job in Oslo? How does Don McGibbon of Bulawayo feel about the riots in his Rhodesian home- land? What's become, of Tony Frombolo of Alameda, Cal.? Did Clancy Cleary ever get his dairy farm going in Australia? On which side of the Iron Curtain did Rostislav Kanovsky, the Czech, land? `aB * w There were the crazy cartoons by "Chuck", the mad Ukrainian, spoofing the Germans. There were the old prison -camp recipes for tur- nip jam and prune whisky and pow- dered milk pie. There were the incredible stories—like that of the Dutch lad who was shot down and taken prisoner while on leave. " There were the excerpts from letters -from -home. They were hor- rible in their thoughtlessness, but we thought them hilarious. For example: "We are sending you a five-year calendar, feeling it may come in handy." And this one, from a wife: "I'm afraid I'm go- ing to have a baby. His father is a Canadian and very nice. He says he is sorry for you and is sending you some cigarettes." There 'was the long list of things to do when I got out—pubs, girls and restaurants to be revisited, places to see, gifts to buy. There was the entire account, in tiny writing, of what had happened to me after I was shot down — a comedy of errors. And there, right at the back of the book, tucked into a little flap, was something that brought me up with a jolt, It was a head -and - shoulders photo of a young fellow scowling at the camera. He was whiskery and dirty. But there wasn't a line in his face, his eyes were clear and sharp, he had a shock of thick, dark hair, and he looked as tough as tow rope. I looked at it for quite a while. Then I got up and went into the bedroom and looked fn the mir- ror. And I saw the deep furrows in the face, and the bleary eyes with the purple hammocks under them, and the wispy,' graying hair, and the general color of a milk pudding, I looked at it for quite a while, And I picked up my log book, with the photo of that young fel- low, and I took it down cellar, and I put it in a box, and I placed a large trunk on top of the box. And just before I mounted the stairs again, I saluted—merely a casual flip of the hand—toward that cor- ner. Then I squared my shoulders, pulled in my pot, donned a pleas- ant look, and, slightly favoring my arthritic knee, walked up the stairs, whistling, to help with the dishes, (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) Does the Michigan Central Operate in Canada? Yes, the Michigan Central Rail- road, a subsidiary of the New York Central, owns a number of lines, comprising some 375 miles of track in Western Ontario. These include connections between Essex and Amherstburg, Leamington and Comber, Petrolia and Oil Springs, St. Thomas and Courtright, and Niagara, Niagara Falls and Fort Erie. Its major road in Canada is the main line of the former Can- ada Southern between Amherst - burg and Niagara Falls. 4e * k What Happened To the Oneida Indians? • The Oneida, the Iroquois tribe that formed part of the Five Na- tions, lived to the west of the Mohawk tribe and to the east of the Finger Lakes area of New York State during the colonial period. The American Revolution divided the tribe. Most of those 'e.eati (me wee4e ;iia::�:oli;<;•.rii..:f "What shall I tell her Is ,eallillgit" S tt 61)1 VA Y•, £5� ' i Olt REV. ROBERT H., HARPER RESURRECTION Easter, a so-called "movable feast" the date of which is de- termined by phases of the moon, was celebrated this year the first Sunday of April , We may be glad that the 'Russians have not knock- ed the moon out of the sky, as they have not been able to crush all religion. So we still have the moon for times and seasons and other things. And if sun, moon and stars are safe, what must we think and say of things that will outlast the worlds! An apostle has written that the things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are eternal. The apostle's reasoning, yes, ultimatum is compelling—"If ye, then, be risen with Christ, seek those which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." The great lesson that we should learn from the empty tomb is that of resurrection from sin. Without the hope of overcoming sin, eter- nal life would be a greater tragedy than eternal death. But through the risen Lord, the soul will es- cape the wreck of ten thousand worlds. Just a Thought: All of us can admire the indi- vidual who believes in presistence —so long as that individual is a reasonable person. Persistence born of pure obstinateness—or the determination to have one's own way—is,most always unreasonable. who sided with the British accept- ed lands in Upper Canada; their descendants are living near Lon- don, Ontario, or on the Grand Riv- er Reserve near Brantford. Those who took the American side in the struggle and remained in the United States were moved west to Wisconsin in the early 19th cen- tury. Which Major Rivers Run Parallel But in Opposite Directions? For some 50 miles in their upper reaches the Columbia and• Kooten- ay Rivers in British Columbia flow parallel to each other at a distance of 10 to 15 miles, but the Columbia flows north while the Kootenay flows south. The Kootenay rises on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains to the west of Banff. After paralleling the Columbia, which flows north in the early stages of its course, the Kootenay skirts the Columbia's headwaters and continues south to cross the international boundary. In the United States the Kootenay turns west and then north back into Koot- enay Lake in British Columbia before joining the Columbia River at Castlegar. Mobile, dental and medical coach- es are, operated by the Canadian Red Cross in some provinces to provide treatment for citizens in remote areas. A *DUFF OTTAWA REPORT A DRY RUN Mid -June is expected to see the Federal government go to the country in a "miniature general election" to test its popularity at the polls. Prime Minister Diefenbaker is expected to call by-elections soon. The present party strength in the 265 member Commons is: Con- servatives, 202; Liberals, 50; C. C. F., 8, and New Party 1, and there are four vacancies. The our Federal ridings 'now without representation are: Leeds in Ontario; Esquimalt-Saanich in British Columbia; Restigouche- Madawaska in New Brunswick and Kings in Prince Edward Island, ail previously held by the Conserva- tives. Local issues generally play a most important part in the out- come of by-elections mid -way through the life of a government. But the Conservatives and Liberals will undoubtedly use these by-elec- tions as a testing ground in pre- paration for the next Federal elec- tion, now expected to be either next year, or at the latest, early in 1963. The Prime Minister spelled out one of the main issues on which his Party is prepared to fight when he delivered a pep talk at the re- cent Conservative rally. He de- clared that the issue of free en- terprise versus socialism "old and new" would be a principle issue in the next campaign. Mr. Diefenbaker was careful to drop no hint as to when the Tory delegates could expect the next general election. However, his lieutenants at the convention made it plain that it was not too far away and that the Conservative or- ganization should be soon • oing in- to high gear, in readines§ for the test. The delegates heard other issues spelled out as basic material for the next campaitn. They includ- ed: (1) Protectionism, Conservative style, for secondary industries to- gether with a "Buy Canadian" campaign as opposed to the Lib- eral policy of freer trade and the proposal for an Atlantic Free Trade community. (2) Canadian emphasis on dis- armament with acceptance at the same time of nuclear weapons for defence failing disarmament and the continuation of full participa- tion in NATO and NORA)/ (3) Support for deficit financ- ing as long as it is needed to ov- ercome the recession and to pro- mote greater employment, • (4) Forward steps towards health insurance and a contribu- tory pension program. (5) A defence of human rights as exemplified by the Prime Min- ister's position on South Africa at the Commonwealth Conference and by his Bill of Rights. (6) Denunciation of the C.C.F. and Liberal parties for allegedly spreading "gloom and doom" throughout the land as contrasted with the Conservative view which will be pictured as one seeking to promote confidence in Canada's future. It was the issue of free enter- prise versus socialism that the Prime Minister emphasized. He claimed that both the Liberal and C.C.F. parties were masquerading under new labels. He charged that the so-called Liberal party "went • so far to the left" in its policy rally last January that many of its own supporters "cannot under- stand it". He contended that the swing to the left made it certain that a key issue would be "shall Canada maintain the free enter- prise system." Mr. Diefenbaker also declared that when his Government had completed the discharge of its du- ties then, in the "normal consti- tutional manner" an election would be held. Meantime, both Liberal Leader Hon. L. B. Pearson and Hazen Argue, national leader of the C. C. F. have welcomed Mr. Diefem baker's declaration of one of the main issues in the next Federal election. With a smile, Mr. Pear- son said that Mr. Diefenbaker was now attempting to set himself up as the champion of free enterprise. This was a major change from the Tory Leader's position in October 1959, when Mr. Diefenbaker at- tacked the Canadian banks and blamed them for Canada's tight money difficulties. The Liberal leader suggested that with unemployment now at an all- time peak ,and the economy in a period of decline it was cold com- fort for those three quarters of a million men and women seeking work, to be told that the Tories were the champions of free enter. prise. He accused the Prime Min- ister of reaching out for a new red herring in the suggestion that the Liberals would socialize the whole country and ruin everybody. It was a diversion to conceal the Govern- ment's own failures. Mr, Pearson pointed out that in periods of Lib- eral government there had been a steady march toward social se- curity and greater human welfare; while at the same time private en- terprise flourished and provided more and more jobs with ever -im- proving living standards. Mr, Argue also accused the Prime Minister of trying to divert public attention from the failure of his Government to deal with un- employment. .He claimed that by saying Socialism was the issue, the Conser'vatives were striving to cast their lot more firmly with Big Business, Bay Street and St. James Street, in order to obtain more campaign funds. Capital Hill Capsules The C.C.F. is determined to launch a parliamentary inquiry in, to drug prices at this session. When the members get back to their desks after the Easter recess, the Party will press for such an inquiry to be carried on by the Commons Banking and Commerce Committee. * * * Two, members of the Cabinet were perambulating around the Far North country during the Eas- ter holiday period. They were Jus- tice Minister Fulton and Northern Affairs Minister Dinsdale. The former made an aerial inspection of RCMP posts in the Arctic. The latter made his first official visit to the Northwest Territories. Police Captain: "So you let him escape, huh? Didn't you obey my orders to guard all exits?" Rookie: "Yes, sir, we guarded every exit. He must have slipped through one of the entrances." IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor April 10, 1936 Mr. and Mrs. John McGregor, of Egmondville, have moved to their farm near Kippen. They have sold their residence in Egmondville to Mr. •and Mrs. Fred Kennings, of Hensall." Mr, W. H. Golding, M.P., is home from Ottawa for the Easter recess. Miss Jean Stewart, of Brescia Hall, London, is spending the Eas- ter holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Stewart. Mr. Finlay McKercher, McKil- lop, was in Toronto this week. Dr. R W. Davis and Mrs. Davis, of Toronto, were here last week attending the funeral of the doc- tor's mother, the late Mrs. David Davis. Members of "D" Company Hur- on Regiment have been engaged in rifle practise during recent weeks. A range has been fitted up in the basement of the Oddfellows' Hall. Ruth Cummings, young daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cum. mings, had the misfortune to fall on the railway track, about a mile east of Walton, on Sunday and as a result received a fractured leg. Cosy Ennis, of Walton, has re- turned home from Granton, where he has been employed for about three months. On the occasion his departure in the near future, Mr. E. F. Taman, of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce, Seaforth, was honored by friends at an enjoyable function held in the bank apartment Fri- day evening. Fire believed to have started from an overturned lamp destroy- ed the two-storey frame residence two miles east of Staffa, occupied by Mr. Thomas Q. Fox,"and owned by Stewart Dow, of Cromarty. Ross MacGregor Bill Jewitt and Verne and"Leo Dale, of Constance, attended the Stratford Spring Show on Wednesday., The snowfall of late has been a godsend to the farmers as it's a protection to the wheat and grass, and it has increased the produc- tion of .the maple syrup season, which for the past two weeks has been splendid. From The Huron Expositor April 14, 1911 A company has been formed un- der the name of "International Motors," with a capital of $40,000 and head offices at Seaforth, for the purpose of dealing in automo- biles, motor trucks motor boats and Other Motel' vehicles. Mr. Charles A. Mustard, B.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mustard, of Brucefield, has passed his third year examination at Knox College, Toronto, taking very high stand- ings. -. A farewell supper will be ten- dered Mr. G. F. Coiling, B.A., at the Queen's Hotel on Tuesday eve- ning next on the eve of his depar- ture for Peterboro. The street committee ,has had Goderich Street scraped and nice- ly cleaned up to pave in a short time. - Mr. N. • Miller, of Kingston, a graduate of Queen's University, has been appointed mathematical master in Seaforth Collegiate In- stitute, as successor to Mr. G. F. Coiling. Dr. and Mrs. Fisher. moved this week to' Toronto, where the doctor has 'purchased a good dental prac- tise. A number from ere went to Stratford Thursday fight to hear the celebrated Sheffie d Choir. Spring seems to have arrived and some farmers have this week got into the spring plowing. The dust was flying freely on Main Street early in the week. The water cart was being repaired, consequently the ,,frust held full sway. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stobie left last week for Edmonton, where they will remain for the summer. Mr. M. Y. McLean, M.P., deliv- ered an address in the lecture room of the Methodist Church on Monday evening on the subject, "How Parliament Does Business," From The Huron Expositor April 9, 1886 Mr. M. R. Counter has sold his comfortable residence to Mr. J. S. Roberts, for the sum of $1,200, Mr. Z. Bean has entered into. partnership with Mr. W. H. Gil- bert in the People's Bakery, Mr. Kenneth McLeod has pur- chased the cottage of Mr. Gra- ham on Goderich Street for $1,150. and will occupy it himself. Messrs. W. H. Paulin and Ike Cardno, one-time members of the - once celebrated Star Baseball. Club of Seaforth, have this year joined the Winnipeg professional club. There is a great scarcity of tenement houses in this town at the present time. Dr. Gunn, of Brucefield, is go- ing to move to town • and will en- ter into partnership with Dr. Campbell. The family of Mr. James Walsh leave here on Monday for Toronto, where Mrs. Walsh will poin them and engage in his business perm- anently. The degree of B.A. has been con- ferred upon Rev. Peter Wright, of Stratford; Rev. D. M. Ramsay, of Londesboro, and Rev. W. M. Mar- tin, of Exeter, by Knox College, Toronto, Mr. J. R. Murray is going to operate the Kinburn Cheese Fac- tory this year. Mr. B. Thomson, of Hensall, has sold his dwelling house on Queen Street to Mr. Lammie, Sr., of Hay, and is erecting another on one of his lots near the cider mill. The storm of Tuesday partly un- roofed the barn of Mr. Sinclair, of Tuckersmith, and scattered fences carrying the rails a considerable distance. One of Mr. James Cooper's im- ported ewes recently dropped a lamb which weighed 14 pounds at birth, Mr, Cooper is a Kippen man. 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