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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-07-06, Page 2Since 1860,, Serving the Community First rulSIisbed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday .' orning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, E4"tor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers sociation, Ontario „. • Weekly Newspapers Association, :.: ' ureau of Circulations Subscripti 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, JULY 6, 1961 Rest To Drive Fatigue while driving is an insidious cause of highway accidents that is no less formidable than excess speed or alcohol. This is the informed opinion of W. Arch Bryce, executive director of the Canadian Highway Safety Council, at a time when hundreds of thousands of Canadians are preparing to embark on long motor trips for their annual summer holidays. • According to Mr. Bryce, there is only one basic remedy for fatigue: rest. "Care- ful drivers give themselves a good night's sleep before setting out early next day. In addition, every hundred miles or so, they make brief stops to take a little .exercise, admire the scenery and enjoy a stimulat- ing cup of coffee at a nearby restaurant. 'hese sensible measures help, to keep the driver fresh and alert. Stressing the theme of the national campaign for highway safety, "Slow Down and Live", Mr. Bryce urged motor- ists never to exceed the speed limits pre- scribed by law and to always keep their car„under control according to weather conditions, visibility, road conditions and traffic density. • And here are some other safety tips which they should keep in mind on their summer trips. 1. Keep your, car in top mechanical condition. Steering gear, brakes and lights are especially important. Watch your tire pressure, Improperly -inflated tires plus summer -hot roads can equal blowout disaster! 2. Keep your eye on the cars behind and in front of you. Anticipating what the other fellow may do is an essenial of safe driving. Keep your distance—a car's length for every 10 miles of speed. , 3. Stay alert at .all times. On long, monotonous drives, ;stop every two hours • And Stay Alive for a coffee -break (iced coffee is just as effective as hot for sharpening your re- flexes). Get out of the car, walk around, relax for a few minutes. 4. Share the wheel if you can. • Don't fight fatigue. Pull over to the side of the road and take a rest. You'll lose a few minutes . , . but perhaps save your life! 5. Know and obey all traffic regula- tions, specially speed laws. Speed too fast for conditions is the most common cause of fatal highway accidents. Slow Down and Live! Reflects Public Attitude Perhaps Dr. George Flower of the On- tario College of Education has a real point when he says that it is impossible to op- erate "hard schools" in a "soft society". He suggests that students can hardly be expected'to bear down in school when all around them people are looking for new ways to make themselves more com- fortable. The main point to the whole thing, as the St. Marys Journal -Argus points out, is that the West has little chance -against Communism 'unless a way is found to stiffen its society. Dr. Flower.. says : "We are soft, smug and flabby, and I don't just mean flabby in the physical sense . . ." He added that everything a student sees around him seems to underline the soft way as acceptable, desirable and leading to success. Some persons are agitating for a longer school day and a longer school year, while at the same time, society is trying to establish a four-day week. "Our object seems to be to get more for doing -less,” he said. "If we want to stiffen our •Society, there's no short cut. It will mean hard work." Huron Hospitals Are Stalled (An Editorial 'in the Wingham Advance -Times) The hospitals in Huron County are fac- ing a real crisis. Crowded to the very" doors, they cannot find the money to add more beds. If you doubt the urgency of the situation take a walk through the cor- ridors of our own hospital almost any. -- week of the year. Things are a little bet- ter than usual right at the present time. We have only a couple of dozen more pa- tients than the hospital is supposed to accommodate. At times last winter there were 140 patients in this hospital—which theoretically contains only 96 beds. The Seaforth Hospital has been con- demned by provincial authorities. It must be completely replaced by a 50 -bed hospi- tal at a cost of approximately $750,000. Clinton has had to add a new wing, as has Exeter. Goderich is overcrowded and one wing is no longer supposed to be used for patient care. The same is true in Wingham. If you are among the uninitiated, you will say,."Kick out some of the old people who are taking up all the beds." That is a cheap and very common form of advice nowadays. If, however, you happen to knoty what you are talking about, you will realize that every hospital in the county ,lis , long since moved out every patient who can be cared for in other quarters. The few existing nursing homes are filled. In any case;, the decision to move these oldVersons is not one which can be made by the hospital authorities, but only by the doctors, who know how much treat - Merit and nursing care is required. Until other institutions are erected, stitch as convalescent homes, nursing homes and More homes for the aged, our hospi- tals are going to be crowded. The ques- t16 is, `Where do we find the funds to pro- vide aommodation ? early' this year representatives of the )lolifiital boards in Huron began a series of meetings with a committee of county dottneil and eventually urged that the coun- tjt aesue"debentures for the total •amount of money required to make the necessary hoe - p1 1: additions. It was estimated that ap- rttiately one mill on the county rate ` 1& Zook after'} the requirements of all. • 'itiotighi :it similar amount was voted by /Or this year only, the debenture ric+ irnrt'ientlatlon was turned down. civitdity ctStrfleii did sharply increa e• the amount of grant' which may be paid to any one hospital, but' the question of total finance is still left completely in the air. Take the case of the Seaforth Hospital. If a new hospital is erected it is expected the cost will be about $750,Q00..,Pederal and provincial grants will provide about $200,000' (on the basis of $4,000 per bed for 50 beds). Square footage grants on the service rooms (operating, obstetrics, etc.) , may bring another $10,000. The county grants at $2,000 per bed would be another $1.0.0,000, but a maximum clause will intervene to %it ake the grant consid- erably less. This leaves no less than $450,- 000 to be raised in the Seaforth area. Our guess is they can't do it. Though the residents of each of these hospital areas have been generous in the past, the feeling now , prevails that pa- tients come from so fir afield that the county level is the only one at which tax- es for hospital purposes can be raised with any reasonable equity. We aren't blaming county 'councillors for turning down the suggestion. They are motivated by a perfectly honest de- sire to contain county spending, so that taxpayers will not blame their reeves for increased levies. They are elected to office and know they will have to answer for their decisions next December. But the hospital question is still wide open. No one can suggest where the funds are to be found. It may not concern you too deeply at the moment, but believe us, when your wife or your child is seriously sick and your own - hospital has no beds left, you will be the first to realize that an answer simply must be found—and soon. Enlisted Men First An embittered ex -soldier doubts if a military officer will be landed on the moon until a detail of enlisted Men has been sent ahead to get the tents pitched.—Calgary Herald. Overdoing It A Prince Edward Island farmer's sow has produced a record 39 piglets in her first litter. Now we have a proper defini- tion for a familiar phrase, "hamming,it up." This is overdoing the thing.—Vic- toria Times.) Well, we've completed our plans for this year's vacation. According to the calendar, I can chisel a week's holiday at the end of Aug- ust, and we're all set. We're go- ing on a camping trip. The kids and I would be happy enough to spend the week at some luxurious summer hotel, but the Old Girl won't hear of it. She thinks a week of roughing it is just the ticket. Of course, she's always been crazy about nature. * * Lots of women, for example, never go trout fishing. They think it's an insane pastime. Not my wife. Many a time she's come right along with me. She'll throw on an old $20 pair of slim jims, and pull on an old, rough, $18 sweater, and just sort of take a swipe at her hair with a comb for about ten minutes, and slap on some make- up in 15 minutes, and she's all set. She ties an old $7 scarf around her hair and away we go. And when we get to the stream, do you think she complains about the hard going and the mosquitoes? Not on your life. She just rolls up the car windows, gets out her book, turns on the radio and sits there, roughing it, while I fish. * * * But she's always been wild about nature, so it's no wonder she talked us into this camping trip. She just likes to -get right out in nature and revel in it. She's what you might call an amateur, naturalist. She knows the name of all the. wild flowers, like the dan- delion and the geranium, and you can't fool heron birds. You'll be standing there, wondering what that bird is, and before you can tentatively murmur "thatch-crofted tit -willow," she's flashed out, "It's a. crow." You can spot this love of nature every time we go on a picnic. Many a time I've seen her sit right down on a rock or a log, when I've for- gotten the folding chairs. And of- ten, she'll get out of the ear: the minute We arrive and march right down and look at the water for ten or twelve seconds at a stretch. * * * And you can tell she's mad about nature by the way she keeps talk- ing about camping trips. We've been talking about a camping trip ever since we got married. I just sort of ramble on in an imprac- tical way about the fishing and sit- ting around the campfire and stuff like that. But you can spot her as a seasoned camper, because she gets down to sensible things and makes a list of what she'd need, things like her ironing board and a spring -filled mattress. I guess the reason we've • never -gone on our camping trip is that I'm too dreamy and romantic about it, and never get down to the basic essentials, as she does. * * * Lots of women, in this age of oft living, have lost touch with nature. They think they're rough- ing it like their pioneer ancestors if they spend two weeks at a cot- tage with outdoor plumbing. My wife isn't like that, and I admire her for it. I've seer, her spend a week in •a cottage, right out on some wild beach with no rrieighbors closer than forty or fifty feet, and 'nothing to cook on but an old electric stove with only two burners, and do you think there was a whimper out of her? Not on your life, * * * And she's absolutely intrepid in the outdoors. Some women , are frightened of anything bigger than an ant. Not my brave girl. I've seen her stamp her foot fearlessly at a chipmunk and tell him• tp beat it, • And she was only two days getting over it the time the porcu- pine walked past the cottage. No, she doesn't seem to know the meaning . of fear, when she's out in nature. I've seen her go right out in a rowboat and not even hang onto the sides, after the first twenty minutes. * * * And when she wants to go swim- ming, it doesn't matter what the weather's like, as long as the sun is shining and the temperature's in the 80's and she has a new $24 swim suit and she hasn't lost or gained any weight during the win- ter and there aren't any waves and there are no stones on the bottom and there's a kid dragging her by each hand. Well, you can see what we're up against. As I said, the kids and I would be happy enough 'mock- ing around at some plush resort, but whether we like it or not, she's going to drag us off on this kookie camping trip. * * * All I have to do between now and the last Week in August is borrow a tent with twin beds and an oil furnace in it, and make sure the staff at Algonquin Park has killed all mosquitoes in the park and installed plugs for our vacuum cleaner and clothes dryer at all campsites. (Prepared 'by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) How Did Riviere Du Loup Get Its Name? e city of Riviere du 'Loup, on the outh shore of the St. Lawr- ence about 120 miles below Quebec City, takes its name from the riv- er, a tributary of the St. Lawr- ence, ,at the mouth of which it is located. The river—in English, Wolf River—was given its name because of the number of timber wolves formerly found in the vicinity. The city' iself has borne this name only since 1919. Previously it was call- ed Fraserville, after Alexander Fraser, whose father held the seigniorial rights in the district. The community was incorporated in 1842 and became a city in 1874. _ * * * What is Seneca -Snakeroot? Seneca rfakeroot (Polygala Sen- ega), a species of milkwort, is a slender perennial with clusters of leafy stems six to 18 inches tall and a thick, woody rootstock: It grows from Quebec to Alberta and was formerly used by the Seneca Indians as a cure for snake bites. The senega is obtained from the roots and is used as an emetic and stimulant. Digging of the' root is a sizable Local industry in the In- terlake district of Manitoba, where the greater part of the World's commercial supply is obtained. k % * Where Was Canada's First Telegraph Line? Between Toronto and Hamilton.' In December 1846 the first elec- tric telegraph messages in Canada were exchanged between these two citieran a line laid and operated by the Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara and St. Catharines Electro -Mag- netic Telegraph Company. The company was incorporated the fol- lowing year and a line 'was laid between Queenston and Niagara and thence to Buffalo, establishing a connection with all points in the United States. By the fall of 1847, a line from Hamilton to London, Ont., was completed. In 1852 the company sold out to a larger com- petitor, the Montreal Telegraph Company, which had begun in 1847 with a line from Toronto to Mont- real. Telegraph communication be- gan when Samuel B. Morse trans- mitted his first message over a line between Baltimore and Wash- ington in 1844. e.t.a N weehe "1 thought the joke you just tido was Stale, poorly told and in bad • tante—and I've found a better paying job." REV. RO : ERT IL HARPER THE BIBLE OF TO -DAY The past can often provide a word of wisdom for today. John Wesley once said about the Bible, "It must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It couldn't be the invention of good men or an- gels for they neither could or would write a book and tell lies all the time they were, writing it saying, 'Thus saith the Lord.' It could not be bad men or devils for they would not and could not write a book which commands all duties, forbids all sins and con- demns their own soul to a lost eternity, Therefore, we must ad- mit it is from God." Pasteur, the great scientist, said about belief in the Bible, "It is not a question of faith or science, it is a question of the size of the mind. If you have only a little bucket of a mind. and get a lot of science into it, the little faith you have may come floating out at the top and be lost, but if you have a good sized bucket of a mind. there will be plenty of room for both science and faith. One of the announcements of Voltaire, the great sceptic was, "In a hundred years the Bible will be a forgotten book found only in museums." When a hundred years were up, the house in which Vol- taire made his prediction was oc- cupied by the Geneva Bible So- ciety, one of twenty-three Bible so- cieties jointly distributing 27,000,- 000 volumes of Scripture per year. Suggested Bible Readings Sunday—Luke 1:57-80 Monday—Matthew 5:1-16 Tuesday—Matthew 5:17-48. Wednesday—Matthew 6:1-34 Thursday�-Matthew 7:1-29 ' Friday—Matthew 4:12-25 Saturday—Isaiah 9:27; Galatians 4:1-7. Who Tried To Invade Canada Three Times John O'Neill, one of the Fenian leaders of the 1860's and 1870's. O'Neill was born in Ireland in 1834 and emigrated ;in 1848 to the States, where he served as a cav- alry officer in the Union army dur- ing the Civil War. A member of the Fenian Brotherhood, he be- came "inspector general" of the Fenian forces and led three brief raids against Canada. In June, 1886, he led an early morning raid into the, Niagara Peninsula from Buffalo, occupying Fort Erie for a short time. In May 1870 he led a small force across the border from Vermont -but was repulsed at Eccles Hill in the Eastern Town- ships. His third attempt at inva- sion, made in October 1871 in Mani- toba, was not sponsored by the Fenian council. With William B. O'Donoghue he seized the unde- fended post of Fort Pembina and held it for a few hours until dis- lodged by a squad of U.S. soldiers. O'Neill died at Omaha, Neb., in 1878. Work like sixty in.. the '60s and you won't have to work like sixty after you're 60, A McDUFF OTTAWA 'REPORT THE LONG, LONG SESSION OTTAWA — Barring some sud- den development like the calling of a snap election, the present 'ses- sion of Parliament is expected to be adjourned early in July and will be called back to its labors early in September. Prime Minister John Diefenbak- er during the last week in June noted that there had been specula- tion on the news wires that the house might finish on Friday, June 30, and resume after two months' holiday, in September. But Mr. Diefenbaker knocked down such speculation. He said there remain- ed some important matters of busi- ness to be dealt with before the members went home in July. The Government members had suggested that the House carry on until mid-July and then prorogue. But the opposition parties protest- ed. They said there was enough unfinished business and explosive issues to keep them at their desks in the Commons until well into August. Bowing to the inevitable the Government group then suggested that the House close down for the summer months and return in Sep- tember and this was agreeable. No matter what policy is follow ed this session could wind up as the longest in Canadian Parlia- mentary history. The' modern re• fiord of 152 days was set in 1956— the year of the violent pipeline debate. The all-time mark for ses- sional length was -set in ,19p when the House sat for 155 days. Spectacular storms brewing on Parliament Hill 'as the House en- tered the hot, humid days of sum- mer will add to the length of the session. Opposition members were de- termined to carry on a slashing attack against the budget during the budget debate which continues for six days under the rules of the House. The Liberals a' n d CCF''ers denounced the adminisra-, tion and in particular Finance Min- ister Fleming for tinkering with the economy and bringing about what could be a dangerous rise in the cost of living, as a result of the deliberate devaluation of the Canadian dollar. The one -line legislation aimed at firing Bank of Canada Governor James Coyne came under heavy fire from the opposition. They were not defencing Coyne's policies but they were condemning the man- ner in which the Government sought to send the Governor pack- ing. The Governor issued a strongly worded letter of censure of the Government. It added fuel to the flames of the debate in the -House during which Finance Minister Fleming had said either Mr. Coyne must go or the Government of Canada must go. Mr. Coyne in his bitterly worded letter said his refusal to resign under Government pressure pos- sibly prevented a snap election and the subversion of the Central Bank by the Government to assist in financing expenditures and pro- grams unauthorized by Parliament. In the debate in the House on the bill to fire Coyne the opposi- tion leader, Hon. L. B. Pearson, had demanded that the bill be sent to the Commons Banking and Commerce Committee so that both Mr. Fleming and Mr. Coyne could testify. But Mr. Fleming's answer was a flat and emphatic, "N.o". There were suggestions' that when the bill reached the Senate the Liberal majority in the upper house would refer it to the Senate's Banking and Commerce Commit- tee. There Mr. Coyne could have his day in court. The opposition also '. wanted to explore thoroughly any ° question if irregularities by Henri Courte- manche at the time the Quebec politician resigned as Secretary of State and was appointed a Sena- tor. There has been testimony be- fore a Quebec Royal Commission that the Senator demanded and got a 10 per cent kickback on all Fed- eral and Provincial grants to a Montreal hospital. Senator Courte- manche had denied this. With such crackling fireworks exploding on Parliament Hill there seemed little chance that this ses- sion of the 24th Parliament would be adjourned until well into July. It was assumed that the Govern- ment would not want to adjourn until it had at least finished the budget debate and passed the bud- get resolutions. Prime Minister Diefenbaker con- firmed this when he set out for the members the list of business still to be finished before he would consider a summer adjournment. In addition to the budget there was the Canadian National Railway financing bill. Then there was the question of Dominion - Provincial fiscal rela- tions. And high up on the list was the controversial customs tariff bill dealing with "class or kind made in Canada" which has been amended by the Senate. There was the need to give in- terim supply to those departments that have not had their estimates approved by the House. Said the Prime Minister, "I would hope that If we apply our- selves to these items and deal par- ticularly and fully with those in respect of which there is disagree- ment the date of the adjournment will not be long delayed." But Opposition Leader Pearson was not so hopeful. Said he, "In view of what the Prime Minister has. said does he not think the re- cess which the House has so rich- ly earned is likely to begin about the proposed date of the reassem- bling?" * * * Capital Hill Capsule In front of Prime Minister Hay- ato Ikeda of Japan at the Govern- ment dinner in his honer in the parliamentary restaurant was a plate bearing a stock of Canadian wheat. The Japanese Prime Min- ister lifted the wheat, examined it with a smile, then raising the dish turned it over. His, face broke in- to a wide grin when he saw stamp ed on the 'underside the words, "Made in' Japan". That--tfet a friendly note for the conversations with Prime Minister Diefenbaker. "You purchase our wheat, we buy your dishes,",said Mr. Diefenbaker. A SMILE OR TWO If it's true that a fool and bis money are soon parted—then tell us how they got together in the. first place? It's pretty hard to convince the kids that the shortage o fteachers is a calamity. William Howard Taft was the first U.S. President toe receive a salary of $75,000 a year. The trouble with the cronic bor- rower is that he always keeps ev- erything but his word. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 end 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor July 3, 1936 Fire of unknown origin com- pletely destroyed two large adjoin- ing barns on the farm of Thomas Chapman, third concession of Tuck- ersmith Township, south of Bruce - field, late Tuesday night. Rev. C. A. Malcolm, of the Eg- mondville United Church, , preach• ed his farewell sermon to a large and attentive audience before go ing to, his new field in Chatham. The home of Mr. J. A. Westcott had a narrow escape from fire on Monday morning when the chim- ney took on 'fire, but the flames were soon under control upon the arrival of the firemen. A successful garden party and strawberry festival, under the aus- pices of the Seaforth Junior Wo- men's Institute, was held at the home of David McLean, in Tuck- ersmith, on Thursday, when sup- per was served to some 600 peo- ple. Pupils from the school of Miss Margaret Grieve, S.S. No. 4, Tuck- ersmith, enjoyed a picnic at the Lions Park on Friday. Perfect weather and a good en- try brought out nearly 2,000 peo- ple to the Dominion Day races here on Wednesday. The bituminous pavement has been completed on the Main Street in the village of Zurich, and should give many years of service. The Seaforth Horseshoe Club is planning a tournament to decide the winner of the .Gibb trophy. From The Huron Expositor July 7, 1911 The annual picnic in connection with St, Thomas' Church Sunday School was held in Case's 'Grove on Friday afternoon last when a good time was spent by the chil- dren. The annual bowling tournament. opens, en the greens here on Tuesday next. Mr. W. A. Crich has had two handsome new showcases placed in his store. Mr. Arthur S. McLean, son of Mr. M. Y. McLean, M.P., who has been connected with the Domin- ion Lands office at Dauphin, Mani- toba, and later at Edmonton, has been appointed commissioner in the Peace River country +and is now on his • way to that part of Canada's ;WO north. Seaforth Collegiate Institute Board has engaged Miss M. E. Carman, B.A., of Traquair, as teacher in moderns and history, as successor to Miss Dafoe. Mr. J. A. Roberts, formerly of Seaforth, now of Stettler, Alta., is goalkeeper for the Stettler la- crosse team. The Huron' Old Boys' Associa- tion of Toronto will hold their an- nual excursion on Saturday. Thomas McMichael, & Son, of Tuckersmith, have donated to the Seaforth Agricultural Society, a special prize of $5.00 for the best heavy draft stallion and five foals of 1911, to be shown at Seaforth Fair. While most people and some ani- mals have been suffering from the intense heap Mr. R. T. Dodds has a mare 29 years_ old that can put most horses to the barn. Some time Friday evening last aome person or persons entered the home of Mr. James Dick and carried off over $90 in bills. • A special meeting of the town council was held Monday even- ing, when the contract for the transformer station in connection with the Hydro -Electric Sy�stgm was let to Mr. H. Edge. * * * From The Huron Expositor July 2, 1886 Mr. John Stewart, son of Alex- ander Stewart, of town, has gone to Galt, where he has taken a good situation in one of the oldest and best, blacksmithing establishments in that town. • Mr, and Mrs. Frank Scott cele- brated their golden wedding anni- versary on the 1st of July, when there was a reunion of children, grandchildren and friends. At a meeting of the directors of the McKillop Insurance Company, held here on Saturday, 85 applica- tions for •membership were ac- cepted. Hullett furnished 49, Mc- Killop 19 and Tuckersmith 17. Miss Jessie Case was in London last week attending the closing ex- ercise of•Helrhuth Ladies' College. Mr. Robert Scott has removed in- to the cottage on Goderich Street, recently occupied by Mr. Hugh Robb. Mr: D. Watson has awarded the contract for the erection of his new residence to Mr. John Lyons, and Mr. Gutteridge does the brick aipd stonework. Mr. P. Keating is the contractor for the large new barn being er- ected by Mr. F. Case on the Dor- sey farm on the Huron Road. Mr. William McKay rode from Stratford to Seaforth, a distance of 25 miles, on his bicycle on Mon- day morning last in two hours, including stoppage, and he was as cool and fresh on arriving here as if he had been sitting in a rocking chair for that length of time., The hay' harvest has now be- come general in the Vicinity. ' Reid & Wilson, hardware merch- ants of this town, received last week direct from Liverpool, a con- signment of 100 tons of iron, be- ing 10 carloads, which gives some idea of the extensive business be- ing done by this firm. 'Mr. A. Armitage left on Wednes- day morning*for a trip to the Old Country, with the hopes that the change will improve his health. TIT DANDY FAIRY BOY THAT LODGE PARTY LAST NIGHT WASA REAL BLOWOUT- MV HEAD IS BURSTINb- oq r WISH WE HAD All,, ICEBAG; 1LL21G ONE UP FOR you, HAROLD BY LLOYD BIRlil01CMM CORA MADE AN ICE HAG $� PILLING, A PLASTIC BOWL COVER WITH ICE ANP FASTENINp 118 OPEN ENC., WITH A RUBBER BAND • • • • • f • • • • • • •