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The Huron Expositor, 1961-10-05, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First bled at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers 444 ie ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association O Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: •\ NLS ti /s Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year 1» SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 5, 1961 Care in Giving Fire Location Can Cut Loss Fire Preve`fition Week is a good time to remind ourselves of the appalling loss in life and property that is caused by. fire. The tragedy is that much of the loss could have been prevented. Equally important in observing the care and common sense that prevents fires is the need to know what to do when fire strikes. And at the top of the list of things to know is how to summon help. This is particularly true in rural districts. Seaforth Fire Area has fire protec- tion second to none. All the protection in the world, however, is of little use if confused instructions delay arrival of fire -fighting equipment to the fire. Just such a situation arose a few weeks ago when the Seaforth Brigade was forced to drive several unneces- sary miles because the location of a fire in McKillop Township had not been clearly stated. Fortunately, in this par- ticular case, the loss of time, while unfortunate, made relatively little dif- ference in the amount of the loss, An- other time, however, the delay could mean the difference between a build- ing saved and a building lost. True, when fire strike)s, .there is a natural tendency to ru h into action. Speed is essential in attacking, the root of the blaze, but when it comes to call- ing for help, the best approach is to slow down, speak clearly and briefly. Above all, the precise location of the fire must be given—Name, Township, Lot and Concession, in that order. The most modern fire_ fighting equip- ment is of little use unless it can be taken to the scene of the fire by the shortest route. This means that there 'can be no room for doubt in the minds of the Fire Brigade as to the location of the fire. It Still Was An Unusual Summer In many ways this has been an un- usual summer. There appeared to be an unusual amount of rain ; it seem- ed hotter and damper than usual, and high winds playe& havoc with crops. According to the specialists, this wasn't the case at all. Rainfall be- tween May 1 and August 21 was about average. The authority is G. D. V. Williams, of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture's Plant Research Institute, who adds that low temperatures or high humidity kept evaporation well below average. Potential evapotranspiration (that's the amount of water that would have transpired from the land and through plants) for May to August was only 14.8 inches. This is 15 per cent greater than the rainfall, explains Mr. Wil- liams, whereas the eight-year average is 75 per cent greater. Low temperatures in May and June and fewer hours of sunshine and high humidity were responsible for the low /vaporation. Frequent rains and low evaporation caused plants to develop shallow roots, weak stems and heavy tops. This re- sulted in Iodging, especially in grain crops. Here is the weather picture during the summer as the experts viewed it: Heaviest rainfall was 0.6 inches in 15 minutes. Showers of this intensity can be expected once every two years. Temperatures were near normal in July and August and there were no extremely hot days, but the high hum- idity made it difficult for one to keep cool. July had unusually poor drying wea- ther for the bumper crop of hay. Rain- fall was 12 per cent above average. It rained on 18 days—equalling the re- cord set in 1905. On an average there are about 11 rainy days in that month. Rain or dew kept the grass wet for 358 hours, nearly half the month. Last year there were only 283 hours of wet conditions. Longest dry period took in four days, but most intervals between rains lasted only one day. Despite the explanations, there will be many who will agree with us that it was an unusual summer. Don't Move -- Improve With SYLVAPLY PLYWOOD ! PUT AN END TO WILLY - NILLY STORAGE ! ! Remodel with cabinets that give you the right kind of storage space for everything — from cake mixes to vacuum cleaners. Here are a few of the special -duty cabinets that can be made to measure for your remodelling job with Sylvaply plywood. Your Sylvaply ply- wood dealer, SEAFORTH LUMBER, has a whole book of detailed "how-to" plans for many more. Serving centre cabinet—Have con- venient storage space for ready -for - the -table foods, coffee maker, toaster and tableware. - - r DON'T MOVE ...IMPROVE! Civilization has taken majes- tic forward strides in the past fifty years or so. Half a cen- tury ago, people had cellars be- low their houses, In these cool caverns were found such things as: pickles and preserves; bar- rels of apples; turnips and pot- atoes covered in dirt to keep the frost out; and eggs kept fresh in white stuff called wa- ter -glass. Then came the furnace, and the cellar became a basement, with a plank floor. Now it con- tained bundles of newspapers, a stone crock and bottle capper for making home brew, boxes of limp love letters, old trunks full of older clothes to be drag- ged out on Hallowe'en, and the winter's supply of coal. * * * Not many years passed be- fore the basement received an- other face-lifting. With the ad- vent of oil or gas heating, a cement floor was installed. The basement became the laundry - room cum workshop, The belch of the sump pump was replaced by the swish of Mom's washer, the hum of her dryer and the whine of Dad's` bandsaw; as she kept the family clean and he happily fashioned jiggly -legged tables and rickety trellises. Between the second and third world wars, when everyone was building those inverted straw- berry boxes with attached car- ports, the basement was again transformed. During the For- ties, the Fifties and right into the Sixties, apparently intelli- gent people poured millions of dollars into these curiosities, which were known as "recrea- tion rooms," * * * They installed television sets in them. They built elaborate bars in them. They jammed in pingpong tables and dart boards and juke boxes and- fireplaces and record players and pool tables and panelled walls and tiled floors and neon lights. They did all this for two rea- sons, First of all, they wanted a place where their children could play, happily and safely. And where their teenagers could have friends in, and dance, and eat hot dogs, and have good, wholesome fun. And second of all, their living rooms were so small that it looked like a poker game in a Pullman when they invited an- other couple in. * * * For generations, these good people tried to get their chil- dren and their guests to go down and enjoy life in the "re- creation room." The small kids, quite sensibly, refused to have anything to do with them, pre- ferring, like normal children, to play out in the mud and on the road. After one dismal eve- ning of "recreation," with moth- er or father dashing down the stairs every twenty minutes to make sure they were having a whale of a time, the teenagers avoided them with alacrity. And guests, lured to the re- creation room by the hope of a drink, seized it in one hand, looked around, whistled, said, "Boy, this musta setya back plenny," and headed right back upstairs for the kitchen, where the real party inevitably took place, * * * It was not until the 1960's that the cellar -basement -laun- dry room -workshop -recreation room achieved real dignity, and attained its true and lasting status in our society. At first it labored under the rather insipid name of "fall- out shelter." In fact, what brought up this whole train of thought was finding an old newspaper, dated 1961. I cattle across it when 1 was pulling a thigh -bone off Aunt Mabel's skeleton, back in the corner there. I needed it to carve a new soup spoon, * * * Anyway, there was this clip- ping, ten years old. On it was a story in which Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker — that was when there used to be what they called a "government"— announced that he and his wife and staff would go into an ord- inary fallout shelter should there be a nuclear attack. Ap- parently that was before they started firing the salvos of glandular gas. Uncle Dud, who was quite a kidder before his second head went mental, told me one time that • Mr. Diefenbaker• wasn't killed in the first attack. He died of apoplexy when some- one inadvertently let it slip that the contractor who had built his shgl.ter was what they used to call a Liberal. X * * At any rate, it wasn't long before the "fallout shelter" be- came known as what it has been called since, the "living room." Maybe it was because they were the only places where any- one was living. Unlike the peo- ple d mentioned, who never re- created in their recreation rooms, we really live in our liv- ing rooms. And i mat admit it's pretty darn cosy, when you get it fixed up as nice as ours. The first few months were pretty rugged. We had to shoot quite a few people who were too lazy or too poor to provide themselves with living rooms, and tried to horn in on ours. But we were able to use the corpses as rat -bait, which kept fresh meat in the pot for some time. When Granny died, the smell was rather disagreeable, 'hut we solved that by crushing ev- erybody's olfactory nerve. We missed our lights for a while, after the generators went, back in '64, but we've got used to" it, and the kids are blind any- way, so it doesn't bother them a bit. They're as happy as mor- ons. In fact, uh . well, never mind. The main thing is, they're happy. * * They're just as cute as can be, swimming in the big water - hole at the north end of the living room. Of course,- those webbed feet are a big help. They can swim twice as fast as I could, when I was a kid. And they're as healthy as trout As a matter of fact, maybe that's because they live on the same diet—worms. Of course, they get lots of greens once a. week, when we scrape the mould off the walls. That stuff is full of penicillin, too, if I remember aright. All in all, we're about as happy and snug a little family as you'll find, if you can find one. And I'm certainly glad we're living in an age of pro- gress, not back in those dreary days when a "living room" was called a cellar, or a basement, or a recreation room. -, *241 oi Weeke Oven utensils cabinet — Here's the right way to store awkward items like pots, pans,'and serving trays. Childr `nra tyfooum Storage, -Ohil. hen `amu t, their•, it pl essnn'd atoR�lga. Nate the big wheel%out toy - i6 dthedeekatea fait""gromit i . ?Trak LOOK FOR THE COLORFUL SAWHORSE — and your Free PLANS BOOK — in the Show- room of SEAFORTH LUMBER LTD. — your Sylvaply Dealer. Before you call the moving man -- call SEAFORTH LUMBER LTD. 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One could almost get the im- pression, walking along the cro}vded streets or driving along the race tracks that we call bighways, that there is not room enough for the cars just to be, much less to try to go, And if the cars could find room to move, we might conclude a railway might "be the safest Means of travel if there could be found a means of preventing cars colliding with trains. The growing slaughter of hu- man life on the highways is very serious. And something should be done about it. But what? It would •not be practi- cable to remove all utility poles and all trees from highway side and forbid fences and houses say a hundreds„,feet near the way, and so on and so on. Cer- tainly there will be a limit to the things that may be done to safeguard cars on a highway. And there could not be a pa- trolman to follow along with every car. Utility poles and rocks an trees along the highway.. niir` even the big high-powered car you drive may not be primarily to blame, but the man at the wheel. If that man is you, be careful. For in the twinkling of an eye, all vision for you and your loved ones will be gone forever of things on earth. Just a Thought: If we try too hard to "keep up” with the fellow across the street we might eventually dis- cover that his position in life is not so enviable as its first appeared. EC No wo in (Prepared by the Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What Were the "Filles Du Roi"? Groups of marriageable wo- men known as "daughters of the king", sent out from France at the request of Jean Talon, first intendant of New France. To ensure a healthy supply of new Canadians, Talon also of- fered special .bounties for large families. * * * Where Were the First Tele- graph Messages Sent in Canada? A new era of rapid communi- cation began with the trans- mission of- Samuel F. Morse's first message—"What hath God wrought"—over a line between Baltimore and Washington on May 24, 1844. This was quickly followed by the introduction of the telegraph for. commercial use and its spread over eastern United States. In Canada, the first electric - telegraph messages were ex- changed in 1846 between Tor- onto and Hamilton on a line A MADUFF OTTAWA REPORT FEWER PRODUCERS NEEDED OTTAWA — Badly bungled and all as it was, the Federal Government took its first ten- tative step last week to make it possible for Canadian com- panies to join forces in order to compete more effectively with foreign manufacturers in the domestic market. During the session last year, Parliament approved an amend- ment introduced by the Govern- ment to the Combines Investi- gation Act which made it pos- sible for Canadian firms to come together in order• to com- pete more effectively with the giant producers that have grown up in other countries in the ,export markets of the world. But there has remained an even more pressing problem, that of allowing companies in certain industries to combine their efforts so they could com- pete more effectively with for- eign manufacturers in the Can- adian market. George DeYoung, chairman of the National Productivity Council, pointed out recently that there are 15 anufactur- ers of washing Machines in Can- ada turning out an average of 18,500 units annually. A single manufacturer of 280,000 would be in a far better position to compete. "If we could get the co-opera- tive desire to compete and the legal climate for it, it would seem that 15 sales companies for three co-operative manufac- turing plants would help Can- ada," Mr. DeYoung pointed out recently. The view is coming to be shared by a number of Cana- dian interests who are becom- ing aware of the need for Can- ada to' drastically revise the structure of its econohny if it hopes to be able to keep pace in this increasingly eb'npetitive world. "This country cannot afford the luxury of wasteful,' cut- throat competition in such in- dustries," the Canadian Labor Congress declared in a brief to the Senate Manpower Commis- sion early this year. "Still less can it afford to sub- sidize them, either directly out of public funds or indirectly out of the consumers' pocket by higher tariffs." The last sentence in the CLC brief put its finger on the heart of the problem. If Canadian in- dustries are not put in a posi- tion where they can compete with foreign competition on the existing terms, there will in- evitably be a demand that must eventually be met for subsidies or higher tariff protection. In either ease, it is the Canadian public that pays. Far better Canadian industry should be re- organized to compete on equal terms than it should be protect- ed still further. But ,the reorganization of Canadian industry to reduce the number of competing units is faced with a serious obstacle, the Combines Investigation Act. First laid down before the turn of the century, it is aim- ed essentially • at maintaining laid and operated by the To- ronto, Hamilton, Niagara and St. Catharines Electro -Magnetic Telegraph Company. competition in the Canadian market by striving to maintain competition between domestic companies. The maintenance of competi- tion in the Canadian market remains a prime requirement in the interests of the Canadian public. But the same purpose is served if the competition is between a few efficient Cana- dian companies and foreign manufacturers as if it is be- tween a number of high cost, inefficient Canadian companies alone. Unfortunately, the Canadian anti-trust laws still do not re- cognize the drastic change that. has taken place in the ecqnomic circumstances of the country, although people like Mr. De - Young of the Productivity Council are working assiduous- ly to bring about a change. A change in the law must be preceded by a massive educa- tion campaign to show the pub- lic that it is in its own long- term interest, as the Canadian Labor Congress recognizes. It must also be accompanied by the provision of the necessary safeguards to ensure that con- solidation is only, permitted to take place in industries where it is necessary and where com- petition would continue to flour- ish. The Canadian government it- self has shied almost complete- ly away from the subject be- cause of its fear of the politi- cal consequences. The main burden of the campaign has been borne by the chairman of - the Productivity Council and, as he made clear last week, he is quite unaware of the politi- cal difficulties that exist or how they should be overcome. Following a meeting of the Council for two days, Mr. De - Young and other members held a press conference. The key is- sue was contained in one para- graph of a five-page statement by the chairman, which was to the effect that Justice Minister Davie Fulton had agreed that his department would "study proposed plans put forth by in- dustry for the rationalization of productive facilities and to ad- 4 vise on their position with re- spect to combines legislatiion." What it meant was that with: - out changing the legislation, something ,it would never do before an election, the Govern- meflt was prepared to act as an arbiter to decide whether a proposed merger was in_ the public interest and therefore within the law. It wags obvious from the re- action at the press conference, however, that the Productivity Council li'rdd not properly arm- ed itself with information to be able to explain the change of approach in terms that lay- men could understand. Neither was .Justice Minister Fulton standing ready to .+x - plain his own change of, ap- proach to the problem, with the result that it was suspicious- ly regarded as a move to re- strict competition for the bene- fit of Canadian manufacturers, or — even worse — to sneak so- cialism in the back door. The move to reorganize Can- adian industry to make it more competitive is needed, but un- fortunately it may have suffer- ed a temporary setback by the failure to make adequate pre-'• parations for its introduction. • e • IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor October 2, 1936 Misses Barbara Simpson, Mar- garet Patrick and Grace Scott have successfully passed their University of Toronto examina- tions. Miss Evelyn Golding, Reg.N., of the Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto, is spending a few holi- days at the home of her par- ents, Mr. W. H. Golding, M.P., and Mrs. Golding. Mr. Ralph Weiland, ace nen, tre of the Boston Bruins hockey team, spent a few days last week at the home of his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wei- land, in Egmondville. Mr. William Taylor, Sr., dug a well for Mr. Robert McGre- gor, Tuckersmith, and was suc- cessful in getting a good supply of water. Mr. Fred Eckert, of Manley, had a miraculous escape this week on his way home from Seaforth on No. 8 Highway, when he overtook a buggy driv- en by Mr. Peter McLaughlin. As he did not see the light un- til he was too close, he applied the brakes which caused the car to turn into the ditch, turn- ing it upside down. He escap- ed unhurt. Edith and Verna Storey be- came heroines last week when they rescued their father from a mad bull. Armed with a pitch- fork, 23 -year-old Edith battled the 1500 -pound bull. * * * From The Huron Expositor October 6, 1911 The wet weather of the past week has considerably • impeded the harvesting of corn and pota- to crop, both of which are good in this vicinity. Miss Cleft, of town, brought in some ripe raspberries which she had picked off the bushes in her garden, which are some- what of a curiosity at this tiinW of 'e tr. The tdwn toutfcil ate Win' the bricks in the Main Street pavement, where they have been sunk, raised and the street levelled up. The oatmeal mill in Seaforth is again running and all hope it will continue. Mr. William Reid, of Varna, has purchased a new bean thresher and will supply a long - felt want.- •A lot of beans are now being grown in that vicin- ity. The new cement sidewalks in Hensall are nearly all complet- ed. The market is only moderate- ly active and prices are a lit- tle easier with chickens 14 to 16 c per pound; fowl, 13 to 14c; ducks 13 to 14c; live weight, 2 to 3c per pound less. The fire brigade received a cheque for $25 this week from Mr. Thomas Stephens, for the excellent work at his recent fire at the Queen's Hotel. * * * From The Huron Expositor October 8, 1886 ,' The July and August butter of the Brucefield Creamery has been sold for 19% cents per pound. Mr, L. Murphy has purchased the McDougall property from Mr. George Smithers for $2,150. Mr. Smithers purchased it two years ago for $1600. A novelty, in the shape of an'ox team drawing a wagon up Main Street, was an object of interest in town on Monday. Mr. George Henderson is hav- ing a new stone foundation erected under his residence on John Street. Mr. Duncan McMillan; of Eg- mondville, has purchased the Hays' residence from Rev. Father Shea for the sum of $4,500. Mr. John Constable has sold his house and hot on High St. to Mr. Sherritt. Mr. James Gillespie has sold his house on Market Street to James A. Anderson, for $400. A heavy sownsterm passed over this area on Friday morn- ing. Snow was falling continu- ously for two or three hours, and the weather is very cold. Shipping continues brisk at the Hensall depot, large quan- tities of grain, salt and oatmeal being sent out daily. The re- ceipts for the week ending Oct. 1 showan increase of $960.50 over the corresponding week last year. 111E IWO FAMILY GEL' RIDOfSOME OF THESE OLD 000K5 JUNIOR HfEEWITNICE IB'M 6OIhhG Tb USE IT IN fAY NEXT PRO,rECT BY LLOYD 111RMJNGHAM JUNIOR USED THE BOOK TO JEWELRY NAIL PAGES 1O6ETHER WITH BRADS. CUT OUT CENTER WITH GMAT KNIFE ovum GLUE SAC, LOPAGeVER TO LASS • • • e • • •