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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1961-11-02, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Ed4014 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association * j n n\ q Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rates: �HU U r Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $4.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 10 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa lit II0 a L i► MACE UFF OTTAWA REPORT PRAIRIE DROUGHT SERIOUS OTTAWA -- Canada may be in for another poor crop next year because of tate severe drought conditions this summer on the prairies that left the d with no sub -soil moisture reserves. There was very little rainfall -this autumn across the West. Snow has swept over t h e prairies with freezing tempera- tures. Unless there is an ex- tremely heavy snowfall and heavy steady spring rains next year, the Prairie Farm Rehab- ilitation Administration is pes- simistic, claiming there is "not much prospect" for a good crop next summer. Those who make a study of soil conditions report that pres- ent moisture conditions in Western Canada indicate the crop next year will again be a very small one. It may only amount to half an average crop, or around 250,000,000 bushels. Such a poor crop in 1962, together with the large sales of wheat now being made to Com- munist China and Poland, as well as to this country's regular customers, will seriously de- plete the country's surplus. The Canadian stocks by 1962-63 could dwindle to 250,000,000 bushels or less depending on sales that may be made in the next six months and the size of the 1962 crop. The wheat crop this year be- cause of the adverse growing conditions across the prairies has been estimated at 260,500,- 000 bushels. This is far lower than the average crop of 497,- 000,000 bushels (over the past 10 years). The Minister of Agriculture is well aware of the adverse PFRA reports. He acknowledg- es that if there is' another crop failure next year he will have to curtail his efforts to sell wheat. However, he is hoping against hope that the West will get en- ough moisture in the next six months to bring in another good crop. He is pressing ahead with his plans to seek out other cus- tomers for Canada's wheat sur- plus --a surplus that could soon fade away, but for the wrong reason. The Minister was scheduled to leave Ottawa Nov. 2 to at- tend the Food and Agriculture Organization conference i n Rome. 'While -there he will seek international support for Can- ada's proposal for a World Food Bank. After the FAO confer - SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 2, 1961 Being Bigger is Not There must be a degree of planning within a municipality, and for that matter, within an area, if abuses of the use of property are to be avoided. There, too, must be some means of en- forcing agreed on plans if citizens gen- erally are to be assured of the protec- tion which only plans can give. At the same time there is a ten- dency in some quarters in the zest for a completely planned area to ignore the basic rights of the individual owner of property. The extent of the abuse is em- it commented on an editorial sum- ming up an appeal for regional planning in these words : "Ontario's long adventure in voluntary planning co-operation between neighboring mun- icipalities has not worked out, and pro- vincial legislation is needed to ensure that master plans are firm enough to resist endless tampering by local boards and councils." Now there is a call to more bureau- cratic control if we ever heard one one, the Free Press comments. The state of planning at local levels is something of a problem. A man still feels when he buys a piece of land that is exactly Necessarily Better what he bought and with it an ability to makehis own decision on the use to which h intends to put it. No longer is this possible, the paper adds. •- . The Free Press goes on to point out that this situation is often discourag- ing and disturbing to the land owner. It is in conflict with the concept that a man's home is his castle. On the other hand, it is designed to protect that man's home from depreciation by con- struction of a glue factory in a resi- dential area too. "But now we're so enthused about planning that we've got to make it big- ger and call it regional. Evidently the idea is to get the kind of 'co-operation' that couldn't be encouraged between municipalities on a voluntary basis." "We're disturbed," the Acton editor adds, "when we find an editorialist call- ing for legislation 'to ensure that mas- ter plans are firm enough to resist end- less tampering by local boards and councils' when the writer offers no sug- gestion that the planners must first be infallible and realistic. Tighter knots , of red tape rarely serve any purpose other than to provide frequent injec- tions of frustration." You've probably noticed that this column has taken on a lit- tle higher tone of late. There's a certain je ne sais quaff, a soupcon of noblesse oblige and a dash of summa cum laude that wasn't there before. And it isn't because I'm seared of that lady in Beamsville who reamed,_me out a couple of weeks ago. No, the reason for the new note of gentility, the touch of sophistication, is that the Smiley's have finally arrived. Years of struggle and poverty, of hardship and privation, have paid off. We have made it. We have acquired the status sym- bol, the nadir of nothingness, the acme of asininity. We have two toilets. * * * When I think of what we have gone through in our pur- suit of this pot of porcelain at the end of the rainbow, I could cry. Lots of these young newly- weds nowadays move right into a new home with a real bath- room upstairs and a powder room on the ground floor. We didn't even have one toilet of our own until our youngest was old enough to be self-support- ing in the bathroom. Let's see. When we married, the Old Girl and I took a furn- ished room in the city, close to the university. It was even closer to the redlight district. We shared a bathroom with the eleventeen occupants of the second floor. Every one of these was a baggy -eyed slattern in a dressing gown who spent hours every day frying onions over a gas fire on the landing just outside the bathroom „door. Right on target The finest advertising doesn't have a chance unless it Exactly how many units of your advertising are is seen or heard. delivered into the hands of paying customers? How much do they pay to see your advertising? Where and how is this advertising being delivered? The circulation of an advertisement is vital to its success. And circulation is people ... not the number of advertisements printed or anticipated or projected. fi 10 advertiser can afford expensive guessing. Positive proof of circulation should be demanded. Vague gen- eralities should be discounted. Charts, formulas, and promises are not readers, and can lead your advertising off sales target. The actual ..circulation figures . . . verified count . of this newspaper are available through the reports of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. This is the type of circulation information that helps keep your advertising and advertising budget aimed in the right direction. No camouflage, just facts and figures. Insist on circulation proof when you buy advertising —be ABC -sure. A copy of our latest ABC Audit Report is available on request. The Huron Expositor continues to grow in popularity. 2213* The latest ABC circulation figure is - - - The Huron Expositor is the only newspaper in the Seafortharea that gives the advertiser the assurance of audited paid circulation -- a guarantee that their message is reaching the buy- ing, public of the Seaforth area. Phone 141 Seaforth *AS filed, with the Audited B'rureau of Cireulatiuns, Publishers statement for the six-month period ending September. 30, 1961. ACC Pun CIRCCLAtlON —THE PIIVIER OF REAMER CONFIDENCE Our next abode was a three- room Sat in the factory district. By this time we had a year-old son. Don't ask me how that happened. It's a ionng story, Here we shared the bathroom with only the landlady. She was a bit peculiar, but not a bad old skirt. She had a wall eye, a habit of sucking snuff, and a passion for antique furni- ture. You had to climb over an old settee and lower your- self from an ancient china cab- inet to get into the bathtub. That bathroom brings back fond memories. Once I was giving the baby a bath. I had soaped him, and he was as slip- pery as a speckled trout. He eeled out of my grasp, ker- whunked his face on the tub's edge, and bellowed. His mother rushed in, snatched him, ex- amined him, found he'd chip- ped a tooth, and promptly tried to break every bone in my head. * • * Another time, the same kid, who could just toddle, got into the same bathroom, and man- aged to shoot the bolt, from the inside. I know it's a classic situation and has happened to others. But if you want to know what hell is like, before you get there, try it. Inside is the tiny boy, wail- ing piteously. Outside are: 'his father, telling the child who doesn't understand a word of it, or anything else, how to un- lock the door; the mother, screaming at the father to do something before baby suffo- cates (in a bathroom!); the landlady, moaning, wringing her hands, and imploring the father to get him out but not to break the lock. * * * I broke the lock, all the skin off my knuckles, and the third commandment, in that order, but we got him out. From those exciting times, we moved to a small town, and life declined into a series of dreary bath- room -sharing, in various old houses, with other young cou- ples and their children, all of whom seemed to have kidney conditions. Then came the great day when we had a house all to our- selves. The bathroom appar- ently had been installed in hon- or of Champlain's first visit. 0h, it worked. But you had to take the top off the tank and fiddle with the bulbs every time you flushed the toilet. And you had to wash with your stomach against the sink, because the extra weight of the water would have torn it right off the wall. * * * You can imagine what hap- pened. My wife went a mit psychotic after all those years of fruitless pounding on the doors of shared bathrooms. We wound up with a bathroom that would not have disgraced a sultan's boudoir, complete with shocking pink fixtures, mother- of-pearl toilet seat, and a $1,000 ,bill at the plumber's. But all that's behind. We've moved into a house with a downstairs johnnie, and there's a new grace and elegance in our domestic life, However, it's taking a while to get used to. We sometimes find ourselves halfway upstairs before we re- member it, and are torn be- tween going on up or going back down—a tough decision. And 1 still find that the min- ute I get established in one of them—and it doesn't matter which one—there's a kid beat- ing on the door and pleading in agonized accents. By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER THE BIG BOMB The recent eclipse of the moon and her reappearance a few hours later is evidence of the fact that she still exists, as she has done from time im- memorial. And the shadow that fell .upon the softly luminous orb may also be evidence of the fact that no shadow was ever cast by nothing, But we feel that, good old earth under our feet. And we may draw a deep breath of relief when we realize that the giant bomb of the Russians has not quite blown us all away into space. But I would suggest to the Russian dictator that if his peo- ple make too big a bomb that it is likely to blow all Russia out of the frozen north and leave no place from whleh to jump off to the moon and the stars. This much will be certain— only the announcement of the bomb and the renewal of nu- clear testing have blasted the hopes of peace in a war -weary world. Just a Thought: Problems are a part of ev- eryday living and we should meet each new difficulty when it first appears. If we turn our back and walk away, we only delay the inevitable—facing up to the situation and doing the very best we can. FOR BETTER fl -,1 HEALTH/ ammes~, By C. A. DEAN, M.D. MEDITORIAL: Hardly a day goes by that a new discovery, of some sort, is not reported by a medical researcher. Some prove significant, many insig- nificant. But it does show that present day mysteries are be- ing attacked with the hope of eventual solution. I would like to speak of some studies in pro- gress at present. As you might suspect the largest amount of work is going on in cancer and heart diseas- es research. Most of the for- mer is aimed at finding causes (which' are still unknown), for without them effective treat- ment will go undiscovered. In heart disease, researchers busy themselves more with treat- ment since we do know some of its causes. Many cancer experts feel that viruses, at least in part, are responsible for cancer and there is some evidence that this is so. However, many other fac- tors, such •as heredity and hormones, appear equally im- portant in certain types. One of the things that confuses most people, I feel, is the idea that all niers are alike and have the same cause. This is not true. Although there are similarities, there are also es- sential differences. For ex- ample, lung cancers are not like leukemia's. Treatment for one is not effective in the other and they occur in entirely dif- ferent age groups. So there is a lot still to be learned about cancers. Findings are brighter in heart research. Most advances have been in surgical repair of heart defects. Even now valve replacements, in animals, have been done successfully. Work is going on trying to de- vise an operation to help coron- ary patients. This hasn't been done, as yet. Replacement of the etire heart in the experi- mental animal, I'm sure, will be successful and it wouldn't be too long after that before such is tried in humans. Don't forget that people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold --but so has a hard-boiled egg. "You'll find this secretary job fairly simple, Miss J. All you have to do is look like a wo- man, think like a man, and work like a horse." ence he will take time out, be - Ore returning to Ottawa, to vis- it Yugoslavia and Poland. He had also planned on visiting Roumania and Czechoslovakia, but time will not permit as he has to be back in Canada's capi- tal for the two-day federal -pro- vincial agricultural conference starting ovember 21. While n 'Yugoslavia and Pol- and, amilton will seek to promote t al of more Can- adian lives and wheat. Yugoslavia h been an active buyer of Canadian livestock, but it is doubtful that it would be in the market for Canadian wheat. Poland, on the other hand, has been a steady cus- tomer for wheat from this coun- try, but up to the present has not taken livestock. Agriculture Minister Hamil- ton has pointed out that the surplus is down to just under 500,000,000 bushels. That amount of wheat can take up the slack of two bad crop years, but it would not allow for a continued aggressive sales pol- icy around the world. Mr. Hamilton is well aware that if there is another crop failure in 1962 it will mean by the summer of 1963. this coun- try would be scraping the bot- tom of the wheat barrel. He would have to slow down on wheat sales in order to have enough to supply Canada's reg- ular customers. Last spring the West faced the growing season with some sub -soil moisture due to heavy rains in the fall of 1960. But there was very little snow last winter and no spring run-off. That, coupled with very dry conditions during the summer, exhausted the sub -soil reserves. Thus today the Prairies are heading into a long winter with no sub -soil moisture. If there is no heavy snow this winter and steady drenching spring rains next year, the farmers will face "very serious growing condi- tions that would result in a very poor crop," PFRA officials have pointed out. Not only is the water shortage bad for the farmers, but towns and villages on the Prairies have found their water supplies at a very low level. * * • Capital Hill Capsules Premier Duff Robin of Mani- toba travelled to Ottawa on the weekend of Oct. 21 to address a conference of Anglican lay- men on "The Role of the Lay- man in the Church". He took time out to call on National Resources Minister Dinsdale to talk over `the prospects of Ot- tawa` -assuming a large share of the cost of the multi-million dollar floodway project .with no concrete results. The same weekend Toronto Argonauts were in town to meet the Re- gina Roughriders in a football clash. A reporter called the Chateau Laurier Hotel to talk to the Manitoba premier. "Is Duff Robin registered?" be ask- ed. "Does he play for the Ar- gonauts?" the telephone opera- tor asked sweetly. * * * With no conventional war- heads' available for the Bomarc "B"'s that have been installed at -North Bay it appears that Canada's highly touted Bomares will be "duds". They will be duds, that is unless the Federal Government makes up its mind to allow them to be armed with nuclear warheads. And on that question it still, after more than three years, cannot reach a de- cision. IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned from The Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor October 30, 1936 R. J. McMillan, Seaforth, for twenty years county director of the UFO Club of South Huron, retired on Thursday, when the club held its annual meeting in The Mehl r" ott'lt lye to etiastlee anent the e * ip oft the aid lC}1oo ; bgsi#i 9 dal being Hensall. Walter Scott, Hullett Township, was the newly -elect- ed director. At a recent meeting of the executive of the Seaforth High- landers Band, Mr. E. H. Close was appointed leader. Believed to have been start- ed by a transient, fire complete- ly destroyed a large barn on the property of Harry Martin, near the recreation grounds in Seaforth early Tuesday morn- ing. Reeve J. M. Eckert, of Mc- Killop, was elected an execu- tive member of the Municipal Telephone System for"Seaforth on Thursday. The weatherman has sure changed the nice sunny, warm days of the past week into some real cool wintry -like days. * * * From The Huron Expositor November 3, 1911 Mr. John Taylor, of Tucker - smith, had a. somewhat unpleas- ant experience on Thursday night of last week. The night was very dark and when near Grieve's bridge his horse be- came frightened by something, and making a sudden belt to the side of the road, Mr. Taylor fell from the buggy and the horse got away with the rig. Workmen are stili busily en- gaged at the new post office building here. Mr. and Mrs, L. L. McFaul left this week for Vancouver, B.C., where they will spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Mullen. Most of the farmers in this vicinity have now got their roots safely housed, except a few turnips which have stilito be garnered. These are growing: 90• Well aid mann farmers ate loathe to dfbturh. theta aa long as they can leave them in the ground with any degree of safe- ty Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Harvey, of the second concession of Stanley, have moved into their new home on the Cudmore farm on the London Road. Little Jimmie Bengough, of Hensall, had the misfortune to fall off the porch last week and broke his arm, which was quite serious. * • * From The Huron Expositor November 5, 1886 Mr. John Weir, of Seaforth. has purchasedthe farm of Mr. Hugh J. Grieve, in McKillop, for the sum of $6,000. Mr. William Pinkney, of the Royal Hotel, has purchased from Mr. James Scott, the ttvo houses and lots on Goderieh St. at present occupied. by C. Aitzel and W. Henderson, for $1,200 cash. At a meeting of the directors of The moaners Mutual Fire Insurance Company, held here on Friday, it was decided that hereafter the company will pay the full amount of insurance on contents, instead of only two- thirds, as formerly. Messrs. James Stewart and Hugh Grieve shipped from here on Tuesday a carload of fowl, numbering in all 1,700 geese, turkeys, ducks and chickens, to New York. The brickwork on the new building of Broadfoot & Box is now completed and is now one of the largest building's in town. Our old friend and neighbor, Mr. A. G. Ault, has disposed of his• grocery stock and business to Mr. B. B Gunn, of Parkhill, Who has already taken posses- sierrand will; remove- his fatnily here shertiq,• M •v • • w • • w r 3 • e s •