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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1959-10-30, Page 2A McDUFF OTTAWA REPORT -II LF -P AST TEEN Since,1860-Serving'the Community- First Published at .S.A.FORTII, ONTARIO,' every -Thursday morning by MeLiAN liROS'., Publishers AN -BREW Y. IVIcLEAN, Editor Canada (in advance) $2.50 6: Year United Stales (in.'adv )-$.:3,5.02a:Tirear . SINGLE coms,- CtieribEACH "luthorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers 'Association Foor.i64LL PRACTICE? NO, 11-.A3OUGHT A ./VES41 XA VIER . CUA T RECORP ANt, W/I5 P/atICT/C/NG 77-/E_MAM80. - • SEAFORT-H; 'ovivoqip, OCTOBER 39, 1959 We Carl Look FOr*ard Tolndian,'SOminer Origin of tlie terixi 'Indian Summer If it is true that before wemay en- joy Indian Summer it is necessary to - is uncertain. There are a number of have had some nasty weatherand interesting explanations as to how "Snow, then the weather of the past these days of pleasant rnildne-Sk-pre- . few days should pavetheway to cedingtheboisterous, winter seasOn. some particularly fine summery came to be So designated. . . days. . • The one we like best to accept- is Indian Summer is distinguished by the old Indian legend that A benefie- warm pleasant days. Usually the air ent Providence gave the. Indians is dry and lig-lit, breezes are an invi- warning ---that they should get sup=2 tation to spend as much -tithe as rios- Plies in for the winter by 'sending a sible outside and to take advantage cool spell in the early fall. Then, in - . of the last traces of summerorder-that they might garner their In the woodlands away from the Crops and lay -away provisions hurr3r and bustle of - town or city; against-the'Corning of the long sea - we are reminded by the son of winter, there followed a per...- chener - Waterloo Record that. iod of glorious weather, bright sun- . there is a pervading stillness. The on- shiny days born of Misty mornings. ly soimds, come ,from the rustling of We agreewiththe conclusion fallen- leaves stirred by some vagrant reached by the Record when it says: breeze., _...the ....note;_of:_some, J.!The,only-thing„the.mattercwith..1n, _migrant bird and the vibrating' bark ,dian„Summer is that it does not last of an inquisitive squirrelnearly long enough."' Weeding Out By Weight Present Problems . _ . -Official reaidia advanced by the De- the decision smacks of unnecessary partment of Education for the refus-. discrimination. In a province la - al to admit a student to teachers' col- menta,bly short of teachers, adoption lege courses was simply that he was of -a method of weeding out appli- , too fat. Part of the reason, perhaps, cants by Weight is most unreason - was that he would have been eonsid- able. ered a poor pension risk. .,Establishment of such an _ On the surface, such reasons ap=, trary standard in this instance may pear arbitary and basically unso'undcreate a precedent :that could have Had health reasons been advanced, repercursions, elsewhere in the ‘,De - there could be little argument Cer- partment of Education' ancl perhaps tainly a person suffering - from a lead to obligatory retirement ages. chronic illness could not be consider- ' It Might even lead to the retire - ed Satisfactory material- for , the ment of the Ministerhimself, who teaching profession. But When the by virtue of his advanced ._years student is question is appa,rently-not might have been expected to retire_ abnorrrial to any degree and, in fact, atthe time of the last provincial elec- has an excellent record as an athlete, , ton. . - (By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER) •NEXT THEATRE OF WAR In the dim past men:fought with rocks and cubs. Except for the sack and burning of cities, which necessarily trought cruelty and death tci the aged, helpleis mothers and -speechless babes, war was waged by men against other men _Now war has -been brought to the ' doorsteps of men and destruction is rained from the skies upon ev- ery litting thing beneath. The skies have.•.been turned intd.. a battle- ground and now skilled' warriors . . will shoot a missile a thousand miles -or more to destroy its doom- ed 'objective. The exploit of Nautilus.has „dim- med that of the Sputnik and brought men to think of a submarine that rises from the icy depths to bring destruction upon a Shore- hitherto deemed alinost inaccessible and The geography -of ---my "-boyhood had a spot: marked "Lockwood and Brainerd's farthest north," Later men reached the Pole over the ice. Then they 'flew over -it Now they have „sailed under the ice about it. Wheremill be the theatre of the next war? Armageddon, the pro- phetic name of the last battle, is In the Near East. -Men there' and in the West and around the world had better head the spiritual, "Aain't gwine study vvar no more". Humble Lciaf- That there could be 151 taxes id - den in the price of a ;loaf of bread -seems incredible, but that is an auth- oritative count recently made In the United States, says the Fort Erie Times -Review. And since Canada's tax collectors are no less enterpris- ing than American tax collectors it seems prabable that the total would apply her as well. , The infOrmation is taken from an editorial in the Wall Street Jodi -mai: "The Tax Foundation Anfornis that. . . bread—reflecting the taxes on the land it's grown on, the Seed that's soivn, the machinery that plows and harvest and mills the, wheat, the .fuel, the tran,sportation, the baker, -the wrapper and so on— eontains 151 hidden taxes. And bread. . with added vitamins contains 'alio , added taxes." ' - , The same source'reports416 taxes hidden in the price of a man's suit,' 600 taxes hidden InTtlieThiffecol a - house, and even 100 taxes -hidden in the price of an egg. Obviotilyrthe tax load is, like the iceberg. only a: . Fs fraction of it shows. ' Commenting on the reports, the St. Marys Journal Argus says: The taxes that are most apparent to Canadians are, of course, the per- sonal income taxes paid tb. the fed- eral government and the property taxes paid to the local municipal gov- ernmerit, This year the former will , total about $1.5 billion, the latter about $1 billion, or abOut $2.5 billion in all. No one would argue that $2.5 bil- Bread Hides 151 Taxes , An Alarm Clock? For the benefit, of all those who have, a hard time getting out of the bed, we present *ord of new alarm ,cloek for stub)aorn sleepers. Lately patented by a matchmaker in Naples, t1 alarm is 'unique. If the sleeping sluggard does not, arOttSe himself and switch off the normal alarm, an elec- tric, device incorporated in the clock ' starts- a taped broadcast featuring • the continuons honking of a car horn, t,heyrolonged barking of a dogt several pistol shots, and filially a can- non's booming report, ' If all thiS fails to arause, callthe coroner.—(Ba,te$Ville, Ark,- Guard). lion is not a lot of money and its pay- ment will no doubt be accomplished ,.by,larnentations and suitable cries of . distres,s.'-BUt that is only the begin-- ning. Total government spending- in Canada this, year will exceed $1.0 bil- lion. For every dollar knowingly paid, three dollars are paidynknow- ingly,,the Journal -Argus concludes., -Here It Is -- E N T E UN PERS Named Te ,Parin 'Pest Murray' -Gatirre 24 Stn&of Mr and WS.: Andrew, Gaunt, of West ,WaVvangsh, has' ,accePted a -1)0i,.; tion as .ossikOrit farm editor on CKNX Tadie and Ty. Murray CQM:- ineneed his diities, on Tuesday of last week' L.as assistant ,topVatigh;. an. Douglas, ,' and -:stieceells-' Colin Campbell, Who has. taken.Over•Oth- er duties': ,MurraY is he stranger' .before ' the ,carriera.. He has -been', preminent in 4-H activitieS Which' cOmmeneed as a lach-cif- 13; • cli- reakirig 'with:the winning' Of the Queen's: Qiiiheas 'at the Royal Win, ter. Fair: k -1955. His Shorthorn steer, , "Silver Star," :laesides'.win • niiig this top- aWard,• sold at. $2.50. a' pound: :MurraY, was at -that time in his •gecorid year Of a two -Year diploma ceurseat the 0.Inc.„„,,, ,in which he graduateu„, :With high Stariding.---Lucknow. Sentinel. , : • 'Ohmage Sale S4ccss • When.. about 80 • ' ardent sales people in two ,.'h'ciurs.:_of...an 'after- noon • •dispeseof -nenr and ',used. articles te-tlie, value of more than - .$1,00010(1,, ',it is ,„ sOniething,,Lef7 an achievement. Thiss whatehape ,pened inthe 1,Ning1iarn :armouries, dir.„ Saturday' afternopre .when the Ladies'Auxiliary ,,to Winghare Ilos- pital held their fall nininiage, Sale. 'Mnoli•effort,goes into thisesale :and it 'requires co,operatipn from ali- in the c m unity: , day There i$ always a certain amount of conjecture about winter. Will it come early, or late? Will it be heavy or light.when it does ar- rive? Will temperatures be in the sub -zero register or comparatively mild? The next 'question, of course, is how long ,will it stay? And that is not an easy one to answer. It might take the better part of four and a fraction months before we can come . up with the answer. (Kincardine News). - Trade Relations r. Mr. Diefenbaker' is perhap-S lucky - that the Canadian House of Com- mons is in recess. There 'are many, things which- Must be troubling him- at present, and 'a lively Opposition - could give him a rough time. During the last election eampaign the Pro-- gressive Conservatives.made,qa lot of ' „play with the need ta-diversify Can- "'ada's foreign trade, to make her -a little less dependent on the United StateS... -. - During the first seven months of this year, in fact„, Canada's trade de- - ficit rose from under $20.0 millions to over $450 millions and an ever-grow- ing percentage of her trade has been with the United _States -ger high- cost economy is preventing Canada, - from selling more overseas; this is a far bigger handicap than the few remaining British restrictions On dollar imports Which Mr, Donald Fleining, The Canadian Minister' of Finance, keeps calling "unfair ''dis- crimination.." Mr. Fleming too eas- fly. slides over the fact that Britain still has a huge deficit on her trade - with Canada and that, one reasan for this -is. Canadian protectionist tariffs, notably on tOitiles,—(The Guardian (Manchester). people p re . FridayeneemberS.,pf, the ,Aexilia.ry werebusysorting.and Marking .the articles •as they • poured garments. were pat -on h.angers, 'piles. of'shoes tied in pairs. . . . and quantities of, novelties ' were -sortede;-Where-alle..Was_ready,-the. qtiesti�n.'was: "Where 'did' it all come: from?" and Whe'n• the sale was Over, tile wonder was: '.'Where did it all go?",-...Wingliam Advance- • Times. • COrlerS Caine To Se-aforth , , .• , 6 The first draw Of the curling sea-• eon hae been ' and :28 men from Clinton. are -planning to . en- joy thesport: in the. Seaftirtleturle ing..rink.:There are 21- teams Made up, arid se.ven,' come :fn Clinton: Teams at °present are: skip, , D. J:Lane;.: vice-skip,eE.' Beecher,' ,1Vieneles;•:secorid,,'Detiglas• l3artliff; lea,d,- ClaYton 'Dian 'Hawkins; ViceSkipeDr. ;MO' ; -.seconcle Alan' Galbraith; Rey. L. E. Reed -Lewis. Skip; Lorne hrown;, 'Judge 'Frank' Fingrand;seeend; Jack VanDyne;. lead,....PlarrY, Sturdy. ,Skip, - Garnet :CreWe'. :viee-skip Lawrie. Slade., second; Douglas • Ball; lead, ; Reg, Bell. • Skip, Harry Ball; vice -skip,, Royce Macaulay; second; lied Ele liotte..Ipact; Douglas vice'- Skip, . pt.. :Frank IVI. -Newland; second, Joseph lend, Robert Campbell. 'Skip,, Harry, • WilliarriS; Walter.C.,.NeWeeinbe seeoraeeDuff. T.herripson; lead,':tir Keinieth:.S. WoOdse-Clinten, News -Record. ; , • Mrs.: "That new actress is al- I most as clumsy as a cowf.' I "W,e11, maybe that's why .she's trying "toget into a stock cdinpaTiy"- 1 , . ,. ,... Bfw.-,(3i11) 13. T.. SIVIILEY - If there is one, thing on 1,•vhich Canadians pride themselves, -it is their lack of racial prejudice, their "tolerance". Perhaps that's, why the Toronto, papers, with a -fine show of indignation, gave a big play tothe recent rejection. of a Negro' girl by, a university girls' sorority. • Beating their drums' and •their breasts with equal feryouri the Toronto dailies turned loose re- porters on every aspect o e story, dragged in sociologists and anthropologists to write articles, and created a fine fury. For about three days. • After that', apparently satiSfied that they had struck a mighty blow against race prejudice, the papers went back to then-normaleround. Therbad-appeased-their liberal - minded readers, they had declared that we'll 'avenone o' that .there 'ere, and that was the endof the matter. - ' The truth is, as anyone.who is not deaf and blind knows- well, That Canadians are just as prejudiced as the tat fellon/ when -it comes to, race colour or religion., They arenotsor violent about it as some other peoples, but it is -there, it ie unmistakeable, and it is wide- spread. • everr summer. • , Those are just examples, not far- fetched. It's•funriy when. you think of -lie when' you remember where the ancestOrs of us ' Anglo-Sakon, white, 'Christian,. prejudiced „Cana- dians came Irene • .1 fancy . there were more shanties, crofts and slums' in'the background than there were, Manor houses; • ;How did We get this way? The -Irish aren't prejudiced Except agams-t Catholics or Protestants, as the .ceSe may be, The Scotch aren't prejudiced. Except against the English. And the English-cer- tainly.aren't • prejudiced .agaiiiSt anybedY: EXcept the Yanks.. NoW, you'll notieel haven't said Canadians are intolerant, preju- diced, yes, but not. intolerant.. Oh,. we're tolerant. 'Tolerant means "Put up with". • We pun up„ With, the niggers and hikes,' the wells arid hunkihe chinks. and frogs. We don't ac.cefit them. ' *: on't Wong, rui not going to try to solve the while •probkrn,15 the epace of this column. But let's not kid"ourselves. Let's not look. across. the border with a holier; then-thoir attitude. Let' 5 not pre- tend, thatthis is one Country in which -everybody has.the seine op- portunity, regardless of his reli- gkil or the Colpur-ef his skin, : It just isn't so. If my flame. is I've got to he twiee'as sin -art .as IVIeLean, to get as fat. If .my .kin is black, I've got to he an CS'scar Peterson td get out :of .the -Pultrnan porter econernic bracket.' And' even if I'm pure white and Prategant, .arid Mygrandfather came to Canada e80 years ago, if my narne'S Podrinski or Soychtick; rrnen the otitside4001tihe in. , * * Ask the Negro , from Michigan or Ohio whathappened when' he Made a reservation ateari •Ontario tourist resort. Ile---aNrived was blackhad blaek ehildren, and the preprietor told him, with the ut= most regret,that he rnust have got the reservations mixed„up, and he didn't hav a thing left, but if he went 'On 'a piece, he'd he . sure to find *serriethlng • Mee, It happens • , • (Prepared by the -Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What ,.Stearliet:: Negotiated • the e' FraSer -Ca03'011? - . The: Skii&Y, beat by Andrew ,On- derclonle "in '1882;iY.- Ay!ras the only steamer ever toLtom,oIete the -per-- ilous :passage: Onderdonk,, An Arne .eriean engineer and contractor, oli; taked .a contract .ftdire: the Cepa- diail:governitient in. 1879 to build the Canadian Pacific Railway from, Savona. te Pert lyleedy,'thrbugh the Thompson and Fraser canyons • Of British Columbia. He -,supervised: censtruction from hiS.headqnarters' at Yale; B.C. In -.1882, in order to tranSferbililding inaterials..te the !tonetructien: Site, he biliitthe • stur- dy Skuzy. It188& the'127-Mile Seee tion of ' line Was completed through this excentianally :difficult terrain. Onderderik 'returned M Canada in 1895. to„..:Work on the, Trent Valley' arideSoldenges Canals. He alsobiiile :the 'Toronto, Harnilfone,and 'Buffalo .Railway 'tunnel' in' Hamilton. ' The ,sooner that word, "toler- ant" is kicked out of the racial - problem jargon, and replaced by the word "acceptance", the -better. Who elected hs, or anybody else, to "tolerate" o`ther human beings. The arroganee of itt. • • Despite what I've said,' I have high hopes for Canada. The old religious'ebitterness between the French and English-speaking Can- adians ie mellowing. There is a minority, but a vocal and intelli- gent one, Of liberal citizens who are not afraid to attack prejudice wherever it appears. •- • - -In the service chths and the Can- adian Legion', there are no colour, religious or racial bars. There has been a heavy influx of new people from Europe to break' down the old; and artificial prejudices. • 6 Mit most -nriporteet, the prepi-, dices of Canadians' are only skin- deep. They are not based on a century of fearand mistrust arid violence, as are the feelings of Whites in the southern States and Afriea. They -are based solely on ignorance. There is a basic, decency in the Canadian people, a casual reacli- rids to accept a Irian for What he is and what he, can do. G,iveu a chance, this will break through the thin crust of prejudice that we have inherited or developed, and .will make this land whAt it Must beea coUntry Where human beings are acceptednot "tolerated", re- gardless of eelour or creed. .1111NORITY OF ONE - OTTAWA ---Watching `the evolve tion of Donald Methuen Fleming, lawyer, politician and now nation- al financier, is one of the. mere interesting preoccupatkns of the fence -sitting Ottawa pbserver. As an opposition critice,he invar- iably shouted too ' kud ;and too long, -very often about ton -little and, he'll never win a popularity contest, ' But the develoPment Of /this powerful little man, often describ- ed as pompous end humorless, has been slow and steady. It could be said, in. a phrase, that he is carry- ing the Diefenba.ker government on Ins broad back. Whether he is carrying it well is a .xnatter of sharp political contro- versy. It remains -to be proved, for instance, whether his two-year-old policy of deficit budgeting will work to float the Canadian eco- nomy out of troubled'w.aters and 'safely into harbor. - No one was more critical of deficit, or surplus, budgeting than Donald Fleming in the days' of op- position. By nature, he's fussy, neat and tidy. He likes the outgo to match the income. ' It's impossible to, conceive of Mr. Fleming, in- his private life," running up an Overdue bill at the corner grocery.. Ilis bills would be paid right- on time. Not ahead of time- - that would be considered Poor rdebt management - but _on Donald Flerning_is a- minority of one in the federal_cabinet, and his financial policies are , dictated mainly by the man who beat him out for the -Conservative leader- ship, Prime Minister John Diefen- baker. - Diefenhaker. is _ the; politi- cian with the magic, appeal for the Voters. Mr. Fleming's role is to carry out his leader's sometimes recide^-ise-prornises -to---the-best -ofe his ability. - The finance minister admits candidly that the task frightened him at.first. But over thetwo ancl a half years he has managed the purse strings, he has grown in ma- tUrity and confidence. Two recent events,, and their sharp contrast with other events in the not -distant -pest, illustrate vividly the change in Mr. Mem- Where are the Torngat Mountains? . _ , The Torngat Mountains, highest mountains in the Canadian Shield, are in. northern Labrador between Hebron Fiord and Cape •Chidley. They are sometimes called the Devil Mountains:, The name erorne gat ,is derived from the Eskimo name Torngarsuak -"the ruler of all sea animals." The central part of the range, in the Naelivak area, is particularly rough and, jagged, Cirque Mountain reaches 6,500 feet, Which, City Ilas "All Hell Fra Basement?" ' Medicine Hat • Alta The discov- ery of an abundant -supply' of na- tduurragaiel gts•heineathrely Myeedaircsineeillthae! area ent century prompted Rudyard Kipling to say thateethe commun- ity had "all Hell for a basement." 'This plentiful supply -of gas aided in attracting many industries • to Medicine Hat. ,The major industry IS 'clay products and pottery. The comniunity, incorporated as a city in 1907, is situated in, the valley •Foralmost the first time in the life of, the Conservative govern- ment,' he: •waS permitted • to' say - "No" -flatly And ,without equivo- tationto two poWerfulappeals' for, financial help • he 'firSt.,- rejection, was 'directed to/ the.rgovernment's.'dWn employ- ee, the ciVit.Service, which .had been waltinefor a Year and A helf for a pay encrease. The ,last boost was negotiated 'under, the Liberal government,ef. Louis St. Laurent) :but•initielled, and fcirnially"put ire to effect by theecenservatives. •The ' Civil Service .CernrniSsion; a suPPOsedly, eeetridependent arbiter' 'acting , as ' agent for- the govern- ment in wage aid Salary matters, had reconainerided a $50 000.„000 in- crease in salary -levels: - , • , . Fleming: got. out bis -slide ride: He Calculatedthat the igure of $50,990,000 Would Mushroona in- to • $244000,000 by the time:.mili- of the South Saskatchewan River almost midway betvveen Moose Jaw, Sask., and Calgary. Its exist- ence began in 1883 with the cnining of the Canadian Pacific Railway, The city's curious name is derived from an old Indiaii •legend and re; fers to the headdress of a -inedi; eine Irian. i< Where is the Yukon's Most Northerly Settlement? , At Old Crow, a fur -trading cen- tre on the north bank Of the Forel', pine River, at ifs' junction with the Old Crow River. The 'settlement, just -a f verifies east of the Alaeka border' 70 Miles north 'of the 'Areti Circle, -The Porcupineis a tribu `ry of the Yukon River and. cornmimication• with Old Cr -ow, ex- cept by radio, is byway of the Porcupine River to its junction with the Yukon in Alaska. Old Crow has in RCMP detachment and an An- -Olean, Chinch mission. The,"Louch- eux 'Indians of the area live by. trapping. . tary an Ramp; personnel were in - eluded, retroactivity, Was oonsider- ed, and..pension funds :were looked . Mr, Fleming, with the siirpris„ ing support of the cabinet, said "No". He made no 'counter-offer, no attempt to mollify the disgrunt- led civirservants. Just "No.". The.same abbreviated reply was directed two days later to the an- guished, demands' of the provinces for a greater share of the federal Powerful arguments were thrown up to him at a federalp,rovineial rneeting of finanee ministers; not-, ably by the Conservative provin- cial governments of Ontario and Manitoba. There were dark fore, bodings of an increase in provin- cial taxation if Ottawa didn't con- tribute mere gperopsly, ' " Mr. Flerninglistened to them all. And 'then, with a fine disregard of eleetion promises of 1957 and 1958, he checked his bank balance and shook his head. Despite all the blandishments of' the provinces, he wouldn't be name_ ed: The federal refusal was final. And the remarkable thing about, it was the provinces accepted his • decision, almost without a mur„. mur. There was "dissatisfaction"' and "disappointment" expressed; But virtually ng. harsh words. - Mr. Fleming's answer to all te provincial argiiments was simp Pin yourfaith on us, boys, he .seemed M be saying; we've ge't to get the -federal budget balanced before we can bargain with any,: EARS AGON The strategy may not have been perfect. But at least -the premiers arid treasurers left the capital with a fervent hope that Mr... Flerning- ,will be . successful in balancing his own hooka' next ,Year.'e • When you consider that not a penny of federal moneY was -given away, _and „yeterio-oriewalked-outeee' 'of the conference; it must be chalked up as victory „for Mr. Fleming. It's taken a while, but he seems to have a firm grip on his Job. • Capital Will Capsules One Tory M.P.'s forecast: Prime ,Minister Diefenbaker will an-, nounce appointment -of 15 more parliamentary secretaries imniedi-. ately after the. Commons • reaS-- senables in January. One, of the lucky 16 ,(a $4,000 raise in pay - goes with the , job) has already been named. He's Wallace Nesbit4--- NIT. for Ontario's Oxford *County, who helpS External Affairs Minis-, ter Howard Green with - his cur„ rent United Nations duties. , . Interest RateNSeares 'Council Town2 cotincil_shaddered a bit , Monday 'night- when it considered the borrowing it will have to do soon from the tight.rnoney market. The townr will te required to issue debentures within the: next . year for $160,000 high school addition, a - $60,000 public school addition, and, in all probability,' a PUO, kan for eXPansion of water services: - lf, cbuncil decides to proceed with the • Sanders river' drain for east side development, there'll be the prob; lem of , raising $45,000 to $60,000 -- for that, 'too, All of which must be raised on a' marlret demanding up- • wards of seven -per cent interest. Should council seek the money now to avoid higher rates or should 'it wait as long as possible in the hope - that interest Willeserne down? That it appeared from members re- marks,' is a matter of wild conjee- tine. Clerk C. 'cr., Pickard reported that investreent AtterusgeetitnPking with him suggpstecrq15 per eent in- terest Would be required to sell the debentUres at near „ mated even the expertS were not confident of how the rates would. fluctuate during the next . year. • Councillors Simmons and Itether . had conflicting views On what the . market, may do. The former sug- , gester waiting sinee, he felt; bubble would have to burst to al- lele the rates' to come down. The latter said: sonnexperts foresaw. a rise to 4as' much as 10 per cent. ---e Exeter TimeseAdvocate. Twenty-orie per cent more ears ire •registered in Canada for 1959 driving than. were recorded in Interesting items 'gleaned trona The Huron Expositorof 25, 50 arid 75 years ago. From The, Martin Expositor From The Huron Expositor October 26, 1934- Willialn II, Golding, M.P.,-'was choseri to carry the Liberal -stand- ard in the coming .federal election at a meeting of the Huron -Perth Liberal ASsociation in 'Hensall. on Wednesday. . It is estimated that one ton of fowl was consumed at the fowl stipper in the , Latheran Church' shed, Zurich, on Thursday. Nearly 1,000 people were kci,..and,..thepro- ceeds amounted to $625. Prize winners - at the Seaforth Fair have beenenriched within the past week lay -41;045.60:, This' is the amount that •the 'directors a the society_ heve authorized paid and which Mrs. J. A. Kerr, the sec- retary, baS forwarded to the vat; ibus NVinners. Huron County plowmen held their eleventh, annual PrdWing match on Thursday afternoon last on the farms of Reeve L. E. Cardiff and, Dave Smith, Sth concessienqof Mor- ris, near BrusSels. • ' ' • Motorist S who have bumped over the GR crossing on Main Street fer the past kvir year's Will have notided an improvement in recent days. 'New planks have been laid and the croSSing ha e been 'newly gravelled - an improiernent long overdue. - N r , While threshing at John Young's on the ,lake shore read ont Thurs- day, Mr: Will Watson, -of AnbUrn district, hed the misfortune to get his hand Caught in the machine and if was badly bruised.- Canon Appleyard endNessrs. 11. Edge, .Thoinae-e. Jackson, Robert Arnhibald„and 1VIr. Billet attended the banquet giVen iii Smaliman er Lotidthi, n menuay, From The Iluron 'Expoiitor October 29,1909 Dr. Scott, Seafortli, has purchas- ed a handsome driving mare froin. a gentleman in Wingharn to replace the one thatwas killed e conple of weeks ago. , ' The Tuckersrnith- rural telephone system was completed and opened ore:Wednesday on the' Chiselhitrst division. The Chiselharst people, now have the telephone and rural mail delivery. . Harry, Edge and Mr. Robert Willis are having additions erected to their ,handSome residences. on Getlerich Street. ' We are- sorry to state that Mr. John Mowbray, of Walton, old and respected resident a that place, met with a serious accident a few days age. He was 'walking along the sideWalk When a -young lad,: who was riding on a bicycle accidentally ran into him, knock- ing him down, and in the:fall:le injured his back so., severely that he lias since been 'confined to his 'residence. Forbes litoS, have•again teethed the village Of Kippen. They are stringing the wire kr .the tele - Phones and it win not belong new ,before we are enjoying the use ef the .telephorie,e,„„ ' • Mr. William Cooper, of the Hur- on Road; Hiillett, three miles west of, Seaterth,is not one 'Of 'those 'farMerS'Who think the orchard 'does rtot pay, in'faet he says..it iaerie of the best paying 'departments, on the farne This yearehe had 125 barrels of, apples for Whieh here ceived OAS. A' bent!, the huyet,a6- ing the, packing .andproviding the barrels; and ell.Mr,'Cooperhad 'ne honor of Sir Henry Drayton, de was pull the fruit. . October 31, 1884 Mr, -Fanson,•of -Tuekersmith, sold his handsome residence in _Ex- eter:to a gentleman, from Forest for the sum of $2,600, and has re- moved his family to hi's .farm -on the Mill Road, near EgniondeVille• An.,eleetric light than was in `town on Wednesday ancl had e talk with several of the cititens on the, subject- of lighting the town with . electric lights. A system furnislr-.., inegaf205rtlhighfotsr cahoeuledtobe sehhedd tfhoer 8 ... cost per light for maintenance would be about half a cent per hour. . was steerl light v e gtr:at,liecvlaeoarn ththea thiths ue aic towel Banner destroyed by fire on Tuesday eve - lung last.tor, Mr. Robert Ferguson, will be er printing office was heavy, as there was none of the The loss to the proprie- 1VIessrs. A. and J, Watt arid B. Itiley threshed for •IVIessrs. Tasker and Buyers, of Ilullett, one da' last week, 2,000 bushels of grain in one day and moved the machine once. One- night recently Mr, ' Peter.; e Cele, of the hayfield line, Coderich townShip, lost 25 good hens by the ravages of a mink. He put strich- nine on the- beads -of several of those killed, and next - morning found the mink deadfhthe tooet. 'whOoeoiergheewMcaMt of e?ewdiethrieahh, accident at the Bayfield pier which might have proved lataL A fellow wOrkrrian, in tieing his axe in prox- imity to George, struck hirn on the head and .rriadeee severe wound, Since,1860-Serving'the Community- First Published at .S.A.FORTII, ONTARIO,' every -Thursday morning by MeLiAN liROS'., Publishers AN -BREW Y. IVIcLEAN, Editor Canada (in advance) $2.50 6: Year United Stales (in.'adv )-$.:3,5.02a:Tirear . SINGLE coms,- CtieribEACH "luthorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers 'Association Foor.i64LL PRACTICE? NO, 11-.A3OUGHT A ./VES41 XA VIER . CUA T RECORP ANt, W/I5 P/atICT/C/NG 77-/E_MAM80. - • SEAFORT-H; 'ovivoqip, OCTOBER 39, 1959 We Carl Look FOr*ard Tolndian,'SOminer Origin of tlie terixi 'Indian Summer If it is true that before wemay en- joy Indian Summer it is necessary to - is uncertain. There are a number of have had some nasty weatherand interesting explanations as to how "Snow, then the weather of the past these days of pleasant rnildne-Sk-pre- . few days should pavetheway to cedingtheboisterous, winter seasOn. some particularly fine summery came to be So designated. . . days. . • The one we like best to accept- is Indian Summer is distinguished by the old Indian legend that A benefie- warm pleasant days. Usually the air ent Providence gave the. Indians is dry and lig-lit, breezes are an invi- warning ---that they should get sup=2 tation to spend as much -tithe as rios- Plies in for the winter by 'sending a sible outside and to take advantage cool spell in the early fall. Then, in - . of the last traces of summerorder-that they might garner their In the woodlands away from the Crops and lay -away provisions hurr3r and bustle of - town or city; against-the'Corning of the long sea - we are reminded by the son of winter, there followed a per...- chener - Waterloo Record that. iod of glorious weather, bright sun- . there is a pervading stillness. The on- shiny days born of Misty mornings. ly soimds, come ,from the rustling of We agreewiththe conclusion fallen- leaves stirred by some vagrant reached by the Record when it says: breeze., _...the ....note;_of:_some, J.!The,only-thing„the.mattercwith..1n, _migrant bird and the vibrating' bark ,dian„Summer is that it does not last of an inquisitive squirrelnearly long enough."' Weeding Out By Weight Present Problems . _ . -Official reaidia advanced by the De- the decision smacks of unnecessary partment of Education for the refus-. discrimination. In a province la - al to admit a student to teachers' col- menta,bly short of teachers, adoption lege courses was simply that he was of -a method of weeding out appli- , too fat. Part of the reason, perhaps, cants by Weight is most unreason - was that he would have been eonsid- able. ered a poor pension risk. .,Establishment of such an _ On the surface, such reasons ap=, trary standard in this instance may pear arbitary and basically unso'undcreate a precedent :that could have Had health reasons been advanced, repercursions, elsewhere in the ‘,De - there could be little argument Cer- partment of Education' ancl perhaps tainly a person suffering - from a lead to obligatory retirement ages. chronic illness could not be consider- ' It Might even lead to the retire - ed Satisfactory material- for , the ment of the Ministerhimself, who teaching profession. But When the by virtue of his advanced ._years student is question is appa,rently-not might have been expected to retire_ abnorrrial to any degree and, in fact, atthe time of the last provincial elec- has an excellent record as an athlete, , ton. . - (By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER) •NEXT THEATRE OF WAR In the dim past men:fought with rocks and cubs. Except for the sack and burning of cities, which necessarily trought cruelty and death tci the aged, helpleis mothers and -speechless babes, war was waged by men against other men _Now war has -been brought to the ' doorsteps of men and destruction is rained from the skies upon ev- ery litting thing beneath. The skies have.•.been turned intd.. a battle- ground and now skilled' warriors . . will shoot a missile a thousand miles -or more to destroy its doom- ed 'objective. The exploit of Nautilus.has „dim- med that of the Sputnik and brought men to think of a submarine that rises from the icy depths to bring destruction upon a Shore- hitherto deemed alinost inaccessible and The geography -of ---my "-boyhood had a spot: marked "Lockwood and Brainerd's farthest north," Later men reached the Pole over the ice. Then they 'flew over -it Now they have „sailed under the ice about it. Wheremill be the theatre of the next war? Armageddon, the pro- phetic name of the last battle, is In the Near East. -Men there' and in the West and around the world had better head the spiritual, "Aain't gwine study vvar no more". Humble Lciaf- That there could be 151 taxes id - den in the price of a ;loaf of bread -seems incredible, but that is an auth- oritative count recently made In the United States, says the Fort Erie Times -Review. And since Canada's tax collectors are no less enterpris- ing than American tax collectors it seems prabable that the total would apply her as well. , The infOrmation is taken from an editorial in the Wall Street Jodi -mai: "The Tax Foundation Anfornis that. . . bread—reflecting the taxes on the land it's grown on, the Seed that's soivn, the machinery that plows and harvest and mills the, wheat, the .fuel, the tran,sportation, the baker, -the wrapper and so on— eontains 151 hidden taxes. And bread. . with added vitamins contains 'alio , added taxes." ' - , The same source'reports416 taxes hidden in the price of a man's suit,' 600 taxes hidden InTtlieThiffecol a - house, and even 100 taxes -hidden in the price of an egg. Obviotilyrthe tax load is, like the iceberg. only a: . Fs fraction of it shows. ' Commenting on the reports, the St. Marys Journal Argus says: The taxes that are most apparent to Canadians are, of course, the per- sonal income taxes paid tb. the fed- eral government and the property taxes paid to the local municipal gov- ernmerit, This year the former will , total about $1.5 billion, the latter about $1 billion, or abOut $2.5 billion in all. No one would argue that $2.5 bil- Bread Hides 151 Taxes , An Alarm Clock? For the benefit, of all those who have, a hard time getting out of the bed, we present *ord of new alarm ,cloek for stub)aorn sleepers. Lately patented by a matchmaker in Naples, t1 alarm is 'unique. If the sleeping sluggard does not, arOttSe himself and switch off the normal alarm, an elec- tric, device incorporated in the clock ' starts- a taped broadcast featuring • the continuons honking of a car horn, t,heyrolonged barking of a dogt several pistol shots, and filially a can- non's booming report, ' If all thiS fails to arause, callthe coroner.—(Ba,te$Ville, Ark,- Guard). lion is not a lot of money and its pay- ment will no doubt be accomplished ,.by,larnentations and suitable cries of . distres,s.'-BUt that is only the begin-- ning. Total government spending- in Canada this, year will exceed $1.0 bil- lion. For every dollar knowingly paid, three dollars are paidynknow- ingly,,the Journal -Argus concludes., -Here It Is -- E N T E UN PERS Named Te ,Parin 'Pest Murray' -Gatirre 24 Stn&of Mr and WS.: Andrew, Gaunt, of West ,WaVvangsh, has' ,accePted a -1)0i,.; tion as .ossikOrit farm editor on CKNX Tadie and Ty. Murray CQM:- ineneed his diities, on Tuesday of last week' L.as assistant ,topVatigh;. an. Douglas, ,' and -:stieceells-' Colin Campbell, Who has. taken.Over•Oth- er duties': ,MurraY is he stranger' .before ' the ,carriera.. He has -been', preminent in 4-H activitieS Which' cOmmeneed as a lach-cif- 13; • cli- reakirig 'with:the winning' Of the Queen's: Qiiiheas 'at the Royal Win, ter. Fair: k -1955. His Shorthorn steer, , "Silver Star," :laesides'.win • niiig this top- aWard,• sold at. $2.50. a' pound: :MurraY, was at -that time in his •gecorid year Of a two -Year diploma ceurseat the 0.Inc.„„,,, ,in which he graduateu„, :With high Stariding.---Lucknow. Sentinel. , : • 'Ohmage Sale S4ccss • When.. about 80 • ' ardent sales people in two ,.'h'ciurs.:_of...an 'after- noon • •dispeseof -nenr and ',used. articles te-tlie, value of more than - .$1,00010(1,, ',it is ,„ sOniething,,Lef7 an achievement. Thiss whatehape ,pened inthe 1,Ning1iarn :armouries, dir.„ Saturday' afternopre .when the Ladies'Auxiliary ,,to Winghare Ilos- pital held their fall nininiage, Sale. 'Mnoli•effort,goes into thisesale :and it 'requires co,operatipn from ali- in the c m unity: , day There i$ always a certain amount of conjecture about winter. Will it come early, or late? Will it be heavy or light.when it does ar- rive? Will temperatures be in the sub -zero register or comparatively mild? The next 'question, of course, is how long ,will it stay? And that is not an easy one to answer. It might take the better part of four and a fraction months before we can come . up with the answer. (Kincardine News). - Trade Relations r. Mr. Diefenbaker' is perhap-S lucky - that the Canadian House of Com- mons is in recess. There 'are many, things which- Must be troubling him- at present, and 'a lively Opposition - could give him a rough time. During the last election eampaign the Pro-- gressive Conservatives.made,qa lot of ' „play with the need ta-diversify Can- "'ada's foreign trade, to make her -a little less dependent on the United StateS... -. - During the first seven months of this year, in fact„, Canada's trade de- - ficit rose from under $20.0 millions to over $450 millions and an ever-grow- ing percentage of her trade has been with the United _States -ger high- cost economy is preventing Canada, - from selling more overseas; this is a far bigger handicap than the few remaining British restrictions On dollar imports Which Mr, Donald Fleining, The Canadian Minister' of Finance, keeps calling "unfair ''dis- crimination.." Mr. Fleming too eas- fly. slides over the fact that Britain still has a huge deficit on her trade - with Canada and that, one reasan for this -is. Canadian protectionist tariffs, notably on tOitiles,—(The Guardian (Manchester). people p re . FridayeneemberS.,pf, the ,Aexilia.ry werebusysorting.and Marking .the articles •as they • poured garments. were pat -on h.angers, 'piles. of'shoes tied in pairs. . . . and quantities of, novelties ' were -sortede;-Where-alle..Was_ready,-the. qtiesti�n.'was: "Where 'did' it all come: from?" and Whe'n• the sale was Over, tile wonder was: '.'Where did it all go?",-...Wingliam Advance- • Times. • COrlerS Caine To Se-aforth , , .• , 6 The first draw Of the curling sea-• eon hae been ' and :28 men from Clinton. are -planning to . en- joy thesport: in the. Seaftirtleturle ing..rink.:There are 21- teams Made up, arid se.ven,' come :fn Clinton: Teams at °present are: skip, , D. J:Lane;.: vice-skip,eE.' Beecher,' ,1Vieneles;•:secorid,,'Detiglas• l3artliff; lea,d,- ClaYton 'Dian 'Hawkins; ViceSkipeDr. ;MO' ; -.seconcle Alan' Galbraith; Rey. L. E. Reed -Lewis. Skip; Lorne hrown;, 'Judge 'Frank' Fingrand;seeend; Jack VanDyne;. lead,....PlarrY, Sturdy. ,Skip, - Garnet :CreWe'. :viee-skip Lawrie. Slade., second; Douglas • Ball; lead, ; Reg, Bell. • Skip, Harry Ball; vice -skip,, Royce Macaulay; second; lied Ele liotte..Ipact; Douglas vice'- Skip, . pt.. :Frank IVI. -Newland; second, Joseph lend, Robert Campbell. 'Skip,, Harry, • WilliarriS; Walter.C.,.NeWeeinbe seeoraeeDuff. T.herripson; lead,':tir Keinieth:.S. WoOdse-Clinten, News -Record. ; , • Mrs.: "That new actress is al- I most as clumsy as a cowf.' I "W,e11, maybe that's why .she's trying "toget into a stock cdinpaTiy"- 1 , . ,. ,... Bfw.-,(3i11) 13. T.. SIVIILEY - If there is one, thing on 1,•vhich Canadians pride themselves, -it is their lack of racial prejudice, their "tolerance". Perhaps that's, why the Toronto, papers, with a -fine show of indignation, gave a big play tothe recent rejection. of a Negro' girl by, a university girls' sorority. • Beating their drums' and •their breasts with equal feryouri the Toronto dailies turned loose re- porters on every aspect o e story, dragged in sociologists and anthropologists to write articles, and created a fine fury. For about three days. • After that', apparently satiSfied that they had struck a mighty blow against race prejudice, the papers went back to then-normaleround. Therbad-appeased-their liberal - minded readers, they had declared that we'll 'avenone o' that .there 'ere, and that was the endof the matter. - ' The truth is, as anyone.who is not deaf and blind knows- well, That Canadians are just as prejudiced as the tat fellon/ when -it comes to, race colour or religion., They arenotsor violent about it as some other peoples, but it is -there, it ie unmistakeable, and it is wide- spread. • everr summer. • , Those are just examples, not far- fetched. It's•funriy when. you think of -lie when' you remember where the ancestOrs of us ' Anglo-Sakon, white, 'Christian,. prejudiced „Cana- dians came Irene • .1 fancy . there were more shanties, crofts and slums' in'the background than there were, Manor houses; • ;How did We get this way? The -Irish aren't prejudiced Except agams-t Catholics or Protestants, as the .ceSe may be, The Scotch aren't prejudiced. Except against the English. And the English-cer- tainly.aren't • prejudiced .agaiiiSt anybedY: EXcept the Yanks.. NoW, you'll notieel haven't said Canadians are intolerant, preju- diced, yes, but not. intolerant.. Oh,. we're tolerant. 'Tolerant means "Put up with". • We pun up„ With, the niggers and hikes,' the wells arid hunkihe chinks. and frogs. We don't ac.cefit them. ' *: on't Wong, rui not going to try to solve the while •probkrn,15 the epace of this column. But let's not kid"ourselves. Let's not look. across. the border with a holier; then-thoir attitude. Let' 5 not pre- tend, thatthis is one Country in which -everybody has.the seine op- portunity, regardless of his reli- gkil or the Colpur-ef his skin, : It just isn't so. If my flame. is I've got to he twiee'as sin -art .as IVIeLean, to get as fat. If .my .kin is black, I've got to he an CS'scar Peterson td get out :of .the -Pultrnan porter econernic bracket.' And' even if I'm pure white and Prategant, .arid Mygrandfather came to Canada e80 years ago, if my narne'S Podrinski or Soychtick; rrnen the otitside4001tihe in. , * * Ask the Negro , from Michigan or Ohio whathappened when' he Made a reservation ateari •Ontario tourist resort. Ile---aNrived was blackhad blaek ehildren, and the preprietor told him, with the ut= most regret,that he rnust have got the reservations mixed„up, and he didn't hav a thing left, but if he went 'On 'a piece, he'd he . sure to find *serriethlng • Mee, It happens • , • (Prepared by the -Research Staff of Encyclopedia Canadiana) What ,.Stearliet:: Negotiated • the e' FraSer -Ca03'011? - . The: Skii&Y, beat by Andrew ,On- derclonle "in '1882;iY.- Ay!ras the only steamer ever toLtom,oIete the -per-- ilous :passage: Onderdonk,, An Arne .eriean engineer and contractor, oli; taked .a contract .ftdire: the Cepa- diail:governitient in. 1879 to build the Canadian Pacific Railway from, Savona. te Pert lyleedy,'thrbugh the Thompson and Fraser canyons • Of British Columbia. He -,supervised: censtruction from hiS.headqnarters' at Yale; B.C. In -.1882, in order to tranSferbililding inaterials..te the !tonetructien: Site, he biliitthe • stur- dy Skuzy. It188& the'127-Mile Seee tion of ' line Was completed through this excentianally :difficult terrain. Onderderik 'returned M Canada in 1895. to„..:Work on the, Trent Valley' arideSoldenges Canals. He alsobiiile :the 'Toronto, Harnilfone,and 'Buffalo .Railway 'tunnel' in' Hamilton. ' The ,sooner that word, "toler- ant" is kicked out of the racial - problem jargon, and replaced by the word "acceptance", the -better. Who elected hs, or anybody else, to "tolerate" o`ther human beings. The arroganee of itt. • • Despite what I've said,' I have high hopes for Canada. The old religious'ebitterness between the French and English-speaking Can- adians ie mellowing. There is a minority, but a vocal and intelli- gent one, Of liberal citizens who are not afraid to attack prejudice wherever it appears. •- • - -In the service chths and the Can- adian Legion', there are no colour, religious or racial bars. There has been a heavy influx of new people from Europe to break' down the old; and artificial prejudices. • 6 Mit most -nriporteet, the prepi-, dices of Canadians' are only skin- deep. They are not based on a century of fearand mistrust arid violence, as are the feelings of Whites in the southern States and Afriea. They -are based solely on ignorance. There is a basic, decency in the Canadian people, a casual reacli- rids to accept a Irian for What he is and what he, can do. G,iveu a chance, this will break through the thin crust of prejudice that we have inherited or developed, and .will make this land whAt it Must beea coUntry Where human beings are acceptednot "tolerated", re- gardless of eelour or creed. .1111NORITY OF ONE - OTTAWA ---Watching `the evolve tion of Donald Methuen Fleming, lawyer, politician and now nation- al financier, is one of the. mere interesting preoccupatkns of the fence -sitting Ottawa pbserver. As an opposition critice,he invar- iably shouted too ' kud ;and too long, -very often about ton -little and, he'll never win a popularity contest, ' But the develoPment Of /this powerful little man, often describ- ed as pompous end humorless, has been slow and steady. It could be said, in. a phrase, that he is carry- ing the Diefenba.ker government on Ins broad back. Whether he is carrying it well is a .xnatter of sharp political contro- versy. It remains -to be proved, for instance, whether his two-year-old policy of deficit budgeting will work to float the Canadian eco- nomy out of troubled'w.aters and 'safely into harbor. - No one was more critical of deficit, or surplus, budgeting than Donald Fleming in the days' of op- position. By nature, he's fussy, neat and tidy. He likes the outgo to match the income. ' It's impossible to, conceive of Mr. Fleming, in- his private life," running up an Overdue bill at the corner grocery.. Ilis bills would be paid right- on time. Not ahead of time- - that would be considered Poor rdebt management - but _on Donald Flerning_is a- minority of one in the federal_cabinet, and his financial policies are , dictated mainly by the man who beat him out for the -Conservative leader- ship, Prime Minister John Diefen- baker. - Diefenhaker. is _ the; politi- cian with the magic, appeal for the Voters. Mr. Fleming's role is to carry out his leader's sometimes recide^-ise-prornises -to---the-best -ofe his ability. - The finance minister admits candidly that the task frightened him at.first. But over thetwo ancl a half years he has managed the purse strings, he has grown in ma- tUrity and confidence. Two recent events,, and their sharp contrast with other events in the not -distant -pest, illustrate vividly the change in Mr. Mem- Where are the Torngat Mountains? . _ , The Torngat Mountains, highest mountains in the Canadian Shield, are in. northern Labrador between Hebron Fiord and Cape •Chidley. They are sometimes called the Devil Mountains:, The name erorne gat ,is derived from the Eskimo name Torngarsuak -"the ruler of all sea animals." The central part of the range, in the Naelivak area, is particularly rough and, jagged, Cirque Mountain reaches 6,500 feet, Which, City Ilas "All Hell Fra Basement?" ' Medicine Hat • Alta The discov- ery of an abundant -supply' of na- tduurragaiel gts•heineathrely Myeedaircsineeillthae! area ent century prompted Rudyard Kipling to say thateethe commun- ity had "all Hell for a basement." 'This plentiful supply -of gas aided in attracting many industries • to Medicine Hat. ,The major industry IS 'clay products and pottery. The comniunity, incorporated as a city in 1907, is situated in, the valley •Foralmost the first time in the life of, the Conservative govern- ment,' he: •waS permitted • to' say - "No" -flatly And ,without equivo- tationto two poWerfulappeals' for, financial help • he 'firSt.,- rejection, was 'directed to/ the.rgovernment's.'dWn employ- ee, the ciVit.Service, which .had been waltinefor a Year and A helf for a pay encrease. The ,last boost was negotiated 'under, the Liberal government,ef. Louis St. Laurent) :but•initielled, and fcirnially"put ire to effect by theecenservatives. •The ' Civil Service .CernrniSsion; a suPPOsedly, eeetridependent arbiter' 'acting , as ' agent for- the govern- ment in wage aid Salary matters, had reconainerided a $50 000.„000 in- crease in salary -levels: - , • , . Fleming: got. out bis -slide ride: He Calculatedthat the igure of $50,990,000 Would Mushroona in- to • $244000,000 by the time:.mili- of the South Saskatchewan River almost midway betvveen Moose Jaw, Sask., and Calgary. Its exist- ence began in 1883 with the cnining of the Canadian Pacific Railway, The city's curious name is derived from an old Indiaii •legend and re; fers to the headdress of a -inedi; eine Irian. i< Where is the Yukon's Most Northerly Settlement? , At Old Crow, a fur -trading cen- tre on the north bank Of the Forel', pine River, at ifs' junction with the Old Crow River. The 'settlement, just -a f verifies east of the Alaeka border' 70 Miles north 'of the 'Areti Circle, -The Porcupineis a tribu `ry of the Yukon River and. cornmimication• with Old Cr -ow, ex- cept by radio, is byway of the Porcupine River to its junction with the Yukon in Alaska. Old Crow has in RCMP detachment and an An- -Olean, Chinch mission. The,"Louch- eux 'Indians of the area live by. trapping. . tary an Ramp; personnel were in - eluded, retroactivity, Was oonsider- ed, and..pension funds :were looked . Mr, Fleming, with the siirpris„ ing support of the cabinet, said "No". He made no 'counter-offer, no attempt to mollify the disgrunt- led civirservants. Just "No.". The.same abbreviated reply was directed two days later to the an- guished, demands' of the provinces for a greater share of the federal Powerful arguments were thrown up to him at a federalp,rovineial rneeting of finanee ministers; not-, ably by the Conservative provin- cial governments of Ontario and Manitoba. There were dark fore, bodings of an increase in provin- cial taxation if Ottawa didn't con- tribute mere gperopsly, ' " Mr. Flerninglistened to them all. And 'then, with a fine disregard of eleetion promises of 1957 and 1958, he checked his bank balance and shook his head. Despite all the blandishments of' the provinces, he wouldn't be name_ ed: The federal refusal was final. And the remarkable thing about, it was the provinces accepted his • decision, almost without a mur„. mur. There was "dissatisfaction"' and "disappointment" expressed; But virtually ng. harsh words. - Mr. Fleming's answer to all te provincial argiiments was simp Pin yourfaith on us, boys, he .seemed M be saying; we've ge't to get the -federal budget balanced before we can bargain with any,: EARS AGON The strategy may not have been perfect. But at least -the premiers arid treasurers left the capital with a fervent hope that Mr... Flerning- ,will be . successful in balancing his own hooka' next ,Year.'e • When you consider that not a penny of federal moneY was -given away, _and „yeterio-oriewalked-outeee' 'of the conference; it must be chalked up as victory „for Mr. Fleming. It's taken a while, but he seems to have a firm grip on his Job. • Capital Will Capsules One Tory M.P.'s forecast: Prime ,Minister Diefenbaker will an-, nounce appointment -of 15 more parliamentary secretaries imniedi-. ately after the. Commons • reaS-- senables in January. One, of the lucky 16 ,(a $4,000 raise in pay - goes with the , job) has already been named. He's Wallace Nesbit4--- NIT. for Ontario's Oxford *County, who helpS External Affairs Minis-, ter Howard Green with - his cur„ rent United Nations duties. , . Interest RateNSeares 'Council Town2 cotincil_shaddered a bit , Monday 'night- when it considered the borrowing it will have to do soon from the tight.rnoney market. The townr will te required to issue debentures within the: next . year for $160,000 high school addition, a - $60,000 public school addition, and, in all probability,' a PUO, kan for eXPansion of water services: - lf, cbuncil decides to proceed with the • Sanders river' drain for east side development, there'll be the prob; lem of , raising $45,000 to $60,000 -- for that, 'too, All of which must be raised on a' marlret demanding up- • wards of seven -per cent interest. Should council seek the money now to avoid higher rates or should 'it wait as long as possible in the hope - that interest Willeserne down? That it appeared from members re- marks,' is a matter of wild conjee- tine. Clerk C. 'cr., Pickard reported that investreent AtterusgeetitnPking with him suggpstecrq15 per eent in- terest Would be required to sell the debentUres at near „ mated even the expertS were not confident of how the rates would. fluctuate during the next . year. • Councillors Simmons and Itether . had conflicting views On what the . market, may do. The former sug- , gester waiting sinee, he felt; bubble would have to burst to al- lele the rates' to come down. The latter said: sonnexperts foresaw. a rise to 4as' much as 10 per cent. ---e Exeter TimeseAdvocate. Twenty-orie per cent more ears ire •registered in Canada for 1959 driving than. were recorded in Interesting items 'gleaned trona The Huron Expositorof 25, 50 arid 75 years ago. From The, Martin Expositor From The Huron Expositor October 26, 1934- Willialn II, Golding, M.P.,-'was choseri to carry the Liberal -stand- ard in the coming .federal election at a meeting of the Huron -Perth Liberal ASsociation in 'Hensall. on Wednesday. . It is estimated that one ton of fowl was consumed at the fowl stipper in the , Latheran Church' shed, Zurich, on Thursday. Nearly 1,000 people were kci,..and,..thepro- ceeds amounted to $625. Prize winners - at the Seaforth Fair have beenenriched within the past week lay -41;045.60:, This' is the amount that •the 'directors a the society_ heve authorized paid and which Mrs. J. A. Kerr, the sec- retary, baS forwarded to the vat; ibus NVinners. Huron County plowmen held their eleventh, annual PrdWing match on Thursday afternoon last on the farms of Reeve L. E. Cardiff and, Dave Smith, Sth concessienqof Mor- ris, near BrusSels. • ' ' • Motorist S who have bumped over the GR crossing on Main Street fer the past kvir year's Will have notided an improvement in recent days. 'New planks have been laid and the croSSing ha e been 'newly gravelled - an improiernent long overdue. - N r , While threshing at John Young's on the ,lake shore read ont Thurs- day, Mr: Will Watson, -of AnbUrn district, hed the misfortune to get his hand Caught in the machine and if was badly bruised.- Canon Appleyard endNessrs. 11. Edge, .Thoinae-e. Jackson, Robert Arnhibald„and 1VIr. Billet attended the banquet giVen iii Smaliman er Lotidthi, n menuay, From The Iluron 'Expoiitor October 29,1909 Dr. Scott, Seafortli, has purchas- ed a handsome driving mare froin. a gentleman in Wingharn to replace the one thatwas killed e conple of weeks ago. , ' The Tuckersrnith- rural telephone system was completed and opened ore:Wednesday on the' Chiselhitrst division. The Chiselharst people, now have the telephone and rural mail delivery. . Harry, Edge and Mr. Robert Willis are having additions erected to their ,handSome residences. on Getlerich Street. ' We are- sorry to state that Mr. John Mowbray, of Walton, old and respected resident a that place, met with a serious accident a few days age. He was 'walking along the sideWalk When a -young lad,: who was riding on a bicycle accidentally ran into him, knock- ing him down, and in the:fall:le injured his back so., severely that he lias since been 'confined to his 'residence. Forbes litoS, have•again teethed the village Of Kippen. They are stringing the wire kr .the tele - Phones and it win not belong new ,before we are enjoying the use ef the .telephorie,e,„„ ' • Mr. William Cooper, of the Hur- on Road; Hiillett, three miles west of, Seaterth,is not one 'Of 'those 'farMerS'Who think the orchard 'does rtot pay, in'faet he says..it iaerie of the best paying 'departments, on the farne This yearehe had 125 barrels of, apples for Whieh here ceived OAS. A' bent!, the huyet,a6- ing the, packing .andproviding the barrels; and ell.Mr,'Cooperhad 'ne honor of Sir Henry Drayton, de was pull the fruit. . October 31, 1884 Mr, -Fanson,•of -Tuekersmith, sold his handsome residence in _Ex- eter:to a gentleman, from Forest for the sum of $2,600, and has re- moved his family to hi's .farm -on the Mill Road, near EgniondeVille• An.,eleetric light than was in `town on Wednesday ancl had e talk with several of the cititens on the, subject- of lighting the town with . electric lights. A system furnislr-.., inegaf205rtlhighfotsr cahoeuledtobe sehhedd tfhoer 8 ... cost per light for maintenance would be about half a cent per hour. . was steerl light v e gtr:at,liecvlaeoarn ththea thiths ue aic towel Banner destroyed by fire on Tuesday eve - lung last.tor, Mr. Robert Ferguson, will be er printing office was heavy, as there was none of the The loss to the proprie- 1VIessrs. A. and J, Watt arid B. Itiley threshed for •IVIessrs. Tasker and Buyers, of Ilullett, one da' last week, 2,000 bushels of grain in one day and moved the machine once. One- night recently Mr, ' Peter.; e Cele, of the hayfield line, Coderich townShip, lost 25 good hens by the ravages of a mink. He put strich- nine on the- beads -of several of those killed, and next - morning found the mink deadfhthe tooet. 'whOoeoiergheewMcaMt of e?ewdiethrieahh, accident at the Bayfield pier which might have proved lataL A fellow wOrkrrian, in tieing his axe in prox- imity to George, struck hirn on the head and .rriadeee severe wound,