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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1959-12-11, Page 2• Since 1860 Serving the Comieunity Met Pliblieleed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning'by . ,cLEAN BROS., Publishers • ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: , Canada (in advance) $2.50 a Year • United States (in advan.Ce) $3:50 a Year SINGLE COPIES -5 CENTS EACH • Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Departraent, Ottawa Member of Canadian :Weekly Newspapers Association SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, DECE1VII3ER .11, 190; T. Good Public Relations ,Are, Helpful - This is an opportune time • of year, when the public is considering the year-end reports of various councils:' hoards and comrnissionsr.to give heed to advice offered during a re- cent panel discussion at a school trus- tees' conference in London. The panel had as its subject, "alb- lic Relations," and the chairman was „ Arthur C. Carty, a member of the London Separate School Board:,Mr. Carty a newspaperman and public relations man, told the conference that lack of good public relations, and- laek of information results in difficulties for the board or commis- sion which may "be under fire for no •good reason due to misinformation."' Sometimes the members of public bodies in a sincere effort to carry ,out their responsibilities feel that certain One More Rem There are those who continue • to wonder why, despite the lip service the Diefenbaker Government gi —to_eco 'omy in the public admini tra- I Aions, Canada's •deficit istr -aa all- tipae high. , Perhaps the Letter Review, of Fort Erie, has found one of the rea- sons. "Queen's Printer, at not in- considerable cost to the taxpayer, continues to deluge Her Majesty's " mails, free of charge, with advertis- • ing about the multitude of books and pamphlets turned out by the Govern- ment Printing Bureau," , the -Letter cone/1120n that when Prime Minister Review says. "Latest sample has'„. Diefenbaker gets around to appoint - high praise for a work on tqtem ' 'ing the proposed commission to in - poles, which runs to 800 pages. For - yestigate the efficiency of the public those who prefer lighter reading, the service and,to,re-dommend necessary • Queen's Printer offers an 88 -page • economies, a good place to start booklet entitled 'Living with House ' would be the Government Printing • matters should best be kept to them- selves. -They forget that the busi- ness of every public body. as -public • b-usineSs, and that the public is en= titled to know about it. Apart altogether' from the right of the public to know is the greater sup- port which is availa,ble to a project that has been properly explained. So' often differences of opinion that or- iginally were 'relatively small, grow into major issues because there is no -.information concerning the mat- • ter in hand, and opinions are bas- ed on --rinnour. Had,' the public been infornied as to the original :it and advised from time ,' to tinie as to what Was planned, per- • haps the issues never would have • arisen -The public would be in 'a posi- tion to form conclusions on the basis of facts rather/ than rumours, , • VVI1YLIPOtII C It • S 0 "Taxpayers may wonder why the Queen's Printer, instead of engaging • in so mtich direct mail advertising— costly to the taxpayer—Aoesn't in- stead advertise its subsidized publi- cations regularly in the press. They maj.glso ask why the Queen's Print- er s uld consider that pu(ilic funds , -should be used th publish be tics and pamphlets for: which, appa ently, private publishing houses • b ieve there is an insufficient marke to justify the risk. The LetterReview suggests in Plants.' , Bargain Prices Don't Ina recent ithe Goderich Sig- nal -Star draws attention to a condi- tion that exists not only in Goderich • but in every town across the prov- • ince. --• "In the last few weeks the Gode- • rich Post Office has had heavy ship- ments of mail order- catalogues for Goderich ahd district residents. They have been from firms not generally -- Bureau itself. -Always Ailean Bargains „ well-known. • "Their pages offer jewellery, asso- ciated ware, electrical equipment:_ marked at one figure with a special section pointing out What the/cost is - • —to you. The goodi-,are illustrated • very attractively in color. Very spe- • eial,„,very provocative and very ques- tionable. 'It has been said that the companies so aclvertiSing-do- not ev- en carry the stocks. They are more or less, jobberv at a Premiuin. • "The oldsadage that one gets What • --he pays--for-still-holds-tmei:TGodericlr -- merchants who deal with you on the local level are interested in your wel- , fare. They have to, be for theyare not herd today -and gone tomorrow. "Oh, they're a little loose now -but they'll be, fine when • I get my skis on." (By REV. ROBERT H. HARPER) • 111E MOON 1./NM4SKED • From a period long prior to the hour. ef crisia when Joshua eere- mended the moon to stand still over the valley of Ajalon t,o the • present (by, no marebas seen the other side ' of "thoon. And it has talren its'. place among the mysteries that have intrigued men. But now the Russians claim to have sent a satellite in orbit around the moon and to have re- ceived photographs on which they have written the name Moscow and other. Russian times. This inscribing of Russian names on the other side of the moon will not make the orb. Russian any • more than the dream names that &-Conurtunists have, written on America arid all lands of'tlie world. For the Russians to dominaje man- kind is not written in the eternal fitness of things and the will of the Almighty who has come With ,stately steppiugs down all the pag- es oMistory. The sooner we learn i this n our land the better. • And all -the better should we learn this as we cterf-e- hito the seasori when we shall celebrate again the advent of the King of kings and the Lord of lords, -who has manifested his will to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found. SIJG BY W. (Bi B. T. SMILEY. IC • I'm getting a .bit weary of hear- ing people say they're sick of Christmas. It's becoming fashion- able to emit such sentiments as: "It's so darn ,commercialized", or "Christmas is -just a big pain in the neck", or "I don't enjoy Christ- mas any more; I'm absolutely_ Worn out". , Piffle and., poppycock! It's not Christmas that is commercialized,, it's our t. society. Don't bet there ;evon't be a sharpie out there sell- ing souvenir buttons.or cold drinks on the day of the Second Corning. It's not Christmas that's a big pain in the neck. it's some of the se -called Christians wire celebrate it-zworrying, complaining, grab- bing,' sweating, pushing, whining - in -a-perfect frenzy of self-interest as the glorious- day approaches. `. For nlyseff; I find Christmas,', and the weeks approaching it, a demanding but exhilarating ex- perience.. Each Christmas season Around'our house presents a 'chal- lenge -that brings out the best me. And don't anybody, please,, say the best is none too good. • . We think you can avoid costly disap-, Chritt-mas Seals and TOTpointrnent by ignoring these Over - 'tures from the questionable mail- or= Medical science, new drugs and the efforts of the TB Associations have all contributed to the fact that tuber- culosis no longer exacts the toll of • life it once did in Canada. That this is so tends to the creation of a dan- • gerous complacency among many of • us: We forget that tuberculosis is an infectious disease, and that it is still present in a substantial degree. In Ontario one new case of TB de- velops every five hours, and in the first nine months of this year there were 118 deaths from it. More than a million people in the province have • living_ tuberculosis germs,• in their , hings. • The Huron Tnberculosis Associa- tion is carrying on a year-round fight • against TB. The reduction in the ' number of oases in the county is clue to education work 'carried on by the aSSociation with resulting early. nig•- covery—and 'early treatment—of the The -work is dependent on,the sup- port which the/ ubiie Provides • through the purchase of TB Christ- • mas Seals. Thousands of seals are in • the mail to people across the county, • So that the fight against TB can go. • op without hesitation, it is hoped Contributions returned will be at a new high It is also hoped that 37013, • will Make -MI use of the TE Christ-, inaS Seals on your mail to show that • the is .broad support in HUfon this War against der cataloguei which have been pour- • ing' into town. We have already fil- , ed about a dozen' -of them in our waste -paper basket. Some of the • same catalogues have even been re- • ceived twice!' ' k goes down without squeaking, when t,he las snatl. of the sander 'fades, or 'wh n llie last spatter of paint is beirt 'turpentined off, .I know -that Ch istmas,' and peace on earth: and Obdwill toward the kids and me,' are practically upon -* * • This. Year, meved by who knews What obscure -feminine balkiness, she crossed me up and went on a painting And cleaning jag in Octo- ber, two months ahead pf sche- 'dule,. and there we were, facing • December- with, nothing to do but get ready for Christmas, like nor- mal people., The thought of it completelyun- nerved me, and I -knew she'd be npset by' all the peace and quiet in the weeks ,before Christmas. So; I decided to' build acchimney. I'm happy to say it worked. We've been in a normal state of alarm ,and confusion chaos and pperi • warfare; for weeks', and everybody feels it's more like old times, , Beason. is that each year, just about the ,tirrie other' people are beginning to wrap gifts or address Christmas cards, we're plunging into ,Tlje„,groject. Mbst people- d� their . major overhauls in the spring. For some reason, we get into the ..most stupendous domes- tic epheaVals 'just before the fes- tive season each year. It's not my doing. The old house -Woks Pretty good to me. But the Chief Engineer goes into some sort of frenzy, about the first of Decem- ber,, every year; and we.' -re -for it. * * ' one year it was a new Sink in the 1 bathroom. By the time we were through, we 'had a; complete neW,bathroorn, and a bill for -over $500. Another year she decided' we'- sand alnthe floors, and we still; have humps and bellows iff the -hardwood to sli6W` for -it. Still- -another Christmas; We got into 4he painting, And when the family would meet at meal -time, it look- ed like • a war -gathering of Apaches. ' *-'•* * ' - During these periods, living with the old Trouble 'n Strife is like living with a cobra nursing a hang- over. That's why I look on the annual Project as a ehalleng-It'S a sort of combination between Custer's-, Last Stand and the Charge of the Light Brigade,. in domestic tetms. Chronic Disease Dental decay is man's most wide - _spread chronic disease. It is also one Of the costliest About 97,0000000 Americans have decayed teeth in/ need of treatment Our family den -r taLbills total $1,700,000,000 a year, bit only 40 per cent of us haye nen- care. • - • Unlike the other chronic diseases there is an effective,' inexpensive and even automatic method of prevent- ing tooth decay. This is through the fluoridation of community water supplies, Controlled fluoridation does not mean adding foreign substance to -water. All water contains some fluoride. Today more than 42,000,000 , people in the United States drink wa- ter containing at least the arnoiint of fluoride recommendedior Newt YOrk „ • City.—New. York Times. • , ,UK Criticiies Nations worry about their, trade relations. Indivinuals. -worry about relations they wish they could trade, —(Lethbridge Herald). had'quite a tune -getting a man to build it ,Finally found t.he right fellow, but he was on another job this week and he had to go deer hunting next week. Then he need- ed a few days to get organized af- ter the rhunt. • By this time there's a foot of sneer on the ground, and _the. chimney experts, who sudden- ly seem to make up half the Perm- . lettere are telling me nobody but a dam',.fool would -build a chimney in that kind of weather. • • ' * * And when the toilet lidlhnhlly (-Prepared by the Research Staff cYcleDedia_Can , . Who First Sighted the Rockies? • Anthony Henday, a Hudson's Bay Company employee, was the first' white man :to enter the territory that is now Alberta and also first t� sight the ,Rocky Mountains. The date of Henday's birth is &Leer- tairi` but it is known that he vvas born on the Isle of Wright and joined the Hudson's Bay Company two years after being outlawed for -smuggling in. 1748: He -was sent out to York Factory on Hudson Bay and in .June, 1754," set .out with a party Of 'Cite Indians on a 2,000-ini1e, year-long, journey to the Far' West. In 'October he reached Blackfoot encampment, probably about 18 iniles southeast of the present. city of -Red Deer, Alta., and -spent the winter there gathering furs. 'When he returned to York Factory in June, 1755, he was leading a brigade of 70 canoes laclen,with pelis. This remarkable journey -prepared the way for .the establishment of the company's trading posts in the interior. What is the King of the Salmon? King of the Salmon is the actual name of -a rather odd fiSh„ Ith sci- entific naine is Trachypterus- rex- salmonorwri. It has a long ribbon - shaped body, pp to eight feet in length, a weakly boned, pliable skeleton, a long dorsal -fin• -that ris- es ton point at -the head, a greatly developed:upper lobe to the tail, and a very peculiar horselikehdad. The Ring of the Salmon _is occa- sionally seen on the surface of the water off Canada's west coast. Such appearances give rise to sea - monster stories. There is a primi- tive belief that if the King of the Salmon is harmed salmon- wilr leave the area. , * * , Then the mason said he couldn't work with wet bricks', and it was raining or snowing every day. I'll het we're the only people in the corintry who entered December with a pile of 'bricks, about the size of Buckingham Palace, sit- ting in the lanndry, room drying out. Between the men corning in to getwater for their mortar, and the dog coining in to get dry v(tliat's where he sleeps); and that "mausoleum of bricks confronting her every morning, the Old Girl was -about- ready to_ have_herself bricked off into a quiet cavity in 'the cellar or someplace. ilAcDUFF OTTAWA REPORT LOUD BARK; SHORT LEASH .'Luiruy iron 'WATCHDOG' OTTAWA -After two years' o. Studi,: the royal commission on price spreads has brought down a report written inrestrained and moderate, language by men and women of the same temperament. The implications, of some of their proposals and suggestions, however, border on the revolution- ary. • They concluded that excessive Profits and promotion expenditures by .the tnajor grocery chains and some of the food proces'sors Were partly to blame for the growirig spread in the price between farm- er and housewife. ', The remedy they suggested was the bright glare of publicity. What they, propaged was the• formation • of a permanent, independent,Coun- ell on Prices, F'rodnetivity and In - 'comes by the govermnent aid in- tensive investigation of the buying and selling practices of the food industry by the 'Combines Branch of the Justice Department. • Because the food industry is closely allied- with the course of many other industries, the report suggested that the Council.Ahcield not confine itself to that one alone, • but should act as a watchdog over the economy generally. In effect this councilwould act as a guardian for the interests of an important and long -neglected segmenteof- the community - the consumer. R would inevitably find itself in the pcisition of protecting the consumer from being 'caught in the middle between'rnanagement off the one hand and labor en the ject of "Pelicy, however, to. limit concentration .end to prevent fur- ther concentration which offere little prospect of achieving further increase in efficiericy,". Understendably enough, the come MiSSiOrt • has the food industry,. reeling and other industries 're- garding some -of these , proposals: with great concern. "With the ex- isting structure of the food indus- tries, the welfare of the consumer ean not Be assumed to'be secured by the dedisions of large indus- -trial organizations," the report, said. The same thing might be said of many other industries in, Canada. , •- There Was another short firin reconunenclation submitted virtual- ly"Without comment -that is of no little significance.That is 'a re- quirement that all private com- panies be -required to make public their financial statement. For the first time this would enable out- srdera„„te„get a look at companies like Eaton's. department store and such wholly-owned foreign sobsidi- aries as -General Motors and Chrys- lerltof Canada. - . .While. it vveuldhaVe no aiithority, it might .ObviOuSly.be•ernployed to mobilize the weight of public ppin- ibe togive .the, cerisurnet strengtb. in thebattlehetWeen, bighuSitieSs' ,and big: The .propOsel" is another reflet-' tion of the -demand ,that is being heardwith . increasing 'frequeneY iii 'both : Canada and the . that some Way :be, foOrid to -guard the If this proposal has radical im- plica-L-ions, they are inild compar- ed to other tentatiVe suggestions advanced by _.the seven -man com- mission. • •• • For example, they:raised, the POSSibility that if publicity did not work it might be necessary for the government to impose what would amount to an excess profits tax on the earnings of conipanies that were more than "fair and reasOnable". What would be -fair ,end reasonable, it did not define. '-It suggested the possibility of a limit being imposed on the amount Of morieY to be spent on promo- tion by food retailers and proces- sors, or, alternatively of some forms of prornotkei being probib- ited completely. The , report saw no virtue in trying • to • turn baelc.' the clock by breaking up the • five cor- porate grocery chains stretching across meet]. of the country. But "Oh, he ain't, am't it added: "It ceuld vve.11 be an ob-- you're- a-disturbin' him:" • Capital Hill Capsule "Broaden the base!" seems to be beconairig the great -rallying cry of -Canada's political parties. The CCF has been engaged in this pur- suit for' over a year through its `plans for- a merger with the affili- ates of the Canadian Labor -Con- gress. • The . Conservatives were working at it in a more limited way last week as they provided for a greatly increased -representation. (from -200 to ntearly 1,500) at an - neat general meetings of the _par-, 'WtYilla s usIevieaitli°-11tii ell?: o -no wthn e plan14ilie r- faoirs broadening the party's -sup rt, 'cono:ptirtoupeonscayl_l:reginagniei`raetiathotniosn. , of r - i; ty membership other an in loac 1 • 'BothLiber:IseId4Co,nservatives are taking note Of Hon. Lester- - Pearson's',diageosis Of the cause of the former government's doWn, „falth_Brass_lost_ touch -with-,- the\ Grass". Both have now pro, videcl for annual meetings of mem- bets from across -the country, the COnservatives doing so on an even grander scale than the Liberals.• , The Liberal -leaning Ottawa Cite. zen came up with a- show -stopping: headline at the Conservative .don- vention. A change in the cohsti- tution required the West Ottawa. Conservative Association to accept females to its previously all-niale - membership. Read the headline: . • "Force west Ottawa Men To Ac- cept -Tory 'Women". • During the Sunday morning ser- mon a baby began to ery at the top of its voice_and its mother car-. reed it towards the door. "Step!" Said the minister, "your - baby is not disturbing me." • The mother turned towards the pulpit ,and addressed the preach-; However, the Project cleated the air, as they always do. We have the longest chimney this side (sf Pittsburgh, That makes three. chimneys on the house, and I hope Santa- Claus doesn't get -into the Wrong one. One chininey will drop him • right into the toilet. Arid if he jumps into rey new one, he'll drop like a stone about 50 feet and into the furnace, and that will be the end of Father Christ - mast. , SEEN IN THE COUNTYPAPERS A• ward Bank 'Job Wilfred White was awarded the contract for the new Toronto -Dom- inion „Bank Gorrie the latter part of last week. Mr. White hong' to start on the building im- mediately Aftd expects to have it completed by April 1, 1960. Plats for the new bank call for a single storey brick structure 31 x 44 feet, with a glass front and glass rear wall.--Wingham Advance -Times, IVIlunps Around Ail epidemic Of mumps has been prevalent in. Goderiph for the past month, says Dr. M. R. Aldis, M,O.H. Besides children, quite a fele adults he taken them, he stated: The mumps can have ser- ious affects with adults and Pre - 'tendons should be taken. Adults can get them again, even, if they had theta when young.-Goderich Signal -Star. , •• Disclaims Speech Following the Goderich town- ship nominations held ineClinton -Iast Friday, the chairman of the Huron County Good Roads Com- mittee,' Reeve Harvey • Coleman, Stanley township, claimed that Coderich township has had its fair share a the county road con- ttruction in the past years. A statement made at the nothina, tion by J. W., Deeves, a candidate for the '''Cioderich township reeve. - ship, &at the Cut Line and the llth concession of GOderich ton sbip wopld be retittned to the Where Did Canadian Bilingualism Begin? - _ The firet stage of official Celia- dian bilingualism began ne. courts. As early as 1766, jest three years after the Treaty of Paris ceded Canada toRritain, the English law ,officers of the Crown, on information supplied from Cane alb, reported that to try civil 'and criminal cases in what was to the people "an unknown tongue" ,and without Canadian advocates, jur- ors or judges conversant with French, would be inconsistent with British justice. Judges Imovvhig bath English and French, they de- clared, were necessary. The right to practise their religion -and by implication to, retain their native tongue -was conceded to Roman Catholics, of course, in the capitu- lations of Quebec and IVIiintreal, in the Treaty of Paris and in the Quebec Act. tovvriship by the county, has Ilea: - emphatically denied brMr. Cole- man. The Stanley township reeve said that.sech a proposal was nev- er at any time even suggested by the county roads comniittee. Mr, Coleman also added that the four miles of road in Goderich town- ship, north of Varna, comnialy known as the Varna Wad, was not et any time considered for re- construction by the Huron County Roads Cornmitthe in 1959. -Clinton News-Itecord: ' Surprise Thieves • ` Thieves who broke into the showroom ,of the V, _L. Becker implement. building in Dashwood on Monday night reled a sud- den surprise when th were ap- prehended minutes late near Port Blake, A.neig,hbor woman, Mrs. Robert, Hayter, phoned the Becker home after midnight on Monday and informed the family she saw someone breaking into the ,build- ' ing/Mr„Becker along with James Hayter, who was visiting the Becker family at the time, gave 'chase and saw_tbe culprits leaying town, going' west on IlighWay 83. Following the ear, the two men finally caught up with it at Port Blake, and stopped the, sespettS. They loaded them into their car and proeeeded to the proVineial police.in Grand Bend, Who in turn called- the Exeter detachment -to take over the investigation.-Zur- ith ,citizens News. _ A JUKE8C0( DANCE MUST seEm AWFULLY "PULL 70 YOU, A1/56ELL.,ArTER -i2 AWW5 Ar - S4 ON A 511111,41AR/ME. - IN THE YEARS AGONE Interesting items gleaned.from r• • The Huron Expositor of 25, 50 and 75 years ago. From The Huron Expositor December 7, 1934 , The first of a series of inter- club badminton tournaments which have been arranged for the corn- ing winter, was held here"MOnday evening, when players from Bay- field Were the guests of the Sea - lath club. • Eighteen students received diplo- Inas at the eleventh annual com- mencement of Seaforth Collegiate Institute, held in Cardia's Hall on Friday -evening. School prizes were afso awarded. The Seeand edition of the Sea - forth Collegiate Institute Alumni year book will go on sale on Sat- urday of this week. Santa Claus will tome to town on Friday, December -31, at 2:45 p.m., and will officially receive the children of Seaforth and dis- trict before the community Christ- mas tree at the corner of Main •and Go erich Streets. He is mak- ,; ing the visit under the auspices of the eeforth Lions Club. An enthusiastic and well -attend- ed meeting of the Egmondville Hockey Club ahd supporters was held on Thursday evening. * * * From The Huron ExpositOk ber 10, 1909 - '- • The eoncrete reservoir for the • new Clinton waterworks has been completed, - One day last week Cantelon Bros. of Clinton, shipped away four big dray loads of dried apples The People's Railway Company, which were laying plans .to con- struct railway lines from New Hamburg through Stratford to Seaforth and Goderich, has receiv- ed h' decided setback. The con-. struction of these lines was con- tingent ou the City of Stratford taking 8tock to the amount of $90,- 000. At ,a. meeting of the ,coencil, of that city the other night, the propesition 6was " shelved, s� it is likely the seheme will now be dropped. Owing to the large attendance of pupils at SeafoTtli Collegiate In - Albite, the board have found it necessary to engage a Sixth teach - Joseph Hitrely, for a number of years a resident of -Seaforth, was killed in an ,ejevator at the Mas- sey -Harris works -in Braritford, 011 Saturday last. About 8 -o'clock in the morning, _while the elevator was at the second floor, someone below released it and it shot up. As it rose to the third. floor, he Was ,eanght betweeii the elevator and the gate which descended to proteet the opening. A's body Was fearfully crushed, the ribs peue- trating the heart. He died an hour - later. * * * From The Huron Expositor December 12, 1884 Mr. Alexander Foster, .of Varna,, has a 'Count Careless colt which. turned the scales the other day at 1,290 pounds, and it is only 19. months old. It girth is 6 feet 4 inches, and is a full brother to the „ one Mr,- Torrance sold last spring for $200. Mr„ D. McLellan shipped10.cara of wheat to Liverpool, -England,, last week, and this.xeek IS cars of bailey direct to American .ntal- sters7-a. good reeord for ,Kippen, Mr. II. Snell, of Hulleff, has a half acre of land that yielded 800, bushele of carrots thie year. During the .past 10 weeks three coopers at the Star Salt Works, Goderich, have made,. the large; number of 8,491 batrels, or an av- erage of, a trifle over 47 barrels • g day. On Wecinesday last as 1*. 'Jan, Torrance Was leading- one of his horses out of the stable to water, the animal turned to 'kick at a pig and struck Mr. Torrance on the shoulder, dislocating it, and break?, ing his arm above the elboW.