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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-03-12, Page 10Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS.. Publishe* Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor Member Canadian Weekly' Newspaper AssoCiation Ontario ' Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Retest Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year ' Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, March 12, 1970 Smashed Bottles Are a Hazard In the Years Agone MARCH 15th , 1895. John Watt' Sr. of Harlock had the misfortune to have his arm broken by a kick from a horse. ' Hector Reid, of Stanley, has purchased from James Snell of Hullett, a thorough- bred Berkshire boar, 7 months old. Quite a number of persons from this vicinity left Seaforth station for Dakota and other' western points. Miss O'Reilly left for Willow City, Dakota; Miss Mc- Fad.r..an 'for •Del Nortet, Colorado; John Patterson for Sheldon Dakota anceMr.0'- Connell Of Tuckersmith for Manitoba.- John Smith, son of S. Smith of town left for Los•Angeles, California, in' the hope that the change of climate will benefit his health. The contractors are busily engaged in making preparations for the' placing of the new pipe organ in St. Thomas Church. The Methodist Church in Hensall, have purchased a very fine large organ made especially for their church. Mr. Smillie, the worthy clerk of the Township of Tuckersmith, entertained a large number of his young friends and neighbors. The Marks Brothers Dramatic Corn- pany have been playing during the week in Cardno's Hall and have been drawing • fairly large audiences. , We understand that J.B, Weber intends to retire from the' hotel business in Egmendville. shortly. A number of young people from town drove to. Walton. The pitch holes were so bad that it made several of the party sick and rendered them incapable •of being brought home until next morning. MARCH 12th, 1920. The Rev. J. A. Ferguson, B.A. of Norval was inducted into' the pastoral charges of Duff's Church, McKillop and Caven, Church, Winthrop, Rev. F. H, Larkin of Seaforth preached an eloquent and soul stirring sermon. The T. Eaton Company of Toronto last week shipped to M. McKellar, the local express agent 247 sacks containing, 7 tons of their spring catalogues, the charges being $155.00, The postage on the catalogues amounted to some $500. in addition to the express charges. GiC.Efall of town has taken the agency for the Overland car and _Will now push both the McLaughlin and Overland agen- cies at his garage oh Main Street. C.A.Barber is moving into the resid- ence on Goderich Street which he recently' purchased from W. Somerville. E. C. ChainbeilAin is moving into the house, on Market Street vacated by Mr. Barber. The rain on Thursday evening was the first we have had since the 29th of Novembei. G. T. Turnbull shipped a car -Of .hogs and also shipped several cars of cattle to the Toronto Market for the Farmer's Club., Athur Routledge of EgmondvIlle has purchased James Wallace's farm on the 4th .concession. " James Simpson of Walton has sold his 125 acre farm on the lltiv concession • of McKillop to John Boyd, the price being , $9,000. MARCH 16th, 1945. The annual masquerade dance was held in Walton Community Hall, with a large attendance. Music was supplied by Ken Wilbees Orchestra and Wilfred Shortreed was master of ceremonies. Best dressed couple were Mrs. W.C.Bennett and Mar- jorie Hackwell; lady's character costume, Jean Coutts; Men's character costume, Bernice Hackwell; lady's comic costume, Ruth McDonald; Men's comic, Mrs.Cliff Brown. A grant of $15,375. has been author- ized by the Warden's committee of Huron County Council to the Red dross Society. About ninety friends and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 'Mathew Haney in TUckersmith, to hopor them on the occasion of their 25th wed- ding anniversary. \Paul Doig read a short ,,address and Messrs. Harry Chesney, Victor Lee and Raymond Nott presented theni ' with a chest of silVer flatware. F/O Van Egmond Bell, popular Sea- forth boy paid the supreme Sacrifice. He was serving with the Canadian Air Force. Frank Riley of Constance has bought the old Tudor property owned by Leo Stephenson. His entire body aflame when a coal oil can exploded as he was lighting a fire in his home, Richard Masse, 29 years old, was believed saved from death when a neighbor, R. Page, saw the man's plight as he passed the house. He is in St. Joseph's Hospital where atteacTints say he. is in a critical 'condition. Mrs. James Daytnan of Hensall, had the misfortune to fall down her cellar steps and at present is confined to her, borne. In less than one week mountains of snow have disappeared from the town Streets) the highways .and concession roads as completely as if a giant blow tordh • had been applied. I'm a great fan of 'They'll Do It Every Time".ithat down-to-earth cartoon which, appears 'daily in most newspapers across the nation. Besides being lots of fun, the cartoon , speaks truths that few 'of us are willing to admit, even to our closest acquaintances. This morning's cartoon was a dandy., The first frame showed a'•couple being feted as they left thb neighborhood; Everyone insisted that anytime the depart- ing pair returned to the town for a visit, they were more than welcome to stay in the old neighborhood with all their friends. The. second frame told the real truth. The couple did return for a holiday and when they' called their.eold friends" to let them know they were in town, their would 'e hostess lied 'and said her hus- band was out of town and she was leaving immediately •to be with her stricken mother. It was. certainly unfortunate that their visit could not be enjoyed, the "old friend" fibbed, but perhaps some other time things would work out better. I suppose I are a cynic, but that cartoon rings of more truth than most people care to admit. I really believe that if one sat clOwn to list his or her real, true-blue friends, you could tally them all on one hand, I'm talking now about the folks wh en know who would come to your aid when all the chips are down.,Maybe you are sick and need someone o look after the children for a few days. Could be you are out of work and' need a few bucks to 'tide you ever the rough spots until you are ' earning cash again. It could be that all you require is someone to talk-fa-Wilt will not blab everything to anyone else who will listen the moment you have unloaded yreur burden on them. - It you ask a group of people what a friend' is, you will get all kinds of answers...soreeotte yc, can trust, some- one with whom you can be yourself, some- one who .listens without obligation. I don't cave a definition of a friend. All Lknow is that I can feel when sornebne is my friend:- and by the same token, I can feel when someone is being insincerely sweet. That's what really 'turns' me off! . That's an apt description I feel, of the folks in the Halfo cartoon I mentioned earlier. They had no particular love for the departing neighbors. They may eves have hoped they would never see them again, and yet they would insist upon being sickening and sentimental with a bunch of garbage about coming to visit aeel being hurt if they didn't call around once in a while. I've had neighbors who didn't do much more than grunt when they saw you pass. They never stopped by the garden fence for. a chat and if you met them at a social affair, they hardly knew you. Yet Invariab,ly, if you did get into a short con- versation with them, their parting comment would be something like "Come over sometime" or "Drop by for coffee! Not me, brother. That's justpolite society talk' and 1'm-having no part of dropping in sometime to be tolerated for a few short moments out of an otherwise wonderful day. suspect not the only one who feels this way. Last summer I met a girl that I liked right away. I invited her to my house. She immediately retaliated with a statement something like this:"Look, I'm not the kind of person who 'says they will come for coffee and they won't so you had better be sure you want meto come before you invite me." She put me on the spot. i assured her my invitation was genuine and she assured me she would come to see me. We're still On speaking terms and we understand each other much better than most passing acquaintances. " I thought her approach was so effective SUGAR rid SPICE by ill Smiley Beginning of March, and our neighbors still have their outside Christmas tree lights glowing. Glowing with rage ? Glowing with pas- sion? No, they're just glowing because the snow j so deep they can't get out to unplug them. But glowing is something there should be More of, especially in the miserable month of March. There must be some- thing in this sad, rotten, mixed-up,wonder- fµ1 world to, glow about. Let's find it, you and I_ together. So, what glows? The sun. People. If the sun, or people, cease to glow, they're dead..Ashes. Dust. Just as our neighbors' Christmas tree lights are still glowing because they can't get at them for snow, our spirits, and yours, I hope, are glowing because they, too, are still plugged 'in, and no amount of snow and ice is going to stop them from casting their light, There's always something to glow about, though at times our light seems to be hidden. Our daughter is not as sick as she seemed. She'S sicker. Unglow. But my sister, and all her aunts , and Earl Munroe of London, Ont., with whose sister Jean I was madly in loee in Grade 6, and Mrs. Rhoda Beal of Weyburn, Sask., have writ- ten or called, to express their_alarm and concern. And one of her old teachers, and a neighbor, both sent her a rose. glow. And Kim feels great one day, and full of beans and plans and smiles. Glow. And that, very evening she's completely pooped and Utterly depressed. Unglow. And my wife, after,20 years of wor- rying and sweating about the kids (unglow5 because they don't have any life Insurance, has finally decided that it's high time she started worrying and sweating about me. Glow. • There are all sorts of things to turn off and on about, besides belated Christmas tree lights. There's the state of your health, for example. If you can get along on anything less than all fours, you're in business. Ask any arthritic. There's the state of your mind. If _you have an IQ of.80, relax. It's probably higher than any mark 'you ever got in school. If you have an IQ of 150, relax. Who needs it in this push-button world? • , And then there's your spiritual life. If you believe that God saw the little sparrow fall, ^bully for you. And if you wonder why He didn't do something about it, you've got plenty of company. ' And, of course, there's pollution, the poor man's CoMmunism. It's the capital- ism of the 1970s. Everybody is against it. Except the big industries and the hydro and government and the tow that wants a new industry at any cost. No-glow. And there's inflation. This,oroduces very definite glow, especially among the middle class. Some of them are glowing so .brightly they're 'apt to blow a fuse. But there's always the Just Society. • Just what, and just where, and just when, have yet to be resolved, but there's no' question that we bin e dust Society, Just as long as you re in the $20,000462 " M po,coo bracket. No, definitely, glow;.( We all glow occasionally. Let's try to glow-a little brighter. But anybody who glows all, the time should take a cold shower, Sometimes my wife is sad. Sometimes She is wonderful. And sometimes she just plain glows. That's the best. Try. it. that I have used it myself since that time. If I suspect that someone is just being nice- I quickly , explain that I *ill not be offended if I don't get an invitation to the house. Just because we are neighbors or just because we have been caught for one evening in the same circle of friends, (I use that term loosely) we• do nothave to labor the relationship with a social date that neither of us •will 'enjoy. • I would have avoided being snubbed by the folks in the cartoon who lied their:way out of a situation which needn't have arisen in the first place. I think that's wiser than the game of I'll-be-nice-if4t-is-con- venient that so many' socially acceptable.._ men and women are playing these days. • • • 0 0 a _ — Maple Syrup Time Is Near. This little girl, holding out her plate for maple syrup, may have to wait a:long time before any comes down from the tree. Although she knows she loves the sweet syrup on her pancake's, she may not know some other interesting facts about Ontario maple syrup, one of which is that the tree produces raw sap that becomes maple syrup only after highly sophisticated machinery has properly processed it. Of the seven different maple varieties in Ontario, only two produce the right type of sap for syrup: rock or sugar maple and the similar black maple. These two varieties.are exploited in southern Obtario and arolind-the Lakehead. ' Maple sap starts to flow in the tree from late fall onwards., However, trees are tapped in the late winter when the flow' of sap greatly increases. The-greatest flow usually occurs when mild weather is preceded by a cold snap. A small hole is' drilled -into the maple tree and sap flows through nozzle shaped spiles into buckets or pails or may even travel through a series of plastic pipelines before being stored for "boiling down''. Knowing how and when to tap requires great skill and experts are necessary to do the job correctly. No dirt or ••organisms must be allowed into the sap. ,They may discolor and lower the quality of the finished product. The sugar content of the sap is very importa.nt. A three percent sugar content produces good syrup; yet it takes 29 gallons of such sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. Sap gathering ends once the maple buds on the trees start to swell. Once stored, the sap is kept fresh with, ultra violet light. Oil or wood heated evaporators then boil off much of the water. It becomes darker, thicker and is finished-to a correct sugar density. Syrup is then bottled or packaged at 180 degrees F to make it sterile.' So, sadly, this little girl won't find maple syrup- dripping straight from the tree:It takes time, money and Machinery—but the end product makes the waiting well worthwhile. 'Photographed by Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. • FROM MY WINDOW By Shirley Kellar' , • , Since they were introduced to, public use some years ago disposable glass bottles have been the subject of much criticism. The bottles were hailed as a boon by some soft drink manufacturers who saw convenience and savings in being reliev- ed of the task of accounting for the long established returnable bottle. It soon became apparent, to the public at least, that any economy was more than offset by the danger and damage the throw-away bottles left in their wake. Murray Gaunt, Huron MPP drew at- tention to' the dangers in a speech in the Legislature a few days ago and sug- gested a solution. Recounting the trail of trouble which the ,throw-aways left in damaged tires, in injury 'to bathers and to children as users tossed them aside on beaches, in parks and along highways, 'Mr. Gaunt „suggested a tax on each bottle • as a means of control. He urged the Ito- Nelkspapers "tell it like it is,"ito use • a modirn solecism. Some say there is not enough good news. We challenge 'anybody to read any weekly newspaper and say that un- blushingly. Nor will it hold water where most dailies are concerned. As for violence and crime, they too are news. And they happen. to be Plen- tiful nowadays. The dirt of life cannot be swept under the rug of silence. Put- ting, the light on what is happening is the best way to correct, it.. Many of -the critics of the press would know nothing about matters which have been brought to light if the press had not been alert and. publicized them. To the Editor No Reason • Sir: Asa member of the Canadian Assoc- iation for Humane Trapping I would like to draw to the attention, of your readers the horrible suffering that is being in:- •flicted .on'fur-bearing animals in this province and all across Canada. 1. am, referring to the barbaric and atrocious leg-hold trap, which holds it's victim by the paw until the animal dies , either of starvation or freezing. An animal is in . many eases trapped up to a period of.two weeks. Sometimes even succeeds in chew- Express .Thanks Please find enclosed cOpy of, "The Updater" which is distributed to our local committees across Ontario. One of the purposes of this issue was to advise our people on the excellent cooperation we receive from Ontario newspapers. I would like to take this Opportunity to thank you and your staff for coverage on our behalf during the year. Being disabled myself, (as many of our staff are), I feel very strongly about the role volunteer organizations can play in creating an environment where the disabled have an opportunity to help them- selves. The Ability Fund's purpose is exactly this. Every' year our canvassers invariably miss people who would like to make a donation to our cause. Your help in reaching-'them would be invaluable, and if they would like to send their donation in care of 'myself at the address below, a receipt Will be issued by return mall. Un- fOrtunately many of our campaigns across the province this year either ran into "flu epidemics", inclement Weather, or botha. • Thus your assistance would be More appreciated than ever. • -Again many thanks, Sincerely yours, John E. Meyers, Campaign Director, The Ability Fund (March of Dimes), 12 OVerlea- Boulevard, , Toronto 354. harts Government to implement a tax of five or six cents on each no-deposit, no-return type of glass bottle in an ef- fort'to encourage the use of the return- able type instead. Recognizing that the tax suggestion ,was an expediate to provide immediate relief, Mr. Gaunt suggested the glass industry should look ahead. The indus- try should seek to develop a bottle that would disintegrate when there no long- er was a requirement for it and thus completely avoid the problem of broken glass. ' To those who, week after week, parti- cularly during the summer months, have been faced with a clutter of smash- ed bottles on lawns and sidewalkg, who have had tires ruined by jagged glass or who have seen children, and adults too, cut and bleeding after stepping on glass, will support Mr. Gaunt in his plea. It's time the industry acted to remove what has become a serious men- ace. As for governments, their a,ctilions must be subject to scrutiny if tyrahny and injustice are to lie avoided. Arbi- , trary power fattens on lack of publidi- ty and exposure to criticism. The press must bring to light the hid- 'den things despite all the,tendencies tO - Secret meetings and news by sterilized press release. TrOth is what we exist for, and we intist‘Say it, no matter on whose toes treads. The balance between "good" and "bad" news in Canadian papers is about -the balance between good arid bad in life. • How else could it be, since •newspap- ers merely reflect what is going on? --f St. Marys Journal-Argus). for Cruelty ing off it's own paw and crawls away to die. There are. Humane traps available to trappers now, and more research is in progress to develop others. I urge people to please write to their Members . of -Parliament urging them to investigate legislation to outlaw these leg-hold traps as soon as possible, The Canadian Governments must be made to outlaw this crime against' our fur-bearing_ creatures. There' is no valid reason for such unnecessary cruelty and absolutely no reason for our Governments to be so far behind other countries which have abolished leg-hold traps many years ago. J. 13 1X, • Fine-h-, Ontario. Seek Graduate Sir: St. John's-Ravenscourt School in Fort Garry, one of the oldest English-speaking schools in Canada and by far the oldest iii- the West, this year celebrates its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. To our knowledge none of its alumni is so ancient but just who is our oldest living graduate we do not know. Through your help we may be able to find him', The school dates . back to 1820 when the Rev. John West of the Church Mis- sionary Society built a log ( house, on the banks f the Red River to educate aban- doned or orphaned Indian boys. Three years later it became a boarding school add with the Indian youngsters were ming- led the sons of Selkirk settlers and of Hudecin's Bay Company factors and traders who wanted their sons educated in the North West. , In1060, St. John's was joined by .,. , Ravenscourt. Perhaps our eldest living alumnus is among your readers - or perhaps ohs bf your readers might direct us to him. • . your help will be much appreciated. H.John P. Sehaffter ,, Headmaster, South Drive,Port Garry, Winnipeg 19, Manitoba. They Tell it 'Like it is'