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The Huron Expositor, 1970-04-02, Page 225 :44 1'4* ON CLASSIFIED ADS bar • PAYING CASH before 6, p.m. SATURDAY the week of publication • • "I know it sounds square but I think a married man ' should wear a wedding ring!" . 4 I / ht uron sExpositor 1 WENT TeiliFORMATIOi4 CANADA' AND DinTOLD ME TO COME HERE! • Since' 1860,, serer the Cgronunfty Fire RObitoked at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every TliarSay morning by McLEAN BROS„ Publiabers 1.14, ANDREW Yi MCLEAN, Editor Member Canadian+ Weekly Nee epayer Association Ontario- Weekly Newspaper Association ' and Audit Ne Bureau 01 Circulation Subscri wspa ption pen Itates: 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 0888 In the Years Agone • ClOr• Shoplifting is something that those of us in the smaller communities regard as being related to large cities, to de- partment stores a:nd supermarkets. But not any more. Seaforth merch- ants' for some time now have realized that the size of the town or the size of the store means nothing when it comes to shoplifting as. they discover day by day the items that are being rejnoved from their shelves. The thieves — and of ,course they are thieves — who take part in the practise may do it for kicks or because its smart but little do they realize the life long mark they are placing opposite their names. • The Mankato (Minn.) Free Press puts it this way : "I found shoplifting fun, easy, and a big. thrill — besides, the store will nev- er miss it'wi'th •all that merchandise it has. And 'if I get caught, (but I won't) my parents will take care of it for me. "Well, IAid get Caught, and my par- ents did take care of it. Dad spent our• vacation money paying fines and mak- ing 'restitution to the stores where I stole from. "Now I have a record. Big.deal: What is a little thing like that going to mat- ter? "Well, now I am out of school, and I was a good student and got good grades. Now I'm going to find a good Somebody ought to do something,about Easter. "It's , much too flexible. It's' supposed to be a time of rebirth, and re- Joking. But you can't really be swept away by a feeling of, rebirth and new life when there is still a foot of snow on the ground and the wind cuts to the marrow. Sometimes Easter is hi March, and the weather is beautiful. Sometimes it's in April and the weather is horrible. I don't know 'how the date is determined, any more than I know how to fix loose door knobs, how to get outboard, motors going when they stop, what to do when a woman weeps, or how to play midwife to a cat. I'm not knocking Easter. I like it. I love the sackcloth and ashes feeling, and the gloomy dirges of Good Friday, 'when even the pubs are closed. And there is a joy and triumph in the Easter Sunday hymns that can't •be surpassed, I think even by the Christmas carols. Easter is 'also one of the days that keeps many of our churches from be- . coming extinct. Some primitive inst- inct brings out the Wayward, the fallen, the sinners, and the Easter Sunday col- lection is the best of the year. you meet, old church friends you haven't seen for a year. And won't for another. This year, we were sent a Manif- estation.' No, it wasn't rrom the De- partment of National Revenue, although it is pretty good at providing such things. To The Editor Says Thanks Sir: • Heart ,Month In Canada is now over, and on behalf of the Canadian Heart Fund, Ontario Division, please accept our sincerest appreciation for your co-op- eration and assistance during our finan- cial campaign in February. our objective this year tras$1,000,000, and although all returns are not in as yet, We are quite hopeful that our objec- tive will tie attained - maybe surpassed. Without your willing co-operation in communicating our needs to the public, the 'Canadian Heart Fund _ Would not able to express such an outlook: Heart disease is everyone'S problem - ,• and again our thanks for helping us bring to the 'public attention that - research shOuld, be everyone's restionsibility. OntariO,Heart Foundation, • (14ligg)E8ther M.Riehards March 20,1970 DirectOt of Public • , HelatiOns job. That should be no problem —r I have a degree. "The employment. application at the first. place I went asked if I'd ever been arrested for a crime. But that was a long time ago and I've changed since that happened. "I was wrong, That little act of shop- lifting on my record means that I can't have: I. Any job that requires Bonding by an insurance company; Banking, book- keeping, cashier, checkout girl, 'some places not even being a itockboy. 2. Civil service jobs_--- at any level, county or 'town. 3. Armed 'services: Not too much chance for a comniission or any posi- tion that requires a security check or clearance. 4, Real 'estate broker." NO& — nope -- not that. ' 5. Lawyer,-- ,No, again. 6. Military academy — No, can't go there either.' 7. Certified public accountant -- No,, can't go there 'either. "These are only seven areas, but the EA is getting longer — and once you get a job, the advancements aren't into the real top positions. There always seems to be something about a record of something that happened a long time ago. That store wasn't robbed of something — I was." We had a birth in the family, and' i•.ere privileged to witness the blessed event, an experience which must, con- vince the most hardened cynic that God does see the little sparrow fall. Our kitten had a baby. This may seem a contradiction in terms, but she is a bare adolescent,, yet she managed to produce, with great yowling labor pains, one tiny kitten. I didn't think cats had labor pains, but she did. • Now, I haven't any use for cats, but I was fascinated by the' whole pro- cedure. We knew she , was pregnant; Of course. But lady cats, just like lady women, are rather unpredictable •about the exact day, or even week, of the • great momeet Vie had begun to act a trifle odd, it's true,, prowling -the house looking for the most inconvenient possible place to lay her eggs. We caught her twice' in the fireplace, caging the joint. Hat I thought it was at least a week away. She was so spry. When we put her out, she would leap nimbly onto as-window sill and sit there glaring malevolently at friendly tomcats come to visit, or, alter- nately, at us through the window. I got home foi lunch, from a Sat- urday bonspiel, and was chatting with my wife in the Hiring room, boring her with the shots 1 had almost made. Pip was sitting on the best chaliN, in the room. She was acting in a ratty pe- culiar fashion, stretching her gs in all directions. I remarked on it. My wife agreed and went over to look at her. BLAM1 Too late. The water sac, or whatever, had burst all over the brocaded upholstery. With one fell swoop, I snatched her up and deposited her on a blanket, and bingo, she popped a kitten - something resembling a tiny, dead dinosaur. Child- bride, though she was, pip's instinct worked and she licked and licked until the infant's heart began to beat. Isn't it remarkable how a cat will clean up the entire mess, leaving her offspring sleek and shining? And isn't it amazing how a mere chick of a kitten, by the act, of giving.-birth, turns Into a complacent, maid-eyed, smug mother, nursing by the hour with her motor going on all cyllnders? We were as delighted as she was, and 'had a. glimmer of that feeling grand- parents must have when the first grand- child arrives. What • really shook me, though, as my wife's reactien.Normal- ly, if anyone drops so much as a crumb, a bit of ash, or a drop -of coffee on her precious furniture', all hell breaks lOose. And there's her good chair, with a great stain On it, and she tosses it off as nothing. She became all" soft and motherly and was heating milk and tucking In the kitten and lifting it on her hand to look, with the inevitable accident. APRIL 6, 1945' Rev. Douglas H. Stewart, sell of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stewart, of Seaforth, who has been Minister of St. Andrew's•Church, Edmonton, has accepted a call to Queen, Street East Presbyterian Church, Toronto. This, is the oldest church east of the Don River. Last week it was the goose that laid the egg, this week it is a white Leghorn hen,' owned by. Syd, Gemmell of Tucker- smith, that provides an egg of first, page note. The egg, brought into 1. Hudson's, egg grading station, Measured 7 3/4 X s 3/4 ". Hensali Fire Brigade' had a hurried' call to a fire which' broke out in the I.O.O.F.Hall on Main Street over the hydro shop. Children saw the flames coming from the rear windows and 'gave , • the alarm. John A. McKenzie, who owns and operates 200 acres o:. concession 4, Tuckersmfth, started threshing rather early this year, when on Good Friday Reeve Arthur Nicholson threshed oats and beans on the McKenzie farm. Peter McKenzie of Tuckersmith has purchased the 150 acre farm of the late. D. Fotheringham and taken possession. Production is being aided consider- ably in the sheep business in McKilion • when,quadruplets, triplets and twins were born on the farm of Fred' Beuerman. They have nine lambs from three sheep,. • Triplets, were alairx born on ithe farm -of ‹I(Oehler. APRIL, 2, 1920. A nine months old steer, weighing• 830 lbs., and fed by Whbur Turnbull of Grey Township and marketed through the United Farmers Co-operative,topped 'he Toronto market at $15 1/4 per cwt. The icd at Hayfield has pretty well disappeared and the fishermen are busy 'preparing their nets for the season. It is seldom that the ice leaves and the , river cleared so early. B. Brownlee , is now the new' pOst- master for Kippen and the office Is being placed in Brownlee's store. Clarence Munn of Hensel has taken a position with Eionthron• and Drysdale • hardware merchants. Montgomery Davis has purchased the residence of W. R., Sm Met on Market Street. -Since disposing af his farni Mr. Davis has been living in Egmondville. • A large addition is being erected to the rear of the U.F.O. store on Main Street. G. T. Turnbull of mcKillop disposed of his farm on the 2nd, concession to 'Geo. Aberhart otTuckerstnith. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gordon of Eg- mondville have purchased Mr. McWil- liams property in Roxboro and expect to move next week. Mrs. W. Sinclair of Egmondville, met with what might have been a serious accident when she fell into the ' 'cellar and fractured several ribs and is othera wise badly shaken up. Fidelity Lodge of Oddfellows, cele, brated the 50th anniversary of the organ- ization. After the work in the lodge a banquet was held at ‘•hich ex-mayor. J. A. Stewart, presided. H.R.Scott pro- posed a toast to the Grand Lodge. Two weeks ago there was good sleigh- ing, one week ago the roads north of Seaforth were impassabn , but today, the roads are in excellent condition. APRIL. 5, 1895. Every week applications are being received .for the position of caretaker and matron for the Huron County House of Refuge and industrial farm. The other day while A. MeBeath of Stanley,' was getting out sometimber in the bush, a chain caught him, throw- ing him forcibly against a stump and severely spraining his legs. "Great. activity has been displayed in the parse market in town during vieek and several large ,shipinents have been made. At one time the dealers had over 300 horses in the stables here. John Hart, who has worktid for Several years in the blacktinith establishment left for Brucefield, where he has pun- chased the business of Mr. popook. Notwithstanding dull times and scarcity of money, the merchants of Seaforth made an excellent .display at the mil,: linery' openings. All the•show rooms were nicely draped with silks, laces and rib- bons! and beautifully decorated with flowers and ornaments: The first robin of the season made its appearance on Sunday. A, very peculiar and unusual phen- omenn occurred in town on Monday in what- appeared to be a shower of black snow. • in a sheltered nook 'in a Harpurhey garden. These are the earliest open air . spring flowers we have heard of. . The Walton Presbyterian Church, having decided to put in an organ, have given,.an order to Messrs. Scott Brothel's:, ' ' Shortly after dark, Mrs. Jamos Da- vidson" of Leadbury had occasion to go to thb barn yard, where she saw a light in the building occupied by the geese. She immediately aroused the household and they found a fellow in the act of carry- ing away a goose and a gander. He dropped his plunder and took to his heels. FROM MY • W•INDOW -By Shirley Kellar Canadian politics took a turn for the worse recently when the Prime Minister • of Canada and Michel Chartrand of Mon- treal exchanged verbal punches in the corridor of the Parliament Buildings. Like many other Canadians, the Quebec labor leader seems to have very strong feelings about the Trudeau government. Unlike most other Canadians, Mr. Char- trend doesn't mind putting his. feelings into wards, sharp distasteful avordS. It wasn't so much that Mr: Chartrand ' attacked the primeminiSter with ehargek that were somewhat off-base. The whole incident was particularly° ugly to me because Mr: Chartrand chOde taaise such vulgar langUage to illustrate his beef with the Canadian'government. ,.I wonder just what sympathy Mr. Chartrand 'hoped to gain for his cause . (whatever' that may be) by, such a re- gretable outburst. To liken the Canad- ian government to a pack of 'whores is: the most sickening comparison imagio- able and to label the prime minister "a Christ of a liar" shows the most deplor- able lack of plain good sense. Mr. Chartrand's Confrontation with ,Pierre Elliott Trudeau is proof ppsitive for many' Canadians who are already Weary of the Quebec Separatists' move- ment, that some French-Canadians are truly fanatical. ' I doubt whether many English-speak- ing Canadians were warmed by , Mr. Chartrand's eloquent oratory and I sus- pect. that Trudeau's image was strangely strengthened by the cool control the , prime- minister displayed' in the face of it all. Yes sir, it was more points for Pierre Elliott TrudeaU (as u he really needed them). • Of coursORPET isn't beyond the emot- ion of anger. Anyone who has ever seen him an television knows that Trudeau has the amazing ability to curb his tongue and to say just the right thing at just the right time. yet it is very evident that the prime minister seethes inwardly with quiet displeasure at 'certain suggestions. -His eyes glisten and his, wits seem to sharpen with the more anger he feels. Maybe it is this terribly human, yet surprisingly saintly quality that ,has en- deared Trudeau- to even the people who are unhappy with the Liberal regime. It seems to me that although many Canadians are not solid. Trudeau fans, they cannot help but be impressed by his sophisticated self-assuredness. And when Prime Minister Pierre El liott Trudeau wheeled around to 'face Mr. Chartrand in the hallowed halls of the Ottawa House, insisting he -didn't need anyone to protect him from the irate labor leader, feviCanadians could possibly doubt that if Trudeau and Chartrand had actually squared off, PET would have come Off victorious. He's just that kind of a fellow. It would be the , understatement of the century to say that Pierre Elliott Trudeau is the Most °getting Prime Minis- ter Canada has had in quite some time. A near boxing match it the Rouse of Commons? With the prime minister the Superior- contender? Who ever heard of such a thing? If PET ever retires to Write his memoirs, that's one book I want to" read. The Big Oil, Hasse one heck of a lot of oil. It Washington announcement early ports to the ,U.S., would be limi- relative neophite to the inter- national oil situation - not an ramifications - -that sounded, like insider who understands all the time Parliament, recessed for the dian resources particularly oil. questiop to the fore was the in March that Canadian oil im- ted to 395,000 barrels a day. kept hammering away at the Go- vernment on the subject of Cana- Easter holidays, ,the Opposition . OTTAWA Right up until the Now, to a fellow who's a What brought the-resources from independent producer wells gobbling up most of that Cana- dian oil, can't get their raw material fin anywhere else - in the States don't exist in suffi- that will stick. The U,S. refi- simply because the pipelines this is an off-presidency elec- can dam a lot of cabbage into the party minim* pot, U they nadian oil. - tremely knowledgeable Alberta MP' explained to me, is not one neries in the mid-West that are tion year and the oil producers wish. Hence, they limited Ca- ington early this year, because The limitation, as one, ex, cient numbers. turned out, though, that before Many U.S. refineries near the U.S, • set that quota, in Ja- the border have based their bust- 6 nuary and February, Canada,had ness on the refining of Cana- been shipping abeut 900,900 bar- dian crude oil. Without 'it, they rels 'a day to U.S. refineries?, ,, go'out of business. The U.S. makes quite a Ws-- ' Hence, according to my ex- tinction over oil, shipped from pert MP, the U.S. quota on Ca- foreign sources, depending on ..nadian oil is bound to be ex-where that foreign oil Is heading. If it's going to be refined- west' ceeded by about 90,000 barrels a day on a year-round average. 6 of the Rockies, they don't worry Projections by oil experts too much about that, be cause show that the U1S: consumption the small U.S. oil producers in of oil is rising so dramatically the mide-West find it's not eco- that very soon - within 15 years nomic to pump the stuff via - the U.S. will reach the limit pipeline over the mountains. of industrial expansttitt, as that We ship 250,000 barrels daily expansion depends upon petro- to the U.S. west of the Rockies, the .area known as U.S. Region leum products. /a U.S. demand ig increasing at Five. Regions ope to four are the the rate .of 500,000 barrels per, ones the States worries about. day every year. They axe the south, the mid- There is insufficient oil. in the U.S. - including the huge oil West, and the middle eastern field now under development 'at districts. Prudhoe Bay, Alaska - to provide The price' of oil in the U.S. for American needs much beyond 4, domestically produced, is fixed 1985. As a result, the U.S. will artificially high, a fact that can be blamed on,- 'or eredited to, inevitably become increasingly (depending on your point of view) mere dependent on, outside . the powerful U.S. Independent sources - primarily Canada. Petroleum Producers' lobby. It wouldnt seem very smart if we agree to supply all the ,oil Working counter fo the-force the' U.S. needs in raw form. • of that lobby is the Washington What Energy Minister Jr J. desire to keep domestic pr'o- Greene should be doing is hams duction at a reasonable rate, so mering out a particular deal with • that there will be reserves of Washington. U.S. oil around if international , He should be bargaining for trouble ever 'cuts off overseas farther Canadian industrializa T. , supplies. Hon in the petroleum industry;- cansiders any route • so that we can export to the U.S. for oil that isn't under. the, ex not-,the raw crude oil alone, but elusive jurisdiction of the U.S. an' increasing quantity of refined Governement to be 4 ;unsecure", petroleuni products. and so (for national\ security, Perhaps this ,would provide. reasons) it demands 4 4secure an ideal avenue for Canada to oil. begin equalizing the industrial- • The pressure was on Wash- zalion down south. ' SO • • gt• • • " • ••' 4" 4 4 "C" • ;'.1[) 'Intl sill ff ritifienfiii - • "Ella and I have a good arrangement. She handles the purse strings . . • I handle the money!" .SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, April 2, 1970 Who Gets Robbed? • • SUGAR and SPICE • • y by Bill Smiley • • p 4' a • ".