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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, April 9, 1970
Road Disruption Can Be Eased
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"Breath of Spring" Is Popular
Prsentation at §pIiiS
FROM MY WINDOW
Kellar
neighborhood thinks he knows what has
happened to the Keller's refrigerator.
Next, the children took sick. Yes, the
awful of ailment that leaves vomit all
over the sheets and the bathroom floor
(just recently carpeted) and' demands
nothing at all to eat but plenty to drink -
like orange juice and gingerale and choc-
olate milk of which there is never any in
the house when you really need it.
And there was a snow storm. Well, I
knew something was going to happen the
moment my husband showed me the win-
dows he had cleaned.
This particular snowstorm Erippled
everything in our town, including my hus-
band's car. It wasn't only the embarras-
sment of having the only car on the lot that
wouldn't start. It was the hurt of knowing
that only two weeks ago he bad given the
mechanic a fist full of dollars to make
certain that the car would start under all
circumstances. It was like finding out that
a wife you thought was faithful was actually
having an affair with the ice man...
absolutely crushing.
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And there were oth i k,•61111;ngs too- like
the day our youngest ved the sink
strainer arid ping and used a small rubber
ball to replace it. Or watching helplessly
as a favorite picture slips from its place
on the wall to a heap of broken glass and
damaged frame On the floor.
Our: milkman had a word of cheer.
"hints are bound to be better tomorrow,"
he Mphesied. I'm • sure he's right. To- •
morrow is a brand new week and our dif-
ficulties always seem to come in seven-
day Cycle's. Praise be.
By Shirley
It has been another of those hellish
weeks at the Keller household. Every so
often we seem to get these kind& weeks -
weeks when nothing at all seems to go
right.
Father started things off by nicking
the car - just the chrome, mind you, but
nevertheless, the car is nicked. You would
have to know my husband's feelings toward
his precious automobile to understand just
how it has affected him.
He goes around the car, rather soberly,
looldiatat all the spots that are untouched
- and when he comes to the dented chrome,
he gets this faraway look in his eyes. Then
he kicks the tire With a bit of frustrated
affection and shakes his head as much as
to say, "Why me? Why did it have to happen
to me?"
Then the refrigerator died. It was a
quick painless demise I'm happy to report.
When I left for work 'tithe morning, it was
well and_alive. Upon my arrival home, the
ice cream was dissolved and the poor
electrictd 'beast was gasping Its last.
.We called the refrigerator repairman.
He came and checked the wretched ma-
chine: Pe confirmed our fears. Only a trip
to big city would tielp now. The ambulance,
a big truck, !raided our refrigerator off.
"Wu kidlike* watching a member of
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.the family being taken off to the hospital,"
thane& aloud.
414What• Are those men doing with our
Miked art y fonr-year
. reRoste0eleg it," I told
11 Worry him with the
It. HOW eretynne in the
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To the Editor
Offer Aid in
Appealing Decision
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Anyone who has-had occasion to tra-
vel through Listowel in recent months
will have sympathy for those who lam-
ent the, at tinies, almost impossible con-
dition of detours in that town.
Motorists moving west or east along .
Highway .,86 have no alternative to the
bumps and hollows and pitch holes that
characterize the streets.
True, a. certain disruption is inevi-
table in any major construction pro-
gram such as is underway in Listowel
and involving main roads in a munici-
pality. But, as was shown so well in
•Seaforth, which also was involved in a,
major program. for several months last
year; if those responsible for the pro-
ject co-operate and have an .apprecia-
tion for the public welfare the disrup-
tion and inconvenience can be held to
a minimum.
The Listowel Banner in describing
the situation in that town indicates
what could have happened here had
thbse concerned adopted a don't care
attitude. •
This is the problem in Listowel as the
Banner sees it: —
What is middle age? If you're in
your teens, anybody over 30 is in that
category. -If you're in your 30s, it's
anybody over 45. At 45, it's people in
their 50$. And if you're a hale and hearty
63, you just might admit, in a weak
moment, that you classify as middle-
aged.'
What it is, of course, is a state of
mind. Some people are middle-aged in
their 20s, and others are young in their
70s. Or it's a time of year.I am extreme-
ly middled-aged in April and November,
and I'm sure you are, too.
Right now I'm middle-aged or dideri
The snow hasn't quite gone from the
shaded corners. Mud is ubiquitous. The
curling season is over and the golf and
fishing haven't begun. There is no real
promise of spring, except that my winter
boots are leaking, always a good sign-
There's nothing. to do but try to Mist
through this hiatus. And one of the best
ways to make it possible is to think
about how young you will be in July.
I can seemyself now, at the beach.
Take off the stinglasses. Stand up to my
full height of five-foot-eight. And a half.
Suck in the flab. Saunter to water's edge,
glancing nonchalantly at bikinis, rumps arid
bosoms. Stride straight in. Swim like a
,paddlewheeler for 20 yards. Pretend to
float on back while regaining wind.Stride
out, tall, clean, brovnf, and not a day over
31. •
of sun and grass. Flex muscles omin-
ously. Three perfect swings that would
make Arnold Palmer green. Step up
to ball, ignoring admiring, awed looks of
women. Zock! Straight down the fairway,
120 yards in flight and a 10-foot roll.
Not a day over 28.
Or on the first tee. Eight a.m. Smell
Getting younger every minute. Let's
try the fishing. Drive to special spot with
friend who knows where the big ones are.
Fight through swamp and' slash to dark,
brooding nool behind beaver dam. Lie down
"Why town authorities have allowed
the sewer contractor to leave the street
in such a complete mess is only a mat-
ter of conjecture. However, if reports
of 'squabbling in council committee
meetings over the subject are correct,
it is blasted ,well high time that the
men who have been elected to look out
for the welfare of the community took
their responsibilities seriously and got
down to the nitty-gritty of doing that
job.
"In no way can council abrogate its
responsibility for the mess that-is nam-
ed Elma St. It, may, well be that it is
the contractor who has to foot the bill,
but it is , for sure that no money will be
speht to improve the situation unless
our elected representatives get off their
hunkers and force the issue.
"There is more at stake than just the
discomfort of car and truck drivers:,
There is the very real decline in busi-
ness coming into the community be-
cause rural people will not drive to Lis-
towel after having nearly lost their
vehicles in the , wheel-devouring pot
holes of.the detour."
on beaver dam till muscles stop jerking.
Bait hook with worm. No flies.. They're
for. snobs. Casually, and beautifully, toss
worm just about sunken log. Not sunk deep
enough. Hooked. Break line. Swear a little.
On next toss, caught in willows. Swear a
little more. On thirthtoss, third hook, tie
into a real tiger. At least eight inches.
Feel not. a day over 25; '
See? It's all in the mind. I can
forget that my wife is nagging about
cleaning up the cellar, that my kids are
permanent • pains in the posterior, and
`that another birthday is crawling toward
me remorselessly.
Another . trick that works is to get
out the old pictures. There's the fighter
pilot, with handlebar moustache, the
deadly, whimsical, lifted eyebrow that used
to slay the WAAFS, and the cocky look of
a kid who can never be killed, grow old,
• or get married.
There's the football picture..
Smiley, h.b." That means halfback, not
half baked. Close my eyes and I can feel
the clean smack of the ball into my
hands as I leap for a high pass. And
drop it. Not a day over 19.
Now, don't carry this to extremes.
Don't get out your baby pictures, or the
one of your Sunday School class. You'll
weep at your lost innocence and sob over
yOur smeared purity. Like everything else.
the cure for middle-agedness should
be taken- in moderation.
But take it. In the cold, dull damp of
April in Canada, we all need something
to prevent us from going mad. Neither ,
booze nor barbiturates will help. Just
think young.
Ive lost at least 20 years just writing
this column. I'm not even afraid to go
and look in the mirror. I know that be-
hind those dewlaps, that gaunt and har-
assed look, lies a light-hearted youth of
not more than 24. A smile and the wrin-
kles turn up, instead of down. A wink,
and I'm ready to , go out , on the town.
The story ' carried in the Huron
EXpositor about the assessment reduction
granted by 'a Huron County court is by
implication most unfair to the hog producer
mentioned.
The location of the hog barn from the
plaintiff's. premises is well beyond the
very careftilly considered distances con-
tained in th' new Code of Practice . as
developed by the joint ,efforts of the
Ontario Water Resources Commission,
the Air Management Branch and the Ont-
ario Department of Agriculture and Food.
In addition, the McGregors have complied
fully with other criteria in the Code of
Practice and with local health authorities.
The McGregors, . like farmers
generally, are prepared to accept their
responsibility in 'keeping air and water
pollution to reasonable levels. 'If this
award for relief from taxes becomes a
precedent, it means that any taxpayer can
challenge the whole assessment structure
by alleging his property is devalued be-
cause of a real, ^transitory or imagined
odour. The source _Could be five miles
away and it could be any number of in-
dustries besides farming, e. g. - meat
packing, cheMical, tannery, pulp mill,
etc.
It would be wonderful to !Ave ,in a
country which was as fresh as a seabreeze
all the time but people seem to need jobs
and all the money that comes from the
productivity of those people , willing to
endure the risk of operating a business
and applying the effort needed.
We are supporting the Federation of
Agriculture to press for an appeal of this
ruling and to urge the Ontario government
to provide reasonable assurances that
-farmers can carry on' an already risk
loaded business without harassment and
uncertain guidelines.
Yours sincerely,
C.James Boynton,
Secretary-Manager,
Ontario Hog ProducerS1 Association,
4198 Dundas Street West,
Toronto 18, Ontario. '
April 6, 1970.
In the
Years Agone
APRIL 12, 1895.
The auction sale of Thomas Fowler,-
in Tuckersmith, was most successful.
Notwithstanding the bad state of the
roads there was a good attendance and
bidding was brisk. J. P. Brine, the vet-
eran auctioneer wielded the hammer.
p. Wilson, has sold the east Mun-
dell farm in Tuckersmith to. Joseph At-
kinson for the sum of $4,350.
John Crich, of -ruckersmith, who is
over '70 years of age- began to plough
on the eighth of this month and worked
at it all morning but had to stop on ac-•
count of the frost.
The Brucefield Cheese Manufacturing
Company , let the contract for their new
cheese factory to Mr. Cudmore of Hen-
s,a11,, for $1,060. It will be erected in
Mr. - Mustard's field on the London Road,
It is to be brick 30 x 60 feet long.
John Stephenson, of the Goshen Line,
Stanley, has 'among his flock some very
prolific sheep. Recently three sheep gave
birth to 11 lambs.
Main Street has been thoroughly
scraped and• now the road is drying up
nicely.
John F. Daly of town has disposed
of his driver to Mr. Wallace of Coder-
ich of Goderich Township.
APRIL 9, 192.0.
Many of the farmers in the vicinity
f Cromarty are availing- themselves of
the opportunity of making maple syrup
this spring.
. Geo Petty, reeve of Hensall, has rented
the Yorkshire Packing House to the
Steele Briggs Co. for a term of years.
Chas. A. McDonell of Hensall, while
cranking an auto in Toronto had the mis-
fortune to get his arm sprained.
All that remains _of the blacksmith
shop at Beechwood, which was erected
here many years ago, is a heap of bricks.
Thos. Ryan has purchased the lumber,
which he intends using for the erection
of a driving shed. •
Seaforth Agricultural Society held their
annual spring fair and the large- crowd
that attended were fully repaid in the
quantity of exhibits.
Daniel McGregor, for seventeen years
a prominent resident of Seaforth f passed
away recently. He was born in Scotland
and came to Canada in 1848.
APRIL 13, 1945.
At a nominating convention in Hensall
to select a candidate to contest the riding
of Huron in the forthcoming Provinefal
election, James Ballantyne, Osborne
farmer was the convention choice.
The official bathing season at the
Lions Park was opened when Marcel
Coulter, an employee of the Excellence
Flour Mills, took the plunge into the deep
pool and pronounced the water fine, but
cool. "
Jkrnes Broadfoot of Hensall, went fish-
ing this week at St. Joseph's and Caught
a pike 52 inches longs
Miss Belle camiihell and Mrs. W.J.
,'"rhompson are in Toronto this week at-
' tending the Provincial meeting of the
Word was, receiied by Mr. and Mrs
Prank S. Sills that their son Sgt: Prank
Sills, who has been, Overseas for the
past four years and whiff nerved in Africa
and Italy, had arrived in Canada. He is
accompanied by mrig, Ma. •
The foundation' for a barge extension
to the W.J. Duncan shoe factory has been
completed.
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by Bill Smiley