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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-04-23, Page 2With rising school costs attracting increasing attention of taxpayers, ev- ery stikgestion as to ways in which dolt lars can be saved merits careful exam- ination. It? is this concern that prompts the Elmira Signet to suggest real savings can lie in construction costs if a stan- dard design was followed. While we do not necessarily agree either as to the long, term savings or the benefits that could arise, the suggestions certainly are worthy of study. -Separate-- school- taxpayers will be • pleased that the Most recent school building project in the county will not .cost them any money, the Signet says, and goes on:— The contract for the Sir Edgar Bau- er school in Waterloo was- let for an amount less than the maximum that provincial `grants" will pay, and local taxes will t have to provide the us- ual' ten to twenty percent of capital costs. 'The main reasons for the low cost arose from the stateof the economy— there is little construction work to do so bids were more competitive and the school board served notice it was not going to pay exorbitant prices any. more. The first factor will not last long From My — By Shirley It wasn't too long ago that the medical profession -in,the area in- which-1.1ive was noticeably upset by something I wrote concerning the flu bug which was cir- culating this spring. Although I was jesting about the fact that the flu comes annually and is' so obstinate that doctors often simply feel like leaving town for awhile until the disease runs it's course, the doctors felt I was discrediting them .and "making them out to appear foolish. You may or may ,not remember that I apologized because it, had never been my intention to offend anyone, much less the medical men. . Well, life goes on...eiien at the Keller household • where every week I expect' some calamity will, befall us that will put an end to our misery. Last week, that's just_aboet_what did happen, and the family doctor was a mighty good man to know. ' Our youngest son 'became ill. Not the. kinda-half , type of illness that leaVes you wondering whether or not you need a doc- tor but the real high-temperature-just- lay-still kind of 'sickness that leave no' doubt that the services of a medical man are most necessary. I called our family physician about 00' p.m. Saturday to advise him of our child's illness. I was prepared for him. to give me some static on the matter like "I'm not on call this weekend" or "Did you call the hospital to see who is on call?" or "Just give him some aspirins and I'll see him 'on Monday." Now, before you doctors get on your high horses again (my, it is nice to know • that some professional people take time out to read this drivel) you may be interested to knovi that this is the reaction ,.;,some doctors in some centres have tin the face of an emergency. They seem to feel that their leisure time is entirely their own and that if their patients bhoose to get sick when it is inconvenient for their physician, then they Will simply have to find some ther means of coping with the problem. _ At any rate, I'M happy.to say that our To the Editor :• (unless, of 'course, we have a real re- cession) and the second factor was a long time coming. Separate school superintendent John Sweeney's- remarkks indicate the sec- ond, factor might not stay around long either.. He said, "The cost is lower' than the standardized structure (recently pro- posed by a Toronto firm) and we'll have a better building. We won't be looking for standardized components when we can get local prices like this." Maybe in this one instance eager-.for- work local builders beat out a grandiose Toronto proposal, but this is no reason to dismiss standard school design. • is time the previous lessons of school construction were put together . in a sensible design to be revised every few years which is flexible enough to meet -the different needs _of different locations. This would save the time of trustees and officials who shOuld be" spending more effort on the• quality of education as well as saving money for the same pursuit and for the benefit of the tax- payer. With some change in color of mater- ials and landscaping, standard schools need' pot look all the same. They cer- tainly \will not.look any worse than the average modern subdivisifin. Window J. Keller — family doctor didn't react in this manner at ',all. . He was most congenial, much to my surprise. He urged rnetobring our son to him immediately. When he did, see him, he was not-angry as some doctors seem to be when a patient is very ill. He simply ordered that our son be hos- pitalized, prescribed the necessary treat- ment for him and went back to his home to finish whatever it was that he had begun before he was so rudely interrupted. I am indebted . to him. Our son is quite well now' and I am completely con- vinced that our doctor is a man of in- tegrity. That's worth a great deal to me. I understand that a doctor requires time to do as he likes to do. He needs a night off without fear of the telephone • ringing ' or the hospital calling. I know a doctor is 'human with the same likes and dislikes as anyone else. But a doctor is also a very special kind of persori. He is a skilled medicine, man upon whom many, many, people in the community depend. He isn't dealing in metal pipes and plastic drainS like the plumber. He is tending lives, human lives, which may 'mean everything to many people. Unlike , a plumber, 'a dochl:\an't turn his back on trouble until a more convenient hour. A much as he would likeAq tell his patient to go jump in the lake, he must check just to be absolutely certain that everything is right and nothing is seriously wrong. That's the sad bother- some truth about his profession, At 'least, that's the way it used to be - or is supposed to be. Sometimes though, people in need of medical attention on a ' doctor's ',off day" often are left to • wonder whatever became of the family _doctor who really cared about his patients. That's why I was so darned pleased to find that our family doctor was sensitive to our needs that Saturday . eVening. In nay opinion, Our. doctor is a gem who deserves my admiration and respect. In fact, he deserves a special place on rn30-., list of wonderful people to know ... and he has it. I Sir: Because April 19 to 25th is Children's Aid • Week throtighout Ontario, I thought you might be interested in the true story written by-a member of our staff which follows. It is written as though a child' were talking to you. We haVe proVided calendars for Huron County Churches to use Sunday, April 19th. We hope the people of the county will be interested in the information on the-bathef the calendar. We thank the people of Huron County for their interest and loyalty, and Wish them happiness and-success. (Miss) Clare, MeGovian, Local Direetor The Children's Aid Society of Herron C0Untr' A flea alittle-thild. I• am two years old: farlity life has not beers Mira tun. My' „Weide are having a hard tftne right now. baddy does net fitted 1job and there Wft enough : money to go: around. My Mbrility'S nerves,, ;re had'and she soma- times' hits the 'haid,, I have brushes on . body, where tine hit me yesterday. This s Ma ntid't cry' Very S6141101'10 • SEAFORVI, ONTARIO, April 23, 1970 Savings in Building Costs? •••••••••• •••• .•••••••Ir Hugh broke his Can you whistle a Bach prelude and tigue without a memory slip? Can you hum a Beethoven sonato without sliding into falsetto or basso profundo. Darn right you can't. But I can. Almost.. And it cost me.only about $12,000. Troutale is, and this is a touchy point in April„ none of if is deductible..Thatts what it has. cost ine, over 'the years, to provide a musical education for my family. After all that, I can whistle and hum, both of which I could do-before. There's something 'wrong here, but I can't quite' figure opt what it is I wish. I had the 12 G's in, bonds at' eight per cent. But my wife doesn't agree. We could have taken, a trip around the world for that, but she still doesn't agree. -As far as I'm concerned, I could' have taken that $12,000, thrown„it off the end of the dock, and been just as far ahead. Once again, the only one who agrees with • me is I. 'Both my kids hive degrees in piano. Both were talented: Near, but not quite at, the concert 'pianist level. Both eschewed ( I like that word) a career in music, because they wanted to be first. And they wanted to be free. Well, they're free. ,Hugh tie his middle finger, and can play I Went Down To St. James Infirmary, with only a few bum notes. I think Kim could play The Happy „Farmer, with, jip.,:.cpuple of .-1 days' PiaRtWr4P,_.:4 of .But pertiart§'-its— all • peen. worth, it. They've learned something.- Hugh has „realized that, you can't practise the piano when you're waiting table at the Chateau Frontenac' or selling vacuum cleaners in Calgary. And Kim has realized that "her" piano won't quite fit into a three-rootn pad in Toronto, unless you want to sleet) , on top of it. . What, brings all this to mind, and without bitterness. is the fact that niy +OM middle -fing • er 'wife, a former piano teacher, has become hooked once again, after a lapse of a couple of years , on the local music festival. She's going every day and listening intensely to her fortner students..(ThoUgh she's a bit miffed that some of them are doing extremely well, despite the fact that they don't take lessons from her any more.) - But her reports have cheered me. Things are just the Same as they always were. I went through years of .them, and I know the scene intimately. The festival mothers are still as friendly as an R.C. Bishop and a Mormon lay preacher. The adjudicator is--still rotten, giving the first-place certificate to the girl who played worst. Except when it's your daughter, or your pupil. Then he (dr she) shois an insight into music that is superb. The kids are still sailing into their pieces at breakneck speed, which they can't possibly maintain, and breaking down in the middle, while their mothers and teachers turn purple as the youngsters . fumble, and throw up their hands, and burst T intoh o Bseut tears. perhapsthe Old Lady is right. m oments at the music festival, in ether years, were the closest to heaven and hell that I've ever experienced, with the possible exception of shooting at a concentration of German tanks, which were firing back- at you with bigger guns than rvP:M9PPO.)1;Te#174ing for';asffile4k)K9 a dangerously ,loag two minutes wraie.myn son or daughter weaved through a Son- atina. I have gone out afterwards and smoked a complete cigarette in two drags. I have called the adjudicator a slob, a cretin, moron, and, sometimes, a bril- liant judge of music. Maybe the Old Battleaxe is right. Maybe it was worth $12,000. Anywayi can whistle three bars of Tschaichov- sky's something or other. THIS CLASSIFIE AD Got Fast Results! 0 LARGE baby crib, color, blond, inatzeining mattress. In. Ex. tellent condition,,1527-0282. i1.15-1 The Seaforth housewife who placed this ad, sold the baby crib by 9 a.m. Thursday 'morning and then received Four mare calls' before noon. 1%. • That's the kind of response 'you can txpect from an • Since 1860, Serving the .Comtursity Fire, 1414ed, SEAFOBTH, ONTARIO, every 'ThursdaA Morning by McLEAN BROS.. Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLE.I.N. Editor - Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoeiation and' Audit Bureau of Cirtnlation newspapers • ' Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $6.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — /5 CENTS' EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Plan for Childress Aid Week I get hit for crying. I love her, and I cannot understand why she hits me. I really think she loves me. Several people know what's going on. Some of my "friends" know. - Some of my relatives know. The "other day my neighbour saw her hit me. Oh 'how I wish he' would have helped met Instead he just went in the house. If he would only tell, someone who would help my Mommy to be' more ender- standing. I want my. Mommy to love me. Why didn't he help? I guess he doesn't understand. He wants to mind his own business and not become trivol.ved! Ile doesn't knew that if he reports on Mommy that it will ha kept confidential:, He does'n't know that if he reports it that someone will collie and try to help Morality and work with her so that I Can keep on living here Without being •heaten and- abused. ,lfeedoesn't know the guilt he wilt feel if soMething very serious happens to • me. It will be partly his fault. • I can't tell. Even if I &Mid talk couldn't tell. Surely my sad eyes, cry. ping, and my bruises 'say eitotighl Why do ' •I have . to live or die like WO Why tvonot someone help? Years AgQne MARCH g6, 1895 Alex Ellis, of the 14th concession of McKillop, has exchanged his farm for the town property in Brussels belonging to ft. M. Dickson, Fire Proice out in the hen house and piggery owned by. G. Manns Willett,. and it 'had made , such headway before it was discovered that the whole building was consumed, together with a brood sow and eleven pigs; a cheep and the whole of his poultry. • James McConnell, of Ilibbert, met with' a painful accident. While attending one of his ..horses, the animal kicked and broke his arm. That the wave of hard times has at last struck the village of Egmondville, is simply proven by a number of the gentlemen of leisure who are to be seen handling the wood saw. The promised vote on the organ ques- tions in Egmondville Will be taken on the last Sabbath in March and the first in April. Joseph Brown of Harpurhey intends erecting a new brick veneered residence ,, as soon as spring opens up.-Messrs. Wright and/Edge have secured the con- • 4ract for. the frame work and F. Gutteridge the brick work. R. Willis intends erecting a neat dwel- ling on his vacant lot on Goderich Street West during the coming summer. ' Geo. Murray,,of town, has been awarded the contract of watering the streets at 24 cents an hour. A very.,,pretty wedding took place at Maple Lane, McKillop, when Miss Sarah Archibald was united in marriage to. James Hays- of the same township. The 'ceremony was, performed by. Rev. Peter, ,Musgrove in the presence of 250 invited guests. B. Higgins of Brucefield has rented his farm on the. Hayfield road to Wm. Aiken- head for a term of 'years. ' It was a busy day in Kippen when Mr. Cantelon was making one of his biggest shipments from the station. Wm. Cud- more also is shipping large quantities of hay from the station. APRIL 23,. 1920 • Reeve Armstrong and sons of Hullett, have recently purthased 150 acres of land making them owners of 450 acres in one block. John J. McGavin, has shipped from Walton, for the U.F.O. elev,en cars of stock during the latter part of February and March, amounting' to over I20,000.. We make mention of an unfortunate . accident which happened to Henry Ivinson, I Kippen, by. having a small bone in his ankle broken, The following parties purchased cars • from Cook Bros. at Hermit:, H. Arnold and .M. Drysdale,. Ford sedans; David Busnox, Ford truck; J. Sturgedn, Writ. Sparks,' J. Richardson, Hugh McKay, Andrew Sturgeon, all of Hayfield, Ford touring cars, and many others. Wilson Berry of Hensall, left for Windsor, to take up a good position there with a, large mutual investment corpor- ation. The annual Greyhound boat excursion from Goderich to Detroit will be held on June 15th. • Frank Lee, operator at the G.T.R. station has purchased a- new Chalmers car from, the local agent, E. H. Close. W. Duncan has purchased a Chevrolet sedan from D. Shanahan, and Elton Urn- rach an, Overland from' GIC.Bell. Mr. and Mrs. John .Murray and Man- ' ley gave a reception , to their near rela- tives, it being the 30th anniversary of their marriage. . . Maple syrup making.,;'was ..at its full capacity last week and ,'many are pre- pared to meet the high prices of sugar.. In' the two' years, since "Rev. S. Mc- Lean' was inducted into the Egmondville Church 75 members hai,e been added to the membership roll. APRIL 27,, 1945. HelatiVes and friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs:1 •'Wm. Hoegy of McKillop to honor them on their 25th anniversary. Rev. Andrew MCkenzie, an old Stanley boy 'was ordained to , the Presbyterian Ministry at Holstein. Cardno's Hall was filled to capacity ,when the Tuesday night 'club of First Presbyterian Chureli presented the three act comedy "Here Comes Charlie''.Those taking part were: Mrs. Esther Thompson, Jack Thompson, Mrs.. Evelyn Willis, Phil Presant, Jack Stevens, Alice Reid, Clair Reith, Thelnia Scott, Mrs. Georgina C amp-, bell and Robert McMillan. Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Coombs of Egmondville are on active service Overseas. .Wesley, who was in . Italy, was transferred to France, where he met his. brother Kenneth. Then both brothers' went to England where they met the third brother, Cleave, .,whom Wesley. had not seen for' five years. A fourth brother is stationed at Camp Borden. Work has started at Dublin Creamery on the foundation for the new locker unit, which it is hoped it will be in operation soon. , Mrs. Lloyd Hoggarth, attended the convention of the Dell Telephone 'Com- pany in London this Week. Miss Lois McGavin and Miss Helen Moffatt, Seaforth, -were among a large class of graduates at Victoria Hospital. Herald Lawrence of McKillop, has purchased the Wm. Oke residence on Goderich St. West from Dr. E. A. Me- . Master. • . sillily: tut 101,i .4. ACTION AD in "1 The R111.011 g:?EpOsitor .0 Phone 52700240 "Ladies and gentlemen, this is. your Hijacker !peaking,"