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The Huron Expositor, 1970-04-30, Page 2No major, or even, minor theme this week. Just a few obsprvations. Perhaps the most important to me is that my daughter has turned over a new leaf. Or perhaps it's'just an old stpne: She is study- ing hard for two music exams, and actually has a job, part-time. She has learned, in a remarkably brief period, that libread," as the kids call it, is fairly important when It comes to eating and keeping a roof over one's head. She has learned that jobs are mighty scarce when your only experience is playing the organ in a church 'one summer. She has learned that a Grade 13 certificate and one term at college has as much use as a third leg. She came home on the week 'end, with her danged cat and kitten, and clamoured for meat. Real meat. She's sick to death of hamburger and bologna, and drooled over a steak in her honor. But she's a criminal. She went back to, the city with her kitten • stuffed under her jacket. I believe it's against the law to' transport animals on buses. However, she's a clever criminal, and may go a long way. She gave the• kid a quarter of a sleeping tablet in milk so he wouldn't yowl for his mama and alert the bus driver. We've been left with the mother cat, an unexpected treat,' like a hair in your meat pie. • We agree that Kim will be fired on the 'first day of her new job. Her function is to stock shelves in one of those cut- rate stores. And since she was three, her greatest attribute has been knocking over her milk, dropping full bottles of any liquid , and smashing cups and saucers while doing the dishes. It's not lack of co-ordination. She can play 'a Beethooven sonara. Oh, well. We'll see. ThaVs one thing off my chest. 'The next one is not so pleasant. I share with most Canadian citizens a sickening disgust at the attitude of most Members of Parliament toward their own. financial security. At present, with their $18,000 a year, six of it tax-free, and various other "perks": Postage, travel, secre- tarial help, etc., they're grossing about $20,000, as MP Barry Mather recently pointed out. This is not wealth. Far from • , older senior citizens beset with chronic and other illnesses. About half are aged 71 years or older. Many have survived family and friends. For all practical purposes, the nursing home is their home. NO matter how challenging the programs we offer, no matter how stirablating, they find it difficult to participate. A major . ingredient is missing from their lives - involvement with events and people of the community outside the nursing home. Individuals in our community have the ability to help such patients find a new sense of purpose in life. They can do so by becoming an occasional' or frequet# visitor to a nursing honie, and offering the gift of friendship to patients., Now is a particularly appropriate time for such a visit, because May IO, Mother's Day, Marks the first day of National Nursing Home Week. I 'hope that the members of our community will take the time to show nursing home patients that they are concerned about their well-being. It takes so little to do so much. Well't you take a few moments to visit a patient and show them they have not been forgotten. Only you can do it. Sincerely, Bill and Lois Hodgert • Since 1860, Serving the Community ,First 1,!01:41#be4 at SEAPORT'', ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MCLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MeLEaki, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: 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 and the SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, April 30, 1970 large audience representative of the area served by the Seaforth District High School sat clown and discussed one with the other how best the school could serve the area .— not Seaforth, not Tuckersrhith nor McKillop but the' whole area. This is as it should be. No amount of wishful thinking can ensure a continu- ance of our present municipal arrange- ments. To act now in a dieaningful, practical manner — exploring alterna- tives, studying suggestion; advancing proposals — is the only way we can, hope to retain to ourselves some form of self determination. There are jealousies and resentment:: and personalities to overcome. There are loyalties built over a hundred years to consider and perhaps a starting point is that of identity. Iy\there any reason, for instance, why present names of the municipalities making up the communi•• ty should not 'be subordinated to one name that would reflect the history of and identify the community'as a whole?. There are many methods of approach. What is important is that we begin ex- ploring some of them. What kind of a person am I really? That's the question I'm asking myself these days. A" week or so ago I was in the position for about one hour of being shoulder to shoulder with some very unfortunate people. Not only were these souls lacking in mentality and normal appearance, they -were obviously *living in- a situation which could be termed less than adequate by today's standards. As I sat there with, them, I felt my skin begin to crawl just a little at the sight of my companions. I was sickened, not so •much by their presence as by ' my own high-hatted attitude. ' I have always considered myself a very tolerant person, 'someone who doesn't put on any airs or have any grand delusions about self. But sitting there in the quiet of that room I began to see myself for what I really am - a bigot and a snob. And try as I would to shake these thoughts ,that somehow I was just a little bettek than these wretched people I just couldn't relax and feel at home' or at ease with them. That night when I arrived home was ashamed of myself. I had been face to face with an opportunity to ,express my ,Christian faith by a simple act of brotherly love' and I had fatted miserably. My •prayers that night lind every night since have included a „petition for God to grant to me the ability to have compassion on others 'whatever their lot in life. I also threw in a"few lines about how grate- ful I am ta.bp as physically and mentally where as the majority of the human race. I began to understand racial discrim in- ation and how it spreads. People like me sit beside their walnut television sets in For some months now the people in the St. Marys area have been engaged in a series of meetings in an effort to determine on the kind of community they would like to live in in the years to come. Already citizens in that town and in surrounding townships talk about the "St. Marys area" with the town being but the axis, as it were, of a much larg- er community. Much of the credit for the change in thinking, in the face of demands for larger municipal units, is given to the Recreational council .of the' town. Known as the PARQ the council has played a major role in moul- ding all surrounding areas into a "rec- reational area".. While there are posi- itive benefits of a receational nature already in evidence, the long term ad- vantages in.the change in attitude that it has engendered will not be confined to recreational matters. Similarly in ,the Mitchell area, adja- cent municipalities are meeting to con- sider a common approach to a zoning by-law and official plan for the area. Here, too, in Seaforth last week a Letters To The Editor Seaforth Main Sir: I would like to make a few comments about your write-up on better education for this area. I am quite sure we could have a Central School which would take in the Walton area and McKillop area, that any, community would be proud to say that their children graduated from; but seeing you cannot beat the Establishment, as the old saying goes, if you„,6annot beat them join them. 1, would like to express, a few of my thoughts. Suppose we build a spacious school ,in Seaforth with all the up-to-date equipment there is. Suppose children come out of this school all bright young Einstein, what are we going to- do with them then? If the Central SchoOl in McKillop area Sir: please find space in your valuable paper for this article in relation to the Main Street in Seaforth in 1901. The census in that year was 3000.1 The first block of stores was burned out in the great fire of. 18'76. These stores were of frame construction and some were moved from Harpurhey. The • places of business that were here in 1901 started at the Queens Hotel on the east side going south. Campbell block, B. B.Gunn, dry goods; Bright Bros.'cloth- ing; Robb Bros., groceries, and meat; A. G.A.ult, groceries; M.Y.McLean,Huron Expositor; Jordan, groceries; B. B. Gunn, groCeries and clothing; Reid & Wilson Hardware; Scott Bros., Music Store; Pool Room; J, Dopp, butcher; Mrs. Megary, groceries; Jas. Graves, wallpaper and paint; J.F.Daly, jeweller; J. Laird, candy store; Broadfoot & Box, Furniture; A. Campbell, Implements; Dominion Bank;' Knechtel Furniture & Undertaker; Greig & McDonald,., cloth- ing; 0. Neil Restaurant; Seaforth Sun, Printing; Town Hall; Commercial Hotel; Bank of Commerce; C. Wilson, grocer; Dawson's ,Liquor Store; Livery Barn; Vacant lot; Dr. Campbell residence; J. Neville, Monuments; R, Clark, Grocer; Skating Rink; G rip Hotel. .On the West side the places of busin- ess beginning - the D.D. Wilson Egg Em- porium,- where the Supertest Station now is, were - Royal Hotel, J. Weir; prop., Clark's Bakery; Feed Store; Butcher Shop, F. Gales; W.H.Willis, boot & shoes; Hugh Robb, Grocer; Mullett Hardware; sir: . If any one word can serve to describe the spirit of our nation in the past few years, I feel that the word would have to be• 'Involvement." Many people, all be- lieving in the worth of their endeavors, are working together for mutual goals. SU& is the case with nursing homes. They are working together developing new, programs to ensure that the nation's health care needs will be met today and tomorrow. This feeling is echoed in the theta& for National Nursing Horde Week, "Nursing Homes: Working Together for Today and , Tomorrow." • Those who work in the pursing home - administrative AO nursing personnel, phYSiefalis, therapist% fifiniSterial, activ- ities .directors and others - all are work- ing together to meet the patient's needs today while also helping him achieve a greater degree of self-reliance for to- tnOrrOW. ?hone WhO work in nursing homes are deeply involved• With their tasks. They are committed- to their• work and to the welfare of their patients. ta:do the IA ,hoWeVer, it takes more those in the nursing home. By WA' that . arte,, aural* hence patienti are our Street In 1901 will not give our children a satisfactory education, then I am sure that our Sea- forth" District High School is not giving the best education available.' . Fellow ratepayers would it not be more practical for better education to put the Elementary School into our High School and send the High School pupils to Clinton, where 'they could get the best education Huron County can offer? It is just a 10 minute drive more morning and night, which some pupils are already driving. Hoping, Mr. Editor, that you will print this in your paper, where fellow ratepayers in McKillop can read it and give it a thought. Harold Pryce R.R.1, Seaforth April 27, 1970. H. Livens, Grocer; J. Smith, Dry Goods; 5 & 10C Store; T. Richardson Boots & Shoes; P. Dill, Grocer; G.A.Sills Hard- ware; Hoffman Dry Goods; Cardno Bros. Bakery; Cardno's Hall; J.W.Fear, Drug- gist; E. McFaul, Dry Goods; Alex Winter, Book Store; J.S.Roberts, Druggist; C.W. Papst, Book Store;., Stewart Bros,• Dry Goods & Clothing; A. Young, Grocer, A. Wilson, Dru&gist; W. Pickard, Dry Goods & Clothing; W.Willis, Boots & Shoes; M. Broderick, Harness; Jas. Gillespie, Harness; PoSt Office; Andrews Grocer; Livery Barn; W. Kerslake, Feed Store; Dan Shanahan Implements; John Stewart; Blacksmith; C. Kennedy, Butcher; ,John Beattie, Grocer; Dick House; J. McGinnis, Grocer and other stores in block. In 1901 there were seven or eight grocery gores, four hardware stores, three harness shops, four drygoods and clothing, three butcher shops and others that make up the list of stores. There were five hotels, namely " - Queens, T. Stevens; Commercial Hotel, Henderson; Grip Hotel, J. Miller; Dick House, J. Dick; Royal Hotel, J. Weir. There were a number •of factories here including N. Cluff i,,aning Mill, the furniture factory employing '75hands and. operated by Broadfoot & Box; Flour Mill; Foundry employing 75 hands; Wo- ollen Mill employing 75 hands; three or four store. houses for grain; Oatmeal Mill; Salt Block. " Walter Murray Aeaforth April 23, 1970. an all-white neighborhoOd that is free from litter and clutter, line.d with shade trees and spread with green grass carpet's. We shake our heads in disbelief at the way the American Negroes are treated by their white masters and very piously we spout off about our ideals thal Negroes are as gobd as we 'are 'and the same kind .of brood runs , through our veins blah, blah. But how would we react if suddenly we were thrust into a situation where we were surrounded by black people who. are angered by 'centuries of discrimin- ation? Would we really live up to our high ideals or would we cringe and behave just as despicably as those ware-re- sponsible for the persecution of the 'Negroes i,n. the U.S.A.? I wonder. I didn't like' what I saw in myself that evening I was exposed to some of the ugly facts of life. I was appalled by my behaviour and powerless to change it. So this ' Week I take my hat off to the men and women who work with the less fortunates in this world. Whether the helpers are,, doctors and nurses or,social .workers and police officers or welfare people and service agents, I extend to them my heartfelt thanks that they can do for these people what I .seem to be too proud to attempt. I' have seen the real concern that some people can muster for the poor humans who have been dealt a rough lot in life. I am impressed by the compassion they show tp them and I am embarrassed that I 'haven't the stomach to do likewise. . What kind of a person"am I? Not too great to be truthful, but I suspect, more the rule than the.exception. a it, these days. And I think they should give themselves a reasonable increase, consistent with the cost of living and tax increases. But the proposed pension plan stinks to high' heaven. Oppose it, with every means within your power. The old pension scheme was rotten, and many men who had given most of their lives to public service wound up in poverty. But the new one is rotten in the opposite sense. bona let them pass it. Another item which has me pretty disturbed is that The Telegram NeWP Syndicate, which circulates this column, wants an up-to-date picture of yours truly. Who first came up with this infamous idea I don't know, but vile and vicious are the words that first come to mind. It'll cost me a fortune. I'll have to buy a wig. I'll have to have my remaining molars painted white. I'll have to pay a photdgrapher to touch the whole thing up. And I'll still look like a veteran of the Boer War. My wife disagrees. She says my fine bone structure will always come through. Yeah. Just like a death's head. However, I ain't ascared. The grog blossoms won't show, in black and white. I can have my eyes debagged, which is expensive, but `works. My Roman nose is intact, and 'perhaps a side shot, with the jowls taped up behind my ears, might eon- vince some people of something or other. Maybe they could take the shot from the waist up, and show the needle-holes Where I had my cortisone shots. I would certainly be better than one from the waist down. I have bow-legs, and gout in my. right big toe. Anyway, you'll be seeing it. Take a good snort, or a tranquilizer, before it comes out. I'll be right there with you. But ,what the heck, we all have troubles. If nobody's were greater than' mine, it wouldn't be a bad world. Cope with your own troubles, and don't let them drag you down. Look at the world troubles, and if you, personally, can do something about them do it. Otherwise don't let 'them drag you down. It's a long road that has no turning; you'll be a long time dead; and spring is here. Rejoieet in the Years Agone MAY 4, 1945. Mrs. Bertha M. Ilabkdrk, Seaforth, received a cablegram from England stating that her son, W 0 George SteiltOliablEirk was ;redly released from a German prison camp. In September he was shot down in the North Baltic and after 18 hours in a rubber dingy was made prisoner of the Germans. He was interned at Stalag 344 and was moved ahead of the Russian advance in January 1945. The annual inspection of the Seaforth High School Cadet Corps was held in the school campus. There were approx- imately 45 cadets and 60 girls in the drills. A public reception was held in Looby's Hall, Dublin, in honor of Clayton Looby and Edward Hart, who have recently re- turned having been in action in Italy for three years. B.O.Muir was elected secretary- treasurer of the Legion •to replace M. C.Milliken who has moved to Millbank. The past president's badge was presented to Alex Muir. Farmers in the Seaforth district are beginning to show some signs of uneasiness over the weather conditions of the last month. For some reason this year, April came ahead of March, or so it seemed. Mussolini is dead. He was shot in the back. His body' was taken to Milan, where it was reviled by thousands of his victims. Leo Stephenson, of Constance, who has conducted a general store there for a number of years,has sold his business to Mr. and Mrs. Borden Brown. H.R.McKay of Hayfield has had the Albion-Hotel wired for hydro which will make the house up-to-date for tourists. Able Seaman Don McLean, R.C.N.V.R. has returned hoMe to spend a month with his parents, after touring in, England, Belgium, Holland and on the North Sea coast for the past year. Mrs. Geo. Eaton had the misfortune to break a bone in her right wrist and is now carrying it in a cast. , APRIL 30, 1920 Wednesday afternoon closing in Hegorth has commenced and will con- tinueuntil October. A reception for Mr. and Mrs. Michael Feeney of Dublin, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Feeney, Hibbert, was well attended by a number of friends of both bride and groom. A feW of the farmers in the district of Hensall, have been able to get on the landma:.d Cd000amlbite htiease eeeeldinsge. d Miss B.Mc- Quaid's, house in the village, .of Egmond- villAeleaxnd Kwielolomedoyve of in shortly.mkeer Smith has Street. 11 J. E. Hu Moved into the residence he recently pur- chased from Mrs. T.R.Thomson on North Main 1, has sold a vex), handsome, Gourlay, Winter and Leeming piano to Finaly .MBeeKiie rdcehleivreorfe delivered K illop handsome Mc- Laughlin roadster to J.MdMillan, Manager of the Bank of Commerce, Walton. John Murray, township assessor for Tuckersmith, showed us a sample of potatoes, of his own growing that beats anything we have ever seen. They were ' of the Crown Jewel 'variety and three of them measured 25 x 10 inches and made a nice basketful. - What might have resulted in a serious accident happened when Miss Tessie and Lizzie IWknell of Heechwood, were re- turning- home from church when the spir- ited horse they were driving took fright. The horse ran into the fence throwing the occupants out,' when they received a severe 'essuehcartTckess in spite of the fact that some are hihnegof Manley, are 'going to prove a charcoal,ep and turpentine works . tar, trying to put a stumbling block in the way. R. Spackman has the contract for the large pavilion which. Wm. Jowett is ing at • Hayfield, in the grove 'near the bank. E. Weston has leased it for the season. E. Weston, of Hayfield, has sold hiS mail contract and stage business to Harold and Abe Brandon. MAY 3. 1895 Miss Daisy McGregor has been engaged' to teach in school section No.1 Hullett in place of Mr. McKay, who has accepted the principalship of the Hensall-school.. While Arch. iledgert of Farquhar was leading a spirited young horse recently, the animal reared up and struck him a blow on the nose. , Samuel Chesney of Egmondville,moved from- Seaforth into Mr. Wallace's brick residence. Thos. E. Hays niet with a very un- pleasant mishap. His horse was frightened at something a mile north of town and ran until it came to Thos. Govenlock's resid- ence when the buggy upset throwing, Mr, Hays out. However, hen was able to.walk home, but the buggy. was badly demor-, alized. Hugh Grieve of this town, has sold- a windmill to Mr. Jowitt of Bayf,ield, the owner of the beautiful picnic grounds there. He intends to use the windmill for pumping water from the lake to be uhed in his residence and also for the accorriL modation of picnic parties. Johe Paul, manager of the flax mill in town, intends erecting a neat residence during the summer on Godertch street East-, opposite the residence of Mrs. T. T. Coleman. • Alex Davidson is advertising for tenders for the erection of a three storey . brick hotel. Major Anderson and his assistant have ial.d down a fine new sidewalk in front of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. McBrayne' of Varna, is a famous angler. He secured 30 very tine speckled trout, some of the largest weighing a Miss Graham 'of Egmondville, has, a sharb, well written earnest, article in the last Canada Presbyterian on "Women and' her work" in connection with foreign mil/do:1S. A daughter of Hugh McKay was working around the stove When she accidently spilled some belling water over one of her hands scalding it most severely. "Well , . you re in good shape, you'll only need one more part-time job to pay the taxes on your first part-ti'me job, which is paying the taxes on your full-time jOb! .......••••••••••••-.anso...•••••••••••-•••.•.* From My Window • - By; Shirley J. "Keller — ABC Community A Plan for McKillop Pupils Suggest Nursing, Home Visits Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley • 0 Iii 0