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SEAFORTH, ONTAR LO, July 16, 1970
The Problem of Junked Cars
In the
Years Agone
JULY 19th, 1895
The Twelfth of Ally has come and gone
and has been right royally celebrated. Sea-
forth has seen one of the largest crowds
that has been in town for many a day. The
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
You've heard of rock-and-roll groups.
But have you ever heard of Ba-hal groups?
Just when my wife and I get everything
squared around, and look forward to a
period of doddering about in peace, some-
body throws the overalls in the chowder and
we have to fish the out.
Usually , it's one of our kids. Some-
times, old or new friends. This time it was
a little of both.
First of all, Kim arrived home Friday
night with a car-load of friends. They'd
come for a Fireside. I'm sure you know as
much about Firesides as I do. They have
nothing to do with tires.
She and many of her friends have be-
come Ba-hats. It sounds like something
out of the musical South Pacific, but it
isn't.
A cynical colleague of mine asked:
"Is it one of those Indian religions that
justify sitting around of your rump and
dong nothing?" I don't think it is.
It's something new that came out of the
Middle East about a century ago, complete
with prophet, and has grown, quietly but
steadily.
A Fireside is a meeting of Ba-hats and
those interested in learning about it.
People of all ages and faiths and colors sit
around quietly at somebody's home, listen
to those who have '"declared" themselves,
pray together and meditate. There are no
churches, taxes, and all the ills that plague
the modern church institutiop.
It has great appeal for the idealistic
young, because it contains the best and the
essence of the world's great religions:
Love fpr God, neighbor and self; gentle-
ness; honesty; abstinence. It seems to have
no political or racial overtones.
No good Ba-hai will touch drugs or al-
cohol. Though I notice they all smoke like
fiends, and never have any cigarettes of ,
their own.
Anyway, here came Kim with her
friends, all set for a Fireside. Her mother
had been at one the week before, and though
a staunch Anglican, was impressed. She
agreed to go again.
I could see the pincers closing in .(I'd
been away fishing the week before0 To my
relief, a young fellow from another world
dropped in at the crucial moment. Davie
Lodge, leader of Major Hoople's Boarders,
just to tell us his rock group was playing
that night at the local arena. We've known
him since he couldn't blow hos own nose.
My wife went to the Fireside. I went to
hear the Major and the bedlam. We both ar-
rived home slightly dazed, I slightly deaf.
The Ha-hats had gone back to their lairs in
the city, but the Hooples came home with
me for a cold drink, with their girl singer,
Gail, the tiniest girl with the biggest voice
on either side of the Rockies.
It was interesting. Two completely dif-
ferent groups of young people, about the
same age. Ope flat broke, spreading the
gospel, talking about establishing a com-
mune in the country. The other flaL out,
with thousands of dollars of equipment,
hurtling from one engagement to the next,
in their own expensive rolling commune.
All of them bright and polite.
The generation gap that night didn't
seem as wide as the caste system among
young people themselves. There was no
confrontation, but the two groups had less
in common than we middle-aged yahoos had
with either of them.
And think of...41 the other castes:•the
yippies, the greasers, the straight kids,
the freak-outs and a dozen others.
But to get back to my point, if possible.
The' up-shot is that we are committed to
having a Ba-hat wedding in our backyard in
October. The bride's mother can't afford a
wedding reception. The groom's mother
Offered to have it at her place if all the
blinds were drawn.
Anybody who wants to get married out-
side in October needs a pretty strong faith.
`I suppose they could roll in the leaves in
some symbolic ritual.
But the moment of truth came when the
prospective groom informed us joyously
that a rock group had agreed to play at the
wedding. I've heard them. Clearly. From
three blocks away.
I have a feeling I'm going to put my foot
down.
The Public
is invited to attend
Ceremonies in connection
with' the opening of
Silver Creek Bridge
on No. 8 Highway at the Lions Park
and the . 1 p
Seaforth and Tuckersmith Portion of Huron County Development
Road No. 12, including
Seaforth Main Street
and the
Egmondville Road
by Hon. C; S. MacNaughton,
Provincial Treasurer
and
Mr. A. T. C.. McNab,
Deputy Minister- of Ilighw'ays
Thursday Evening
July 23rd
cornmenieimg at 7:30 o'clock
7:30 p.m. '-- Silver Creek Bridge
8:10 p.m..-- Main Street
The Seafoith Dittriet High SchoOl Band will be in aittemianee,
"While you „were away, Joe barbecued a three
alarm steak."
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From My Window
— By , Shirley 3. Keller — •
You know, I'ye been hearing all sorts
of wierd reports out of towns where there,
are youth centres or drop-in halls or cat-
fee houses about the poor quality of young
people who seem to frequent these places.
In fact r everyone seems to 'be com-
plaining about the kids and their desire-to
get off by themselves in some dingy hole to
smoke and listen to loud mnsic.and talk
about whatever it is that young people talk
about.
I thought you might be interested to
know about the youth hostel which is pre-
sently operating at the Keller household.
We have a back room. At one stage in
history it was a surrifner kitchen, I believe.
It is at the very rear of the house, has no
bedrooms above it and boasts its very -own
entrance. , •
When son number 'onealecided that he
would become the world's loudest drum-
mer, my husband and I decided that we
wouldbanish our boy to the back room.
We spent a little money on it . put
some panelling on the walls, a tile floor,
some paint and some lights and
presto, a janaming ropin,
Along with our son's drums, one will
find there on almost any given day two or
three electric guitars, one or more ampli- •
fiers and any number of Other assorted in-
struments.
• Any evening you will find, anywhere
from three to 23 youncpeople packed into
that back room and having an absolute ball
together.
Ffiends wonder how we hack the noise.
I admit that at times it gets very nerve-
wracking, but for the most part we • are
hOiding up well. I guess it is because there
is satisfaction in knowing where the kids
are, what they are doing and with whom
they are spending their evenings.
But Most My husband and I have
been getting an education. I think we have
grown, much more tolerant in the last few
weekS than .ive would ever have believed possible.
FOr instance, we've learned that you
dare not judge ail young people alike. Their
Interests are as varied as the spices and
their outlooks as 'different as Bach is from
-Hinge Starr.
We've had all kinds of teens in our
"back room". We've had the youngsters
who come to sit and to listen. We've had
the types who drop over just to join the
band. WeNe had the troublemakers whose
only desire is to arouse the other's to some
kind - any kind - of reaction. We've had the
• lovers. We've had the loners. We've' had
the so-called "goody-goodies" and the
"greasers". We've had, I think, just about
everything imaginable in our "back
room"..
But I can honestly say there has never
°been one young person there who has been
So rude or so troublesome that we could
not cope. There have been times when' we
have had to be firin, but there has not been
an instance when we really had to worry
about the goings-on.
•
Why? Basically, I think it is because the
kids are silently grateful for a room in
which they, canbe themselves without much
outside ,interference. I think each one un-
derstands that while this room is in our
home, it is their own special place 4ivhere
no-one is going to constantly check them up
on their habits.
I For the most part, my husband and I
have discovered that if you expect young
people to behave in a certain manner, and
then leave them alone to work out their own
special brand of co-operation, you will
have very little trouble. •
Naturally, it is a gruelling hard battle
to keep everything on an even keel with
kids and adults constantly jiving so far as
codes are concerned. But slowly, I believe
we' are beginning to have insight into the
youthful viewpoint, and, I trust, they into
our ideals.
I don't propose to ever reach perfect
rapport with each teenager who enters our
"back room". I do intend to treat him or
her as a fellow human being with the same
rights and privileges that I would accord
any other person.
If we can't hitch, he or she will have to
Waste on the understanding that certain
rules must prevail wherever we go. To
date, there hasn't been a single misunder-
standing about the regulations . . and
those who don't,approve just don't return
again.
For too many years the rural coup-
tryside 'has been blurred by. the sight
of abandoned cars. The problem be-
comes Worse each year as more cars are
junked and- abandoned.
Requirements of the Ontario govern-
ment that yards accommodating cars
that have run the course be fenced is
of little assistance in solving the Prob-
lem Too often the fence is, as offen-
sive as the car wrecks.
From time to time it 'has been sug-
gested that car manufacturers have a
particular responsibility. Is there any
reason why there cannot be included in
the original selling price an amount;
that can be redeemed by the last owner
if :he delivers his worn out vehicle to
the manufacturer?
The government's announced inten-
tion of seeking a guidline of net higher
than 6 per cent in the settlement of
wage disputes seems to be meeting with
little success so far. The recent settle-
ment with the workers at Sifto Salt in
Goderich was for 35 per cent over a
three year period, or about eleven and a ,
half per cent per year., Several other
settlements within the past week have,
been far above the 6 per cent guideline.
Unquestionably many working peo-
ple feel that a 6 percent increase in un-
fair in the face of steeply rising prices
and cost of living — yet unless some-
Given the volume that would be as-
sured and coupled with the ingenuity •
they have shown when they manufac-
ture the vehicles, the companies would
soon work out a profitable solution —
a solution that would protect the coun-
tryside from continued pollution from
abandoned cars.
At least one manufacturer has shown
concern. According to press reports,
General Motors is, co-operating with
dealers in Northern Michigan in remov-
ing free of charge, any vehicle abandon-
ed within a forty mile test area. Offic-
ials estimate there may be 2,00 to 3,000
junked cars within the area.
G.M. -has shown the way. Hopefully,
other manufacturers• will follow. Cer-
tainly voluntary action would be pre-
ferable to - legislation.
one is willing to see the wisdom of a
levelling out of the economic pressures
the working man will inevitably suffer
the worst effects of an inflationary
trend which was and 'still is all but out
of control. The cost of labor is the chief
contributor to rising costs of produc-
tion of the very items he has 'to pur-
'chase 'for his everyday needs.
As usual, the really helpless victims
of this cost-price squeeze are the pen-
sioners and others who have no means
at all of rectifying the frightening
problem created by the shrinking value
of the dollars which make up their fix-
ed incomes. (Wingham Advance-Times)
.threatening clouds did not keep any at
home.
Diphtheria has broken out on the 14th
concession of McKillop, but all cases are
doing well.
The work of dredging, undertaken by
the Hullett Council, will probably be com-
pleted this month. All the ditches have been
finished and only a part of the dredging re-
mains to be done. The workahas been made
more difficult by the dry weather, but the
contractors have made a grand job never-
theless. •
Richard Hoggarth, who has just erected
a handsome residence on the farm recently
purchased, gathered in about two hundred
of the youth and beauty for an evening's
enjoyment.
Hayfield as a camping ground yearly
becomes more popular with the Seaforth
citizens. During nearly the whole of last
season the "white city" on the banks of
old . Lake Huron at Jowett's Point was
tenanted by parties from Seaforth.
• -Fred Cardno, son of Alexander Cardno,
of this town has gone to Mountain, North
Dakota and intends te remains there.
Rev. Peter Musgrove of McKillop now
has one of the handsomest driving horses
in this district. He bought it from 0. C.
Willson.
To use a slang phrase, theBeavers are
in it, and their. defeat of the Athletics of
St. Catherines by 'four goals to one gives
them a go-od lead to the championship se-
ries of the senior lacrpsse league.
John Shepherd, reeve of Tuckersmith,
Robert Varley and John Latta, left Hensel'
Statiori for Liverpool, England. They, sail
from Montreal in the steamer, Lutherian,
and Mr. Sheperd took with him a carload
of sheep and five carloads of cattle.
The annual picnic of the Presbyterian
Sunday School was held in Coleman's Grove
and a most bounteous supper was provided
by the ladies of the congregation.
Messrs. W. Govenlock and Hugh Mc-
Dermid of town left for the old country to
look after a cargo of cattle.
JULY 16th, 1920
J. Bishop of Walton has rented A. Hoy's
farm. Mr. Hoy is moving to Waterdown
where -he has, secured a good job as section
man co the C.P.R.
There was an 'immense crowd -at the pic-
nic held in McCulla's Grove near Leadbury
in McKillop Township under the auspices
of the U.F.O. The gate receipts amounted
to $200.00. •
A cactus in the window of W. A. Mac-
Laren's hardware store, Hensall, raised
• by his mother, Mrs. Robert MacLaren, Sr.,
is being much admired, being something
rare and certainly most beautiful.
Master Ross Chapman Brucefield is
carrying his arm in a sling this week, the
result of it being.badly torn by a dog.
H. Jacobs of Chislehurst has a fine ce- •
ment bridge built on his farm.
An interesting event in the history of
the Egmondville Presbyterian congrega-
tion took place in connection with the laying
of the corner stone of the'new church which
is being erected as a memorial to those who
gave their lives in freedom's cause. Mrs. •
George Laidlaw, the oldest member of the
Egmondville congregation, placed coins
and copies of the current periodicals of
the Presbyterian Church.
Messrs. James Graves and Miilkern of
London have about completed very exten-
sive alterations and improvements to the
interior, of St. James' Church, Seaforth.
Misses Dorothy Wilson, Helen Dickson
and Mary Edmunds of town have success-
fully passed their exams at "the Faculty of
Educationy•Toronto.'
• Miss Jeffersen, Miss, Crich and Miss
Ruth Thompson pf^ town- are attending the
summer school at Alma College and Miss
Evelyn Adams and Miss Mary Hays are
.attending a similar school at Geneva Park,
Couctkiching.
William McKay, son of Adam McKay, •
of town, had the misfortune to break his
leg at the Agricultural Park while playing
football.
J. E. Willis has disposed of the Strand
Theatre to John Pullman who now has
postesgion.
Andrew Y. Hall, Union Stock Yards,
was here superintending the shipping of
six cars of some of the finest cattle ever
delivered at this station. The shipment
consisted of 112 head; 76 were purchased
from W. J. Devereaux of Tuckersmith and
36 were fed by Thomas McMillan of Hul-
lett. A total of .$23,900 was realized and
were pprchased through the well-known
dealer, P. A. O'Sullivan,
JULY 20th, 1945
Seaforth bdys were ,returned on the
Letitia and Ile de France which docked at
Halifax, were W.O. G. S. Habkirk, Fred E.
Willis, Gordon Regele and R. 0, Mac-
Tavish.
With perfect weather and an immense
crowd, the eleventh annual summer carni-
val of the Seaforth Lions Club got away to a
flying start.
At an investiture in Buckingham Palace
Capt. F. J. Archibald, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. R. Archibald, Tuckersmith, was one of
the group 1.3 officers, decorated by King
George.
The Alumni Scholarship has been Swat- '
ded to Ernest Clarke, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Clarke of Seaforth.
Donald Wilson, 10-year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Wilson of Egmondville suf-
fered serious head injuries 'when he 'fell
• down a hide-chute onto a cement floor in
the Jackson Tannery. The young lad had
recently fractured his right arm when he
fell out of a buggy.
Poppies are 'red they say, but not the
' kind that Mrs. Pat Nigh grows in her gar-
den in Se'aforth. She brought one to the
EittinItor and it was a deep rich purple. •
L/Cpl. A. S. Leybourne returned home
aboard the liner "Queen Mary" for a 30-
day leave, after which he will take ad-
vanced training before proceeding to the
Pacific theatre of war.
Miss Grace Krauter has been serving •
as a waitress on the ill-fated Harmonic,
which was burned at Point Edward. Miss
Krailter lost all her clothing and money.
Thomas Burns of Logan sustained in-
juries when he stepped on a decayed plank
in his barn. A piece of the plank flew up, .
piercing the roof of his mouth. He was
rushed to Mitchell where doctors were
unavailable and then. taken. to Stratford
Hospital.
It's a Tough Battle • for Everybody