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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-07-30, Page 2Since 1860. Sert;;4u the Gointrt!nity First P.4fattaiieti at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y,,MCLEAN, 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, ONTARIO, JULY 30, 1970 SDHS Students Bring Honor io 4,4 4.0 /,,r1i0:4404.40 tr. "•••441' 44N, S tk,t,14 fo• rdidri it A !'"OK, I AGREE 1N111-1 `/OLL,INOMEN SHOULD HAVE EQUAL R161415, YOLKUT THE GRASS!" In the • •Years Agone Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley This is going to .be one' of the most difficult columns I've ever written.Donot worry, there hasn't been a death In the family or anything like that, although I did offer my wife a divorce on Sunday morning and it was a solid deal for five minutes, -No, this is purely physical. When you play with fire, you're likely to get burnt. I dill and I was. Trouble -is, it's the two typing fingers on my right hand. Each has a blister the size of a dime, and a- quarter-Inch deep, right on the tip. So I'm trying to type this with my knuckles, and it's heavy weather. Not that I'm merely a one-handed typist. I use my left hand with incred- ible dexterity, forefinger for hitting keys, thumb for hitting the space-bar. Well, soon after burning the right-harid fingers, I tripped over a rock, shoved out my left ..tand to_ save, myself, and sprained my thumb. It looks like .a puff-adder with a toothache and-feels similar. However, when I think of my neighbor, my troubles, while painful, are trivial. On the' eve of his summer holidays, he racked up some discs in his neck. He is in hospital, in great pain, and in a huge neck-collar. My wife has a pain, too, and it's also In her neck. She's sick of runnfeg a motel, of changing beds for transtent.visitors, of doing great loads of laundry. Kim will arrive home with big green garbage bags so stuffed with laundry that they look like pregnant Whales. Hugh does the same. And they invariably bring friends. The whole mob has the same charac- teristic. They tromp around in their bare feet. They go to the beach, track in about a pound • of sand per foot. You almost need a shovel and a sand-pail when you're changing the sheets. I tell my wife she's crazy, that they probably never get to sleep on clean sheets ex- cept at home. One can infer that from the state of the laundry. But she's of the old school, which believes• that even bums should have clean sheets, 'My advice to her has all the' effect of writing on water with chalk. The idea is that Kim will do the laundry. But she's" working at a job _where she From My — By 'Shirley Since most thinking people are get. • ting 'up tight' about 'pollution and how to prevent it, I thought I might as well get into the swing of things and write an anti-pollution column, too. I'm against p011ution; of course. Who wouldn't be? But I'm against all kinds of pollution and I really doubt that I'm going to be too popular with modern man when I let loose with my anti-pollution lingo. • I agree that, air pollution and water pollution are serious matters. When one roars back and .takes a long, deep;breath of air, one actually wonders these days whether or not it is entirely safe: No- body really wants to fill his lungs with the' exhaust from somebody's car or the smoke from the neighbor's rubbish heap. It isn't very pleasant, either, to drive along in the' country and see the road- sides littered with everything from empty beer cartons to Aunt Maude's potato peelings. Surely pe'Ople could be a little more careful about discarding refuse. While I'm perfectly ready to admit that foreign matter which, is thrown out carelessly can one day retur n in our drinking water. or in our food to -kill us, I'm just as cdtieerned about the amount of mind-pollution which will event- ually return on the lips of some stranger to ultimately destroy us. Pm not Piet talking about smutty, •stories and dirty movies. In my opinion, some of these. are far less treacherous than the kind of morals the adult world MS begun to accept as normal behaviour, such as the grd'Whig approval for free lore and" the Search for inner peace by any' inegits must be up at 5 a.m. to be at work by 7. So when she's home for a 'day, she sleeps until about 3 p.m. And Momma, knowing She'S" a sucker, does the laundry muttering steadily. There is a point at which you think you can see your kids looking after them- selves. They're going to be out of your hair, independent. •No more hand- outs. No more paying of bills. No more looking after their documents and the countless forms to be filled out. But that point recedes steadily into the distance as you plod steadily toward it. I was warned about this by a friend, some years ago. He had three grown sons, all doing well, all married, all with children. I congratulated him' on his fine family and the fact that they were on their own. He laughed bitterly. "They're on their ,own," he snorted, "when they've all borrowed enough from you for a down payment on a house, at two per cent interest. And even then, unless they're in Zanzibar, they're home every second weekend, expecting to be wined and dined and baby-sat.". And he was dead right. The only so- lution I can see is for parents of grown- up ',children" to sell the family home, with its three or four bedrooms and move, into a `one bedroom apartment, preferably in some place as handy to get at as Aklavik. I don't blame the kids much. Our two are both -working in the hot, stinky city, at fairly menial jobs, and living in pretty squalid rooms , because that's, all they can afford. We live in a lovely summer area, with beaches, clean air, a big shady lot, and a built-in cook - their mom. They still think of it as home. Clean sheets, real meat instead of rice and macaroni,. showers galore, a doting mother to pick up after them, and a real mark of a father , who is always good for a small “loant'." What more could they want? And I must admit, against my will, that we're pretty glad to see the red- head -with the big brown eyes, or the young man with the trim beard, and hear, 4,111, Mom. Hi, Dad." Window J. Keller — I was reading this morning about electric 'toilets which literally burn up" waste products. It wasn't too long ago that it was estimated that if the prefect was started immediately, many of the environmental pollution problems we face could be eradicated within ten years,/ But what about th e hate that burns in white men's hearts for his black brother?' This 'kind of pollution has gone on for centuries and we seem further and further from the pure truth than we ever were. I didn't want this to be a sermon. Heaven knows I'm just as much to blame as anyone for the ugly state of the world. For all our scientific and cultural ad- vanceS, we are as barbaric as man has been at any other time in history.What's more we are too egotistical and proud to recognize our faults. We don't even try to rectify our mistakes. If there is a solution to our dilemma it will have to come from within us. We are going to have to become totally anti-polliition minded, I feel,. to the point where we take our young people in tow to teach them the fendamentals of good citizenship. • , There are such things as honesty, chastity and humanity. They are age- old qualities but they aren't out of style yet. • St pi4 up your. garbage -and' cutC down on the amount of phosphates you use iii your washing machine. It may help to keep tis alive long enough to learn that Man will snuff out his existence with Simple uncontrollable pollution like hate and greed and lust and just' plain ignor- ance. TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSMITH . APPLICATIONS for Dog Control Officer To be submi signed by 5 -.1 August 4th, ,clearly mark Terms of sal conditions t council. tted to the under- P.M. on Tuesday, 1970 and to be ed '"Applications". ary and working o. be discussed with , James I. McIntosh Clerk-Treasurer . R.R.#4, Seaforth Notice to Parents CONCERNING BICYCLES Parents are urged to co-operate in instructing their children that the practise of leaving bicycles On the Hospital property and walking, across No. 8 Highway to the Lions Park is PROHIBITED It may be necessary to deny Park privileges to those children who persist in this dangerous practise. Seaforth Community Hospital Seaforth Lions Park SCREENED TOPSOIL CEMENT BAcsuol4 max GRAVEL (12", 16", 24", 36" Buckets) All kinds of Digging, Trenching, Etc. EXCAVATING & GRAVELLING Building Sites, Yards, Drive Ways, Etc. Light Dozing - Loading - Back Filling LYLE MONTGOMERY -CLINTON, Phones:' 482i644 or 482-7661. • • We want to thank all who Co- operated to,make Seaforth's first Sidelialk Sale so succes,- sful the publit who attended and .took advantage of the sale festival, the council, the P. U.C. , the, merchants and those many others who -assisted in so. many ways. Being the first event of it's kind there are areas for im- provement. If you have suggest-- ions send them along to assist the committee that will be in charge next , year. Marlen Vincent, 'Ken Lingelbach, Walter WeSterhof and Bob Read. MERCHANTS COMMITTEE SEAFORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • • • 11 the urou (Nositor Sometimes we become so accustomed to accomRlishments that we accept them as routine. It requires the objective look of someone far removed to make us 'ap- preciate what actually is happening' and to put it in proper perspective. For years — ever since it was fo'und- ed 91 years ago — the Seaforth High School has been noted for the high cal- ibre of the ,student it has ,graduated. Whether they came from the original High School, the Collegiate Institute or the present District High School, the graduates have made a name for them- selves in a variety of fields and in posi- tions of responsibility across Canada and in many cases beyond. Year after year they continue to bring honor to the school and to the community. After 91 years to too many of us..this has become the expected, something to be taken for granted. So it is that a letter, which appeared in a recent issue of the Expositor, is of particular significance. From one of the provincial univers- itieuit was directed to the principal of SDHS and expressed appreciation to the school for having sent a recent SDHS graduate to it. The letter, of course, not only does honor to a particular student but serves as a reminder of the many other fine students who leave SDHS each year and make their contribution. It is a recognition not'only of the high calibre of youth in the area but also of the standards which through nearly a hundred .years, have been maitained by succeeding staffs at the'Seaforth school. "AUGUST.2, 11395 W. Townsend has purchased the farm of Joseph Townsend of Tuckersmith, pay- ing in the neighborhood of $4,500; 'John RI:me of Stephen, isthe possessor of quite an industrious turkey. She laid 30 eggs and brought out a flock of chicks six weeks ago. She began laying again and has been laying two e ggs per day and now has 20 more eggs. One of the best known and most highly respected residents of Huron County in the person of James Dickson passed away at his residence at Goderich. He was born in Roxborough shire in Scotland; he had • been a merchant in Egmondville and was the first clerk of the Division Court embracing the Town- ships of Tuckersmith and McKillop. The "Missionary Leaflet" for August contains a well written article on Korea, from the pen of Miss H. I. Graham of Seaforth. Wm. Govenlock, of Griswold, -Man., was the griest of his father, Thos.Goven- lock and says the wheat harvest in his district" was never better than when he left. Chas." Wilson of town shipped two carloads of fat cattle to the Old Country markets. Ted Dawson took .charge of them. John • McMillan also shipped -several carloads. Thos. McMillan it now in the Old Country looking after the sale: The brick work of the Commercial Hotel is now completed ,and the, roof is being put on. There were 60 tickets sold at Sea- forth station for the Barnum show in Stratford. Robert Brotherton of Ivl sold his farm on the 12th co John Crozier for $3,500. The people of 'Kippen seem to have the Old Country fever. The last to go was Alex Monteith Sr. and his son Alex with a- shipment of forty head of steers from S,eaforth station. , This will be the first visit ,to his native land since ,he .crossed the sea nearly 40 years ago. Robert Ross,- of the London Road, near .13kneefield, Is erecting :one of the- largest bank barns in this country. Hit 110 by 65 feet and the. wall is nine feet high. The contractors for the stone work was Thos. Walker of Clinton. P. Keating of Seaforth, the contrac- tors for the wood work now hat a gang of men getting the frame ready. J. A. Mitchell of Dixie, and formerly of Hensel', had the honor of bringing in thilefirst new wheat to the mills at Hensall. - Not withstanding the scarcity of fruit in the district it is evident that the people of Seaforth have not starved,very badly. Wm. Somerville, express agent, says that there is an increase of $60.00 in the charges for incoming freight as compared with the same month last year. This was nearly, all due' to in- creased fruit.receipts. JULY 30, 1920 John C. Doig, a pupil of S, S. No. 2 Tuckersmith, successfully passed -the entrance to a Collegiate Institute, High School or Continuation School. - A large number of friends, neigh- bors and companions'^ assembled at the home of Jessie Charters in Tucker- smith prior to her marriage. They gave her a silver tea service. The address was read by Ben Johnson. ,,. John McDonald of Walton purposes building a flax mill. tie has 'about •115 acres of flax and' has employed a num- ber of Indians to pull it. Win. Strong of S. S. No. 2 Tucker- smith and Miss Etta Jarrott have been doing well in their schools as the entrance results testify. Each had six pupils writing and passed. Mrs. J. B. McLean of Kippen has been 'engaged 'as organist and choir leader. Harry Chesney of Tuckersmith has purchased Joseph Atkinson's farm, giv- ing $6,000 for it. J. C. Laing of town met with a very serious accident. He was assisting to shingle a barn at D. McKellar's at Crom- arty, when in some manner he fell to the ground, fracturing his hip and injuring himself internally. P.A.Calder of Toronto is the new ledgerkeeper at the Dominion Bank in Seaforth. `c Miss Alice Carbert has been ap- pointed to the teaching staff of the Brant- ford Separate School, Congratulations 'are being extended to Marie Flannery of St. Colurnban, on hav- ing passed her grade 2 piano examinat- ions at the London Conservatory of Music. She is a pupil of Mrs. J. D. O'Connell of Seaforth. A large attendance of spectators wit- - nested a fast ball game between the Seaforth and Tuckersmith teams. The t• following was the line-up for the teams; Tuckersmith, John McIver, J. Hawthorne, Angus Kennedy, A. Nichol, A. McMillan, W. Wright, J. McMillan, P. Chesney, P. Dolt, R. McGeoch and Robert McKay - Seaforth, T. Howard, Dot Reid, Dawson Reid, J. Walmesley, J. Maley, H. Ward, Wallace Park, J. Ja man, C. Consigney, H. Baird and B. Johnston. Isabelle McKenzie, widow of Robert Jones Sr. and for 60 years a resident of Seaforth passed away in her 81se'year. She was born in Tain, near Edinburgh, Scotland. . AUGUST 3:1945. In the window of the Expositor office this week, there is displayed a genuine German flag bearing a large black Swas- • tika. It is a souvenir of a gallant Canadian ,soldier, took 4 frqpi a ,stare windoW 1.01`,,ffirfeno7,, a German ,an, on, lAie 4i,01,P. ;MAP* The staff of the Wm. J. DunCan tithe factory, Seaforth, was pleasantly sur- prised when the ',Twenty-five year club" ',was inaugurated in that factory. Five employees were given envelopes with a dollar for each year's service enclosed. Those receiving them were,`Burton Muir, Allan Reid, Annie Smith, Norma Muir and Evelyn Shade. ' The propeity committee • of , Huron County Council decided to .ask an ar- ' chitect 'to submit plans and estimates for an addition to the Court House, Goderich, also for a new building. The members of the committee are B. Smyth, G. ..Frayne, B. W. Tuckey, A. Nicholson• and R. E. Shaddiek. On Thursday Jack Beattie brought into the Expositor office a splendid photograph of local and Clinton bowlers who played a match on the old green on December 24, 1900. Quite a large number of relatives and friends gathered at the C.Ii.R.Station in -London to welcome home from over- seas Sgt, W. J. McLean, a paratrooper from Hensall. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Anderton, organist, entertained the members of the choir of the United Church, at their cottage at -Kintail. Mr. Anderton was the leader of the South Huron Choral Society. Alex Muir of town underwent an op- eration in Westminster Hospital,London. Miss Betty Moore of Egmondville, has accepted a' position in the Province of Ontario Savings Office, as cashier. !Thirty friends and relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kydd, Thames Road. Each took a picnic lunch arid all enjoyed a social time to- gether. In a photograph- F/0, Bruce Wright, son" of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wright, Seaforth, is shown, after the bombs have •'„ been loaded into their big bomber, just before taking off on an operation flight over Gerinany. F/O Wright, who is now -a staff pilot, made 52 operational flights over enemy territory. The property of Mrs. Margaret Mc- Millan, Egmondville, on North Main Street has been gold to Mrs: Janet McDonald, who with her husband are the present tenants. Hensall 'Pawn Hall, with a.background of flags, was the scene of a delightful affair for the reception for the local boys who have returned home from Overseas. 0 TOWN OF SEAFORTH On instruction from the Municipal Council, I hereby proclaim • PROCLAMATION • MONDAY, AUGUST 3,1970 CIVIC HOLIDAY IN THE TOWN OF SEAFORTii and respectfully request the citizens and bus- inessmen to observe the occasion. F. C. J. Sills Mayor "GOD SAYE THE QUEEN" "You've run through three red lights . , . I'm making a citizen's arrest!" ' '