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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-09-10, Page 2expositor urn 110 ,Sinee 1880, Serving the Coinntionity First 11411dlaked arArowni, ONTARIO, every Maid43, morning by MCLEAN Mos., Publishers Ltd. Aiwa]aw Y. igeLigAN., Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newqmper Association Ontario Weekly Newqmper • Association and Audit Mucau of Circulation NIMaPin Subsoil) is Rates): Canada (in advance') 06.00 a Year Outside Canada (in adiance) 18.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 15 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number OM Telephone 5274240 SEAFORTH, ONTARI 0, SePteMber 10, 1970 Litter Detracts from a Community elm A We'll See You At The Fair .. . Weddings * Portraits * Candids We invite you to visit our booth at the fair. PerhapsF-you'll see yourself as others"see you. I '3)tank PHOTOGRAPHER SEAFORTH, ONTARIO PHONE 527-1302 I really goofed this time. I missed the greatest opportunity I will ever have to strike a blow for womanhood. I didn't think about Women's, Liberation Day in time to celebrate it in any particular way. A friend of mine working at another newspaper in another town said she and the rest of the female staff were going to remove their brassieres and burn them in the company _Incinerator. Then they were going to form a ring around the burning inferno and chant something about their freedom. It sounds like fun, I suppose, except that if I were going to burn my brassieres I wouldn't be doing any dancing in a circle or otherwise. I don't really know what it is that women want to be liberated from anyway. From housework? Well, I've been liber- ated from that particular chore since I decided not to be a 'slave to my vacuum cleaner. Do they want to be liberated from child-bearing zncl‘babysitting? Some women think the pill is the best women- liberator in the world and as far as babysitting is concerned, it is a simple matter to hire someone to come in and stay with the young ruffians in your household if you really want to get away from them for a while. ' I guess the general feeling among female liberationists is that they want to be treated as equal to the male of the species. Boy, .are they a bunch of dumb women. They don't know when they are well off, I'd say. More times than I like to admit, I've hidden (by choice) behind the females Going back to school could be a trau- matic experience, but• it isn't. It's sad to see the summer go, and all• those things you were going to do not done. But there's a certain excitement as we step into September, surely the finest month of the year in this country. It is certainly not a sad occasion for mothers of young children. Most of them heave a sigh of relief, right down to their sandals, at the thought of school opening. Children are wonderful creatures, But, like bdoze, they should be taken in small doses. In summer, they are constantly want- ing to eat, do something darigeronspr fight with their brothers and sisters. A young mother's nerves are tough, but can be stretched only so far. Even more grateful for our educational system are the parents of all those teen- agers , who did- et riaiie a jpb this summer. Most of them, even those, who .complain bitterly about high education taxes, could kiss the minister of education on both cheeks. For, despite all the wonderful things to..do in summer, there is nothing more bored than a teenager of either sex, just hanging around home.. I can't blame them much. I get bored silly myself, just hanging around home. And adolescence makes it even more frustrating, because the body is full of beans, not meant for sitting in a lawn- chair, reading a book. But the pattern goes something like this. Sleep till noon of later. Get up after the lunch dishes are done and make a shambles of the kitchen preparing a messy hamburger. Leave the mess for Mom. Demand why there isn't a clean shirt. Slouch to the streets or the park, or hitchhike to the beach. Sit around and rip with a gang of other bored teenagers. If dinner is at six, be sure to get home at either five or seven and demand to be fed immediately. Then spend an most real and forceful weapon - tears'. How far do you think I'd get with that if I was on ,a par with my husba'nd1- and all the rest of the men in the World? I like to have the big heavy bank doors opened for me by some gentle- manly male. Not only does it, save 'my strength, it lets me up to the teller's wicket first, I adore being pampered so that the men are trained to rise when I enter a room and offer Me their chairs if there are no others available. I get security from the knowledge that my husband must stand good for the debts I incur while I needn't worry much about his. When you get right down to it girls, it would be a step backwards to be equal to the males. Right now we're better off than they are. Tell me what woman in her right mind would trade her present position. in society for the right` to swing a pick and shovel or drive a moving van. She may earn a few dollars more per week than she can pick up selling candy at the five-and-dime-store, but when you con- sider the femininity she has lost, you wonder if it is worth it all. I guess I'm a little like that wicked woman Eve who knew how to use her feminine charms to beguile a man. She was ousted from the Garden of Eden, she was condemned to a life of hard work and doomed to endure painful ordeals at the birth of her children. But she had Adam wrapped right around her little finger - and as far as I'm con- cerned, that's all the liberation I require. hour in the bathroom, fancying. up, and drift off to stay out half the night, mut- tering 'vaguely that you don't know where you're going or when you'll be home. This, of course, after ',borrowing," in plaintive tones, a little something from the old man. With exceptions, this is how it goes. It's demoraliking for all parties. And it's one reason even teenagers are glad to get back to school and their parents' are not glad, but ecstatic. Then there's the business of clothes for school. Little kids are sent off clean and shining, in fairly conventional . apparel. Big kids battle every inch , of the way. Big boys aren't so bad, though even they are showing peacock tendencies. It's the big girls,who cause the trouble. After a summer in shorts and jeans, sweatshirt and, bare feet, they are exceed- ing loath' to don dresses and .skirts and • shoes. So they db the next best thing -. battle their mothers over, every item of attire, and demand something exotic: a buckskin jacket, a prayer shawl, a Micro or maxi skirt, a see-through blouse. However, once they're back at school, the kids enjoy it. For a while. They discuss their summer romances and im- mediately begin new ones. They brag about the wild times they. had. They positively swagger if they've hitchhiked to Vancouver. They swiftly assess new teachers and try to drive them up, the wall. They groan with exaggerated dis- may when they find out that did So-and- ,So will be teaching them again this year. And how do the teachers feel? Most, of them are glad to get back to work. They're broke, or they're sick of mud- dling around ith their families, or they want to see what kind of rotten time- table triey have this year, or they just plain love teaching., I know one who'll be glad to get back, for all the reasons mentioned above. From My Window — By Shirley J. 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TIME and we'll be there to meet our many friends with an outstanding exhibition of modern farm machinery - , we will look forward to seeing you at SEAFORTH FALL FAIR . FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th ' M cGAV N FARM jl‘. E lUIPMgWr , Phone 627-0245 , WALTON ___ v . • Seaforth Agricultural Society Prize List Correction HOME ECONOMICS SECTION N Classes" 40 to 42 it elusive Catelli? Five Roses, are deleted. • 4 • ANIMIUMININfillE511 N E w "Super -Vic" ROOFING SKEETS THE ULTIMATE For commercial, industrial, residential 'and all your most valuable buildings. LAYS, 30 INCHES TO WEATHER' 5''SEL'LINfi OASIS, PER 100 SQUARE FEET OF METAL MEASURED . IN me,„01.0.11EFORE FORMING, -MADE FROM 36.INCHEA,WIPE • Hltiig.4A'Alt4E4,k419a5.41Kk!) TWO AND. HALF TIMES THE SIZE OF 'AVERAGE ROOFING SHEET RIB. ••• Earlier this summer the Chamber of Commerce placed trash containers along Seaforth's Main Street. Members of the C of C quite properly thought that the containers would encourage the 'public to use them and thus keep the sidewalks and street free of discarded cartons and bottles. They might just as well have saved themselves the trouble. True, a few citizens use them but the great majority do not, including most of those who inhabit the street at night. The result is that every morning — particularly Saturday and Sunday mor- nings — much of Main Street is litter- ed with a profusion of abandoned milk shake containers, pop bottles and cig- arette boxes. At some points' the new pavement which Seaforth opened so recently is. almOstAiidden from view by a curb-high accumulation. Seaforth maintenance people try their best to keep up with the flood of trash but they cannot'be expected to stay on duty around the clock and seven days a week. Perhaps the answer is to em- ploy a special shift on weekend morn- ings so that the mess can be collected and _disposed of before it blows into neighboring streets and places of busi- ness and depresses the hundreds of via- itors and tourists who pass through SEPTEMBER 10th-, 1920. Vern Dale and Leo Stephenson of Constance are taking in the Toronto R. McLeod, of Walton, has sold his threshing outfit to John Clark. He has been in the business for forty years and deserves a.rest.. ' Miss Stacey has commenced duties in S.S.No. 4, ilibbert and is the guest of Mrs. McNey. Mrs. A. Hotham of Staffa, enter- tained her Sunday School Class of six girls. One of the entrance pupils of Dash- wood, 'Miss Alice Hoffman, succeeded. winning, one of Hay Township War Mem- orial scholarships, but owing to the fact that she lives a few rods across •the boundary in Stephen Township, she was denied the reward. • The corn crop in the Kippen district is the best in many, years and some growers are reporting stocks over twelve . feet in length. C. Soldan, of Hensall, the well- known breeder and importer of Perch- eron horses, made a good showing at the Toronto Exhibition. Albert Whitesides and Milne R. Rennie, Hensall, two of the expert bowlers cap- tured first prize in Scotch Doubles Tour- naments in two outside towns.. Alonzo Ortwein of Michigan and for- merly of Hensall, and his family had a narrow escape. Their car was completely smashed in a collision with another car. as Miss Hazel Thompson has returned from her hoMe in Listowel to resume her position as milliner in the J. MacTavish store. • Robert Bell left for the Toronto Ex- hibition where the Bell Engine works have a large exhibit. Messrs. J. M. Best, W. E. Southgate and Keith McLean returned 'from a suc- cessful trout fishing trip to Eugenia Falls. Jack Hinchley of town, left to accept a position on the staff of the Galt Colleg- iate Institute. Miss 'Phemia Cowan of taWn.has ac- cepted , a posticin on the staff ofr the Pent- broke Collegiate Institute. SEPTEMBER 14th, 1945. Wm. Henry Golding M.P. for Huron, since a by-election in 1982 was elected chairman of the general caucus of the Liberal party. In honor of Miss Marian Sclater, bride elect,' Miss Maxine Lawrence and ;." Miss Gladys Earle entertained at a bathrooin shower. The gifts were pre- sented by Miss Margaret Hemberger. During the evening, court whiSt was played, the winners being Mrs. Ken Cornish an& Trixie San ford. • H. R. Spence and son of Seaforth,, shipped two cars of dressed • poultry to San Francisco; one car contained 6,400 birds and the other 6,466. The beautiful home of James Gardiner of Usborne Township was completely des- troyed by fire at a loss of$10,000. The Sir Ernest Cooper scholarship, an annual award of Clinton Collegiate, by Sir Ernest, a graduate of the school, will be awarded to Doris McEwen of Hayfield. Wellington Elliott, of Brdcefield, bed the misfortune to break 'Ms leg in three places, when the whiffletree broke and, snapped back. The choir of Brucefield Church spent a pleasant evening at 'the hohte of June Murdock, woo has been the choir leader and organist here for th,e, past two para. town every weekend. Certainly it will coat something ad- ditional but the cost will be of little consequence when compared to the pres- tige which the 'town loses by permitting cluttered streets. The problem is not peculiar to Sea- forth. The Acton Free Press recently drew attention to a similar situation in that town and emphasized that it is a poor advertisement for any city, town • or village when visitors pass through to see untidy streets,•especially thebusi- ness section which is supposed to be the show window of the community. Their impressions may mean the town loses or gains an industry, a business or a new family. Who wants to move to an untidy community where there is no pride in appearance? Perhaps the answer, as the Acton paper suggests, is in making everyone pick up the box he throws on the street. That would be a fitting penalty but one difficult to In the meantime perhaps we should look' at establishing a special weekend clean-up crew at least while the weath- er attracts groups of young people who stand about the streets all evening and into the night. We 'have a main street of which we can all be proud. We can't afford to have it half hidden every weekend. 'Miss Eva Stackhouse read an address and Miss Mary McCully presented her with , a Pen and.pencil set. She leaves for New York as a student at News York Univer- sit*. . , Among district•soldiers returning from overseas' this week were - Pte. James Barry, who spent five years in England; Sgt. W. C. Barber, who was in Italy, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Eng- land for three years; Sgt. 11.7..HuisSer : who was in England, -Helgium and Hol- land and Major R. T. Douglas who spent the past three years in England. • One of the highlights of the diamond jubilee meeting of the Huron PreSby- terial of the W.M.S. of the Presbyterian Church) in Canada, was, the presentation- of an honorary life 'membership to Mrs. T. Swan Smith,, for her* faithful work as treasurer of over a period of. 18 and a half years. 7 , . The many 'friends and neighliers of . Mrs. David Anderson of Varna will re- gret to learn that she had the misfortune • to fall and fracture her hip and is now in the hospital. SEPTEMBER 13th, 1895. John Malcolm, who resides near Rodgerville, threshed five bushels of oats with a flail from 24 sheaves. Wm. McDougall Jr. of Tuckersmith, has sold his farm of 50 acres to Thomas Forsythe, teacher for the sum of $3,400. James Cooper, of Kippen, has gained a wide notority as a breeder and im- porter of sheep. He has just returned frOm the old country with 30 high bred sheeny which are said to be the best that ever came to these parts. • Wm. Dunlop of Croinarty has in-, vented an attachment for his threshing machine for the purpose of threshing peas without splitting or breaking. It ' was tested on the farm of Robert Hog- garth . Miss Bessie Gemmill, of Egmynd- villa, went to, Goderich to attend model school. ' W. T. Gemmell, of Egmondville, who attended the Ottawa Normal 'ining l School, has taken a position 1 the Cornwall Model School, 4 Mrs, . T. W. Duncan, of town, has leased her residence on GoderichStreet to W. Thompson of the Oat Meal Mill. Miss Sarabel McLean, leaves here to-day for Toronto, where she will spend a year at the Kindergarten Department of the Normal School. Thos. Stephens, proprietor of the Queen's Hot I, entertained the Champion 4re Beaver L osse Team and the Champ- ion Football am at a banquet. 0 Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Greig returned home and drove to their pleasant resid- ence on James Street. The Masons of Hensall, who have been negotiating for the , lease or use of the Oddfellow's Hall here have recently moved into it. A most painful accident betel the six year old daughter of Eli Heywood of the 10th concession 'of Usborne. She was playing in the barn where they were cutting' straw, and got her hand caught in• the cog wheels, smashing her third finger. James Collie of Lake Linden, Mich igen paid a visit to his parental home here. He was -on his way tuna from Boston. . Thomas Thompson, who for several years has •been running the town bus, has been awarded the contract for carry- ing the mail between Brussels and Sea- forth. In the Years Agone