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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1970-11-12, Page 2Legion Tribute To Fallen Heroes r ..... ...O. I-. ..•••• In the Years Agone "it's a Get Well Ouick card from all hospital employees!". is said to be $700. An accident which might have proved fatal occurred while some of the Zurich boys were out shooting. Wm. Wurm was accidentally shot in the arm and neck. Dr. Buchanan extracted the deadly mis- siles afterwards. Hugh J. Grieve has purchased the old Martin farm on the 3rd concession, H. R. S. Tuckersmith, for $4,400. It is a splendid farm, well situated and contains 100 acres. James Wright, of Galt, has taken the position of journeymen in Thos. Hills black smithing establishment. W. Turney, of town, has leased the old Wilsph farm, adjoining the town from Thomas Case, for a number of years. A man named Joseph Baker, an Englishman, who had been doing odd jobs q.bout town, hired a horse and buggy at Hinchley & Lamb's livery stable. He promised to return it, but he hasn't been heard of since. DRESS PATTERN DESIGNING MADE EASY! Learn How You Can Get "A Perfect Fit Every Time!" In This Exciting• Demonstration of: DRESS PATTERN DESIGNING - FITTING - DRESSMAKING TIPS If you sew at all. If you have ever been frustrated in your home sewing projects by patterns that won't fit — and adjust-. ments that don't work — then you will not• want to miss this demonstration. You may bring your questions and sewing problems to the class and we will help you solve them. If you SEW TO SAVE OR SEW TO SHOW — we can help you do it better! Anna Romaniuk, designer-couturier and manager of Canada's only school teaching Dress Pattern Designing through home Study, wil conduct the classes in Clinton. ANNA ROMANIUK WILL SHOW YOU: • How easily and quickly you con learn to make your own perfect-fit garment patterns exactly tq your own body measurements and contours, for any style of dress, pant suits, slacks, coats, etc. fa HoW you can crest a new style simply by changing the position of the darts or cutting lines in your basic patterns. • How you can use your own imagination, your own fashion ideas to create your own designs, or easily copy any high fashion design that appeals to you. • How to speed up cutting, fitting and sewing procedures and still have that couturier finished look in your home sewn garments. • Many other designer's "secrets" to help you hove the best-fitting, best- looking wardrobe you have ever had! Quality garments that you will be proud to wear and proud .to be able to tell everyone that you designed and made youhelf! And saved yourself money in the bargciin! * THIS WILL BE OUR ONLY . DEMONSTRATION IN HURON COUNTY THIS YEAR, AND WILL BE HELD AT THE: CLINTON LEGION HALL TWO SESSIONS WILL BEHELD ON: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th Times: Afternoons: From 2:00 to 4:00 Evenings: From 7:00 to 9:00 You need only to attend one class, You may RESERVE a seat EARLY by calling 235-0740. ADMISSION S1.00.'(Yo be paid at the door). This will entitle you to a FREE CONTEST at each class for it dress-length of crimpolene. WALT-ANN'S DRESS PATTERN DESIGNING SCHOOL P.O. BOX 610, EXETER, ONTARIO (Registered as a Trade School Under The Trade Schools Regulation Act) • 4, 0 : ti 0 • 4 ~lte /ituton fxpo • 0' • Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, 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 Telephone 527.02410 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, November 12, 1970 Negative Attitudes Are Harmful 4 0 0 tit It is unfortunate that those who are responsible for pi.eparing material be- ing used in an increasing number of re- ports dealing with the area don't take the trouble to check their fact.;. Instead they have adopted a practise of grasping an incorrect or outdated statistic and from this proceeding to reach conclusions that bear little or no relation to the facts as they are known to exist. Perhaps too often this results from those doing the research sitting in their offices far removed from the scene of their studies and relying on earlier re- ports rather than on first hand infor- mation available, to them in the field. Such a situatiim became apparent as area municipalities began consideration of the MODA Phase 1 report. In a num- ber of instances, as far as Seaforth was concerned, the conclusions reached were invalid because the material on which they were based was faulty. Yet unfor- tunately, having been reduced to writ- ing and included in what is presented as a responsible document, these same conclusions will continue to be entract- ed from content and used again and again in future reports as fact. Similar situations arose in the tech- nical reports presented last week to I have just got home from something as rare and delightful as a personally conducted tour of Buckingham Palace - a teachers' staff meeting 'that lasted only half an hour. This is equivalent to building the Pyramids in three weeks. Meetings, a s such, are a particular annex in hell for anyone who has been in the newspaper business and attended at least one, and sometimes two, every working day of the year. Ninety-five percent of meetings are unnecessary, unenlightening, and unpro- ductive. They are the refuge of bores of both sexes, who take out their personal frustrations by frustrating everyone else. These people have their little dinkles: Raising points of order; moving amend- ments to the motion; and haggling for interminable times over items that could be solved in eight seconds by a three year old with two heaps. Occasionally, a meeting produces sparks, a clash, a conflict of personalities or ideas that light the Styglan gloom. I well remember one town council meeting. One of the councillors, somewhat the wear for something or other, called one of the other councillors, "a gibbering old baboon." A nice thrust. He wasn't too far off the mark, but was in no condition himself to hurl such charges. The offended party promptly started peeling off his jacket, and offered to thrash the other "within an inch of your life." The other councillors, and even the mayor, quailed. Chteniv because both councillors were well into the seventies. I might add that the only blood shed was verbal. But that was a meeting. Staff meetings are not quite that bad, but they inevitably produce in me a headache so fierce that only a great dollop of some sedative beverage ran allay it. I've seen adults haggling bitterly for half an hour over the chewing of gum. Where it could be chewed, when It should be chewed, and how it should he chewed (open mouth or closed.) The only result was that the kids went on blithely chewing gum, wherever, whenever and however they could get away with it. county council preliminary to adoption of an official plan for Huron. The Kleinfeldt report asserts that Seaforth is the poorest equipped of any of Huron towns to accept growth. It bases this conclusion on the lack of san- itary sewers facilities and adds that "Silver Creek is reachiny, its maximum capacity to accept effluent and this may well be a limitin gfactor on the event- ual growth of the town". But in this conclusion the Kleinfeldt people ignore completely that (1) for more than three years Seaforth has been pressing the OWRC to carry out construction of a new disposal facilities. (2) More than two years ago OWRC settled on the location of new lagoons to serve the town and (3) the new la- goons which OWRC hopefully will com- plete in due course, are located, not on Silver Creek, but rather on the Bay- field River. . Presumably there will be opportunity at county council and in committee dis- cussions to review the Kleinfeldt re- ports. Seaforth representatives should spare no effort to emphasize a positive approach to Seaforth's future and not permit the negative attitude of the coun- ty planners to be accepted and perpet- uated by inclusion in the final docu- ments. Deep moral, social and psychological issues are involved in a problem of this magnitude. Is gum bad for the teeth? What do you do if you send a kid to the office, he removes his gum on the way, and,swears angelically that it was the teacher's imagination, that he was really chewing his cud out of sheer nervous- ness? Is it better for the student to chew gum than to chew his fingernails down to the blood? "Jesus wore long hair and a beard, didn't he?" How do you counter this one (a favorite, by the way, among male students)? Do you say, "Uh, well, uh, Jesus, uh. THROW THAT GUM IN THE BASKET:" Or would you say, "O.K., Buster, turn that blackboard Into an Ouija board." This particular staff meeting was about girls wearing slacks. Human experience has showed that girls will wear whatever other girls are wearing, And girls, these days, are wearing slacks. They are comfortable. they can look smart, they are warm in our frigid winters, they prevent boys from peeking up the stairs as the girls ascend in mini-skirts, and they have probably contributed more to containing the population explosi9n than the old-fashioned night-dress. Anyway, I expected a marathon. About three hours. They can wear slacks, but only once a week. They can wear slacks, but they can't wear blue jeans. Nobody in my class is going to wear slacks. If it's all right for the boys to wear blue jeans, why can't the girls. And so on. It was fantastic, but the openly, and bluntly expressed feeling of the majority was that girls should be allowed to wear whatever was in style. Ant that was that. One commercial teacher, who could have been expected to come down heavily on the side of "no slacks," said she didn't care if they wore fig leaves as long as they were "neat and tidy." .I'd like to hear what you think about long hair, girls wearing slacks, and all the other things that were unacceptable in our day. Drop a line. Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley NOVEMBER 16,; 1945. P/O. F. A. Casson, son of Mrs. J. Ross Murdie, of "McKillop, and to late Albert J. Casson, veteran of the 71st battalion was officially reported to have died in Japanese internment camp. The Edelweiss Rebekah Lodge spon- sored a successful euchre with 26 tables in play. The prize winners were; - Ladies, games, Mrs. Mae Dorrance; Lone hands; Mrs. Edwin Hawkins; Consolation, Mrs. Jack Eiligsen; Men, games, Bert Shaw; Lone Hands, George ,Hildebrand; Consolation, Stanley Dorrance. Seaforth and district citizens paid solemn tribute to their war dead at an impressive service in Victoria Park on Remembrance Day. F/ Lt. J. A. Munn expressed appreciation of those who as-. sisted in the service. John McAsh of Varna is preparing to build a' residence in the near future. Following the evening service, in St. Thomas Anglican Church, )Geo. Clarke - was madp7 the recipient of pen and pencil "st set, He has, beep organist 25 years. • Campbell MgKiriley, of Blake, who has been doing bean threshing, happened with a misfortune when' his machine fell over Leon Jeffrey's bank, and did considerable damage to the machine. A welcome home party was held in Staffa Township Hall in honor of Pte. Kenneth Burns, recently returned from overseas. Glen Tasker of Blyth may have dis- covered several small pearls although at the present moment, it is merely supposition. He was examining some muscles and discovered about a half dozen objects that resembled pearls. IVO V E.M.B E R 1 2 ,1920 A party of young people of Mitchell motored out and spent a very enjoyable evening at S. A Miller's home at Crom- arty.'. • The Beef Ring has finished operation. The annual business meeting will be held at Wm. Black's in Tuckersmith. W W Cooper of Kippen, has been making his second large shipment of turnips this Season. weir Acheson, of Hensall, who pur- chased the Commercial Hotel some years ago. has sold out to a Mr. Young from Thamesford. A well known and esteemed resident of Egmondville passed away at his home there in the person of John Prender- gast in his 85th year. As a boy lie came to Tuckersmith in the year 1.848, from •Toronto, In a wagon provided by an older brother who had come to the Huron tract a year earlier. Wm. Ruby, for many years a familiar figure on the streets of Seaforth, passed away at the home of A. A McLenn an in his 92nd year. For twentj, years he has acted as porter at the Commercial Hotel, In his youth he was a soldier. Mrs. Thos. Price and daughter's have rented the res: fence of Mrs. Robert Willis on James Street and are now ocrupyl.ng it. Wm, Elcoat and his daughter are now settled in their new home on John St. which he recentl purchased from James Rofobtlbhve.00ddar utting Dublin,is and hauling is the order Mrs. James Mann of Constance re- ( eived a fracture of her collar hone a week ago and is very low. The 1: F fl held their annual meet- ing Messrs. John Murdock and Wm. BerrN were re appointed president and vice president. Sam Thompson, wi,o haS been a splendid secretary refused to take it again and Murray Gibson was appointed in his place.. Frank MeQuall the 4,.014 -3' Peeve of McKillap met w:th a nasty accident. was cutting lown a tree in the hush 'and in the fall a branch struck him or, the top of the head. Several stitches were required to close the wound. NOVEMBER 15, 1895. Rev. S 1rheson of Kippen preached to tl.e nrangemen of Exeter. The church clock was out of repair and the reverend gentleman, timinz himself by it, preached 1 for two hours. That was a regular old 1 time sermon. James Campbell, Clerk of Hullett, has bought what is known as the Hill 1 property in I,ondesboro, consisting of three quarters of an acre of land on which is erected a couple of frame houSes 1 and a couple of small shops. The price aM