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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-05-15, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS., Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. MCLEAN, Editor newspaper easunaalt A Audit Bureau of Circulation and Class `A' Community Canada (ip advance) $5.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $7.00 a Year Subscription Rates: Newspapers Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association SINGLE COPIES — 12 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, MAY 15, 1969 Regional Goverment Problems disks Suggestions concerning the immin- ence of regional government generally evoke strong criticisms. Unfortunately much of the criticism is baied on emotion rather than fact with the result that the effect of the ar- guments are 'weakened. But this isn't always the case as re- cent comment in the Acton, Free Press indicates, Asking the question "surely the Ont- ario government wouldn't abolish them (municipal councils) without leaving something better in their place?" The Free Press presents its argument re-. asonably in theie words: One of the crosses elected representatives on mun- icipal councils must bear is criticism. They are, to use the words of one veter- an campaigner, damned if they do and damned if they don't. 'Often, too, the Free Press is prone to criticize those public office for being too cautious or indecisive about some problem. Most of us have been critical at one time or another of the local coun- cil's shortcomings. There have been bumbling cOuncillors and weak school boards over the years. But in the main we can't complain about the quality of part time municipal of- ficials. They were very often men or women motivate(' by a sincere desire to serve their community to the best of their ability. They accepted criticism or ignored it, realizing their work would never be fully understood by the electorate. . Now, however, it appears the shoe may be on the other foot. The govern- ment's intention to disband the munic- ipal councils and substitute one or two elected representatives on a regional board suddenly finds the public defend- ing the grass roots' role municipal coun- cils play in their lives. In spite of the criticism the average citizen has discovered that the small town councillor was his voice in the government of his enviroment. There is no doubt that larger regional centres can be handled more efficently, but will it be at the cost of "the small town ratepayer who wasn't afraid to accost his local representatives demand- ing to know what the heck he's doing? Will all these councillors be replaced by "'one or two regional councillors who are remote from the ratepayers? We could be destroying the very es- sence of democracy by destroying local municipal councils. They have been training grounds for politicians of ev- ery stripe, kindergartens for the neo- phytes and nursery of some pretty big ideas." Farm 'Troubles Farming in rich argiculturai Essex County should be profitable. But, farm- ers are leaving the land to take jobs in the city. That is ,a fact which,, should cause much heart searching in both Ot- tawa and Toronto. If good farmers cannot make a go of it in the most productive area of Ncirth. America, there is something radically wrong with the occupation. There is a crying need for farm poll- cies in both Ottawa and Toronto that' will give the men and women who love the land some incentive to stay at farm- ing. (Windsor Star). 01 , Sugar and Spice — By Bill Smiley — "Meee.belfrf SW/WA SIT BACK KIDS . . . HERE COMES THE FIREWORKS! In the Years Agone To The Editor Publicity Aids• Area Campaign Dear Sir: May I, through your generos- ity express to the people of this community our heartfelt thanks for the magnificent support they gave the March of Dimes camp- aign this year. In• doing so, they once again ensured that the dis- abled adults we have among us, and Indeed• the handicapped' of the entire Province, wli have a champion for another Year in the Rehabilaton Foundation for the Disabled. this enlightened service. Yours sincerely, (Miss) Eleanor Henderson, kcal chairman. Easter Seal Is Successful "I hate fa ask this, but I'm afraid you'll all have to think for about dit hour." ' spent at Writ Presbyterian Man:. rick's church 'Dublin, has been feted at various parties prior to her marriage. The property of Mrs. Eva. Rog- ers, James st, Seaforth, has been sold through the office of E. C. Chamberlain to Frank Up- " • The death 'occurred in Scott Memorial Hospital of Miss Cath- erine'Kehoe an old and esteemed resident. She was born inn Tuck- er'smith 81 years ago. Mrs. H. E. Smith and Miss Hel- en Smith were'in. London attend- ing the graduation excerises at the University of Western Ont- ario, where Mrs. Smiths brother Jack Zimnierman received his B. A. degree. Dr. E. A. McMaster and C. M. Smith are on a fishing trip near Huntsville, Algonquin Park. A most enjoyable evening was se when Rev. and Mrs. Hugh Jack entertained the Junior and Senior Young Peoples' Societies. Mr. and Mrs. Jack and family . were called forward and Gordon Wilson expressed' the regret of the YRS:, at their leaving for another church and Miss Jean McMaster presented them with a glass silex coffee maker. Mrs. Kenneth Campbell also read a short address and Robert Mc- Millan presented them with a silver tray. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert No- gridge Hullett, received pain- ful injuries when they were at- tacked by an infuriated 'cow . Which had just"given birth to aa calf, They were badly bruised. Miss Mary Halpin, Seaforth's oldest citizen, both in years and length of residence passed away on Tuesday • The darndest people are upset because there are some indicat- ions that the baby bonus may be terminated, in an attempt to halt inflation in Canada. Now, don't ask me why polit- icians have chosen to cut expen- ses through the baby bonus or I'm apt to ask you a question like "Why not for goodness sake?" That's right. Why hot cut out the ababy bonus? Although I'm just as pleased as anyone else when the baby bonus arrives on the 20th of each month, I still ask why it should be retained in favor of other vital services. Or maybe those who, oppose the Trudeau government's sug- gestion regarding baby bonus are among those. dunderheaded idiots who clamor for an ac- complishment of some magnt- ude, wouldn't it? YoU're not quite that foolish eh? You actully realize the coun- try can't continue to spend more than it takes in. You are ready to admit it is just possible that a federal gov- ernment budget is basically the same as a grocery budget --if You are allotted $25 per week and your are spending $35 time and time again, you are soon n trouble. Either yqu don't have the money to pay the fuel arid the hydro, or you have to Out back on the nice little frilly ex- tras, like babysitters and booze and new clothes and gasoline and similar' items. Or, if you've grown so accustomed to the better things in life, you may chose to omit certain convent ience foods like instant Choco- lte for the milk and whipped topping for the pie and fresh fruit for the, salad or cream for the coffee. , You get the picture. Common sense gives you the answer every time. Prime Minster Trudeau isn't going to be a popular, Irian Rh' the voter, I sup , he silo-ilia-be. He's the first prime minister in years and years Who has told the people the truth, like it or lump it. Says Trudeau, "I'm tang the country we can't fulfill all ex- pectations. We have to find the money to pay for them, and, be- cause we don't want to raise Isn't tax time fun? With the income' tax return safely off at the usual eight min- utes before midnight on, the last day, and my. wife, who figured out mine, nearing normal a couple of weeks later, I think I have cooled off enough to pay a deep-felt, and deeply-deserved, tribute, Oh, not to her, As I told her, from a safe distance, "Any dum- my can do that." I didn't really mean it. It was only in retaliat- ion for her applying to me the epithet "stupid." twelve times during one Sunday afternoon when I was helping her. We got a different total on every col- umn of figures. Patiently I pointed out to her that .women didn't have the panche to deal with income tax forms. They want everything to come out even, just as they do when wall-papering. Men would much rather grin fiendishly and say, "Let's see what the com- puter • dart do with that." 'Finally, in disgust, I left it to her. She's so ridiculously hon- est that I probably won't even be fined this year, as is the cus- tom. But it takes a lot of fun and excitement out of it."There's no joy in doing , your income tax form unless you think you've gotten away with something. No, the tribute I want to pay is to a modern writer. He's an- onymous, or I'd trumpet his name from the housetops. He's the chap who produces that an- nual best-seller called T1 Gener- al Tax Guide. Don't let the title fool you. That's just a front for one of the most baffling my- stery stories of the year. It's avidly unfair that his pub- lishers, a stodgy old firm called Department of National Rev- enue, with headquarters in Tax- .ation, Canada do not give this author the glory and publicity which is due. Not since, Nicole Machiavel- li wrote The Prince, back in the sixteenth century, has such a brilliantly, diabolically clever piece of prose been produced. And this guy does it every year. The 1968 edition of this work ran to only thirty pages, but it was a little masterpiece. It had the usual combination of com- plication, suspense, mystery, ir- ony and horror. While it smacks of Machiavelli there are under- tones of Edgar Allen Poe. Mind you, it's not for the aver- age, reader, who likes a plot with beginning, middle and end, This is for the more sophisticat- ed reader, who likes jumping, backwards; forwards and side- ways in an, effort to keep up with the subtle, involuted mind of the writer. Nor is it a thrilling encoun- ter for the fellow working, for a salary, paid by cheque, with all deductions at source. But for the citizen who has more than one source of income the book's combination of backtrac- ing, leap-frogging, ' equivocat- ion and gobblegook are sheer delight. My wife enjoys this sort of thing. In fact, her favourite in- door sport ie reading aloud to me excerpts which prove that I am going to wind up in the pen- itentiary for life,'If I ignore Item 36 of this gem, which the auth- or, with typical irony, calls a Guide. With a guide like this, who needs a compass. It's all there, perfectly clear. For instance, she was delighted to find that, because we live in one of the -ten provinces of Canada, we get something: an "Abatement for Provincial Taxes." This can amount to 28 percent. Just like money in the bank, Pretty darn decent of the federal govern- ment. It is actually called a. "re- duction." Of course, you don't get this reduction if you live in the Yuk- on. You have to pay the whole shot. Pretty darn mean of the federal , government. • And, of course, if you do live in one of the provinces, your'"reduction" is added back somewhere, and you pay-the whole shot, anyway. But this is just one of the charm- ing, illogical little peccadilibes that make this book a "must" for anyone. AnYone;thirlie who es being skinned alive by a trapper who smiles and smiles while your pelt is being removed. May 18, 1894 Messrs Mullett and Jackson are placing in the Royal Hotel a fine new -coal range and Messrs. Johnson Bros. have the contract for placing two hot air furnaces 'in the building. • James Archibald has his sale stable, formerly.-the old •Paveell Hotel stable ready for occupat- ion. J. G. Crick has on exhibition a splendid free hand crayon pic- ture of R. Carmichael, also a good one of M. Y. McClean. The following parties were ticketed by C. A. Stuart. Andrew Parks, for British Columbia, Miss Agnes Dickson, Dumfries Scotland, Mrs. and Miss Maggie and James Neville for Smith Falls. , The Methodist Congregation at Hensall, are preparing for the erection of a handsome new brick church which promises to be a credit to the congregation and an ornament to the village. C. Finkbeiner of • Daahwoed had a number of sheep mutilated by dogs. John McNevin of Kippen, is shipping from this station" ten car loads of lumber for the Broadfoot and Box Co. of Sea- forth. • Four butcher wagon's and six fish peddlers visit Kippen every week. Freeman Hackwell of Leads bury has purchased Wm. Camer- on's farm. Mrs. Robertson, widow of the late Geo. Robertson of Chester- field, Ontario will occupy the brick residence belonging to , James Weir on Goderich St. E. J. W. Livingston had his ankle sprained by a kick in the foot- ball match. • Hugh Grieve sold five buggies on Saturday. Geo. Scotts' cartoons have been attracting Much attention during the past week. a "`-a, May 16, 1919 J. E. Harnwell, was appoint- ed clerk of Stanley to succeed the late, R. J. Richardson,, Mrs. Anna Ross, Brucefield has gone to Formosa, Japan, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Mackay, who-is one of the Mis- sion staff there. 4 company called at the home of . Alex and Mrs. Gardiner when Mrs. John Watt read an address and Mrs. Geo. Kelley and Mrs. Joseph Bennett pre- sented them with a fine leather upholstered chair. Andrew Scott has leaied Mrs. Robert Willis residence en James st. at present occupied by Mr. Higgins. George Johnston, son of Rev. J. Johnston Varna, Who has been attending the Seaforth Collegiate left for Timmins where' he will eider the services of the Bank of Commerce. Miss Agnes MacKay is aupply- ing as teacher at Duff's school, McKillop for Miss Jean Carswell until the Summer holidaYs, Robe,rt Smith' has purchased Mrs. .1: Kerr's cottage on God- erich st. and will occupy it short- ly. Messrs. A. A, Naylor, W. Ed- munds and W. J. Williams were in Goderich attending a district meeting of Oddfellows. The White Star Line will run their annual excursion from Goderich to Detroit and will also hold a moon light excursion out of the town. Gunners R. E. McKenzie and M. L. Watinkel returned from overseas this week. The annual inspection of the Seaforth Collegiate Institute cad. ets teak place, The captain this yearWas Frank Coates' who gave Most efficient service asp instruc- This year our campaign total was $653,11, which compares very favourrably with last year's figure of $734.81. Althpugh total figures for the province are not yet compiled, since some cam- paigns run late and some coin boxes are yet to be picked up, I am assured that we will be well over our objective of $875,000.00, close, actually, to $900,000.00, including the money We will receive from the 28 Un- ited Appeals of which we are members.. Because of this shim of con- cern for our fellow citizens who are less fortunate thanour- selves, people will walk, people will work, and people will live and function as part of their communities who would not otherwise do so. Our success is in no small measure due also to the ,gen, enmity of the news media who have been, more than fiver, co- operative and even anxious to give us a forum through which to' sell our story, and may I al- so extend to the "Huron Exposit. or" our sincere appreciation for taxes indefinitely, we're going to curtail expenditures and cut back sonic of the program" Those are. the words I can un- derstand. The man has finally shown me his worth and I'm im- pressed. I was getting eras), weary of the same old gobbly- gook most politicians use - eith- er blame the trouble on the par- ties or give the people the run- around about the projected fig- ures and the gross national, pro. duct, or some such' garbage. But what really grabs me about this. whole thing is the kind of people who are most concerned about the possible demiSe of the baby bonus. The loudest complainers are folks who are making plenty of money to feed and clothe-their youngsters without a govern- ment subsidy. A few hoots and hollars from people' without a, child -or a chick to support, and of course, their are cries froin the die-bard Tories who predicted lunacy when the Liberals first intro- duced the legislation and now foresee dire disaster at the ' first hint of the program's end. It would be interesting-to take a study on the ways the baby bonus is spent each month in the average family 'across Can- ada. Some families stash the month ' ly endowment in the bank, each thlyendowthent n the bank each and then gloat over the great sacrifice they made on the child's behalf. ' Some moms and darts use that gift to pay for a monthly wing- ding ;With kids getting' heart' breaking memories about their drunken parents, -Maey families spend the baby - bonus on clothei -and shoes for the children, 'perhaps better clothes and shoes than the child needs or is good for him. Others- put the money toward dental bills, doctor bills, food bills, ed.. itcation bilis, the real purpbae of the' baby,bonus but not too much value unless there is a large family and a thrifty mother. I'M sorry to see the baby bon- us go. It comes as a pleasant supplement to the family budget But I suppose we can'scrape by without it, and if it does some- thing to steady the cost of living, I'll gladly relinquish it today. Sir: The Ontario •Society for Crip- pled Children, and associated Easter Seal service clubs join with the crippled children. in the province to thank your news- paper Wholeheartedly for the supporting publicity. which was directed to the 1969 Easter Seal Campaign. Although the final returns for the campaign will not be offic- ially known for a few weeks, we are confident that everyone of the 229 participating Easter Seal clubs will not only reach, but surpass their local campaign goal this year to establish a new record high Easter Seal return for Ontario. To each and every member of the community and surround- in area we extend deepest ap- precitaion from all the crippled girls and boys who Will receive help this year through Easter Seal gifts. Sincerely yours, W. b. Whitaker, • Provincial Baiter Seal Chairman. Stand up and be counted Maelean.'s has ' long consid- ered itself Canada's national magazine. More. 'top Canadian writers have appeared on the magazine's pages than any ,qth- er similar 'publication. Even when 'slumping advertising re- venues produced •an annual out- put of red ink, the magazine, continued' to offer Canadians a home version of the Saturday Evening ,Post. But no company can contin- ue to lose heavily and stay in business, and Maclean's is no exception, despite a. healthy parent company. About the time the Post called it quits in the United States, Maclean's faced two alternatives — change the format or follow suit. Starting in January, Maclean's reduced the size of the magazine and adopted the format of the chief advertising grabber of Can- ada, Time magazine. The cheaper newsprint cost plus increased advertising re- venues meant black ink for the first time in' years. Now Can- adian companies could place the same advertisement in Maclean's and Time. Prior to this year, companies not only had to pay top space rates for Maclean's but faped high production costs since ads for the magazine were good nowhere else. To complete the cycle, sports cartoonist, turned evangelist, turned TV preacher, turned newspaperman., turned politic- ian, turned television comment- ator, turned TV executive, turn- ed radio commentator, Charlie Templeton became' editor. He was given a free hand not only to keep Maclean's as the country's national magazine, but to turn. it, into a money-maker as well. And the May issue was tailor made 'for some extra promo; tion featuring a nude man and woman decorating a controver- sial article entitled "The , Nat- ural Superiority of Men." Certainly the article present- ed nothing new or startling. Dr. Lionel Tiger, a Montreal-horn sociologist, repeated in his the- ory that woman can't be equal because our biological heritage -From Mx By Shirley J. Kellar tor. . Among the buyers at the Dor- ranee Dispersion sales, were John McKinley, Zurich, R. Scar- lett, Seaforth, J. H. Campbell, Seaforth, Wm. Beattie, Seaforth, J. Smith, Walton, D. Papple, Sea- . forth, J. Daley, Seaforth, Jas. A, Hay, Seaforth, W, Harvey, kip, pen, 4. W. Devereaux, Seaforth, J. Grassick, Kippen, J. Lane, Seaforth, R. Forrest, Seaforth. The death of Mrs. Wm. Dobie at her home in Tuckersmith oc- curred on May. 7th. She was the daughter of the late Andrew McLellan.. Another one of the Noble Band of pioneers of Tuckersmith Township has gone to his re- ward in the person of James Me, Farlane. He was born in Perth-s Shire Scotland in 1829 and came as a young man to this country. Mr. Cantelpn of Clinton was through McKillop last week buy- ing up all the beans he could locate. May 19, 1944 Cpl. John Mackay, eldest son of Wm. MacKay, Seaforth, ser- ving in Italy with the Perth Reg- iment was reported wounded. Among the boys who wrote thanking the Red Cross for box- es sent, were A. J. Eckert, .G. A Charters, T. F. Wilbee, F. C. Griene, R. D. McGregor, Eyan Rennie, P. "Ti -Mennen , A. R. Archibald, T. B. Marshall, Ken Adams, -A. R. Nicholson, B, Dun- can, J. D. D'unlop, •r. L. Kennedy, Alex Irvine, Buzz Finnigan, Chas, W. Wood, J. H. Curtin, C. E. Armstrong, G. S. Habkirk. Miss Veronica Molyneaux, whose marriage to Kenneth Etue of Zurich took place in St. Pat- This Week and Next - - By Don Hunt — dictates that men form groups to run the world and woman can't join. This same Dr. Tiger was the subject of a lengthy article in Maclean's sister publication, Chatelaine, last fall. He said the same. things then and .ho one protested. This time, if you are to be- lieve the drum beaters, a group known as the Women's Liberat- ion Movement, decided to picket the head office of Maclean's. The militant feminists, all 15 of them, carried placards such as "Maclean's Smirks When It Talks About Women;" "Put Lionel Tiger Back in The Zoo;" "Maclean's a National Scandal," "Our Goal: Maclean's For Every Trashcan;" "Men Are Not Born Superior; They Are Raised Priv- ileged." And "just by chance", as the women are marching, two males showed up with their oivn sign, "Rah, Rah Tiger." And in case anyone still thought it was legitimate, the women admitted to being the same group that picketed a win- ter bikini contest at an outdoor establishment in Toronto. That contest was drawing little at- tention when, out' of nowhere, the "Women Liberation Move- ment" issued a statement" de- nouncing the contest. Needless to say, it drew all the television, newspaper and radio stations. This time, the 'Publicity wasn't half as good. Perhaps the editors are catching on to the gimmick makers. Either• that, or they realize anyone preaching the natural superiority of molds is doing so with tongue in cheek. After all, the editors making the assignments are married men. They KNOW the superior- ity theory is a myth! In fact, it's about time the men got together and began de- mantling equal rights. Otherwise, the discrimination against the male Species will expand. Ont- ario took the first step this year by ruling all males required a' fishing license. Next year, who knows? They may abolish driv- ing licenses for women! • 4 4 4 If 4