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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-06-29, Page 2SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JUNE 26, 1969 • - - • - Since 4860, Serving the Community First A ' - • -' --P4440010-4.WORTIL__ONTARIO„evert Thun4aY moningitMcLEAN 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 It's Summer Carnival Time Probably never in the past 33 years in which it has been held is there a greater need for public support of the Lion Summer Carnival than in this year. The Lions Club depends to a great extent on the money made at the car- nival to carry on park activities. And in recent years for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was inclement weather, proceeds have fallen off. At the same time as returns dropped expenses increased. The Lions Club was in the middle. Members this year have spent long hours in planning for the event of this Thursday and Friday evenings. The re- sult will be full evenings of entertain- ment for those of every taste, Your presence at -the carnival will mean not only an evenings fun for your self and your friends. Even more import ant it will indicate that you are interest- ed in the activities of the park. It will indicate that you want to have a part in continuing to provide the picnic facil- ities, the attractive park setting, the swimming lessons for district children. Speeding Up Work of the Commons IP II 1111 1-7416;41 ,4p., , slii"V luelsuAgmAcwomoas 30141411)- 'IT BECOMES, OUR BEST SELLER JUST AFTER THE 'SCHOOL TERM' • In the Years Agone Sugar a ,l3-, ,,131 Ws boon quite a. inanth Don't tallt -to--me about- a bear- with a sore- head. He'd back down the trailliVe ti-bunnylUtie met a teacher, in June, with a sore tooth. Right now I'm will- ing to take on anything, up to and including, a grizzly. June is the month in which nothing is so rare as a day,,, ac- cording to Browning, or some- body. And for school teachers, it's a month in which every day is a hard night's work. The teacher., is plagued by paper work which could be done by a 15-year-old moron, .an ad- ministration which is twice as stupid as he thought it was, and students who are bored from the belly-button both ways by school. Throw in a throbbing tooth and you've got yourself a mean critter. The month started off fittingly, with everybody- for- getting my birthday, on the 2nd: The only card I received was from my insurance company, a card which annually infuriates me. Next day, one of those nico- tine-tanned stumps which my dentist laughingly calls teeth began to kick up. And, it's been kicking up, down and sideways ever since. If I had any guts I'd tie a string around it, - fasten the string to a doorknob and slam tlie, door. However, I have about as-many guts as I have teeth, so. I go on"trying to save this one. I can't even bite a marshmal- lOw without going into orbit, so I've practically been on a liquid diet for weeks. This has its dis- advantages. Which is worse every morning — a toothache or a hangover? And how would you like both? As is our custom, my wife and I went to' the annual Leacock Medal Award Dinner recently. I've been a judge ill the campet- itio'n for several years and enjoy meeting a few big shots and finding their feet are made of the faine type of clay as my own., Despite the snide comments of some writers from the big dail- ies, it's a good party in a good cause — keeping alive and fresh the works and memory of Can- ada's — and one of the world's greatest comic writers. This year's winner was Stuart ,. 1.1 ' SPlee l'ruernan, whose, u'-ea Only. As. OK As__You-ActIL-As good entertaiment. Mr. True- Trueman; a Watimer, was sal- ty. The chairman, Richard Doyle editor of the Globe and Mail; was even wittier, and should write a kook. The venerable, if not blessed, Harry Boyle, a wit- ty writer and editor under his farm-boy facade, was there, and was witty. In fact, the whole thing was excruciatingly funny for many, painful for me. My wife galloped through a huge and excellent dinner, 'darting her eyes at my plate, where nothing was miss- ing- except a few of 'the inevit- able green peas, which L had managed to mumble. Juk as dinner began, I had a terrible attack of leaping bi- cuspid and couldn't eat a bite. I decided the only thing to do was to paralyze the tooth. I tried, but it refused to play. All I succeeded in doing was paralyzing the rest of me, mean- while 'carrying- on about my tooth (bravely, of course) to such an extent that my wife 're- marked later it, was like having a crying baby in Church. However, it all worked out fine. We went to a small gath- ering after the dinner, and in, credible numbers of young, pretty college girls hovered ab- out me, fetching me aspirin, gin and, other medications. Meanwhile, my old lady spent -an, hour or so straightening out the editor of the Globe and Mail. expected to find this col- umn on the front page Monday morning. But there it was, the same old Globe melange of world crises and murders and, stale speeches of Cabinet Minist- ers. Not content with,, my physi- cal suffering, young- Kim, hit me in June with another wallop. She wanted a loan toward =electric piano. After a sufficient number of things, like "Fie on thee, wenoh!" and "You're-. going to have to pay interest, you know," I buckled, and'am now subsidiz- ing 'One of those rotten groups' to the tune 'of $200'. AA that was .eeeded to make it a ring-dinger of a month were the headlines about electricians getting $6.50 an hour, and the in- terest rates soaring daily. A great month, June. For black- flies. From My Window — By Shirley J. Kellar • e While it couldn't really be classed as a disaster, our first camping-out weekend . of the season was anything but 100 per- cent successful. ' We had planned the outing for about two or three weeks. Ever since last summer's vacation we had intended to return to Niag- ara Falls to catch a few more of the attractions we hadn't been ' able to afford our first time through. • • Number one son knew about the trip upcoming although he tried later to prove he did not. Just about departure time Sat- urday he informed us we would have to wait until he had finish- ed mowing his customers' lawns for the week. Actually he had simply put off and put off his labors until his working time was all but spent. We had to get tough and remind him to rearrange his 'schedule so that his jobs would be com- pleted when the family was ready for the next holiday, In the meantime, he would remain behind,, do his work and use the remaining hours to ponder his mistakes. That's why I. felt like a heel setting out for Niagara Falls. And that's why I couldn't get my mind on packing the eaSent- ial camping gear like the frying • • pan. That's why we had to re- trace ,our steps after the first few miles to pick up our iron friend. For the next few hours the trip went smoothly. We found a wonderful campsite at the Falls, set up the trailer and ar- rived in the heart of the tourist area about 'mid-afternoon. People from every race milled around in the streets. There was no place to park the car and no place to walk or stand--if you could. In desperation we 'paid 75 cents to park in what we thought "was a city-owneffe lot close to the 'action. In our dis- may we discovered the car park- ing lot was long and narrow with the only available parking lots lqcated far, far down the hike away from everything. At last we trudged to the-great Stone wall that -overlooks the massive waterfall. Sightseers stood two and three deep trying to get a glimpse of the dried-up get a glimpse .of the dried-up American Falls and the surging tumbling Canadian Falls now flowing heavier than ever be- fore in history. We decided to take the plunge to the lower levels beneath the falls to get an unabstructed view of the grandeur. As the elevator shaft sunk into the earth with the Keller family aboard I thought abbut the boy at home mowing the lawns in the" blazing sun. Wouldn't it be ironic, I thought, if he was the only member of the clan to survive the weekend? Below the tunnels shook under the weight of the water. The. steady roar frightened me and 1 I thought once more of the lad back home who would be stret- ched safely in front of the tele- vision set by now munching a half loaf of bread and sipping' a quart of milk, Was this to be our end? Was that to 'be our punishment for leaving our off- spring alone? • "Let'S hurry," I shouted to the rest of my straggling crew. "Let's get in there and see what we came to see and then get out again." What keeps that water from crashing through the stone. I found myself asking. It would. be just my luck I thought, that this whole structure would col- lapse without warning right on my stubborn head. Why oh why hadn't I permitted my son to leave his work just this once so he could be with us now, Who would care for the poor darling orphan after the rest of his fam- ily were buried in their watery grave far below Niagara Falls. I could hardly believe my own eyes as the side of the cave op- ened up to reveal the elevator that would take me to the sur- face and as I stepped out into the sunshine again I felt as though I hid been snatched from the jaws of certain death, Unknown to my teenage soh, his mother had been restored to him for yet another 'siege of training lectures raid stiff dis- cipline. How good the world seemed that afternoon in Niag- ara Palls "Here comes your father with the alimony!" ted0.0.0.4. DO YOU KNOW THE 4 POINTS BEHIND EVERY AD? When YoU See An' Ad in -THE HURON EXPOSITOR THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS . 1. A REPUTABLE STORE . ,a store that lives up to its advertising bar- gains, 'has a reputation to uphold. 2. DEPENDABLE QUALITY in the merchandise it sells — Merchandise that is exactly as represented.'.- 3. HONESTY in advertising messages and in dealings with the public. No attempt to falsify or deceive. - 4. VALUES . • . Every Huron Expositor advertiser has an important message for you. It .pays to . read them all! MAKE YOUR PURCHASES THE, SAFE- WAY CONSULT THE ADS EVERY WEEK IN fxpositor Phone 527-0240 Seaforth "Since 1860, Serving the Community First" Mrs, McGregor and mrs..•McLel- lan were hostesses to the Kippen- East W.I. Red Cross workers. The afternoon was spent in quil- ting on the lawn under the shade of the maple trees. Seven quilts were completed. • ART GATES: "The lady should always .walk on the inside." MERICirni "Myrtle, I keep finding your finger prints on' my wall' safe," One of the first responsibilities of a majority goyernment is to carry out the programs which it considers to be in the best interests of the country. During the seven years in which min- ority governments functioned in, Ottawa there were occasions when compromises with respect to legislation became neces: sary if the work of parliament .was not to becOme. bogged down. Despite these, restrictions the record of the Pearson government in terms of progressive legislation was outstanding. Now while Mr. .Trudeau enjoyS a comfortable majority a problem of an- other kind of obstruction has arisen. Under -present rules, small elements within the opposition parties are able to force parliament to a halt as mem- bers continue to talk day after day in order to prevent decisions being taken.,. There was a time, perhaps, when the business of parliament could be „carried on in a-fashion that indicated time was • of little -concern:- Even with:-long re- -- petitous speech the business was of a scale that it' Could' be deed tip in- re"- latively short sessions,. But thiS no longer is thesase. Today because of the multitude of details with which governments are concerned and the complexity of the problems before parliament new approaches are neces- sary. ' Other democracies ,have found it nec- June 29, 1894 Mr. King, the genial old sciss- or sharpener has been with us again for a week or so. He has got to be a faMiliar figure in Seaforth. George Chesney has sold his farm in McKillop Township to • James Jamieson who owns fifty essary to streamline procedures, to el- herent in the democratic process. iminate repetition and at the same time preserve all the safe guards that are in- There is a brick 'house and bank J.' 0. Rose. of Egmondville acres a short distance away. barn and the price, $6,425. returning home from a business trip to Hayfield. When near the That is why the Liberal government station at Brucefield his wheel of Mr. Trudeau regardS the updating of struck a stone and burst the the rules-under which parliament carries pneumatic tire, leaving him to on its business as being of such import- foot it home John Sadler of Staffa, shipped ance. The rules that were satisfactory in three thousand pounds of butter the-years between the wars, simply can to St. Marys. not cope with the demands of the seven- Haying has begun in -the Kip- ties and eighties. pen neighborhood, James Coop- er being the first we' noticed u Hon. Donald S. Macdonald who the hay field. spoke td the Huron Liberals here last A large- number of the rate- week, as government leader in the house payers of the school .section mons. In his remarks here he stressed changes in the procedures of the Com- is the minister responsible for initiatng where Andrew Scott taught near a well filled purse. The address Brucefield assembled and pre sented their worthy teacher with the necessity of the government press- was read by Wm.'Potheringham ing for a decision on rule changes re- and the presentation made by commended by a procedpre coyjnaitt-e Thomas Boyce. tt---- The members of Britannia representative of all partiesr-The com- Masonic ,Lodge...celebrated St mittee..has been studying the updating John's Day by attending a' spee- d the Commons rule for some months. ial service in St. 'Manias' The changes he said, in no measure Church. Re-opening services were held in the Methodist Church here,. marking the lowering of tthe pipe organ and choir loft. The finanical responsibility' w a s shouldered entirely by the choir. The portable saw-mill owned by T. Doig which has been at Lumley for the past three weeks has left for Wm. Dalrymples' near Cromarty. It has given good satisfaction and has sawed one hundred and ten thousand feet of lumber in 17.days • June 22nd, 1919 George R. Muldoon ,has dis- posed of his 135 acre farm ad- joining Brussels to Moody Hol- land for the sum of $11,000. "Dr. Rodgers of Brucefield has bought out ,a praCtice in Forest. Alex Grey, Tuckersmith had the misfortune to fall from his wagon while returning from Seaforth with tile. He was badly bruised but no bones were brok- en, ,„ W. H. Robinson of London has purchased Mr. Selator's cottage in Lakeside Park and is having' it enlarged and remodelled. The' death occurred at his home in McKillop of Robert McKercher. He was one of the grand old men whose industry and entegrity laid the foundat- ion upon which has been built the best Township in Ontario, He was born in Perthshire Scot- land and attained the age of 90 years. Miss Eva Holmes. daughter of S. T. Holmes graduated from .the Massachusetts General Hos- pital, Boston, taking out her R. N. degree certificate with hon- ors. Alphine Waugh well known Seaforth boy has just returned from four years service over- seas. He leaves shortly for Ig- nace where he is C, P. R. station agent. Joseph Dick returned from overseas this week. Major R. S. Hays left for Van- couver B. C. to attend the Con- vention of the Great -War Vet- erans Asiociation. Miss Alva Graves of town leaves for Detroit to take a course 'in the 'art school. Messrs. J.. W. Walker and son have purchased a handsome mot- or hearse which they will use in their undertaking business. Joseph Eckert of town met with a bad accident. He was re- pairing an automobile when 'a jack slipped allowing the body to fall on him. He fractured lesson the opportunities of the opposit- ion to critize and offer admendmentsjo government legislation. They would. however, enable the house to get through , a large volume of business while at the same' time permiting members to take more responsibility on specialized com- mittees in dealing in greater depth with , problems,„ several ribs. Robert' Hodgini of Hiblaert, aged 53, farmer, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. He was hoeing in the field at the time. James H. Campbell,- of Win- throp had a successful bee haul- ing clay onto his gangway at the barn. June 20, 1944 H. E. Smith, John St. had new Potatoes and treen peas grown in his own, garden on his table. Evidentally Mr. Smith possesses the .growing hand. The 'annual'Public School pic- nic was held at Bells' farm near Hensel]. The highlight of the picnic were three -presentations. Mr. Claude Blowes, principal of the school for 16 years, was pre- sented with an end table. Miss Beryle Pfaff, assistant teacher for 12''years was presented with -a silver bread tray, and Claud- ette .Blowe.s was given a silver bracelet. Miss Lois Wright, daughter of Mr. and MIS. W. A.. Wright, Seaforth, who has been a nurse- in-training at Guelph General Hospital, won the General Prof- iciency award in the second year term at the recent examiri- ations. The cottage on- Jarvis St. be- longing to E L. Box, has been sold to Melvin R. Staffen, the transaction waSy made throng!, the office of 'Watson and Reid. The .,pupils of S. S. No. 10 McKillop, presented their teach- er, Miss Haist, with a large mirror and sewing cabinet, Rosa Montgomery read the address and Earl McSpadden and Donnie Eaton presented the gift. Wednesday was a gala day for the pupils of St. 'James school where C. W. L. sponsored a pie. nic at the Lions Park, Rev. T. P. Hussey and several members of the school board 'were present C. P.-Sills and J. J. Cleary cond- ucted the races. Spr. Jack Taylor, well known Hensall .resident,, who has bden overseas for four years arrived in London and proceded to Sea• forth where his wife and two young sons -are Living. Jack, who was wounded is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Taylor of Hen- salt Mr. and Mrs. Theron I3ettles received a cable from their dau- ghter, Isabel, who is a nursing sister and is nbw in Britain Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bolton, Winthrop held a shower in their home in honour of Kathleen Shannon when about 100 were present. She received grand display of gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Law- rence, Miss Maxine Lawrence • and Miss Pearl Lawrence -were in -Toronto attending Wellesly Hospital graduation where Miss. Alma Lawrence was one of the class and was awarded the Sir Edmund Osier prize for the highest standing in Theory and Practice. Members of school section No 11 with members of the corn- triunity gathered in the Sunday school room of Duff's Church to h o n o u r Clarence Grainger, teacher in the school at Walton. Mr. Roy Bennett was,-the chair- man and Rev. R. G. Hazlewood read an address while Doris Johnson -and • June Hackw'ell presented him with aiclock and Robert Patterson preknted him with a travelling case on behalf of the section. About 250 friends -and neigh- bors gatheied together in Walton Community Hall in honour of the newly weds, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McNichol. Clarence Gra- inger „read the address'entiNot, man Williamson presented them with a chest 'of silver and• a sum of money. A ple'asant afternoon was spent at the home of Mrs: Hugh McGregor, at •Hippen, where.