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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-07-31, Page 2'iron (fx,p(!sitor Since 1860, Smiting the Community First''' Naihgl at SEAFORTIL ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by lideLEAN BROS.,' Publishers Ltd. ANDREW T, MeLF.,,Ax, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscnpbon 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 31, 1969 Talk Limitation Makes Sense There were cries of aqquish from the opposition when the government last week chose to bring a halt to the opposit- ion rule change filibuster by the intro- duction of closure. In spite of this we question whether the average citizen (became terribly excited. We suspect there was a feeling of thankfulness that at last a government had moved in a positive way to contain the wasteful 'verbiage with which succeeding op- positions have on occasions been able to bring parliament to a virtual stand- still. The rules debate in itself was proof that some alternative to the endless re- petition which the opposition, iindulged in had to end. The debate could have been an opportunity for the opposition to obtain the best possible time allocat- ion rule but instead it chose to 'waste time by repeating the suggestion the whole business was unnecessary and dictatorial. Any question• of need disappears when one considers time consuming op- position obstruction. The fact that the British parliament for years has employ- , Costs Should Very slowly Hensall council is becom- ing dischanted with the whole business of offering fire protection to neighbor- ing municipalities. Although chief negotiating 'represen- tative Harold Knight is attempting to keep a level head through the months and months -of talks with Hay and and Tuckersmith townships, other mem- bers of council are ready to give up in .disgust. Main point of contention is, of course, money. Both the townships would be happy to buy fire protection for a nom- inal fee, but neither municipality is an- xious to pay a fair percentage of the cost Of buying a new fire truck and maintaining a fire department. • Either they do not realize the tremen- anus financial burden carried through- out the years by the village of Hensall on their behalf, or they do not put suffic- ient value in the present fire fighting agreement. Maybe Hay and Tuckersmith councils YOU Can Be A Successful Texaco Dealer 80 VICTORIA STREET, GODERICH Have Your Own TEXACO SERVICE STATION omplete With Regular Customers! This excellent, established,'high volume service station is available for the right man. 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Nor - was the employment• of closure dictatorial when one considers that the rule question had been considered by two Parlimentary Committees since last fall and was the subject of lengthy de- bate in the house late last year. In ad- dition of course rule 75C to which the opposition now objeCts had been be- fore• Parliament throughout July. No government which has any intent- • ion of continuing in office can either afford to nor would it wish to needlessly impose closure or employ any device which curtails proper' debate. But there comes a time as debate deteriorates to dreary invective, as the business of the country is brought to a standstill by a minority, when the government of the day must assume its responsibilities and take such action as is necessary to en- sure that Parliament is able to function as it should ; that it becomes not only a place for discussion but also a place of decision. IT'S. NOT A BAD DEAL T1004, THEY LET ALL MIS FOR )0 MS OF PIRT! In the Years Agone - By Shir ey J, jiiellier mute toted along to the moon with them, I was truly in awe ‘at the ease with which it rolled out of the Eagle and began transmitAing pictures of the lun- ar surface back to earth. • Sugar and Spice Old friends are best It's nice to make' a new friend, hut most members of our spec- ies, the naked ape, agree that old friends are the best friends. Last week, I had the best of these two situations, and I am not only delighted but aston- ished to be allire to report it. The only thing that iloesnPt seem to be functioning is my liver. Must be in better shape than I thought. begarV—With a three-day visit from 'our old friends, the Traplins. We have one of these re-unions once a year, and it us- ually takes a week to get over them. Trap and I joined the aft force together. Peggy and Buse have ahirays got along well be- cause they have the same inter- ests, They talk for 20 hours at a stretch. On Tuesday night they went to bed at 8:15. That's am. Know what they were doing? The university acceptance tests. They scored very high, &it they were a: little dashed when I told them that, high school kids get 50 minutes to do these. It had taken them seven hours. And you should hear them .playing duets on the piano at 4 a.m.. One playing Galway Bay and the other Tales From the Vienna Woods. It sounds pretty good until they begin to sing. Well, the Traps left, and I set- tled down for a quiet day of reading Mid recuperation. Knock at the!. door. Another old Mend, Slit Hanna, all Set 'to -go Sailing. by Bill Smiley Apparently, though I'll swear it never happened, we'd had a long and involved telephone talk set- ting the time and the• day. No way out, without being a stinker. So I tottered off sail- ing.-' A peculiar sport. It takes an hour to get ready. This is hard on a man who is dying on his feet. Then you float around for a couple of hours while the skipper desparately tries to catch a breeze no bigger than a belch. Then, suddenly, there's what we old sailers call a spanking breeze, and the Skipper is hol- lering at you to "cleat your jib" and "tuff your lee" and all sorts of nasty things, and the dam' boat is hurtling along with one side almost under water and your beer has tumbled into the bilge and you're wondering whether you can still •swim two miles. Back home, safe, late and burned to a cinder. Nodding over a late dinner and the 11 p.m. news. Door-bell rings Cheery young voice, "Anybody home?" And you go down stairs and there's another old friend', petite Jeanne Sauve, and, she's brought you a beautiful rose from her own garden. And yes, she'll have a gin mid look at the new bath- room and a two hour talk with Sus& There was only one way out, and I took it. I plunged off in the' car next morning for UZ• • bridge and the Ontario Weekly Editors' annual golf tournament. Host .Pets Bvidsten, a Nor- Wegian who didn't know enough to go home after the war.. But by the acme of acumen managed to marry off both his kids within two weeks. Gene MacDonald, the man from Glengarry, who won the prize for the longest drive of the day — he'd driven 280 miles to get there. He also insisted I buy him a double every time Al had a double bogey. A stiff pro- position for both of us. Johnny James of Bowmanville with twp straping sons who hit a golf ball a quarter of a mile. Weeklies' dean, Werden Leavens of Bolton, who played four holes counting the 19th. Charlie Nol- an of Stnuffyille, a game as al- ways, getting through nine holes despite the pain. Ebullient Harry Stemp, who ran the show, which is rather like trying to get 40 rhinocerus to sit up at table and put on their napkins. .Jim Dills of Acton-Milton, genial and easy- going as always. And a dozen others. That's why it was equally pleasant to meet new friends. Dave Scott .of Fort Erie, the only man I've ever seen whiff four times straight while trying to strike a golf ball. And "Ting" the amiable troll who cartoons brilliantly, and the only man alive who can skate in his bare feet -on a coffee table, with coasters as skates. And a'dozen others. • There's nothing like friends, old or new, if you want to beat Gabriel's trumpet and die a couple of decades before your time. August 4, 1944 Rev. Douglas Stewart of St. Andrew's Church, Edmonton, was the speaker in First Presby- terian Church, Seaforth. Rev. Stewart is a Seaforth boy, and his many friends welcomed the opportunity of hearing him ag- ain. . At a congregational meeting held in First Presbyterian Church an unanimous call was extended to Rev. R. H. Williams of Regina. He succeeds Rev. Hugh Jack, who accented a call to Sydney, Nova Scotia, • Fit. Lt. Thomas Pryde, Exeter, veteran of two wars was nomin- ated Progressive candidate for the Huron Perth riding in the next Federal election. • Mit. Flossie Brock of Hensall has received word that her son Pte. Ray Brock, serving in Italy, has been .promoted to sergeant. Earl soldon of Hensall, fract- ured his , arm while cranking a tractor. The 15th Red Cross Donor Clinic held in Northside Church was disappointing to those in charge, as only 142 volunteers reported out of 216 notified. Two Men, Nelson Howe and George Johnston gave .their 8th donat- ion. A August 1, 1919 • Harvey Hoover of Bdussels has been engaged as Principal of Walton school at a salary of *0. Alex McEwen of Stanley, was going home from Clinton with a small load of lumber when the load began to slide and slid onto, the horses, causing them to run away. He was thrown out and the wagon passed over him, breaking his shoulder. The wag- on and lumber went over the embankment. W, J. Duncan who lives nearly opposite the creamery discovered That 'building to ,be in flames. The firemen found the roof of the engine room and one wall burning -fiercely, but they got the fire under control before it reached the main building. It was a heavy loss not only to~ the proprietors, Barber and John- ston but to the community at large. " D. J. O'Reilly of McKillop, de- livered at Seaforth on Thursday to Peter O'Sullivan seven hogs which weighed 1,750 pounds. The price paid was 231/2 cents per pound or $411.25 for the bunch. A, delightful evening was spent on Mrs. Hotham's lawn at Staffa, the. occasion being the reception in honor of Robert To The Editor Salvation Army Says Thanks Sir: The National Chairman, The Hon. Leslie M. Frost, joins with the ' Public Relations Advisory Committee and myself in expres sing to you and your new media staff our heart felt thanks for the splendid support given to the 1969 National Appeal for funds on behalf of the many Red Shield services of The Salvation Army throughout Canada. • You will be pleased to know that it has been a most success- ful campaign and we are hope- ful that the national quota will be over-subscribed. (MORGAN FLANNIGAN) Lieut.-Colonel National Campaign Director brake's home coming. He served for three years in France and was wounded at Lens._ A reception in honor of the re- turned soldiers at present con- nected with the Egmondville Presbyterian church was held when Rev. S. McLean presided and Rev. Captain Edwards of the Seaforth Methodist church gave the address. $10.00 was given to, each of the 21 men. A feature of these presentations was of that Neil Murray which was made by his great grand- . mother, Mrs. W. Murray, and that of Paul Doig which was made by his grandmother, Mrs. George Laidlaw. August '3, 1894 The new tile and brick yard at Walton, has made its first delivery and the output is pro- nounced first class, being clean, white and hard, - Louis Reinke of Egmondville has purchased the house and' lot Chesney. near the church from John John Daly of Egmondville is erecting a neat brick veneered residence just opposite Jacob Schmidt's. The grass hoppers are very numerous in the vicinity of town and are becoming very des- tructive to the crops, especially oats and turnips. A. Cardno had the misfortune to fall from an apple tree, breaking a bone in his foot. W. D. Bright, who is one of Seaforth's most devoted discip- les of Isaac Walton, while troll- ing at Bayfield, got one of the finest black bass we have ever seen. James Sommerville' of ,Roxbo- ro, McKillop, finished his grain on August '1st. A large number of the young people of the Varna English Church surprised M. Kerrin in the midst of his, packing up• at Bayfield parsanage. Mr. James Armstrong read an address and Miss Kate McNaughton present- ed them with 4. well filled purse. John Sadler of Staffa, drew his new boiler home from Dublin. He iMends placing in the new mill. It weighs 5 ton. After Sunday's historic moon walk is there anything else worth mentioning in this column? . There is really nothing more I can add concerning the whole affair. Everything that cap be said has been said, over and over and again. In fact, my modern youngsters are already so tired of hearing about Apollo 11 they are ready to dry dishes rather than watch television. Before we knew that the ail- star game to be played in Wash- ington Tuesday evening would be rained out, my son was ab- solutely livid to think the net- work would consider interupt- Mg the ball game to bring a further report of the space flight! That's just how impress- ed the younger generation is about the fact that ordinary human beings have actually strolled on the surface of the moon. Yes sir, the kids of today have accepted the moon landing as just another happening. You have to be much older than 12 or 13 years to be very much moved by the recent lunar ad- venture. I suppose it is understand- able. All their lifetimes, kids of that age have watched one space conquest after another. What's more, modern science courses in the elementary schools teach much more of the solar system than most, parents ever knew, so getting to the moon hardly seeins worthy of any special attention. Actually I wasn't too surpris- ed that •the Apollo 11 crew act- ually made it to the moon. I, too, have come to expect great• things of the US space team and frank- ly, I would have been more amazed if Armstrong and Aldrin had experienced difficulty as they neared that far-off ball in' the sky. I can understand' super-human beings but between you and• me I'm still marvelling over those teriffic mechanical instruments which never onceVailed or falt- ered. , Take that television camera, for instance, the one the astr- I .fully expected that part of the show would bomb out It always happens to Me. One time I transported a tele- vision set from London to my home and found at the end of the journey some wire had been broken in transit. I- got a fuz- zy picture and no sound at all. Just this spring I packed a slide projector in the car to take it to my aunt's' house one hund- red miles away, and when I ar- rived the bulb wouldn't light up. No pictures! And that radio hook-up! Do you know that the broadcast from the moon was much clear- er than the garbled chatter I get on our stereo set from the radio station just 60 miles away? Juit when I'm intensely interest- ed in• a certain news item, the crackling begins and I might as well forget all• bout it I was relieved when the Eagle rose off the moon. With my luck I would have been sitting there yet Our family car never fails us unless there is something 'really important to do. I recall one morning I got the !dead' treat- ment. That was the day of the dental appointment I had wait- ed six months to get. My old washing machine was • let-you-down-when-you- need-it-most mechanical dud. Just when the baby was right out of diapers, that was the time my washing machine whined but didn't whirl or rolled but wouldn't ring. To my mind, it was almost un- believable that smite' tiny wire wasn't loose to foul up the en- tire mission. "We may never cure poverty", says comedian Joey Adams. "But with prices and taxes the way they are, we're sure going to cure wealth." t - Be Shared think like the old man who had a leaky roof : when it rained it was too wet to do anything about it and when the sun shone, the roof didn't leak. It is a fact though, that •many villages and--towns'throughout 'the years have provided fire protection for everyone at a very reasonable rate. Not only have urban municipalities borne the heaviest portion of the cost, they have provided the men and the means to' fight fires. Volunteer fire brigades have been steady, dependable servants throughout many long years for their rural neighbors who have act- ually contributed very little in the way of support, , What's more, statistics in this district would prove that more fires are fought each year in rural municipalities than in urban centres! We think Hay and Tuckersmith town- ships need adequate fire protection and we would urge them to get more serious in their deliberations with, Hensall. (Exeter Times Advocate) -0 9