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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 20, 1969
Seaftirtli Merchants Lead the. Way
On several occasions in recent years
we have pointed out there was little dif-
ference between the average main street
in the average small town in Ontario
and the average shopping centre in most
cities.
But despite this similarity there is
one factor that sets them apart. This is
that the merchants on most main streets
won't work together. They are too busy
competing with their neighboring mer-
chants next door, thus refusing to rec-
ognize that their real competition is in
another community perhaps miles away.
They ignore ,the fact that in oriier to
do-business it first is necessary to. en-
courage people to come . to their town
rather than to some other town or city.
With today's all weather highways,
miles of course, no longer make any
difference and certainly don't provide
any protection for the local outlet.
As far as Seaforth merchants are
concerned this no longer is the case.
For the first time in' many -years they
have joined together — 45 of them
in a common presentation to the com-
munity they serve.
While each store continues to press
the shopping advantages it offers, the,,,,
main theme is the advantages of Sea-
forth as a shopping centre.
And to make certain the message
gets across the merchants, through
their merchants committee of the
Chamber of Cornmerce, are providing
• a win-a-prize opportunity for those
who shop in Seaforth. While the prize —
a trip to Bermuda — is well worth
while, what is-most important is the
way in which the prize event empha-
sizes the advantages of shopping in
Seaforth. It serves as a reminder that
here in Seti.forth are 45 merchants of-
fering every variety of articles', and
service that can be found anywhere,
To enhance the Christmas atmos-
phere Main Street again will be decked
with gay illuminations and as well,
Prhiriptu visits by Santa are expected
yeelts,ahead. Segarth coptinueS
to fiV'e relititiiikii.as the Christ-
mas town.
To Editor.
Teen Twenty Aids Community
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Jame§ Miller of the 3rd concession of Bullatt, has let the contract:or the erect« ion of a new bank !Aril 04 V.
.Jamep Cuthill; of Morris, has arrived,
hopll. from ,his trip to NnAte,ocotx#40„uct
had a very pleasant trip both on the ocean
and through the hills and dales of his
native land.
Poultry of all kinds is very eneala and
plentiful here just now. From 7 tg 8 cents
per pound is the-prevailing
Thos. Lapslie has. his new-barn nearly
completecIsand ready for occupancy.
Pr. Scott-has been appointed coroner
for the Couety oLii4ron.
Miss Sarabel McLean left for Stratford
where she will take up kindergarten work.
The Seaforth..Creamery property.* a
part of the Hannah Estate, was sold
and was purchased by Thos. Dickson,
North Main St., for $525.00.
As James Cb.rnochan of Tuckersmtth
_was returning from town with a team
of horses and a sleigh, the horses be-
came frightened at a travelling' advertis-
ing rig. as ,they were crossing the flats
and a runaway was the result':
A glass bottle containing this messaee .
was found on the peach at Hayfield -
,"The heavens bless you, my dear wife,
we are on a rock at heboygan Reef
and are staking with all hands; water
five feet deep in the hold; God take
care of you and daughters, Yours A.A.
Cartiro.' Vessel's name Chas. A.Eddv.
The new electric light, power house
had a close call from destruction by
fire. Mr. Ingram, the electrician, went
down after church and when he entered
the dynamo room he was astonished to
find the place filled with smoke. He
put wafer on It and soon had it under
control.
November 21st, 1919.
The Brussels Post of last wok says:
"A goodly company of old friends visit-
ed the home of Joseph and WS., Lane,
McKillop; Mr. Lane has sold his' farm
to Adam Forbes' and proposes moving
to Walton. Mrs. Hugh Fulton read an
address and Mr, Lane was presented
with a gold headed cane and Mrs,Love
• with fancy china and-glass ware.
At a re-organizatioh meeting of the
Seaforth Hockey Cluirthe following officers
were elected: - President, J. E. Wilits;Man-
aging 'corm Joe Sills, Dave Reid, Alex
Muir. •
HarOld Frost, who spent the hunting
season in Muskoka, was successful in
bagging a: fine deer weighing 190 pounds.
Joseph' Riley of Constance, while
working with the stone erusher, met
with what might have been a more serious
accident, He •was putting on a belt when
his clothes caught in the machinery.
•
Miss Susie Livingstone and Mrs. J
Rinn , of Constance -were ticketed for
California where they will spend the
winter.
G.T. Turnbull' was in Toronto this
week with a shipment of \cattle for the
parmengs-Clutp.k.,. el,10 I
While returning from Harriston
E. Haase, Donald Horne and John And-
erson had a serious accident near Lis-
tOwel. Meeting a car with strong head-
lights, they turned out and the car skid-
ded and termed over. Mr. Haase and
John Anderson suffered leg injuries wille
Donald tharne had his head injured.
Ruth Carnochan of R.R.5, Seaforth,
has been chosen to represent the Junior
'Girls of Huron at a contest in Chicago.
The property of Samuel J.wallace,
Goderich Street East, has been sold to
S/L Alfred Copland, Reckingham,N.S.
• Funeral services were held at Kipe
-pen tor Ebenezer Forsyth, a well known
and highly esteemed resident. •
Mt. and Mrs. J. W:Free of Seaforth
received word this week that their son
F.,/0 Harold 0, Free; R.C.A.F. had been
promoted to the ra."ak of Flight Lieuten-
ant.
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From My Window
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— By Shirley 4. Keller —
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long citotancO ,Nolioot psninfiy) call from
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vsa 11a444 anti he ' t antler ono,
;ills phiiking back
sal .he
4:::wWQ44011:1 4trhot iatboouvtera. raIllte7s
See Om- 4,0 and get something settled,- .
college.
Xanip My le two. OUT daughter is at
timesa week, rfnde hWreriteleatiearbzutcotnothreet
mostli. of "Do this" and "Don't do that."
ha
winner coat{ 11r4eeds4ett winotctoetfrareitss ayned a u
unusual tnj qminda, and demands urgent . action. Aed, Of course, at 14, she's
much. tee young to buy them for herself.
course she might be lonely in
that big eity, with no friends.
So we drive through 450 miles of
ethat fog and rain, Counting hotel bill,
tips, gas, and a couple of dinners out,
those boots and that coat cost about four ,
times what they should have. •
kids who would be -dangerous on a tri-
dere-, "'
„Mother motive is fear. By shield-
ing" their' children from' any and all un-
pleasantness, including work, they hope
to keep them "straight" and ,out of the
clutches of drugs, sex and hippiedom.
More often they rive them into trying
something out of sheer boredom with
' their diet of pabIuni'
Another reason for the cocoon-like .
over protection is • love. You don't like
to see someone you love introuble,wheth-
er it's emotional, financial or legal.
And a final motive is plain laziness,
Mothers say, "I'd rather -do it myself
than have to nag at her (or him). " So
do fathers. Thus many of the things
which middle-aged people consider vir-
tues: punctuality,. diligende, courtesy,
cleanliness go by the board.' •
But when you have to tell an 18-year-." •
old girl to wash her -feet, there's some- -
thing wrong. '
• My neighbor, whose Son is at college,
wa.1 wakened .early Saturday, morning-by a
to 11:1. Y°070 46'17::::44,11AenduPde: :01°I
generati .11,4iF5nadiew, 'piss , Ing
know why? ncausa the mothers of
thestfe"'‘Ipoteatial *WilleS have spotted
them rotten.-,
'They have over•proteeted there,tried
unsuccessfully to impose "their own du-
'bious taste on them, and refused ,to
allow their daughters 10 learn anything
practical, like sewing or cooking.
This 'is not a blanitet condemnation,
but it certainly applies to many people
I know. Nor must I blame it all on
mothers. , Many , fathers. !,.1(1 and abet.
I speak from experienue, These middle
aged spoilers :re drivetli*, several mo-
tiNs. Most of "them Were -growing up
when things were tough all over, and
they are ruthlessly deterMined that their
kids are goihg to have all the "advant-
ages" they couldn't have. ,
Thus we have a plethara of lessons
in music, ballet, figure-skating. We have ,And then the prat says she isn't the very latest fashiens and fads, re- ,lotiel'3' at. •, all. 75,.it'? the ohly reason gardless of cost. Ike have carp for', 40PtiAndl told her so.
pleas- ant weekend. „blintz-oat, we at beside
however and despite, we had a
, a' young ,couple. He was a Czech, not
long out, very smooth, very handsome,
She was a.Newfoundlander, very friendly.
'-"very open.
Then a Sikh (Indian, turban and beard)
caste in and sat nearby, looking des.:
perately lonely, basked him over. The
chef,- a yOung Czech who was a friend
of the other'one, joined us and said he'd like to take my daughter out.Kim
spilled something on her mother's best
blouse.
We adjourned 'to' our hotel room for
a couple Of -pleasant 'hours, The Newfy
girl asked Kin.ff she'd like to share
an apartment. I wouldn't be Surprised
if a Czech did, too. My wife worried
about the 'smooth Czechs. The Sikh lost
his melancholy.
'Don't think I've strayed from my
thenie: C:r.tr is spoiled rotten. She
'cooks like a one-armed paper-hanger
and couldn't sew two burlap bags to-
sgether. My deepest sympathy is extend-
' ed to her future husband. •
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Sir:
• Recently the Teen Twenty Executive
met with the Town Council discuss „
r probleMVeariSing—from their 'dances at” •
the-Arena.Saturday nights.* _
Reference -was made to the age.of
the people attending the dances but we
feel it's the parents responsibility "to
know where their daughter is, not ours:
We have no ,way of knowing whether they
are twelve or thirteen. We cannot be
responsible for their behaviour to and
from the dance. We hold the dances
for the younger teenagers and almost
all are under twenty years of age.
Since Teen Twenty _was organized
eleven years ago, we haVe given at least
$10,000 to worthy causes .in the town
and feel we have provided good enter-
tainment for the teenagers on Saturday
night We have had very little encourage-
ment, or help from the ,Town Council
or, the parents. ,With the , exceptionof. '
Roy mid HazeracGonigle, who have been
patron and patroness for the past seven
years, none has offered to chaperone
our dances and very few have even in-
quired about them.
Neither of the disturbances in ,town
'these past few weeks involved our Teen
Twenty dance. The first instance took
place outside the Arena and the crowd
in the hall did not even know about it.
The fracas ' laptoWir va&-attchotiffaftel
the dance was over atid,_ndaieR.&oor
teenagers was involvedeeP=ress repdits
have given us adverse publicity. WeAticite,,,..,
the Clinton News Record "There ,were
at least a hundred area residents on
the scene, as well, some of them on'
their way home from a Teen Town dance".
Our dance was over and the hall-cleared
by 12 o'clock.. We cannot control the
whereabouts of the teenagers after they
leave the hall and all could be home
by 12.30 if their parents insisted on it.
With •these explanations we hope
we will not be forced to stop holding
dances ,on Saturday night and that par-
entS Will appreciate what we are trying
to do for their sons and daughters. If
anyone has a complaint to • dhake,
ask that he come to one of the executive
and we will try and remedy it.
TEEN-TWENTY EXECUTIVE'
,,,,Wayne Scott,
President.
I don't know what's the matter with
me these days. I haven't. had a real
good idea for a column in weeks and
weeks. Maybe it is because my mind is
too full of • serious things to really write
a light hearted column.
There's a bunch of thingS which are
bothering me - like this drug question,
for instance.
You take a sensitive youngster, shut
him' out of your life, give him plenty
of spending money and turn him to the
Wol'Atet: Clie.nceS are'that kid would still
turn out 'not too bad 'if seine other un-
thinking;.sunfeeling,,adult wretch wOUldn't' '
confound him with more foolish banter .44'..abopt„,expe,E4.,eacing everything - even the
....,PgeliTtetay, Harmful things.
I think par.ticalarly,4094;ethek
fel
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called informed few who l- the'reftls"
Over and over that marijuana isn't•habit
forming or even harmful. They would
like to see it legalized in the hopes
that easy access would make the stuff
less desirable. •
' What they neglect to explain is how , '
marijuana eats away at a youngster's •
will to resist. It causes ,a burning de-
sire to know and to experience move
of "what drugs can do, for the soul and
there's a very good chance' that the-
marijuana user will graduate rather quick- ,
ly to drugs which aren't quite So harmless.
Take my, thirteen year old son.
He's at the age, where anyone knows
better than mom and dad. He's reach-
ing out for, manhood and hating it when
his parents try to curb his youthful
enthusiasm for some things which aren't
particularly good for him.
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So he, listens for the word from
some of the fellows 'and gals who should
be in-the-know. He delights to hear that
there are son', drugs - marijuana for
instance - that won't do him much harm:
No more harmful than _boozing it up,
he hears, or smoking plain 'old cancer-
producink cigarettes.
What a discovery! Mom and dad
are clearly wrong and he can have just
what he thinkS he wants without fear
of becOMing addicted and living the night-
mare. that used to be connected with drugs.
It isn't so. Doctors.may have to 'agree
that marijuana isn't habit forming' as
' such but it is deteriorating, making the
will weaker and weaker until it succumbs
to something more deadly.
And what can I do about it?
Well, they tell me I can love my son „
and' have concern for him. They say I
can challenge him and keep hip busy.
They suggest that I keep him as close
to the church as possible and that I
leave the lines Of communication between
us wide open. '
They're all fine ideas but I don't
approve of someone picking away at my
Son'S belief and trust in me. That's
what I don't know how to handle.,
,And do you know verd? I think that's
what's bugging most parents although
they may not realize it. The influence
outside the home is becoming more and
more powerful every year thanks to tel-
evision, radio and yes, even the press.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful
blessing. but it can certainly raise some
problems when thoughtless adults , are
doing the speaking.
• ANDREW "r, MOLEA.N, Editor
Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
and Audit Bureau of Circulation
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