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Recognize Changes Are Occurring
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_The report of the spec-
ial Senate Committee on
the Mass Media provides
emphasis on the problems
facing the weekltes at a
time when the weekly in-
dustry is undergoing more
changes probably-than at
any time since William
Lyoji McKenzie POJished
his Colonial Advocate in
,Toxonta more than .a bun-
' dfdd Y"ears ago.
While a relatively
small portion of the report
is devoted to weeklies the
conclusions which are
reached suagest a'sympa-
thetic and informed know-.
ledge_ of Canades.community
newspapers as excerpts
from the report which,ap-
pear on page 10' of this
issue indicate.
In the headlines with
which daily newspapers
greeted the report em
phasis, to the inclusion
of almost everything else,
was on the shortcomings,of
the daily press and on
their .profits. Little, if
afY, attention was paid to
the weekly situation.
The weekly press makes
a major contribution to
the communities it serves
;,the committee found
-pressing' its conclusion in
these 'words -
-"The weekly press com-
plements all other media-
and in so doing plays a
significant community role
probably beyond the cap-
ability of • any other med-
Ium. ti
But at the same time
Senator Davey and his com-
mittee ha:e found,weak-
netses and not the least of
these are dollar and cents
Every weekend, b
additional stories
snowmobile fatalit
the sad statistics
being reflected in
creasingly• stringe
lations for their
ion-being enacted
icipal councils ac
Ontario.
Unfortunately f
vast majority who
snowmobilinq as a
exhilarating winte
their pleasure is
spoiled and their
of movement is bei
tailed by the want
lessness of a few.
"Tr-ue, towns and
can legislate agai
mobiles and. preven
Using streets and
but in doing so in
added cost and tro
rings
of
ies' and
in-
nt regu-.
oPerat-
by mun-
ross.
or the
regard
helpful
r sport
being
freedom
no cur-
on care-.
cities
nst,snow-
t-drivers
highways
creasfrig
uble. is
Ilre the Editor
aark; ‘111amikts',
°
Clinton,Ontario
January 11, 1971.
tit
tt 'Would be v'y, Muck appreciated'
If YOU *bold' Allow us space to gay a
"'shank Yotto* to' all the my
and groups throughout Huron
co ''kit' toio haVe teak) 16",,,llayotivIctut
problems which face all too
many publishers.
In recent year s it has
been apparent that no longer
can weekliet count on rev-
enue from increasing nat-
ional linage to offset
spiralling costs. In many
cases publishers have found
an alternative in increased.
sales of local advertising.
As the weeklies product
improves both editorially
and ,mechahically, more and
more community merchants
find that •the weekly in
their -own community is the.
most effective medium avail-
able.by which their message
may reach the customers Of
their trading area. The
report quite properly was
critical of the fact that '
too-many weeklies were not
selling -their product in
their own area at they
should be and that full
advantage was not being '
taken of the service they
provide by progreSsiVe
merchants in their par-
ticular areas..
Those clotely identified
with the'commuTlity weekly
have realized the -changes
which have occurred in
recent years. The general
reading public, however,
while appreciating a more
attractive product, has'
had no occasion to think
othey than of theWeekly
as it has existed through
.generations. The Senate -
Committee report serves a
most helpful purpose not
only in highlighting the
changes that, are occurring
but also emphasizing the
role of the weekly and the
-significant community con-
tribution it• makes.
caused the conscientious
operator. What must come
is an -increased awareness
on the part of every oper-
ator of, ..the necessity of
using common sense and
care and a continuing
crackdown by the authorit-
ies 'on
k
the • irresponsible
operato
To this end -snowmobile
clubs aYe playing an in-
creasin-g role. Thrqugh._
lecture -series and care-
fully programmed tours
such as those being or-
ganized by the Seaforth
Snowmobile Club each week
end, operators can take
adVantage of all t he,.,,„;b e n e-
fiis snowmobiliMj offers
P' 1 at the same time re-
c.ignize the value of their
loiw-n lives and the riahts
of others in the community.
•
during the past year to put on enter-
tainment's or to aegist in any way in
Making life More pleasant for the rest-, dthati. '
Please be assured that your. COntri-
bullorth of time and talent are deeply
appeeniated by both residents and staff.
0,A.Arehibald,
Administrator.
'•• • ,
•• Thank goodness for wort( and routine.
They're the best thereapy them is in the
neurotic world we live in.
The highly-touted "holiday season"
should be enough to make a great many
people, agree with me.
Looking back, I predicted a quiet
holiday. And it started out all right. Kim
came home'from college a couple of days
early, quite happy, just' like her old self,
But each day her face lengthened as she
sorted the Christthas mail. Nothing for
her.
Her 'secret desire, of course, was a
message from the loved one, who-1s-
spending the winter up around Hudson Bay.4.4,
somewhere., 'Nothing. She alternated
between , reviling him and glooming about
the place.
The day before Christmas, it came - -
long letter, so (personal that she would
read only bits' to her aVidly-interested
mother. And the thing that really killed
her was that in the same mail she received
an equally ardent letter from a young man -
she's been seeing at university, "Just to
paSs the time until Joe gets home." She
chortled at the irony of it all.
Gentle grandad arrived and we settled
in to spend a quiet Christmas Eve. All
serene. 'Then comes a phone call from
son Hugh, from some god-forsaken
village in deepest Cluebec. He'and a friend
had been in a car accident. The car was
a write-off, but they were both alive. (They,
weren't Oven Supposed to he coming home
for Christmas.)
They 'arrived the next day, all racked up
and bruised and -abrased and Cut. The
only thing that hadn't-been damaged in the
accident, it seethed, was their appetites.
They„ got, through about eight pounds of our
nine-pound' goose.
Then Mire was a round of X-rays of
°bests, calls to insurance adjusters, and
confessions that some people had six
essays- overdue, that others had an exam ,
right after the holiday5 and hadn't done
a tap of etiKlYillg and that others were out
of a Job.
Tilts
.
Was allvery 'good for My wife
Sensitive eardrums.
And then I note that the father of
these unusual boys is a pianist-composer.
Well, that explains it. My husband can
play God Save The Queen with one finger
on- the piano (if you give him enough
time), and about the only thing he has
ever composed is a bad brew of home-
made wine which still sits inthe basement
awaiting the right moment, lor„lincaPPlegt
If you have to be a genius ( or near
genius)" to produce a ,genius, there -is
little wonder that our children are just
Ordinary kids with their.share of ordinary
problems anddiffitulties.
I really wonder U I would want ,it
othervtiser..., .... „I note from the' article.
about „the Peruvian child that he leaf
everything he" knows about the arts and
music from ,a five month reading bout with
a multitude. of Woks. It is bad enough
to , drag 'my kids away from ,a television
to get them, into bed at night at a reason-
-able hour. Think what_it would be like
to have to pull 'your son's nose out of
text book about metaphysics so that he
could have an afternoon nap. It would
be something like asking the chief engineer
at Ford to, stop what he's doing to play
marbles; Embarrassing to say the least..
and just how-do you just* its
- -Frankly, I'm haPpy with 'things just
as they :are at my house. My kidd
never, ,startle anyone•, with their great
brains but then I don't .have to go through
this business of being totally inferior to
them. Believe me, it is bad enough
with normal kids. You really begin to ,
wonder when it was you became so doggone
_dense. .„„Imagine what it would be like if
'yon really ltheirYini-didrinVild a candle-to•
them as far as brainwork was
concerned. - •
I still say the little Peruvian is in
for a rough life )lespite.. his tremendous
mind. I'm glad My son lets me do, the
reading and 'is growing, up with a very
ordinary kind of understanding
mechanism. , Ile may even ' be better
adjUited because of it.
nerves. Combined with the general slob-
biness of the young people - they all smoke
makings and there's tobacco all over the
floor; they eat and' drink coffee in a
continuous process for 24 hours and
never wash a dish; their 'clothes are
draped all over the house; and the hi-fi
goes at a brain-shattering decibel count
all this made her come Own with what
seemed like stomach 'flu but to me was
a break-down.
She , ihreW up regularly. She couldn't
eat or sleep. She had no energy. She '
snarled.-She whimpered. ••
As a result, I was -butler-than the -
proverbial one-armed paperhanger. Talk-
ing to Kim about her love life. Assuring
Hugh that he wouldn't die, even though
every time he coughed it was like an
arrow in the chest. Calling the doctor.
Getting Alex in touch with insurance
people. Telling my wife to get off her
tail and give me a hand.
And I cooked everything from; the-
Christrnas , goose to the New Year's
hatn. And washed dishes until I couldn't
bear a TV commercial abdut the beautiful
hands you have if you use Ivory soap.
And dirin't have time to watch TV anyway.
And would come down in the morning to
read my paper and find that the young
gentlemen had seized a section with and ,
were immersed in it and thbir third cup'
of coffee. •
But the worst thing Wean was the
complete lack of privaby. I am not-
anti-social, but I do need an hour or
.two a day to escape from people, read,.'
think, sleep.-
l'he only privacy I had was when I
' locked myself 'in the bathrOom, and then
—my-r•wife would be shrilling from her
bed, ',Are the dishes done? Who's going
to vacutun the rtig? There are fair loads
of washing in the baSemeritt"
The only other private moments were
when I went shopping. And baby, I didn't
hustle through the supermarket. I str011ed
like a tired tortoi's'e, enjoying every.vo-
luptuous moment Of it.
All in all,rit'S wonderful to be baelt to
work. t , •
JANUARY 21, 1921.
" - Arthur Anderson of Kippen, while
cutting corn had a narrow escape from
what might have been a very serious
accident, and possibly the loss of an arm.'
His sleeve was caught in the shaft, but
he was able to wrench• himself free. '
Walter McCully, Tuokersn\ith, had a ___-
wood bee on two afternoens, to which his
neighbors turned out in good numbers.
In the evening Mr. and Mrs.' McCullY
entertained, a large number.
Sunday afternoon and evening the worst
storm of the season was experienced,
leaving the roads in a bad condition.
James Collins of the. 3rd concession
of 'Stanley, met with ..a, painful accident
while engaged in cutting wood. His hand
came in contact with the saw, severing
the fingers and badly lacerated the hand.
James Devereaux, of the Huron Road,'
has purchased the residence of the late
Alexander Davidson.
Geo. McCall of Walton held a bee
drawing gravel and a dance the same
evening. a
.The village of Egmondville will, soon
have the appearance of a young city as
the electric Men are busy lighting up
the back streets.
The offertory _Thomas Churith
for the Chinese Faininefund amounted
to $84.15.
JANUARY 18th, 1946.
Mrs. Donald McKenzie, South Main
Street, celebrated her 93rd birthday when
a dinner party was held at her home, with
members of her family present.. ,
Messrs. J. J. Cluff and A. F. Cluff,
surviving members of N. Cluff & Sons,
one of the oldest established and most
successful business firms in Seaforth
or Huron County, having disposed of their
lumber., mills yards' and coal business'
to Seaforth Supply and Fuel Limited.
James Rivers, North Main Street,
.celebrated his - 89rd birthday. The
years sit very lightly on hid' shoulders
and he is strong and active.
"one week can register a heap of
difference in the Canadian Winter
climate.: Last week from Monday to
Friday noon, Thos . .Nash was on the
land ploughing every day 'and all 'day.
A social evening was . spent at the
home of mr. and Mrs. Theron Betties,
Winthrop, when they entertained their"
line to euchre and crokinole. The winners
were, Mrs. Allen Campbell, Russel Dol-
mage and Leslie Dolmage.
In the death of Miss Margaret Mc-
Leod, which occurred in her home in
the Royal Apartments, Seaforth suffered
the loss of an old and honored resident.
A very. pleasant evening was, spent at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. 'Win. -Irvine,
Tuckersmith, 'when they entertained the
neighbors and friends of Miss Jean, who
gathered to honor her prior to her mar-
riage.- Donald Eyre and.limmie Brdadfoot
drew a little- wagon loaded' With gifts.
Mrs. iVilnier .Broadfoot and Mrs. 'Chas.
Eyre were responsible for the pleasant
evening.
Members of the Huron County,Ceuneil
met in the Court- House, Goderich, to open
the January session, when Richard Ernest
Shaddick, Reeve of Hensalf, was eleCted
Warden.
The council of the Township of-Mc-
Killop as elected by acclamation met in
Carnegie 'Library Hall,.. Seaforth and
subscribed to the oath of office, as
follows: - Reeve :•• N. R. Dorrance;
Councillors D. Beuerman, Geo. R. Camp-
bell, Frank' Kirkby'and Matthew Murray.
JANUARY 17th, 1896.
There are now 54 inmates in the Route
of Refuge, Clinton.
The snow in the Hensall district is
getting very deep on all the main roads,
while on many concessions, travelling is
afitiOStimpessible.
Duncan McFarlane of Hensall is getting
a lot of fine brick delivered on his.Mac-
Arthur's survey, for the erection of a
nevAwelling in the spring.
David. Dorrance has sold his farm on
the 'Roxboro Road near Seaforth to Thos.
German, for $3,000. • Mr. Dortance has
purchase. Wm. Scott's residence on•John.
Street paying $420. t„„
The family of S. Dickson, plst master,
of this town, were awakened at 2 o'clock
Saturday morning by someone walking
through the house. It had been a trans-
ient' who had come in through a window
which had 'riot been locked. However,
Mr. Dickson frightened him -away.
John McDoWell of Roxboro, McKillop,
met with a very painful aecident. He was-
feeding - a straw cutter .when his left
hand was caught by the knives. The ends
of three fingers were cut off.
Richard Penhalt 6fginley 'Township,
near Hayfield, informs us that he has
been a subscriber to the Huron Expositor
for provheerre we23yree rarse.
gistered in the Township
of McKillop, ter the past six Tenths, 21
births, 8 marriages and 14 deatMo
'Edward Bossimberry, Zurich, had one
Of Jelin McAllister's Colts to break, and
one day he took it,. out to drive. The
colt reared and fell back bursting a vein,
and in a short time the beast bled to
death.
Miss Mary E. Smith and Miss Grace
of Walton have completed a patchwork
quilt, Which contains 3,925 pieces.
The messenger of death. has again
visited. Egthonditille, and taken from the
village one of US most estimable, citizens
in the person of Joseph C dlie. He was
bornin Scotland and was in his 73rd'year.
"I'M ONE OF THE TROOPS WHO FOUGHT' THE WAR ON INFLATION! WHERE'S MY 4?
VETERAN'S ALLOWANCE?"
From My Window
— By ,Shirley J. Keller —
in the Years
Agone
Sugar and Spice
by Bill - Smiley Snowmobiling Need Not Be Dangerous
bid you read recently of the little
fellow who came to, Montreal from Peru
and at the age of four years is able to
astound the university professors with
his knowledge of the arts and music? „,
'As I read this .article I .couldn't 'help
'but think to, myself, "Poor little fellow.
Only four years old and already he's got '
the mind' of an intelligent.-adult. Before
long he'll have all the problems and the
heartaches of an adult and he'll never
haVe known what it is to be a child."
I guess the reason. I think like this ,
is _because, I have a four-year old. Maybe
I'm secretly -jealous that my child isn't
a prodigy and yet I sincerely doubt that's
my motive. While it might make me some
' kind of a heroine to be the mother of a
'genius .I'm willineto bet a. pot of macaroni
that My. "Son "is- happier -a,s,,he is 'and would
miss out on a great deal by' being an
intellectual.
I read that story about the little
Peruvian who answers questions about
history, literature,, geography and phil-
osophers ,without batting an eye and then I
watched my very normal son as he
struggled to recall where he left his
shoes from the night before. I know my
son has far less Worrieabut does he have
to be this stupid?
You know, I thought my little fellow
was coming along' pretty well. He won't
go to kindergarten until 4epteMber and
already he can 'recite the "alphabet, write
his 'Came, count to 50, do some simple
number facts and cut and color with
,adniirable dexterity.
NoW I find another lad of the same
age is dazzling the educators with --his-
wisdom and the•handiwork of my lad lobks
duller, and duller:'' Where did 'I fail?
Reading on in the story, I find the
little genius has a,two-year-old brother
who playa classical music on the piano.
My son is two years older and' can only
make deafening noises on that infernal
set of toy drums le received from Santa
Clans. Surely being the mother ,of a
child Prodigy would be easier on my