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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-01-28, Page 2anon From' My Window - By, .Shirley J. Keller nre----'---Thed with Betty's performance on'the c onstruction site. In fact, Schwartz in- dicated that he is not at all adverse to the idea of hiring more women if there are girls who will come forth to do the job. can't get any men to 'work for me," states Schwarts. I suppose the reason is obvious. Mr. Schwartz runs the kind • of a business which is rather uncertain. fi4ter one job is completed, there may le. another in the area for some time, miring the employees to either 'move with the job or quit. That's not a very sure Way for a man to earn a especially a home- loving man who likes to be with his family at the close of every day. Besides that, it -gets mighty cold out • on a construction job this time Of the year. Some fellows just aren't accustomed to such abuse. Mr. Schwartz says most guys -come to look the job aver, stay for a couple of days and"then leave because df the chill Sudbury winds which whip around the rafters. , Betty is tough, I suspect. Like many, many other women, Betty was, probably Conditioned for the job _hanging out clothes every day in the winter' months, standing around outside while junior builds a snowman, waiting in a long line to get into the winter underwear sale,, racing around in the knee-deep' snow in• the' backyard picking up what's left of .the morning newspaper. 3 Betty is also Itiffte a woman, I would sey. It is repdrted there are men in Sudbury who chastise Betty for taking away a man's job and leaving some children somewhere6een starving winagy,ahnadsnc,otldit.? That's al43s are always people Who wouldn't do the fob themselves yet hate to see Someone else have .a: chance at it. What's it called? Dog-in-the-manger? I wouldn't have Betty's job on a bet. Neither would 99 percent of the women I know. But if Betty' Burnett can do a man's job to the, satisfaction of her on- ployer, get paid a man's wages and be Contented doing it, let the fellows who want the job come forth - and compete for it in the regular manner by comparing Skills and ambition rather than casting ugly remarks. y The case of the Sudbury woma who works in a 'cocktail lounge as a singer by night and on a city construction site by day intrigues me. You might even say I am totally enthralled by the kind of a woman who could perform both those jobs to the satisfaction of her employers. I'm not •particularly surprised that Betty Burnett has chosen to work on a construction site with the boys. Incidentally, readers, Betty is what you might call a steel rigger . . . . and I imagine the pay is pretty good. As I Was saying,, I'm not unsteadied by Betty's labors in the construction' business: have absolutely •no reason to assume that women could not do. an acceptable job on construction . . . but I would suppose that it would be necessary to , have a 'particular type of ,,woman. It would seem to me that a steel rigger would have to,he a hefty gal with man-size muscles. She would have to be able to climb to the heights of the building (the building on which Betty is presently employed is a warehouse and I'd', imagine it l's high enough to make the average man think about crawling up to its peak). , For those reasons it would be my thought that any woman who was feminine enough to sing love-songs, in a night club and wear those slinky, sexy dresses most songstresses wear, would be slightly out of character on 'a construction site. And that's why petty Burnett intriguet me most. Of course, there would be some similarity between the two Jobs. Both positions would require the applicant to have a certain rapport with the men, Wouldn't you say. After all, whether a girl was' warbling ',Love Me. Tonight" or hoisting a steel' beam in place, it would be to her advantage, I would think, ,to have the males in the place on her side., ri Tlifir latter instance, it may. even be possible to do very little of thertual labor if the boys on the rigging dew were anitiouS to gain her favor. It Was very interesting to note from the. newspaper account about Betty's double life that her employer, a marl by the name Of , W. H. Schwartz, is entirely sails- Sugar and Spice by Bill'Smiley Even a winter sour-puss like me cannot but be affected when we hit one of those rare and perfectwinter days. Today is one'of them. Snapping twelve degrees. Sun grinning down like an old, yellow lecher as fresh 'snow lifts Virginal, blue-white, pleading hands. Sky as cold and blue as_ Mr. Benson's heart. Ugly, fallen-down fence' in back yard has vanished until spring. Picnic table is a loaf of white bread rising. Big spruce by the garage holds with dignity, in sagging, blue-green arms, the big lumps of heavy white cotton. In 'the country, evergreens are startling black. clumps of contrast. Ancient rail 'fences with jaunty, snow-capped posts run their erratic charm through the bluish drifts. So do the snow-shoerS. Skiers whizz down like -gulls swooping for scraps. And the damned snowmobiles grunt and bellow' about like bulls in a chaste china shop. There. I knew something would spoil it. Don't worry. I won't go into a diatribe about the stinking things. I consider them; beneath my dignity. I wouldn't ban them if I had the power. • They're a Wonderful- • machine for farmerS, trappers and others who need to get- places they couldn't before. Some of the' 'kids at Our Schoen- who live on. islands, 'Way out in the bay, cross the ice -the tOirigii, catch the school bus, drive,, minutes tO,sehoon'tlien make itie return jburney the afternoon. You Gant t knock that. Arid thorn fine for Acreation, too, if theY'fi'ilkOsi, with Some sense. taut that's ,the• fah,- An a cabilidt Minister 'remarked-4.460:3i, on the subject, ',You datiq• against stupidity." And some of the most stupid- people I know own snowmobiles. (Not you, gentle reader, not you.) You don't go flying solo after an hour's instruction. ' And you have to pass a fairly stiff test nowadays to get a car driver's license. But it seems that any nrurp of a_kid (or adult) who can get one of the THINGS started, and not necessarily stopped, is free to go out and commit mayhem or suicide: When I see some kid belting along at full throttle, on an icy road, or trying to pass a car on the right, 'I shudder. And when I fee mature, middle-aged people attempting climbs and Amps and crossing thin ice that even an intelligent ape would shy at, I shake my head sadly. It' seems that every third person you meet has a twisted ankle or a sprained shoulder or a bent bum. Then there are the gangs. The only difference between a motorcycle gang and a smowmobile gang is the speed and the time of year. Both are likely to be half- stOried, and both are prone to vandalism and indifferent to the feelings of others. I. know they wonder why I don't eat lunch 'in the staff-room any more. But I'd rather 'nit In the cafeteria 'with 400 noisy students than sit In the stafftroom with twelve or fourteen snowmobilers bellowing at each other, each trying to top the other's. story.. I told yon I wasn't going to write a diatribe. And I worict7 The car , started this • morning. Classes went well. , My wife's ina decent mood. And my dauglifer got 88 and 90 on two essays". And ft was a beautiful, day, before that silver lining turned into a black cloud. .• ,* 4. • 0 I • 4 ft SEAFORTH,'ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS.. Publishers Ltd. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Editor - --:Memlier...Canadian Weekly Newspaper Asso'ciation ...•,..;;Antatio Weekly ,Newspaper Association - and Audit litireau of Circulation . • Netvspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $0,00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $8.00 a Year. SINGLE COPIES — 15.CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 066 Telephone 527-0240 Since 1860, Serving the Community Fire -xpositer +r, • .o,on As It - Was 'Then An Effective Alternative A frame building owned by William Ault which accommodated his grocery business was the first structure on •the site where the McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company now is located. Later William Campbell owned the property. The building was lost in the fire of 1876 which destroyed mbsrof the buildings in the Main and Goderich Street area. Following the fire A. G. Ault bought the lot and erected thepresent building. In November 1.877 he , established a grocery business which he carried on for many years. The McKillop Insurance office has been located in the building since 1959. s resoon- ader said cabinet here are vative hat re- ld -be and permit rnment der control. solutions ye area's of Mr.Nixon % poses were n that the pond to the ted de- With a provincial ..election expected within .months the deliberations which took place at the annual meeting of';pe L Liberal Party in,. Ontario in Toronto last wee.k.. took on added Significance. Outcome of the three .day event durin-g which" policy positions were de- termined by more.'-than one thousand del-“tates from across Ontario was a re- affirmation of the leader- ship of Liberal lea-der Robert Nixon and agreement on policy which will form the basis of 'an election platform. Mr. Nixon in an incisive Probably the most con- tentious Troposal of the ' many' that have come Gut of the department of municipal affairs in recent years, is that of assessment. 'Within the space of a few years a'series of change's have been introduced .each of which resulted in an increasingly centralized procedure. The climax was reached a year ago when the province.assumed all re- sponsibilities for local assessment. AnsweriN questions ,as., he continue his campaton for the lettership of the C•onservative party; Darcey McKeoug.h the responsible 'Minister, is reported .as havinp agreed that the asses•sment 't6ken over' by the proyince had been made necessary by-the "mess" which resulted from the previous policies of this department. Speaking to area leader- ship convention delegates in Stratford this week the Minister is repdrted as having said that assess meatin Ohtario was ").in such a mess" that some quick action had to be - taken, resulting in "the horrible problem of ap- portionment' of tax dollars. What perhaps is caus- ina concern to Ontario tax" payers is whether similar ment of hi ties as le id cut the members, (t the Conser ment) so t bility cou Y defined st of gave brought un policy-re e-ring twel ment which says will comes twelyeconsolida partments he pro a firm indicatio Libe'ral-s provide .,an effec- , tive alternative to the entrencned.aonservatives: expediencieS to the polic- ies that resulted in the "mass-" continue to be ap- plied. '. • • Th“::-Concern is. shared.' • by the four Ontario Mun- 'icipal Associations. wno ftuestlOn the'actual and anticipated results of ",reassessment at market' value". • the''policyAs exists an end result will .be a substantial shift in Property taxation from-the • industrial-commercial-sec- t ri--to .the-residential- fa m prOuP1WisHs born"' out in munici palities where the new assessment basis has been applied.. Here' residential - farm taxes .rose taxies on industry 'rose but 10.5%. What this means in is that the Ontario doverii— ment assessment. Oolfcies. 'have 'in'creased taxes on farms and simple family dwellings. - those.leasA,-. able to pay - and loWered taxes on industrial and . -commercial properties. ' It is -too bad that the Ontario government delayed so long in arriving at an ass.essme.nt program detianed ,f6r a growing 'Ontiri and thus' have avoided the hasty and last minute decisions which are promptihp the concern today. - n t4e Yeb,rs Agone JANUARY 31, 1896 The Carter ,farm-.9.4 the Huron Road, Tuckersmith, consisting of. I00 acres, less theo joroati, has been sold to Mr. Gillespie, "of Sault Ste Marie for $3,000. Walton may boast of quite an inventor in the person of James Mowbray, He has constructed k complete miniature steam engine of one-tenth horse power, which works to perfection. AA the opening Of Huron County coun- cil, Thos: Strachan, Reeve of Grey, was elected warden. The Village of Hensall has presented a very busy appearance during the past week or so. The good sleighing causes a lot of traffic. D. Urqurhart, the enterprising pro- prietor of the Hensall Oatmeal Mills is constantly shipping away large quantities of oatmeal. John McE wan's team from Hensall, ran away frem.the post office and made for home. FEBRUARY 4, 1921. Hullett played a return game of euchre at the G.W.V.A. rooms in Seaforth and we are pleased to say that they won. Peter Eckert, of Manley, shipped a carload of cattle to Toronto. The fishermen at Bayfield are harvest-. ing their •ice which is of good quality and thirteen inches thick. The annual curling match between president and vice president' was held when the President, John Beattie, de- feated Keith McLean, by one shot. The "January session of the Huron County Council opened in the Court House,• Goderich, With all the members -present. Reeve Peter Doig of Howick was named warden for the present year. Ex Warden Petty, at the request of the warden, unveiled a tablet in memory of the late Donald Patterson, -who• was for years; a valued member -Of the council and' was the' county engineer. There were 349 candidates at the en- trance examinations for the Western In- spectorate. Of these 281 passed of which 111 took honors. Miss Roselle Cronin of Dublin left , to teach in $1. Joseph's Convent,Toronto. • Considerable grain is being' brought into the market at Hensall and meets With' ready demand and good prices. The town 'hall, was crowded for a meeting under the auspices of the U.F.O. The chair was occupied by J.H.Scott of Hullett. Robert McMillan, a director, spoke at some length on '*Co-operation". In the Seaforth store, the sales 'were, $35,946 with a gross profit after certain expenses have been deducted of $4,313.76. 'FEBRUARY 1, 1946. Squadron Leader Ian E. MacTavish was among B.C. A. F. personnel awarded a mention in despatches in the 'Kings New Years honors list. Membership in Branch 156 of the Canadian Legion has gone over the 100 mark. Although the storm cut down attendance, twenty-five applications for membership were passed. " Mr. and Mrs. Lorne S. Webster, who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary were entertained at a family dinner at the home of Mr. and 'Mrs. Robert P. Watson, Sperling Street. Among the Inany messages of con- gratulations received last week, by Mr. and Mrs. James Rivers, of Seaforth, on the occasion of their diamond wedding anniversary, were a cablegram from King George VI, and a telegram from Hon. W.L. MacKenzie King. Sam McSpadden, of Winthroop, who his recently been discharged from the R.C.A.F. has taken a position near Wood- stock. A group of friends and other well wishers assembled at •Looby's Hall to welcomed home Lac kenneth Dill, R.A. A, F. and Sgt. Wilfred Murray. Gerald Holland called the honored guests to the front where an address was read by Mrs. A.M.Looby and a purse of money was presented by Thonkas Butters and Mathew Murray,. Dancing was enjoyed with music by Kay Woods, James Delaney and Wil- frid McQuaid. A successful banquet was held in Duff's United Church, Walton, which in spite of the Stormy night was well attended. The, occasion was sponsored by the session of the church. to welcome home service men of, the congcegation. Those able to attend were: Earl Coritts, Frank Marshall, Cosby Ennis, W.C.Bennett, Fred Glanville, Stuart Humphries and Ivan Shannon. Excellence Flour Mills, which have been operating in §eaforth, for the most part on a 24 hour basis for the past three years, will close' down indefinitely On January diet. SeafOrth Be:shafts defeated Tavistock to the tune of '7 -:The Seaforth line-up wasnil'enG;9Calen Hesse; Defence tre McFadden; Wi ngs T. SLiilippas,rGd°, °dlieig; subs, Ellwood, O'shea, Yeandle, Burdett and Peck. • . . And Now (No. 4) SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, January 28, 1971 • „sxv,Sttnite`q (0,014.14010:1" 4.10,o0. at L assess sibili he wou to 15 23 in govern sponsi clean the co being The of co\/ govern Problems of Assessment Thos. E. Hays of 'town has purchased Win. Habkirk's residence on East William Street and paid in the neighborhood of $1,200. Win. Alexander of the 10th concession of McKillop, has purchased 100 acres of land belonging to the Coleman property and adjoining his own. Large quantities of• logs are being brought in to Donaldson's_ saw mill at Bayfield. Mr. and Mrs. James Snell of Hullett, entertained a number of invited guests at their residence Hayen-Barton Farm. The annual meeting of 'the Brucefield Cheese Manufacturing Company took place in Dixon's Hall. Mr. Burdge of the London Road was elected president for the ensuing year. James Coleman. has again secured the position of cheese maker.' Wm. Bubolz of Tuckerstnith, near , Egmondville,, has purchased from H.Plum- steel, the well known shorthorn breeder of Clinton, a fourteen month old Durham bulL 4