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From My Window
— By Shirley J. Keller
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Since 1860, tSvving the Community First
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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 18, 1971
Municipal Clerks
To some of us the
municipal clerk is a name
on a tax notice, someone
to whom we complain when
a drain is blocked or our
road needs plowing.
.But to othe rs includ-
ing those on 'm unicipal
councils and b oards'and
commissions wh o work so
tirelessly foT their
municipalities , the mun-
icipal clerk i s someone
to whom 'they 1 ook for
advice and gui, dance -
same one who p rovides
continuity in municipal
procedures, wh o interprets
objectively th e statutes'.
and,by-laws un der which
the municipali ty operates,
These peopl e know the
work involved in the
clerks office and they
know too to wh at an extent
it increases y ear by year
as the Listowe 1 Banner
points out.
"Never an easy job,the
work of the municipal clerk
in this,province is be 7
coming more difficult each
year. It has now reached
the point where . many Clerks
are openly complaining and
some, are even threatening
not to do the additional
work delegated to them.
Pointing to the fact that
the duties of municipal
clerks are clearly de-
fined in the.Municipal Act,
they say they'do not in-
clude many of the jobs
they've been asked to do
in recent years. . •
"Clerks are especially
NOVEMBER 20, 1896.
Over three carloads of lambs were
shipped to the United States from Clinton.
James McFarlane of Stanley, shipped 120
Shropshire lambs for breeding purposes
to the United States.'
P. McNaughton, Cromarty, teacher,
has resigned his position and accepted one
• in Staffa.
Andrew Calder has leased the house
which belonged to the late Mrs. Papple in
Egmondville and intends moving his family
to the village In a short time.
Miss H. I. Graham of Egmondville has
presided at the organ in the Methodist
Church, Seaforth, during the past two
Sabbaths.
Messrs. Edward and Samuel Hin-
chley of town have been appointed agents
for Seaforth for...the celebrated Massey-
Harris Company; and they are doing
business in the old stand in Carmichael's
block.
Major Anderson of town -was in Morris
Town‘ship hunting and he came home
loaded down with rabbits foxes and other
game.
There was heavy thunder and sharp
lightning 'early on Wednesday morning.
Messrs. Landsborough and Leatherdale
have leased the Golden Lion store in the
addfellow's block and will open a furniture
and undertaking' establishment.
The first.supper in connection with the
Winthrop cheese factory was held at
Thos. Archibald's on the 10th inst. Besides
the milk drawers, cheese maker, etc. there
were prekent, Mr. and Mrs.JohnGoven-
lock, Mr. and Mrs. John Shannon, Wm.
Staples, Alex Ross and others with their
best girls. Music was furnished by Mr.
Staples, while Mrs. John Govenlock pre-
sided at the organ and favoured With a few
.songs.
NOVEMBER- 18, 1921.
John Deitz and Wm. Manley of Manley
are busy drawing wood to Mitchell for
John Benneweiss, ex. M.P.P. who has a
number of orders to fill.
Siandon Bros. of Bayfield have secured
the contract for carrying the mail for the
neitt four Year term. •
A pIelSant event took place at the home
Have Problems
angry about a recent mem-
orandum from the Ontari-o
Municipal Affairs Depart-
ment requesting them to
supply information to the
department regarding the
farm tax rebate program.
The township offi'ces are
asked to list the gross
taxes on each property and
the amount of the resid-
ential tax rebate on each.
"The 25 per cent farm
tax rebate is paid on the
net tax bill after the
residential rebate is
deducted. In effect,the
clerks say the provincial
government gets the glory
while they get' the work.'
The Listowel editor '
sums it up by concluding:-
"After seeing,policies,
like this 'coming from the-
Ontario Municipal Affairs
Department, we can't
understand the big push
fqr regional government.
It seems it takes the low
man on the totem pole to
spot the mistakes and
without him around we
cpuld all be in trouble.
It's about time the govern
ment offered to pay its
fair share for its own
red tape work, give the
money to ,the municipal
clerks and start .to pay
attention to some of
those little details. The
sad thing about this one
is that the gLuy who's
going to hear -`about it is
the same municipal clerk
who had nothing to do with
it except the dirty work."
of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas in Tuckersmith,
it being the occasion of a reception of their
son, Russel and bride. The music for
dancing was furnished by Mr. Chesney and
Mr. Norris, assisted by Mr. and Mrs.
Adams.
A challenge euchre was held in the
G.W.V.A.Club rooms on Armistice night,
veterans, the auxiliary and male members,
150 persons being present. The ladles
won by 12 games.
Robert Penhale of Ba• yfield arrived
home from a trip to the • west with a
•
car of apples.
The disappearance of the snow will be .
a help to some of the farmers who still
have roots to be lifted.
Wm. McGregor, east of the village of
Klippen, has installed a chopping mill in
his barn and is getting a share of patronage.
NOVEMBER 22, 1946.
Announcement was made this week of
the appointment of Dalton L. geld,
geaforth, as examiner of applicants 'for
chauffeurs and operators licenses. There
has not been. an examiner here for some
months.
Gordon Betties and Donald Horne of
Winthrop are spending a week hunting
in the Tobermory district.
Mr. and Mrs....M. McDermid, Goderich
St. West, were at home to a number of
friends of Miss Josephine Edge, bride
elect of next month, Miss Florence
Fowler presented Miss Edge with a lovely
woollen blanket. Lunch was served with
Miss Clara Ptnkney pouring coffee.
Geo. Henderson, Riisseidale, accom-
panied by Ernest Adams and Kelso Adams
were On a deer hunting trip to Bruce Co.
Messrs. Keith M. McLean, Geo. D.
Ferguson and A. W. Corley are spending
a few days at Red Bay, Bruce Peninsula.
A welcome home party was held in
Dublin Parish Hall in honor of Joseph
Morrison when a large assembly of friends
and neighbors were present to honor the
returned soldier.
. Action of the Warden's Committee
in laying over the matter of purchasing
port Albert airport for county purposes
was endorsed by Huron County Council.
At time of writing, there is a wind
howling out of the north and a wrack of'.
clouds tearing across the sky.. But
you "'won't hear a word of complaint from
me.
In the first place, the wind has blown
the remainder of my annual 20,000 cubic
feet of leaves right off my front lawn
and onto my neighbours!
And in the second, this has been the
most glorious autumn I can remember.
The foliage was eneffably beautiful, and
lasted longer than usual. We were swim-
ming right into October. On November
1st, we entertained friends on the back
lawn; after a two-mile walk through the
hushed expectancy of a beech forest,
over stone walls that looked as though
they had been built by the same chaps
who knocked together the pyramids, and
across rolling paStures that reminded,
bittersweetly, of. the English downs.
Let dread winter do its dahgdest.
The Lord, or whoever runs the weather
department, has given me a fall I will
never forget. Mind you, take that with
a grain of salt. Man is a fallible crea-
ture and within a week I'll be cursing
the snow, getting my snow tires on too
late, trying to pry the garden hose out
of the ice, and wondering why I didn't
get my storm windows on during that
glorious autumn I was raving about.
Man is fallible, Indeed. We are
born equal, but some of us become more
equal than others. We are born fallible,
Well, PET was in our area'this week
and as usual it threw the entire prov-
ince into a tizzy. I don't know why there
are' always those people who get so worked
up over the most insignificant things...
but it happened again this time and I
doubt that too many of us, were sur-
prised.
There was a great deal ,of discus-
sion as most of you are aware, pro and
con, concerning whether or not Trudeau
would be Welcomed In London, Ontario, for
the annual Remembrance Day services.
Some said that Trudeau hadn't served in
the war, although he would have been old
enough at the time, and he had no place
at the cenotaph.
Such silliness. I have no idea in the
world why Pierre didn't march off to war
with a good many other boys his age, but
I do 'know that in almost every community
of this great land of ours, there were
those wlio went and those who didn't.
But they all remember.
The thing which struck me most about
Trudeau's visit to our neck of the woods
(aside from his hair which I personally
feel doesn't do a great deal to improve
'his looks) was the speech he made in
Petrolia. By golly that was a dandy
speech, if what you read in the news-
papers is true. As always, Trudeau and
I see eye to eye on the important fssues.
You have no idea what that does for my
confidence in myself.
Trudeau just put into very plain and
simple terms what I've been preaching
through this column and every other
but some_ of us become more fallible
,than others. I am content to be in the
latter category. If there's .anything that
raises my hackles, it, is the person who
is infallible, or thinks he is. Or she,
in the case of my wife. •
For example, did you read about the
way that Jackie ex-Kennedv has that
poor Greek, Aristotle Onassis, tied
up financially. He made himself ' a
billionaire, but despite his first name
and the wisdom it implies, his marriage
contract with her makes him look like a
real hick 'who has come in contact with
a very shrewd horsetrader. She is
guaranteed $10,000 a year for clothes.
I forget the other items; but they're in
the same vein. Even my wife was ap-
palled. She couldn't spend it, she said.
I merely raised one eYebrow. But wouldn't
you agred that Aristotle is fallible?
The political experts are just about
as fallible as they come. Premier Davis
would have a real battle on his hands
in Ontario. Joey Smallwood would have
some opposition,, but no real problem in
Newfie. The upset of the long-entrench-
ed Alberta government was impossible.
Davis won walking in Ont., Joey got
licked (I think) in Newfie, and the long-
entrenched boys in Alta. were turfed out.
The cops are fallible. Hundreds of
them stood around with'red faces when
some silly young punk burst through
their serried ranks and put a half-Nelson
editorial-type thing I haVe written over
the years. He said it is about time, people
stopped crying on the government's shoul-
der to do something about inflation an
something about the lack of jobs for our
people. It is high time that people started
to do something for themselves.
As Trudeau puts it , we've priced our-
seWes right off the world markets....and
it is damn well true. That's the result of
this vicious circle we've been running in
for the past decade or so. Increase the
wages then increase the price of the
product to the consumer so that the margin
of profit to the manufacturer stays high.
Then increase the wages again and up the
price of the merchandise another time.
Nobody calls a halt...nobody that was until
just recently when that dirty, dastardly
dimwit (that's American for dumb)Presi-
dent Richard Nixon finally used his heid
and said, "Eriough"..
Yes, it is true. I think Nixon made
the right move at the right time, even
if it does affect Canadian markets ad-
versely. we'll recover.
But back to Trudeau. lie also told
the kids at Petrolia to get up off' their
fannies and hustel. That, man, is my
kind of language. He warned the youth
of this country that the government of
Canada could not promise everyone
the kind of job he or she wants to do.
There are just so many extra-special
jobs going in this country and it will
be the most aggressive and the best
trained who will get them.
That's what I've been trying to tell
on Premier Kosygin.
The mighty U.S. is fallible. For the
first time in the histqry of the United
Nations, the States got a real jolt in
the ego on the admission of China vote.
Its fallibility was showing even more
blatantly when it persisted, in the face
of world opinion, in the great nuclear
test off Alaska.
But this is the way of the world. If
man were infallible, he wouldhave no
need for a god, the earth would he crawl-
ing with automatons, and life would be
very dull.
If weather forecasters were infallible,
for instance, there'd be no spice in life.'
We'd be able to batten' down for a storm,
instead of having the roof blown off
when they predicted light winds. , We'd
be able to wear heavy -jackets, instead
of shivering like a dog vomiting razor
blades, when 'they forecast hot Weather,-
and the temperature was 34. No fun.
No ,variety.
I've come a long way from my opening
words about the beautiful autumn we've
had. But there's method in my madness.
Man is fallible. Maybe I just think
we've had a beautiful fall. I could quite
easily wake up tomorrow morning, dis-
cover that it was the middle of September,
and that we'd just had a 4-foot fall of
snow, and' that the whole thing had been
a dream. I hope not, but I'm not dis-
counting the possibility. ,
my children.
"You've got to have an edge," I
tell them whenever I have them cap-
tive, like in the car. "You've got to have
everything that everybody else has and
then you have to have something extra.
You have to have ambition and drive
as well as ability and talent" -
' Pierre said that about the best any-
one could promise the youth of this
country is that things wouldn't , get too
unbearable for them. Things might never
be perfect if they choose to take the
slinkers way out of it, but things would
never become absolutley intolerable be-
cause of welfare and unemployment insur-
ance and pensions and family allowances.
In other words, the government could do
little more than take the sting out of it
for these with the attitude that the world
(or the government in modern day term-
inology) owes them a living...,and a roof
over their heads and food in their mouths
and a three-week vacation annually and a
color television and a bottle of booze
every Saturday plus a luxurious car
which is too expenc"'e for the aver-
age man to buy bec,,,,,,se the price re-
flects our mode of living in Canada.
Yes sir, I think Trudeau Is right.
For people to sit around and wait for
the government to create more jobs and
open more markets without being be-
hind them one-hundred percent is like
asking your husband to get more money
on hand so you can spend more....and
then crabbing when he's out every night
working and . tint home to talk to you.
Ridiculous.
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