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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-07-27, Page 2et Awn Txpositor Since 1860, Serving the 'Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., PubWheals Md. ANDREW Y. MeLEA14, Editor Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Newspapers Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $8.00 a. Year Outside Canada (iii advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, July 27, 1972 Expensive merry-go-round 4' al 0 From My Window — By Shirley J. , Keller Sugar and Spice by Bill' Smiley In the Years Agone . Increased costs of services, particularly those'bein.g provided muni- cipalities, is causing concern to municipal councils across Ontario., These added costs coup- led with continuing in-, creased demands by the province on municipalities for more information about various matters, is con- tributing to what in many areas is becoming an in- tolerable local tax situa- tion and in most cases -it is something about which the focal elected council member can do little. , Indicative .of the con— cern are.these_comments- contained in a recent issue-..-of the Exeter. Times . krvocate'. , Increasing costs of goods and services are taken for, granted the'se days, but when'they bey come excessive they ;should be examined more closely.' A case in:point is the, monumental hike-being ,ex- perienced by municipalities to have their annual audits- prepared. HurO'n County council learned last week their fee Could double next year to $8,000, while Stephen 'Were advised their costs would increase 40 per cent! to $1,750. Some. inc'rease is to be expected. The municipali- ties are involved •in more complex transactions than they were and the auditing firms point out that the government now requires additional forms to'be filled out. But surely, the work has not doubled in one single year! If it has, it's high time a review, was ''made of the -situation to determine if all the . work is justified. If the increases con- tinue at the present level, taxpayers will soon be —1,—baylfll-as—mucK to have someone check accounts as • they do for the people who keep the 'accounts in the first place.. Thesituation is even further compounded by the- fact the.prOvincial govern- ment also employs a myriad of inspectors who period- ically check.00, road eX- penditures, pension geduc, tions„, unemployMent in- surance, etc. etc. And then, ,of course, there are th8se we hire to inspect the work of-the inspectors. The.merry-go-round is 4 getting expensive-. JULY 24, 1897. Hayfield is growing in popularity year' by year as a cheap, beatitiful and pleasant summer resort. It is a paradise for' children and Is unsurpassed as° a resting place for physically tired men and women. Mr. Jewett has a number of comfortable and commodious cottages erected in a cedar clump adjoining his grove. During....the_sterMA. lightning killed one of the best horses belonging to James- Reynolds, Hullett. it was standing by a wire fence when the bolt struck it on the head. Miss Sarabel McLean of Seaforth, has passed her final examination at the Toronto Normal School as a Kindergarten director. The people at iRoxbovo, and those whq have to pass that point are again being annoyed by boys and yelling men bathing in the river. We are requested by the clerk of IVICKillop to say there is a township by-law prohibiting this sort of thing. Peter Hawthorne of the town line, Hullett, has an apple tree in his orchard which is loaded with fruit and blossoms at the same time. . Thos. Dinsdale of Kippen„ the veteran thresher, who ' makes it a point to have everything. in good ',order, has purchased a new Monarch separator. A few days ago, Mr. Kibler's six- year-Old son was playing with a bicycle when it fell. In some manner he got his arm tangled up and had one• of his wrists broken. JULY_28th, 1922. The U.F.O. picnic held in Whitmore's Grove, Tuekersmith, under the auspices of the plinton, Seaforth and Brucefield Clubs 'passed off very pleasantly. Much disappointment was felt because of the absence of two of the principal speakers, Miss Agnes McPhail, M.P.. and the Hon. R.- H. Grant, who were both indisposed. John Scott, president, gave an introductory address and Wm. Black, M.P. for South Huron, also spoke. • Miss Blanche Wheatley Mies Vera and Louise Dunlop and Elizabeth Mill's of Constance are attending the summer sehOol at Goderich. Robert Hoggarth of Cromarty, is at present. erecting a new kitchen and is also making extensive improvements to the front of his residence. Miss Rota Kerslake of Staffa, has secured a school in Blanchard Township, and will commence duties when school reopens. Peter Moffatt, of Bflicefield, who taught school in Stanley for two yarn, has taken the position of principal fn Dashwood school. Vincent Patterson of town, has taken a position on the staff of the Canadian Bank of-Commerce at Goderich. The many friends of Reg. S. Reid, of town, will be glad to learn that he haS been appointed to the staff of the local branch of the Province of Ontario Savings Office. Miss Jean Hays, of town, has been appointed to fill the vatancy, on the Public School staff caused by the resignation of Mrs. Mitchell. — 'R. Govenlock -has -received a letter--•-'-- from his sister, Miss Janet, who is at Langdan,. N.' Dak., wher e she is farming 200 acres. She sent a. sample of , wheat 4 1/2 feet in length which she 'selected from a field near her dwelling. Miss Mary Jackson,. of town, captured the town scholarship at the entrance exams, while Miss Agnes Patrick won the county scholarship. AUGUST 1st, 1947. A former well known Seaforth man, Rev. Douglas H. Stewart, has been in- ducted as Minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, Kincardine. Friends In Seaforth and vicinity will be interested in knowipg that Miss Helen Larkin, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. F. 4. Larkin, has been appointed by the Indian Department of the FederalGovern- merit to assist in social service work among the Indians in the Viikon. A well known Seaforth land mark paid the price of old age when the large barn on Goderich Street West, near Main Street, was torn down. Known as the Royal barn, ,it was, erected some 75 ,years, ago. About 25 years ago it was purehased by the' late J. F, Daly and used for a car and implement garage. A torrential rain and electrical storm caused untold damage to crops throughout the district. A large barn on the farm of Harry Norris, Tuckeremith, was struck by ligh t ning and completely destroyed. Ligh t ning struck an electrical installation at the farm of Mac Scott and burned out a motor. The residence of Wm. Stapleton, Dublin, was struck but apart from disrupting the electrical service, no damage was done. Frank Kirkby of Walton, has purchased a modern ditching machine, and is at present working in the Beechwood• area. , Mrs. Johnson, who is visiting her son, George Johnston, James Street, fell and fractured her arm. A large crowd attended the football game at the park when the local boys defeated the Atwood team 2 o. lames McCall scored both goals, one in each period. Misses Elsie and Dorothy Drover left on ,a trip through the Western Provinces to Vancouver. They went to Fort Wil- liam by boat. or I' m not what one Would call an avid ',' hockey tan. That's , why We have two televisions at our house - to permit me to watch a movie or a talk show or a musical extravaganza• or the hews or anything at all just as long as it isn't hockey. I don't know what it is about that game, especially the television Version. I get absolutely sick-to-my stomach dizzy. There's so much movement that my eyes ,_play tricks on my digestive system. And I can't follow the play. I never know who has the puck - and rather than risk vomiting all over the livingroom rug, I'll drop the whole issue and go do the ironing. But I live with hockey nuts. My hus- band and my'two sons just adore the game. In the average hockey season, I get more news from the nets than most people who are acquainted with the sport. From the opening -face-off of the season to the final Stanley Cup period, I'm informed. Totally informed. That may be part of the reason I feel so strongly about this Bobby Hull 'thing. As far as I'm concerned, I don't give a tinker's darn .about NHL rules and' regulations. -All I know is that Hull is a fine hockey player and r believe we should send our best to the Canada4. ' Russia game. I, for one, would like to see the Russians trounced solidly by the —Canadian -bunch- ....-__and_d_don't este_ It I've mentioned this before, but 'of recent years there seems to be a fev- erish desire to "get back to the land." There are many aspects of this, of • .cotpse. There is the young people's determination to get away from it all: the pollution, the commercialism, the materialism - and live a simple life, close to nature, communal sharing, or- ganic foods groWn with their own pink little materialistic handt, ..and so on. This usually ends in failure. Not because they don't mean well, but le- cause they simply don't have a clue ab6ut the land. Most of them are the products of middle-class life, and when it comes to doing something, they can't do any- thing.' , They can't milk a cow. They can't nail two boards together without making a hand sandwich. They're used to stay- ing up all night and sleeping all day,,, and the land doesn't go, for that. And they don't realize that among every group - of people who live _at close quarters, there is at least one coward, one rotter who can't eat turnips, and one who should have been born a pig. These things lead to a certain amount of disillusion. Oh, they have serious meetings, and they set up committees, and they study their navels. But it usually winds up the same. Mervyn who is a slight, ephemeral poet, wind; up chopping all the firewood, along with his foot. George, the vital, hairy, press- on type, likes to sleep until '11 a.m. and Complains for the rest of the day about the food. Sylvia, the frail and fragile folk-singer, carries eight buckets of water and feeds the pig (they always have one pig). And Voluptua, strong as a bull, gets up late, demands Coffee, strums her guitar, and complains about the bugs. Myrtle, who dropped out of university because life was so "irrele- Clarence—Cainpbell or, Alan Eagleson or the _entire NHL, uppercrust have' their noses out of jotriellecause of it. The part which really irks me is that the NHL insists on holding the upper hand at all costs: For years - or so it' seems to me - the NHL sat placidly by and let, the Russians wipe the ice with anything we could put out there.• There wasn't any national pride to be ,upheld as far as the Canadian contingent of the NHL was concerned. It was as though it wasn't even Canadian. Now, it appears the NHL Sees a way to, make some money and gain some new kind of status for' itself. It has agreed that only Canadia n born players who - are signed with, the NHL shall be per- mitted to participate in the game. That's really superiority plus. What hockey team could possibly be so good that it could not use, Bobby Hull, an NHL legend, if there ever was one. I'm not arguing with the NHL stand to 'Stick to the rules and bar Bobby Hull. I'm arguing against the rule ever being • made in the first place. I'd like to know the wisdom of it - or was , it purely an economic venture designed to prove that the NHL is 'the best 'there is without help from anyone. The NHL president Clarence Camp- ...beLl_bas_c barged_ that _the vant", winds up doing all the dirty dishes. John, the third-year dropout from architecture, is given the job of build- ing a backhouse., With cornpats and calipers, he lays it all out.. He even digs the hole. He completeS the build- ing, the grand unveiling takes place, and it is discovered that the,. hole is three feet wider than the structure. Peggy, the drop-out oceanographer; is put, in charge of the water supply. There is a well, though slightlytiecrep it ,and full of frogs' and snakes. With commendable courage, she dumps a qu- art of potassium cyanide in the well. It is not well done, and for the next month, they walk three miles to the nearest farmer's for fresh water. And so on. This is just a -sample and I'm not knocking it. , These people are ' learn- ing something besides writing essays, demonstrating against practically every- thing, and smoking pot. Eventually, Cyril will discover that you Can't milk a dry cow. Janice will learn that if you pick up a long-tailed, sweet little kitten, you might get a shot of exotic perfume. Good for them all. Then there's the other type of hack- to-the-landers. They are new immigrants. EuropeanS who 'wouldn't have had a hope of owning some land in the old country. They buy practically anything, as long as It's land. They form a syn- dicate of families, move in, "work like dogs. They live in the city because that's where their skills are. But when they attack a piece of the land, they Move. Even-body works. There's a stonemason or two, a carpenter, a roofer, a plumber, an electrician, and a farmer. They are used to the big-family, comm- unal life. yithin weeks, they have every- thing working. haye a cow that's not only milking, but producing a calf. later of Canada 'was not well-informed. It appears that Team Canada's own coach Harry Sinden wasn't too well informed. He thought he could use Hull. ' He even announced that Hull would be one of 35 players who would play in the ser- ies against the Russians. And, what .aboutIPET getting involved ie this thing? Should! he; have kept4 his cool and quietly ignored the situation? I don't know what the best political move would be. I don't think like a politician. But I'm afraid that if I was the Prime Minister of Canada and Bobby Hull :was willing to play on my team against our • oldest and strongest com- petition, I'd be hopping up and down too if someone said he couldn't play be- cause of a paper technicality. I'm not so "sure I would have refused to meet with Clarence Campbell if that's true - to discuss the Matter. I think I might have been so hostile I .would have gladly had Campbell ushered into my office if 'for no •other reason than to emphasize the point that Canada's honor is at stake. That's more important thawany NHL red tape. , • Maybe the team can beat Russia with- out Hull •and with dull-skates and cracked hockey sticks. I don't know. But if - Bobby Hull 'wanted to join forces with my hcickey team, I'd let him. We'd argue , They'll have a sow that's going to de- liver sixteen piglets. They'll have hens that are laying. Their women can pro- duce a huge pot of something out of nothing. Kids happy, moequitoe-scarred and everywhere. Bless them. , And then there's the third type, like a couple' of colleagues of mine. A' few weeks ago they bought 100 acres of - uh land. Mind you, there was a house on it, and a barn. One is a Doctor of Philosophy, whose thesis was on Wordsworth's Influence on 19th Century Political Thought. The other is a civil engineer, who is extremely uncivil when he has to do any engineer- ing., He has been known to tear off a screen door when he couldn't get it to fit and has been heard by reliable wit- nesses at attack the furnace with a shovel and appropriate language, when" It Wasn't working satisfactorily. They've ' both been working like Maniacs. They tore all the shingles off the side of the old log house and appar- ently put them on the roof. They have, to walk Only three-quarters of a mile to get to the homestead. ..., Their only real problem now is to build a bridge across a stream, for access to the property, and then a half-mile road to the farm-house. , I' would cross a bridge built by my civil engineer friend only with water- . wings. And I would drive up a road built by the Doctor only with a helicop- ter. However, it take§ all kinds. And I did promise to come up and cook for theta, for a few days. They are living on Veans, out of the can. Perhaps a good steak and a ,salad might drive them on to greater and worse efforts, while I sit on the porch, with gin and tonic, directing some of their more incredible efforts. • 0 • • o • le . •