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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, July 27, 1972
Expensive merry-go-round
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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.
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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.
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