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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1972-10-19, Page 2 xpositor ft Since 1860, Serving the Community First lighett eit SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS., Pubhishens Ltd. ANDREW Y. INULEAN, 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 (in advance) $10.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH' Second ..Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, October 19, 1972 Maybe a new approach +CNA October snow Sugar and Spice by Bill Sinifey In the Years Agone . . sembles a disturbed bee-hive as our politicians hurtle about, every one of them convinced,that his constituency, his party, and his country will go to the dogs if he, personally, is not elected. God forbid, but what would actually happen if Trudeau, Stanfield, Lewis and Caouette had a four-way air collision, which is not an, impossibility at the rate they're haring about their home- land? • Would we just have to throW up our hands and sell the country to the highest bidder? Fat chance. ' There'd be enough poWer-hungry men and women, or just plain idiots, to fill their shoes before' the bits were-picked up. , Nobody is -irreplaceable. The sky didn't fall in when the -British kicked their great war-time leader, WhistanChurnill, out of office. The States didn't -disin- tegrate after the deaths of LincoinvittOose- velt, Kennedy. when' Joe Stalin finally expired, Russia didn't exactly hit the skids. It seems that the only way -to stay off that treadmill of feeling indispensable is to be poor.. The fewer our possessions, the freer we are to step off the merry- go-round, take a look at the wonderful world we live in, and realize that we are about as individually important as grains of sand. I have a fellow just like that sitting downstairs talking to ,his mother. He drifted in this morning from Montreal. He's off to Alaska to spread the Baha'i' faith. How is he going to get there? Well, if he can get to Penticton by Friday, he'll catch a ride north with some friends. I point out that there Is noway,short of flying, or getting to Penticton in two days. Oh , well, to may hitch-hike, going through northern Saskatchewan. (He got the hint that I wasn't going to loan him air fare.) • What was he going to take? Well, he has a sleeping bag and a sweater and jeans and boots, and it's only about three thousand miles, so there's no problem. He's been to ,Mexico; New Orleans, New York and across Canada from coast to coast.' His total ,assets are those listed above. Physical, that 'is. On the other hand, het's completely bilingual and ' has an education no university could pro- vide. Best of all, he knows clearly that he is not indispensable. A very fine herd of steers are to be seen on the pasture farm of Edward Pryce on the leadbury lipe. The largest mangolds to be seen are visible in a patch on the farm of Mr. wm. Lee,ming of MEtKillop. T.Murdock of Hensall, has been granted a renewal for a term of years ,,of his mail contract between Hensall Post Office and railway station. Mrs. R. E, Cooper, of town, met with an unfortunate accident when she fell down the stairs in her home. Unfortunately she was alone at the time and it was some time before Dr. Cooper found her. James Cowan of town has sold his brick residence on West St. to F. J. Kerslake Of Staffa. OCTOBER 24th, 1947. the Seiforth women's Institute spon- sored a successful euchre and dance When 40 tables were in play. The prize -winners were ladies 1st. Mrs. J. W. Free; gentle- mien 1st. Wm. McDowell; ladies lone hands, Mrs. Bertha Habkirk; gentleman's lone hands, Robert McLaughlin; ladies consoiatip i, 114158 McLure; gentleman's consolat , John MeCowan. The Mc- Quaid-D Taney orchestra furnished the Canadian labor, and management will be keenly watching experiments at Volvo, the Swedish au to maker, which is throwing out- the assembly line and building two new brightly . painted and multi-wind- owed plants. Teams of 20 workers will build 'entire 'units of a car: there - brakes,wheels steering mechanism, etc . instead of one.manshoot- ing dne. rivet. Emphasis will be on team relation- ships and pride,of work- manship. Bothered by absenteeism wild-catting and high em- ployee turnover, Volvo is attempting to make working, conditions more pleatant and meaningful. Estimates are that'work time per car will be the same as-on the assembly line. DehumaniZation has:crept into the executive,suite as well as the assembly line in many industries, and radical, creative so- To the, Editor: Sir: If you want to see something entirely different I would suggest the Strasenburg Planetarium in Rochester, N.Y. "It is . the newest building of this type in the world, but more are being built. • What is ft, what do you see? I camiot explain it, you would have to see it yourself. For sixty minutes you have the feeling of being in space. There also are quite a few other exhibits to see. A Museum and a science Center are nearby and ale quite good. From Rochester, driving smith east, we . arrived at Letchworth State Park. The Park is exactly what it is Called, the Recalls Sir: I am writing as a Maritimer, and a former Ministerial aide to an Atlantic Member of the Federal Cabinet. I have noted in your newspaper that Robert Stanfield questions Prime ' Minister Trudeau's competence to govern the country. There is probably no figure in Canad- ian public life !bore qualified to make an assessment as to one's competence in this respect than Stanfield. Stanfield's record as Premier of Nova Scotia provides a benchmark by which incompetence in --government can be measured for all time. In 1966, for instance, the province's financial affair's were in such disarray, that Mr. Stanfield's government wasforced to borrow $75 million at a time of unpre- cedented high interest rates. If the money had been raised a few months earlier (as it' could have been) or a few months later (as it could have been), the Nova Scotia taxpayers would have been saved some $10 to $15 million in interest rates. But incompetence in the Stanfield re- gime was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Industrial Estates Limited, an agency established by the Stanfield government to attract industry to the province. The corporation was established in 1957, the second year of Mr.Stanfield's government. Getween 1957 and 1971, IEL . -has been involved with some 70 clients, • • twenty of whom were already operating in the province before they received TEL, cash. Only 53 ofthe 70' companies re- main in business in Npva Scotia today. The two most spectacular IEL fail- ures have been a heavy water plant at Glace Bay and the Clairtone Corporat- ion at Springfield. • The provincial loss on Clairtone, now bankrupt, Is estimated at between 16 and 20 million dollars. The heavy water plant is not yet operative and already over $140 million has been spent on this project, 'which Stanfield assured Nova Scotians would only cost them $12 million, the amount of the original loan in 1963. An editorial in the Toronto Globe and Mall in 1969, assessed the damage of this venture in these tertna: the heavy water plant has cost Rations are needed. Indus- t.ry is reeling under the pressure of highly-trained workers with large expec- tat'ens churned out by mode education systems. , They want jobs to "mean" something. . Repetitive boredom of the assembly line and ex- ecutive decisions usurped by sophisticated computers' is showing itself by un- rest,. at the top - and walk-outs, high drug and alcohol rates,' absenteeism and sloppiness on the line So little brain power is needed on some jobs that a pigeon was trained by psychologists to move' imperfect pills and tran- sistors off an assembly line wit-h its beak!' Labour experts say wages sand benefits are rarely the cause of strikes any more, - the sicknest goes deeper to a feeling of being con- verted into machines by , boring unpleasant work. - Contributed Grand Canyon of the East. The colours were fabulous. We had seen the Park the summer and it was beautiful then now with the colours it was entire! diff- erent. The canyon at some places is 550 feet deep. The Genesee River, which boasts of three waterfalls, winds through the canyon. Remember hoW cold and windy it was October 15th? Despite the weather the people were out in full force, dressed in winter parkas and sucti to view the wonders of nature. When a week end comes up and you wonder what to do that is differentperhaps this will help. Mary Chapple. Nova Scotians more per capita , ($138.10 than it cost American citi- zens to finance the $24 billion Ap- pollo mission to the moon ($118.11) per capita, and almost as much as' it cost Americans to pay foi the entire $30 billion moon project, in- cluding the Appollo, Gemini and Mer- cury flights ($148.51 per capita). The $105 million already spent re- presents more than a third of the province's annual budget." Meanwhile, the federal government has had to ball (if that's the word) out the heavy water plant to the tune of $50` million, because ganada desperately needs the heavy water for our nuclear reactor programme. Presently it is costing Canadians millions of dollars annually to buy heavy water from the Soviet Union. Yet, another Stanfield legacy came to light in July, 1972, when Cardinal Pro- teins Limited took its place beside the heavy water plant and the Clairtone Corp. in Nova Scotia's black book of develop- ment of disasters. The amount lost by Nova Scotians Is considerably less ($3,2 million), but the failure is just as spectacular on its own scale. As the Ralifax Chronicle Herald (not known for its criticism of the-Tories or Mr. Stanfield) remarked: "All three plants were the subject of growing public relations reports spla- shed across North America: Latterly they became embarassing symbols of government failure in industrial development." All three "embarrassing symbols of government failure" were left to Nova Scotia taxpayers by an administration commanded for the most part by Robert Stanfield, a legacy of close to $200 mil- lion in debts which must be made good, eventually, by Canadian taxpayers. Is this the sort of "competence" Mr. Stanfield would bring to the federal government? Can Canadi afford him? • Sincerely, Mel McInnis 1020 Harkness Ave., Ottawa,Ontario 73-1299 It takes some people a long time to realiie that they are completely dispen- sable. I realized it years ago, but keep forgetting until something jolts me. Today it's the mother and father of all colds. I haven't missed a day's work in about three years, at times tottering off to - the Job with one foot in the grave. For some reason, I had the conceit to imagine that the entire English depart- ment, if not the whole school system, would crack,- crumble and collapsdi. if I weren't there. Common sense tells me that if I were ill for a month, nobody would know the difference, and that if I dropped dead this moment the human race would not falter for a second in its pursuit of folly, happiness and all the other things that make it tick: m • • So, hereq..I am surrounded by soggy „I „klepriex, coughipg up chunks of lung, and sweating like a mule-skinner every ttme I do anything,• more vigorous than blink mty. eyes. But it's not all bad. My wife is dancing attendance on me, something she rarely does because I'M almost never ill, I have a good, foolish" detective story which I'd normally never have time to read. And perhaps most important of all, I have this lazy, hazy feeling that I have stopped the world and got off, even -if only for twenty-four hours. My wife has just forced on me, quite 'against my will, a large libation of hot Water, lemon,' sugar and some sort of cough medicine 'with the, odd name of Teachers' Highland Cream. It makes me sweat, but certainly eases the cough. In feel, it makes life look almost rosy. I hope she doesn't run out of lemons. And stuff. • Isn't it a pity, though, that we go through life, or the biggest part of it, with this feeling that we're so important, when we're less than ants on the face of the earth? Businessmen flOg themselves daily to meet the competition. Executives 'and lawyers drag home their brief cases. Doctors burn themselveS out in twenty years of inordinately long hours. Tea- chers develop ulcers or quietly go mad. Why don't we all relax a little more often and let the earth take a few spins without us? Perhaps the most guilty of all -are politicians. Right now the country re- OCTOBER 22nd,1897. Geo. Baird Sr., the veteran teacher of S.S.No.I recently purchased a bicycle which he will- use for himself. For the last 15 years•he has walked, sometimes run, 2 1/2 miles. The Rey. Joseph McCoy, a former pastor of Egmondville Church, who was called to Chatham, New Brunswick in 1889, has resigned his charge in that city. James McDowell, who has had one of Wm. Fowler's farms on the Huron Road, reoted for some years, haS leased the farm on the 2nd concessionof Tucker- smith, at present occupied by Wm. Cole- man at an annual rental of $260.00 The large fireproof safe in Logan and Co's bank of this town has been pur- chased by the McKillop Mutual Fire In- surance Co. and was taken Out to Mr. Shannon's residence in _OCTOBER 20th, 1922 Mrs. Wm. Archibald of Tuckersmith has been presented with a Life Member- ship by the W.M.S. " of the Egmondville Church. From time to time when I meet people who read this column, I am asked, "How do you think of something ..new to write about each week?" Another favorite query ylso,ur"ctioolwumlno?" ng does it take you' to write This week, I propose to answer these questions for all time. I will bare my soul to you so that the next time we meet, we can talk about more urgent things like the weather and the height of the rhubarb: First of all, you• should know that I work fulltime on a weekly newspaper. In fact, I'm the-.editor of a rather good-sized weekly newspaper in the small town where I live. As well, I'm the mother of three active and on-the-move children - two of which 'are telephone-talking, dating-going, bath- , room-using teenagers and one which is just six years old and still can't wash behind his own ears or find his own under- wear and socks for school. And, last but by no means least, I am ' the wife of a very busy guy, who, because of hi s work, is seldom home by day or night; expects me to be ready to socialize at a moment's notice; and likes to surprise me with lunch and dinner guests. I think that answers the second question, "How long does it take you to write your column?" Obviously, it doesn't take long. I haven't got much time to• devote, worse luck. It also answers part of the first ques- tion, "How do you think of something new to write about each week?" with business associates, children, friends and a myriad of other persons contacted each week, somebody's bound to say something or do something which will plant the seed for a column. I usually write this column on aThurs- ,day or a Friday. Those are considered "off days" In the weekly newspaper game, although around our office one really wonders if there ever are any "off days". And like today, I'm using the last few minutes before lunch time to get this job out of the way go I can get on with some interviews and stinie more routine matters this afternoon. There are weeks, of course, when I could write two or three columns. And sometime's I do. Like today, for instance. If I had the time: I could rattle off a discourse about my recent holiday(?) in Montreal; or the difficulty in getting rid of some extra tickets for an NHL hockey match in Toronto; or the,, case of the stereo set which just couldn't satisfy a pair of tone-deaf teenagers. Maybe I will, too, if I can squeeze in another hour or so. And there are weeks when I simply can't think of a thing to write about. That's usually when I turn to the daily newspaper for some choice tidbits about the love child of this starlet and the newest develop- ments 'in the case for more liberal abortion laws. With a few of my own thoughts mixed in, the column is finished in record time. • I think-the thing which iritates me most about being a "columnist"- is the- belief •,sopiel people hoWthati the prbdUntion of ,- I F. a' column is a week's work. Boy, is, that a mistaken idea. First off, regular reading of this space will prove that very little labored thinking goes into its sentences. It is an off-the-top-of-the-head column which isn't meant to be anything• more than friendly and at times, provocative. It contains my own personal ideas ... and , ,,,,the charm of the column (if it has any at all) is in the down-to-earth human-ness of it; Most of the thoughts expressed in it are ones you might have heard last night at the local pub, Some or the problems I have, you have too. You can relate to the column, because it is all about a simple kind of everyday things which fill your life as well as mine. Secondly, I wouldn't want any of you to get a wrong impression of me. I'm really no different than you •are. If there is any difference at all, it is that I have the opportunity and a small amount of ability to put thoughts into words which flow nicely for reading. But I have problems keeping the house clean, get the flu once or twice a year, my kitchen sink gets stopped up, my kids get into difficulty, my husband and I have disagreements . . . and I work the same as anybody else. You know what? You could write a column like this too. No sweat. All you need is an hour before lunCh on a Thurs- day or a Friday . . . and some homey to e it. experiences to share. There's, nothing music for dancingv Provincial Constable William Hodgson, who heads the 0.P.P.Detachment respon- sible for law enforcement in Seaforth, this week became mobile when he was provided with one of the familiar black and white police cars. J. W. Van Egmond, Clinton, received $435.00 for a heifer calf and $410.00 for a milking female at the Fall special Hol- stein sale at Stratford. Splendid congregations greeted the speakers, Rev. A.W.Barker and Rev. J.W. Button on the first Sunday of the- 70th anniversary of Northside United Church'. The piogram was presided over by Rev. H.V,Workmal. J. M. Scott showed moving pictures of the present congregation. The frame dwelling on Centre Street, Egmondville of ' Miss Anne Moore, of Toronto has been sold to A.A.Loisellei Business premises on the West side of Main Street, known as the Winter block and occupied by Thompson's Book Store have been sold to C.M.Smith. At the anniversary services in Staffa Church, the new electric organ was used for the first time. It was dedicated as a memorial to the young men who made the supremem sacrifice in the second Great War. • From My Window — By Shirley J. Keller — l• e.. A worthwhile trip Maritime problems 0. it • I 4 • • Rr •