The Huron Expositor, 1973-03-08, Page 2"Don't worry. I'm wearing my bullet proof"girdle.-
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uron (fxpositor
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When voters in Huron
riding go to the polls
next week they will face
a new situation.
The name of Mac'Naugh-
ton, a regular feature of
ballots in Huron during
the past fifteen years,
no longer will appear.Mr.
MacNaughton retired earlier
this year after conscien-
tious service to the
people of the riding.
Each of the candidates
representing the recognized
parties is capable and is
carrying on an active cam-
paign. Ed. Bain, the
fourth name on the ballot
cannot be considered a
serious contender.
As the PC candidate
DOn Southcott is called on
to answer for the extra-
vagance of the government
which this year will result
in the greatest deficit in
Ontario history. Absent
from the riding for a
number of years, most re-,
cently as 'executive assis-
tant to Mr. MacNaughton,
Mr. Southcott is 'familiar
with the working of the •
legislature but perhaps •
is less familiar with the
current needs of th.e rid-
ing.
Paul Carroll making hii
second bid on behalf of
the NDP, whilei_the_y014M-9-
est of the candidates 4h-as:
had several years exper-
ience in politics. For
some years he represented
Goderich on county council
but lost out last December
when he ran for Mayor of
1
the town. A teacher in
Goderich he has been a
keen student of the politi
cal process.
The Liberal candidate
Jack Riddell has been a
resident of Huron for six
years. A teacher at
Clinton and Exeter for
four years, he now farms
in Stephen Township. His
background in business,
in agriculture and in
education gives him a
broad insight into the
problems and needs of
Huron whether of the, farm
or town.
While the abilities
of the several candidates
are important what is
even more important is
consideration of the prob-
lems facing Ontario. The
ever increasing debt load,
the threat of regionaliz-
ation, 'the spiralling
health costs, the con-
tinuing down grading of
local municipalities and
local institutions - these
are the matters of most
concern.
Voters should ask them-
selves how best they can
assist in having Huron's
voice heard. The answer
is obvious. It cannot be
done by adding to the
already heavy Davis major-
ity. It can be done,
however, by electing a
Liberal who possesses the
knowledge, the background
and has the ability to
speak out on behalf of
the towns and townships
of Huron.
There has been a good deal of unfair
pressure placed on federal M.P.'s In
the past months, over the question of
capital punishment.
Across the country, the mood seems
to be that capital punishment shoud be
reinstated, and many M.P,'s who might
have voted against it, on the grounds of
conscience or principle, are having their
arms twisted pretty hard by their con-
stituents.
This, despite the fact that it was
to be a "free" vote, with party lineg
waived. It makes it tough toenails for
the M.P. who is hangpg, onto his seat
-by his -fingernails. -
It would be a good tirnfer someone
to define the role of a MeMber of Par-
liament.
Is he or she merely ,a delegate to
carry to Ottawa the wishes.of what might
well be a minority of the voters in his
riding?
Or is he or she a representative of
that riding, with first the good of the
country at heart and second,. the good of
his riding?
If the M.P. is merely a delegate, why
pay someone $18,000 a year? Why not ,
just send a paper-boy or a pensioner
to Ottawa with the wishes of the riding?
But if the M.P. is to be a represent-
ative, he should be given freedom to make
his own decisions, especially when it is
a matter of principle. •
It is my fear that some M.P.'s, putting
expediency before conscience, the end
before the means, will be stampeded into
voting against their private convictions.
I am firmly opposed to capital pun-
ishment, and I have no hesitation in saying
so. I don't think that it serves as the
slightest deterrent to the drunk, the drug
addict, the person momentarily insane, or
the paranoids who will murder for money.
And statistics don't impress me.
Sure, the murder rate has, gone up during
the five-year moratorium. But so have
the rates of muggings, rapings, purse-
snatchings and wife-beatings.
' 'To be consistent, the adherents of cap-
ital punishment should be pushing for a
revival of corporal punishment as a de-
terrent.
If we're going to revive the brutish
elimination of human life, let's go all
the way.
• Let's bring back the ducking-stool for
gossips. We'd need the whole of theGreat
Lakes for ducking, but never mind. Why
not revive burning for witches?. Ah, what
a ednflagration that would-make:- s—
Kids who stole apples would be branded
on the forhead with a T for "Thief".
Prostitutes would be marked with a P,
and if they were also pickpockets, they
would read PP.
Poachers would get twelve lashes and
be sent to the tundra. That means I'd
never see a lot of,rey old friends again.
People caught with illegal firearms
would have their triggerefingers, or, pre-
ferably, their whole hand, lopped off.
That would mean a surplus of southpaws,
but one can't stand in the way of det-
errents, can one? Detergents, of course,
are a different matter. We can stand in
the way of them, and feel a. righteous
glow,
It makes me physically ill to hear
otherwise decent people say they don't
believe in hanging, but they'd have no
objection 'to ending a human life by an
(') overdose of heroin, if the villain were an
addict, or a enice", tranquillizer that
would put him to sleep forever.
Murder is murder, whether it is done
by the individual or by the state, and I
want no part of it.
I m just back from the Ontario Weekly
New aper Association convention which
was held in London ,(Ontario) Otis year.
It was my first convention and certainly
I came away with a great, great longing
to continue as a part of the trade.
There's only one small thing which is
bugging me about the whole thing. It
is the inborn prejudice in people which
Insists that men do all the truly big jobs
in the world. ,
I recall reading one time about a
child who was injured In a car accident
and needed surgery immediately. When
the child was taken to theneurosurgeon,
the doctor refused to operate on the
grounds that the child was a relative.
The doctor was not the child's father,
his uncle, his aunt, his cousin. The ques-
tion was then asked - what relation was the
neurosurgeon to the patient.
A study of the puzzle showed that the
persons who tried to find the answer were
thoroughly baffled although it should have
been totally obvious that the doctor was
the patient's mother. But then, who would
ever suppose that a woman could be en-
trusted with the touchy business of brain
surgery?
Much the same thing happened tome at
the OWNA convention . . . albeit in a much
less dramatic way. To the bulk of the
people at the convention who did not know
me, I was thought to be perhaps the wife
of the editor but hardly the editor; the
junior reporter maybe who was'delegated
to pick up any awards on behalf of the
editor who would naturally be too urgently
required at the desk to attend the con-
vention; the lady friend of the virile editor
who must have gotten bombed out his
mind the previous evening and was tillable
to attend the session; or some interested
female who just happened to worm her way
into the convention for the free ride.
In other words, there was very little
thought given to who I wasp for, unless a
woman gets up and makes an issue of
things, she's just another body who really
doesn't ha,ve much to do with the serious
day-to-day routine of running a news-
paper.
The final blow came today. It was a
letter addressed to my dear husband who
accompanied me to the convention. 'rite
poor guy who doesn't know a font from a
cutline, received a letter from the Ontario
Ministry of Industry and Tourism. It
was written by Fred T. Marshall, director
of the public relations 'branch.
Among other things, the letter extended
to my husband"personal congratulations"
for his "accomplishment".
And Mr. Marshall's letter wasn't the
only one of its kind. A form letter con-
taining certain vital information about
Webster's Weekly Press Directory,
Orillia, was addressed to my lumberman
husband.
It will be truly interesting to keep score
to see just how many more letters will
arrive for my husband as a result of the
newspaper convention. While I suppose one
could assume the mistake is logical if you
are a normal Canadian, I get alittle weary
of the inherited qaditiqn.s which teach
—• —from-birth thatfladdy is, 4tropg and plop) my
is weak; that daddy earns nioney" and
mom my squanders it; that da.ddy is at work
and mommy is at home.
I'm not interested, in women's liberat-
ion in the sense that I want to forsake all
my identity as a woman and become part
of a kind of uni-sex society. That doesn't
interest me at all.
I just-wish that more people could be
like the wonderful guy I married. , He
seems to realize that his wife is a. person
with the same weaknesses and the same
strengths•
'
with the same needs and the
same desires; with the same capacity to
think and to make errors.
My husband would probably prefer that I
stay at home and make apple dumplings
for supper, but he knows that things domes-
tic don't hold my interest long enough to
make it a fulltime endeavor.
My husband lets me be me. He let me
live my own life, have my own career,
make my own mistakes. My husband has
no hang-ups about my "liberation" if you
want to tag it that,because he knows that
when the work' day is over, we're still'
man and wife in the same exciting sense
we ever were.
SEAFORTII, ONTARIO, March 8, 1973
New situation for Huron
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Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley
MARCH 4th, 1898.
R. Bell, of the Hensall Machine Shop,
has shipped the. following orders within
th,e past few weeks: - 1 large double saw
mill top saws, log jackera and overhead
centre to Arrowhead, B.C., 1 heavy saw
mill to Arnprior, also one of the same
size to Hagersvllle, Ontario, one medium
saw-mill to each of the following places,
Orillia, Tweed and Toronto, one engine
and boiler to Dashwood and also an order
for wood working machinery to Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Walters of Tucker-
smith, leave in a few days for Dakota,
where they propose making their home.
Work is steadily progressing on the
interior of Robert Bell's brick block in
Hensall, which promises to be the best
finished in the village.
The carnival on the skating rink was
a success. One costume, or rather a
combination, made plenty of fun. David
H. Stewart was rigged out as a bear,
while Arthur Forbes, as an Irishman,
lead his bearship around by a chain,
The members of the 33rd Battalion
band met in James Stewart's restaurant
and presented Arch Barton with an ad-
dress and a three piece silver water
service.
Miss May Soole, daughter of Charles
Soole, of town, has secured a situation
as milliner in Marine City, Mich.
Quite a phenomenon in the shape of
a small rainbow was distinctly visible in
the sky.
Miss Maggie McDougall of Egmond-
ville, milliner in wm. Pickard's north
store, has secured a situation in Nova
Scotia.
John McMann Jr. who has been living
in G.E.Henderson's house on John St.
intends moving to his father's farm on
Huron Rd. east of town, and Mr. Somer-
ville will move into the house vacated
by Mr. McMann.
Edward McFaul is making extensive
improvements to his already handsome
store. He has had a hardwood floor put
down, new mirrors erected and the show
windows improved. The work was done
by Henry B. Edge.
Robert Scott, Mayor of Seaforth, died
at his residence, Goderich St. He was
only 41 years of age.
George Strong of Tuckersmith has
leased Win. Kyle's hotel and store for
five years and intends retiring from
farming and engaging in the hotel and
mercantile business.
Among those who left for Manitoba
were Thomas Ross , Thomas Boyd and
Thos. Barrows.
ieii Murray of Hayfield left for Wind-
sor to join a company bound for the
Klondike.
Mr. Contine of St. Joseph, has a
large gang of men busy getting out timber
at the McMillan farm property, which
he recently purchased and hauling it tothe
new city.
Tenders are being asked for the erec-
tion of a parsonage for Rev. Fattier
Valentine to be locatednear the Catholic
Church at Zurich.
-MUCH 16th, 1923.
' The 46th annual report of Union Church;
Brucefield, was distributed and the total,
receipts for all purposes amounted to
$5,061.00. Rev. W. D, and Mrs. Mc-
Intosh have been here five years and
have done good work.
wm.• Finlayson, who is attending the
London Normal School visited his parents
Mr. and Mrs. James Finlayson.
• Clifford Pepper, or Tuckersmith, met ,
with a bad accident. While his father was
using a grain crusher, he was caught in
the cogs, and was drawn in behind the
balance wheel. He was removed to the
Clinton Hospital for treatment.
A quiet but happy event took place
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Godkin, McKillop, when their eldest
daughter, Mary Alva, was united in mar-
riage to Harold Edwin Grigg of Tux-
ford, Sask. Miss Ethel Reid sang two
solos and Miss Della Godkin played the
wedding music.
The Kelly Circle of Brucefield, quilted
two quilts to be sent away to St. Christo-
pher House, Toronto.
A debate was held in the basement
of St. Andrews, Hayfield. The affir-
mative was taken by Mr. Baxter, Mr.
Merrier and Miss Elva Dewar and the
negative by Donald McKenzie, Wm.
Stewart and Miss Margaret Campbell.
The judges were Rev. McFarlane, Mrs.
Johns and Dr. Woods. The debate was
"Resolved that the people of 50 years
ago were better citizens than the people
of today.
Mrs. John M. Glenn and Miss Gladys
Broadfoot 'of Hensall are attending a
serving school in connection with the
Women's Institute of Hurondale.
Miss Helen Swan of Hensall, has re-
turned after spending to weeks nursing
in -the 'neighborhood of C hi selhu rst.
MARCH 12th, )948.
Alex (Sandy) Mc-Kellar, father of M.
McKellar, Seaforth, celebrated his 88th
birthday and was honored by a supper by
-his family. Mr. Mckellar, who is very
able and agile for his years has lived
all his life at Cromarty.
Duncan Cooper, Kippen, who pur-
chased the United Church sheds, hascom-
menced tearing it down and is moving the
timber and lumber to his farm.
Wm. Sinclair of Kippen, visited his
brother Alexander who had his leg am-
putated some months ago.
The congregatidn of First Presby-
terian Church is planning a drive to raise
funds and to collect clothing for European
relief.
A family gathering was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Walker to
celebrate the 84th birthday of the latter's
mother, Mrs. Dan Davis.
A deal which has been in negotiation
for some ,time has finally been closed,
namely in the purchasing of the Zurich
grist and chopping mill by the Hensall
District Co-Operative Inc. from the
Williamsfamily. They,have been in con-
tinuous ownership for the past 66 years.
Misses Jean Copland, Marilyn Kling,
Ruth Teall, Patsy Hawkins, Joanelawkins,
Sheila McFaddin and Karen Kidd, who
have been taking figure skating lessons
in Stratford will, take part in the carnival
there this week.
Ross Chapman of Kippen purchased
a new 1948 Chevrolet sedan.
Edwin P. Chesney, clerk of Tucker-
smith, left for St. Petersburg, Florida
where he will spend three weeks visiting
his sister, Miss Bertha Chesney.
Mrs. J. W. Free, Mrs. Mae Dorrance,
Jean Scott, Mrs. Alex Boyes, Mrs.Wilson
McCartney, Mrs. John Hillebrecht, Mrs.
W. J. Shannon and Mrs. Les McClure,
members of Edelweis Rebekah Lodge,
motored to Monkton, to attend an instal-
lation and initiation ceremony.
Cromarty Farm- _Forum met at the
home of . We and Mrs. Thos. Laing.
Eldon Allan was chairman and Mrs.Laing
and Mrs. Scott were group secretaries.
Euchre was played with high prizes going
to Mrs. Duncan McKellar and Thos.Laing;
low to James Scott Jr. and Grace Chal-
mers.
A pot luck supper was enjoyed by the
Staffa sewing circle. After the
supper which netted $8.00 court whist
was enjoyed, the proceeds to be used
to send a care bbx.
Miss Winnifred Savauge reviewed the
history of "weaving" at the Seaforth
Women's Institute meeting at the holne
of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Johns.
As a .resitirof an increased quota
and saving effected by the Cooperation
Of Consumers, the Public Utility Com-
mission found it possible to eliminate the
domestic cut off period from 9 a.m. to
10 a.m.
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