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.Seaforth , Council , learned to present day standards".
-Monday evening that the costs ' "it is our unpleasant duty to
involved in bringing the Seaforth recommend that the community
Community Arena up to govern- centre in its present condition
ment safety standards could run be relegated to non-public use
as high as the cost of building." ;or be demolished".
an entire new'structure.
The information came as til 'e :t:,;1:r..'‘couOricnil rheaddeiPatskeod
f consideration
mrienipostrrt, y
result of a study.,by James F•t!': ' of Labor for its consideration
MacLaren Limited ordered h3'.',,.;;, and in its reply the Ministry
the town as a preliminary tO,,l' 'Indicated concurrence of the
considering plans to remodel tliktymacLaren report.
lower floor of the arena. . ',,',"':' Drawing attention, to the dis-
In its report the engineerifig' ", trepancy between the actual load
firm said "we suggest that \t)M bearing capability of the roof
cost of the contemplated refioVh!4:.,and the load which it should be
tions coupled with the reinfore. capable of carrying, D. F. Mc-
ment of the roof trusses Lean, P.Eng., acting director of a_niti'.•,:s
foundation may well approach thef:',Tgthe Industrial Safety Branch of '
t
cost of a new modern CommunifY1';Athe Ministry wrote "I have no
.,,,, 4 e recommendation made by '; }the
'1.`.,:.alternative but to agree with Centre designed and constructed'
Windfalls aid'
.....t;James.F. Macbaren Limited",
. ges
Referring to the town's sug-,
tion that because of the nature
. • - : . ....„... •,,, of the roof there was not a
Necessary arena re •airs, cha
may equal cost of new structure
Ron Dale, Joe Aubin and Don Dale inspect one of the new signs recently installed on the
highway entrances to the town. The signs were erected by the Ministry of Transportation and
Communication on a proposal by the Seaforth Chamber of Commerce and folloWing discussions
extending over several years. Necessity fer the new signs, which conform with similar signs
at many other municipalities or provincial highways across the province, arose when the Ministry
advised the town the signs which had stood for many years were not acceptable and must be
removed. Crests of local organizations are on the signs at an initial cost of $50.00 to each club
and a yearly maintenance fee of $6.00. (Photo by Oke)
Introduce new features
for Seaforth's 128th Fair
(by Susan White) .
Jane Davidson, Brucefield
farmer, world traveller, and mo-
ther of five, (not necessarily in
that order) is looking for soya
beans. Not a whole field, or any-
thing like that but a bushel or two
or a sackfull. You see, she's
just returned, with four of those
five children, from a year spent
in India at St. Alphonaus School
for Boys in Kurseong, a city of
5,000 in the mountainous Nepali
region.
Kurseong is not far off the
tourist track, in a narrow jut of
land with Nepal to the east, Bhu-
tan to the west, Bangle Desh to
the south and Sikkim and China
to the north. It's at 5,000 feet
above sea level, 25 miles from
Darjeeling, at 7,000 feet. "It's
politically sensitve enough that
troops are stationed there year
round", Jane Davidson tells yOu.
A glance at an atlas shows you
that Kurseong is fairly remote
from the rest of India.
At the school, attended by
1200 boys and run by Father Ab-
raham, a Jesuit from Halifax,
Jane taught English to a class of
40 boys and helped with Head-
start classes for children and lit-
we don't know for certain what
MI
kind of agricultural fair Seaforth
had in 1845, but if more recent
fall fairs are any indication, it
must have been a good one.
Every year since 1845, for 127
years, the Seaforth. Fall Fair has
been entertaining people from all
over the county. The 128th annual
fair, coming up next Thursday
and Friday, Sept. 20 and 21, looks
like the best yet.
Seaforth Agricultural Society
president, Alf Ross said this week
that as long as the good weather
holds, an excellent crowd should
be out to see the many attractions.
A new feature this year at Huron
County's only class B fair is a
Friday night horse show with
improved classes and a large
entry expected. Also new this
year, and being held this Sunday
in conjunction with the fair, is.
Huron County" first tractor
pulling contest:
Tractor pulling is a fast
growing sport and the Seaforth
pull, under the direction Of. Ken
Campbell and Ke riCole man offers
a purse of $1,40D. The pull starts
Sunday, Sept.16 at the fairgrounds
at 1 p.m.
Seaforth's first annual tractor
pull will have entries in 8 classes,
with a first prize of $75 and
second, third and fourth of $50,
$35, and $15,, at stake in each
class. Tractors- in variotit
classes will be attempting to
pull weights of 5,000 to 15,000
pounds.
Fair activities continue next
Friday when the usual 12 noon
horse show will be followed by
the second, evening horse show,
Enumerators
lose forms
handiwork will be on display in
the roundhonse. Winning photos
in the Expositor photo contest
will. also be on display there.
'A parade of schoolchildren,
bands and the Queen of the Fair
contestants fro Victoria Park
to the Fairg unds, starts off
Friday at th Fair. The Queen
will be crowned early Friday
afternoon, after the parade. A
midway with ferris wheel, candy'
apples and carmel corn will
operate all Friday afternoon.
Another new fair attraction
this year is a fashion show spon-
sored by the Agricultural Socie-
ties Women's division upstairs
in the arena at 2:30. The show,
entitled "Fashion, Travel and
Fun" will be presdnted by Ida
Burns and Associates and light
refreshments will be served.
Livestock judging, including
the Huron County Black and White
show, and a look at some of the
oldest farm machinery around -,
heavy work horses, take place
Friday afternoon, followed by that
new horse show.
Harness racing, the pet show
and other popular fair attractions
continue as in other years.
A cabaret dance in the arena,
to the music of the Bluewater
Playboys closes out fair acti-
vities on Saturday evening.
eracy and -nutrition programs for
their mothers. It was in these
classes for mothers, coolie
women from near the bottom of
India's economic scale, that Jane
learned to like protein rich soya
beans +
"The beans were ground right
at the school and made into milk
and various side dishes., Since
I've come home I find I don't
want to eat as much meat as I
did before I was in India Our
She very much liked spicey In-
bodies can get along on - what is
it? - about four ounces of pro-
tein a day" says Jane .
dian food, but the kids, Matthew,
6, Clare 8, Andrew 10, Eliza-
beth 14, and Karin 15, who's still
in India finishing the March-Nov-
ember school term, didn't. "Es-
pecially Matthew, things got ser-
ious because he really wouldn't
eat. But he's been eating like
crazy to make up for it since
we've been home."
Don't Worry though, Matthew,
a Chippewa who was adopted by
the Davidsons in 1967, looks ex-
ceedingly healthy after less than
a month back in Canada. Jane
reports that Matthew missed his
teacher, his classmates, and his
Seaforth, coffers will be en-
riched this year by windfalls
totalling over $5,000.
As a result of enabling legis-
lation passed by the legis-
lature recently, the town has
Passed a bylaw levying a tax
of $50 for each of the 44 beds
In Seaforth Community Hospital
and this will raise $2.200 which
the hospital in turn will recover
from theprqvince.
an addition, the town this year
will receive a boost in the amount
of gross receipts paid by sell
Canada.
The change, brought about by
provincial legislation, means
Bell will pay $8,986. this year
compared to $5,422. in 1972,'
an increase of $3,564.
Gross receipts taxes are a
unique form of municipal tax
levied against telephone and tele-
graph companies inOntario com-
munities. These utilities pay
the tax in addition to real estate
and business taxes paid by all
businesses.
Under the former system,
Bell paid to each community in
which it operated a tax calculated
by applying the local mill rate
to the gross receipts taken in by
the Company.
The new legislation calls for
the tax 'to be computed -by cal-
culating the number of telephones
Bell has in service in a com-
munity at each year's end, mul-
tiplying the total by five percent
of the Company's gross receipts
in Ontario, and then " dividing
this by the total number of tele-
phones Bell has in Ontario. The
new formula will result in a
52 percent increase to 31.6 mil-
lion in Bell's gross receipts
tax bill in Ontario this year.
In a prelkminary assessment,
some 825 'communities will re-
ceive increases in 1973 as a
result of the new formula and
about 22 communities will be
adversely affected.
The amounts payable this year
to other area municipalities with
• comparative figures for 1972 are
as follows:-
Increase
1472 1973 or
decrease
Grey $605 $605
Hullett 860 911 52 ,
McKillop 13'7 2,597 2,460
Morris 128 766 638
Stanley 773 214 - .558
ilibbert 1,148
Tuckersmith 313
4,144 2,996
2,482 2,169
5,607 5,283 Logan 325
dog Matilda, and is definitely
glad to be home.
Living in a house called Ed-'
elweiss, perched on a steep hill
in Kurseong, fifteen minutes walk
from the school, with several
Indian teachers and employees
from the school and two servants,
the Davidsons and the household
came to a compromise over food.
"Curry is really only meat stew.
We simply stewed the meat, put
the spices on the table and every-
one added their own."
In her friendly, easy-going
style, Jane gave a description of
the kind of simple satisfying food
she got used to in Kurseong as
adapted to Brucefield. "When I
pick corn, I get a few extra cobs
(I always miscalculate the num-
ber to pick), scrape the kernels
off, fry some onions in oil, add
the corn and some garam mass-
ala (a mixture of spices used in
curry) and cook it a bit. And
that's all I'll eat." said the
ex-185 pound member of the sea-
forth Non-Nibblers Club.
Jane Davidson's association
with St. Aiphonsus School and
Father Abraham began quite a
few years ago when her late hus-
band, Malcolm, read about the
Auxiliary aids
hospital with
new units
•
The' members of the Hospital
Auxiliary, Tuesday got off to a
brisk start for their fall season
when they approved the purchase
of a ne Isolette for the nursery
and a blood pressure machine for
the Maternity Ward.
The Isolette, an infant incu-
bator, will cost about $1,500 and
e portable blood pressure ap-
paratus about $75.
A potluck supper in the Board
Room at the hospital preceded
the meeting at which plena were
finalized for the Auxiliary booth
at the Fall Fair next week:
Tickets" will be sold on a color-
ful afghan crocheted by Mrs.
J.C. MacLennan for the Auxiliary
draw to be made at the close
of the fair Friday.
Plan's were started on the
Auxiliary dance to be held on
October 20.
Mrs. Johh Turnbull said she
was arranging for the candy-
stripers to again start back at
their volunteer work at the hos-
pital after the summer holiday
break.
Mrs. Clair Campbell reported
therd were at the present time,
84 members, 9 associate and 75
active.
Miss Dorothy Parke, secre-
tary, said she was given a
donation of $10 for the Auxiliary
from a former member who at-
tended the June anniversary
dinner.
A number of members indi-
cated they would attend the Fall
Conference for District 2 in
Wingham on September 24.
Mrs. Leo Teatero and Miss
Dorothy Parke will attend the
annual convention of Hospital
Auxiliaries in Toronto in October
as representatives of .the Auxi-
liary. Mi-s. W.C. Bennett and
Mrs. Orville Oke also will attend.
eg4
school in the Globe and Mail.
Malcolm was a well-known far-
mer, educated at Cambridge and
involved and committed politi-
cally to getting a better deal for
Canadian farmers.
"I'm completely apolitical",
says Jane, "one political person
in the family was enough." C hair-
man of the organizing committee
of the General Farm Organiiation.;
a member of Ontario's 1969 Com-
mittee on Farm Income and an
executive member of the Ontario
and Canadian Federations of Ag-
riculture, Malcolm Davidson was
killed in November 1970, while
walking across the high .Way near
his farm.
Malcolm Davidson had spent
six weeks in Kurseong introduc-
ing modern methods of pork pro-
duction, changing crops and de-
veloping new farm machinery.
Jane kept in touch with Father
Abraham and Malcolm's friends
in Kurseong and last fall she
and the children took off for India
to visit the school and see the
country.
Jane says she didn't go to
India with a cause, a solution to
anyone's problems or the drive
of a "do-gooder." She des-
arena structure up to the stan-
dards required by the Ministry
of Labour.
Correspondence in' connec-
tion with the arena study follows:
From James F. MacLaren Limi-
ted Environmental Engineers and
ScientiSts, 320 Adelaide St. S.,
London 42, to the Town of
Seaforth.
"At Mr. Williams' request,
we have carried out an analysis
of the structural adequacy of
the Seaforth Community Centre.
These analyses consisted of a
' detailed surve y of the existing
structures to determine its con-
Seaforth Council, Monday
evening passed a by-law
authorizing the erection and
maintenance of equipment for
cable TV in the Town of
Seaforth.
The by-law was passed to
show the town was favorable to
a firm installing a cable TV
system in this area.
John Ward, Listowel, has an
application before the .CTRC in
regards to installing cable TV
for the Mitchell, Seaforth area.
Council had previously read
the by-law a first and second
time but had requested fiirther
information - regarding educat-
ional TV.
A representative of the firm
had been contacted and he indi-
cated to council that an educat-
ional channel - in London, that is
soon. to be broadcasting, would
be carried and a local channel
would also be-available for local
use, educational or otherwise.
A grant of easement to the
Ministry of the Environment to ,
provide an overflow drain at
the sewage disposal plant was
approved. The drain will be
required only until such time
as sewers are installed town-
wide.
A traffic study is to be con-
ducted by the Ministry of
Transportation and Communi-
cations at the corner of Main
and GoderichStreets with regard
to having a right turn lane in-
stalled.
The' Ausable-Bayfield Con-
Friends join to
celebrate 25th
anniversary
dition, a subsurface investigat-
ion to ascertain foundation ade-
quacy, and structural analyses
of the roof trusses to' determine
their ability to carry the loading
due to• the weight of, the struc-
ture, including the ropf,•as well
as the Snow loading recommended
by the National Building Code of
Canada as being applicable, for
the Seaforth area. •
Our analyses revealed that,
under design loading conditions:
(1) All splices in the bottom
chord of the roof trusses
will be overloaded by at
least 50 per cent.
(11)The top chord of the truSs
as well as the vertical
supporting ,trieligberS of the
entl of the trusses will be
overloaded by 25 to 50'per
cent.
(111)All diagonal members of
the" truss will be signifi-
cantly overloaded.
(1v)The vertical member at
the niid-spin of the truss
will be 50 'per cent over-
loaded.,
(v)Ail bolted and spiked con-
nections will be at least 50
per cent overloaded. 4
(Continued on Page 12)
Jr. Band plays
at Blyth- fete
The Seaforth Jr. Band played
a concert at the Blyth Threshers
reunion on Sunday. The band
was assisted by area talent in-
cluding the Henderson sisters of
Seaforth, Sylvia Wilson ofyarna,
the Osborn Sisters from Monkton
and Diane Snyder from Borrtholm.
This is the last concert the
band will play for the-summer.
First winner
in car club draw
The winner of the first $25
weekly prize in the Seaforth Lions
Car Club # 4 is Frames Teatero
of Egmondville. The draw was
made at the Lions Club meeting
Monday night by president, Clair
Campbell.
starting at 5:30. After an open
parade, quarter horse, pony,
English and Western classes will
be judged. Novelty features in
the evening show are a barrel
race, a pole bending race and
an exciting rescue race.
According to Seaforth Agri-
cultural Society secretary,
Kathleen Cuthill, horse show
events haye been carefully
arranged so that spectators don't
have to wait while riders harness
and unharneis their horses. All
classes without harness will take
place first.
Mrs. Cuthill said the Horse
Show committee, Ann Powell,
Doug Riley and chairwoman Joy
Hopper deServed credit for their
hard work at making the show a
success.
Fair festivities begin on
Thursday night when contestants
for Queen of the Fair Will be
judged. Huron M.P.P. Jack
Riddell will officially open the
fair at 9:30 and a variety program
organized by the Huron Junior
farmers will follow.
Throughout the fair's two
days, commercial exhibits will be
open in the arena and the latest
in farm machinery will be on
display on the fairgrounds. Fresh
'baked, prize winning cakes and
pies and examples of domestic
Enumerators will have to
make a second visit to many
homes in Huron and Perth this
week because 2,300 completed
enumeration forms were stolen
from the Regional Assessment
office in Goderich last week.
Barry Eastwood, regional
assessment commissioner called
the theft strange and senseless"
and commented that the
forms have no value for the
average person.
Nothing else was taken from
the assessment Office behind the
Huron County Jail, except the
forms which are used to draw
,up voters' lists, school support
list for local.taxation and census
figures. Goderich municipal
police are investigating.
150 Part time enumerators
will take two or three days to
duplicate the stolen fors, Mr.
Eastwood said.
town finances snow load and that, this, should
permit a qualified use of the
arena. Mr. 'Met an said --
"it does not appear to -be in
the best interests of your com-
munity for this Ministry to
suggest or condone limited use
of this building".
Before considering a long
term program for the arena,
council decided to ask the Mac-
Laren firm to estimate costs
involved, in bringing the present
About 350 friends joined Mr.
and Mrs. William Hodgert of
North Main Street at a dance at
the Legion Hall to celebrate the
couple's 25th wedding Anniver-
sary Saturday evening.
They were the recipients of
many gifts, including a tray pre-
sented to them by Robert Beut-
tenmiller on behalf of the Beaver
Hockey Team of Seaforth, for
whom Bill often acts as a driver.
A purse of money on behalf of
the guests at the dance was pre-
sented by George Miller.
Special guests at- the dance
wire Mrs. Hodgert's mother, Mrs.
Albert Harrison; Mr. Hodgert's
sister, Janet, Mrs. Harold Rice;
and their son, Bryan, and daugh-
ter Brenda.
Five. Davidsons return from year in India
cribes her style accurately. "I
just go along having a very nice
time and grin at everyone. If I
can be of some help too, it's a
bonus." She describes her Ind-
ian visit as an ego trip; perhaps
because it was intensely personal
with a great deal of emotional
involvement between Jane and the
kids and the Nepali they lived
with.
The Nepali are open in ac-
knowledging and expressing their
emotions. They talk poetically
and with great feeling. Some of
this definitely non-Western open-
ness has rubbed off on Jana who
says she finds herself using
words like love a bit more freely-
"words which many people have-
n't used since they stopped court-
ing 20 years ago."
"I think love is & great force"
said Jane, between interruptions
from Clare, "Mom, he's going to
hit me with a hoe." Matthew,
the hoe bearer, was distracted by
his mother showing off the shorts
he was wearing. "They cost
60c and were hand made by a
tailor in the bazaar." Jane said.
"I got a lot of things made quite
cheaply and when I was leaving
servation Authority are to have
their annual tour of the watershed
on Wednesday, September 19th,
starting from the Exeter office.
A letter from the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food informed
council that the dog pound now
in use does not come up to the
standards required and cannot be
used.
In a lively discussion which
followed some members of
council felt that if it was going
to be necessary to spend $8,000
C of C plans
for fall fajr
Dogs present problem as
ministry condemns pound
to $10,000 on a new dog pound,
then dog owners should be made
to pay for this installation, It
was also indicated that the
present dog tax was not high
enough.
Some members wondered if
Tuckersmith's solution would not
be the answer, but were informed
that Tuckersmith is working
under a different section of the
act, and that it would not apply in
Seaforth.
Council decided to investi-
gate further before deciding what
could be done regarding dogs.
A meeting is to be held on
Wednesday night September 19th
at 8:00 to discuss a report on a.
proposed program to complete
Sewage works for Seaforth.
A letter from the County of
Seaforth Chamber of Corn- Huron Land Division regarding
merce members, at a meeting a land severance requested by
Wednesday evening, discussed Helen Reeves of Seaforth indi-
plans for C. of C. involvement cated the severance could not
in Seaforth Fall Fair and gave be granted until Seaforth appoints
prelimina,ry 'consideration to a a committee of adjustment.
program ot .Christrnas.aetitsities. Several names have been sug-
Past President Clair Ze.ititc:= '''' "gested for appointment and they
bell presided in the absence of .are to be approached., .It is,hoped
President Doug Pruss. Keith (Continued on Page 15)
Sharp said plans were. under
way for the merchants and in-
dustrial display at the fair. Booth
space in the arena was in good
demand he said as he outlined
plans for erecting booths prior
to the fair on September 20, 21.
The meeting expressed ap-
preciation to Dr. Chas. Toll and
the Jr. band for the concert
series which had been arranged
in Victoria Park during, July
and August. The concerts at-
tracted increasing attendance as
the season advanced.
Members reported favorable
comment concerning the flower
baskets on Main street light stan-
dards and recorded appreciation
to the Horticultural society who
had arranged and cared for the
baskets and to Otto Tippelt of
Huron Canadian Fabricators (68)
Ltd. who had contributed the
hangeis for the baskets.
The merchants committee
was asked to study plans for the
Christmas season at an early date
so that a program could get under
way in November.
Jane Davidson, whose husband Malcolm was a leader in the
Ontario farm movement before his tragic death in 1970, has
recently returned from a year of Working at St. Aiphonsus School
for goys in India. Jane and her five children, cat and dog
Matilda, live at R.R.1, Brucefield. The large shady trees in
front of the Davidson house are in the background. (Staff Photo)
S.
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