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RONALD LAUZON
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Harry Scott, head of the Commercial Department at
S.D.H.S., who has recently returned from two years in
Germany takes a look at a hand carved wooden bowl which
was stowed awarn in his luggage by friends and which he
discovered when 'he unpacked here. • (Staff Photo)
SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1973 — 16 Pages
a professional As. part Development week these Huron-Perth R.C. teachers
rubbing (a direct imprint of the inscription
Patrick's Cemetery, Dublin, are, L. to R. Ennis Murphy, St.
McCreight, Mrs. Helen Krauskoff and Mrs. Joan McIver,
(photo by Oke)
District teachers explore
development techniques
Whole No. 5508
114th Year
, A Varna merchant was killed
and two Toronto men injured in
a two car accident at the inter-
section of Huron Road 12 and
Highway 86 north of 'Brussels
late Monday afternoon.
John Elgin Porter, 65 , was
pronounced dead at the\
dent scene.
Charles Farquerson, 26, of
Toronto, and a passenger in his
car, Howard Alexander, 28, of
Don • Mills, were taken to
Wingham and District Hospital
and are in satisfactory condition.
Mr. Farquerson has head and
internal injuries as well as a
broken wrist and ' hand: Mr.
Alexander suffered head cuts and
back injuries.
The accident occurred at the
Morrisbank corner about 5 p.m.
New constable
begins duties
At a 'special meeting of
Seaforth Council last Thursday,
Ronald Lauz on, 36, of Woodstock,
was hired as a police constable
for the town at a salary of $8,000
a year.
Mr. Lauzon will be the fourth
member 'of the Seaforth Police
Force • which previously was 'a
three-man force. He commenced
his duties on Monday.
The other members of the
force are: Police Chief Arnold
Vaughan, Constable John Cairns
and Constable Wayne Dicy,
lacks help •
The Nursery School at North-
side United Church may not get
started this Fall because of a
lack of volunteer help.
Mrs. Gordon Rimmer, presi-
dent of Group 5, United Church
Women, informed members Mon-
day night at a meeting at the
home of Mrs. William J. Thomp-
son, West William Street, that a
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Monday as Mr. Porter In a•
small car was proceeding north
on Huron Road 12. The Farquer-
son car was travelling east on
Highway 86. The Porter car was
demolished by the impact.
Mr. Porter had operated a
farm machinery supply business
in Varna for a number of years.
One son and four daughters sur-
vive. Mr. Porter's wife pre-
deceased him severral years ago.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday from the Beatty Fun-
eral Home in Clinton. Interment
followed in Bayfield Cemetery.
Tells story
of Cran brook
beginning
Some 25 teachers from St.
Patrick's School at Dublin, St.
Columban School, St. James
School at Seaforth, and St. Rat-
rick's School at Kinkora, ex-
changed placeS Monday with their
pupils, who were given a holiday,,
while the teachers attended a
Professional Development Day
training session at St. Patrick's
School in Dublin.
The 135 teachers from the
other 16 schools under the juris-
diction of the Huron-PerthCoun-
ty Roman Catholic Separate
School Board were participating
In similar workshops in Wing-
ham, Stratford and Mount Car-
mel.
The focus at Dublin was on
the three R's - reading, religion
and report cards.
Each of the four schools had
a display of books for the read-
ing program for pupils set up in
the auditorium. There was also
a display of Religious materials.
,In the afternoon sessions, the
group broke up into smaller
groups, choosing the workshop in
which they wished to participate
report cards, curriculum plan-
ning, orienteering (compass and
maps), language experience and
graveyard study. Front the
graveyard study stuaents learn
local history and also gain exper-
ience in creative writing, art,
family names, nationalities,etc.
The students discuss the,
graveyard first and then visit it
•to get answers to their questions.
One pupil could write about the
various types of markers erected
granite, marble, or cement. Ano-
ther pupil might write about the
various inscriptions on the mar-
kers and their popularity, such
as R.I.P. (Requiescent in Pace
or Rest in Peace).
Another might write about
family names which ofteyi indi-
cate the homeland of the early
settlers. In the Dublin graveyard
Irish names predominated and in
the newer stones there was evi-
dence of the _arrival of Dutch
families to the area.
The Dublin students' display
included rubbings of the various
carvings on the tombstones and
of other inscriptions.
Further Professional Devel-
opment Day programs will he
held on November 21, April 30
and June 27 and_28.
Retires from
Fhil Church
Rev Thomas C Mulholland of eafortn, a minister in the
pulpit of First P resbyterian
Church for the past four years,
delivered his , final sermon
Stinday.
Mr. Mulholland has retired
from the ministry after serving
46 years. He is a native of
Belfast:Northern Ireland, where
he received hiS early education.
He attended college in Scotland
where he graduated with honors
in theology in 1927. He made
further 'studies in tropical
medicine and psychology in
London, Englaaci. He served in
China for many years before
coming to Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Mulholland will
take up residence, in Kitchener.
At a short ceremony Sunday
following the morning service,
Mr. and Mrs. Mulholland were
presented with ;ins from church
organizations and a purse from
the congregation.
Those taking part were Clare
Reith, Mrs. Margaret:Scott, J.E.
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Water consumption at Vanas-
tra continues to increase, Clerk-
Treasurer James McIntosh in-
formed members of the Tucker-
smith Township. Council at a
meeting in Brucefield Tuesday.
He said the water bill at.Va-
nastra for September amounted
to $1,872.00, up $512.00 from
August.
On September 3 a delegation
from Vanastra charged that the
Name Reeve
to Thames
R iver! Study
Reeve Allan Campbell of
McKillop Township was appointed
to the Thames River Basin Study
to be carried out by the Ministry
of theLvuiyonment and Natural
Resour McKillop was asked
to appoint a representative as
it lies on the edge of the Basin
area.
In other business at the
council meeting Monday, Council--
approved six appli ations for
$2,5,300 in tile drain loans.
A debentured aiaount of
$7,200 was paid out by council
for tile drains.
Four tenders were received
for snowplowing the 107.9 miles
of township roads and all were
accepted: Neil McNichol, R.R,4,
Walton, $13 per hour (snow-
blower); Kenneth Glanville, R.R.
4, Walton, $13 per hour (snow-
blower); John Ryan Bulldozing,
R.R.1, Walton, $14 per hour
(grader); and L. B., Ryan and
Son, Walton, $13.50, per hour
(snowblower).
Standby time for snow equip-
ment commences December 1 to
March 31, 1974, at $10 per day
when machine not in use.
Above tenders are subject to
approval of. Ministry of Trans-
portation and Communication.
General accounts for
$10,510.77 and road accounts
for $3,746.31 were approved for
payment.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Hildebrand celebrated their 25th
Wedding Anniversary Saturday
evening with a background music
by the band he leads.
Married in Tuckersmith at
the home of the bride's parents
on September 29, 1948, Mr. and
Mrs. Hildebrand have been resi-
dents of Seafortli since that time.
Active in the community
where he is weIl'Indwn as the
leader of the S.D.H.S, Girls
Tru'mpet Band, Mr. Hildebrand
also is a member of Seaforth
council.
During the proceedings Satur-
day evening in the Legion Hall,
the couple was presented with
many gifts including a silver
tray by the Girls Band. A
brother-in-law, Ernest Talbot of
Stanley was Master of Ceremon-
ies.
Guests at the event from
Sarnia, London, Stratford and
Goderich included the bridesmaid
and flower girl of 25 years ago,
Lenora Elliott McCowan of
Brucefield and Lorraine Talbot
• Betties of Goderich.
Mrs. Hildebrand was the
foi'mer Hazel Coleman, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Coleman
of.Tuckersmith while Mr. Hilde-
brand's parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Barney Hildebrand of Seaforth.
They have, two sons, Doug and
Stephen and a daughter Joan.
On Sunday a family dinner
was held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Emmerson Coleman.
Single nopY 20 Penis
Ye*4 in 40v4nn6
ure loan, $25,000; fire protection
$973.00; road Ltect and Water,nts $7770.26;
Vanastra garbag
$2,267.32; municipal water sy*
stem, $6,285.52; municipal
drains, $15,861.74; refund on
drain petition, $100.00.
Deputy Reeve Ervin pinery of
H.R. 1, Brucefield, was ippointed
Tuckersmith repreSentative to
the Farm Safety Council for Hu-'
non which will be organized later
this month.
Council will inform Conestoga
College located at Vanastra that
it should direct its request for
garbage pickup to William 'E.
Little of Londesboro and pay him
as Tuckersmith's contract with
Mr. Little is only for the resi-
dential area at Vanastra.
Council- accepted a petition
for a drain signed by Mrs. George
Falconer and William DeJong,
both of Brucefield.
Council recommended forap-
proval requests for land sever-
ence from 260303 Holdings Ltd.
of Kitchener for Lots 123 and124;
Lot 101 and Lot 122 at Vanastra.
The Huron County Health Unit
notified the township that a sep-
tic tank was approved for a new
home .heing built by Robert Core
of Egmondville on the south-west
corner of the intersection of the
Kippen and Brucefield roads.
Mr. McIntosh reported to
council that the prime bank rate
is now up to 9%.
The meeting adjourned at 12
midnight.
Lions club is
commended
for activities .
Seaforth Lions were congra-
tulated on the achievements of
the club when District Governor
James Petabertoti of Cattibtidge
paid his official
Despite the week to weekpro-
blems . 'of inactivity, lack,of int-
erest and the inevitable selfish-
ness of some, the work of the
club had gone,on for nearly fifty
years, he said, recalling the
club's anniversary next year..
"It was a splendid sight to
see the Lion's Park as I drove
in." he told the members. Add-
ing that while it is true the park
creates demands on the club and
is costly to maintain, it is nec-
essary to look at results, at the,
contribution it makes to the com-
munity and the credit it brings
the club.
Mr. Pemberton told the mem-
bers that while they were among
more than one million members
in 149 countries, continued growth
was necessary.
Appreciation, was expreSsed
'by Past Deputy DistrictGovernor
'Orville Oke,
The meeting was in charge of
President Clair Campbell who
told the club of plans to visit
Goderich Psych)atric Hospital.
Varna merchant
dies after crash
us from the
s were told
s. Mrs.
had
of
local in history graveyards. area
of St ; School,
,Students at SDHS are under-
way with their annual subscrip-
tion campaign. The students this
year are competing for cash
prizes which are offered by The
Huron Expositor to the in-
dividuals obtaining the greatest
number of new subscriptions and
renewals to The • Expositor. In
addition, each subscription oli-
tained earns a cash commission
for the school.
• The campaign.provides the
Cranbrook W. I. hosted the looked for
September meeting of the Huron on paper) of a tombstone in St.
County Historical Society in the.' Patrick's School, Kinkorai Mrs. C
Cranbrook Community Center. all Patrick's
The meeting opened with
O Canada- and Mrs. Wilfred
Strickler welcomed the guests
to Cranbrook.
Harold S. Turner, president,
of the Historical Society,
reported on the Society's summer
events. He commented on the
Bayfield walkalong and the bus
trip to the Bell homestead. Mrs,
Amber M. Popp, secretary, read
the, June minutes and gave the
treasurer's report. Mrs. Poth
reported on membership and in-
vited interested people to secare
a $2 • membership ($3 for a
couple) which would also entitle
them to receive a copy of the
Huron Historical Notes,
Mrs: LeSlie Knight ,read a
poem "When Mother Bakes" and
by so doing introduced Sharon,
Rosanne, Tracy and Susan Engel
who told about Mother's apron of
long ago in song. They were
accompa -led at the piano by Mrs.,,
SteWert ,Steiss.
Mrs. Strickler introduced
coratoi Engel from the
Cranbrook w.i, who spoke on
Pioneer Days in Cranbrook. Mrs.
Engel's talk was based on the
Plot. She made many references
to the hdge map, pointing out
locations and streets. It, was
about 1855 she said when Cran-
brook was surveyed into town
nli,ts and park lots from lot 11
to lot 15 c sion 11 Grey.
She pointed out T rmersville and
the Mueller plan, explaining they
were separ ate . p
Nurser school Plot. Many anecdote
about the early pione
Engel told how the NV'
researched all the town and park
lots the past 'Winter and have
recorded all the names from lite
Crown to the present day. The
meeting was invited to view their
efforts in the Tweedsinuir Books.
Mrs. Stewart Steiss directed
and accompanied the junior choir
in two numbers. "This Land is
Ours" and "Everything is
Beautiful" in which Barbara
Cameron, Rosanne and Tracy
Engel sang a solo part.
SDHS Students Seek
Subscription Awards
eleste
Dublin.
student body with funds with which
to carry on various extra
curricular activities:" as well as
making possible the purchase
of athletic, musical . and other ,.
equipment which is not provided
from public funds.
In co-operating with the SDHS
students who call to offer a new
or renewal subscription to The
Expositor, the public can be
assured that a worthwhile school
activity is being aided. •
Day
Making a
last
man in charge of the water sy-
stem was overpumping at a rate
estimated about 50,000 gallons a
day, and when' Council later in-
formed him of this he had skid
it would be corrected. '
With the rate of water .con-
tinuing to increase, council won-
dered if there might not be a
major leak In the system. Coun-
cill will investigate the cause.
Tuckersmith buys water from
the PUC in Clinton at a cost of
404 per 1,000 metered gallons
for the residents of Vanastra and
then charges it back to the in-
4tfdividual homeowners.
Council approved three appli:
cations for tile drain loans for
$6,400.
A request for a building per-
mit for a feed room was approved
for Gordon DeJong of Brucefield.
A request for a permit from
Wilhelmina Van Dorp of Seaforth
for a chicken barn was refused
because it does not meet the code
of Practice requirement set by
the Department of Agriculture.
At a tax sale for property lo-
cated at Lot 25 and part lot 26,
....plan_..16...Egmondville, Tucker-
smith bought the property.
Gordon Heard Construction,
R.R. 2, Seaforth, was awarded
the contract for snow removal
the township with his grader at
a tender price of $16.50 per hour,
up $1.00 from last year. The
Township road men also use their
equipment for snow removal on
the 101 miles of townshiproads to
be cleared each winter.
Council recommended forap-
proval a request for land se-
verence from Eric McIntosh of
R.R. 3, Seaforth, for, house and
one-acre of land on Lot 32,
Concession 6, LRS.
A 'by-law for the' Rehorst
Drain was passed when Court of
Revision was held for the drain
and no appeals were made. It is
estimated to cost $31,500. Ten-
ders will be advertised for con-
struction of drain in the spring.
Passed for payment were ac-4
counts totalling $59,299.74, in-
cluding general accounts $1041.81
Tuckersmith Telephone Debent-
Seaforth councillor, wife,
mark 25th anniversary
Vanaorq water use dim
and Tuckersniith asks
SDHS teacher home from travel on three continents
(By Susan White)
Teaching kids who have lived
all over the world with their mi-
litary parents isn't ' really ter-
ribly different from teaching ord-
iriary students from a small town
and rural area like Seaforth, ac-
cording • to Harry Scott who's
recently- returned from a two-
year stint as a, teacher at the
Canadian Forces Base in Lahr,
Germany.
Now back at S.D.H.S, as head
of the Commercial Department
after a two-year leave of absence
he says that his students (who
included some enlisted men in
40 uniform upgrading their educa-
tion through the credit system)
were more mature than Cana-
dian ones. "They've beeri ex-
posed to so -many different cul-
tures that they're' very know-
ledgeable aud aware," he says.
In some ways though, Harry
found his students less mature
than their Canadian counterparts
perhaps, he says, because the ar-
my des everything for them.
After Grade 13 or Quebec Grade
11, the students usually return to
Canada for university or to look
for employment and sometimes,
he says, it's a rude shock and a
hard 2d justment to make.
plains that only about five peo- ties. played tennis in Jan-
ple in the whole educational sy- uary," he said.
stem, serving probably 2,000 stu- There is an excellent new
dents, are permanent employees. officer's mess on the base, run
These are the Director of Edu- by the French which was widely
cation and the Superintendents. patronized by the Canadian tea-
The school administration's chers. He and . the other teachers
office was right next to his school had access to all the American
and relations with teachers were bases in Germany, including the
good. "If we had a question, we Pa( - that source of North Am-
could walk into the office and ask erican goodies at low prices -
it", he said. There are several in Heidelberg.
schools on the bise: senior, Harry Scott really has nothing
intermediate, a French school bad to say about his experiences
which goes to Grade 11, and three as a teacher in Germany and his
elementary schools. travels in Europe, Africa and
Asia. It's obvious from his en-
Same curriculum
At the senior school on the
Canadian Forces Base, Mr. Scott
was head of the commercial
department and taught the same
curriculum taught at S.D.H.S.,
with other teachers from across
Canada who were also teaching
military and civilian dependents
on a two-year contract. He ex-
Congenkal
Camaraderie was high -"I've
nevet seen a group of teachers
get along so well," he says. Al-
though he was, as far as he
knows, the first teacher from Hu-
ron to teach with the Department
of National Defense in Germany,
the teaching jobs are very much
in demand.
About 2,000 teachers are re-
commended lay their school
boards every year, although there
are only 150 teaching jobs avail-
able.
The physical facilities for
learning there were inferior to
those that Seaforth students en-
joy. The Seaforth teacher taught
in a converted German barrackk,
left over from the last war, which
hid gun racks, mounted trough-
like on the walls. Gym facilities
Were shared with the in-Jittery.
The climate and other faci-
lities at the base in Lahr more
than compensated though. They
had no snow, with the eoldest
winter temperatures in the for-
thusiasm that his students at
S.D.H.S. will Aar about and be-
nefit vicariously from his exper-
iences. lie says their questions
tend to be of the How's the beer
over there?" or "How fast do
their cars go?" variety, so far
but that more important quest-
ions are sometimes asked,
Met Quebecois
One of the unexpected benefits
of two years in Germany at a
Canadian Forces NATO base was
a change to meet and get to know
Quebecois - French-Canadians
from his own country. "TheVan
Doos (an • all French regiment
from Quebec) were stationed at
our base in Lahr," he says and
added that many of the teachers
and military had never spoken
English before coming to
Germany.
Many of the people from Que-
'bec he worked with in Lahti, a
city of 35,000 including 12,000
Canadians;..." were real sepera-
tists when they first arrived,"
Mr. Scott said. "But personal
contact between English and
French Canadians changed our
opinions about each other. They
learned to speak English and we
brUshed up on our French. It's
hard to keep prejudices when you
get to know people,"
He spent a weekend in, St.
Jean, Quebec, after he got home
a month ago and says "I spoke
French all the time. Not quickly
or anything, but I made myself
understood. And if I had pro-
blems, people talked slowly and
helped me to understand:"
3 trips to Paris
Other benefits of two years
as a teacher under contract with
the Department of National De-
fense was a chance to really
broaden his outlook by travel on
three continents and by making
friendships "with people I would
never have met otherwise."
Living in Lahr, in the south-
ern part of West Germany, right
in the Schwartzwald or Black
Forest, Harry was 20 milesfrom
Strasbourg in France and three-
quarters of an hour from Swit-
zerland, He was often in and out
of all the European countries
(including three trips to Paris
in one month!) which were all
within close driving range.
Although the school where he
taught was part of the Ontario
school system and,had the same
number of days' of classes per
year, the holiday periods were
spread throughout the year with
two week breaks here and there
rather than two months off in
the summer. Consequently he
was able to take trips on three
continents.
He says the most interesting
place he visited was the Ivory'
coast in West Africa where ne
spent two weeks last February.
After a 16 hour trip from Paris,
he lived in a Club Mediterranean
village right on the edge of the
jungle. From the village's grass
huts, he and the other vacation-
ers took trips with African guides
in dug out canoes. Ivory Coast
was a French colony until 1960
and everyone spoke French.
The Club Mediterranean vil-
lage was very near the ,equator
but the beaches of the South At-
lantic were available for cooling
off and no one wore bathing
suits, he added.
Israel is another area thatthe
exchange teacher counts as a
highlight of his two years in Eur-
ope. Highjackings and the Arab-
Israeli war have made it the
most security conscious country
he visited. Customs and immi-
gration searched people more
thoroughly in Israel than at
Checkpoint Charlie on the way
to East Berlin.
Machine guns
"We flew to Nicosia in Cy-
prus and then to Tel Aviv. As
soon as your plane lands in these
countries, it is surrounded by
troops with machine guns: In'
Cyprus we were surrounded by
Canadian troops. "The Cypriot
Minister of Justice had beenkid-
napped that day and seirity was -
extra heavy."
"At the Tel Aviv Airportthey
squeeze out your toothpastetube,
spray your deoderant and get you
to hold your own camera in front
of your face and take a picture.
They figure that if it's set to ex-
plode it will, blow up in your own
face!"
He found Jerusalem *'old and
dirty, but ,nice." He reports that
not too many religious sites are
left intact and that the "various
religions and denominations ar-
gue about where the true sites
are."
He recalls one spot about
which all religions agree though.
It's the top of a hill where Jesus
was crucified and is now inside
a building in Jerusalem. While
he visited here both Catholic and
Greek Orthodox services were in
progress.
Istanbul bazaar
He also enjoyed a trip to
Istanbul where he was given great
tours through the bazaars of the
city by friends, a Canadian
doctor and her Turkish law-
student husband. He got "good
buys" there, including a suede
coat.
Back in Germany, Harry found
East Berlin depressing, still
bearing many scars of the second
world war. He describes a no:
mans land of 100 yards between
the east and west halves of Berlin
and the famous wall, with German
guards with INA all along it.
Harry loved his home for two
years, West Gertnany, and con-
siders it, all in all, tothe picle*
of all The countries he Saw. He
lived in a three bedroom apapt.4,
ment on the third floor ti! lt•
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