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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, October. 4, 1973
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(By Tom Haley)
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From My. Window
By Shirley J. Keller
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4.
The old saying you win)
some and'you lose some
seems to apply especially
to two of the decisions
made by the Huron County
Board of Education at their
recent meeting in Clinton.
Their winning decision was
"to okay the introdUction
of a V.D. education kit,
develoPed jointly by the
Ministry of Education and
the Ministry of Health,
,into the health programs
of county schools.
V.D. education will be-
gin in a modified form i.n
Grade 7 and will be con-
tinued in area high schools.
The school board showed
good sense in (-not taking
an' "ignOre it and it'll go
away" position on venereal
disease, which is reaching
epidemic proportions among
young people in the U.S.
and in Canada.
Huron M.O.H. Franle Mills,
who presented the!kit to a
committee of the .board,says
it is. hard to estimate the
incidence of N.d, in the
county because physicians
do not always report cases
of the disease to the
county health unit. 'But
it's fair to assume that
statistics from other ar4as
tan be and
that v.d. is a growing pro-
blem-faced by younger and
younger people —every year:
V.D., like 'sex, has,
been around for many many - .
years, and lt com-
mon sense. to recognize and
YacCegt the fact that some
of. the kids who ,experiment -
oyith sex will find them-
selves victims of the dis-
.ease which can do a great!.
deal of physical damage if
it remains untreated..
Rather than taking the
story book approach, fav-
oured by those who dislike
any kind of sex education
in the schools, that!kids
won't.try what they don't
know about, our board of'"
education is being realis-
tic. , -
The board's decision,
which means.a loss for the
people of Huron County and
more specifically the stu-
dents of Seaforth District,
High School, is its re-
fusal to recommend S.D.H.S.
I promised there'd be no more columns
about England. This one won't be, but it
will be about people we met there.
Half the fun of travelling is the people
you meet. That's why I wouldn't be too
keen on taking one of those tours, where
you go everywhere with the same forty or
so people, and are stuck with them for
thiee or four weeks, and don't meet any-
one fresh.
For example, while we were in London
I found it pleasant to stroll doWn to the
bar for a pre-luncheon pint while my wife
was muddling around in the room, worrying
about washing her hair or something.
For several days, we formed a con-
genial group there. A far-flung group.
There was old Jack from South Africa, with
one aluminum arm and one ditto leg.ile'd
whack-his artificial leg with his cane to
emphasize I: point. There was Ron, an
Australian dealer in stamps. There was
a Highland Scot. There was an Irish bar-
tender. And there was your blue-eyed
boy frcim Canada. English, Yanks and
Canadians were excluded. Othenanadians,
that is.
We got along first-rate, and there
was an easy tolerance thati noticed during
the war when there might be bOdieS of
geography teacher John Ball
for assignment with the
Department of Defense as
a teacher in:Europe for
two years. The board re-
fused Mr. Ball's request
for recommendation (neces-
sary before he can even be
considered in Ottawa) on,
the grounds that Huron's
declining enrollment makes
it hard to i,nold a teacher's
job while' he is away in
Europe for two years.
While county-wide enrol-
lment in secondary schools
is down about 140 from
1972, the decrease at S.D'.
H.S. is not more than about
ten pupils
There should always be
a place in the Huron County
School system for a good
teacher and only very good
teachers can pass the De-
,partment of National De-
fence's rigorous standards
for employment overseas.
Surely the increased
knowledge and understand-
ing which a teacher gets
from a two year assignment
overseas, and the result-
ing gi-eater contribution
that he can make to the
education of his Students.
on his return, is more
important than avoiding a
possible administrative
proble rtrAirrfro+cil erg..
job open .
The Board andior the
county system's adminis-
trators perhaps fear that
approving a second appli-•
cation by a teacher who
wishes to teach overseas
(Harry Scott was the first
will open the floodgates, —
with every teacher in Huron
County rushing to apply.
Outside of the fact that
most teachers in the count
couldprobabl,rbenefit by
two years spent learning
about other cultures (as
Could we all), it's'un-
likely that many would or
could uproot themselves
and their families'for two
years.
The Board surely recog-
nizes that'the world is
getting smaller and that
real education of its
charges means exposure to
as much of that world as,
possible.
ten different nations on one squadron.
I 'didn't go after Jack about apartheid
or Ron about Australian treatment of
aborigines and nobody went after me about
our Eskimos. The Irishman and the Scot
were a bit hostile, but only about the
English.
Rather, we talked about the important
things in life: heating bills (about $50
a' year in S.A. and less in Sydney); hous-
ing costs (about the same everywhere);
wives (about the same everywhere); rotten
kids (ditto); income tax (ditto).
Not very enlightening, you'll say, but
comfortable, easy conversation , with
no strain or sti.lency. Then our wives
would arrive and the cornmonwealth,con-
ference would break up until next day at
noon.
We met dozens of interesting people
like this, easily and amiably. The pub
is the great leveller.
In Canada, people in a bar sit/iii their
own tight little groups at a table, a waiter
serves them, and they are like an island,
no contact with anybody else, or if they
are alone, they sit at the bar and glower'
into the mirror or into their drink,
In Britain, it's just the opposite. If
Cable television hit our area this year,
For the first time in our entire TV'
lifetimes, we are able to have a choice
of television programs at almost anytime
of the .clay or night.
There was never any doubt that the
Keller family would be serviced by cable
television "if and when it became available.
To be truthful, there are really only two
televiSion nuts in our household - me and
my youngest son. We're the kind of
people, you see, who enjoy watching tele-
vision so much• that even the test pattern
is interesting enough when there's nothing
else to view,
But there are two men in the house-
- aroltic,-..4nyaliospancl and my eldest. son. -.
who are real die' ard spOrts •Obthusiasts.
tiAtitifi e:ykigthilig in the sporting world
from hockey through hand-wrestling, and
if either of them has a spare moment
_he's searching the television dial for
some kind of an athletic encounter.
Naturally, cable television provides
the best of all possible viewing all the
time so our family willingly signed on
t te dotted lane and paid the going rate
fur our at-home entertainment centre.
of course, because of the wide var-
iance in program taste at the Keller
abode, we have found it necessary to
hook-up not just one but two televisions
to the cable ,in order to provide the ulti-
mate in viewing satisfaction for all mem-
bers of the family. (Perhaps it should be
pointed out here that our daughter seldom
views anything more than the inside of
_the bathroom when she's at home, What
that girl spends her time at when she's
barricaded in the bathroom for hours on
end is more than anyone can fathom,
although I'm told all 15 year old girls have
the same passion.)
Though some may feel that cable
television is a waste of good money, I
can assure you it is a near necessity
in our time.
Babysitters., for instance, will not
work in a home which is not serviced with
cable. That's true. What's more, some
babysitters prefer to stay with children
whose families have color television sets
and if one can work in a home where
there is a color television serviced by
cable, that's a top priority situation in-
you're at a table, you fetch your own
drinks, and anyone is liable to sit down
with you. Very casual. First thing you
know, you're chatting. Next thing you
know, you're bosom 'chums,
Example. One night after a show,
we went into a. pub for a drink and a steak-
and-kidney pie. Three people sat down at
our table, chattering in what sounded like
German. It was Dutch. A girl, newly
married and living in London, and her
parents, first time in England. Father
spoke a little English, mother had a big
smile..
In five minutes we were chatting away
like old friends. Father fetched his wife
a gin. Came back looking ruefully into
his three-quarters of an onea„Sald,"Here
dey just vet de bottom of de glass. In
Holland . . ." and he held up thumb and
forefinger about four inches apart. We
parted in half an hour, but only after the
girl insisted we come and see her in Lon-
don, and gave us address and phone
number.
It couldn't happen here. Our watering
establishments are built for masochists
or people who have good night vision and
can see in the dark. They're not for
companionship and friendliness.
deed.
And remember how kids you knew
used to say, '"My dad is stronger than your
dad"? Well that's old-fashioned in our
neighborhood. Now the criteria by which
children select their associates is,"We
have cable television on contract for a
whole year." That's much more linpresl•
sive than those poor kids in the area
who are signed up on a month-to-month
basis and may loose their cable tele--
vision privileges at the whim of the
family budget.
I've learned a few things since cable
television took over our house. That's
simply that Canadian television fias much
more to offer than American television.
I suppose Canadian stations really
depend on American' program;. . to anchor,
their program but Canadian-pro-
duced programs are getting better and
better, and for my money, they surpass
many of the things American television
passes off on the viewers.
Canadian produced "specials" have
a kind of sophisticated quality which is ,
lar type production from the USA. I
guess I'm referring especially to docu-
mentary programs or those marvellous
profile programs which tell the life stor-
ies of such well-known Canadians as Mike
Pearson and John Diefenbaker, just for
example.
.'Recently I had a choice between the
gaudy Miss America spectacular on •an
American station and the sedate, almost
poignant CBC program 'The Pipes' filmed
in part at the Scottish Festival at the
Canadian National Exhibition grounds in
Toronto. It didn't take me long lo•make
my selection and I have no regrets about
choosing" the latter.It was one of those •
once-in-a-lifetime ..kind of productions
which Canadian viewers,A,re blessed with
so ofteu via television.
As far as I'm conterned, government
need not be too worried with the prospect
of cable televiSion bringing in so much
Yankee influtince. Canadian televiSion is
conipeting exceptionally well and men,
women and children who appreciate a
quality product keep coming back agaan
and again to our own brand of television ,
which is absolutely superb stacked up
against the average imported offering.
Example. , we were having lunch in a
pub in North Wales, at the bar. Four
brawny, dirty Welshmen came in and
started hooting and hollering at a tremen-
dous volume, teasing the barmaid, downing
pints and drowning out any attempt at con-
versation.
My old lady, who is not noted for her
prudence, modesty or reserve, turned
around and snapped, ',Shut up!" Their
jaws fell. The barmaid silently applauded.
I thought one of them was going to wipe
her off the stool with a backhander. He
was only a little guy, about six-two and
220 pounds.
That cost me four fast pints while I
babbled that she was only kidding and was
really a delightful, charming girlat heart.
Twenty minutes later, they were com-
plaining that we'd missed the great Eis-
teddfo d in Llangollen, an annual compe-
tition of choirs from all over the world, -I
held right there. Because the bus service
was sloe, one Of them packed us into his
van, and drove us twenty miles. to
Wrextfarn, a forty-mile round trip for him.
It may Sound like a glorified pub-
crawl. ft wasn't. There are 800 pubs in
Greater London, and we mlosed most of
them. But if you want to ffieet people, no
better way.
OCTOBER 14, 1898.
Rev. Ms„Dickle, who has so acceptably
filled the position of assistant to Dr.
McDOnald in the pastorate of First Pres-
byterian Church has accepted a call to be
the paotor in Ora,ngeville li.oesbyterlan
Church:
Apple picking is the order of the day in
Egnnondville and considerable fruit is
being gathered.
Mrs. Win. Ireland of Egmondville has
rented her farm to Wm. Carnochan, her
neighbor for a term of 5 years.
Wm. McDougall and his helpers have
been in Ingersoll picking apples for Geo.
TUrnbull.
W. J. Shannon, treasurer of the Mc-
Killop Mutual Fire Insurance Company
has collected over $3,000 in assessment a'
within the past month.
Miss Nellie McNab and Miss Crich of
town are this week at Hamilton, attending
.the convention of the provincial Christ-
ian Endeavor ,Sougety.
Up to date there has been paid into
the town treasurer the- sum of $8,158 in
taxes.
Messrs. S. Mullett & Co. have received
the contracMor supplying 'a new furnace
for Bayfield Public School.
' Miss Nettie Wilson, graduate and
medalist of the Toronto School of cooking;
will commence a course of lessons in
the rooms formerly occupied by the Y.M.
C.A.
Large quantities eof apples are being
shipped from Kippen station. Farmers
are realizing good prices for good apples,
as high as $1,50 or $1.75 per barrel which
they consider pays well.
The annual fall show of the Stanley
Branch agricultural society, was the most
successful in point of attendance and
gate receipts ever held.
Wm. McAllister of Stanley, well
known breeder of Berkshires, has been
most successful at the Fall show. this
season. •
Wm., Aberhardt of, Tuckersmiih has
sold the Donovan farm, east of Egmond-
vine, to Robert Winter, for $3,500.
Messrs. Elcoat Brothers of Tuck-
ersmith have sold a thoroughbred Durham
bull calf to Wm. McIntosh of McKillop.
OCTOBER 12, 1923.
The Walton school children took part
in the parade' at Brussels Fall Fair.
They took second prize and the Harlock
school first.
A large shipment of hogs was made
from the Walton C.P.R.station but the
market is on the downward trend, $8.50
per cwt. being paid.
John Dale of Alma delivered a fine
horse to Wm. Cudmore of Seaforth, for
a good price.
E. Umbach, who for the past 5 or
6 years has conducted a successful drug,
stationery and fancy goods store in the
Scott block, disposed of his business to
Messrs. Heron and Keating of Toronto.
At the last meeting, got the Seaforth
Fire Brigade the folpwatig w' elected
a,,ona,,theaaCald Boys Retir9404, nuni.O.ess201,,
Frank gills, R.G.Parke, Alfred Box,
Davy Reid, Harry R. Scott, Dalton Reid
and John Cumming.
Reid Bros of town received by a
new radio the address delivered by Rt.
Hon. David Lloyd George, who is now
in this country and the addreis was
delivered from Massey Hall, Toronto.
The Expositor was able to hear quite
clearly a portion of the address.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dodds and
daughter, Mrs.. McCKay• and two sons
motored from London and , spent the
week end at the Queens.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G. Mullen, assis-
ted the choir of Trivitt Memorial Church
in Exeter.
Wallace Archibald has accepted a
position on the staff of the school of
Practical Science, Toronto.
Miss . Katherine McGregor of
Hrucefield is attending the College of
Education, Toronto.
Mr. and Mrs. W.O.Goodwin of
Hensall' have taken the position of choir
leaders owing to the resignation of Mr.
and Mrs. M. R. Rennie.
OCTOBER 15,,1948.'
C.ardno's Hall was filled to capacity
when the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Hodgert gathered to honor them on the "N
occasion of their recent marriage. Ir-
win's Orchestra furnished the music
for dancing. A purse of money was pre-
sented by John Anderson and James Doig
read the address.
A barn owned by Jos. Maloney near
Beechwood, filled with this season's grain
was completely destroyed by fire. It
was originally owned. by Edward Horan.
Robt. E. McMillan, 2, Seaforth, with
a total of 110 points was the winner &the
Field Crop Competition conducted in con-
junction with the Seaforth Fall Fair.
one of the oldest and most highly
respected citizens of Seaforth, passed
away in the person of Miss Jennie Bobbin
her 91st year. Miss Robb was born in
Harpurhey, the last of a family of nine.
In February 1945, she and her brother,
the late James Robb, Were victims of
asphyxiation in their home.
The male quartette of Seaforth, con-
sisting of Messrs. •James T. Scott, F.E.
Willis, M. R, Rennie and D.L,Reid pro-
vided special music for the Evangelical
Lutheran Church at Dashwood Sunday
evening last.
Mrs. James Finlayson, Mrs. John
McGreeor, Mrs. W. F. McMillan and
Mrs. A.C.Routledge were at Duff's
Church, McKillop, attending the section- 7
al meeting in connection with the United
Church of Canada.
.Wm. M. Sproat and Amos Corby are
spending a couple of days at the Inter-
national Plowing Match at Lindsay. •
Thos. Downey of town has returned
after spending the last 10 years overseas.
He is visiting his mother, Mrs. Downey
and Miss Ann Downey.
Stewart Bros. have made alterations
in their store on Main Street. The
furnishings are finished in limed oak.
Induction services for Rev. D.Glenn
Campbell, were held in First Presby-
terian Church when the congregation
greeted the new minister and Mrs.Camp-
bell.
The Seaforth Bowling Club named Dr.
P.L.Brady as President of the club at
their annual meeting.
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