HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1974-01-10, Page 2SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, January 10, 1974
Not acceptable ?
If iou are one of those thousands
of employers complaining that job
vacancies just can't be filled, have
you thought that perhaps those jobs
are no longer acceptable to
Canadians?" asks Clive Baxter in The
Financial Post.
That is the sort of question more
and more companies are going to be
asked in coming months by officials of
the Manpower and Immigration
Department. They are being sent into
the field to try to find out what has
gone wrong with manpower supply
and demand.
"I think my department does' as
we•l.L as they do in any country",
Manpower Minister Robert Andras
says stoutly and predictably. "But,
despite that one has to admit there is
something awfully wrong when
month after month we see those high
unemployment figures and yet
employers across the country report
they can't find the workers they
need."
To try to do something about it,
Manpower is switching away from the
relatively passive role it has been
Playing - operating manpower centres
where the unemployed were
counselled and perhaps trained to
improve skills and 'then sent on to
potential employers who has asked
for them-'and going much More onto
the offensive.. .
"One of the big problems has
been that our 4,000 manpower
counsellors across the country have
been bogged down in red tape and
paper work," Andras says. "They
havebeen telling us this for years and
they are right. By the time they have
interviewed every single
unemployed, got all his life story,
what he wanted to do, all the details,
they hardly had time to do anything
else. We don't think it was
necessary. About 60 percent of the
unemployed know exactly what they
can do, they know exactly what sort of
jobs interest them. So why waste
everyone's time wish all that redtape.
For them it js enough to establish job
banks at manpower centres, lists of
jobs available they can look through
at their own pace".
Then, rather like in a liquor
commission, The Post says, the
job-seeker will select the serial
numbers of the half-dozen or so most
interesting openings, take them up to
the counter, and be sent straight out to
the employer for an interview. Trial
job banks have worked well in
Ottawa-Hull and Hamilton and all 390-
manpower centres will be converted
by 1975.
"That will free the 'counsellors to
give more time to the 40 perceht who
do need help," Andras explains. "It
will also set them free to get out of,the
office, and work more closely with
(The Goderich Signal Star)
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A birthday for Seaforth
As Seaforth enters its 100th year as a town this picture of members of the first
town council who took office, January 1, 1875 suggests it is time for the town to
Consider how the anniversary should be marked. The next twelve months will pass
Atilekly and if the centennial years of Seaforth as a town is to be observed in a fitting
triatifier and dirriharable to other anniversary events that Seaforth has marked, then
plankting for it should start now. The picture was made available" by the PUblic
kreltiVel of Canada.
In the Years Agone
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JANUARY 23,1899
Hensall 'town experienced,. quite a' flood
last week when most of the cellars .in the
village were full of water.
Mr. Sctiatter of.. Kippen, shipped to
Toronto.a'oarload of-pork anclufowl.• John
McKay, went in ella rge.
W:W.Cooper of Kippen, has a gang of
choppers at work cutting down 10 acres of
bush. •
John Shepherd of Hensall shipped '85
cattle and two loads of la erpool.
from Hensall.
D. McCormick of Zurich has put the
,acetylene lights in his hdtel
Wm. Edmunds, foreman of the finishing
department of the Broadfoot Box factory
met with a painful accident. He was mixing
some ingredients in a glass bottle when the
bottle exploded and his hand was cut,
which will lay him up for awhile.
David McCurdy of the Thames Road had
a successful sawing bee, A number of men
gathered at ..his place and cut 25 cords of
wood,
The Hullett' council commenced their ,
labours for 1899. A number of neighbors.
joined together and signed a petition to
have Ebenezer Church turned into a schbol
house and thought they would keep a
teacher themselves; but when they found
out how their taxes would be increased,
they were not in favour of the scheme. W.
Mills was elected assessor of the township.
- The Sons of England at Londesboro
treated themselves to an oyster supper.
The annual congregational meeting
ofEgmondville Church was held and well
attended. Messrs. A. Crozier and R.
Broadfoot, retiring managers having
declined re-election, Messrs. James
Cameron and Alex Grant were appointed.
Alex L. GibSon, registrar of the County
of Huron, died at his home in Goderich.
Deceased had not enjoyed good health for
some time.
L. Beatty of Varna is busy putting up
windmills for Messrs. Johnson, Erratt and
Beatty. '
The roads at Varna are in a terrible state
at the present time, consequently business
is quiet.
The McKillop Council tnet in Jones Hall,
Leacibury.. Members were all present. The
following officials were appointed:
,D.M.Ross, Treasurer; Wm. Evans,
Assessor; Charles Dickson, Collector;
Adam Dickson and George Murdie,
Auditors; Thos. Murray, member of Board
of Health; Richard Pollard, sanitary
inspector.
JANUARY 11, 1924
Mr. and Mrs. W.T.Box, celebrated their
Golden Wedding kr4 a family dinner held in
their honor at the residence of their son,
H.C.Box. They were presented with a
golden locket and a handsome brooch, The
address was read by A.R.Box and the
presentation made by H.C.Box.
The following are the results of the
election held in Seaforth: Mayor
W. H. Golding (acclamation); Reeve
W.J.Beattle; Councillors, G,P.Cardno;
W.E.Chapnian; W.A.Crich; G.D.Haigh;
F.D.Hutciiison and U.T.Turnbull.
in McKillop: Reeve F.J.McQuaid
(acclamation) Councillors, R. ttegele, E.
Horan, F.B.Medd, J. Dodds.
Messrs. Lou Sparling and Geo. Eaton of
Winthrop are busy cutting timber for Wm.
Trewartha,, who is building a new barn this
spring.
C'.D.Simpson and John Hohner of
Brucefield have gone to. Iron Bridge.,-. •
Harold Taylor, 11xtos,,,bee,ashrtjmattistALd,';
4- Sterling Bank at—Hayfield left for Flint, '
Mich.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at the
Methodist Church, Seaforth, when Olive
Marie Taman was 'united in marriage to
Roy McGeoch of Egmondville.
R,G.Parke, chief of the local; fire
brigade, entertained, the members to a
dinner in the Commercial Hotel when 25
sat down.
An interesting parlour meeting was
held at the home of Mrs. John MacTavish,
when an instructive address was given on
"Home and • School Club" by Mrs.
W.H.Becker of Toronto.
J..I.Brerick of town has secured the
contract for decorating for the Old Boys
Reunion at Thamesville.
The snow storm of last week at
Chisel hurst put the toads in better
condition,
Miss Agnes Eckert left to resume her
duties as teacher in Logan Township.
JANUARY 14, 1949
William Rogerson was declared elected
to Tuckersmith Council following a
re-count by Judge T.M.Costello, The
recount became necessary when Mr.
Rogerson and RoyTepper were tied for
fourth place, each with 338 votes.
Scott Memorial • Hospital received
delivery of a modern oxygen tent, which is
now in use, according to Miss M. Grainger.
The new equipment is the gift of George
Jackson and Thos. JackSon of
Egmondville.
Miss Helen Smith, Miss Beatrice Lane
and Miss Marian McGavin, have been
informed that they have successfully
passed their registration exams and are
now registered nurses.
It is of often that this district enjoys
weat in January such as there has been
during the past two weeks, were it not for
calendars, one might well assume the
month to be April. What little snow there
has been has almost gone; the fields and
roads are bare.
Robert McFarlane of Winthrop is
building a home next to the residence of
W.E.Hawley. He expects to have it ready
by spring.
Mary Margaret Bell, of Seaforth and
Thomas Pryde of Exeter were married in
Toronto and left for the Southern States
and on their return will reside in Exeter.
Mrs. W.E.Kerslake of town had the
misfortune to fallrand break her right arm.
She is resting in Scott Memorial Hospital.
With the retirement of Robert Downing
from business, one of Brussels oldest and
best known stores will change its name. He
has completed 60 years of business.
Last week's column mentioned that
unspeakable species, the readoholic. That
reminded me of a speech I made about
Good Reading Habits-to a group of honour
students. So I dug up the speech and
propose this week to pass alone some of
the more worthwhile points in it.
It's not primarily for students, but if
you're not interested, you can go and cry
over your post-Christnias bills.
I became a readoholic shortly •after •I
learned to read. My mother would moan,
as she tore the flashlight out of my hot lade
hand about 2 a.m., "Billy Smiley, you'll be
blind by the time you're fifteen if you don't
stop reading in dark-corners and
caunbvvdb bey lr-lhi,golhletvseo.
'n'bes, on planes and trains, in
been reading in dark corners
the bathroom and in bed, in revolving
doors and on escalators, ever since, and
I'm not blind yet. I 'don't even wear
glasses.
But I don't want you to think I just
ignored my mom's admonition. I have
never since ,read in a cubby-hole. In fact,
you can scarcely get your hands on a
cubby-hole these days. They seem to have
gone the way of spats and straw hats.
I had trouble with that speech to the
kip. The principal had suggested the
topic, Good Reading Habits, and who was I
to tell hiin it was a dull and stupid topic?
When 1 sat down to write the speech,
could think of only one good reading habit.
Many years ago, when I ,was in public
school, they taught us in health classes that
you should always read with the light
coming over your left shoulder. I don't
know why. They're still teaching it.
This good reading habit is rather useless
if your left shoulder is higher than your
right one, as is sometimes the case. And of
course, if you are reading Hebrew or
Persian, and read from right to left, it
seems more logical to have the light
coming over your right shoulder.
had to admit the students that this
was the only good reading habit I could
remember. That seemed to be the end of'
'the speech. Then I thought, "Heck, this is
no good." So I confessed that I could say,
without pride, but with little fear of
contradiction, that I had the most atrocious
reading habits of any male in Canada.
I suggested that I talk instead about Bad
Reading Habits. Then, if they listened
carefully, and immediately afterward
forgot everything I had said, they would be
well on the way to acquiring Good Reading
Habits. There was' general agreement that
this was a sensible approach:
I warned, them, of _ the depths of
degradation to which a readbholic, would
.descend to get his stuff. I told them that an'
alcoholic or a drug addict would stoop
pretty low .to, get the wherewithal for , his
habit, And I told them this was kid stuff •
comparedstoopto. to what the readoholic would
I gave them an example: a friend of mine
during the war. He had the habit very
badly. I lost track of him, but heard from
friends that he had managed to kick it.
Then one day, a couple of months after
the war, I met him in Alexandria, North '
Africa. He was a handsome Sikh, with a
sky-blue turban and a curly, black beard.
But right away, I knew from the
red-rimmed eyes, the glazed look, that he
was still hooked on reading.
He was leading an old lady by the hand. I
asked him who she was and where they .
were going. He had the decency to looked '
ashamed, as he answered ambiguously,
"Old friend Smilee, I am knowing what you
theenk, but I got to get a book", before /
hurrying off.
I heard later that the aged lady was his
mother, and he was on his way to the slave
market. I understand he got $19 for her. •
Or, in readoholic terms, about twenty-two
paper-backs.
Oh, I. put the fear into those honour
students. But then I tried io soften the
blow. Told them of some of the great
discoveries for which readoholism had ,
been responsible.
Newton, leading under an apple tree.
The old story is that he was sleeping, but
the truth is that he had just picked up a
copy of the recently published "Fanny
Hill" and was definitely reading. Apple
fell, hit him on the head, and we had the
Law of Gravity, without which we'd be in
very grave shape.
And there was the Greek, Archimedes.
He climbed into the bath one day for a
quiet read. Immediately he opened his
book,he knew something was wrong. He
leaped out of the tub, crying, "Paprika!"
Somebody had put paprika instead of bath
salts in his water. And thus was discovered
Archimedes Principle, a very important
law in the study of physics.'
I don't know much about the Principle,
but I think it's something like, "Half a bath
is
This
be better ntehcadno tneo ne
brought
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me toward my
peroration. It reminded me that I knew of;
another Good Reading Habit. This made
two. A good Reading Habit is to read in the
bath-tub.
Someone once said that the ideal
learning situation was a boy sitting on one
end of a log, and Mark Van Doren, the.
great U.S. educator, sitting on the other.
My notion of the ideal learning situation
would be a classroom with thirty-five
bath-tubs instead of desks. And up at the
front, a super-tab, preferably in pink
mother-of-pearl, for Mr. Smiley.
It might be a little expensive, but think
of the special effects we could get when
teaching The Spanish Armada in historjr,
or Old Man and the Sea, in English.
Perhaps I should add .that we'd be
wearing swim-suits, -
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