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The Huron Expositor, 1974-03-07, Page 2Since 1860, Serving the Community/ .First Publtgtteti alt $RAFQRTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday mornliatg'by MCLEAN BROS., Pwblishems Ltd ANDREW Y. McL,RAN, Editor Member Camddan Weelaly Newspaper Association Ontario Weerld(y Newspaper Association and. Audit Birreau of 01rculaton Newspapers •. Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance), $9.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $11.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 20 CENTS EACH Second: Class Mail Regist otion Number 0696 u Telephone 527.0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, March 7, 1974 Why wear seat belts 2 The Ontario Medical Association A letter to the editor in a recent has taken a strong. stand aimed at Toronto Star points out, that the preventing the horrible automobile people who are seriously injured or Salt box . Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley rT if i1 ���ii1'7:'i•:}t 4fjf:ti , ii ti:::�::ti•:•}:i:•.:�:ti :•::: }::•:•: i�::: •::a:' A:`f•� f : T.l {y,• : rti� •.'tr ti I THIS N� JAI from Ottawa : Parliament Meets The second session of the 29th Parliament opened on Wednesday, February 27th. The new Canadian Governor-General, Jules Leger, delivered his first Speech from the Throne. The party standings in the House of Commons at the xesuriiption of Parliament are Liberal - 109, P.C. - 106, N.D.P, - 31, Social Credit - 15, Independent - 1, Vacant Guaranteed Income Federal Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde and Manitoba's Health and Social Development Minister Saul Miller announced the beginning of an experimental guaranteed annual income project that will involve 2,500 Manitoba families over the next three years. The first dozen families will st art receiving their guaranteed monthly incomes within two weeks. .The federal-prpvincial ,Faulkner announced that private " social service agencies'in Ontario will receive $732,000 from the federal government.•this summer to hire 240 university and community college students. Donald MacDonald - IAN" OF THE YEAR" The Toronto Globe and Mail's Report on Business has named Energy Miipister Donald Macdonald "1973 Man of the Year". The newpaper praised the minister's handling of his difficult portfolio during 1973. Grain Price Increases Otto Lang, Minister responsible for the Wheat Board, announced that Canadian farmers will receive substantial price increases for wheat, durum and barley. Effective March 1, the initial price' for all grades .of milling wheat will be raised by $1.50 a bushel, durum wheat prices go up by $2.00 a bushel accident injuries that every doctor killed because they don't wear seat Think I'll sneak down and have another the house. That kid just don't get to cry. experiment will cost $17 million. and barley increases by 75 cents a 1► sees regularily in every hospital in, belts are gambling with the premiums Some,days you can't win a nickel. Today baby book, which, so help me, suggested The federal government will pay bushel. this country. everyone pays for health insurance.; __� ,, is one of them.Outside, it's bucketing nursing mothers have a bottle of beer to 75% of the monthly payments and the Manitoba Nova Scotia Election The Nova Scotia provincial The OMA, bravely following the and life insurance tans. The writer p down wet snow to clog my driveway. Inside, I'm getting the 'flu, and my jaw is break the monotony or keep the flow coming, or something. -government 25g/o to the families, all of whom election has been set for April 2. adage about prevention being more suggests that a $1000 be deductible aching from a going-over the dentist gave This is a little digression, but I was volunteered for me project. ees This:is Premier Gerald Re g valuable than cure, has recommended from OFAIP claims of non seat belt me. almost fully grown before I learned that my 11 The experiment will test the arty first bid for re-election. The party that the wearing of seat belts be made wearers. And downstairs, two women are basic idea about nursing mothers was usefulness of a guaranteed standings at dissolution after two mandatory in Ontario. This he proposes as an alternative squabbling about how to bring up my wrong. Another kid told me, when we were annual income scheme. previous by-elections, were Anyone who has been in a serious to making seat belt use mandatory, grandson. about six, that there is porridge in one Student Summer Jobs Secretary State Hugh Liberal - 24,P.C. - 19,N,D:P.-2, car accident when the wearing of a But is mandatory Seat belt wearing Xes, the little chap is paying his first breast and milk in the other. That's. why of Vacant • 1. . seat belt has saved a life or prevented such a revolutionary idea? visit to the old family home, and he's the only bright note in the day. they switch the baby- over. Yep, there's nothing like a baby around treatment. If his mother utssh•dia er P p y injury is continually amazed and It's working in Australia. Think I'll sneak down and have another the house. That kid just don't get to cry. depressed by the number of people Australian authorities apparently look at him and try to cheer myself up. Someone snatches him up the minute he who never wear seat belts but say The O.M.A. says that after seat There, 1 did. And I feel better. He's a bleats once. Even 1. �• casually "They're too much bother" belt wearing was made mandatory in dandy little fellow. He's fat, and he smells And my wife is having a greet time or "I don't really believe that they Australia there was an immediate like a baby, and he produces'the occasional getting out all the pictures of our kids when "Takes it' too much government 20o/o decrease In auto accident lopsided grin, as though he finds the world they were babies, to see whom he -latest make us safer". figures show that the mandatory seat - • amusing. He doesn't know the half of it. after." The notion is that he looks At times it seems to the safety fatalities. There was also a 28% It's not only amusing; it's ridiculous. like his Uncle Hugh at that age. I think he . conscious that the non<seat belt decrease in serious injury like para And two of the more ridiculous aspects looks like Churchill. For once we're in wearer has suicidal tendencies or and quadriplegia and other head and of it right now are his mother and his agreement, because.Hugh as a baby looked thinks that he has nine lives. Buzzers spinal injuries. •F and car ignitions which won't start Contrary to what we'd expect, until the driver buckles up are Australian authorities apparently useless, They..are_._an annoyance_ _to_ - found no difficulty in enforcing the..-.,----- he_-__those thosewho use tyle belts. law. Perhaps the-'OPP could get•tips conscientiously and the anti -seat belt from their Australian counterparts If people get around them by the ,Ontario law is changed. dis onnecting or tieing knots. We spend a lot of • money in here is a temptation to say seat Ontario every year researching the bo.1wearing can't be legislated ---that problem of the drinking driver and it' too much government our laws regarding drunk driving are interference in people's Fives. rightly very tough. But in Australia Perhapspeople can't be protected figures show that the mandatory seat - aga nst., their owl will. l�U't, thats 'a gel# av is mare , eftecfj.y 1,, n' litfi ei'fi ``'saying that .the decision to « preverrtj°ng rtjurie$'an f to iii s. tl ail ; kill'or maim yourself should be left to the law regarding drinking drivers. personal choice. It wouldn't hurt to try it out. Share and share alike We .have always gone along with the idea' that the expensive recreational facilities in our schools -- gyms, tennis courts, playing fields, etc. should be available to the community at large who pay for these facilities. The community should be especially welcome to use the. schools in the summer and at other holiday times when these physical plants worth thousands of dollars stand empty.' This principal can work two ways. It can be an exchange. Students and educational programs should also be making use of facilities in the communities like skating rinks and golf courses according to a new Physical, and Health education curriculum guideline just released by the Ministry of Education. This exchange of facilities is nothing new in Seaforth. The people I,n education and those• in charge of the Town's recreation facilities should be congratulated, because they share each other's "goodies". ' Because Small towns are small there is no way an arena can be exclusively for school kids or a school gym not be available for adult physical fitness classes. We can't afford the duplication of buildings and recreational facilities that exists in the cities and so we all use what we have. For many years Phys Ed classes at Seaforth District High School have walked ov�ttihheivately owned Curling Clo throw rocks. Every ySchool golf tourna n#.i�he d �at the Seaforth Golf and CountryCI Public meetings are often held in th our elementary schools and m ny community groups meet regtllarily at the high school. This sharing is good to see.' It means thaf the schools we pay for are available for everyone's use and students can learn recreational skills without our boards of education buying expensive equipment that is already available In town. Notes Shirley J. Keller, who writes "From My Window" which regularily appearg,on our editorial page, has discontinued writing her column. Mrs, Keller, who is editor of the Goderich Signal Star says that she finds her many other duties too time consuming to allow her to continue the column. The editors are sorry that "Years Agone", the popular editorial page feature, was not available this week. The compiler of the column, Mrs. Pearl McFarlane, is confined to Seaforth Community Hospital. `"Vi'i!ia'E it,nightmarei You and Rock IEtuason vvere fighting over me and YOU woni" I grandmother. One has had a baby for six much like Churchill as an elderly man. tatting room. 'There wasn't much to take up a child's attention, but `e weeks and thinks she knows all about babies. The other hasn't had a baby for 22 And his granny is' away ahead of the. game on clothes. She's bought him a white Mr. Mattie Aho reached his resident here, has kept in touch years, and she thinks she knows all about summer suit, and a blue bunting bag *for threescore and ten this week. with her. On .reading about the babies. next winter. Next winter, already. Mattie is a native of Finland. He station and seeing the pictures in __...___._. _ . M role is to tr to a 1 some common My y' PP Y _.... ITiaven't bought -him a thing; liut-T-Itave � ----walks a great deal irtall kinds --of g the pallor --fie thought Wilba sense, but it's about as effective as a furtive forebod ing that that urchin is weather. would be interested, so decided to , throwing oil on a fire to put it out. They going to cost me plenty, over the years. If I read with feelings , of send her a copy. Glad Thompson, both turn on me and assure me that my the cost of records and fishing tackle and . _ nostalgia, the article on the who taught for many years in' knowledge about babies is about as hockey equipment keeps going up; -I'll be demolition of the station. I am Niagara Falls, knew Wilba and capacious as my knowledge of heaven. beggared, before he's into high school. I , sure this feeling is felt among offered to wrap up the paper and In fact, I know all there is necessary to seem to be the only one in the family many members of the com- This Seaforth send it off. Very promptly, a reply know'about infants: keep them warm and making a buck these days.. munity. sets aside came back. I shall quote her dry and well fed, and they'll be happy. His mother and father have great plans as a town without a station and no comments in part. • ' Theyre' just like human beings in that for him. One is a muic,an and the other an passenger trains each day. Many "Russ Hi! Thank you for respect. r• artist, so,th�ey think he's going to be some memories are wrapped u in that PP P thinking I would be interested in g 'This --little guy is cettainl < ttitrg that a<+^ kind of emus. That's wh 1:thou, ht..about;, ... ,.... , g �,t �� •x.;a�a-- • - One i"s'a is , station,, The sad w:m�mgri sof,she de artures and the lad wel. P g article Ind - pictures, ,o,f , the ', :N: .station. The• ietures were;; treatment. If his mother utssh•dia er P p "my kidsJtbo: waiter, the other a Friday morning. The ladio'-of St. Joseph Roman Catholic ui article on him, his gran has got it •off and put young mother. Y g comes to friends and relatives good and'the well-written. another on before he has a chance to wet However, if I use all my craft, perhaps I who came to visit. My last fairly It was sad to think of the old thefirst one. can lure him away from the decadent long trip was on the morning of station being torn down. And he's certainly not suffering in the artistic life, and turn him into a pretty good May 30, 1953, when I took the Y • I will. send the paper onto m P P Y groceries department. He's gulping great angler, or something useful like that. morning train at a.m. to cousin who used to come to visit quantities pure, unadulterated stuff, , It doesn't really matter what you plan for kid, of course. In this crazy world, aye Montreal where I stayed all night and took the plane next day for us. One thing I remember about n dthe nature intended for him. There have been rhapsodies written a nothing is clearer than that the best -laid London, England, to visit my , Seaforth was the mounds of snow. about the beauty of a child nursing at its lams nearly always o a le P y Y g g y' brother who insisted I be there for Pathways to the trains were like All I hope for little Nikov is that he gets a the Coronation. It was a thrilling g tunnels, There used to be mono Y mother's breast. And I must say it's charge out of -life, allows himself to love adventure. I was asked by the found under the platform by something to see her cuddling him up. to and be loved, and is healthy.. Expositor before I left to cover the enterprising boys. Thank you one side and reaching with her free hand Oh, yes, and one other thing; that he's Coronation and after a week of again, Wilba," for her bottle of beer. She got that out of a twice the man his grandfather is. writing and research, I felt 1 could As a child sitting waiting for give a fairly accurate account as I trains, I was much amused by the saw it and I believe it was big pot-bellied stoves in the big F - s Presbytery raps Sunday n Store apeningS published m the June 6 issue, 1953. The Coronation was June 2 tatting room. 'There wasn't much to take up a child's attention, but `e A musical group of students from the Clinton Christian of that year. it was something to watch when Sunday shopping, a shortage of Nursing Homes, and Organized Sports on Sunday, were topics of resolutions ' passed by Huron -Perth Presbytety at a nursing home accommodation in Huron and. Perth Counties, for chronic patients land senior citizens. A Task Force will be set up to study needs in this area and suffering from inflation. Rev. Don Deas of Mitchell, Stewardship Division Chairman, revealed this in releasing the final total for contributions to the Mission And About sixty or sixty-five years,• ago, a Mr. Phillips was station--, agent here. He had several daughters, one of whom was called Wilba. Mr. Russ Hays, a the caretaker would bring in a scuttle of coal and throw it into -the fire on the red hot coals. Few i of those stoveW" seen anymore except in- pictures of old "things." recent meeting in Main St. U d Ch h M't h 11 The report at the next meeting. R W Service Fund of the ' United Mrs. Kelly of Goderich was welcomed to the Home at nite urc , i c e . Church In Society Committee, convened by Rev. John Davies of Varkview United Church, Stratford, draftd the resolutions which Presbytery, then- adopted. The resolution on Sunday Observance arose due to the increase in the number of supermarkets and other retail outlets that are violating ..the "Lord's Day Act". Members thus "reaffirmed their belief in Sunday as a common day of rest, a support legislation that would implement a more restricted Sunday", as outlined in Option #1 of the Ontario Law. Reform Commission. Such legislation would be more secular than religious, be uniform across the Province and would prohibit all forms of selling and employment on Sunday, except in certain clearly defined situations. Members were asked to take this resolution back to their local Gong rogations and have them urge the Provincial Government to •enact f si ch legislation. Organized Sports, and in particular hockey leagues, practises and tournaments, are more and more conflicting with the Sunday activities of Churches. All congregations were thus• urged to "exercise their influence in limiting the promotion of (organized sports) in their communities on Sunday mornings where at all practical, and to accept their responsibility for involving their - children in worship and Christian Education, and other areas of the churches' life.". The Committee also noted that there is a serious shortage of ev. Doug arren, of Crediton, .the Chairman, opened the day -long meeting by intro- ducing a new venture in worship conducted by Rev. Rae Grant of Listowel. Members viewed portions of the film, To S it With Love, starring Sidney Portier: Following this, they discui4sed how to bridge communication gaps among people. The bridging of geographical gaps was realized as Rev. Warren in beginning the business portion of the meeting introduced four members of the Lambton Pr esbytery Executive who were guests for. the day. The visiting clergy were, Alymer Smith, Murray Campbell, Clifford`Park and"�I�oyd Stapleton. The new London Conference Personnel Officer, Rev. August Meacham was present and spoke briefly about his "ministry to Ministers", in southwestern Ontario. He noted that he had been spending a lot of time in Huron -Perth, having called "'ori most United Church clergy. He then answered questions raised on: the settlement of Ministers, confidentiality, how inflation affects retired clergy, and the chaismatic movement. In other business it was learned that Mr. Murdock Morrison, Lay Supply at Varna for 13 years, Mr. Alfred Fry, Lay Supply at Auburn for 6 years, and Rev: George Sach, Minister in Gorrie for 7 years, would be retiring at the end of June this year. Mr. Mdrrison has built his own home in Varna and will retire there. Rev. ,Sach, a former Moravian Missionary in Labrador expects to retire in London. it seems as if the Church too is Church in 1973. He praised congregations for passing the National objective of $11,500,000. But he also said that even though this was a 6% increase over last year, inflation gave a net loss of 3.81 %. Total amount given by Charges in Presbytery to the Fund in 1973 was $272,272. United Church Minist ers were promised . some financial help in the battle against inflation when it was announced that General Council has recommended at least an 11% increase for 1975 minimum salaries. The minimum base for 1974 is $6300. In 1975 it will be $7,000 reported the Secretary, Rev. Derwyn Docken of Walton. Rev, Ray Lindsay of Monkton, the Audio -Visual Convener, was pleased to report that the Resource Centre in Main St. United Church, Mitchell, is being used by many Churches. The Centre has a supply of film -strips, tapes, and printed resources that United Churches in the Presbytery may borrow free of charge. Rev. Lindsay urged more congregations to use this material. A number of local people will be representing our area at the United Church's highest Courtr General Council, whenit meets in Guelph, August 18 to 24. Elected as delegates were Rev. Doug Warren of Crediton and Mr. Joe Snider of Goderich. Also nominated to be placed on a list of possible delegates were: Mrs. Cora Thistle, St. Pauls; Mrs. S.E.Argyle, Goderich; Mrs. Ruth Shier, Kirkton; Rev, Don Beck, Hensail; Rev. Rae Grant, Listowel; and Rev. Don Deas, Mitchell. 0 'NEWS OF Huronview` `e A musical group of students from the Clinton Christian REform School loll by Clarence Vos helped to provide the music for the Sunday evening song service. Mr. Aire Van der Ende leader of the service presented twenty-five new gospel song books to the Home on behalf of the Christian Reform congregation. Mrs. Kelly of Goderich was welcomed to the Home at Monday afternoons getogether, Marie Flynn, Norman Speir and Jerry Collins provided the old tyme music with Clinton Christian Reform volunteers assisting with activities. Rev. McWhinnie, Chaplain of the Home, is leading the Bible Study for the next two'wels while the regular teacher, Mrs. Prouti, is holidaying in Florida. The McMillan Family Fortress of Goderich provided the " "Family Night" program on Thursday evening, This group -includes Mr. and Mrs. McMillan and their family, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Ernie, along with a piano accompanist taken this week by Mrs. Don Stewart. The McMillans are very well known for their musical talents in the Goderich area. They were invited to join a noted Evangelist last year for a three-week tour of the Southernlslands.The program included musical numbers by the family, who all play wind instruments, as well as solos by Ernie, duets by Elizabeth and Eleanor, and vocal duets by Don and Mr s. McMillan. The audience were taken on the Evangelistic tour of the islands by coloured slides and commentary by Don which was very interesting.A record has been 'Made by the McMillans of their music which has a religious theme and will soon be available to the public. Mr. Bob Rutledge expressed the appreciation of the residents, A World Day of Prayer service was held in the Chapel on Friday morning. The ladio'-of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Clinton, were in charge of the service this year. Mrs. Tony Brand and Mr s. John Van Beers led the service with a choir of twenty students from St. Joseph School leading the singing, assisted by their teachers Mrs. Delaney and Mrs. Carbert. The collection was received by residents, Mrs. Sholdice acid .Mi"s.' V'alkenburg. `i