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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 5, 1,979FAJ
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Sports'and violence
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Seaforth is a big sports town, dealing with violence in Ontario -
Almost everyone in our town watches, amateur hockey. The statement"•.,
plays or has interest In at least one makes a good deal of sense and one 1%, IMP' }�
sport. Iwonders why thee bodies that govern to
Our adults are great curlers and minor hockeyin this country dont -� a
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lawn bowlers. Kids and adults played ,��`�
P Y simply bring in stiff penalties and .. � � • ,,
baseball with enthusiasm most of this suspensions for players who Insist on
summer. fighting, spearing and butt ending.,
Hockey is especially big here. •'��, . r lop
Everyone is waiting enthusiastically Unfortunately common sense is
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for Seaforth's new Junior D t earl to seldom a criterion in this da�'�; • �- :�••-
play this winter. The hockey moguls hale already - �► ,�
Because the whole town generally Panned the report and stated that
follows our hockey teams with nothing can be done to curb violence. " * •x,, T
interest, the recently released report The sad thing is they are likely
of the Commission which was looking
correct. There are just too many � ,,,�� ' ;` � �• , � .� _ � ,� *`�
parents .wh'o try to live the life they = e _ �. A
into violence in amateur hockey in
Ontario should be important to us. missed through their children. They • ��y
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The report says much of the violence "tough" stars who win lots of hockey - want their y oungsters to be big a
is in imitation of the N.H.L. games''and eventually make it to the Mi.
Organized hockey is great when the
National Hockey League. .You've .no T
kids really enjoy it, the editor of the doubt seen the odd one in the �' t z�r a .�t4 �' •wy .
Kincardine News points out, but �.r -r' ,t
Kincardine Ar ena. Parents urgingx1
there will - be no end to this violence as their children to "hit him to win at
long as parents push kids in hockey to any costs."
boost their own egos. �` 4L
The Kincardine editorial says: Parents are often seen making. their
"There is absolutely no reason that children play ball or hcokey when Erosion at Elora Gorge
fighting, attempts to intimidate or they have no desire. What for and
using a stick to hurt or intimidate with what results? The results are not "
should be tolerated at any time under too hard to see. Most players drop out
any circumstances in hockey, of organized sports by the time they
particularly, amateur hockey." are 16. They have had ehough. •
Those words appeared last week in Let's give the games and the joys of Sugar and Slc`i
,a provincial government report childhood back to the kids.
B.y.: Bill Smiley Ma- Bells profits hate Perhaps I sounded a, bit grumpy last, week in one of Canada's best weeklies.
week because this has been one of those And remind your boss that he still owes me
summers when a, chap feels that he hasn't a dinner. (He was a terrified infantryman
.Now that the Bell Canada has three months last year. We should all done anything, seen anything, or been when I was a -terrified Typhoon pilot.)
been granted its 10 -cent -a -month be so badly in need of more money. as . anywhere, And it has. Another note was from a student. Sharp
increase b the Canadian -Transport But that is not to say that it has been mind, headed for university and law.
Y P poor Ma Bell: without interest and incident. Last week, I
Commission, along with a-5.75 pe% Beware, you lawyers of five years from
cent increase on business rates, the Unless changed• by the cabinet, whined about our scanty social life: one now. Don't fool with this young lady?,
funeral; one wedding. punk?, woman?, person?. She'll murder
giant ' corporation has decided to the rate increases will take effect However, we've had some ver interest- -you. Typically, with the deep respect my
release its financial report for the Sept. 15. e Bell Canada financial ing visitors. Almost every day. Roofers, students have for me, her note began, "Hi,
.-second quarter of 1974. report for,the fourth quarter of 1974 painters, a columnist, a student, a Smiley, I came around and you didn't even
What that report shows 's a profit should really be something to.see. syndicate man, a physiotherapist, and - the have the decency to be at home..."
d most interesting of all - my grandba by.
increase of 72 per cent over the same � (The Listowel Banner) A few of the visitors caught us at home.
And I reckon I've learned a wee bit about One,was Bill Craig, of Argyle` Syndicate,
human nature in the .process. _Perhaps
L that's what it's all about. "I tike physical who has more to do with getting out this
1 o tyle Editor nature as well as the next man, but I am column than anyone except me. Our
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previous acquaintance had beton on the
fascinated by human nature. phone. I expected asmart-alec young punk
Physical nature is interesting and fairly
predictable. You plant a seed properly, of about twenty-six with tie big sideburns,
Mother likes la school the big pants, and the hearty manner.
play nurture it, give it plenty of fertilizer, the
right amount of sun and water, pluck out i was haltered. He and his- wife Betty
arrived °
the weeds, around it, and you wind up with obi that notorious pre -dinner
Dear Sir: working away from home or there are too a dandy cucumber or turnip, or whatever appetizer. They have an eighteen -year-old
1 am one of the many mothers who sent a many others to care for. you planted. daughter and a sweet, shy little son,
child to the play school at the Seaforth I hope you can understand what 1 am But you can't do that with humans, ' James, who is five. Bill is a Korean war
Public School, supervised quite well by trying to say and do not set my letter aside though you try. Maybe we give them too veteran. He demolished me at two games
four Seaforth girls -in the months of July for i feel the town's people who use these much fertilizer, or don't pluck the weeds. of chess, and played a fair piano. So much
and August. kinds of services should thank all the We plant what we think is going to be a for preconceptions.
On parents' day, we saw some of the students who have helped both at the rose, and it turns out to be a cabbage. Or • Sortie of the others who caught us in
work the children did and realized just how public, the exercise club and Seaforth vice versa. Any parent knows this. were the painters and the roofers. When
much patience these four girls had. District High School. By the way, don't get excited, or we were up at the crack of dawn, ready for
I feel the town should be let know that all i am just one mother of many others who nervous. This is not a tract on Freudian any questions, they didn't show up, When
our teenagers are not hippies or dropouts really appreciated it and I'm sure the sexual symbolism..It. .is merely a middle- we were up at the crack of noon, not
but do care for others. others have tried to say thank you one way aged man trying to express his astonish- expecting them, they were buzzing the
They have taught crafts to these smaller or another. ment at the variegation of the human doorbell at 8:30, tike hornets, I report, not
ones that some mothers do not have. the Sincerely, species. happily, but just as an observer, that they
time to spend on because they either are One very pleased mother of a pre-schooler, Once again. I drift into one of those were all stung severely by a number of
remote channels that end up in` a'swamp. hornets in our roof and environs.
Why not stick to the main stream? Back to Then there was the Scotsman. He is a
• our summer. visitors. There are two ' physiotherapist. Boy, that's a hard word to
categories: those who caught us at home, spell. He wanted work, after hours, so he
�— — —p and those who did not. could buy a house. I was rather intrigued
Agri -notes Those in the latter category came around by the idea that a young man actually
when we n•ere out doing something exotic, wanted" to work. And then there was my
like shopping. Or at night, when we were bad back, which comes in handy very
(By Adrian Vos) cringing in the TV room. lights out, doors often. He's an excellent gardener, and our
locked. phone off the hook, arguing about place looks better than it has in a decade.
whether we'd watch the John Wayne 1940 But there, i've run out of space, and I
western or the Audrey Hepburn 1953 haven't even told you'of the party in our
That hullabaloo raised by tune of ten million dollars. Not producer a profit. If the quota dazzler, backyard for retarded adults, or the hellery
uninformed city news editors and one red cent has been paid by the system was used to rip off the Among these were txvo people who left of my grandbaby. He has just arrived •
radio commentators sdmetimes government. consumer it would be a different notes. One was Doris Humphries, a lively ., again, and i can hear him shouting
makes me think that the farmer story, but every business has .a columnist in the Renfrew Mercury. "Darn downstairs for Bill, or somebody who
As has been the custom for you, Bill Smiley. 1 came all the way from understands that when he's asleep,he is
will never be able to get a fair years, the Canadian government right to a profit, provided that Renfrew...•' Sorry. Doris. I'll buy ou a ure angel, and when he's awake, he's
hearing unless • maybe he is buys food for hungry countries. in business is run efficiently, y p g
willing to spend a few million the past they have bought * * * * * * dinner next time. I read your.column every pure devil.
dollars each year on a public chickens and white beans and 1 just read in the daily paper j.r J I__!_LJ p,J L_11 LJf
relations program. Since that wheat etc Now the bou ht e s h m m� 1j u l l • - -
money would have to come from
the prodtit�ts , sold to the
consumef, it most likely would
raise anew crjt'of'being the cause
-of high 'food routs.
I refer to file cty about 9 million
eggs having rdti+ed in Quebec:
. lit: etiriou9 faet is that always the
price is quoted per dozen or per
e -0 30 doben, t4ow it is not
eas i`
25,0 aidg� hitt doe-th"t sound
sensational ehbhght - Then they
ciaiitl that tli,c taxpayer+ �itie fa
th'e'fesl tie ai"lite eggbdard to tl
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So what, nothing new here. The
breaking eggs for the baking
industry are over -quota eggs and
the producer who over produces
can • sell those extra eggs at a
loss. ,o in effect it is he who
'subsidizes the bakeries and
through the • bakeries the
consumer.
But I b et that the bakeries take
a profit on those below cost eggs.
But"then,.there's nothing. wrong
with making a profit. That's the
whole idea of quotas, to give the
L at some turkey producers are
killing their young turks, because
it costs more to feed them than
they will return. A while ago an
Alberta pork producer shot his
weaner pigs for the same reason,
Two Japanese pork producers
went a step further than that.
They killed themselves because of
low prices by lying down on the
railroad tracks when the train was
due. Apparently the Japanese
government didn't like the mess
and gave the surviving pork men
more assistance.
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"Our Forefathers should have had stricter imudgra-
tion Iavgs."
SEPTEMBER lst,.1899
Wm. Cudmore of Kippen left on a
business trip to the Old Country.
Miss Maggie Daly of Egmondville has
been engaged to take charge of a school in
Logan.
Monday, next, bsitrg Labor Day, will be
observod as a public holiday. The band and
firemen go jto Stratford to compete in a
celebration there.
Loftus Starji of town has moved his
tailoring establishment to the store
formerly occupied by Casey & Co.
Miss Nellie Devereaux returned to
Toronto where she resumes her position In
the T. Eaton Co.
A boot black hag,struek the place and is
setting up a chair on Main St.
Swamp fires are raging in the vicinity of
Hensall, the dry weather of -the past
month, making it impossible to check
them.
Thos. Welsh of Hensall is getting in
brick for the erection of his fine block
adjoining the Odd Fellows Hall.
The Stanley Branch Agricultural Society
have appointed F.A.Edwards of Bayfield
as treasurer.
The first auction sale of the season was
held at E.L. Farnhams on Tuesday. Prices
for cows were from $48.00 to $51,00.
Thomas Brown of Seaforth was the
auctioneer.
Robert McMillan, son of John -McMillan
M.P. met with a very painful accident. He
had gone to the stables and had apparently
been kicked in the face by one of the horses
and rendered unconscious. The animal
must have -tramped on him. His lower jaw
was fractured and his neck and arm badly
cut.
AUGUST 29th, 1924
Good progress is being made with the
petition requestiong•e'xtension of the hydro
to the village of Bayfield. The power will be
brought from Clinton, a dozen or to miles
away.
The hydro -plane "Detroit", which has
been in the river at Bayfield for some time,
came to grief when it landed on the surface c
of the water just outside the river mouth.
A marshmallow roast under the auspices
of "The King's Daughters" was held at
the h ome of Mr. and Mrs. James
Simmons. About 40 young people
attended.
Miss Shier and Mrs. Jessie Flett of town
are attending the millinery openings in
Toronto.
J. E. Keating of town moved into the
pretty cottage on•Goderich Street which he
recently purchased froom Mrs. Arch Scott.
Mr -and Mrs. W.A.Crich have returned
from a very pleasant trip through the
Thousand Islands.
Howard Kerr, of town, has accepted a
position on the staff of the Gait Collegiate.
: Reid Edmonds of town has taken a
school at St. George.
Fire was discovered in the , mill of the
Canadian Flax Company and almost before
an alarm could be turned in the whole
interiorwas a mass of flames. Four -years
ago the same mill was destroyed by fire but
was shortly rebuilt and equipped with,new
and modern machinery.
The 'old building on the north side of
Goderich St. behind the D.D.Wilson Egg.
Emporium, was torn down this week by
Louis Eberhart who purchased the site and
intends erecting a residence on it. It was
erected by the late Samuel Stark. . The
building west of it, now occupied by
T.Sharp, as a blacksmith shop, is another
old land mark. `'f
Miss Delaney of .�Dublip, has been V;
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engaged as teacher in No. 8 School,
McKillop. While Owen Flynn and his
wife of Hullett, and Miss Ella Evans of
Beechwood were driving west on the
Huron Rd. they were injured and their
buggy demolished by an auto going east,
driven by two. -Stratford men.
Walter Pickard, 12 years old, died
following severe burns received when
gasoline which he and his brother were
taking from a tank exploded. He was the
second son of Mr. and Mrs. Walt er_
Pickard, former well known residents of
Seaforth.
SEPTEMBER 2,1949
Sale of the Van Egmond residence,
owned by Earl Van Egmond to Wilson C.
Oke, Windsor was announced this week.
Donated by Dr. E.A.McNfaster, sound
atgplifying equipment was installed in
irst Presbyterian Church.
A bolt of lightning iOstantly killed a team
of horses belonging to Wm. J. Manley,
McKillop Township, Mr. Manley, road
superintendent was bringing a load of
wood from his bush at the time.
Larry Elliott was injured when he fell off
a trailer and was partially run over by one
of the wheels. -.
Violent summer storms broke up the
golden jubilee celebrations at. White'
School, Tuckersmith. Mrs. Robert Simpson
is the teacher. Praise for community spirit
was voiced by the oldest former teacher,
Miss Jeah Murray of Hensall.
Ken Doig left for Scotland and will fly
from Mal on to -Perth where he will play "
with
hockey a Scottish -team.
Mr. and Mrs,Geo. Hildebrand moved
into the residence they purchased from
Y
L.P.Plumst eel, while Mr. Plumsteelahas
taken an apartment in Mrs. W.J.Walker's
residence. %
Mr. and Mrs.R.S.McDonald are moving
into the apartment recently occupied
by Edwin. J'Hawkins on Victoria St.
-An unsuspected talent from burlesque
popped up in Bayfield when Bayfield
summer theatre offered to a packed
audience the Wackiest bill in these parts
for many a day.
CromartyP resb'
yterian Sunday School
held a picnic at the Lions Park, Seaforth
with 75 persons attending. It was under the
direction of the teachers. Hotel Hamilton
had charge of the sports.