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SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY 16, 1975
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Housecleaning needed ?
00, 40 Sugar and Spice
By. Bill Smiley
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Seaforth's first woman mayor /set
out some pretty worthwhile objectives
in her inaugural speech last week. We
would hope that every councillor
would take time, as Mayor Cardno
obviously did, to think about the year
and the years ahead for Seaforth and
to give priorities to the improvements
ffi-it our town. needs.
-Mayor Cardno said 'we must work
at maintaining good relations with our
surrounding rural municipalities.
This is a must now that is as crucial as
it has been all through the town's 100
year history. More than 100 years
ago, the towns around here came into
being at least partly because the
blossoming farming country in Huron
needed a trading area. Our
interdependency is stilt important.
The mayoralso mentioned the need
for completion of sewer facilities to
serve thewhole town , and a
permanent - solution to the now
inadequate town .dump. Council will
have .to make up -'pits mind to
continually prod provincial authorities
to get the approval required for both
these projects..
Continuing her inventory of
Seaforth's needd,..the.rriayor cited the
day care centre, more senior citizens'
apartments, improyernents to -the
industrial park And4enoptions to the
arena and the :town .All these,
thing& jare'illifiti011itofrand .. their
successful completion Would ,add
something to the lives of Seaforth
citizens of all ages. '
It will take a lot of hard work on .
council's part to become
knowledgeable about all these
improvements, and. see them
through. Perhaps at the beginning of
their two year term they should give
some thought to- improving , and
streamlining the way they conduct
theirbusiness so that they can afford
to spend time on more than routine
business.
Traditionally the local town council
meets once per month; committee
meetings are held 'once per month
and recommendations of the various
committees go to the council
meetings for approvai.,
Fhis monthly general meeting often
seems to become a bit unwieldy as
councillors spend, time at jokes and
chit chat and repeat their views on .the
subject under discussion over and
over: All this extraneous activity,
which doesn't help council to come to
decisions, also stretches council
Dear Sir:
You are awai:e, no doubt, that the theme
for the nationwide observance of National
Education Week on Smoking is - "Non-
Sinokefs Have Rights Too!" The dates are
January 11-18, 1975. •
We are making an .effort to acquaint our
community with the •scientific evidence
which 'shows that cigarette smoke- can be
harmful to non-smokers. Studies in smoke
filled rooms indicate that the level of
carbon monoxide may be in excess of the
legal limits for aif pollution. Exposure td
such concentrations of CO, can be a hazard
to people- suffering 'from allergies, heart
and respiratory conditions.
`Many people with none of the above
conditions are discomforted by tobacco
• smoke, So It Is increasingly important tO
protect non-smokers,- especially in
enclosed public pidces, public conveyances
And in Mirky Work situations. Smoking and
ilealthWeek ishould be considered
• "CondicleintiOrt Week" ... consideration of
non Who may be discomforted by
• tobaccd striae.
We. -have gsked the co-operation of
'municipal eild .etibefy councils in the area
proclaiming' the Week l'flOrk,Smokingft
.• or ''Consideration Week." We hope they
will ratify the "Noh-Srdokers Bill of
ti
meetings out to midnight and beyond.
In Exeter, where SONS vice-
principal Bruce Shaw won election as
mayor, council has been enthusiastic
about adopting some new procedures
to make their work easier. They sound
helpful to us and perhaps the current
Seaforth council could considdr
making some innovations in the name 2
of more efficiency too.
Council meetings in E5ketef;There
are two per month) will start at 7 and
end at 10. Seaforth's start at 8 and are
' supposed to end at 11 but frequently
extend to beyond midnight.
One•of the most important reforms
in E)50ter will be an attempt to permit
each council- member to speak only
once Oh-"dadh issue. This would
certainly cut out a lot of needless
repitition and hopefully encourage
local councillors to think out carefully
what they plan, to say, instead of
spurting out, random comments. After
their first "speech':, councillors in
Exeter must get permission from the
chairman to address council a second
time on the same subject.
Chairmen of_ council committees
have been urged to give written .
reports tO -t.he general council
meetings, and to look at
correspondence before the meetings
,„1„,„4,9 titattpey can give apdvte,ls ,op,„Int.pdt
pertains, .to .their oornOttees.4-;:,
shAV,1
the plan to his council said he hopes ,
'the informality Of cOundil sessions
would not be lost. We would have the
same hope ,for Seaforth. But it is
possible to be informal and still get
things done.
AccOrding to the Exeter Time's
Advocate, several veteran cOuncillors
hold great hope, for the new approach
to getting their council business done.
We hope that SeaforthCouncil would
think over the need for -reforms here.
It is much too easy to get caught up
in the trivia, the sheer mass of things
that any council has to consider and to
lose sight of the whole. A council with-
no time 'for planning and thtetking
ahead cannot serve Seaforth or any
town well.
A more efficient council 'set up -
might -also help conquer* the
frustration, the. feeling of getting
nowhere that municipal politicians'
often express. "I think we can do an
efficient as well as a conscientious job
while at the same time feeling a sense
of accomplishment" was how
Exeter's new mayor expressed it.
Rights" forwarded to them.
We regret that one of the Town Councils
has denied-tile „proclamation and has
criticized this type of preventive
programme. This programme would cost
us very little and our hard working
Education Committee still believes that
"an ounce of prevention-is worth a pound
of cure".
Our Association is composed of
voticerned citizens from all areas of the two
counties. They give many volunteer hours
to the Association arid its Work. The
implied criticism of their judgment is
unjustified. Funds are not spent on
publicity per se. 'Each committee plans
programmes to aid all our people. either
directly or indirectly and in order to make
programnies worthwhile, a Coming Event
type of publicity is used. We do not receive
any governnient grants and charitable gifts
received are• budgeted to Am.. best of
representatives ability. At our Annual
Meeting all are InVited to hear reports of
the "'stewardship of funds.We also
enedurage .iiiiits to' our office to glean the
extent of our activities. Pot example, the
programme the Council Mentioned above
-suggested, has been in effect for
approximately she years, to the extent
Midge/ will allow.
This is the time of the year for "OUT
with the old, in with the new." I honeitly
did try to do this. But it was hopeless. I got
bogged down,right up to the navel, in my
first attempt to get rid of the old.
I decided,. as my year-end project, to
clean up my writing desk. -This may sound
simple, a mere 15 minutes of sorting and
tidying. But you are not acquainted with
my writing desk.
Perhaps you remember the myth about
Hercules cleaning Out the Augean stables.
They were filled with cattle, hadn't been
cleaned in decades and there was a
veritable mountain of, you-know-what. A
formidable task: He did it without even.
using pitch-fork. He diverted the flow of
two rivers through the stables, and they
were cleansed.
That wasi5 child's play compared -.-to,
cleaning off my desk, and also I am no
Hercules. '
On each side of my typewriter sits a
teetering stack of papers .that reaches
approximately to my head, when I am
sitting at my machinel-, Huddled between
them, like a 'sparrow between two huge
tomcats, squats the typewriter.
Occasionally, one of the piles, like a
glacier, slides majestically to the floor. My
wife picks,up the mess, and muttering
under her reath, jams it bacIt on the desk.
,or even the( main reamgx
,ftel-s,,firbilterit,b4idi4470,Canytlikigkthere,
the piles are tWO-feet high. I do allow her to
dust the front of the desk, where the
-drawers are.
Trouble is, she's so annoyed she piles
the stuff back in any old order. This-causes
a problem when I decide to clear the desk
at year's end. •
I pick up the first letter. It is from a
farmer's wife, complimenting me on my
stand for the beef farmer. It is deated 1962.
That suggests that the last time I cleaned
my desk was in 1961.
It also poses questions. What was my
stand en the beef fariner in 1962? I'll bet it
was a little sweeter than my attitude
toward sirloin steak prices today. Was the
letter ever answered? Who knows? So I put
it in the stack labelled Who Knows. This
turns out to be the biggest of the many
piles I lay out on the floor.
The other piles bear such esoteric labels
as : To Be Dealt With — Sometime: Needs
Further Study; Look Into This: Silly Old
'Cranks; To Be Answered Definitely In The
- New Year; Complimentary; Over The Hill;
and so on. The second largest stack is
called Miscellaneous .because I don't know
where else to put these items.
Under the last item go such things as: a
passport application form; a bill from the
Strand Palace, London, England; -.a
Christmas card from my insurance agent; 'a
test for Grade' 11; an offer to do the Smiley
family tree for only $3.00 (must have been
ApproximaTely 'sixty percent of adults
ale non-smokers! W-e hope Councils in the
area will•help these• involuntary victims of
tobacco smoke to obtain the right to a.alean
and -healthy environment!
Yours very truly,
Mrs .Beryl Davidson,
Executive Director,
Hu on-Perth TB and
Respiratory Di ease Association.
Farm record
analysis is
novs, -available
Sir:
Re: Ontario Farm Record Book Analysis
It is farm record book analysis time
again. Anyone wishing—to have Aheir
completed 1974 Farm Record Book
a small family); and a reminder that I am
due at veteran's hospital for a chest X-ray
(which I forgot all about).
I have a very definite way of handling
these piles„ Miscellaneous I put back o
„the. desk'. Over The Hill, which contai
anything more than six years old, goes into
the wastebasket, as does Silly Old Cranks,
a very slim stack °netters from ridiculous
people who don't-agree with me.
Needs Further Study goei back on the
desk, right on "top of 'Miscellaneous. Look _
Into This goes back on the desk on top of
Needs Further Study. Next on the growing
pile on the desk goes To Be Dealt With —
Sometime.
Then I lift the whole pile and slide
underneath it, right at the bottom, if you'll
pardon the expression, To Be Answered
Definitely In The New Year.
And then, carefully and delicately, I
place, on top 'of the pile the stack labelled
Complimentary. This contains the letterS I
'have received from those splendid,
intelligent people who admire my wife or
kids or column.
Yes, I know they should be thrown out.
But surely you wouldn't deny a chap a little
ointment for his ego, any more than you
would begrudge an old lady a seat in the
chimney corner, where the fire can -warm
her. r vos
'The piles beside the typew▪ riter,arq
only a foot and a half high, and it tiffs
a day and a half to sort them. This may not
seem like progress to you, but Rome
wasn't built in a day, as some idiot once
• remarked.
_ One good thing came out of this year's
sorting. I remembered that I had received a
letter from Barry Broadfoot, author of Ten
Lost Years, a compelling book about the
depression. l'sl,Wriften a column aboUt it.
No. I couldn't find his letter. It must
have wandered into the Miscellaneous or
somewhere. But the memory of his letter
made me remember that I'd had at least
ten letters from all over the country, and
the Stat'es, asking where a copy might be
obtained. No, I couldn't find these letters
either.
But the memory of them reminded me of
what Barry Broadfoot wrote in his letter.
He's writing another book called The ,
Pioneer Years, and he wondered if I would
ask in my 'column for the names of
oldtimers who were spry and interesting,
so that he could interview them.
So there you ar e, everybody-Send the
names of spry, interesting oldtimers, of
either sex, to Barry Broadfoot, care of
Doubleday Publishers, 105 Borid St.,
Toronto, Ont. M5B 1Y3. And the same
people will be happy to provide you with a
. copy of Ten Lost Years.
There. My first good deed for 1975. Arid
that's going to cost you, Brother Broadfoot.
Crown Royal will .do.
analyzed should direct it to our office prior
to Febrdary 15th. However, we would-
appreciate -having as many as possible
turned in during early January.
As before, the -completed farm record
book will not be leaving our office,
therefore, it will be available to you at' any
time. The checking of the book will be done
by our local st aff and a summary card
forwarded to the computer- at Guelph for
analysis. (It takes approximately one day to
check each book and do the transfers).
Your book may be brought to the office
or mailed in. If you are in the office, be
sure to pick up a new record book - or we
will mail you a 1975 record book -upon
request,
If you would \like assistance on the book
while you work, please call , for an
appointment. Every farmer in Huron
County who has completed an Ontario
Farm Record Book in 1974 is welcome to
make use of the "no fee" analysis service.
.Yours very truly,
D.S.Pulleq, P.Ag.,
Agri cultural Representative
for Ilttrpn COuntV.
JANUARY 5th, 1900
The muncipal elections in McKillop
resulted as fellows: , Reeve, James i
Lockhart; Couneillors,,Alen Gardiner, John r
G. Grieve, James 0.Laughlin, Archibald •
McGregor. In Seaforth, 'Mayor, John A.
Wilson; Councillors, M.Y.McLean, James
Beattie, 'Ala Davidson, .Noble' auff,
James Gillespie, A.P.Joynt. In
`Tuckersmith, Reeve Peter McKay;
Councillors, Win. Chapman ' Sr... Wm.
Elgie, Henry Horton, James Gemmill. -
John McLeod and George Sanderson of
Bayfield have leased the skating' rink from
Jowett Bros.
Mr;,,,. and Mrs. Andrew Swan of
Brucefield were pleasantly surprised 'on
New Years day by receiving twohandsome
easy chairs, a gift from .their family.
The first horse fair for this season was
held -in. Seaforth. There was a large crowd
of people in town.
Things are commencing to look like
business around the Seaforth saw mills as
Mr. Watson is getting in a good lot of logs.
The old and well known legal firm of
barrow and Praidtbot of Goderich, have
dissolved partnership. Mr. Proudfo'ot goes
into partnership with R.G.Hays.
Miss Nettie Wilson of town goes to
Peterboro where She will open. a class in
domestic science, •
Mr. Eggert:of the 9th Concession of
McKillop, was firing a grand salute on New
Year's morning with a shot gun when the
piece exploded breaking his arm.
Archie Towers and Miss Lizzie Towers of
Farquhar when returning• from a party at
D, McLaren's were thrown out of the cutter
into the ditch by their horse shieing off.
Mrs. Wm. ChapMan .,,.of the 2nd
concession of Tuckersmith passed' away.
She was taken ill 'while sitting in the store ,
of A.G.Ault. .
Rodrich McLellan of Montreal, spent
Ne'wyears here with his mother. he has
prospered since leaving Egrnondville, and
holds a' good position in•the fur business.
) JANUARY 9th, 1925
The municipal elections results for
Tuckersmith were as follows: Reeve,
• RolandKennedy; Councillors, R.P. Watson,
M.. Clark, S:T.Elgie, J.G.Crich. For
McKillop - Reeve F.J.McQuaid (acct.;
Councillors, John Dodds, Bruce Medd,
-_, Ed. Horan, Dan Regele.
Mrs.- J.H.Scott is now in Seaforth
Hospital, suffering from the effects of a
rifle bullet.
Robert Staples of Killarneyr-Man, is
home to see his'mother. It is 29 years'since
he was home and he is the owner of 800
acres of land.
Wm. Decker of Zurich sold his well -'
known show team of general purpose greys
to John Scott o Milton. .
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ItOldOtt Wiios" tatoved -
and disabled soldiers in Christie St.
Hospital. ,
Duff's Church, Walton, voted in church
union and resulted in a large majority 4or
union.
Miss Marjorie Reid and Olive Bolger of
School. 'left to attend Stratford Normal
. .
A pretty wedding was solemnized in St.,
Andrew's Church, Kippen, when Anna
Ethel Elgie, was united in marriage to
Homer Selwyn Hunt of McKillop. -
What has been known as the Sterling
Bank in Hensall, is now the Standard Bank,
with no change in its staff.' .
The service in First Presbyterian Church
on Sunday evening last was of an entirely
different nature, cogsisting mainly in the
giving of a sacred. Christmas Cantata by
the choir.
There was a keen contest for the
Reeveship of Hullett, when the vet eran
Reeve, Matt. Armstrong, who has held the
office for the past nine years went down to
defeat at the hands of Robert Clark
JANUARY 6th, 1950
Reeve' Athur • Nicholson was re-elected
Reeve of Tuckesmith for his seventh term
in a' heavy vote.
Mrs. Margaret Wright, was 90 years of
age on January 1st. She enjoys good
health, and greatly appreciates being
remembered with cards and gifts by
friends.
The property of the estate of the late
Robert P. Bell, has been sold through the
office of E.C.Chamberlain to John C.
Cornish, who receives possession early in
the 'spring.
Drilling in the 'hope of finding oil, has.
now
on the farm of Herbert Allen, 6 miles from
beenvvaiton carried down more than 700 feet .
Miss Doris Broadfoot, of Sarnia, and
Miss Margaret Broadfoot, and Ronald Cox
of Pickering were New 'tears guests of Mr.
and Mrs. James McClure of Winthrop.
The newly erected Hay Township
Memorial Community Hall', and the
A.C."Bahe" Siebert Memorial Arena was
opened. The total cost was $40,000 and the
arena seats 1000 persons.
Malcolm MacLeod of Ba3rfield had the.
Misfortune to have , his hand badly torn
while out hunting.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at the
United 'Church'manse., Hensall, when
Margaret Florence Welsh became the
bride of Thos. Cleveland Joynt of Hensel,
su,dTdheenrely, passed awayccawarroay ninin Lhuisck7niodiw yveearry.
He was connected with the flax business
and lived on the farm now owned by Harold
Jackson.
The funeral of the late Duncan IvieXellar
of Cromarty, who passed away following a
hceeamrtetparytta. ck was held from his late
residence. Interment was made in Staffa
The Christmas ' entertainment 'of the
Egitiondville United Church was a huge
success. • Rev. A.W.Gardiner was the
chairman. Mr. and Mrs.Walker Hart Sang
a duet while James M. Scott showed
picutres of his recent trip to England,
Scotland and France':
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To the Editor
Non-smokers rights promoted this week
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