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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-01-30, Page 2been through the office with chocolates and `cigars. Liz won't be hack at the Expositor for awhile . . . we've told her to take it easy at least until next week's paper is ready to put together! And then for a half an hour Wednesday afternoon. the lights went gut. ********** How many people cep prescription drugs And patent medicine, and poisonous cleaning fluids for that matter. in locked cupboards? Probably not very many, right? A small incident the other day pointed out to us just how important it is that all these potential poisons be kept not only out of a child's reach, but locked up. All it takeS to poison a child is one swallow or a handful of pills. We have an old pine cupboard in` our house that doubles as a medicine chest.That in itself is a hazardous Situation but since we have no small children in the ' house we have never thought much about it. One morning last week a container with a few pills in it evidently fell out of the cupboard onto th'e floor. When we got up we discovered our dog chewing happily on an empty, capless broken up pill container. It looked as if he hadt already eaten the pills. From a quick call to the veterinarian we learned that the small number of pills that we thought had been in the container probably wouldn't hurt our fairly large sized dog. "If he Sleeps a lot and ig hard to wake u p today, "inr-i4 him in to have his stomach pumped", the vei said. This story luckily has a happy ending. We looked round some of the dogs favourite hideouts and fotind several pills and the cap to the pill container buried in a thick rug. He probably licked the pills and didn't like their taste, But the pills were in trae' sort of hard to open, ''child .proof" container that is supposed to eliminate this sort of acoident. It occurred to us that if a dog could get at the pills simply by cracking the centainer apart, a child could too. • A good stomp with a child's foot could crack open the vial and allow a little person to get at the pills; and still leave the "child prod'' lid on tight. It could happen when the parent is sleeping or out of the room and wouldn't have a clue their child had gotten into anything until it was too late, So. child proof lids aren't the whole answer; we still have to use a lot of caution ourselmes. It's not wotth having an accidental `poisoning 'to find • out that medicines should be . locked,up when there are small children (or nosy dogs) around. Web • OP Ptiblished at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher- SUSAN WHITE. Editor • Member Canadian Community Newspaper Assocciation Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation The anguish of the hungry SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JANUARY -39, 1975 Uni Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 ' , Telephone 527-0240' Since 1860, Serving the CoMmunity First Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year. • {di I „S1107 shadows • "choir. The best part is that it is paid for and furnished and the congregation has a surplus. Township John with a racoon-skin coat and also an excellent dress for Mrs.. built with white brick. It has a gallery and is designed for a people of one of his stations called Borne.Several sleigh loads of them came to his residence at Varna and presented him Osborne, is a tructure 34 x 48 with a basement underneath all The Bethesda Bible Christian Church,. Township of Ist. M. Danby• of Varna was happily surprised by the C. Copeland of Cranbrook has "'been appointed auditor and Alex McNair, Treasurer. JANUARY 29,1875 D. Stewart & Co. have sold their woollen and shingle factory in BlueVale to MesSrs. Blodgett and Dozynd the village of Listowel for $1500,00. The annual report of the Seaforth Board' of the Public School Trustees for 1874 gives some interesting statistics. The year commenced with five teachers but owing to the increased attendance it was found necessary to employ, a sixth. The Salaries of these teachers in the aggregate amounted to .S2060. ' The tea:Meeting held in the Town Hall in connection with the Episcopel Church of town was highly successful in every 'respect. Mayor Armitage occupied the chair. alev. M. Rose was the first speaker. He was followed by Mr. Dyol and Mr. , Cutler tendered the thanks of the meeting to all who had contributed. We regret to record a painful accident which occurred to Thos, Walker of Morris. While engaged in a geed-natured wrestle with Watson Amley in IParkers Hotel, Mr. Walker fell and one of his legs was broken near the ankle. At the last meeting of the Seaforth. Council, S.• Stark was appointed assessor: .lames Hart, collector, J. - Duncan. Treasurer, Wm. Elliott has been re-appointed clerk. John Wilson, S. Kennedy and Thos. Adams were appointed fence viewers. The appointment of niarket clerk has yet to be made,,., The council of Tuckersmith met pursuant to statute when the following took office: - G:E.Cresswell. Reeve; David Walker, Deputy Reeve; James Lang, Wm. Sproat and' James McDonald. Councillors and Wm, McConnell was appointed Clerk. Wm. Logan of the Township of Grey, while on a visit to friend Francis Anderson Of Mitchell, was suffocated by a piece of meat lodged in his throat. In the Year! Agone The headlines speak of an imminent calamity. But for many, the tragedy already is all too real. "Anguish of the hungry is spreading across India;" said the New York Times the other day.. In London, speaking on the eve of the Rome Food Conference,• Professor George Allen of the University of Aberdeen warned of a food crisis that is threatening to engulf the poorest of the wort 's nations. India, Professor len believes, could be facing a famine on a scale of .1943 Bengal disaster when 2,500,000 died of starvation. Amid all this gloom there was at- least one ray of hope. It seems that U.S. -policymakers have reached general agreement on the need to set up the world's first international grain stockpile. Initially, it will be in the range of 30 million to 60 million tons, and its prime aim would be to ensure stable prices, and to have enough food on hand to cope with We have reached a stage when words such as mutual benefit and interdependence have begun to mean something. They are 'no longer iu61 the rhetoric of politicians and diplo- mats. And this is why Canada takes very sertelisiSrits airoOmMitThents both development astistalnce, _oft. a bilateral basisi, and multi-lateral aid channelled'thairtlythroUgil ttae Wdrld" „_.rBank. Today, apart from the economic - mess that has resulted from soaring oil and food prices and the resulting inflation, donor countries face a problem that can only get worse: Do they continue giving aid to bomb- builders? West German Development Aid Minister Egon Bahr already has said his country should stop all economic aid to India if it decides to build a nuclear bomb. He put his point quite plainly. , Developing countries were free to decide their own affairs without any outside interference. By the same token, industrial countries had the same right. They were • We've had a busy week at the Expositor. As a matter of fact. it's a minor miracle that we got a paper out at all this week. It still isn't out as this is being written but editors are always optimistic. First of all last week our very valued staff member, Wilma Oke had a heart attack and she will be in Seaforth Community Hospital for some time yet. We miss you Wilma and wish you a speedy recovery. Then another staff member was called away to Nova Scotia over the weekend because of the illness of her mother. With a couple of kind people who agreed to help us out on very short notice, we're filling their paces temporarily. All week here, too, we've been moving partitions and expanding offices and changing around the way we do things and as a result nobody really knows quite where everything is. To top off an eventful and beetle week, Tuesday a third valued staff ratmber called in. to say that she was sick and couldn't rtiake it in. "beret worry, Ill be in YerliteSday", she said. this particular staff mettiber, Lin' Watson, didn't intake it in 'Wednesday because tie-Way night, following her first detY Ciff'Sverk., She 'had a baby girl its Strattard , to endi Mother and Six piattnii Sadie (3 Week§ ahead of Schedule) ate • the., CongratulatiOnS Liz and fitittionti: Bob whit has already emergency situations in needy lands. The concept of a kind of World Food Bank has been debated, for years, and has the support of many Canadians. For one thing, if taken seriously, it should take politics right out of food aid. The purpose of the stockpile is to feed the hungry, no . matter who or where they are. There will be many problems, not . the least of 'which., will be storage space. Some argue it will be difficult to store the grain in many of the poorer nations because they do not have the facilities. What is more, much grain is lost to pests and vermin, or simply rots, owing to inadequate storage. Then one can ask whether even 60 million tons is enough for an emergency in a world of four billion people. Certainly a much larger food stockpile will be needed in due course. At least a 'beginning has been made. (Contributed) therefore free to apply their own criteria to granting or stopping foreign aid. To a hungry' Indian, living at subsistence levels,' this sounds cruel land arrogant. But because nuclear protiferatiun Wren " of the great- dangers to the very.,,e,xi§tencec of mankind, Mr. Bahr.'sbweraiLna.tstrould be heeded by leaders of poor lands' as well as rich. Recipients 'of aid like India, whose food grain harvest will be about 10 per cent below the target this year, are unwise to taunt donor countries, by •going ahead with nuclear experi- Ments expecially if they turn out to be nuclear military tests. What mutual benefit does Canada'gain by helping India to nuclearize its defenses? Interdependence means caring for and sharing with others -- sharing food and shelter and educa- tion. But nesharing the materials that,lead to possible nuclear destruc- tion. Bomb-builders should not get aid. (Contributed) No aid for bomb-builders Something Something to say (By Susan White) Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley To the Editor • Or something like that. And they were off. They tried it on sortie of their friends, and the result was a collection of puns that even Shakespeare would have blushed at. All you need is • a knowledge of geographical terms and a total inability to ••• blush at the atrocious puns you produce. Some of your friends will undoubtedly try, if I know people, to turn it into a pornographic geographic pawl:Ids is almost unavoidable, 'because there.are a lot of people with dirty minds, unlike you and me. • These excrescences otthe face of our pure and bland society'lVill'Icome up with filthies like Sunapha Beach, the State of NympOomailia in whiol we nd a mountaid_ called MciliS POWild a `ci,4604') labelled Shewor Forest, pa414 attentig&to them. Perhaps what you should do is partition your guests into groups, give each group a geographical term, and see what happens. Thus, you might say to one group: "O.K., your topic is bays, Let',s hear some bays." So you get such items as Hound-dog 13nky4, and Stagat Bay and Brought To Bay. To another group, you submit streams, hand they Supply such Boozers as Uptha Creek: Niktha Creek andi Sleau", Burn. if there's an alcy in the citowd, he might suggest Live R. AT the basis of this body of water.is Font of Life, and running off from the main river are Minna Rills. In there somewhere you will find Compression Speings. Madam:. • Vve just returned home after a Month our Seaforth Hospital. I just felt I had to say how impressed I was with the_ patient treatment. It was excellent.' I feel sure the people of Seaforth and district who have access to our hospital, don't half appreciate n hat a wonderful hospital it is. The administration doctors, office personnel, staff, the R.N's and R.N.A's., Lab and X 7 Ray• technicians, the therapist; candy stripers, dietition. cooks and all others conneeteciAth the hospital who keep it running So smoothly are truly wonderful people. Their cheerful co-operation is outstanding, We should all be very proud of Our hospital which due to hard es_vork, perseverance and co-operation of doctors, administration, -Hospital Board and Auxiliary. as well as everyone, workingkin.,..„,, the hospital from top to bottom, and front to back has recently earned a 3 year Accreditation, which is unusual in a hospital this size and very hard -to come by. We should all he most anxious to Support it and help in every way we can volunteer and otherwise. My thanks to everyone connected with my stay in the hospital artd,also to visitors and friends who sent flowers, cards and other gifts. But not as much as you'll suffer when your guests get into the swing of things, and start producing 'such items as 'Melon Coulee and Sherbet Shore. They'll suffer enough le the next world for contriving Stich monstrosities as Take Peak, Itsa Butte, Para Buttes and Maka Pass. Oh, they'll suffer, The other replied solemnly: "Yes, Dire Straits separate Tierra bel Freakout from the Cape of Good Dope., Came across a new party game recently, and thought you might like to try it on your guests. It all ,began with some friends of ours who like to play with words and create wild . puns. They had a hit of a problem and one said to the other: "We seem to be in dire, straits." • Reader praises hospital • On the map is a kingdom called Kingdom of Kum (ruled by King Klimact Eric) and above that is a smaller adjunct called Higher In Kum, and b, aw it another called Lower In Kum. , On that map is an island called Nomanison Island (the poet. Donne). on which is a lighthouse called Gotta Light and a cape called Cape Waukln. All we need is a Bullfighter's Cape. Someone drew cities, so that on the map we have Greater Kappa City and, in small print Lesser Kappa City. In these cities may be found such things as the Publicv Library, Brut Al Copse (a small wooded area,) and a narrow street labelled Gunman's Mall. Don't go away, it gets worse. In front of me I have a map , showing this, unusual' world, drawn by an excellent cartoonist., who became involved% There are elevated coast lines. These are dubbed Base Cliffs, Treble Cliffs; and the High Coast of Living. Got the• idea? Try it out. I guarantee you'll be ill in twenty minutes. But don't let them pawn off on you such junk as Generation Gap, Parr Gulf, and Cape Porn. Just off the te of Nymp 'oma a ies Kumin Sea, in w ieh are found st E dy and a Current of Ents. Then there arethe' reat blank spaces on the Map. One is entitled Ara Plain, and the other JUst Deserts, d -there-are-hilts- a mint have Kitchen•Range, 0.,atha Duty Cot _ Altpl, Si:1111.1 a ..; 1, k • Nor is mining left out. There is an ancient mine, begun by the Incas,, called Old Pala Mine. Another, Owtafya Mine. There are huge forests dubbed Never Wood, apd,YewsWood, and She Wood, and He'e Wood, and of course, the biggest of all, Y'all Wood. There are points, succinctly titled Getthe Point and Point A Forder. There are clogerous, dirty gr eat rocks looming just off Dire Straits.They ace fearsome to sailors, and no wonder. They are known as Acid Rock and Country Rock, Thher M ge Sound, another Safen Sound. are a couple of sounds, one called There are a couple of depressions, or faults, in the map. One of these is Kronic Depression, the other is Itzer F ault. Some c,nestions I -as a tax payer would like answered: 'Why can't we have sand or salt deposited on our roads when they are icy? 'Why is my street only swept three times a 'year when my taxes are due? Why is the main street lit up like the world fair when other streets in town are ser dark' One could become'lost on the way home from a town hall meeting. You beg people to Serve on your council • .• then give them the big• run around.. Let's groti,' up. , When is this town going to wake up and hire an industrial commissioner? Wecould use some industry. If this is a retirement town then let's all apply to the government for a guaranteed income and then we can all retire. Before I came here- to live I had heard that there was a place by the name of Seaforth but I did not know where it was or anything about it. Let's get busy Seaforth attiferflie rest of the province know who you are and where you are located, instead of standing still as you have been doing for the last hundred years. Douglas-Stewart V. Etue Seaforth J •-•• The annual meeting of the members of the McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held in the Town Hall, Seaforth, The president, J. B. McLean was appointed chairman and Thos. Fraser. St anley, secretary. There were 575 policies issued during the„year and the total number of policies is $2,055. , Several from Farquhar went to Staffa to see and 'hear the celebrated entertainer, cartoonist and lecturer Bengounh, who was there under the auspices of the Forresters. John thOmpson of the Thames Road held a .W8od bee, when a large number of the young men responded, emitting up all the wood assigned to them. • /At night the beauty gathered in, and a very enjoyable time was spent keeping time to the musical strains of the violin until -the early hours of the morning. 'vAatearrrQlotteringn to Win:---FoOtektigttatn- of Tuckersyn eattie's store house in Seaforth, Ill • 'a-4fotpelki;ArtLene load. The 33rd Battalion band has elected the folloWing officers ' for , 1900: President W. McLeod; Vice. President, • J.B.Campbell; Secretary-Treasures T. Murray; Managing Committee W. Smith, E, Dafe'Y and J. Thornton. Whipper-in • W. Smithers. v•-• JANUARY 20, 1925 • The auction sale of Egerton Roe on the 14th ,concession of McKillop, was a most successful cane in every way. Bidding was lively. 50 head of cattle were disposed •of in less than two hours, Thos. Brown was the efficient autioneer. A' number of kind frieltds from the 4th concession of Tuckersmith gathered at the home of the Ite James McGregor and held a wood bee. Mrs. Thos. Chapman of Tuckersmith, lent her spacious home to the teachers . and officers of Union Church, Brucefield, to hold their oyster supper. All went merry until the return trip when one. of the sleigh loads upset. Business seems to be gradually increasing in Brucefield. The merchants are st aeking up in spring and summer goods, John Snider has put in a large stock of harness leather for the • spring drive. _ Hugh Walker of Brucefield shipped a carload of cattle and hogs. Mr. Gillies of Hensall had the misfortune while assisting Oliver Rowcliffe to cut feed on his farm on the London Road'to get his hand .badly cut with the knives. J. F. Daly's garage on Main Street was the centre of interest to many residents from both town and country when a "snowmobile" a new invention for snow travel was here giving a demonstration. The thermometer registered 15 belpw zero on Tuesday and on Wednesday it was 22' below. Reeves Beattie of Seaforth, Kennedy of Tuckersmith-, Clark of Hullett and McQuaid 'of McKillop, are in Goderich attendinu the January session of the County' Couneil, James O'Connell who has been in the Bank of Commerce has been transferred to Strathroy. John Bennett of Alma delivered last week to Wm. Cudmoire of Seaforth, his matched team of heavy horses. - 4' JANUARY 27, 1950 When a chain broke as he was preparing a pump in arwell on the farm of Allister Broadfoot, Tuckersmith, D'Orlean Sills suffered serious injuries to his hand that 'necessitated his removal to the hospital: One finger was broken and another almost severed. Construction of a modern service station and garage on Goderich St. west , at the corner of West William St. commenced this week. The general cotreactor is Joseph T. Hugill of Seaforth. About 200 friends and neighbors of, Mr. and Mrs. Allan, Nicholson, newlyweds of .Tuckersmith, assembled in Cardno's Hall to honor them and present them with a purse of money. Harold Finnegan read the address and Elmer Cameron made the presentation. • Reeve Cecil Johnston of Ashfield Township it was elected Warden of Huron County. P.B.Moffatt, Principal of the Public School in Seaforth for 18 years passed away at his honie after an extended illness. Circle No.' 4 of -Cavan Church met at the home, of Mrs.' James McClure. Mrs. Frank Johnston entertained Circle No. 2 and Mrs. Roy Patrick had Circle No. 3 at her home. T.R.Roe, former accountant of the Seaforth .1,3rAeh of the Canadian Bank of Commerce here, has-laeen appointed manager of the bank's new branch at Dundas and Durinda Sts. Loticlon. • , J. C. Crich, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in town was re-elected at its annual meeting. The death took place of James Edwin Besse in his 33 year. He was the owner of 'the Seaforth Creamery. Joseph L. Maloney, 51, well known McKillop farmct died suddenly at his home east of Beechwood. JANUARY 26, 1900 John Phillips who conducted a-blacksmith shop •for some years. has rented a farm in Hullett. 0 a •