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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1975-02-20, Page 2In the Years Agone . uron ocposi, Since 1860, Serving the Community Fist 4 ' • P011114hed at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning '1;Y MCLEAN BAS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, PUblisher SUSAN WHITE. Editor Winter cornfield Sudar and Spice By Bill Smiley Huron County. I litie)W 11*W YCIU 13001/6 fir /`1E °INIO 7W//SS W0121.0 air 4.4Aer .seito eActr' Attendance at a non-convention • evept, a concert by Canadian folk singer Murray McLaughlin at Massey Hall, was a highlight of the weekend.The excellent sound which wafted up to the cheapest seats in the house, in the second balcony where we were sitting made us really said taht Seaforth's only auditorium pith really good acoustics, Cardno's Hall, lies vacant and unused. But all in all Toronto and the hotel room existence ,was pretty grirri The lovely white snow (it disappears as soon as it 'falls in Tronto), the clean' fresh air and the out of doers life we lead in Huron County made us glad to be back on Sunday. Score Seaforth 10, Toronto 0)• and chalk up another-convert to the country. Everyone's pr6blern SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 20, 1975 Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Associatitin • and Audit Bureau of Circulation s • Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 jlum piled up at the gate. • Sometimes in frustration at finding the dump riot open these people force open the gate and proceed throtigh to the dump. (Nie therg they leave their garbage in random piles instead of in the trenches that are meant to ofd refuse. A seasoned observer of. Seaforth's dump problems says that it will eventually have to' be all fenced in. But then what? then garbage will probably be left strewn around outside the fence. People are apparently taking building materials, things like old brick which takes up a goat deal of room, td the dump when with a little imagination and effort these things could be salvaged and sold for reuse. The money to bring Seaforthrs dump up to stringent Miniatry, of the Environment stn arils is one issue. It will have to Ade resolved by our council. But simply common sense and a careful attitude towards the problem of garbage disposal can go a long way towards" cleaning up our A FEBRUARY The following ad aFppearedArnY 9'8 this issue- "For Egmondville• Presbyterian Church". Presentor wanted "Salary $50 per annum. Apply to Wm. Payne, Egmondville,, P.O." John Maw, of Hullett, sold his imported horse "Crown Prince", to Messrs Sullivan and McLaughlin from Ohio, for $2,000. The recent.cold spell which has done so much to make life a burden during, the past few v•112eks has "let up". " ' John Grieve of Mv,Killop•has sold his farm on Concession 4, to his son, Wm. Grieve for $5,600. The annual seed show under the auspices of the Tuckersznith Branch Agricultural Society was held in the hall and was probably the best, that' has been held here. The following are the names of the judges, John Beattie, Seaforth; James Pringle, Seaforth: A. Strong,' Seaforth; Frank FoWler Sr, Tuckersmith, R. Logan, Seaforth; John Payne , Seaforth; Wm. Murray, Tuckersmith. Oliver Mills, a farmer on the 11th concession of Hullett, went to cut wood in the bush end not returning at the usual time, when he was found lying where he had been working quite dead. He was a man 35 years of age. Messrs. Logan and Jamieson have placed as a sign over the door of their store, a very handsome "Golden Lion". It was manufactured , in Toronto and presents a very good appearance. , Seaforth Encampment No. 27 I.O.O.F. was duly constituted by John Gibson, G. Patriarch assisted by several members of No. 5. Stratford. We are glad to see that the town authorities have prepared for emergency in case of fire by purchasing four Babcock Fire extinguishers and a hook and ladder apparatus at a cost of $550.00. thousands of lives, are a form of population control that was accepted by humanity for centuries. If, the land had to support too many souls, vast numbers starved to death, or died of thirst, or were killed and drowned in storms and floods. Mankind, with its new technology, today can overcome the cruelties of nature on most occasions.. • - But will we conquer nature if we grow from today's figure of 4 billion to 8 billion by early next century? Will the massive international relief operations that were mounted in drought-stricken Ethiopia 'or flooded Bangladesh be enough? Will the hundreds of millions of unemployed wandering the world by. the year 2,000 be content with degradation, and deprivation? Clearly, one must answer NO to these questions. And therefore daily the need to search for meaningful solutions to the population puzzle becomes more urgent. iContriblitAril June Martene R. R.4,Seaforth. • Sy gists yield signs, To 'the Editor: 4 Having done a fair 'amount of driving in McKillop Twp. I am very impressed with the Yield signs going North and South. I feel it would be an excellent safety feature to have Yield signs in all the Townships of The populotion puzzle (By Susan White) Everyone knows that the Town of Seaforth has had its garbage problems. After the visit of a delegation from twon council to a provincial cabinet meeting in Lpndon recently, even 'the cabinet members know about it. Some of the dump problems are monumental and can only be either by the purchase 'of a very expensive incinerator 'or by changes in provincial environment regulations. But what few of us realize Is that many of the problems at the local dump are caused by the carelessness, or failure to think, of ordinary citizens. These are the types who take dead livestock to the dump rather than pay the couple of dollars a. dead stock removal company, faced with a declining market, must charge to haul the ani al away. vr, -- They are the people whO take garbag o the dump on any day but Wednesda Saturday whdn it is open for business. find the'gate to the dump closed• so simply leave their garbage on the dump road or Nothing can be as discouraging as to give long speeches on the need for population control to a conference whose delegates know that, for the time being at least, they are fighting a ,,-.1,0sing battle. ' Yet that is what occurred• at the• August World Population Congress held in Bucharest, Romania. Some delegates implored. Others warned. Quite a number didn't turn up because inflation had eaten into travel budgets. And none who came had a meaningful solution to what is probably the most pressing problem in the world today. , Unless the people in poorer lands tend to follow the example of more affluent nations, where young people are beginning merely to replace themselves by having no more than two 'children in many cases, future generations face a grim prospect. • The recent floods in Bangladesh, for instance, which covered almost half the country and which took To the Editor I think we'll all agree that there is nothing quite so downright miserable and annoying as the person who delights in saying "I told you sd.". Certainly, all married men will agree with me. Most of us know perfectly well that we are poor little lambs who have lost our way, that we have feet of clay and .bones for brains. But we hate being reminded of t. It seems to me that there is nothing more redundant than 'to wake up with a hangover, mouth full of cite bottom of a birdcage, 'head full of porcupine quills, and have a smirking, .self-satisifed voice grating "Well, I warned you, but you wouldn't listen to me." ' Who needs it? Who needs a post- morten , when he is still alive, though bar,. ely? I speak not from experience, of course, buffrom hearsay. Not admissib le in court. After that preamble, I have to admit that I told you so. I told the whole nation so. But nobody listened. It must have been a couple pf nars ago, when I Warned, in no uncertain terms, that the rest of us were going to be .picking' up the tabs for Napoleon 1Drapeau's belief that he is really a reincarnation of the infamous emperor. Or maybe it's Caesar he thinks he is. Cert ainly he is giving us members of the • populace bread and circuses, as Caesar ' did. Mighty light on the bread and heavy on the circuses-. I said it right here, in black and white, that the mayor of Montreal was going to take us for a fast buggy-ride, when he got the Olympic Games.‘For Canada? Don't be silly. For Montreal, The handwriting is now on, the 'wall, loud and clear, And as fast as M. Drapeat rubs it off, or licks it off with his eloquent labial organ,' it reappears. It seems inevitable that you •and I, sistern and, brethren, are going to be picking up a big, fat tab for the 1976 Montreal Games. And games is the word, if the Olympics "Consist of running in ever-decreasing circles until you disappear up your own you-know-what. Let's not blame it on the construction strikes' in Montreal, Let's not blame it on inflation. Let's blame the $300 million dollar deficit (and who knows' how much more?) , on the delusions of grandeur of the rolyiest-polyiest con man since P.T. Barnum made that immortal statement: "Never give a sucker an even break." Hank Bourassa of Quebec and Pete Trudeau of Ottawa knew they were dealing with a gr eased eel when they tangled with Drapeau. but all they did was make polite" political noises, assuring the suckers that it wasn't going to cost more than maybe severP cents each to put on this extravagorama, Some of us, those possessing the gift, and a memory, knew perfectly well that we were going to be reamed like an old pipe, but they wouldn't listen, • Oh,. well, what the hell. A prophet is without honor in his own country. You in your small -corner, and I in mine, My severest critic of Iny point of view is not my wife, as is most often the case. She 'thinks the Games are something the teenagers play down at the, Olympia restaurant. The only connection is that the proprietors of the Olympia are Greek. No, my chief opposition comes from my assistant department head, which only confirms- my long-held view that she is bigoted, thick-headed, disloyal to her chief, and a lousy shuffleboard player. Her argument goes like this: "The Olympic Games are for all of Canada. Why shouldn't all Canadians help pay for them?" , Well, she's all wet, in which vhe wouldn't weigh 85 pounds, soaking. Nobody asked me if I wanted the stupid . Olympic Farce in Canada. And even though ,I wasn't asked, I said NO. By me, the Olympic Games consist of someone proving that he or she can do something completely useless better than anyone else. If Mayor Drapeau had shbwn any desire to clean up Montreal, which has the worst slums, the worst sewage system, probably the highest crime rate. in Canada, I'd buy a whole ten-dollar lottery ticket, instead of splitting one 10 ways. He:s not interested. he wants coliseums, palaces, and probably wouldn't object to a few graven images Of himself scattered about ,the city. . - Did you notice that when the Olympic Committee was on the edge of• the abyss, looking into • it, there wasn't exactly , a scramble among the world's nations to pick up the tab? The only tentative offer was from the Arab swingers, who are ' in similar circumstanceto the old lady who lived in a \I shoe. They h ve so many barrels they don't know What .N3 do. Admitted, barrels are better than .children these days, but there's a limit. Say. Pardon me for a moment. Just had a thought. Those Arabs are buying up practically anything these days. Wonder if they'd be interested in some fine moose pasture I own up north. Used to be called mining stocks. Probably not. However, maybe' they'd take a flyer on a pure-bred hybrid cat. Half wolf, half pig. And by golly, the price is right.This gem, this jewel, this loving,. lovable creation is going for four quarts of oil and a one-billionth share in'the Holy Old Eruption, Oil Company. Now, how did I get away off here in the oil fields? Let's see. Trudeau, oily. Bourassa, oilier. Drapeau, oiliest. A simple matter of conjugation. a , - FEBRUARY 16, 1900 William D. Sanders, of Stephen Twp. met with .a painful ' accident. He was attending a sick cow and in -order to assist the animal in rising he went to the head of the beast. His horn came in contact with his eye with force. The ice on C. Grieb's pond at Zurich has been fine. for skating and large crowds were on the ice. . John Ward of this town has presented the Expositor with an ' egg laid by &erred PlyMouth rock, which measured 8 x 6i/3 i inches an w ighed .one quarter Of a pound. . The tha f last week flooded the, flats on the farm of John Beattie and Geo. Chesney. a ,„ , Harry 'Beattie of town has dinned a law office in the Cady B4dck.' • Geis: Baldwin of town is getting his bicycle business in sh e and has opened a shop in the Carmichael block. , T e school "kids'-', have commenced playing marbles. sure sign of an early spring. Mr. and Mrs. J.C.Greig of town now occupy their handsome new residence on Goderich St. Master John St aples of Constance met with a peculiar- accident. He broke his arm while in the act of, throwing a snow ball. James Sproat of Tuckersmith escaped what might have been a serious accident. He was riding horseback when. the animal became frightened and threw him to the ground. FEBRUARY 20, 1925 C. Holland of Goderich Twp. has been engaged sawing wood and grinding grain for the farmers in Tuckersmith. The choir of Turner's Church, Tuckersmith held their annual oyster supper at the 'home of H.Crtcli. Clever and humorous speeches were given by L. Tebbutt . A Matheson,• H. Crich and others. A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Dan Regele, Manley, when neighbors and friends —dithered there for a social night. During the evening an address was read by H.A.Benneweiss.and a presentation was made by R. Bunch. J.J.Hugill of Alma recently purchased from Joseph Thompson of Seaforth his one hundred acre farm on the 4th concession of McKillop. Judging from the number of hogs that were loaded from Alma, the farmers still think there is money to be made in raising the porker. Dr. A. J. McKinnon of Zurich has moved his stock of drUgs into his new drug store. TheSeaforth Memorial Hospital received a very substantial arid welcome gift from the fluron Old Boys Association of Toronto; this consisted of 6 double pairs of blankets, 2 dozen pillow cases and 12 sheets. John Hinchley of Stratford was here last week attending the funeral of his sister, the late Mrs. Frank Best. Two cars of western cattle were delivered at Walton station for Wm. Staples of McKillop. They were a good looking bunch and arrived in good condition. 9 ¤ FEBRUARY 17, 1950 Eric Eaton, son of Mr. and Mrs.Tim Eaton accidently fell from an old truck, while playing at the rear of Crich'S Bakery. X-Rays revealed that he had a broken leg. James W., Hart, brother of Wm. M. Hart, of town had the misfortune to have his nose, wrist and thigh broken while at work in Hamilton recently. He was a former resident of Seaforth. ,Mrs. John Beattie was ho es to twenty lady bowlers of the Seaforth Lawn Bowling Clu the bridge prize was donated and won by Mrs. E.H.Close. . Seaforth received its share of the most destructive storm of the 'winter which swept Western Ontario. The.storm caused widespread disruption of, hydro, telegraph and telephone services and left many small communities without power. Boys playing with matches narrowly escaped being seriously injured when a gasoline drum exploded and blew one end completely off. The drum was situated between the Reliance Petroleum storage tanks and Wm. Hart's office. The boys had ignited the end of a corn stalk and inserted it into the drum. The Medicine Hat News refers to the death of Frank Novak, well known in the Seaforth district. Mr. Novak was married to the former Isobel Scott of Seaforth and for-a time was leader of the. Seaforth Highlanders Band. The Kippen radio minstrel gang under the leadership of Art Finlayson entertained an audience at Exeter in Main St. United Church. The W.F.O. shipping at Dublin is temporarily in charge of T.R.Scott, ,son of Mlles Scott of Cromarty. Mayor J.E.Keating, Chas. A. Barber, W.J.Duncan, M.A.Reid and- Jas.A. Stewart, were in Toronto this week taking 'part in a curling bonspiel. Mrs. J.G.Ivfullen of town had the misfortune to fall downstairs in her home and receive some bruises. Among the soloists taking part in the Kiwanis Music Festival of Toronto, Mrs. Lorna Speare, 13 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Speare of Toronto and a former Cromarty boy. , A trip to the big city is something that we always look forward to. And so it is fair to say that we set off early Friday • morning for the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Convention in Tor te, in a pretty good mood". That good mood though was pretty hard to sustain after two nights and ta'o and a half days in the smoke filled meeting rooms at the convention hotel (yes we smoke, 'a little, but two days in rooms full of smokers is almost enough to make one kick the Something to say dreary and smoggy streets of Toronto. We learned a bit about how other newspapers cope with the daily (weekly?) grind and we enjoyed socializing with newspaper people from across the province. We were pleased to learn that the ,Huron Expositor had won an .honourable mention in a class open to all Ontario weeklies of any size for its coverage of last Easter weekend's tornado. The credit for this award should go not to our good news sense (after all its hard to get a much habit.) The days we spent in the bigger story than a tornado,) but decorated but apparently s.f. rooms of the expensively to the excellent photo and story coverage of several staff windowless hotel were broken members, Wilma 'Oke, Liz only by occasional forays into thee' Watson and Tom Haley. . 4