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won t be paid oeeitime Or "time
in lieu of" if . they Work one of
these holidays, .Mr. Ellis said.'
Constables will be paid $60 for
* attending a sirweek „course at the
Ontario Police College.
A provision for officers to' be
reimbursed for using their own
-vehicles was, removed from this
year's contract, the councillor
said. "We'll. rent a car if
necessary. We figured that with
two police cars now the need
should be minimal."
At present there are two fourth
7 class constables, one eligible for
promotion to fourth class and one
third class on theSeaforth force,'
Mr. Ellis said. The third class
constable will be eligible for
promotion to .second "before the
end of the year".
The raises are not out of line
compared to other towns,
councillor John Sintiamon
oommented, but he said he was
unhappy with thehigh amount, of
overtime put in by the force.
Other councillors said that more
than half the overtime is due to
court appearances that the men
have to make. "Why aren't we
approaching the court about
this?" he asked. '
Mayor Betty Cardno said
council was compiling statistics
on overtime costs because of
Spurt and are going to ,,present
them.
Councillor Ellis told about a
recent occasion when Chief of
Police John Cairns sat in court all
day, on his day off, only to be told
at 4 p.m. -that the Crown had
known since 8:30 that morning
that an accused person was not
going to appear.
• Why can't court officials call
'the local police . collect at times
like-that rather than have the
town pay their wages for a day of
waiting at court? councillor
Sinnamon. wanted to know.
Why aren't these police costs
included in court costs? asked
Councillor George Hildebrand.
Local police are planning a bike
rodeo in June and it looks like 400
*,kids will 'participate, councillor
Ellis reported. The department is
trying to get a film on drugs and a
display to show to .senior students
and parents at SPS, he said.
Ontario wil soon, have to come
to grips with the "sterile cap of
asphalt and concrete" spreading
over prime food land.
"We can't go on forever ancj a
'I ay," Hon. William. Stewa
minister of agriculture and food
told the annual meeting of. the
Ontario Institute of Agrologists in
Kemptville. According to Mr.
Stewart, rational changes must be
made if fusture generations are 'to
have access to prime land.
Stewart was sympathetic to the
problems of small towns which
*must expand into agricultural
land to attract industry. But he
emphasized that such progress at
the expense of food production
could not be tolerated.
In accepting a life membership
into the Agriculture Institute of
Canada, Mr. Stewart told the
audience of 150 new demands
would be made on agrologists. A
drop' in world food reserves in
$1973, had caused the public to look
an agriculture in a new light.
To meet the uncertainties of the
future, Stewart suggested addi-
tional scientific training for agro-
logists. He added that agrolo-
gists would have to tackle distri-
bution problems in agriculture
soon and develop new crop
varieties.
' Unless agrologists continue to
,ferovide meaningful information
to farmers he said, they .will not
be fulfilling their role in society.
One half of Canada's class) and
one sixth of the class II' agricul-
• Lure land is in Ontario. Yet
twenty-five years from now
Ontario will have difficulty being
self-sufficient in foods which can
be reasonably produced locally.
Accordto a report by the
.6ntario tute of Agrologists,
even if uctlyity rises by 70
per cent over the next 25 years,
Ontario will have a shortfall of
The break up of a group in the
entertainment world doesn't
usually have much effect on
Seaforth. But it did this past week
when the Great Speckled Bird,
backup group 'to lah and Sylvia
'split up and members j6ined
other band's.
Clive Buist, a chairman of
Seaforth's Centennial
celebrations got a'call from Ian
and Sylvia's manager who. told
him that because of the break up
of Great Speckled Bird, Ian and
Sylvia would not be able to play as
scheduled at Seaforth's
Centennial weekend. Ticket sales
for the Ian and Sylvia
performance had been going
extremely well, and the news put
Seaforth's Centennial committee
into a bit of a tizzy.
Clive got on the phone though,
and in just a few days had a
St. Augustine Council of
C.W.L. elected new slate of
officers for 1975-76. Past presi-
dent Mrs. Wm. Kinihan; Presi-
dent - Mrs. Joe Hickey; Record-
ing Secretary - Mrs. Cyril Boyle;
Treasurer - Mrs. George Hebert;
1st Vice President - Mrs. Roy
Boyle; 2nd Vice President Mrs.
Gus Redmond; 3rd Vice President
- Mrs. John Franken.
Congratalations go out to Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Foran, a baby girl
born to them in St. Joseph
Hospital, London on April 23.
Mr. Jim Teddy returned home
from St. Joseph Hospital, London
last Sunday.
Master Paul Foran and Jenni-
fer Stapleton of- St. Augustine
made their first communion on
Sunday in Fingsbridge.
Mr. Bob Gibbon returned home
Car Club draw
Winners of the last Lions Club
car club draws were, draw #18,
James Cronin and Chester Neil
and draw #19 Bruce McManus.
more than a million acres. The
solution could create considerably
higher food prices. Up to two
million acres of, foodland with a
lower food potential may have tq
be bro ht into productivity in
Nort ern tario.
The repo states that, Ontario's
most • prod ctive foddland is
located in ar as of high popula-
tion. But because foodland
priorities aye, been over-
shadowed y housing and indus-
try new policies will have to be
developed to minimize the loss.
While acknowledging that
Ontario grown • food can be
produced elsewhere, the report
emphasizes the importance of
being self-sufficient. It cites
recent developments in the sugar
industry as creating renwed
interest in the production of sugar
beets in Ontario: "The cutting off
of soybean, even briefly, by the
United States raised similar
questions," the report says.
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After 6
replacement act of equal interest.
Hank Snow will be performing
Monday,'"iune 30, instead of Ian
and 'Sylvia.
Mr. Snow will be in Western
Ontario that weekend anyway --
he's also singing at Palmerston's
Centennial weekend. That's the
main reason that Clive and the
Centennial committee were able
to get hint on such short notice.
Hank Snow, who has recorded
more than 80 albums, is probably
best known for a song 'he wrote
himself "I'm Movin' On".
,
Hank
was born in Nova Scotia but is
now an American citizen. He is a
well loved country music
perforther in North America and
Europe,' Included in his show will,
be Rosemary Atkins, the West
Virginian born country
entertainer.
after spending three weeks with
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Gibbon of Sunnidge.
Mr. Bob Hickey of Barrie spent
Mother's Day, with Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Hickey, Auburn.
Mrs. James Phelan of Blyth
spent the weekend with her
daughter Cyril and Mrs, Boyle
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. George Brophy
and girls of Lucknow visited
friends in St. Augustine on
Sunday.
Imagine coming to Seafeetll on
a bus for, the first time, If you
didn't have a car and didn't feekl,
up io hitchhiking, a bus ride
would be the only way you could
"come here. ,
For 27 years all the people who
took a bus to Seaforth were
greeted by the same friendly face
when they arrived. That friendly
face. belont s, s to Cleave Coomb
who ran , the' bus depot in town
until the beginning,of May when
it was transferred to new quarters
at United Trails Inc. (formerly
Habkirk Transit) on South Main
Street.
Cleave started at the bus depot
when for five years he had the
garage now operated by Bob
Govier. For 22 years, the bus
station has been at the, Sunoco
gas station across the street.
Cleave operated that garage until
it was leased to Archie Robinet
last spring. Cleave works at
Archie's station and has
continued to help handle the bus
business there. ,
The bui stop has been an
important part of the community;
for Seaforth people without a car,
it's.been their only transportation
link to the outside world,
"You feel you're doing some-
thing for the public really," says
Cleave who's juggled bus
schedules, sold tickets and loaded
parcels on and off the buses in'
and out of Seaforth for so long.'"I
always tried to give the correct
schedule time," Cleave says,
"because I didn't want people to
get into a muddle."
Most people who have used bus
depots in large cities will agree
that Clekve's bus schedule infor-
mation was usually a lotAnore
accurate than what is available at
a busy city bus terminal,
Often people would call him up
at home and ask "if I take so and
so bus what time will I arrive?"
"They though I carried bus
schedules around in my head or
something", Cleave says. "I
could tell them the common ones,
bUt,.."
When you are bus agent in a
small town you have to be able to
read bus schedules for all over
Canada and the USA. Each time
he sold a ticket to a far away
place, he had to figure out how
many different bus lines were
involved in the long trip and, issue
the traveller a ticket for each
company. "Some people had
tickets a mile long." A person
travelling from here"to Hamilton
needs three tickets, Cleave says.
"You soon learn all about
who's travelling where and with
whom," Cleave says, "but I just
minded my own business."
Sometimes passengers
expected him to be a travel agent
as well as a ticket seller, Cleave
says. One time a lady called and
wanted to know what' bnis she'd
have to catch from Seaforth in
order to make connections with an
airplane out of Toronto. "I
-helped her figure it out," says
Cleave with a grin.
Cleave was sort of a tourist
information office for travellers to
Seaforth too. People were
always asking him "where's a
good place to stay?" He's sent
ne
new arrivals to boarding placci
too, Cleave says,. Two ladies in
town who took In boarders even
use to stop by and tell him when
they had vacancies.
"You don't make much and
there are a lot interruptions when
people • call to get bus times,"
Cleave says, "You really have to
like it to do the work."
It got busy at the bus station
too. "I'd often sell 20 tickets on a
Sunday night." In fact, Cleave
sus the bus line through Seaforth
is probably busier now than it was
20 years ago.
"There are no trains anymore
and then since they took the
London bus of Highway 4,
anyone who wants to go to
London has to come through
here.'
The
T
bus depot was open as long
as the garage was, from 8 a.m. to
10 p.m. and Cleave says it tied
him down quite a bit.
Cteave's emplOyees never
wanted to handle the bus busi-
ness - they'd say "I'll take the job
but I don't w)ant anything to do
with that d(mn bus". "Every
Sunday night I'd have to be back
before ;even to selt-tiokets."
Cleave is active in the Legion and
he says "many's the time I'd be
here on a Sunday night selling
tickets in my Legion uniform."
He's never had tizio many •
"important" people come into
town on the bus, Cleave says, just
average people.
He especially remembers a.
man who got off the. bus one
spring evening and just stood
outside, looking, for the longest
,Cleave. c, Plea
PfYiplc, "I4a a 4.'40 of friends"
and generally be of. POI0er gif4It A: •
when be says be's:.!4gladlo•Oe rid
ofjt on the whole" he W.tulcis jklst.
a little bit regretful ihAt 414 .27,
years in the bus ternalnallil:OrleAe
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.food land must
stop, Ag minister
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