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The Huron Expositor, 1975-09-11, Page 2ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontatlo Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Caned, (in advance) $12.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 A SEAFORTH ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 11, 1970 The voters must choose -74 Since 1860, Serving,the CcrtlittllMity tint rai*Shed at SEAFORD', ONTARIO, every ThursdAy morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. Fall floods Ontario voters next week will be faced with making a decision whether to return the Davis Government or place responsibility elsewhere. In reaching a decigion the voters must assess the fob the government has done during the past four years under Premier Davis and compare it to the way in which the predecessors of Premier Davis conducted the affairs of the province during the 32 years the Tories have been in office. _The comparison will not be favorable. There is the matter of day to day expenditures and of a provincial debt —grown to a point that suggests fiscal ' irresponsibility. This year the debt has reached $3.45 million - more than doubled since Mr. Davis took power four years ago and on which we as taxpayers are paying $1.9 million a day or $79,000 every hour in interest. There is the matter of an ever increasing beaurocracy insensitive to and ignorant of the needs of average Ontario. There is the continuing threat of regionalization and insidious pressures on municipalities through grant discrimination. There is the confused experimentation that exists in our schools.. Above all there is the public relations approach to government which Premier Davis has adopted at An annual cost this year of $1.7 million for promotion and advertising as an alternative- to solid policy. • The past four years have shown that the Davis Government has run out of ideas - that its acceptance is dependent on the accomplishments WE now live in the middle of the most far-teaching revolution in the whole history of civilization. The rate of change accelerates before our eyes. We are frustrated in our attempts to assimilate what Arnold Toynbee has called - "the marvellous and. monstrous apparatus of Western technology". Events come faster than we can cope with them. Our technological ingenuity seems to be outpacing our moral and social creativity. We now hold in our hands the power to abolish all poverty and famine throughout the world -- but we seem not to have the will to do so. We n ow hold in our hands the power to anihilate ourselves -- and we sometimes fear that we haven't the will to stop ourselves from doing that. Fifty years ago a father could quite properly assume that this son would grow up into a world recognizable like his own. But children born this year will reach adulthood in a world quite different from ours. And imagination fails us when we try to picture the and record of 32 years of Tory rule. It has been content to make promises, to attempt to cover mistakes by more promises, more spending. It all adds up to the fact that after 32 years it is time for a change. Not a change merely for changes sake but a change that will, allow a new government with new ideas to bring fresh thinking to tough problems. The alternative for which the public is indicating an increasing preference is a Liberal government under Bob Nixon. Perhaps what is most needed for the problems of today is not a flair for public relations and flamboyance but someone who can bring dedication, ability and a sincere desire to come to grips with them and solve them. These are qualities Bob Nixon has in abundance. Recognizing the principles of integrity and fiscal and financial responsibility a Liberal Government under Bob Nixon would be responsive to the needs of the individual and to the necessity of ensuring the autonomy of the communities. During the two years since he was elected in the Huron by-election Jack Riddell has represented, in a positive way, the people of the riding. Not only has he attended to the individual needs of people and communities regardless of their politics or where they lived, he also has taken an active part in the work of the legislature and its committees and has become an effective and informed voice for the riding. He has earned and deserves re-election as the member for Huron- Middlesex. kind of world in which our children will live. In all parts of the world there are ominous signs of failure of nerve. We are in danger of letting, ourselves be overwhelmed by circumstance, circumstance of our own making. This age of great achievement and expectation is also the age of great anxiety and despair. Terrible insecurities tear at our hearts and befuddle our minds, and we easily slip into moods of copelessness. Tremendous technological resources are available to us as we face our very intimidating problems. But they alone will not be enough. We need to develop a new awareness of the moral and religious resources • which are available to us, the special insights and perspectives which can help us cope with our current confusions and guide us in decisions as to how our technological riches can to be used for the benefit of all mankind. (Contributed) Amen by Karl Schuessler I never knew what grass roots politics was. Oh I knew what grass was. And roots. And politics. But put them all together and what do you h aye? Weeds? Seeds? Feed? The dictionary helps a little. It says it means the common or ordinary people. The agricultural and rural parts of the country. Or it means getting down to basics. But a fellow like Hugh Edighoffer helps all the more., He makes it all very clear what grass roots politics is. Because -- to my mind -- Hugh' is grass roots politics. For the last eight years Hugh's been going off to Queen's Park in Toronto to represent his Perth riding. But Hugh isn't one of those small town boys that goes off to the big city and gets hooked on it. Home always ,Mitchell. "1 was horn in Mitchell," he says, "born in the centre of the riding and I like to think that I can see out from all .angles and oversee the riding." Whenever the legislature is sitting, Hugh makes it back to Mitchell on weekends. And on Saturday morning he goes down to main street and opens up his clothing store. Now Saturday is a good day for business in any small town. That's when the farmers come in to buy their groceries or a new outfit of work clothes. Or a sports shirt. Or a Sunday suit. But Hugh does a lot of other business on those Saturdays too. That's the day the whole riding knows that Hugh is at the store.To take care of their business. "This store isanoffice on weekends. I don't like the. idea of people having to make appointments and going through secretaries. It's not my way of doing business. "I think I can function more rapidly. This is what you have to do on weekends in your constituency. I would only see half as many people as 1 do now this way." This way Hugh can see up to twenty-five people on a Saturday. And invariably his customers start off with, "I know you're busy, Hugh, but" and then they're off -- talking to him about their welfare check that's late, or some detail about• O.H.I.P. they don't understand or something to do with their unemployment insurance: Or they're talking about farm income, or regional government or land use or the local housing situation. "I think when you represent a rural riding," Hugh says, "you have to be home grown." The name has to be familiar. Of long standing. And for Hugh it is. His father still comes down to ,the clothing store he started fifty years ago. And he can put in a long day's work too. The name has to be good. And it is. You don't last long in a small town when the merchandise is shoddy. And that goes for clothes as well as community service. The name has to wearwell. The home town folks have been looking you over ever since you were a kid. And in a small town they know everything that goes on. The townsfolk have a great memory. They never seem to forget. Hugh can pass all those rigours. He rates number one with the folks at home. And so does his whole family -- his wife, Nancy, and their four children. Each of his teenagers take his turn behind the coicinter at the store. And they're learning too. It's' not , 'just • . behind the counter you stand. You go out front. To where the people are. It's like the sidewalk sale Mitchell had last week. You bring your clothes outside. To the main street. You go on the street to sell yourself -- and your goods -- to the people. , That's what Hugh and Nancy are doing now. They're walking up sidewalks and knocking on front doors. Their Children too. Watch that Kathryn. She's a go-getter. Hugh says it was their door knocking that helped him win the first time. Eight years ago, no one in the riding made such a direct and simple approach. And now Hugh's trying again to win in this coming. September provincial election. He wants another go at representing his people back home. "As a politician," he says, "I'm available to people for their problems. I want to talk to anyone from the attorney general on down in government. I try to contact and see what help we can find for them." Hugh's out walking these days. Putting his feet into the grass roots under him. He's muddying his shoe leather into that soil that raised him. He's wearing his suits -- his store suit -- that carries the "Edighoffer, Mitchell" label inside the jacket. He's out walking and talking to the people and townsfolk of rural Perth. And he's helping me understand how government works. How it really starts from home, from grass roots, from a small place -- with a man. With a man that attends the same high school basketball games I do. With a man that joins all of us in the opening ceremonies of the old folks residence in town. With a man I can buy_., clothes from and talk over government problems -- all in the same office. This man makes more manageable in my mind the strange workings of a provincial government in a faraway bit city in a very complex bureaucracy. A man like Hugh Edighoffer makes grass roots grow -- right before my eyes. Yearse Agorae sEpumogg10,165 Mr, O'Brien of the boundary between Tuckersmith and Hibbert, has sent us an egg which for site can fairly claim the championship. It measured 6 1/2 inches one way and eight the other Atthe mortgage sale of town lots, held in Seaforth, the lot facing on Main Street, only was sold. The front lot was purchased by Edward Cash for $400. A picnic of the children, teachers and friends of the Presbyterian Church was held in Paynes Groves Egmondville. Excellent addresses were delivered try Rev. GoldSmith, and Rev. Cameron of Kippen. Messrs. Williams and Cluff, proprietors of the Seaforth Pump fattory have now all their pumps bored with Coopers Patent Hollow auger. The flax crop is a very fair average at Zurich. Crowds of men, women and children are going out to pull. We have been shown some that measured five feet three inches in length. The council at Zurich are making a good job of the centre gravel road.. The work is under the management of Able Wolper. TCarronbrook Salt Works are now running at full blast. A considerable amount is being sold to the surrounding farmers for agricultural purposes. .john Patterson, Lot 1, Concession 9 Hullett purchased an apple tree from the Rochester Nursery and •planted it a few weeks after , the tree blossomed and made a noble effort to bring fruit to maturity. The frost frustrated its Oesign. A few weeks ago it blossomed again, this time it was more It has been arranged that the Provincial Plowing Match for the District Provincial plowing match for this district will be on the farm of Mr.Stanbury of Stanley. The present season, seems to have been exceedingly favorable one for the production of almost all growing crops. G. Sheppard of Clinton, recently dug from a piece of ground five feet square over two bushels of early row potatoeS. The dwelling house being erected by H. Wallace opposite his store in Londesboro, is rapidly approaching completion. Gilbert McMichael of Hullett, had this year a crop of Crown ,peas, stalks of which measured 10" in length. The new school in. SEction 6, Hullett, is now complete. It will accommodate '120 scholars. The present teacher, Mr. Howard Ward, intends leaving this section, John Henderson of Tuckersmith took from his farm, one stalk which measurd 5 feet inlength and which had 362 grains of oats. SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 Robert Bolton of McKillop had the misfortune to fadi'off a load of grain. He had two doctors attending him. Mr. Chas. Little is attending the Toronto Exhibition. Miss Alice Mueller of Brodhagen gave a corn roast and dance in honor of a friend from Charles City, Iowa. Miss Anna McGrath of St. Columban is attending the Toronto Exhibition. Clarence McQuaid of St. Columban left for De La College, Aurora. Herbert Fowler of Alma is busy completing his new cement garage. The Town hall of Bayfield is being improved with asbestos shingles. John Cameron has the contract. The evangelists who have been conducting nightly meetings in a tent at Zurich have taken-it down and meetings discontinued. • A large number from the village motored to Exeter to attend the demonstrations given by the Hon. W.L.MacKenzie King. The first after vacation meeting of the C. W.L. of St. James Church. After the business a presentation was,made to Mrs, O'Connell who is leaving town to live in Windsor. Mrs. Keating presented her with $10.00 in gold. Miss Jean Hays, Florence Beattie ind Fergus McKay spent the week end with Toronto friends. Messrs. Joe Purcell, John Dennison and Keith Lamont of Detroit visited on Labor Day at their homes here. Ray Holmes of town had his hand badly torn in the gears of a car. He was taken to the hospital where a number of stitches were used to close the wound. Walter robinson and daughter Dorothy met with an accident. They were returning from Detroit by motor when their car was in collision. His face was cut and Dorothy was bruised. Messrs. Gerald Stewart, Earl Smith and Fred Crich left this week by motor for Detroit. SEPTEMBER 15, 1950 Announcement was made of the appointment of H.O.Free as sales supervisor for the district of Seaforth Supertest Petroleum Corporation. The position was formerly filled by George Johnson who was transferred to London recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dick of Phoenix, Arizona paid a flying visit to their brother, Arthur Dick and Gordon and their families. Funeral services were held for Father T.P.Hussey who died in St. Joseph's Hospital in London. Mrs. UL Doig was hostess to' the membeers of the Seaforth Women's Institute. The meeting on Tuesday with Mrs. Alex Pepper,M ts. Eldon Kerr and Mrs. Wm. Wilfred Cameron were appointd as delegates to attend the convention in • London. Perspective on the future "What spirit! He's interpetin g his defeat as a mandate from the public to retire." "For a hundred bucks a day he tells me to take good care of myself!" SEPTEMBER 7, 1900 Miss Dorrance of Seaforth, who has been carrying on a fancy goods business here for some years, has sold her business to Mrs. Rudolph. Wm. Sclater met with a nasty mishap while gelling into the wagon, and the horse 'ran away and threw him out. He was badly bruised and was cut about the head. C. L. Willis has gone to Durham where he will teach form 1 and 2 work in the school there. Work has begun on the granolithic sidewalk on Main St. Mr. Gutteridge has a large number of men and intends rushing the work through. Smillie Bros. of Tuckersmith have carried off high honors at the Toronto Exhibition with their horses. Chris.W. Sparling of Seaforth, is at Toronto this week as a delegate to the independent political convention. Duncan Aikenhead of Brucefield left for London where he will study as a druggist. Robert Murdock left to attend Toronto Fair. He will visit his brother,A . Murdock, foreign buyer for Simpson's Department store. The work on the new Presbyterian church at Walton is progressing rapidly under the supervision of A. McNiel. Elam Livingston of Blyth is getting the foundation ready for his new electric Ifght plant. - T.A.Russell of Usborne has become secretary of the CAnadian, Manpfacturers Association. One of the largest concrete culverts in the county between Turnberry and East Wawanosh has been built. It is 40 feet long and was built by Frank Gutteridge of Seaforth. During a storm the house of Mrs.Scott, Stanley Twp. was struck by lightning. It came in by way of the chimney; the bed clothes were rolled into a ball but nothing took fire. Wm. Davis of Hensall awarded the contract for the erection of two brick stores to Messrs. Cudmore and. Wm.. Welsh. A number of the villagers of Hensall, attended the political meeting held in 'Dixon's Hall, Brucefield. The picnic held on Friday under the auspices of the Egmondville Church, was a great success. A large crowd gathered with their well-filled baskets. ' Mrs. James Laurie of Egmondville had a narrow escape. She had got on the train to bid some friends goodbye, in getting off she fell on the platform. She was badly shaken up. When in the northeast Horold Clarkson got several badger, prairie wolf and fox skins. He has had them tanned by R.N.Brett. iIM V 0 4