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The Huron Expositor, 1976-02-12, Page 2There's a nice bit ,of democracy in action at the town hall in Hensall these days.. The minutes from each village council meeting are kept on display and are readily available to all ratepayers in the Hensall Public Library. Hensalla clerk Bob Heil says the library is.right across the hall from his office and when he's making copies of the minutes for all the councillors, he makes a copy fOr the library too. It's just a little thing, he says. Yes it's just a little thing, but it goes a long way towards making information about what council is doing available to the public, and in more detail than newspapers can provide. ' It's very rare to see members of the public attend council meetings in any of the municipalities we cover. Mahy people don't even know that the meetings are open to the public --- and they all are, unless a motion is The storm has'died down quite a bit now, but we'd still like to get 'our two cents cin, Nothing has been So hard to take in the past few weeks as the 'treatment- that Margaret, Trudeau received when she,and her husband the prime minister: got back to Canada from their Central American tour. Proper Ottawa ladies call up an. Ottawa open line program to denounce her for being, too casual, for singing a song, for (heaven forbid wearing jeans. The press hints that she is unstable, that she insulted the Canadian flag. They make her sound like rum swigging, spoiled child, when what she actually did was to take a sip from' a bottle of rum that 'was pasSed to her While it was going tie rounds among tour reporters.—, The media seemed to be baiting Margaret. As she tried to be free, 'to beta real human being instead of a lo the Editor:- A few y ears ago the money from the sale of Irish Sweepstake tickets went to keep up the hospitals in, Ireland. Why cannot the money front the sale of 'Winkii-io tickets he used to keep our . Ontario Hospitals from closing? If' you think this is a good suggestion, (-oily-the above tWo,parragraphs. sign 'your name and 'mail your letter to • The . Honourable William Davis, Parliament' Buildings, aronto, Ontario. Noss I want to say something else. Can we, the people of Ontario.' just' talk and complain about our hospitals, being closed' • and do nothing about it? Don't you want to fight it? Stop , complaining and do something constructive. 'Write and tell Wm. Davis how yoti .feel. You all know ' good health is our-greatest gift. How can Health Minister Frank Miller close our hospitals- without asking our' permission? 1 hey are our hospitals, many partially built by money donated by the people of the community. Remember when R.R.1, Lucknow, Ont., NOG 2F10 Feb.8, 1976 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, FEBRUARY 12, 1976 Democracyin action passed moving into committee of the whole. Most tax paying, voting, citizens won't attend a council or school board meeting once in their lives. Or they may ,attend once as part of" a delegition but leave as soon as their issue heard. • • Most • ratepayers haven't had a ' chance to see how their elected representatives are doing, to judge for thernSelves about, how council spends it's time. Making the minutes from meetings available to all in the public library informs us about what's going on and dispels any idea that council is doing business in secret. Hensall deserves to take a bow. Perhaps, other councils will folloW Hensall's example • and ask their clerks to put a copy of their minutes in the closest public library every ' month, The people will thank them. • Snow walk making powers return to their local communities. 1-he format will involve presentations and discussions of local issues. The application of community • action methods to these problems will be • our focus. We hope to develop the skills and self confidence needed to take an active part in commtmity problems. Any of your readers interested in the Scafaorth Community Hospital was being built, we the people of Seaforth and surrounding•areas, gave money to h ave it built, many gave very generously of their time too, to go Out on, fund raising 'drives. Last summer'iny husband and I spent our vacation in Ireland. The hospitals there arc superb, in fact, so fantastic I 'remarked "The Irish Sweep.gtake money. • sure gave Ireland great" hospitals." To-day-there is 20 million dollars in The bank from the, sale of7Wintario tickes. They are wondering YC.hat, to spend it on, Frank Miller is closing the •Doctor!s Hospital in Toronto because it needs sil•and a half' million ,dollars. Take the money out of the ' Wintario Fund and keep the hospital open, Do you rectlite money is pouring into the. Wintarid Fund at the rate of nearly two million dollars a month? Surely-enough to keep our hospitals functioning. Thank you for publishing my letter. Sincerely yours, Amelda Reynolds Harpurhey protocol stuffed robot, some reporters encouraged her .tq, make a fool of herself. They r -9orted more about what rgaret id on ,their return from Venezuela t_ an on what the Trudeaus learned nd what Central America learned about Canada. We think that most .Canadians are proud to have a warm, open, interested person like Margaret Trudeau represent -them on official visits with her husband. Her sincere, interest and enthusiasm...her aliveness seems to have been appreciated by her hosts in Mexico, Venezuela and -Cuba. She's a bright woman,..a woman _ who's trying to humanize pomp and ' politics. We need more, tike .,her.' And, if her critics' will leave her aloney Margaret, will' do fine just fine. Now, if we could only do something about her husband , Lucknow, I will send them a general course outline and notification of the new time and place for the course. Thank you, Tony MeQUall • or hospitals I don't know what's wrong. I'm trying to be a goad father. Take an interest in my girls. , Do. the right thing by them: Now that Ehad that matter about breakfast all taken care of, I thought I had school departures all smoothed out. No more rush stuff. Grab a piece of toast and gulp of milk and dash out to the yellow school bus. Thanks to me we're on a schedule. Everyone takes his turn making breakfast. We get up at a decent hohr. Any one in his rightmind knows, the kids have to ga off to -school with something substantial in their stomachs. But we ran into some • trouble, on Wednesday. It wasn't getting something in their stomachs kind of trouble. It was getting them on the bus kind of trouble. It's' all this snow we're having. The buses' didn't make it on Monday. Chalk off one, school day. They went on Tuesday. And then on Wednesday the word came through the telephone party line. Buses will be an hour Ihte. today. Visibility and driving conditions poor. Then further word. No buses today. "Wheee! ! We don't have to go to school today!" the girls danced up and down. . -Again? You two are going to m iss another day of school? If it's,not snow, then it's ice. If it's not long weekends it's March breaks. If it's not F.D. day -- that's professional developm'ent day -- then it's P.A. day -- professional activity day. •-And while the professionals keep on developing, my. kids keep on lolling around the house. I looked outside.The weather doesn't look that bad outside." A little bloi,ving and snowing., But, the roads are clear. '1 phone the school. "No school again today, ' 'Oh,_ we're holding school today, sir. It's just that the buses out your way didn't get in. Logan township buses didn't make it. But the Hibbard and Fullarton buses did.— : "Then I can bring the kids in then." "Yes, of course, but you'll have to take them back home, sir." When I put down the ret'eiver, the girls stared at me. I could read every word in their stone faces and silent glances. How could you, Daddy? Flow could you do a , thing like that? Don't you want us to ht,ve fun? Like everyone else': . 'To the editor No buses, no school Thank yea very much for your 'efforts on my behalf concerning my ' great great grandparents the David Mansons Of Egmondville. I was very surprised to receive your letters and a copy of the newspaper with my letter on the front page. I thought that perhaps irty,,,letter to Egmondville had become waylaid-on its way since I had not heard from anyone. I shalt write to the Mr. Landsborough you mentioned as he was my grandfather's first cousin. • Mr. FItitehinson of Egmondville was kind enough to send me a drawing of the, Manson tombstone in Egmondville c6neterY. He wrote that his house "was built by a Leitch, Which was my great great grandmother's maiden name. I had heard that her. brother (Th ornas?) had come to Huron county also. 1 asked Mr. Hutchinson if he would look in the cemetery and see if this Leitch, is buried there. I thought that if he found a tombstone with a date of death, you would be kind enough to. look in the back papers and see if he is mentioned. An' Obituary might list his parents names or • 'Wheit specifically in Scotland he waVtafti., If I have a birthdate and 'a specific city in Scotland. I can write to the Records House, Edinburgh and see if they have anything on him. I have not been able to do this for triy great great grandpai'ents, the David Mansons because so far I have only learned • Ta the• Eclitor by .Karl Schuessler Mr. Crombie replies Amen Why can't you be like other daddies? Do they call up the school? Do they want to drive their kids to school? What's wrong with you, Daddy? What stone age did you come from? Why can't you be like every other daddy? Just accept it. Just. say, "School's out today. No school today—What's wrong with you, Daddy? Nothim: There's absolutely nothing wrong with tne v. What's wrong in'clefending 'the tax payer's dollar? What's so wrong with wanting to get the most of education? To get the most out of my money? Kids should be in school on a Wednesday -- not baking chocolate chip cookie , or watching clay time quiz programmes on tv or cluttering up, their room with scrabble boards and monopoly sets. Satuitlaysand Sundays that's okay, but on Weclnesda ys -- no. It was a cold and silent ride info Mitchell when I took the reluctant scholars to school: I listened to their sighs and complaints. None of their friends would be there today. Who could Sarah play with at recess? With so many gone, there will ,only be study sessions and half classes. Maybe there wouldn't be any milk for lunch. Maybe the milkman didn't, make it either. They've missed two classes already. Was it really worth it? Was it really worth it? For them? Forget that. Was it really worth it for me? Shovelling out the,driveway. The price of gas. The slippery roads. My time. My 'driving back and forth two times. That's seven miles each way. Almost thirty miles. • Sar'ah.phoned me up at noon. She forgot her lunch. She left It in the car. No, I wouldn't have to bother to drive in again. She could wait until two o'clock. The school'was closing early today. So would I please be at school right at 2:00? How do you like that? There went my day of peace and quiet. My Wednesday, my day at home when I was going to get so many things done. 'And I'm winding up being an all day taxi driver. But darn it! I don't care. All I know is this. On Wednesday -- any Wednesday--myJcids should go to school. they were born in Kirkcudbright shire, Scotland and it is tint possible to have the Scottish records searched unless i kriOwitfe town of birth. r will take the information you sent me and write to the 'Deputy Registrar General in Toronto and sec if they have death certificates for the Mansons as a' death certificate' may list town of birth or parents names. A copy of my letter, that. was-printed in your paper was also received by Dr: John McIntosh of Toronto whose great grand- parents were the David Mansons. His brother lives near Seaforth and his daughter lives in Brucefield. The daughter has several photos of the Mansons that Dr. McIntosh is going to, send me copies of. 1 appreciate it very much that you toek time to answer my questions about the D*Mansons even though you had never heard of hie before. Your letter said that • you 'have made a number of queries on my behalf, would, you please thank all of these people for the since I do .not know their names. I dirk write to Mr. Hutchinson and thanked him for passing my letter along to y ou. • Thank you ',again for your information, a* , the. 'copy of Latulsborough 's-address,, Sincerely, David Croiribie 2221 Cumskey St., Marysville, California 95901 Margaret is alright To .the editor Use Wintario Community course still. on To' the Editor: I saw a reference to the Goderich night school Course' "Effective Community Action" in the column by Susan White. Wanted to, let you know how things stand, -Mc first.an&s.econxi,rughts Yrere. terrible , .participating in this Totirse Shetild 4 .,f,-4,44,2,4,01ing,,,,and there' vya s poor... • name and address to Tony McQuail, attendatlee. It was decided to wait until the weather would be better for getting around and then 'fry again. I believe this course will be of real use to .. persons who would like to see decision (fxvositor 11 uran Since 1860, Serving the Community First Ublished at SEAEORTH, ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by MtLEAN BROS. ANDREW 1`.,Mc-LEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association - and Audit Bureau of Circulation . Subst•ription Rates: Canada tin ud% ance) $10.00 a Year Outsile Canada lin advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 52 7 -0240 • PUBLISHERS LTD. A - • 0 In the. Years Agone FEBRUARY 18, 1876 It is expected that the station at Kippen will be opened for passenger accommodation this _week. One of the trackmen in the London, Huron & Bruce was thrown off a hand-car and run over. One leg was broken and he was cut and bruised. - A few days ago, as Geo. Holland of McKillop w as going home from Seaforth, he' was overtaken by a run-away team. A grand and sociable gathering took place in connection was with ir chairman. The Church of Bayfield. Rev.,Mr. Danby The tenders for the erection of the new church at Brucefield were opened'by the committee. For the carpenter work was Ietrt Co)ppoofin StephencalndtomMiller of Clinton; Mason and brick work Mr, • FEBRUARY 8,1901 While putting a collar on Mr. McEwan's horse, Owen' Geiger of Hensall found it necessary -to climb onto the manger, when the beast sprang forward ctushing him against a partition and breaking some of his ribs. There passed away inTuckersmith an old gentleman in the person of John Glazier at the age of 73 years. Of Irish decent, he came to this country and remained in Quebec until 50 years ago when he made this part of the country his home. Heenry r, for Bau $4500. The has sold his farm to his neighbor J. Habre The new Workman hall in Walton•is to formally open next week when there will be a supper and a musical and literary entertainment. M . Ross, D. McLeod and John Toms of Bayfield have gone to Stokes Bay ,to fish.' A very, sad andlatal accident, last week, when the third son of Samuel Rennie of Zurich lost his life. While cutting down a big tree rid caught the boy on the left side of his head, fracturing his skull. ,d V W. fe McLeanace o this town has had patented a new wire an W. H. Box of the late Broadfoot and Box Company has been appointed manager tinder the new company. Ed. Jarmain is having material laid down for the erection of a- new bank barn on his farm on the Huron Road. Sim Neely of town has had a tough time with the elements in keeping most of the sidewalks in good shape. Henry MeGavin, Tuckersmith has purchased from Peter McKay a very superior Durham bull, -18 months old. FEBRUARY, 19, 1926 A pleasant event took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDonald when the teachers and officers of the Thames Road' Sunday School honored Ethel McDonald. She , was presented with a Bible and a plant. Mr. and Mrs. P.V.McGrath of St. Columban celebrated " their silver wedding. The family gave them a cabinet, f silver. .Miss Daisy Hamilton left to enter Hamilton General Hospital for a course of training. The male quartette of First Church, Messrs. D. Reid, M.R.Rennie, J. Beattie andJ. Scott gave a''very much appreciated number at 'the morning service on Sunday last. Mrs.. • Flett and Miss Mary Modeland are in • Toronto attending the millinery openings. • Richard Kinsman of Chiselh.urst ar rived here with a car load of fine western horses. M. G. Deitz of Zurich has sold the-business. block occupied by the post office, shoe store and dental office to his father, Samuel Dietz. A good full sleighload of friends from Northside United Church gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lawrence in McKillop. A most enjoyable Valentine social for the sunday school scholars was held in First Church. J.G.Mullen presided and the. programme consisted of solos, trios, and readings. FEBRUARY 16, 1951 Members of the Mckillop Fire Insurance Company were informed at their annual meeting that hew business f414; the year 1950 amounted to' about one and .."`juar ter million dollars and with only one major loss. 'E.L.Box, of town, was appointed a member of the Seaforth P.U.C. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Ken M. Campbell who has moved to Listowel. W.R Davidson of Hensall has sold his property to 'Lorne Hay. The Cancer, Polio and T.B.Committee of the Oddfellows and Rebekah Lodges had a successful 'euchre when there were 20 tables in play. The prize winners were, ladies ,first, Thelma Elgie„ Lone hands, Mrs. A. Bethune; Consolation - Mrs. N. Scoins; Men's first H. Beuerman; Geo. Campbell; consolation and lone hands, A. Routledge. Mrs. Elsie Case of Hensall.has sold her coal sheds and land to W.g.Thompson. Fred Datars of Hensall has sold his house on Highway No. 4 to Ernie Chipchase, who sold his farm to Elgin Thompson. Messrs. Jas A. Stewart, J. E. Keating, M. A. Reid and C.A.Barber, skip, are in Toronto taking part in the Ontario Provincial Bonspiel. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Dunlop of town have moved into the apartment of Dr. E. A. McMaster, East William Street. Don Dale, Gar Baker; Michael Bechley and Bill Stephenson were a stook at the High School earning bonspiel in Galt. Seaforth's Fire Brigade answered a call to the office of Dr. M. W. Stapleton.The fire was beii eyed to have Originated from either a short ,circuit or over-heating. • To the editor Earthquake reseach needs help -,;("-- • Dear Editor: Branch of. Earthquake Tectonics, U.S. Geological Survey is studying three earthquakes which, ,had epicenters in your city's general region. We are trying to ascertain the damage., these 'earthquakes caused and just, how far away from the epicenters these damages were felt. We haver discovered that newspaper accounts ofolder earthquakes are an invaluable , tool in making such judgements. Therefore, I am requesting a copy of any information your paperintglit•have published regarding these three earthquakes. Anything recorded is useful, even if only 'a fcw lines long. Especially useful are eyewitness accounts of earthquake phenomena by citizens and descriptions and/or pictures of darhage. .,The three earthquakes we are interested in are as follows; September 4, '1944 - Earthquake centered in Massena, New York. November 18, 1929 - Grand Banks of Newfoundland earthquake. ' Feinuary 28, 1925 (March 1, Greenwich time) St. Lawrence River region. Any information you could offer will be greatly appreciated. Many of the United States newspapers which I have sent this letter to, found 'that publishing' my letter generated an enthusiastic response from the general public, prompting them to write recollections of their, own experiences with " these earthquakes.These citizen reports are very valuable to us and glade for an interrting newspaper story,. _Sincerely yours, Lynn M. Watson Geologic Field Assistant U.S.Geological Survey More letters to the Editor on page 18 .t