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The Huron Expositor, 1976-04-01, Page 2• Huron xvositor Since 1860, Serving the Community First kiblished at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS 12Tb. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subseriphon Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES -- 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 5:27-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 1, 1976 Keep the letters coming A The open road Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley/ Winter's End Every -time we get a letter to the editor Seaforth seems like a better place to live and work. Lots of letters on. the editorial pa_ge .of any newspaper is an indication that the town is a lively one, with people who areThterested in their community and aren't afraid to share their concerns and criticisms with others. In small towns, like everywhere else, as soon as we stop talking to each other and listening to what the other guy has to say, we're dead. Letters to the editor give all of us the chance to talk, for free, to thousands of readers. It has been exciting to see the use of this page by Seaforth and area readers grow. We're glad that more and more peopfe are using their newspaper to get their opinions across to fellow citizens. We're relieved that some of the stories in the Expositor prompt people to write and give their viewpoint ... to defend someone they think has been wronged or to answer Amen by Karl. Schuessier I have a thing wnen it comes to making speeches. And that thing is speaking without notes. I tell rnyself. No notes in the pulpit or no manuscript at a podium. • Why, I won't even let me carry an outline up to the front. I forbid notes in my pocket. And of course there's no cribbing on shirt cuffs or in the palm of my hand. I tell myself. The place to have my speech is in my head. And if it's not there, then, 'I don't have it. Now this sort of task mastery can be hard on me. But I've learned to live it. The trouble arrives when I want other people to give their speeches without notes, I have to do a lot of convincing in the speech courses I give. Because most people numb at my speech-without-notes insisting. They tell me they'd simply die up there if they forgot. And don't I realize their mind can go blank -- actually pralyzes when they stand up before an audience. ' ' So for all those terrified souls, I drew up a page in my speech work book called "In. Case of Memory Lapse". Now go ahead. Say wey're tricks of the " trade '--sneaky. But if every magician can have tricks up his sleeve, what's wrong with a speech maker having a few up there too. A man doesn't shake a speech out of his sleeve with nothing$ So let's begin: "Tonignc I'm going to speak on gerbils. Now gerbils are ..say, can all of you hear me way back there? "Good. "Tonight I'm speaking on gerbils. Now a gerbil- is a small animal about the size of-an overgrown mouse, ah., er "You've all h eard of gerbils, haven't you? Anyone in the audience who's ever seen a gerbil raise his hand? "Good. Why, that's at least ten of you. And how many of you have ever kept one in a cage for a pet? I see five hands going up. Good." Now that leads me to my next point, my main point of the evening. Why keep agerbil in a cage when you can have its cousin, the mouse, run loose in the house ....that's what I Said, in the house. You may not believe it but that's what I said, in the house. In any kind of a house, bungalow, ranch style or Georgian." See? In my opening speech I've given a few lessons on memory lapsing without collap- sing. Stall for time. Ask questsions. Involve the audience. Shift the spotlight from you to them. Repeat the last word. Ramble ott about it, if you have to, Or , repeat the whole 'last sentence. And fOrs little variety emphasize a • differentword, Raise or lower your volume as • you repeat the sentence once again. "Now a gerbil is a happy little fellow.fle levee. to,play in all those weed dips you put criticism from someone else, It's good to get criticism out into the open and away . from gossip and "a-6k biti g. And a letter to the editor is one way o get discussion and perhaps even solution to an-iesu,e that bugs you. The Expositor welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters Must be signed by their writer, but we will publish them with a psudonym as .long as the writer's identity is known Ito the editor.' The letter writer's real name will be given to anyone who calls the newspaper to ask. Unsigned letters can't be published at all and, neither can those which are libelous. We received a letter on speeding trucks this week. It's interesting but it's unsigned and therefore we can't publish 'it. Keep those letters coming but sign tern, please. And if you want people to put stock in what you say, don't be afraid to let your real name be published. down ih his cage. And if you give him a 'little wire wheel, he'll cli mb" inside and give himself a merry whirl ...er..uh...a merry whirl. • Everyone likes a whirl, doesn't, he? And why not a gerbil?" An6ther lesson. Ask rhet orical questions. Not that they're suppoSed to be answered by the audience. But if that doesn't get you back on track again, then ask once more. Only this time, wait for a reply. And if you're still not tracking, keep on asking. Lead a discussion if you have to. "But to get back to the main point. You can have as much fun watching a mouse run loose in the house —er...ah...That reminds me of a story about a mouse we had in our house." • Further lesson., Have a story or two in your sleeve. Everyone loves a story, even if it is designed to get you back on track again. "But that's enough of that story. Let's get back to the point. I want to make it perfectly clear tonight the difference between a house mouse and a jiving gerbil. To begin with, well, you see, er...ah. I know-,. I'll go to the blackboard and illustrate for you. And while I'm drawing these two little creatures, You make note of all the differences." Lesson number four. Illustrate with pictures or drawings. And then let the audience help you find the differences, One hundred heads are better than onel Further lesson, You, can always summarize everything you've said up to this point. But above all never look down. Always keep good eye contact. Keep looking straght at the audience. They may think your pauses -are oratorical. And maybe your audience will enjoy a little quiet while you recall where you last left off. Buf through it all, don't panic. No ashen faces. No figety hands. No shuffling feet. Stay calm, Act calm, Look calm. Be calm, And if all this fails, then m ove into the conclusion. M ake a quick summary and sit doWn. know what you're thinking all along. If I didn't have this thing 'about no notes, I wouldn't have to go through all this. I wouldn't have to teach my pasge of In Case of Memory Lapse. True. True. But a speech is meant to be spoken. Not memorized. Not read. And now that I've told you about my bag of tricks. I'm suspect... Whenever I speak and tell a story. Or ask a rhetorical question. Or repeat last words. pr summarize. Or ask for a drink of water or wonder if it's too warm back there. You may think I'm having memory lapses. But then maybe I'm not. And if I'm a good speaker, you'll never be able to tell the difference. Dog Endhef winter, March usually has a tail in it lika tiger, and then we're into the mud and ahill winds and rain of April. Probably the worst time of the year for Canadians. Curling season is over and golf season hasn't begun. It's too early for gardening and too late...for„.skiing. There's nothing much for the sport fan to do but the weeks of blah that constitute the professional hockey playoffs. I think it's a particularly bad time for the elderly. The days are longer but the weather' is too deadly to enjoy the outdoors yet.They've come through another long dark winter of survival , arthritis, the flu, being indoors most of the time. - In a few weeks they'll be grinning triumphantly as the .sun egins to warm,' and they know they've licked life or death for one more winter, but right now they' re a little low in spirits. One of the most obnoxious feathres of this time .of year is the return from the south of those lazy, rich, rotten, selfish people who have enough money to spend the winter there. Is there anything more boring than their excessive chatter about playing 'golf every day, and swimming in January? Ate Don't think I'm envious. 'I wbuldn't go down south in the winter ityou...offered .me a thousand dollars. But don't make it $1,200. • Nor am I the slightest bit jealous of those young, swinging teachers, back from their March break in Spain or the Caribbean, as smug as they are tanned. Talk to them and you'll find all they did was sit around at a beach, drinking rum, or taking in some historical sites: Any idiot can do better than that, being herded like so many Canadian cattle on to a jet plane, into a posh hotel. My wife and I almost invariably go south in the March break. But we don't sit around on any silly beach, getting a painful burn. We go to the 'city, •and get a slow burn from the prices in the hotel. Neither of us drinks rum, But if we want to-take in some historical sights, we just take 'a look at each other. • About the only people who aren't• a bit down in the mouth as winter drags to its weary end are little kids. There is mud to play in; deep puddles to test your boots in; dirty remnants of snow to push each other down into. What more could a kid want? Their mothers are not quite so joyous about now. Tlie occasional sun reveals dirty windows, shabby wallpaper, faded To the editor Were yea listening to the eleven o cto ck news Sunday night and stayed tuned for Provincial Affairs, on CKNX T,V.? Well, I never heard a • better P.C. Pre-election Speech in my life, delivered by Dennis Trimbell. He was blaming in advance, the opposition parties, who he expects, as we all do, to bring on a non cgrr idence motion, thus forcing Ontario into another election. We- are • still licking our sores from last September. In my estimation, it seems he asked for forgiveness, for some of the most childish behaviour that I ever heard of. Already he blames the opposite side and the Parliament isn't even in session until today. How can he outguess the Opposition? I was quite shaken by' his pre-election speech. About an hour later I went to bed, and soon I was fast, asleep, dreams came, as they have a habit of doing. I dreamt I saw Bill smiling about what he had clone to Education, Then D'Arey laughed right out loud, on what he did to the "Assessment Act" and "Regional" Districts, along comes Frank, and grinned, when he saw hospitals collapsing and floating down the "Nile". It was just like the Oscar Awards, but no Oscar, only a lot of angry tax payers, and some poor,older people crying, as well as disappointed mothers, I .wdke with a start and my ulcers gave me quite a doing ever since, But our education trustees in Huron County don't help much either when just a year ago or so, they were allowed a 100% raise of ter they were elected a month or two before on the old salary. Nothing was said about a raise, during the Eleetimi Campaign last December/74. (Jr am I dreaming again? drapes. When they go out,their winter clOthes are too heavy for shopping in the hot stores, but the weather is too foul to try on the new spring outfit.' Result? Winter-end snarl. Man of the ,house isn't exactly bubbling over, either. He's just added up the fuel bill, which is roughly twice what •it was six years ago.Fle has received this year's tax notice, which is just about twice what it was 10 years ago. And he's heading right into income tax time, which is just, about twice as complicated as it was any years ago. No joy there at all. University, students are scarecely" rapturous at this time of year. The year that looked so long last September suddenly has a week or two to go. There are essays due. There are final exams ahead. There is anguish in the highsight of days, and weks of near-idleness during the past two terms. There is panic at the realization of the minuscule amount of learning actually acquired. The mind skitters like a frighteneOlimuse, but there is no hole in the wainscoting to dodge into. It 's time for the hot coffee, the benzedrine, .et and prayer, none of which will help much. • For students graduating this spring, it's not exactly Christmas either. After three or four years in, the cocoon, they must come out anchi discover whether they are caterpillers or butterflies, There are no lines of employers eager to sign them up. There'll be no more cheques from Dad. There's nothing there but a vast, indifferent system into which they, must kick and squirm and claw to make a niche for themselves. Does all this sound depressing? Heck', no. It's just the way of life in this Country of ours, this time of year. 'There are lots of happy people, livinga-• day at a time. And there are lots of joyous people looking forward. Girls who are going to be married in June. Young pregnants looking forward to their first baby. Ancient gardeners already out kicking aside the lumps of mud and ice, looking for crocuses, scarcely able to wait to get their hands into the soil. Golfers who have mentally ironed out their swings during the winter. Sailors who watch eagerly for the breaking up of the ice. And there are lots of ordinary guys like me , full of arthritis, not many teeth left in the head, but happy as simpletons, fundamentally incapable of • being depressed, just glad to be alive. Join us. Let us hear or read about these subjects, before salaries are doubled again as no one seems to stop for anything. "Only money", is what peo ple are aiming for. Where is "Community Spirit"? George Wesenberg, Brussels Nostalgic accuracy An article in the last issue of the Huron Expositor headed, "Federal Riding Boundaries Change" is inaccurate when it includes Howick and Turnberry townships, and the town of Wingham, as being part of the riding's expansion in 1968. These municipalities have been part of Huron County, and therefore , of the constituency, long before '68. Howick, Turnberry and the town of Wingham were in the Huron riding when the late Elston Cardiff was first elected, in 1948, (if not before). The writer was a member of the Lucknow pipe band in the federal election of June, 1948, when the Brussels citizen was the Progressive Conservative candidate. Although it was the Liberal candidate, Robert Hetherington, QC., who had engaged the band, it ended up being a victory parade for Mr. Cardiff. Several numbers were played in front of the CKNX radio station, on the town's • main street, then the parade continued "on the road". The victory tour included Brussels, Seaf orth, Clinton and, finally , wound. up in Goderich. Please, be assured, the letter is written as much for indulging in nostalgia as it is for the sake of accuracy. . A.N.(Sandy) McDonald Walton. 1.• n the Years Agone MAKIN 31,1876 C nada: There are sixty Mennorti,te families now staying in the panty of Waterloo who intend emigrating to Manitoba in the spring. Hilibert: The residence of .1antesQamnbell, Lot 11, Con. 12 was burned one night wood after he tried to warm the house ,with cedar wood for some early 'morning visitors. Brussels: The temperance people have ,succeeded in securing the services of Mrs, Susannah Evans , the talented temperance oratress, With Temperance, as with other things, "Strike while the iron is hot," is a good mofto. A team belonging to Mr. Edward Kirkpatrick of Brussels hauled 27 banies of salt from Seaforth to Brussels. This is considered to be a .'pretty good pull. • Huron Notes: Mr. Weise of Benmiller in the Township of Goderich has had five of his children die from cliptheria. Big pine log: Mr. F.X.Tamblyn of Hullett took to the mill of Auber Bros. a pine saw log worthy of notice. It was the second length from the stump, measured 5 feet 3 inches in diameter at the small end, and is 14 feet in length. -It will cut 1904 feet of inch lumber and is equal in weight to 2910 feet of lumber, which is certainly a large load to haul with one team. Married: Snowden - Matheson - By the Rev. Mr. Cameron of Kippen at the residence of the bride's sister on the 22nd , Mr. Newton Snowdon to Miss Annie Matheson , both of Tuckersmith. Town Council: The only business transacted, was the passing of accounts to the amount of $984,94 and the settling of the question relating tothe-meat stalls in the market. It was resolved that the butchers remain in the market as formerly. Stanley: The Duncan farm between Varna and Bayfield was sold on Saturday for $5,420, Joseph Richardson of Morris being the purchaser. MARCH 29, 1901 Cromarty: James Campbell had a weed bee and dance last week. The roads are in very bad condition. It is almost impossible to get along with either wheels or sleigh. Farm Sold: Miss Walker has sold her farm on the Mill Road, the west half of lot 30 containing 50 acres to Messrs. W. and P. McKenzie for the sum of $1450. It is a pasture lot -and no buildings.' McKillop; McGavin Bros. Leadbury have secured at a long figure, Mr, T. J. Berry's famotis Clyde stallion "Sunlight" weighing 2240 pounds and aged eight years. Mr Arthur Galbraith of the 9th Concession recently purchased from Mr. Thomas E. Hays a very superior young thoroughbred Yorkshire pig. These are' the kind of pigs that are now required tomake old country bacon and farmers who. are wise will cater to that market. Staff: Miss Potterfield of Mitchell spent a few days With Mr. Iva Campbell in the village. The Miss Norris entertained theii friends Friday evening. Mr. George Batson is at the present time visiting friends in Walton. Tuckersmith: Mr. Appleton Elcoat, of the West End, Tuckersmith recently sold McAsh Brothers, Varan, a thoroughbred Durham bull calf three. 'meths old for $100.00. Local Brief: Miss McClure, daugahter of the late George McClure MeKillop leaves here next week for Dakota where she intends spending the summer with -friends. Kippen: Miss Ada Hamer of Usborne is spending a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. John R. McDonald of Tuckersmith. Hensall: Miss Bessie Urquhart spent several days this week wifriends in Seaforth. MisS Foster is visiting her cou&ns Mr. and M rs. Thomas Cameron. Brucefield: Mr. Rathwell has now settled down on his farm on the 2nd. concession of Stanley. We give Mr. •Rathwell a hearty welcome to• our burg. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1926 champion Rat Catcher in Hallett: - Mr.Thomas stone, of this township, is a strong runner-up to Jack Miner, ,only his specialty is,rats, instea14,covvs, Sinc,e, pct. 1st last Mr. Livingstone lihs caught no less than 96 rats; and he is still getting them. - • The young people are enjoying themselves' skating on the ice in Govenlock's flats. The ladies of the C.W.L. are holding a sale of hoMemade dainties for Easter, of candy, bread, cakes, pies, etc., this Friday afternoon at 2 p.m, A social will be held in St. Columban on Monday evening April 5th. Hogg's Orchestra with Earl Van Egmond at the piano,miss wAinllnifeurGn.ish Downey the mnsi spent c. a 'few days at the home of her cousin Mrs. J. M. McMillan, Seaforth. E. Radford has disposed of two carloads of Western oats. Mrs. Alex Voisen has taken possession of the Walper House this week. Mr. and Mrs. James McClymont, of the village and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Dayman, of Tuckersmith, attended the wedding of their niece Miss Elizabeth McCowan; of McKillop, • during the., past week. • Presbyterian Service The Peerless Jubilee Singers, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid . Society of Carmel Presbyterian Church gave a concert in the town hall on Saturday March 27th, which was very much enjoyed by all. The want of an electric light was much' missed on Wednesday afternoon owing to the heavy ice storm that broke down the poles as well as the wires in many sections. The district was fortunate in -escaping the full force of the great snow and sleet storm that caused over a million dollars worth of damage over the province on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. MARCH 30, 1451 Ernest D. Crowe, manager of the Regent Theatre, here for a number of years, has resigned to accept a similar position„ with a theatre in Petrolia. Curling •was enjoyed to the full Wednesday afternoon when about 40 curlers from Seaforth and Clinton took part. Winners were: Firit E.H.Close, Dr.J.A.Munn, D.H.Wilson and George Hays. Second: M.A.Reid, F.Kling,W.T.Teall, and A . W D unl op . Mr. and Mrs. John Cardno and Kenneth were in Georgetown for the holiday. Marking the completion of a years activity, members of the Seaforth Junior Farmers and Ytinior Institute held a banquet in the Seaforth District High School Friday evening. The fidders contest and dance sponsored by the L.O.L. of Seaforth, held in the Community Centre on Tuesday evening, was -a decided success. A new flag has been placed on *the flag pole of the Town A supplementary hospital grant of $1,602.56, to Scott Memorial Hospital was announced this, week by Thomas Pryde, M.L.A. for Huron. A large crowd attended the shower held at the Town Hall, M itchell, Monday evening in honor of Joyce Diegel and Ralph Fischer who were married Wednesday. A successful gale of livestock and implements was held on Monday for Lavern Wolfe. The property of W.C.Sutherland on Huron Street, has been purchased by R.S.Box, Seaforth, with possession April 1. Mrs. W.E,Butt, Mrs. George Hills and Miss Rhia Hills are spending the ,Easter holidays in New York. ' CONCERT presented by the WOODSTOCK ClIORA.LiCIRES ,Sunt,day, April 4th , 130 P.M. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SEAFORTH ,Tickets - Adults $2.50, children 12 and under $1.00 available from members or at the door, In case of memory lapse Why election speeches?