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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-04-29, Page 2run xpositor Snow clouds r. •Huron area MPP's Murray Gaunt and Jack Riddell made the Toronto Globe and Mail on Monday. In a column opposite the editorial page they were described as being more than a little wary about cries from city people that farm land should _be preserved at any price. Of course they are. wary. Most people want farm land preserved but they don't want to pay the price; they want farmers to pay it. Our two local provincial members no doubt dOn't think it's fair for farmers to bear ail the risks of producing food that all of us eat. The drop in the amount of land in agriculture in Ontario is of concern to all of us. We want farm land to stay in' farming but we expect farmers to pay for the freeze. It would be less- risky and more profitable for all farrrvers to sell their farm land for a subdivision or a shopping • centre. In most of Huron county that's impossible and most of us—agree—wi-th--:bar—forward totakitzg county council's' policy _of keeping agricultural land in production. Farmers are as concerned as anyone else that good; land be used to produce food. But they are telling the rest of us that farming good land should be, just as profitable as paving Since 1860, Serving the Community First Pabilishe0 at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS, PUBLISHER§ J-TA- , ANDREW Y. MeLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor DAVE ROBB, Advertising Manager Member Canadian Community,Newspaper Associa ion- Ontario Weekly Nespaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Farm land and its costs SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, APRIL 29, 1976 Subscription Rates: , Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year OntSicte.„Canada (in advance) $20,00 a Year • SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 06% Telephone 527-0240 A Middle. age -the big lie Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Inc tii Years Agorgie APRIL 2.,1$76 • Tucitersmit h: McKip,P9,14- ,WO,V,Otfald McKie non` was killed when he had gone to the Sugar hush to. eollect,sap; we in the act of taking, the sap from the tree, the free fell ripen him crushing his skull and otherwi40- so severely injuring him that life was extinct when he wa‘s found a few minutes later. The lad was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Irishtown. ffullett; Prizes were awarded' to pupils of St. Joseph's . Separate School, Hullett, when at 'the close of the distribution, Misses Kate Reynolds, M.J. Quigley and M. McIntosh arose on behalf of the schoolmates and agreeably surprised their teacher Miss Winnifred Egan by presenting her with a beautifbl music stand as a token of their appreciation of her kind and valtrable service as a teacher. Brussels: A team belonging to Mr.; „John Cameron, Grey, ran away from the steam grist mill. Fortunately they took to one of the back streets they reached the market house when they crossed to the Main Street and colliding with a telegraph pole and a verandah post were brought to stand. No serious damage was done. Personal: Mr. Young of the firm of Gray, Young and Sperling left last week for Philadelphia for the purpose of spending a few weeks reviewing the curiosities and wonders of the Centennial and at the same time attending to the interests of the firm who are extensive exhibitors. • Base Ball Meeting: The annual meeting of the Star Baseball Club took place at Powell's Hotel. The following were elected officers for the, ensuing year. Dr. Coleman, Patron; H. W. Meyer, President; JohOtirty,:Vice President; D. Hogan, Secretary and treasurer; Field Committee, Andrews, Boland, and Klinkhammef. Married; Lowrie - Campbell. At the residence of the bride's' father on April 20th by Rev. S. Y oung, Manchester, Mr. Chas. Lowrie to Grace, second daughter of J. C. Campbell, all of Hullett. Amen by Karl Schuessier A man.tacked up a sign on his front door: "The people in this house are Buddists They speak only a Tibetan dialect They have very .bad tempers." If y ou think this‘sign is intended to drive away all door:to-door sales people the vacuum cleaner men and the Avon calling ladies -- you're wrong. The man made it up for anoth er kind of door knocker--the person who comes around to your -door and asks, "Brother, are You • saved?" . Several recent religious magazine articles describe how you can shut the door and save face and sal keep the faith. Those religious salespeople have always made me, edgy,. I never could think up a good one li ner in reply. Imagine! A total stranger blitzing me with such a question. Now, if he'd start out by asking how I am -- physically, and that is"or if he carried on about the weather for a' few minutes, that wbuld be okay. I'd expect something like that. But no. It's am I saved? It's cutting the jugular without any previous blood 'letting. I'm just not prepared for this most personal and intimate and soul rendering question. These magazine articles m ake some suggestions -- real wham bangers to start your own offensive. Why not reply with something real instltiti:- "Are y du educated?"' Or ;,y,eu could say.,.. den,,t,. eing preposttiOiled."' Or try something real grry:,‘ Conversation stoppers such, as "What's pi .R squared?" or "Why does the Bible say the hare chews the cud?" or "Who was Cain's wife?" ' And if you have a little time on your hands you could intimidate them with, a little education of your own. Ask them what ancient Bible text they're using. Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus or Ilazae? You must insist on reliable texts. it over for a shopping centre or cutting it' up into house lots. Right now it isn't, not by far. A society that is willing to pay inflated prices for house lots and for luxury goods but balks at food prices which give farmers a fair return is in trouble. Farmers' trouble is that they, have to absorb costs over which they have no control ....from bills for an ailing cow to buying and planting seed twice after a prolonged frost , destroys the first planting. Alf their costs, including the price they have to pay to buy more land, are going up. , It's only logical that a society that says farmers have to absorb these costs on their own can't turn around and tell farmers what to do with their land ... land. that has been in effect a farmer's pension plan. But that's what we're doing. . And it's possible that we'll face a rebellion from farmers who'll ,tell us that when agriculture products bring a decent return, when food prices are high enough, farm land won't- -be taken out of production there'll be too much money in - it All of us who say we want farm land preserved on the one hand and .bap5 at high food price's on the other are hyprocrites. And if that doesn't throw them in disarray, then you' could memorize the Bishop of Durham's answer: "Am I saved? Well that depends. Whether you mean in the past tense, the present tense or the future tense. If you mean 'Did Christ die for me?' -- undoubtedly; if you mean, 'Are" my feet firmly set upon the highWay of salvation?' -- I trust so; but if you mean 'Am I safe home in the blest king- dom meek of joy and love?' -, certainly not." But I don-'t know. Floes any of it work? Does .any one word--or words-'-satisfy? Does anything work short of letting them know I like to-think of myself as Christian, but not their variety. Being born again doesn't have to mean some electrifying experience where I can pinpoint time and date. I can't remember my physical birth. Why press a spiritual timetable on me? I don't get my jollies out of remembering my birth -- spiritual or otherwise. It's what I do along the way that counts. It's what I believe in that counts. But no matter. Vve learned to shut the door pretty fast on my callers. Without the aid of all those helpful magazine remarks. Forget about the bright remark and fighting invective. It's sad--real sad--when one of my . doorknockers can say the local pastor could have a packed church every Sunday. The pastor could fill up h is entire sanctuary -- if only he were saved, born again. It's so sad -- and presumptuous -- to look at, God's gift of -salvation as some sort of 'promissory note that I can get, payable on demand. When you Manage to totter through to what is ettPhernisdcally called these days "middle age," yoaaresuppoied to be able to relai ,a little,- glow down, take it easy, enjoy all- those things you never had time for before. After all, your kids are grown up now, and on their own. The mortgage is paid off, pr nearly. Passion is not exactly spent, but let's say that you don't exactly turn to jelly at the sight of a big buzoom. If y our health is reasonable, you should have a quarter-century of mellow living ahead, time to travel, to contemplate your navel, to read all those, books, to cultivate your own garden, before you are quietly shuffled off to one of those institutions with the ,ghastly names, like Sunset Haven or Trail's End Paradise; I am here to state, quietly but with grim ferocity, that tills is one of the Big Lies perpetrated by our society on young people when they are raising their children: It's a lot of poppycock, chaps. Take-my advice and have all the fun you can while you're young. Go to Europe, buy a farm, take a year off. Do what you want to now, because you won't have time when you're middle-aged. I just sat down here fora minute, to stop my head spinning, and it struck me that it's the first chance I've had to sit down and take my usual cool perspective of life for weekg. Life is not exactly a gay. mad whirl when you're middle-aged. It's more like a case of the blind staggers. • Just for example. If we're not running in one direction to see our two grandsons, we're running in another to • see their 83-year-old great-grandfather. Recently, in a wave of, good feeling, we decided to treat my daughter and her husband to a night out.'"They are students, broke, and neve r get out. So I hawked up the price of dinner and a show, and my 'old lady told them we'd be delighted to baby-sit. Fine. Any grandparents would do, it. But it was akin to a disaster. First-born grandbabby, Pokey, was so wild with excitement at seeing his favorite toys, servants and sycophants, that he ran around the-apartment like a demented chipmunk, up and down over the furniture, leaping into arms, jabbering and laughing and roaring with defiance at any effort to cool him down. , And the other guy, the little, fat new - one, is a bawler. He doesn't 'even bawl at the drop of a hat. He bawlS at will. And at Suse. That's my wife. I'm Will. The young couple left at 6.30, baby asleep-, Pokey fed.Two minutes later, the bawler was at it. Two hours later, he was still at it. Somewhere in there I'd managed to stick our dinner (a frozen chicken pie) in the oven. At 8.30, my wife was sitting with him on her knee, trying to give him a bottle with one hand and spear a bit of chicken pie with the other. A --oss from her, I sat with Pokey on my k ..e feeding him every second bite of my meagre portion. At 9.20 we had them both asleep. We collapsed. At 9.45 ,, little fatso woke Op and bleated for' titty. He,storns the bottle. Suffice it to say it was long evening. But,that was unusual, you say. Most of your life is pretty tranquil and even in tone. Well, that's what you think , Buster. I didn't even curl this past winter, and scarcely had time to blow my nose. Right now, aside, from a full day's teaching, I am doingthe advertising and publicity for the school Open louse, preparing to be a guest on a panel discussion and modelling for an art class. In my spare time, I mark papers and prepare_ lessons. You think I'm busy? You ought to see my wife. Aside from her regular housework, she teaches piano, knits and sews (simultaneously, it seems to me) , prepares the income tax return', chooses and uses new paint and 'wallpaper, runs around trying to find clothes for two grandsons, and gallops down to Simpson's order office to return things three times a week (it was she who put Eaton's catalogue out tif busines.) And we haven't even started on the garden yet. So. Just a word of wisdom to you young people. Don't swallow that bromide about a serene middle age. It's about as serene as .Sa ur y night in the corner saloon. a th rosebuds while ye may, Ye won't have time when ye're old and gray. Are you saved? APRIL 26,1901 Hensall; Miss Annie Pfaff left on Wednesday for Clinton. Dr: Buchanan of Zurich was in the village on Monday attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. A. Buchanan Sr. The Molsons Bank opened for business on Monday in their new offices in the Davis block. This building was especially 'erected for the bank and is certainly a credit to our village. Hibbert: Mr. Alex Campbell of the 10th concession who is quite an extensive breeder „of thoroughbred Durhams has recently made a number of good sales. He has sold two cows and a heifer to Mr. Robert. Hoggarth; a cow to Mr. Bert Kerslake, a bull to Mr. Don McKinnon and a bull to Mr. James Mann,, of McKillop. Brussels: John Shortreed has sold his heavy draught three yeac old, stalliontto Mr,, Bender of Wallace 'for $300.00. The East Huron License Board has only granted an extension for three months to the Leadbury Hotel. , Huron-Notes: Mr.S.A.Moffatt of Varna met with a painful accident the other evening. While pulping mangolds he got the ends of three fingers taken off on his left- hand, one of . them being 'cut as far as the bone. Local Briefs: Mr. Hugh Gordon of McKillop was in town this week.. He has been laid up all winter and we are pleased toihecar..be_ii-recovering. Mr. Thomas-Murray-and-Mr.--Morley Habkirk left on Tuesday for Vancouver where they go to push their fortunes. Mr. George Turnbull shipped a carload of very fine horses to the old country on Tuesday..„Mr, Frank Kling went in charge of the lot... Egmondville: Mr. George Hill and Miss ,Aggie Kyle spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Hart, Varna. Miss Bella Van Egmond who has been staying with her grandmother in Toronto the past ten months has returned to the. village. APRIL 30,1926 Good Race Horses - This week William Kerslake and Leonard Guy purchased from Mr. Wesley Lit, of Fullarton Township, the bay gelding Oliver Pete, whis is the most valuable race horse ever owned in Seaforth. The Ladies Aid Society of N'orthside United Church, Seaforth, celebrated their golden jubilee on Wednesday evening, April 28th, in a very, novel. manner in the schoolroom of the church. , The annual meeting of the Seaoforth Golf and Country Club was held in the council chamber,on Thursday evening of last week with a large attendaticedfliembers present. ' A play entitled `Mother 'of Mine' was staged in the Parish Hall on Wednesday evening by fifteen'young people from St. Brydgetti--Parish, Kennicott, and was greatly appreciated, by who attended. Inspector E. G. Savage paid an efficial visit to the Seaforth Collegiate this week. Rev. Dr. Drummond, of Hamilton, will conduct the spring anniversary services iz, first Presbyterian Church, Seaforth • on ,Sunday, 'May 16th~:72 • Mr. W. McMillan ha's purchaga the 'residence of Misi* Henry, opposite the Egmondville Church. The second Sabbath, May 9th, a Special Mothers •Day Service will be obsprived in the United Church. We, would remind the ladies of our eongregation that this -- Sabbath is the day for handing in the "egg money", which. the W.M.S. will thankfully. receive. • Mr. Emmerson Smith, of our, village was unfortuante' last Week, felling a tree, when a branch fell on his toe, bursting to veins and causing him so much pain:that he was forced to seek medical assistance. ' APRIL 27,1951 Mrs. J. M. Govenlock recently donated a,deer's head to Brarich 156,. Canadian Legion, for their quarters at the Community Centre. . An appeal to raise $2,1.00 for the maintenance of Salvation Army operations will begin on Tuesday, according to an announcement made by Lieut. A. Morrow,• officer in charge. Hensall and district friends extended hearty congratula- tions to Miss Katie Scott, night operator of the Bell Telephone staff, Hensall, on the grand record which she has achieved. Miss Shirley. Love, student nurse, underwent another operation on her ankle in Hamilton General Hospital last week. The delegates who attended the seventh annual Junior Farmers convention were Jim Chapman, Stewart .Wilson, Joyce Glanville and Helen JohnSton. On motion of EN,Close. and A.W.Sillery, council "has authorized the establiiNnent of a -ladies rest room in the Town Hall. The annual meeting of the Winthrop' Football Club was held Monday evening with an attendance of 30'. The second meeting of -the Seaforth MerrY Maidens GardettClub was held in the High School, Monday afternoon. To the editor Swim classes good or healthy chil d , teacher . says Asa reader and a part time instructor at the ,Vanastra Recreation Centre l was dismayed at your column on swimming in the April 8 th edition. I felt, as the Vaftastra Centre as- the only pool specifically named, that their program should have been investigated before publishing as fact opinion that are at best Unrelated to the, program and at virorsr ""- iheCtl,ktqott,,a„4,..gPnetttaion ,,,,r0aphed Icy alarriciatt. , 1:On at Present directly Involved with-the parent and tet swift] and enthusiastic about its benefit). It is not a learn to swim program:foil bablesv'bnt as, advertise& an ., OppOrtanity. fdr .0.0, ;patent, to 'receives; ingifttetlott On lieW4to best introduce their kt-a: Witter tittiatiit„ In these •classes a parent enters the • water with one child. An instructor is in the water to aid the parents in learning how to best sustain their child and' Rndourage flotation. The development of swithriant- - skills will, as in any other area, vary widely from child to child depending on rate of growth and - natural ability. However, swimming before walking, which may result-,in a few incidents, is'certainly': tint " the purpose of such' a program. The purpose of a child's early intreduc- tion to water with the patent is education on water safety and prevention of a fear , that may be difficult to, overcome in an older child. Its value lie's in the experience of a new medium which shouldoffer., , Unique benefits throughout life and the,- .0 • prevention of senseleSs drownings. Onemeed only read any newspaper each sunitrier) to- observe that no infant, child or acult call be made "water Safe". Ott the Other hand, if Water; safety rules Were --learned and followed many of these fatalities need never occur. Any parent who participates in the Vanastra or, any related parent and tot program cannot possibly leave. it believing they should be out of.contact with their child In the water at any time. The program is based on the teaching of knowledgeable parent support. In, refernece to the health hazards mentioned in your cohritm and quoted from an article published last July by • Chatelaine, I.would like first to point out that it refers only to contaminated • pool water. As all public swimming pools in Ontario are subject to regulations made under the Public Health Act and inspected regularly and without prior warning by' 4 Public health official, I should think any criticism should be made only by these governing authorities. Furthettmore, I would suggest that any concerned parent cheek with their family doctor before enreling their infant in any swim program. I have done so "and found the diseases mentioned, meningitis and tnyocarditis, to be about as rare today as tuberculosis and as• likely to result from entering ' a regulated swimming pool, as from lying in a crib. Of course infants below the age of three are more likely under many circumstances, to contact ear infections. However, no parent should, and, most don't expect swimming instructors to be diagnosticians. If a child has colds or other health problems he-should certainly not enter any swimming facility, before being cleared by a doctor. In any case it is against health regulations to enter a pool with any ',communicable disease, - • Given a healthy child, a regulated pool and proper instruction, the results of a parent and tot program can be only beneficial. I hope I have cleared up any 4riestions on the health and safety of the children involved,. 4 Ellen Gould' ,A,Y,111.4,4A• ,ne