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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-09-16, Page 3Huron-Perth Lu Association gains compressor pumps • rribuchriwn here. Kilbarchan Nursing Home Salutes Nursing Home Wee6nd Saturday, Sunday Sept. 18-19 We say thanks for the co-operation the community has extended In our Work at Kilbarchan and invite the people of the Seaforth area to continue to share their friendship with our guests not only during this special period but throughouto the year. Only through your visits can our patients gain, an involyeinent with'events and people of the community and thus be ,helped In finding a newt sense of purpose in life. easy answer.. Victor :61:arinitCkionegUoyI 1 izt Mounding selecto r. Oversized Do uble cipher add Victor 315C alculator. . irVICTOR The logical choice, The Huron Exposilar Review your R.R.S.P. now Now is a good time to compare your Registered Retirement Savings Plan with thr G.I.C. Plan availab e from V and G: Curren ly each $1,000 invested is guaranteed to be worth $1,648140 five years hence under our plan. How does this , comparle with your presentitn? Discuss R.R.S.P.' today at Victoria and Grey. Member Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation TIMM and GREY tRUSt OMPANY SINCE 1809 ..r, ..RO6rt Coots • THE• HURON ark. we A Huron County Cancer Society annual meeting and dinner will be held at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club on Monday September 27 at 7 p.m. The guest speaker will be Don Insley, vice president radio station CFRB ' Toronto. A few tickets are available,, Phone 127-0994. You're Invited opinion t,,C. the'-appropriate governmental organization; and may Make any recommendations he feels ftt. As the office of the Ombudsman is a body of the Ontario Government, it.can only deal with complaints about 'the. Ontario Government and not the federal or municipal matters. No appointment is necespity for anyone who wishts to, bring 'a complaint before the Ombudsman in Goderich, Wednesday and all complaints submitted are kept in the"strtetest confidence. Huron Perth District Health Council Steering Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, September 28th at 8 p.m. at,,the Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton. The purpose of this meeting is to inform the' people of this area about the function and possible formation of a district health council. Mr. Stephen Skorcz will attend from the Ministry Of Health.. authority in tho-nelclog,40*Nti*" '04.414atip. .and. Nfexkaxt • Coats was apighliC4.4 member Statistical Societies, the Committee .of StAtical Toronto, McGill and Dalhousie Experts Sot up • OnflOr. the 1.Tniverakies honoured Coats- with Convention .1* Economic doctorates, Statistics of the League of Nations. Rohert Coats wasp a. decieated at Geneva in MI. garite'r, in . and witty man. A noted reconteur 1924, Robert Coats had been _with a-strong Sense of how HT,' canadis member to the Service-Of he clailliefir to have., proved., at Epidemiological Intelligence and least to his own satisfaction, that parliainent had, at different . Public Health statistics, . also for the' first truly modem census times, established the, , FenStIS, the League of Nations., at Geneva: occurred in 1006 in the' small railway and criminal statistics, In • Robert Coats retired. frOm the: colony of New France. Other 1885 a General Statistics Act had public service in 1942, but "so-called" cetistlsea*.anch as the Census .of Solon; the Breviary of Charlemagne (808 AD)and the Doomsday (1086 AD) were but military' or . taxation records, not statistical records. He traced the confused, history of Statistics in Canada showing knerican and Imperial • influences ' on its consultant for • the Food and development. 'He admired Agricultural Organization, United Australia for leading the younger Nations, Washington. members of the Commonwealth A serious . heart condition in the accumulation and use of forced Coats to retire from active coherent sta tistics, but, he never public life in 1947. During his doubted the influential • and career he published a number of • important role -that.... Canada. had the utmost- autonomy, the • books and articles: The Labour, played in this• science of right: to . collect, centralize, ' Movement in Canada (1910), organizing facts to reveal Or interpret; and publish statistics. Statistics Comes of Age (1934), elucideate their significance. He and 13 eginnings in Canadian played a significant part in , Statistics (Canadian Historical framing this role and .as chief Review, 1946). . ' architect of the national statistical Many honours were also system . made an oustanding bestowed on Robert Coats. He contribution to our country. -was a Fellow of the Royal Society Under his guidance this System of .Canada, an honourary Fellow 'and its publiCations beearie: one of the Royal Statistical Society, of the most complete" and and an honourary .Fellow of the advanced in the world. Vivian Newnham and Ethel Boyes reported on the convention. Rev. and Mrs. Ure Stewart ,07 showed slides of a garden tour the society 'had taken in previous year: Dr. Whitman donated three .,door prizes to, the winners, E. itiewartha; Nott and G. Keiller. Mrs. 9rummett requested all to bring plants or slips to the next meeting for an exchange on Wednesdy October 13th. (By Wilma Oke) Over 400 friends and relatives attended a reception and dance at the Seaforth Cominunity Centre Saturday ,night to mark the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dalton of 43 Railway Street. Mrs. Dalton is the former Janet Smith, a duaghter of the late Percy and Margaret (Kerr) Smith of McKillop Township. Mr. Dalton is a son of the late Robert and Maude„ (Wright) Dalton. of Staffa.,, The couple was married at the McKillop Manse by the late Rev. J.A. Ferguson qn September 18, 1926. ' Following the marriage and 'a wedpng breakfast at the holm of the 'bride's parents, the couple left in their Model T Ford on a honeymoon to Toronto arid Eastern Ontario. They farmed in McKillop for • a year, then moved to Schumacher where Mr. Dalton worked in. the McIntyre Mines for two and a half years. They ' returned to McKillop where they farmed until retiring to Seaforth about 1954. Active_ in community affairs, Mr. Dalton served on the Seaforth Council for nine years, part of that as reeve of the town., He served as Seaforth's representa- At a meeting in Seaforth Wednesday of the Huron-Perth Lung Association, Mrs. May Dodds . of Stratford, (d,,, vice president, reported tW5 more compressor (breathing) pumps are to be' purchased for use in the' two counties. The pumps are used on referral from a doctor, usually adult emphysema patients. • Asthma week will be observed in Ontario from October 3 - 9. Mrs, Dodds said the special camp for children with asthma 0 held from June 27 to July 3 at Camp Bimini at R.R.2," St. Pauls was , an unqualified success. There were 37 children from five counties, Perth, Huron, Oxford, Watei Oo and Brant, aged 8 - 14 years. The special camp was the first of its kind in Ontario. An historical plaque commemorating one of Huron's disjrnt guished sons, )3r. Robert Hamilton Coats, • Canada's first bomimion Statistician, Will be unveiled on ,the grounds of the. Central Huron Secondary School, Clinton, next Saturday. The. plaque is being Erected by the Ontario Heritage Foulidatinn: Sa turday's ceremony is being arranged and sponsored by the Huron County Historical Society whose President, David McClure, will act as programme chairman. Others invited to take part in 'the ceremony include: Mayor 'of Clinton: Gerry Ginn, Reeve of Goderich Township;' Jack Riddell, M.P.P. (Horn-Middlesex); Bob McKinley, •M.P. (Huron); Professor Kenneth Dawson, who will represent the Ontario Heritage Foundation; Professor Donald Macgregor, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; -Nand Mrs. -Dora Batkin, who is well-known for her work in local history. The plaque will, , unveiled by Mrs.Frank Fingland, wife of the late Judge. Fingland, and dedicated by the Reverend Harold Snell. The inscription 'on the plaque reads: Dr. Robert Hamilton Coats, 1874 - 1960 Born near here, Coats was educated locally and * graduated in 1896 from the University of Toronto. In 1902 Mackenzie King, then Deputy Minister of Labour, persuaded Coats to become editor of the Labour Gazette. in this position he became convinced of the need for reliable government statistics. In 1915 he was •appointed Canada's first Dominion Statistician and Controller of the Census. Coats drafted the legislation which established the Dominion Bureaq of Statistics three years later.Twice a member of sta, tistical 'committees with the League of Nations, he also served, after retiring iin 1942, as a —.sta tistical adviser .to the Ontario Government and to the United Nations. Coats was honoured 'by three Canadian universities and was a member of many foreign statistical societies.. Historical Background The son of RobertCoats, of the famous • thread-making, family of Paisley, Scatland, and Mary Parkei Robert Hamilton CoatS was born on July' 25, 1874, near Clinton where his immigrant• father was a general merchant and private banker. tie was educated locally and then attended the 0 University of Toronto,graduating in 1896B.A.) with a major in classics. Both William_ Lyon Mackenzie King and Arthur Meighen attended the "University of Toronto at the same, time as Coats. After ,his graduation in 1896 Coats worked as a journalist Until 1902. Two years earli er Sir William Mulock had become Canada's first Minister of Labour. He chose Mackenzie King as first Deputy Minister of Labour. It was ,King who persuaded Robert Coats to enter the public service and on January 30,, 1902, Coats was appointed editor of the Labour Gazette. While with this department Coats became a. member of the Board of Enquiry on the Cost of Living in Canada. He helped assemble material and provide reliable price indices. Cgats believed that thereishould be a single reliable price indices. Coats believed that there, should ,,be a single unifying agency, - funded by the government, but independent , of political influence, to collect, interpret and provide statistics for the nation. Sir George Foster, who had been passed and under it _the Statistical • Year Book Was published. By 19,12 the Census,. Act, General Statistics Act, 'and Criminal Statistics Act were being investigated by an official enquiry' into the state of • Canadian Statistics. In 1918, under Coats' ..saper- vision, a central statistical office Was created, and named the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Robert Coats had Prepared . the draft legislation of the Statistics- Act and the Bureau of Statistics In ser' of conferences after 1918 Ro e Coats attempted and . was larg ,y successful in designing and implementing uniform definitions and standard procedure for the various areas' where statistics were ' of vital importance. Birth and death records, agriculture, internal and foreign trade, industry, mining, forestry, all came under his influence. His pioneering and ' co-ordinating efforts standardized statistics and, eliminated' confusion between the federal and provincial governments over areas of sta tistical authority. Robert Hamilton Coats attended a number of conferences and meetings where he was, able to provide other nations with the considerable experience he had gattered in his duties ' as Dominion Statistician. These conferences also allowed him to bring to, the Bureau •new techniques and methods developed beyond Canada. He was a delegate to the British Empire Statistical Conference in , 1920, and again in 1923 he was a member of Canada's Adivisory Delegation 'at the Imperial Conference in London. Ten years later he was Canada's repres,en, tataive at the International; Institute' of Statistics in 'Mexice4 City. The Dominion Bureau • of Statistics had become ,a respected continued to be active in the field of statistics: He .became an adviser on statistics to the Ontario government (1944) and, was Visiting Professor of Statistics, University of Toronto, Department of Political Economy. Coats was also a' statistical • gip XlInoP „f-aiOao . and commentary by: ILitrog Turnbu Prgc • s night at the Seaforth Musical .'egertiOtment • Golf and ,pOnto.. Club, provided' Elgin AO' e-voOing.wheo.t4e :S4fc:04.149#0 ;Keith,' Sharp, Mrfit OcnotpOct the' annual ladies. night. Carl opock,04 unve .linWson, With a Pa*. for :theni APO thek Lynda VhicetAt sheweOliicAiieS wives in TpcognitiOn:.. of their'4091*. 't0.....bolidaY " recent marriages:'• Votsy.4 as: Ain, e*change:;!Ohident Both Beg,: • LarOne'• and ;Amdeti.PonOlat.0;40100 Y out` Dorothy Hays Were presented y4tChange,program. with corsages T.ty. Helen • During.. the.".:dinner::"AttOtten • Thompson and Doreen 404aston...',ints 0;4*n:to: a 'birthday being Prior to the dinner attended Joy celoOrato4yPak:p.60100 and Lions.members and their;4vitvea."'ItO. was -presented With: Cilia': A • comic slit. ,featuted 1411401:1r.iiice*.;•*44*0. "Dorothy'' (Tack PiCkard) and recent; ttatheeno ''anct 'dance "George" (Ir*In Johnston)- and .prOdoced 53,974, for the Seaforth dog "Gallant" (LetxTeaterriiyyjth Lions ?ark and swimming, :pent Choose now for Christmas and Lay rIt Away with a smoll depogit THIS' WEEKEND 1,only 20 pce. Dinnerware *4 "FleOliS & Flowers." $25.00 WATCH OUR WINDOWS FOR WEEKEND SPECIALS A carefully engineered stereo' tuner with a high precision feel and an elegantly simple appearance. FM SENSITIVITY 1.9 m • SIGNAL TO. NOISE RATIO -68dB • WARRANTY-2 YEARS MARRIED 50 YEARS — Mr. and ,Mrs. Carl, Dalton celebrated their.Qolden Wedding on Saturday when the Seaforth' Community Centre was crowded with well wishers. Mr. Dalton was long active in Seaforth affairs and served the town as reeve for several years., (Staff Photo) Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Long time Reeve, wife mark golden wedding event • five on the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority for several years. The couple are members of Northside United Church.' Enjoying good health, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton winter in Florida at St. Petersburg each year. Mrs. Dalton keeps busy with her quilting.knitting and other, craft work, wnile Mr. Dalton is a' keen gardener. They have four sons, Robert of R.R. 1, Londesboro, Percy of R.R. 1, Walton, •Murray (Dick), Sea- forth and Douglas; Goderich and one daughter, Doris, Mrs. Dave Muir of Seaforth.. They have ten grandsons and ten granddaugh- ters and five great-grandchildren. Attending the anniversary party were: Mrs. Dalton's brother, La.pslie Smith, Toronto, and her sister Mary, Mrs. Wyman Griffin,, Albany,, N.Y.; Mr. Dalton's sisters, Harriett, Mrs. Murray Savauge, Niagara Falls; Alma, Mrs. Robert Baer, Toronto and Gladys,' Mrs. Harry Howe, Niagara Falls. Other rela- tives and "friends were cousins and friends from Toronto, Youngstown, Ohio, Michigan, Sudbury, Orillia, Wiarton, Wyoming, Stouffville and surrounding area. * They were 'recipients of many gifts and cards. Mrs. Beryl Dunsmore, Executive Secretary of the Association, reported that almost none of the children had ever been at camp before and their parents .wrote excellent comments on the psychological and physical improvement in the children. A pulmongry care "76", a two-day seminar for nurses, will be held in London November 19 and 20. Mrs. Edith Fisher said registration is $25 for two days or $15 for one day at the seminar. Ivan Forsyth, of Egmondville, said volunteers are now busy- stuffing envelopes in preparation for the 1976 Christmas Seal Program. • The meeting was attended by 10 members from Perth and Huron Counties. SAVE Phasing out Business Men's shoes left Small 8 Large Sizes -JACK THOMPSON Foot Wear Service Main Sti Seaforth bee0oko.14ininte0 of Track and COIntnetee in, 191.4 . §VPRPt10 Coats and on..fully 1, 19,1$r, Coats was appointed Canada's .41r4 Dominion, Statistician Controller of the CensOS4 The collection and use • 4f stastistics prior to appointment , bad , been haphazard. Various *acts. . Ot. Seaforth Horticultural members met on-Wednesday with Mrs. E. Allan acting, as secretary- treasurer. Plans for a bus trip to Point Pelee on Wed., Sept. 29th, were discussed. Any member, wishing, to go contact Hazel Hildebrant. Tulip bulbs will be available to members later this month. Mrs. Grurnmett introduced delegates 'to the Provincial Convention in Waterloo in June. Those who have complaints about administrative decisions or acts of officials of the Ontario Government can have their day in co;t next Wednesday when the 0 u6man comes to Goderich. The office of the Ombudsman was created in the spring of, 1975 to investigate any decision or recommendation made by the Ontario Government or any, • governmental organization of Ontario. , r , Once a complaint is received, the Office of the Ombudsman will,, proceed to'gather all the pertinent facts from the complainant, the governmental, organization involved, and from any' other person who is able' to give any . information. "After investigation, if the Ombudsman thinks the complaint is a. valid one, he reports his Horticultural group plans Pelee bus tour NEW SHIPMENTS Now rriy,ing--at •,,,Se9forth Jewellers • ** •