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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-09-30, Page 2In the Year$,Agone rn Since 1860, Serving the Community First Nbii0led at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS' LTD. 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 Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year We may have a little less garbage in Ontario, beginning tomorrow. No, the public relations outfits aren't going to stop churning out press releases and copies of governmental minister's speeches. The garbage clean up is simpler than that. Effective tomorrow, October 1, Ontario government legislation requires that all outlets selling pop sell it in returnable, as well as non-returnable bottles. Less garbage tomorrow SEAFORTH, ONTARIO SEPTEMBER 23, 1976 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH 4'4, Peggy's Cove 7 The theory is that, given a choice, ost clean living. Ontarians will buy their pop in returnables, take them back for a deposit and thus help to cut down on the tons of garbage our consumer society generates. The government is making sure It's the end of an era. We were saddened to read last week that Goshen .United Church, south of Varna in Stanley Township, is, getting rid of its outhouse. Now' we'd venture to say that Goshen United had the last church outhouse• in the area, In fact, it was probably one of the lasts outhouse, period,• in the • area. The church congregation has decided to renovate, the church basement, and to include two n ew washrooms in the building program. We don't blame them. We can well understand the wishes of the congregation to upgrade„ their facilitie s. But have they given sufficient thought to tearing down the old, as they bring in the new? A Sayfield man was quoted When our grandfathers put things in a cornerstone, say of a church or some public building, I don't imagine they thought too much' about the contents. Everyone knew what they'd put in--a local newspaper, a. few coins, some photographs, a doCument--just any sort of officialese--to represent the times. I don't imagine they thought too much about -the day when the building would come down, and then some future generation would take a look. They just put in the items and let it go. What our • grandfathers didn't know was they were planting time capsules. That's the name this decade gives to these time bombs -- to explode at some later specified date when we're all gone and the time is ripe. But there's a difference--a big difference-- with these new time capsules. We're putting these things away in a very deliberate and reasoned manner. Why, we're appointing committees to decide what to put in. They spend hours and. hours figuring out what objects represeht our age. A beer bottle? A tin can? Bikini? Button? Cigarettes? Car hubcap? They run into other problems. How can you repreeentifiejntangibles? Things such as love and loyalty. Or people communicatihg with each other? All these are important, hut how can you reduce them into an object? And to complicate things more, who can define a culture? M-uch less specify the obje ets that represent it? The problenis with time capsules have so mushroomed that it's invaded the classrooms of universities. I spoke with an anthropology prokgsor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New • York:. Professor gobett Ascher told in e he ,collected a bunch of items dug out from a garbage 'ditinp of a farnihouse. And' his students 'had a, hard tithe identifying items 'knows} to everyone fifty years ago. Only bile or two students recognized part of a Vdeallili Albe froth radio sets and a diStribator cap from a• ;194). ear. See, he Said:See how flinch: We chap e? We Change se fast we don't tetonglie things from a previous' generation. Arid even * We de still use them, like that &tribal& cap,:: doet look thideiteath the hood of our cat to know . what's; Inside, Onilife,:atirtour eats are that 1.c; left to specialists: that each store gives them that choice. We favour Huron Bruce MPP Murray Gaunt's campaign to get hr- returnable bottles banned entirely from the pop industry. Anybody who is too lazy to take their empties back to get the sizeable amount that the deposit brings these days doesn't deserve to drink pop, or maybe is too unhealthy to be drinking pop. But the bottle manufactUrers have been clardouring against a total ban and for the time being, have gotten their way. A -total ban on non-returnable pop bottles' should be the next step though. And before we drown in glass • garbage that can't . be recycled, maybe the province could look at returnable liquor bottles while they're at it. recently as saying that he keeps an outhouse on his lot behind his log cabin, just because his grandchildren had no idea of what an bilth-diTei Was. The young members of Goshen United know better and perhaps the congregation should think about keeping their outhouse so that other people of post outhouse age, would get a chance to see one. ' It wouldn' have'to be functional. A plaque on t door explaining just what an out e is would be sufficient. But the Goshen outhouse should be declared an historic site. It's a shame' to tear the laSt of anything down. But in case they still decide to do it, if you hurry to the church right away, you may be able to show your grandchildren what -an outhouse is before the wrecker's hammer falls. Now, you may laugh at all this and say this is a lot of nonsense. But that's not keeping the Prime Minister from explaining atime capsule this week on the 18th floor of the C.N. tower in Toronto. Neither does it stop all the other capsule plants.There's been arash of them since the Anierican bicentennial. The time capsules, come in' all shapes and forms. Long slim ones like rockets. In Japan at Expo '70 they looked like huge cooking cauldrons. Or they can be plain metal boxes or plastic cylinders. The time of opening is set by a committee: 100 years, 200, 500 or into the thousands. When I asked the professor what he'd put in a time capsule, ,he said he didn't know. The problem was se complex, he'd come to the conclusion we couldn't package an entire civilization in one capsule. He couldn't peel awayeall the layerS of our western society and, get at' the core. I '11 stick with the professor on that one. After running around for two weeks finding out all about these time capsules for a CBC Ideas programme, I'll stick with my local dump. I'll let the throwaways of today become the time capsules of tomorrow. There's no contriving there.No deliberating and planning for future generations. No committees to edit and select my history. I'll stick with layers of wall paper, in old houses.111 buy up old quilts, I like it when the• past comes at me -- in surprises. Like the time When I took the back out of an old mirror in a dresser. Reading the newspaper inside, I came, across names of Teddy Roosevelt, the Czarist prince of Russia and the Spanish revolution. With a little search in the history books, we dated that dresser within a few years. I'll take my history that way: I like to rummage and scrounge for it. I like to discover it. I'm glad I won't be around in the year 2,000 or 3,000. 1 won't have to be served up a time capsule, all too contrived and padkaged. The earthlings will probably think *e were trying too hard for posterity.. When it comes topOsterity, I'll put My future on kide, l'hei're the best time 1 tapsules I canthink of, To the editor. Appreciates NO doubt your recent CCNA award is more valuable to you and the paper than the efforts of your predecessors a hundred years ago, but I hope that your subscribers agree with me that the reproduction of the Seaforth fire page has delivered one of the most valuable Huron Expositor• issues in the past seven or eight years.. I suggest that you do this more often. We enjoy it Please renew my subscription of Huron Expositor for one year. We enjoy reading your paper very much. Sincerely, (Mrs.) MadelineMurray, bject to I, for one, would like to thank 'the volunteer of the Right to Life greep who look after the p ro-life displayS4at our gin and gatherings. Their main purpope is to confront the p ublid with the Fact that in every abortion a human being dies. A fetus is a human being as these. displays • so clearly show. A pregnant woman, especially one with problems, cannot make an unbiased decisien concerning herself and her unburn child. The government, and we in society, must protect these human beings. Perhaps it is time we were all shocked, or angered, or disheartened, into doing our part to find a better way for both mother and child! Yours sincerely, Mary C. Ryan, R.R.113, Dublin. R. Hamilton should' get his or her facts • straight before writing letters to the Editor of a newspaper. The booth referred to at the Seaforth Fair belonged to Stratford, & District Right to Life Association and we did not have a pickled fetus on display. It is quite obvious that R. Hamilton was not at the Seaforth F air but the letter sounds very much like the usual ones sent out by a wellknown organization devoted to having abortion removed from the Criminal Code. Their objection to• the pictures, models or fetuses shown by pro-life groups is that these show without any doubt that the fetus is a member of the human family with as much right to have his life protected by the Criminal 'Code as yours or mine. The word fetus is only the name given to e stage in human development, the same as embryo, baby, child., adolescent etc., and just as a mother should not have the right to have her child or adolescent done away with by the family doctor, neither should she have the right to have her unborn child destroyed by the family doctor, unless her life is threatened by the pregnancy. The word, "health", which is far too ambiguous a word to' be used in a matter of life and death, should be removed from the abortion law. According to Hansard, when the law was passed, it was meant to mean a' serious End of summer notes. CatVt think of one, single, useful, constructive thing I did during the past summer. Which is as it should be. , I did threaten, once or twice, to paint the back stoop and picnic table'and chairs. But on the days when I was ready to put the ' stain pn the picnic equipment, it rained, thank goodness. And I never did figure out how to paint the stoop. The cat sleeps there all day. I was either going to have al, cat with green feetor I'd have to tie biro to the lilac tree until the, paint dried, witiehi th ought was a bit inhuinan. -' One Of the big events of,the sit:Inner Was having an oak tree 'taken down. It was abOut 70 feet high and two feet thick at the fire story Even "News of the Week" •and "District ,Matters" 'are interesting to read. And please, don't keep us in suspense, and report on the fate of the "notoriously bad" character, Mrs. Griffith! Wm. J. Van Veen 606 Avenue Road Apt. 704, Toronto M4V 2K9 Editor's Note: According to 'Seaforth historian Belle Campbell, Mrs. Griffith left town shortly after the hearing and the matter of her guilt or innocence wasn't pursued. "There was talk of tar and feathering her, perhaps she got wind of that," Miss Campbell said. threat, but has been greatly abused, particularly in the Province of Ontario. Ontailio alone has had more than half of all the abortions performed in Canada last year. It is a sad commentary on the state of "health" in our province. If R. Hamilton is really concerned about children, he or she should be concerned that almost 50,000 unborn children were destroyed in our Canadian hospitals last year. Concern should also be shown for abortion's adverse affect on other children in the family , and on the woman herself. At our booth at the Stratford Fair, the children are showing a great deal of interest in how small they once were. Older students are gathering material for essays and projects. We make no apologies for being at the fairs. Why should one be "repulsed" ,.or "show • fear" at human development? What nonsense! Sincerely, Jean Turnbull, Chairman Stratford & District Right to Life Re - Letter on Pro Life exhibit' at our Fair. It is quite obvious that R. Hamilton is not a parent or he or she would know what is taught and shown to our children in schools to-day. I think one should be better informed, before expressing opinions on the progress of an issue of which he or she is unaware. Our booth did not have a pickled foetus on display, but we do have one available. We showed actual photos and also slides, and found interest with the young people as we had hoped, not enough with the children of Grades 6, 7, 8 which is regrettable , since they are misinformed or not knowledgeable of the facts. How else than using actual photos to stress a point and for your information and others we have donated books to the library, and later to the schools, thru donations to this cause. As far as conscience is concerned, that is a matter of personal opinion, but we must face the fact, abortion is murder, no matter how we' get around it. What'if Beethoven , who was deaf, Helen Keller, who was blind and many many others who have helped out this world, had been aborted? V. Etue OUP:4M 1870 IvIr.Day of Hullett, left .in this office an egg which measures 61/2 inches one way and 734 the other. Chas. E. Mason, of Brucenelci, disposed of his heavy draft stallimpGlenelg, at the Centennial for $1000. The re-opening of Duff's Church, McKillop, was held recently, goy. J. Pritchard of Blusvale was she guest ,• speaker. • The dwelling house, store and stable, belonging to Mr. Bonthron, of Rodgerville were destroyed by fire. Agnes Bell of Bayfield, was recently tried before W.W.Connor, 'and John Esson Esq, J.P's. for an aggravated assault upon Louis& Troyer. SEPTEMBER 27,1981 D. $hanahon, Jr. has leased his farm in Hullett, and will engage as an implement agent, with the Frost and Wood Company. A meeting of the House of Refuge Committee of the County Codncil, was held at Clinton. It was decided to buy a Bell organ for the house for $56.00. S.A.Dickson of town left for Toronto, to resume his legal studies in that city. The farm of Mrs. Wm. CumMings in Tuckersmith, 'has been rented for 5 years, to,John Hearn of Hullett for $250.- a year. R. Beattie; teacher at Sproats School, Tuckersmith, has purchased the Wallace property on the hill south of Egmondville for $700. Mr.Robert Bell, of the Seaforth Engine Works ,has leased the Clarkson residence and has moved into it. Frank Willis has purchased the restaurant business of Geo. Beattie of town and has taken possession. Robert Lamont and Harry Kemp of Bayfield, have returned home from Port Colborne, where they, have been working on the Government works. Thos. Wren's sale, Chiselhurst, on Wednesday was a decided success and amounted to $1,150. Alexander Sinclair of Kippen, brought home the red ticket from , Zurich for his heavy matched team of horses. Professor Bedford who tendered his resignation as predentor pf ,Carmel Church, Hensall, has engaged with the Holy City Company for an engagement of forty weeks for $25.00 a week for his services. The annual fall show of the Hay Branch Agricultural Society was held in Zurich, and was very successful. The farmer's trotting race was won by John Hey, with W, Witzel, second and Robert Elliott, third. SEPTEMBER 24, 1926 Dr. S. Banks Nelson of Hamilton delivered a lecture entitled "The British Empires Shop Window" in Cardnos Hall. Patriotic, songs were sung by L. W. Farnsworth, of Brantford, E. W. Bateman and Jas. T • Scott of Seaforth. G. J. Thiel, liveryman of Zurich has sold his fine team of dapple greys to a party in Clinton and received a handsome price for them. September 14th will be remembered by the residents of Zurich for many years. The victory of Thos. McMillan, the Liberal candidate in South Huron and return of the King goveinment was celebrated in a way that was a credit to the Liberals of the riding. Robert Penhale of Bayfield has been buying apples in this district and left for the west with a carload. Work is progressing rapidly. on Miss Catherine Moir's bungalow on the farm of her brother, Dr. A. Moir on the. London Road. ' The Expositor had brought into the office a cucumber grown. in the gardenof John Purcell which, measured 91/2 x 20 inches. The following is the standing of the contestants in the pony contests which is creating a good deal of interest: Edwin Hawkins, C. Bateman, Frank Grieve, S. Habkirk, Leo Joynt, Frank Phillips, Mickey Archibald, Wilson Broadfoot, C. G.,Sherwood, Clara Krauskopf, Geo. Crich, Tom Sills, D'Orlean Sills, Jean Gemmell. . Messrs. Stewart Bros. have remodelled the show windows in their two stores and they now present a pretty appearance. Former pupils of the Collegiate who are attending the Stratford Normal are' Misses Annie McTaggart, Marguerite Black, R,ena Simpson, Annie Brodie, Elva Jefferson and Viola' Morrison. L. Cummings of Walton is building an addition to his house. SEPTEMBER 28, 1951 Mrs.' Lorne Wilson entertained at a trousseau tea, when about 100 guests attended in honor of Miss Ethel Wilson, bride elect. Mrs. A. C.• Routledge and Mrs. Joseph Carpenter poured tea in the afternoon while Mrs'. Bert Mackay and Mrs. John Murphy presided in the evening. Four cows valued at $1400 were instantly killed by lightning on the farm of Gordon Reynolds. The cows were standing near a tree. Kenneth Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Campbell of R.R.1, Dublin, was a double winner in the Seaforth baby beef competition at•the Fall Fair, placing first in the senior division and top marks for showmanship. A large brick house erected by pioneer residents of Hullett Twp. was completely destroyed 'by fire and a family of seven was rendered homeless. It had been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Mero and their family. Hundreds attended the Monster bingo at Hensall Community arena and sponsored by the Legion and Legion Auxiliary. The 500 jack pot was won by Roy -Fisher, of Zuriek4, Mrs. Thereea Maloney entertained at a trousseau tea in honor of her daughter, Helen, bride elect. Mrs. Peter Hicknell poured tea while Mrs. Beth Norris and Miss Loretta Maloney served the guests. • • Mrs. Wm. Austin won the $1000 bingo at Clinton. Miss Mary Camilla Ryan left to attend Ontario College of Education at the University of Toronto. A record crowd, perfect weather, lots of entries, combined to make the Seaforth Fair the best in the long series of exhibitions, sponsored by the Seaforth Agricultural Society. Mary Hicknell, R.R.5, Seaforth, was the champion Garden Club Girl at the Seaforth Fall Fair. His heaven, after being out to lunch for a whole week. That Halifax is quite a place. It looks like a city in Germany, erica 1950, that has been badly bombed, and is rebuilding. Beautiful n ew buildings rising right next to deadly, three-storey slums, with winos hanging out ' the windows. Last time I was there was in the spring of 1942, on my way overseas, and Halifax was real crud then. Cold, wet, dismal, blackout, poor food, England looked like paradise after war-time Halifax. , Now it's a swingins, lively city. Had a fine trip on the Bluenose II, all sails set, spanking alohg in the sunshine: Don't miss this, if you're there. Watched in (Continued, on Page .3) • A End of an era . Ain' en 'by Karl Schuesslei- Time -capsules' cause problems display comments base. It was quite a thrill to watch the tree-slayers, two of them, scrambling away up' into the blue of a summer evening, slinging .ropes around in all • sorts of mysterious ways, shouting incompre- hensible directions to each other, like a couple of sailors reefing the foresail around Cape Horn, and lowering the mighlyoak in sections. I now have four woodpiles in my back yard, f bout , six cords of fitewood, en ;. Which II sorts of people are casting an enviOtt eye. Forget it, friends. Ittost me $300 tdhave that oak down, and I'm going to 0167 it, it I have to keep the fireplace burning day and,night all winter. That was a bad Week. Just after the oak Smiley lists joys of summer came down, the automatic washer in the basement blew its guts, The dryer was shot to, so this was another $700. An exciting installation. The washer and drier won't go down our cellar stairs. The boys had to rip out the stairs and lower the machinery. But they labored with great good nature and ingenuity. We didn't lose a single man'. Or even a married one. It could never happen if you botight the outfit from one of the big, ,out-of-town firms. They'd just sneer' if you said: "The stairs have to come out." That was a $1,000 week of pure loss. But it was somewhat redetniedi the following week when I went to Iliditme and won an awatd which included a handsome cheque for $500. It made me think God was back in