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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-11-11, Page 211117011 Site 1860, Serving the Community First ..001411.eet SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD, SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 11, 1976 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 Outside Canada (in advance) $20.00 a'Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527.0240 Doing her job Subscription Rates: Canada (in advance) $10.00 a Year Keeping warm Amen by Karl Schuesler • . Fennel tea helps Seaforth received a .lot of unfortunate publicity in the daily press last week following charges by the resigning PUC manager and chairman of the commission that Mayor Betty Cardno has been ▪ interfering with the operation of the commission. In searching throug• h two years of coverage of both PUC and council affairs by the Expositor, we can find nothing to. substantiate their charges. Yes, the mayor often asked questions at PUC meetings. But just as often, she defended the Public Utilities Commission against criticism at council. It just isn't true, as ex manager Walter Scott is reported as saying in the London Free Press that "Her reports back to . Ootyncil were non-stop criticism of what we were doing." The mayor is automatically a member of.the PUC, according to the Public Utilities Act, and has the same authority and responsibilities as any other commissioner. That includes the authority and responsibility to question any proposal as a means to ensure that the interests of the‘--- taxpayers of Seaforth are being served in the best manner possible. Certainly neither PUC or council members are competent to question technical matters but they have a responsibility to satisfy themselves as to the merits of the proposal. We think the mayor was doing her job well. These differences of opinion and • charges are Unfortunate, particularly when it is• realized that through the years ;successive , PUC members .working in close co-operation' with technically capable managers and in continuing communication with the council of the day have built electric and water systems to serve Seaforth that.are equal to and in many cases, better than, ,those in towns of similar size across Ontario. What seems to be forgotten in controversies like this is that the concerns of PUC commissioners and . members of town council are What's wrong with Seaforth? That's the question that was in our minds as we looked through neighbouring weekly newspapers and counted up, the area municipalities which were planning to hold rate- payers' meetings before the December 6 municipal elections. Now, happily, we can report there To the editor identical. , They are not opposing bodies; both are serving the people of Seaforth, the work of one com- plementing that of the other. Personal comments about the abilities of members of both bodies contribute nothing to the town and its people nor to the discussion of the moment. Mayor Cardno has been interested in getting PUC - council difficulties out into the open where they, can be discussed and resolved. She pushed for press coverage of PUC' meetings, which are held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, an awkward time for this newspaper, and the ExpOsitor has been providing full coverage. Other PUC commissioners have criticized our press coverage, as have town councillors at times, but we believe we've provided fair and • accurate accounts of both meetings. Perhaps some of the commissioners would prefer to meet in private but we, don't think the interests of Seaforth taxpayers is served by private meetings. Sometimes resignations do more than emphasize a difficulty - they add to it. The PUC problem of the moment is to obtain a new manager as quickly as possible. Yet because of the chairman's resignation, ten days have elapsed without such a search having been set in motion. . The new. PUC manager will havea difficult job, but the problems are not insurmountable. We suggest that the first thing to do, once an appointment is made and the new manager has his feet on the' ground and has had an. opportunity to inform himself about the town and its needs is for the commission and council to meet together and talk over priorities whicti the PUC recommends for Seaforth's future water and hydro needs. Anyone who is concerned about the PUC council friction or about the criticism of the mayor will • have a chance to say their piece at the ratepayers' meeting Tuesday night. There are a lot of questions to be . asked. I was sitting in John Rauser's home in Mitchell and Iiistening to some of his hard sayings. John's actually a gentle man, but I couldn't help think he's one of those latter day prophets who rage against the economic conditions of our times. Then John's Wife came into the living room and offered us a cup of tea. A cup of fennel tea. That's just what I needed. I needed some tea to sooth John's words, To make them go down better. Now, ifs true. John has no white beard aflying -- like those prophets of old. But John is a man in his 70's. He has no eyes aflaming and arms aflying. He's a rather calm man. • His voice doesn't roll and thunder, He speaks in soft and well chosen words and in accented*peereit -- in speech that betrays his Swiss origins. John'a'a keen, Well disciplihed man. His trim figure and erect. stance show it, Yet John can .get to you. He's' not a prophet like Nathan who can charge right up to you and point his finger and say "Thou art the man)" But no matter. John's words still have point and pique. They still say "I'm the man". I'm the man who's pushing the inflation spiral upward. He won't let me get away by blaming. Trudeau, Trudeau, his policies, or this government or that. He won't let Me shrug and say it's a global affair. I can't do anything about it. John lets me know it all begins at home --with me. I expect too much from the economy, from the government. There's no such thing as a free lunch from the government. I have to pay 'for all the services I expeCt for all the things I want the government to• do for me. John says I expect too much money for my work. Whenever salaries come around for review, I want more money. Everyone 'else is getting it, aren't they? I want up and up. More and more. Like everyone else. I've got to meet rising costs of living, don't I? Sure, Sohn says, but would I ever think of sacrificing? Say, take a cut in wages? Or would I reduce my work week a few hours and .let some other guy share in employment? John delivers those kind of punches. So I really needed Helen Rauser's tea. Ahh., what a comforting cup of tea. She told me they used it in the old country as a medicinal tea. .A tea to calm the ,nerves or give a good night's-sleep or quiet a baby's colic. This tea Wafennel seed tea -- no leaves crammed into a , paper filter bag. But genuine green-brown seeds that have a very obvious licorce flavor. I sipped my tea while John went on with inflation horror stories for me. In G ermany he saw people carting off wheel barrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread. He saw the rich people bringing in their luxuries and their jewelry to pay for the simple neces*ies of life. Wcan't imagine it here. But John saw it. John lived through it. That's why he worries about runaway inflation here. He says we must cut back. Expect less. Give more than we get. Step wasting and needing so much. And I can't tell him all my credit cards don't cost atent if I pay the bill by the end of the month. I needed another cup of tea. I asked Mrs. Rauser where I could buy fennel seeds. I knew I was going to need fennel to soothe inflation nerves. She gave me the rest of their opened packet -- bought in a European specialty store, The packet read: "Fenchel". That's the German word. "Scald one, to two teaspoons fennel seeds with one cup of boiling water. Take fennel tea once or twice a day." I had my day's dose already-- in that one hour at John's home. I started to ask other , people about fennel. The German natives all know about it. It's from the parSley family. The Puritans nibbled the' seed in church and called it "meetin' seed" -- a seed they . chewed on while church was going on. No wonder the Puritans needed monitors up and down the aisles to keep all the members awake. Who knows? The peace of God may have been the peace from fennel. John admitted to me when his inflatiot13„, thoughts keep him awake, he goes for another cup of fennel tea. Right now John's working on .getting all his inflation concerns into print. In the newspapers and into magazines. He wants to let everyone know "You Are the Man". I'd like to give him a suggestion. Would he mind telling them about fennel tea? Fennel tea 'may help• get us all through inflation. In th0 dears Agorte • Noviivogn lid, itao A few days ago, Mr. Stabler •of CreditOn shipped from the station #here, 12 wegou loprds of cheese (20,000) pounds, It was purchased by Mr. Robinson of Seaforth for 103/1 cents per pound. 5200 pounds of cured fish were received at Seaforth station from Goderich being the shipment of C. Howland of that town. A young man in the Expositor office named Chas. Peters undertook to set 3,000 ems of solid brevier in two 'hours, after a hard days work, He finished in 2 hours leaving $ minutes to •spare. We regret being called upon to 'record the melancholy death of Wm.• Fall; of near Bay field. He was engaged in feeding a bull when it turned on him. He was injured very badly and died the following week. On a certain evening some parties shaved the t ails off a span of horses belonging, to Mr. Hulholland, miller, ,of Roxboro. The express office in the rear of Armstrong's book store, Seaforth, was entered by means of a window.Several packages were opened, but as they didn't contain any"filthy lucre"they were abandoned in disgust and disappointment. Geo. Allan of Seaforth, a bricklayer, was engaged on the scaffolding of Mr. Campbell's new building, when the plank slipped. He saved himself by catching • the joists. He escaped with a few bruises. NOVEMBER 8,1901 The first sod was turned for the new summer hotel at Goderich. A. E.. Weatherall, who taught at No. 7 Hullett is making a change this year and will teach at his home school at Auhurn as forincipal. - James Petrie of Tuckersmith has sold the old McGeoch farm to his neighbor,Thos Gemmel'. He purchased it for $5,700. Geo. McKee of McKillop, sold to John McMann of Seaforth, a 3 year old gelding for $200.00. The funeral of the late John McMillan took place from his residence in Hpllett. It was one of the largest funerals ever seen in the Crornarty area. The funeral procession was a mile and a half long and contained over 200' vehicles. Robert Willis new residence on Goderich St. promises to be one of the finest in town when finished. Joshua Dennison of McKillop has sold his farm to Joseph Love for $5,100. Mr. Dennison intends moving to Moose Jaw, Sask. Alexander McBeath, of Stanley last week shipped 120,000 feet of hardwood lumber to the MatseyHarris Co. at Toronto. •, T. -Forsyth and D. C. McLean of Kippen, have disposed of their fine horses to go to South Africa. NOVEMBER 5, 1926 • Wm. Ross of•Brucetield is offering for sale by auction at the Walker Hotel Stables, a specially good lot of Polled Angus and Durham cattle. Considerable damage was done to the Crornarty manse when it caught fire by„the explosion of a coal oil stove in the kitchen. Captain T. R. Jackson, once a' prominent figure in this County and a veteran of the Northwest Mounted Police, died at the horne of his niece, Miss Jackson in ,Egmondville. The property of the late J. Townsend, in Egmondville, has been purchased by A. Moore of Detroit. ' Jean E. Winter, granddaughter of Mrs. R. Winter, north Main St. has been awarded. the second Carter Scholarship for Huron Co, for her standing in the Upper School examinations. The ti arbara Kirkman Auxiliary of First Church held a Hallowe'en social in the schoolroom when the following took part on the program:' Mrs. McCloy, Mrs. J. E. Keating, H. Murray, Hazel Reid, J. Knechtel, Edith McKay, Mrs. M. R. Rennie, Florence Beattie and Miss S. I. McLean. NOVEMBER 9,1951 Frank Kling heads new slate of curling club officer& Vice Pres. H.O.Free; Sec.Treas. J.J.Slattery; Auditors, E.C.Bosswell and D. H. WilsOn; executive committee, Merton Reid, J.A.Munn, Gordon. McGonigle, John Langstaff; Membership, J.E.Keating, Jas. A. Stewart, Hugh Hawkins, Chaplain, Rev. D.J.Lane. • Wilford Fowler, son of Foster Fowler of Mitchell has appli ed for a patent on a gas-saver which he claims he has invented. - Principal J.F.Blackwell, of Hensall annAnced that a Kindergarten Class oichildren was started this week, with an enrolment of t2 children. Mrs. Howard Skane is the teacher. Following an illness of nearly six weeks,- from pneumonia) Robert Pa rterfield, well known carpenter passed away in Scott Memorial Hospital. He was in his 87th year. , Eric Munroe of town was in London, attending the Life Underwriters Convention for Western Ontario. The S eaforth and District Ministerial Association met at the home of Rev.H.E.Livingstone of Winthrop. The guest speaker was M.B.Parker, Huron College. • John Armstrong of Hullett and Thos. Pryde, Exeter, were the official candidates for the Liberal and Conservative parties. A successful bazaar was held in the schoolroom of First Church. The sum realized was 'nearly $215.00. Mrs. Frank 'Novok and Mrs. J.E.Keating rendered piano selections during the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Eric Anderson moved from Kippen to the Jatiott farm. • , Here's your chance is nothing wrong with Seaforth. Reversing an earlier decision not to hold such a meeting this year, Seaforth council endorsed a move by Mayor Betty Cardno to call a ratepayers' meeting, Tuesday night at 8 p.m. in the town hall. Will you be there? That's Tuesday, November 16, at .8 p.m. Crime down in Seaforth 'aspolice, council work together: chief 'I came to Seaforth in April 1973 and found the, Town without a Police Department. Prior to, that time a large turnover of personnel was experienced in the Town Police Office. I was informed that this was caused through pay, working conditions and equipment ,and was not a fault of previous officers. Crime, Hotel Brawls, near riots and vandalism to an alarming degree was experienced. November 1974 I was appointed Chief of Police and since that time I have experienced a very good working relation- ship with Committee and Council. A second cruiser was, purchased and an antique radar set replaced', uniforms and personal equipment npdatedn.....Three constables have remained,, with ;Ate dOpartment and experienced improved working conditions and pay. AS, a result of this I quote the following factg: 104 Shop breaking reported 46 Renee breakins teported 2 House breakins reported Statistics Canada report most towns in Canada over the past three years show an alarming increase in I feel that asking to replace a Police car with 97500 miles is not or should not leave any doubt in any person's mind. The safety of the officers driving this vehicle has to be taken into consideration. The Police Department is fortunate to have well trained and efficient dispatchers at the local Hospital, but the .Police Radio equipment at the Hospital is again of antique nature and requires replacing. I feel that the Police, in the Town of Seaforth are doing the job required and would not like to .,see us taking steps backward. I, too, would li.ke to see election for each office. Mr.Williams, it is nearly 1977 and not 1907. John H. Cairns Chief of Police Lack of interest a pity a the many informative articles in it each week. It is a joy for me to see Thursday morning roll around each .week, and your weekly of Nov. 4 was a real treat. That edition was what could be called a masterpiece. It will take my small brain approxiinately a week to digest the many subjects contained in it, as I was not a scholar when I was going to school. I am now retired and, getting an excellent education by reading and writing, Your paper keeps me well informed as to what is happening in a wide local area for pennies a day. This I like to know because it affects me directly because I live in your coverage area. It has been and still is a mystery' to me, how you can turn out such a high quality weekly paper for the yearly rate you charge for 'it, with the high cost of production in this day and age. When I was in business you could say I tendered, if I did not work on, jobs from the Ottawa Valley to the Lakehead at Thunder Bay and picked up and read many weekly and bl,weekIy papers and none could even eorripareto youts. I will say l'illsonburg's bi-weekly was good; one his to give credit where credit is dtie. I can See the frustration you go througl trying to create interest in the upcoming Municipal Election. I really do think the vast majority of people don't seem to care anymore. It is really a pity, isn't it? I checked with some of the high school kids and they could not tell me the basic concepts of how our government is supposed to be run. One of 'my excellent teachers either Mrs. Hackwell of Walton or Mrs. Weber of Eginondville told me that over 25 years ago and I still carry that knowledge with me today and it is sd simple to remember - Of the People, For thePdople and By the,%. People and Representation by Population, it seems veiling doesn't it. I myself would run for local governments and have in the past to help out, and got soundly defeated' at the polls. I ran for office the next time around and got the job by acclamation and served for a few months and the rest of the council ganged up and would not second any of my worthy projects, I resigned in despair and never did cash the cheque I received for my services because I felt the tax payers owed me nothing because I was unable to '.de anything' for thetn. If any of the people don't believe ate, I can go back le the filet and produce the uncashed cheque, not only the Village council cheque but also the P.U.C. cheque as was a member of that commission at the same time. On that commission they would even send us to a party at the Royal York but I would not go as I would pot, waste the tax dollars, because I don't waste my own. Peter E. Maloney, Jr. Dublin, Ont. NOK 1E0 P.S. Readers,look how long• this -family , business has been in operation and where is the Toronto Telegram? If you look at a lot of operations, bigness is not the best. Lest we. forget Each year on Remembrance Day we pause briefly to utter these words and think of those, who by land, sea and air, laid down their lives for their country. How many of you ever pause to look at the Cenotaph in front of the Town Hall? no you really know what it represents? 'Let me remind you) - The silent soldier signifies allOf our boys who laid down their lives for in in two World Wars. They were y clung, adventurous, frightened of the unknown but very patriotic. None knew who would return, home again. The names on the Cenotaph are engraved forever to remind us of the ones who paid the supreme sacrifice for'our freedom. We owe them a debt we can never ray; our .freedom The older ones in the community, will no doubt recall Billie Stone conducting Bingo every week on Main Street, where the Public Utilities building now stands. All of his World Wer I buddies helped him. Can't you still hear him calling in his old English way, "Hurider the Hoe, Clickety -Click". He had a fierce pride in Hensall and the people living here, When the boys were leaving town to do their duty in World War 2, Billie told them all "When you come home, get a Legion organized, and keep up the fight for good old 'Henson, and good luck, cheerio mate". Following World War 2, those who returned banded together and formed Branch 468 of the British Empire Service L eague, the Leieon. Many men' gave long hours of hard labour to get it organized, put on dances, sold tickets on a car and bought their Legion building. In due eourse, the Ladies!. Auxiliary to the. Legion was begaititeaOtir mothers, sisters, aunts and friends Waked eqUally as hard as the Men and . soon 'lid a noteworthy (Continued on Page 24) 10,6•• Shop breaking reported 10 Hoitae breaking reported 3 .,;.• To date . I subscribe to the EXpositor for the4ast I." _. .. 076.. Shop breakint repotted 4 amount of enjoyment I get out of reading ,