The Huron Expositor, 1978-01-05, Page 3so • '',"" •
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An accident in Seaforth'-at ' Drive was icy: 'No charges were
the interseetielt: i3Of -Centennial i laid in• the accident, due -to the
'Drive and Goderich 'Street Eastweatheeconditions. , ,
Tuesday resultedin, MD damage SeafOrth police also rePoit an"
.tii.it pickup truck driven by Gary accident on the.Kippe.n road just .
.......
L. Dill, 24 of RR2, Mitchell and south of ,Bernonriville. • , •
• $2Q0 damage to.a large van driven . .4 - dodge • van registered to
by , Cornelis • Salverda, 22, of Ch ubb Security- Systems left the
Londesboro. - ---• ----144---road—and—entered • • the &eV—
Mi. Dill was southbound on flipping Onto its roof:: It was,
Centennial Drive approaching the extensiVelL... damaged;The
'Goderich Street East intersection, ' accident Was ' reported 'at 7:25
riCeording to police and applied Tuesday' night. • .
-his-brakes. The drive was slipper Driver of the van, Glen Burston
,and his vehicle slid into the ' 'of RR1, Brhivnsville was • "not
intersection, colliding , with the - injured. • .
' van driven by Salverda, striking - Seaforth -police' attended , the
. the ,rear tire.. • • , * accident at the request .of
There • were . no injuries, Goderich, OPP.
Seaforth police report sthat it was •
Snowing at the time of the
accident, Goderich Street East
was packed-snow, and Centennial
Much to my sorrow, I'm not going to be able
to make my annual New Year's predictions
•
this -.Week. It's a terrible thing,for an editor,
'even one on maternity leave to admit, but I've
been. 'too involved at , home to 'pay much
attention to the 'world outside for the last
couple of months.
My horizens have sunk alarmingly. The
important things now are how long the baby
You're BY7WIlina Oke
invited Ellice old
Donald , Crowley ''•ft:}I. R.2 , .
Gadshill, a 46 year
Township farmer, was acclaimed
chairman of Huron-Perth County
Roman Catholic Separate School
Board at the inaugural meeting in
Dublin Tuesday ' night. He
succeeds Mickey Vere- of
Stratford.
Mr. Crowley, who was vice ,
chairmanin,1977, has been on the,
board for live years. He repre-
sents Ellice, North- and South
• Easthope TownShips:- "
William Kinahan of R.R.2,
Lucknow, a 53-year-old, life
underwriter was elected vice::
chairman, winning over Ronald
Marcy of Stratford.
, • .
HPRCSSEI EXECUTIVE — Willtain.Kinahan, L., R.R.2,"Lucknow; was-elected vice ..
president.of the Huron PerthRoman Catholic School Board at a meeting in Dublin -
Monday. qtected Chairman was Donald Crowley, of 11.8.2, GacIshill, who.succeeds
.Mickey'Vere in the position. ' . (Photo by Oke)
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„d _ ea, s oar
s t year
I'm going to lose weight and be 10 pounds
lighter than, I was before Gabrielle made her
presence felt. In the-sanae vein, l i ntgoing to
do a few -minutes :exercise every day, and get
rid of the,flab thatoin't all be blamed on the
new baby.
On weekends, when the sun is shining, I'm
going to leave the house work and the office
vvoiltr.,and set outside on my 'cross country
skis. Gaby can 'come too if her dad would,
rather ski than babysit. , Every week I'm going to do a couple of
• , selfish .things that are just for' me and
remember that I'm Susan, as well as 'being a
mother, a • wife, a housekeeper and an •
employee. -
• -I'm going to try and cultivate the wisdom
that comes with age:..the knack Of dwelling on
the things that and ether people do right,
instead of on our failures.
I'm going to invite only people that I really
• -want to see,. and liope friends'll do the-
same -for me.---1-978-is-goingwto-he•-a- year- of - —
sinCerity, you gee:-
I'm going to remember that the funny,-
things in life are what make's living
Mt. Crowley, in his inaugural
speech said, "This is the tenth
year`for this Huron-Perth Board, I
Blyth trustee
. (Continued from Page I)
said Mr. Dempsey, than in, 1976,
but that is simply because Mother
Nature has . been looking. :after
winter-control for the county road
department. •
In other. business, the road
department reported purchase of
one 527,500 G.V.W. truck with
cola, chassis, box and hoist from
Reg McGee. and Sons Ltd.,
---.Goderich, at a total tender price
of $21,948,48. •
Every week• more and more
people discover What mighty jobs
are accomplished by ;low cost
Huron. Expositor Want Ads. Dial
527.0240.
County
'' town •'• of •,:,Wingham and; •the . , KiM•Ainslie's„report on ' his', •
townships ,,of .. • llowick ' ' 'and : inquiry into pUblic health related
Turnberry ': was .acclaimed . vice .services and healih planning in
chairman after Marion Zinn .. Huron County is completed and •
declined -her nominatitn. ., . has been revived by the aecUtive •
Shirley Hazlitt, trustee for the C Ot111111ttee Ot• the •eouiity:.
tOw-nshipS , of Colbourne and ... Civics will now go to 'all. county
GOderich, ,. was acclaimed. •council. • Members. department ,
Chairman of -the' Instructional heads. county' hospital' represen-
.Personiiel- Canimittee and will tatives and. hospital • board
serve with trustees Eugene , chairman mid membeis ' . of
The. Huron. County Board of
Education,. held it's 'inaugural
meeting Tuesday afternoon and
elected a Board chairman and
,vice chairman and chairman of
the Board's four policy
cornmittees. The newly elected
officers theelormed a striking
cominittee to decide 'on
membership for the four policy
committees, a budget committee,.
and - a collective bargainine Bargaining Committee. el " The 1978 Budget Committee
committee. will consist .,of Alex Corrigan,
R.J. Elliott, of myth was John Elliott, Shirley Hazlitt,•John
elected Board chairman over. - Henderson, Dorothy Wallace and
Marion Zinn, vice chairman of the. Dorothy Williams.
Board in 1977-and the only' other
candidate
Li
idate for the chairman in n - ea' Ith' report
1978.
Alex Corrigan, trustee for the. presented . -
was acclaimed chairman of the.
Student Policy 'Committee and
will work .with Marion Zinn and
R. K „ Peck,
Trustees 'Herb Turkheim,
Shirley Hazlitt, John Henderson,
Clarence McDonald and • R.K.
Peck will make up the. Collective
The budget for the health unit
in Huron County is up about
'$50,000 in 1978 from $518,782 in
1977 to $566,340 in 1978. The
county and the province share the
on a - 0-50 bask, the report
noted.,
Salarie rid wages are up as
arc employee benefits, fees for
services and honoraria rents and
utilities s and administrative
expenses. Travel expenses.
equipment purchases and
materials and supplies have been
reduced. -
The Family Planning budget is
down about $12,000 from $65,439
in 1977 to $52,920 this year. The
province fundS this program in its
entirety.
• The Plumbing and the environ-
ment :section of the health unit
brought in a budget which is -up
from $79,550 in 1977 to $86,850 in
1978. The -county pays $28,950
towards this department; this
ince. $19,000; and inspection
ees generate an estimated
$
General go' ment costs are
&Wit slightly in 1 8 from
584,800 to 578.900 with th major
item being hinds for the hi ory
project--$10,00--transferred i o
the library budget. The genera
administration" budget is up an
estimated $2,000 from $196,100
in 1977 to $198,000 _in 1978.
The library budget is up
considerably from . $354,650 in
1977 to 5383,550 in 1978.
Administrator Bill Haply said the
main increases are in salaries, the
cost of books and periodicals and
telephone costs.
It was explained that the library
telephone has . been ' extremely ,
busy With. 25 per cent more
McKillop, Hullett • share
buildinin,spector
McKillop and Hullett
Townships' have. jointly hired a
building inspector Eugene
McAdam of Clinton.
His duties will commence in
February. A new building by-law
with changes in permit fees will
be passed in February.
Land severence visas approved
for Nelson McClure for 100 acres
for Lot 31, Concession 4.
The by-law for the McDonald
Municipal Drainage system (B) at
Walton WOgiien_third reading
and 'passed. Tag is a Grey
Township drain involving Mc-
Killop Township.
Machan ConstrUction ,p, f
Whitton has been 'hired foilsnow
plowing in McKillop Township._
This was necessitated by a recent
accident involving the township
truck-plow which. is presently
By Wilma Oke being repaired.The firm will
paid at the tate of $21 per hour.
Councillor Harvey Craig of
Walton was appointed „as
representative to the 'Blyth
District Fire Area Board. Reeve
Allan Campbell and Councillor
William Leeming represent the
township, on the Seaforth Fire
Area Board.
Reeve Campbell „will represent
the towiiihip on. the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority
and the Ausable-Bayfield
ConServation Authority. .
A borrowing by-law for
$140,000 was passed.
.Monteith and Monteith of
Stratford was named auditor for
the township for 1978.
For 1978 Reeve Campbell will
. receive $1,D00 per year', 'tip front
$900 rut year and the rest of
council will receive $800 each , up
from $100.
The January meeting of_the
Seaforth Women's Institute will
be held January 1Q,at 8:15 p.m. at
the home of Mrs. Doris Hugill.
Roll call to be answered with
"What is' your idea of
Happiness?" Mrs. Brenda Reid
will be • demonstrator. Lunch
committee will be Mrs. A Crozier,
-Mrs. Stewart arid- /vim. J.
McGregor.
You're invited to Morning Otet
to hear Mr. Ken Devereaux speak
. about the" law as pertains to
women. At the Town Hall on ,
,:Tuesday Jan. 10 at 0:30-11:30.
The Seaforth Hospital Auxiliary •
meeting is January 10 at 8 p.m.
in the Hospital Board rooms with
installation of new officers.
Those interested are invited to
attend a meeting of .the Seaforth
P... • . Coop Nursery school on Monday
evening January 9 at 8p.m. in the'
lower library. "
Seaforth Horticultural Society will H u ro n chairman The annual meeting of the
be held• in the Masonic Hall on
Wed. Jana 11th. A pot luck
supper at 6:30 pm will precede the
meeting. Please bring dishes and
' ciitiPrp,
lessons so that half the school is
disrupted when lessons being
-taught; our gym is aclaSsroorn for
religion until early in the
ft "We need four
looms'," he stated.
"It isn't fair to the teachers,
the principal or 'the students we
aretrying to help. Sometimes
economy is not the best Solution:1-
just want you to know our needs
at St. James' and this board's
^responsiblity", concluded: •
In other husiness the
nominating committee , will
consist :of the Chairinan, vice-
chairman and past chairman,
Mickey Vere.
A borrowing by-lames for $2
million was approved to meet the
current expenditures of the bdard
that ' few would be willing to opportunity to list the' short- until the current revenue has
shouldeoirOfessionallys'' comings at' St. James' School been received.$
'He said, "We have schools and where there is. no library, . no The regUlar meeting. will' be
we need teachers. We expect mimic room, no room for French held on January 9.
• according. Wingham as chairman of the` Chairman 13111 Morley. Fiscal and, Property - Policies Ainslie was retained by council • Conimittee and will serve - with
a in May to Alexander and Donald McDonald . Orceare• brief to
support: passing -legislation to
h . provide that Huron , County
he • Council, rather' than the board of
and health should have legal rcspon-
u and for the -Huron County
Health Unit _as as the
• . planning and co-ordination of. Dorothy ,William of health services in Huron.
The remaint are ,resting at the.
R.S Box Funeral Home 'where
service will be from St. Columban
Roman Catholic Church 'Friday at '
10:30 -a. ti. conducted by Rev.
A. Oostveeri. Interment will
fo ow. in St. Coluniban. Parish ,
pryers are 8:30 on Thursday.
TAMMY LYNN NOTT
The death occured at
Seaforth Community Hospital on
Thursday Dec. 29 of Tammy Lynn
Nott in her sixth year. She was
the daughter of Beverly and Linda
Nott of RR4, Clinton,
Besides her parents. Site is
survived by brothers Dean -and
Tommy by grandparents Mr. and
Mrs,. Elgin Nott and Mr. and Mrs.
Harold East and great
grandparents Mr. and Mrs.
JamesutonvEieawst. all, of RR4 Clinton and
Mr. and Mrs:Thomas Bernard of
H
The remains rested at the
Whitney Ribey Funeral Home,
wSeaasfocrtohni dwaedhteere aon
Saturday
prive servicea t
2p.m. by Rev. Normab Pick of
Ontario Street United, Church
Clinton. Interment will follow in
Maitlandbank Cemetery,
Seaforth. Pallbearers were Glen
Nott, Donalda llodtt, Wallace East
aid Harold flernard.
Flowerbearers were John Akblas,
Brian Evans and Larry East.
feel we will have 'to take some
decisive actions this year if we 'are
to remain a viable board. We, the
trustees, will have to.make''
decisions which require integrity,
honesty and charity. We will have
ta'be concerned, not only for our
areas, but
diction of Huron and Perth
CoUnties.,
"This spirit of sacrifice will also
have to prevail in our schools by
our teachers, students, parents
and all who work for, ouvsysteire'l
he said.
Rev. H. J. Laragh of St. James'
Church, Seaforth, addressed the
trustees. Speaking of 'school
principals, he said, "There are
few tasks more difficult but a task
bookings for films o er 19 and
telephone request' for ii or-
mation materit I from he
quarters and th Midwester
Regional Library ystem. For. this
reason. a not ; telephone line.
into the library hasbeen install d
making the monthly telep
bill higher.
Classified Ads pay dividends:
ROY J. HALL
Roy J. Hall of Ethel died in
Listowel Memorial sp •
Thursday, December 15, in his
81st year. ,
Surviving besides his wife, the
former earl Dobson of Ethel, are
one son 'Elwin Hall- of Owen
Sound, three children' and
two brot
Cecil Hall of
Kingsto and orge Hall of
Florida
He as predece dilby one
ne grandson ,and one on,
bro er, Stanley Hall.
the body rested at the Peebles
Funeral Home, Atwood, until
Saturday when service and
committal were held at 2:00 P,m.
Interment was in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel.
THOMAS R. P. STEVENS
. Thomas R. P. Stevens of
Huron I-taven Park. Goderich,
formerly of , ;Pullet Township
passed away t 'Seaforth
Community Ho coital, December
24: in his 68th ear.
Born in liellett Township, he
was the son of the late Daniel
Stevens and Jennie Fairservice.
He was educated in Hullett and
farmed. most of his life there,
moving to Cranbrook for several
years belore.retiring Goderiele
Ile leavA mown 'his loss.
on that committee.
Dorothy Wallace of G deri
as acclaimed chairman bf
hool Programs' Committe
ill, serve with Charles
Cayley -Hill.
bituaries
one sister. Jean. alrs. Harold
Pethiek of. Sea fort Ii, ' at
brothers, Er nest of M.
Alvin of Seaforth.
•edeceased by ster..
Mrs. Ha .vev ton.
Funeral ' services were lie
Tuesday, 'December 27 from R.
Box Funeral Home in Seaford
Reverend Stanley McDonald
officiated. Pallbearers were: •
Wesley Jtoe, Watson 'Reid, •
Murray - Reid. Harry Ranson,
John MeEwing and Ernie Toil,
Flower bearers were: Kenneth
Ashton, Keith Pethick. • Lloyd
Pet hick wind John Taylor,
Blyth and Brussels '
BeIgrave •
MARTIN JOHN MALONEY
Martin John Maloney, RR 5
Seiforth died suddenly at his
home on Sunday January 1, 1978,
"He was 49. ' _—
. Born in McKillop, he attended ,
Beechwood School and haS farmed
d on the family farm where he
was born.
He is survived by his mother
WS-. Nora Maloney, Seaforth and
foUr brothers Leonard of London,
Leon of MU, l3ublin, Clarence
and Kenneth of Seaforth, Three
sistert• Lorraine, Mrs. Leonard
, Feeney of St. Marys; Jean,- Mrs.
Teirry Kelly of London;
Mrs. isooert-iiieeer Nairn. Also
19 nieces and nephews.
sleeps, 'whether or not she-burps and how.
Much slie.,weighs., I'm getting a lot more
satisfaction fro- • • smiles than from a, well
written story,
Stories...hahl I haven't even had a chance
' 0,1140, ,about writing any and I thought I'd
have tons of time for that sort of thing once I
Was. at home with baby.
NO,. -the outside world is represented by a
visit to friends, toting baby, naturally,. and
• even that hasn't been possible in this
winter's weather, really big trip'is a jaunt,to
the doctor for our eek cheek up. Funny,
"isn't it and I goes all .p rents gO through it. ,_
BinThave-to shark the New year somehow .
and so I spent new Year'S quietly at }tonne/
•" with the family, laying out 1078. In spike of the
fact that some analyst, says, that .enly weak Worthwhile. people make New year's resolutions (strong ,
people just go out and deit),1 went ahead arid My family will be a little healthier in 1978 I
hope, as • I 'resolve to cook well balanced--
made mine, a whole bunch of them. ' • meals...heavily weighted'with fresh food and
" So, instead Of predictions,which would be a •
whole lot more fun, I'll lay my resolutions
'lean meats instead of the short_ cue,:
pseudo-food I'm tempted-to Ilse when I'm in
bare publicly...ones made and-ones wish I'd • hurry.
made, I'll let yOu'deeide which is which.
The real biggie in 1978 is my resolution,
again, to quit smoking. I attempted td,lasso
the better half in on that but no luck so fat.
He's puffing away, I'm experiencing with-
drawal pangs and, worrying that as mY'brother
'said: "One week back at work and you'll be
smoking."
I'm going to go to the dentist, it's been a , ' There you have it: Woeldn
couple_ of years now and I know I have need of letter 1978 if I managed (weakli
his services but have always been- too, busy., to keep, even half of them? Ne
too pregnant, too something. we'll, have an accounting.
Suga, and Spice
by. Bill Smiley
A nation of nice nellies
touchiness of modern society, in which:' no
Don't y get a little tired of the better firewood' than they do reading
matter.
matteewhere you step, it's en- somebody's Television, and radio news reporting
toes, no matter what' you say or. write„ it's a -‘,,..most of it culled from the late editions of
slur on someone's -background, n color; newspapers, is incredibly unimaginative
,ereeti'br convictions? . • and ' repetitious.TV programs, on the
About the enly-areas, left in which one •are pure pap, offensive by being So
may", chance a remark without fear of inoffensive,- '
in is ing a wound -are politics and sex. Public figures are so frightened of
eXtreinely difficult. to ,'inflict even a offending somebody or losing a few votes,
bruise on a 'politician, He 'must have ,a fat that their public utterances conic out as
ego in the first place, and he Auickly mush wrapped 'in marshmallow:
acquiees a braSS hide to go with. it. Add an
Whit this,country, and this society, need • ability to talk,out of both'sidei of the mouth
is a ' good dash of water from • at "once, and a certain skill in straddling
somewhere, to wake us fro our mind= fences, and you have cabinet material. numbing ; paralyzing "nieenes ".
inthe field of sex, there don.'t seem to be
We need a Bob Edw ds or Grattan
any limits any more to what 'can be said„ O'Leary to jolt us with •som honest presented or simulated. ' Movies,-
vituperation, some colorful na ecalling, magazines and theatre club us over. the • ,,, some hard facts, and some comm n sense.
head with 'raw, unembellished sex, or seek
We need some politicianswith guts, who
to titillate_ the spook in each of us with
don't give a diddle for the popularity polls,
.highly-embellished, freaky sex until :the . and who would give us the facts of; life , • • whole OnceLexciting subject .has. become a
without any sugar coating. cras'ffing bore. - •
We need some educators with backbone
Aside from• sex and politics then, there to tell the people .who claim that
is scarcely an aspect of the !Inman seeile-'4.- Huckleberry 'Finn is 'racist and The
re v ven angels'fear to tread, lest'they
Merchant of Venice is
and'
and ,step on someonp's sensibilities. Catch - 22 is dirty and The Diviners is Ethnic joke's are,our, black is beautiful, disgusting, to go fly a kite., gefillte fish is glorious, Rhodesia is rotten, We tked about 10,000' fewer smart-ass poor pee* are more noble than rich
'commentators on what is wrong with this people, gay is gorgeous, and the only real
country; and a few hundred honest men or sin is-to be old. women to tell us what is right with it,
Lord forbid that we should ever go back
We need fat fewer "reasonable" people
to the days when a Catholic • was a
and a heck of a lot more "unreasonable" •
"miek" or a "dogan", di)lack person was people , who would' refuse to accept a "nigger," an Italian was, a "wop," and
something just because it's always been Chinese was a' "chink", and so on. done that way, or someone might be upset But I do get heartiligick of a society in
if things were changed.. • ' which you have to tippy-toe all the time for
We need some thundering editortials,
fear of offending some touchy minority, or some pulpits pounded, some stiff jail
trespassing inadvertently on someone's sentences for racism, some honesty in high weird religious affiliations. Pia*:
We certainly don't need a "good war" or We are developing into a society with a
a "good depression". .to make Canadians snobbish sort of reverse prejudice in which
stop whining and bitching and mealy-, everybody is leaning over backwards in
rbuthingrbut,„We certainly need a h good" order to appear not even to be breathing oc
something to turn us back into the sturdy, anyone else. . • •
individualistic people we used to be.
As a,result, we are losing finch of that
I haven't the answers. I'm no prophet,
good olds.Canadian ertistiness and turning
But I'm sick to' the ears of a society that
into a nation of nice nellies in whose, thinks: old people are a nuisance; young mouths margarine wouldn't melt. people are never a nuisance; supermarkets
Even our media reflect this trend in our are sexy; social workers 'can Make
society. with feiv exceptions, our news- miracles; and everybody is as geod as
papers are as bland as Waite mange: The everybody else.
letters to the editor have more•bite, and are
Perhaps if ,,you agree' with me to .some often better written, than the editorials. extent, you would enjoy reading The
Our magazines are either .tiresomely
Golden Age of B.S. by Fred C. Dobbs. It's "liberal" or narrowly nationalistic, or
rambling and it's coarse in spots, but it's
both. Tied in tight 'bundles, they make right- on.
B OF E NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN J hn Elliott,
of Blyth accepts the gevil, sy is of his new
position as chairman of the H on County Board of
Education, ifom outgoing prespent Herb Turkheim,
at the Board's meeting Monday.
° ' (Clinton News RedOrd Photo)
Health Unit budget up '500
them tote perfect in spiteof our
imperfections. They deserve our
support. I don't think we should.
be too Ord, too demanding. We '
could be wrong too."
Fie, said; "The school does
teach the 3 R's, reading riting and
Rithmatic but for our schools the
Most important subject is
religion. Our priests deSire to
increase God's love in the •
children. The board, -the. teachers
...desire this. Training in Christian-
ity_is What out job is. This -is
where the priest comes in, this is
what we can do, no one else. can
do it -- Getting. the children to
come on their own is training in
Christianity".
• Father -r Laragh took the
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It's too bad that :You can't make NewYear's
resolutions forecither people because I'd love
'to resolve that the, better half will share more
'of the cooking and houselcee ing '78. A.
he'd have me down in the b •
the rooldoirig routine hous
were resolving for me. It's
on that issue.
Frayne' and Harry Hayter. parliament.
' John: 'Henderson of Sea forth . The executive committee
defeated—Jack---T4lexander-=of-••- -tvc tu r.11xca;-.eonsrara tuin to the .
1 ti