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APRII, 27.1
The farmers are waiting 'for fine weather as it still
keeps cold and wet. Nothing further has been done in
' the, form of seeding at Chiselhurst.
Local' sportsmen are fishing although no great
catches haye been made;_the quallty.is excellent.
Mr: William Charters of Tuckersmith met with a
serious Accident or! his farm on the Mill Road on Friday
last. He wav ate "the barn
'
_when,.pe slipped on, the
gangway and fell fracturing his leghsthw the knee. The
Charter family ,are having more than their share of
accidents as it only a few weeks ago that Mrs.
Charters fell and fractured her arm.
Men were here last week (Bayfield) staking out the
positions for hydro poles. Work on placing them will
soon commence, ' _
The roads are being put in good shape again at
Kippen and motorists are driving without any Worry of
being stuck in mud-holes. •
• Owing to the' cold backWard weather, the farmers
have been unable to do anything on' the land but all are
• , hoping that warm weather will soon set in aid within
the course of a few days, seeding will be in full swing.
(Kippen)
The syrup season in 'Kippen, i, over for another
••• year.
Mr.'Williast E. Foster of Zurich has sold' his 100 acre
farnr, S tanley Township, to Charles Stowatison who will
get position on April 1.
Mr.. A. PreScions of Goderich has opened• the third
barbershop in' tge Dominion House, Zurich.
The firemen of Hensall held a meeting in the Town
Hill to • make arrangements for the 24th of May
celebration. It was decided at the meeting to have Mr.
Duncan Cowan and his.troop of Toronto who are w
:kirown to 'the Hensall people, ,
Carpenters, painters, and mas.ons of He'nsall. are .
looking forward to a very buSy season, as a number of •
• improvements are under contemplation in the village
and district. •
Last Thursday's windstorm did:considerable damage
to roofs and windmills as ,a large number haVe been
busy patching up their roofs.
4. •
Persistence pays
Persistence rather than meekly supporting thp
That's' the .lesson in Ontario government in order "to avoid an
treasurer Darcy McKeough's
announcement this week that his
election.
NO one wants a provincial election.
(Maybe no one wants a federal One . planned Q141P premium: increase will
either but it seems a sure thing .for. be cut in haLf„ to 19 per cent.
June.) But the Liberals and the NOP The fact that the treasurer backed
refused to be silenced by the threat of down proves: that the voices of
taxpayers, most opus aghast at the one.
They'knew, and so do most people huge OHIP increase, can still be
who pay their own CHIP premiums heard in Queen'S P&1<1 —
that the Conservatives would have
. It also proves that both opposition - been-hard puTtolustify-a-37.5 peroent-partiesS7hive everything to gain-by,-
holding firm in a minority situation,, . increase on the hustings.
Do you like, the, concerts?
Summer time and the living is easy. concerned that he's had no comments
One of the things, that helps make from• audience members on what sorts
sponsored by the Dhamber of
the series of band concerts,
summer a good time in Seaforth is
credit for hiS continuing work in
Commerce, *Sunday nights' in_ Victoria
setting up the concerts /..The C. of C'.
deserves our thanks for sponsoring
them. • •
this year to make our summer
Park. -
weekends more pleasant. :Dr. Toll's
Dr. Charles Toll deserves a lot 'of
But the concerts.may not be around
'know of your support.
attend the Sunday night events.
what types of entertainment you'd
rolling cand we hope it will, try and
the concerts to continue. "It's time to
in the 'par*, or it you have ideas on
like to see there, please let Dr. Toll
of Music they like or even if they want
eithee;get organized for this summer
or forget the whole thing," he told the
Expositor.
And when the concert series gels
If yob enjoy Sunday night's Music
Write and sign a letter
to the editor today
Sugar and. Spice
by Bill Smiley
Once upon a time 'I spent the best part of a •
year in a prisoneamp. The days went by very
slowly
Later, I spent. a•year in bed in a santoritmr,
and the days dragged even more slowly.. A •
. week seemed . like a month. -
-• Recently, I spent only two weeks in another.
—seemed-longe-r-than-prison.q.lamp-attd-san-put-------their-own-exereinent-7--One-ehesterfield-sute7—
__ together. We had our grandboys for two 'smeared iwth jam. honey, bxahpaste, and
weeks. ' various other indescribable but sticky
Migawd, the days sevied endress. I'm sure substances. . .• .
o you'll say: "Nonsense. Dear little chaps. 1711. One :hardwood floor, recently refiniShed.
bet they were a lot of fun, How can he say looking as though the Canadians hockey team
that?" ' . . had .been 'practising on it. I could go on and
Sure they wt. re a lot of fun. Or let'S switch on , but it makes me 'mad, and it makes 'my
that to they had a lot of fun. But who wants wife cry. • ,
fun for 10 to 18• hours , a day? Not a. And that's not to mention all the little stuff,
"middle-aged couple. one with a bad back. the broken. bent out of shape. rendered hors de
other with jangled nerves to the. point of combat by jumping on it or hitting someone
screaming when 'the tbast pops pp in the )over the head with it. ... .
toaster.. . The begins about '6:30-, with' the sound of
We weretit like that when they arrived. but one small boy babblingthappily to himself. A
' we were cloSe to stretcher cases by the time few minutes later. there is -thumpas he hits'
they left. And I'm not exaggerating one whit. the floor, the padding of bare feet, and you
It all started when' my wife got sentimental ' lookup to fled the-tiny turkey by your bedside
and decided to help our daughter. who is in grinning hugely. probably with your shaving
the final throes of studying...to become a' cream in one ' hand. top off, something
teacher, and was getting behind in her work, dangerous, like a leg oft' a stook. in the other,
"Bill. we're going to take the kids for two and his diapers hanging down to his knees.
weeks and give Kim a break. It won't hurt us ready for some action.,
and it, might even be fun. We may never have , From there on it's sheer horror, as the
the chance to have them like this, all to ' biting and thelighting and the dancing 'and
ourselves, again.". the shouting commence. Try to iron, one of
Well. I've got news for her. We not only theM is attempting , to pull the iron oh his
night not. We will opt. Not unless it's. over my' head. Try to vacuum. andthey pull it apart in.
dead corpus: That's a lot'of nots, but I'm in a the middle 'arid use it as a voice tube. Try. to
rather negative mood. It doesn't help that I sew and the smaller one is stuffing his mouth
get a pain like a knifejn the back when I reach with pins. Try to read a,paper and a body
for a fag or a beer. ' , . • comes hurtling across-the room and leapS on
Yep,. they've sprung my -discs again.- ' to your groin.. scattering the newspaper.
Just for - example, as I write, ,the TV ....„ Even worse than the racket arc the silences.
repairinanis working behind me.' My wife got If there isn't any sound. you leap to your feet
aterrible scare today. The littlest tad, who is and run to where the silence is. They are
as destructive as a bull elephant, at a quilting inevitably pulling the knobs off . the TV.
bee, got in behind the TV- when her back was tearing up a .manuscript. or stuffing their
turned for a second. There was a hiss and a mouths with pennies they ',found in some
terrible stench of something burning. forgotten drawer.
'She snatched him away, tore the plug out of Small boys should.be.treated like monkeys.
the wall, and, much to their disgust, pushed They should be kept in cages containing lots of
the two ef thenfoitt of the room. They weren't things to climb on, sawdust on the floor, and
abit scared, as older,kids might be, but kept lot's Of peanuti lying around for the picking.
trying to push by her to see the fun. . Item s not really what •the boys are doing to us
Right now, TOM the TV man looked up, or the house. It's what they're doing to our
grihning, and holding a half-scorched piece of marraige. We're so exhausted and rattled that
Canadian cheddar. The little b...Oy had tossed we're recriminating.
his afternoon snack; whichthad purloined lord "I was up. with that child at 6:15."
knows where, into the innards of the machine. "Yeah, but who changed. his diapers?" •
Ever dropped some cheese on to a burner "Who got them theirs breakfast?"
on the stove? It sinks. No wonder the old lady . 4 "Sure, but who took thein out for a walk and
panicked. ' , broke p three fights.?" And we start to
That's just a sample.+"Here are some. shoot.' fitrifi kids wink at each -other and
ritiscellaneotis items, One floor lamp with gthi-
SEAPORT-11, ONTARIO, APRIL 27, 1978
A dangling crystals. replacement value about
. ,flattened with a, great clanging, of
chandelier-like glass. Frame bent, shade
'broken. We sat with a bare light burning, as
though we lived in a cheap hotel room. .•
One Indian rug, recently cleaned at
considerable outlay. looking as though a tribe)
situation. and the time, snailedso slowly that it of baboons had been playing football with •
Skuptk Cabbtige
_What we lase o,do icio.stopieeling_gitilt-y...__
forthings done in the" past in our own 'country,
or brpeople of ourrace. We must learn from
them, but not feel guilty. Some of course want
to feel guilty and some people want us to. feel
guilty.. I get tired of those 'who want me to feel
• tguilty for having white' skin just because of the
atrocities of Ian Smith in Rhodesia' or the
government in South Africa. Those of other
skin colours who think I should feel guilty for
I didn't see the television series, Holocaust
but I've read a good deal about the uproar it
has caused.
Incase you didn't see the articles that took
,up a good deal.of space in the newspapers last
week, the series was one of those specials on
U.S:televisionth-at-ran over several evenings.
It .told of the Nazi atrocities against Jews. in
the Second World War. '
There was•a good deal of protestagainSt it,
especially by people .of German ancestry. •
'They apparently felt that the subject had been
hauled out once too often, that the . whole
incident was better forgotten,. Young Germaps
especially groWing uPLSitied the Sectind World
Waf, who have had nothing whatsoever to do
with Nazi Germany must weary of the tales of.
the war years. They no .doubt wonder why ,
they must continue to live through the guilt of
the' era,. .•
I can understand that. 1 was born in the -
generation after the War too. I have the same-
feelings , every time petiplettalk about the,
hoerors.of the explosion of the atomic bomb at
Hiroshirria. Why should I feel guilty about
Something that. happened before I was born?
In Canadaweve-spetft- a 'good , deal of time
recently , regretting the actions . of our
government when it interned all the Japanese
on the west coast during the War..Why should
that subject be hauled out' titne and . again?
The answer is, of course, that it Must be
hauled out again and,again, not as a way of
punishing those who lived 'in a country for the
misdeeds of the past. but as a .way of •
reminding us not 'to do such things again.
History repeats itself:. that's' one of the most
accurate statements of all time. If you look at
history you can see the cyclicalpattern time
and again. People
.
seldom learn..from their
,mistakes. at least .over the long .'haul of \
history. Instead we try to forget our mistakes
of' the past. to Wry them so we can feel inure
'comfortable.- •
With the 'opposition members of the
provincial, government arguing about the
increase in the OHIP premiums Expositor
Asks thought it Might be interesting to .ask
local people. "Do you feel that the provincial
govern merit should be defeated over the
OH1P premium increase?"
Harvey -Beuerman of 169 Main St.' in
Seaforth said.. Yes I do because they just ha.d
anincreaSePf the past year on OHIP."
He asked-why buSipesses are expected to stay
with in• the 8 per cent • g u defines while the.-
government can go over them,
Mrs. John Penner of R.R.2, Seaforth said, "I
don't think we need another provincial
election yet. They're wasting more money on
their elections'than the good they do."
'Mrs. George Thompson of .81 Richmond
Street, in Hensall said, "I think• there's a.
terrible change. needed. I do think there's
something needs to be done and it ought to be
done. We're going back instead of forward."
Ken 'Faber of R.R.3, Kippen didn't think.
the government should be defeated over that
issue but they shouldn't consider themselves.
perfect if they weren't defeated over that
issue either,
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xp•ositor asks •
Do you feel the provincial government should be
defeated over the OHIP premium increase?
something a White is daing'10,000 miles away
are just as racist as Smith and his 'gang, Why
should I feel girilty,just because the colour of
• my skin is the sane? Do blacks all over,,,the.,. 71.
world feel guilty .because• of the atrocities
committed by Idi Amin? We are all just human
beings:and shouldn't feel guilty for misdeeds
„ over which we have, no control:,
Yet at the same time, we can't forget. I
' remember watching the stunning series Roots
which 'told the story of the progress of one
American black family, from the time a young'
boy was 'captured as a slave 'in Africa, until
about the time Of the Civil War, in the U.S. It : '
was pretty appalling to watch histqy Conte to
life on television,, to see 'the way the whites .
had treated the blacks in, the U.S..It was tru
inhum n and helped me understand the
• situa n of the American black much better.
.sure I had heard the story before,but
actually seeing. it recreated..on tel4ision was'
far more effective. It was indeed, impossible
to forget. , •
I've heard varying reports onthe Holocaust
series, that it is bad television Or. that it is
stunning teleyision but if it brings even .a little
of the' horrors of Aire- Nazi- "treatment of
minorities to life then it is worth it. Surely:the
series may seem to some to haye been slanted
becau.e it .was made by Sews but frankly, the
horrors of the Nazi actions were so had I doubt
they could be made seem worse than they '
were, at least on family television.• And lets
remember that though the Jews were the
Main victims, they weren't the only ones.
.Many other innocent people died In the
Concentration camps toe.
lf.there is a hope for the:world it is that,our
Modern eommunicationslechnology can keep
memories 'of .the past inhumanities of man
alive to remind us of how low we can.sink. In
the past history quickly faded. Now we. have .
flirt-B*1)f the death camps,„',,,Wehav,e proof of
the horror of the atomic bbinb at
----WeLhave-films-eftthe-terrible-rnistkkes-th at
the Americans got involved in Vietnam.
Our one hope is to keep these memories
alive: not. as a way of punishing the sons and
• daughters' or grandsotiS and granddaughters
of'those who committed the crimes, but as a;
constanfreminder that we can easily .tieled by
petty hatreds, by criminally monstrous
leaders to do things that we would never have
thought possible. Ne,we don't need the 'guilt
feelings,btit yes we do need the niemories.
' "It's'gatingde ''''' for the ,farmers. There's
no way• of getting away from it. I thin'k it's
going to get more expensive yet. You pay for it
one way or another," Mr., Faber said.
When Mrs. Daniel J.'O'Rourke, of R.R.1,
Dublin was asked whether the government
should•be defeated she said, "Yes.) just don't
agree with it," (the OHIP premium increase.)
•Mrs. John Hocking of R.R.2, Staffa thought
the provincial government should be defeated
over the increase. •
She said that toomany people have too
much. She said she thought they could do with
a little less, starting with••salaries..
"It's just so desperate, -everything going up
and up, just no common sense," she said.
Mrs. Robert McMichael of.R.R,1 , Walton
said, "I don't believe in the increase at all and
I don't elections." •
"1 think that it most certainly should not be
increased like that -for lower income families.
I'd like to see them (the government) conic to
some agreement to help them (lower income
people out rather than have an election," she
,said, adding that-it wasn't that long since the
last election.
MAY 1'; 1953'
Parrish and Hienbecker; one of aenead a' s largest
grain dealers, started operations this
k in
Our
...?„ mill formerly operated as. Excellenc Our Is •
. Limited. Manger of the mill is .1. L. Elder of Toronto.
Last Satu_rday birthitay party was held-atthe-home
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar T. Stewart, Toronto, in honour
of Mrs. Stewarts father. David W.-Fosg, a former
resident of Herisall, on th6 occasion 'of' his 95th
birthday. Mr. 'Foss was born at Mornington in Perth
County and was the first man to drive .a mail coach from
years.
,Sunday.
Poole. He was wreSident of Hensall for
many years and overcarried on a baking business 'for 25
,Sunday evening Reverend W. A. Jones, popular ,
young Incumbent of St. TboMas Anglican Church here,
preached his farewell sermon attended by members of
other local congregations 'as well as members by
parishioners from St. Mary's•AngliCan Church, Dublin.
On request' at a social -gathering, Handl's Largo was
„played or' organist George Clark. Robert Archibald,
peoples ,warden, read an address and a purse was
presented to the departing rector by T. T. JackSon.
The ;rnalied couple's club of . Northside' United
Church entertained,the couples' club °of Myth. Mrs. -
James A. Stewart sang two solos and the guest speaker
for the evening was L: Plumsteel, who chose as his
subject, "Education". The Male Quartette James A.
Stewart. Fred J. Snow, Clarence Walden, and Sam'
Scott entertained with two numbers. •
, Friends and neighbours gathered at the McKillop
farm of Alvin Stimore last week and put in his entire
Spring crop of grain. Mr. Stimore had his ankle broken
a few weeks ago when it was runover by a semi-trailer.
A large picture of Queen Elizabeth 'was gratefully
received by A. Y. McLean M. P, Mrs. Norma Hugill was
Winner of the Mystery box Cloliate,d by' Mrs. corrie
Snowden.
Last Friday evening a reception was held 'in the
Hensall Town Hall in -honour of Mr, and Mrs. Verna
Alderdice, (nee' Mona Caldwell) Tuckersmith
Township. A-large crowd attended, Jim Chapman read
the address • and Ernest Whitehouse made the
• . presentation with a -purse of money: Dancing was
----cite-Ted-fd7the group "Norms Orchestra'". •
Seaforth. Home and School 'Association held its
regular meeting with Mrs. James Grantin'the . Chair.,
•Mrs. Fred Snow was mother of the 'evening. The - •
speaker, Mrs. S. I. MeLean, gave an interesting talk on
stories and ,reading for children.
• :APRIL 10, 1903
Mr. David Holmes of McKillop has disposed of his
fine 75-acre farm to Messrs. Betts brothers from the
same locality, •and received for it $3,800. •
While feeding' cattle on William Broven's farm,
Hullett, James Porter met with a bad. accident. "
• There was a meeting held at Mason's. Hotel 'in Blyth
for the fibitike of organizing a baseball team for the
coming season. /Utter the, election of the officers it was
at
d
once.
ecidto get the grounds in' shape and start practising
:Mr. W. Aitcheson, son of William Aitcheson of this
town, has successfully passed his graduating examina
tion at Knox College.
Mr. Robert Govenlock Jr. of McKillop showed us an,
E.aster egg which was beautifully painted and adorned.
It had a rose on one side and a tree and fishing pOnd on
the other. The work 'was done by hiS:mother, 'Mrs.
Thomas Goyetdock.who is now 83 years of age,
The heautful 'balfitY weather of last Thursday gave
place to. 'a violent snowstorm on Friday when nature°
renewed her,lanuary pranks. Since then the coal bins.
and wood piles have bden useful houehold adjuncts.
Stephen Lamb, lumber 'merchapt of this town,
received a' consignment of ten cars of hemlock last
week-, - — ,
Some of the farmers in T.uckersmith have finished
seeding. '
• " , ....
There has been heavy rain every day for two' weeks
andlto appearance of clearing off. The roads are worse
than they have been for years. ", '
The Sea -th Cheese Factory commenced operations
for'the se. son on Tuesday. .
A large number of shade and ornamental trees have
been planted on the streets by property owners during
the past few days. .
Not withstanding the bad state of the roads, a very
large amount of grain has been delivered for the past
two weeks. . .
Mr. John McConnell of Carronbrook has purchased
the Carronbrook Cheese'factory and intends running it
this season. .
Mr. Slitting of Water4ille has after a patient
application of fingeenails, scrubbing brush and soft'
soap, got the old Cheese factory cony and clean, and the .
rattle of milk Cans arc heard -in the village again:
. The woolen factory in 'ruckersmith,is at present fully
en raged in the manufacture of carpets.
MAY 3, 1878
Behind the scenes
By Keith Roulston