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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-05-11, Page 3invited The Van Egniond Citizen Meeting 8 p.m. • Town Hail, Seaforth, May 16. 'Remember! It. takes hut a Moment tii7prace an Expositor Want Ad. 'Dial. 527-0240, .Kids are great dreamers. An unusual happening last week got me remembering the big dream of my childhood years, • NQW days with our national greed tempted weekly by lotteries which push the money to be made 'with luck...not work, just luck, • -kid.s probably dream of what Bus will go to West Branch THE KM EXPO IT MAY 11, 197$ a (r Water Weill DRILLING; W.D. Hopper I and-;sons--T I--- 1 4 MODERN ROTARY RIGS PHONE Neil 527-1737 Durl 527-0828 I Jim 527-077$ .FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. SEAFORTH - AYR -CAMBRIDGE th SERIES 84 TRACTORS . Several Units in Stock Call for a demonstration Thegoingisgood rOVIICX013 • features - Born arid bred to meet the tough challenges ofCanadlan farming, Series 84 ., Tractors offer the kind of performance that 'proven Itself over many years of use. 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BEEF HIND QUARTERS * FULLY PROCESSED * FULLY GUARANTEED THIS PRICE GUARANTEED UNTIL SAT., MAY 13 Phone orders accepted but at this low price we require a $50.00 deposit livirmrirmrts MEAT MARKET Dashwood 237-3314 1/2 mile south of Da,shwood's main intersection f• Something to say by. Susan White in this country. Surely the Ottawa mandarins, the "Expert" economists, and the ,$50,000-a-year civil servants have had. their innings. They have made a complete hash of things im.the three decades since World War II, when Canada emerged as a vital country with everything going for it, and has Slid steadily from a strong secondaiy power to a whining voice in' the wilderness. Surely it's'time for a leAder to emerge who has a gut feeling of what this nation ie n11 about and what its people Want. But where is he? Or she',i. John Diefenbaker it, but his own ego blurred the mirror. Robert Stanfield had it. But, in this TV age, he didn't have "charisma:" He wasn't sexy enough. Joe Clark sexy? Ed Broadbent charismatic? It is to laugh. I'll bet I'm sexier- on Sunday morning with a hangover and no shave. • Oh well, we ,can't solve the nation's ,..„problems_here every\„week. let's turn; for (tunic relief, to the National Hockey League. It is td I'ugh again, 'uproariously. It is not national, it ,is not hockey, and it is not a league, but a conglomerate of big businesses. Despite the sports' page flacks who keep • flogging us with "big" stories about hockey, hockey stars, big salaries, folding franchises, and such garbage (if I read one more story about Derek Sanderson' I'll-puke),, the hockey playoffs are becoming a big yawn. --- A couple of. decades ago, hockey fans in North. America were that — fanatics. I knew guys 'who wouldn't go to the funeral parlor -where-their wife-was laid -out,-if they_were .going to miss a playoff game. Nowadays, when everybody makes the -playoffs except Aunt Mabel 'and the Peewee team she coaches Saturday morning, ennui seta in early.,iii.„April and continues until almost June. Baseball is in full swing, football is gearing for summer training, and the gold tour is half over -before the greedy owners will let their sweaty slaves hang up their skates. When those sweaty slaves, most of them Grade 12 drop-outs, are driving Cadillacs and -the- like, and play is held up fpr TV commercials, and fourth-rate teams Make the playoffs,' the game has about as much integrity as a poker game with twos, eights and all red cards wild. I'd just as soon watch reruns of I Love Lucy as waste my time watching the NHL playoffs. At least Litcy is funny. The northern lights:cake they'll do When they win the big „bucks from Wint•ario or Lottery •Canada. Mit times were slower and sights were lower back in the. 'fifties. I remembered my great hit it rich scheme-when my husband dragged me out to watch the • A urora Borealis last 'week! . '1 say drag net because' I wasn't interested. Once dragged .out, was.- But it was cold and dark outside and I was curled up in blissful, rest with a. good book at the end of a long day, However, 'at least two friends called to tell us • the Northern - Lights were brightening the sky a rare occasion around here and the dog and I had to accompany .the better half for a viewing. The,,,, baby said ' she wasn't interested,' _Now the better half is some- thing of an' amateur astronomer (at least, that's what he tells the neighbours when they ,ask what he's looking • at through the telescope he has mounted- en the back deck). So the northern lights - • : Town Residents prefer longer .hours officials are'again considering the matter, and hope to conic up with a compromise solution within the- next ,two weeks "which will provide for sufficient access for the box holders, yet still ensure the safety of . the mail." 9 'You re Of those returned, 107 questionnaires showed outright support of the new hours; the rest expressed dissatisfaction or else suggested longer hours .for Saturday afterno6n, acCording_to W.C. Wiglesworth, Clinton' postmaster, who analyzed the survey resultS. • Mr. Wiglesworth said, "Orthe actual returns, 48,56 per .cent indicated that they would prefer extended hours. Of the total sent out. this would indicate that slightly in excess of 10 per cent would prefer longer hours for the box lobby." Mr. ,WiglesWorth said although, this isn't a large percentage, it's significant enough that post office What with Chretien's budget and the hockey playoffs, it lookS like a long, dull spring ahead. That budget earnes'ailing out with all. the buoyancy of a wet sock. I can't help agreeing with the braying 'opposition critics, who, labeled it. a cynical, -pre-election budget. - So the sales tax was cut. Big deal. It means that if I want to go out and buy al6,0.0.0 car, 1 :can save $180. Brother, if I could afford that kind of money fora car,)'m not going to let $180 Worry me, one way-or the other. And that $180 is sure going to go a long way . in providing jobs for the more than I million unemployed, isn't-it! There wasn't 'a single item in the budget that will remotely affect Our sickly dollar or ,. our' sorry unemployment Situation. ' Something that truly amazes me is that the federal Liberals, despite their. horrendous , tecord ovef The -fiaSt -decade, E-ay-6 a very good dunce of being re-elected. They are leading, by a fat 11-or-so per cent in the polls. Hew do you figure that, with the whole country mad at the government for inaction, lack of leadership, a mpnstrous deficit, and a dollar in the doldrums? It must only mean that we think an alternative would be worse, and this is a depressing thought. How • can anythh2g be worse than dreadful? I think perhaps the reason for the Liberal lead in the polls is that a sort of apathy, and cynicism has affected the Canadian voter to the ,point where he just doesn't give' a diddle any more. _ _ The lack of credibility among politician's has ' deepened, rather than the reverSe7Since the . CBC. began telecasting House of ,Commons debates. Nowhere wait more evident than on budget 'night:- On one side of the House, as the finance minister followed cliche with platitude,' one group of trained seals flapp&I their flippers on their desks every time he Stopped' for a drink of water. On the other, side of 'the House, 1 _ another group of equally well-groomed trained seals flapped their flippers on their desks when their man was cutting up the' finance minister. Perhaps the name should be .changed from the House of Commons to the Corrirhon Zoo. I. • What is developing in this country is a deep, festering sore based on a mistrust of Ottawa and everything that emanates from it. . And somebody had better start paying some attention to it: at some other' time than —election-time, or-there's going tube hell to pay Seaforth residents ,have in- dicated they would prefer ex- ' tended hours on the weekends for the lobby of -the Seaforth Post Office. Presently, wickets at thepost office close at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, and the building is locked, preventing people from picking up mail at their boxes. The decisiOn to close 'the post office over the weekend was made ,as • result of vandalism 'in the building. • Questionnaires were recently sent to 962 people in the area who have box service at the local post office, and 208 of . the auestionnaires were returned. A bus will be chartered to take Seaforth people to the big West Branch family picnic Saturday, May 27, Rec. director Clive, Buist told the Expositor. , Seaforth's Michigan sister town has issued a special invitation to all 'area people to attend the event, in Irons Park and take part in the first ever -international bed race. At least two beds are travelling from Seafortb, Clive says, •and lots of supporters ......,are needed to accompany them -The -bus, which Will—le-ave- Saturday and return Sunday with cost $15 round trip per ,person. Arrangements ' for overnight accommodation are being made. quickly, by next Friday May 19 at the latest, by'calling the rec office at 527-0882. A special welcome awaits Seaforth people. Those who attended a ball tournament in the sister town last weekend said hospitality was tremendous for anyone from Seaforth. • The picnic starts" at 10 a.m. Main events include tug of war at 11, tractor drag races from. 1 to 3 , bed races from 4 to 5:30 and_ an outdoor dance ;at 8'30. All day long dunk. tanks and novelty games will be in operatitin. Hop sack, wheelbarrow races,- egg tosses and other novelty events will go on all day long. " Offer.. not (Continued from Page 1) located. The . ministry of....cansumer affairs.h ad turned down.a reqtjeSt to raise charges for cemetery plots, -the letter from John Talbot - of the:board told council. "I. can see every ,cemetery in the area requesting grants:" commented councillor Wayne Ellis. "1 don't question the need, but we're all guessing," Maitland Bank. is' strictly • a protestant Cemetery, the mayor 'added, - Reeve _John Flannery, who's chairman of the • county •sokial services comm ittee .said 'he. under- stood that the cemetery rates. Were very. .reasonable: Cotiliell decided to invite Mr. Talbot and ask him why the consumer ministry wouldn't allow plot prices to go up. enough to cover the deficit.. •. "I won't need one (a cemetery plot) anyway," joked, councillor Ellis.. "Epi going ,to be cremated and. have my • ashed spread between here and Wingliam." • - "Wire we go again, littering the highway,- joked councillor Jim Sills. taken lightly The' offer of Mitchell-Seatorth cable TA/. of free time 'to discuss municipal business was not, taken lightly, Seaforth's finance, and general government, committee says. The comment Was contained .in the committee's report to council. An Expositor story on. the April council • meeting had said that there were no comments except him-mimes ones to the cable T.V. mpanv's offer: • D q't 'throw away GOOD JUNK Donate it to Us. VAN EGMOND ' 'FLEA MARKET SUNDAY, MAY 21 12 Noon to 5 P.M., For pick up contact— TERRY HUSSEY 527-1574 Or DOROTHY WILLIAMS 482-3326 with him were not only breath- takingly • beautiful as' they streaked brighter and 'brighter, they were interesting because he could explain a' bit, about what was happening and why. . I won't go into that now (I forget) but looking at the northern lights that still, silent night was, really- exciting. I even forgot the cold..the-dark-and the good book (well, 'almost). All the talk about the lights. and their fancy name . Aurora Borealis that night later brought back the heady., fearless days when 1 was about 10. I was a great magazine reader, plotting out my own endings to Saturday Night fiction or deciding I 'Could write letters to, the.editor, but somehow never... getting around to doing it. Like a good future newspaper employee, read •the ads too, I studied them. This particular ad asked read- ers to' think of a name. The name for a fancy cake that used 15 or so of the sponsoring manufacturer's . ingredients. I don't remember too many of the details but the cake was probably a' gooey thing with a nutrition quotient. of minus 20. The .nallneless cake was several ,dcoitcToe nreunt t aconlatiurinsaarnshd mita.. lelaolvviesd. u for anybodyeelit ,) out there has 'the recipe ..k 'The -prize I, remember like it was yesterday. 'The prize was a trip to' Paris, France. In later years many' of your average Seaf&th High School students have been 'to Paris, .and more power to them. 'But 20 years ago not many tell year olds knew anyone who'd been there. It was -a terrific prize..0 thought for days about a name for that ruddy cake. It had to be descriptive, attractive' but' dif- ferent. It had to stand out and win me 'bat trip to Paris. My mother tried to help and put up with my testing countless dry runs before I sent in my entry. "How's this sound? No that's not quite it," I'd tell her as I solemly looked for the name that would send me, and'whenJ was in a generous mood isinee the nrize was two tickets), here to fads. Finally, and by myself I thinK, I got the name that suited that cake so well I knew my trip to, Paris was a foregone conclusion. , The /tame was Aurora Borealis cake. It was perfect because the cake was multi coloured, light and airy and definiltely not every . 'day cake, , So I sent my entry and sat back to wait for the tickets to Paris to arrive in the mail. 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