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The Huron Expositor, 1978-07-20, Page 2A GRAND NIGHT FOR MUSIC — Seaforth's Chamber of Commerce Sunday night band concerts attract a fair crowd at Victoria Park but most concert goers sit in their cars rather than 'on seats provided as these three gentlemen did. Last Sunday's music was by the Mitchell Legion Band led by Clare French. This Sunday the Stratford Old Tyme.Band and Square dance group will perf&m. (Expositor Photo) Behind the scenes By Keith Roulston What do we believe? Since 1860, Servinisthe Community First Pi Wished at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO. every Thursday morning by MeLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD, ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation „ Subscription Rates; Canada (in advance) 312.00 a Year' ' Oudide Canada (in advance)$20,00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephope 527-0240 SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, JULY 20, 1978 Its you.rpeirk Its nearly fifty years since the Seatorth Community first enjoyed the facilities of the Seaforth Lions Park. The park has come a long way from those days away back in the twenties when it was established by the then neirly. formed Lions Club. in the beginning the park consisted of little more than supervised swim- roing in Silver Creek and a grassy area where groups could picnic. But the Lions had ,along term plan and through the years pieces of the plan have been added and /fitted • together until today few towns thiS size can point to a more attractive park setting or to a park with more complete facilities. The planning and the work still goes on 'and this • year the -club has- embarked on a• major renovation and updating piogram to reflect today's ' Two-recent accidents, one involving 12 students and an instructor from St. John's' School 'of Clarement and another involving a young Londoner, are tragic reminders of the hazards of canoeing. Canoes require a skilled hand, and even then, the boats can be "easily capsized in any sudden squall. • The tragedy at St. John's School is particularly disturbing because the school( considered training in outdoor survival skills as a basic part Of its curriculum. However, when cornoner Stanislas Dery reledsed his report on the accident, hewas critical of the fact the • entire expedition was a pointless challenge - a challenge which wasn't backed up with the kind of pre- paration required for a 'alp of several hundred kilometres , in the NOrth surely basic to learning survival schools. - The fact that the boys were already tired before starting off on the trip. and that the instructors did not come equipped with walkie-talkies or other emergency communication gear re- vealed ?startling lack of foresight on By Debbie Rannev With the Anti-Inflation Board (MB) looking into beef prices. Expositor Asks-this week decided to ask local people. "Do you think the price of beef is too high?" Mrs. Tom Barry orSeaforth said, "Yes I do. 1.y. a-y too "high. Yhti" tai tify- pork a "Mt cheaper." -Mrs. Harry Cook of R.R.3, Seaforth said. "Yes, absolutely, far too high. She said it's hard to feed a. family anymore because the price has gone up so high "In the past month, I've noticed it," she said. Mrs, Murray Baker of Hensall said, "Yes it is, compared to what the farmer ged." Mrs. William J.F. Bell of R.R.2. Kippen said, "1 would say yes, but my husband wouldn't agree with me because we're farmers and My son has a feedlot. "It's about time the price of beef went up. I know from Jack'S (their son) experience that he hasn't made any money." She said that her son had cleaned out his beef cattle last winter just before the prices standard and the fact that many of the facilities have been in' use 'for over forty years. All this has been possible because throughout the years the club has enjoyed the complete support of the community. For 42. years the Lions Summer Carnival has been foremost among projects through which the public could participate in and assist the work of park. Now the 43rd annual carnival is at hand and speCial features on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will make the event particular attractive. As has been the case in the, past the public will be assured not only of full value for the money that is spent but also of an opportunity to assist in making possible park facilities that have meant so much for so many: years. the part of expedition organizers: Although most canoeists don't venture forth on such an 'ambitious project, the hazards are always there. The unskilled canoeist should always stick- close to' shore hopefully within' easy hailing distance of someone if he does capsize.' - - The skilled canoeist in turn should , always expect disaster and be pre- pared - from_carrying life jackets to leaving word With someone on shore on how long• he will be away. Also, with today's mass marketed communication gear, • canoesists going on a long expedition should consider some way of • keeping in touch er) route. Although Mr/Dery's recom- mendation that the government re- ' gulate•future canoe trips' and conduct publicity campaigns promdting small- boat safety are certainly valid Sug- gestions, in the 'end the responsibility for canoe safety rests with the 'individual. Each summer, canoe accidents claim a number of young lives. With a little extra precautions„this wouldn't have to be the case. went up. Mervin Benermann of R.R.1, Dublin who is.. a beef fanner said. "No. not in comparison - with Nvhatou buy in the line of machinery and farm implements': He was comparing this with farmers buying beef. For other-people buying beef he said that he imagined that the price of beef would be a bit too high depending on. the income of some people. "it was way below price in the past years. That's why many of the beef farmers have gthe out of business. It's not too bad as it is." he said. Mrs. Diane Swirklis of R.R.1., Walton said. 'Most assuredly." She added that she didn't think the farmer • were getting too much but she said. "Somebody sure is getting it and we're paying for it. It's very very hard for senior citizens or anyone on a fixed income to feed a family proper ly. "Partners are getting the short end of the stick," she.said. If you're like me these : days, you're . probably a little confused as to which way to ° turn when it comes to world affairs. c--- My current problem centres around the 'controversial civil rights trials in Russia in which several dissidents have been sentenced to long terms at hard labour for "crimes" against the state.. ,. Curiously; these trials f'ake, place at a time Li when things were just beinnin to improve interms of understanding betwe 'e om- munist part of the' world and the rest of us. 'We'd been told for decades ,that the _ Communists were monsters, then _gradually were coming to the realization that they were 'humans like us, and ndw we're beginning to see them as monster, s again. One 'hardly knows 'what to believe. For the ordinary citizen, reaching a valid conclusion on something that happens on the • other side of the world is difficult. We have to depend on reports in the media and on the expressions of governments on both sides. We • have long distrusted the other side, of course, because' they control information and only let things out when it will be in a favourable 'fight. In recent years following the horrible ' • enlightenment after the Watergate affair and. assorted other scandals involving rigged publicity stunts, break ins and downright lying by governments invarious Western countries, we now have come to view, with - suspicison even our 'own, side of the story. If we've been fed a false view of things for as -long as we were with the Vietnam war perhaps the view we're getting of events in, Russia is also distorted for somepolitical or military purpose. Our final hope for information itfslich cases should be our own free press but it too has become discredited in recent years. For one thing. the press cannot print the truth until' it knows the truth. Operating in Russia, it is very- difficult to find the truth. Operating in international circles it is very easy to find what a reporter thinks' is the truth is actually information manipulated by one government or another. Even if the reporter could get the "Truth" " on an incident, there are still many obstacles to be overcome on the way to informing the , public. The reporter has his own biases which can subtle), change the story. The editorial process of getting the reporter's story into print through editors at different levels can also distort the "truth". 'Wish to congratulate you and all your staff who participated in the advertising sales and editorial research and coverage of the Dublin Centennial tabloid. It was a delight to read for this former resident who spent his childhood days in Dublin throughout the thrifty thirties. You touched all the bases from the Joe Kidd salt works beginning of Dublin down through the years of the depression canning factory failure and the successful Looby Brothers uction of today plus the church, the schools, e arrival, and departure of the wonderful Ursulinei nuns who laboured with • 1ln, other words, the likelihood of you and I getting the straight dope on something that. happens in a country like Russia is bleak. There was a time a couple of years ago when things seemed to be' growing clearer in our dealing with the Soviets. Those were the happy days when old tensions seemed to be resolving.' De tente was the key. word. "Exchanges of information, 'sporting links between East .and West and greater co- operation between governments brought new hope to us that we didn't have to live in a constant state of readiness for war. We'd been , trained since the Second World War to distrust everything the Soviets did or said. The long years of the cold-war had hardened our opinions, .had built walls of- misunder- standing between ourselves and the Soviets. Surely if the .press was now seeing the good side of the Communists, we could trust this picture. But we'd hardly begun to relax when the voices, of gloom perked up. One such NOice„, was that,of Aleksand Solzhenitsyn, the exiled , , Russian WriterWhe had spent so much time in ' Soviet prison camps. At the height of our euphoria at the new relationship with the Soviets, Solzhenitsyn was warning that we were being sucked in, being duped by the Soviet leadefShip. When the Helsinki Accord, guaranteeing civil rights around the world in exchange for recognizing border changes in Eastern Europe was • being hailed as 'a breakthrough for peace, Solzhenitsyn was warning we were selling millions of dissidents in Eastern Europe down the river. Was this man right, or was his bitterness against his Old govermitent causing him to. lie? Frankly, I don't know what to believe, I tend to, believe Solzhenitsyn because I have some friends whO have nxcaped from behind the Iron Curtain and they tell some horrible stories. But then I think, "would I want the Russians to accept as truth the stories that might be told by some of radicals such, as the .FLQ terrorists who went to Cuba with their distorted view Of Canadian society". I feel in a quandary about the whole situation. We've been tricked so often before that I'm constantly. on guard against being aped again. Leaders wonder today at the apathy of the general public on such mportant 41 issues. With the past record of iving the "truth" to the people, what else can they expect. Since leaving Dublin in 1941, fifteen years of my life have been spent in newspaper 'display advertising sales and management. Your tabloid on my dear old home town excels in editorial detail and good advertising content. I'm sure many residents of the Dublin area past and present are pleased with your coverage of 'our area and may you have cdntinued success Tar another 100 years' of covering Dublin news. James M. Jordan ' 16 Patricia Drive, Orillia, Ont. n the yairis agortei NtY *9,1878 r • In' cdhipliatice with a• requisition the ReeVe, Seaforth has called a POW' laeetilg arcatO,paria to beheld in the Yoyve 114( the object of the meeting is to discuss the a dvisability of passing a bylaw to provide funds for the,,stablishment of a fiigh School tin Seaforth. -The Matter is one of the utmost importances and there should beVarge attendance of businessmen attrtiat rate William pay Hers. 1.11° and Mr. Alfred Mopper of town were proceeding to the Winthrop Cheese Factory with a span of horses 'and a buggy and when 'near Mr. Govenlock's mills, the horses took fright at a pile of lumber on the side of the road and with 4 sudden bound, shied to the opposite side. The team ran away and Mr. Mopper, attempting to jump from the vehicle,„ fellpetween the box and-the vehicle and _Was 'dragged 'for a considerable distance. The buggy was conwsiidlleiarnalbly McFarlane wrecked, of Stanley has sold his farm to his neighbour William Callander for $6,500. Mr. Callander now owns 200 acres of, as good as there is in the towMnrs.hii)of Clark of Hamiltonis at present engaged in the preparation of the history of the groWth and resources of Seaforth. aforth. Mr. Bowie . on the. 14th concession of MeKillop broke • his- leg on the 12th inst. Charles Mc Leod, now of Brantford, has sold his farm on the' London Road near Kippen, consisting of 100 acres, to William Cudmore of Stanley for the sum of $6,000. Several Orange Lodges that numbered about 15; assembled in Seaforth to celebrate the 12th of July. The morning was wet and unpromising until about noon. The streets were crowded ,with members of the order and their friends. Short, suitable, and eloquent' addresses were delivered by Rev. Mr. Graham of Seaforth 'and Rev. Mr. Shantz ,of Goderich Township, and Rev, Mr. Sieveright Of Uoderich. . JULY 24, 1903 Some parties broke into -the hotel at Walton and carried off a quantity' of liquor stored in the cellar. The Londeshoro- weigh scales Company has declared their first dividend at the rate of 28%: It must be apaying investment. • The'garden party held on the lawn of James Chesney under the auspices of the Mission Band, was a very successful affair.. Proceeds amounted to $43. Farmers have been. busy with their hay for the last two weeks 'and many have their crops safely housed. • Johnnie, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, Morris Township. near Walton, while engaged in driving a horse raked- over a nest of bees which immediately attacke.d_the horse stinging it and causing it 'to run away. The little -fellow was thrown -from the rake, his head coming in contact with a stone. He was ' rendered unconscious. The people of Walton learned with deep regret of the death of Louis McDonald of Walton. In 1870 he came to Grey Township and purchased a sawmill . which he conducted for three years when his property was destroyed by fire. He - then came . to Walton and purchased the mill propertyff o the late M. Adams. G. C. Petty of Hensall h he misfortune to lose a roll of bills having pulle them out of his hip pocket. Although a reward is offered to the finder, the money has not yet been returned. ._ Mrs. J. A: Wilson had the misfortune to step into a open trap door leading to the cellar. She received a severe fall and was considerably bruised: Chief of Police Adams in response to a telegram from London went to Winthrop on Saturday and arrested a womannamed Slaughter for stealing a gold watch and ,, chain from , a. lady in that city with whom she-was working. The' stolen property was, found with the woman. An office from London came here and took his prisoner with him. - A 'serious accident occurred on the farm of W. G. Hart. He had just driven intk.the barn with a load of hay and was in the act of pulling back the hay fork into the lock when the trip broke allowing him.to fall backwards onto the floor. Dr. McKay was, immediately sent for a and on his arrival found that his shoulder was badly hurt and three ribs broken. JULY 20,..1428 While Mr. and Mrs. M. Reichert.of Hillsgreen were coming •home, a car crashed into them throwing both occupants out'of the rig. Mrs. ReiChert received minor injuries while Mr, Reichert received a broken hip and collar bone, and had several ribs cracked. lithe rain keep off now there,will be an excellent crop in Tuckersmith. William Rapien, Manley, has finished the concrete work on Gordon Hulley's barn and did the work in five days. The barn is 36 feet by 80 feet. He has two more walls to put up near Walton, Hay making is the order of thp day and the crop is better than expe,cted a month ago. At a largely attended fiddlers contest held at Grand Bend, William Hyde of the London Road carried off the first prize in his class of men advanced in years of which there were six contestants, Hensall was splendidly decorated for the 12th of July celebration. The universal opinion of speakers and visitors was that Hensall was one of the finest villages anywhere to be found, Supertest Petroleum Corporation will open their fine new Service Station and garage on the, corner of Main and Goderich Street. This building replaced the D.D. Wilson block which stood on the corner for 50 years. The general contractor was Henry Edge of Seaforth. JULY 24, 1953 Prior to a day long tour of Huron Riding Centres,.., Lester B. Pearson, Canada's Minister for Affairs and President of the-General Asse bly of the United Nations stopped here Wednesday morning. ,Rain did not discourage a gathering of citizens in front of-the town hall where Mr. Pearson was extended a 'civic welcome and delivered a short address. Senator W. H. Golding, Seaforth, welcomed the distinguished parfy and called on Mayor E. A. McMaster to voice the town's official greeting. Mr. Pearson was introduced by Andrew Y. McLean, Huron Liberal candidate. An old fashion garden party was held at the EgirRitiffyille Church With about- 3.00- present The Seaforth Highlanders Band played several selection under the direction of S. J. Smith. Bob Davis, 17 years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Davis, Hensall, suffered severe injuries to his right hand while at work in Clinton. A capacity crowd played bingo in the Community Centre here sponsored by the Legion, the Athletic Association, and the Centre, for support of the cost of the new traproek floor in the-arena. The $1,000 jackpot was won by Mrs. Robert Charters of Seaforth and Miss Ann Hartsdn. About 60 descendants of the late Angus and Francis Murray, pioneer settlers in Stanley Township gathered' at Jewitt's Grove in Bayfield. The oldest person in the group was Mrs. Angus Murray, Exeter, 91, years of age. Promotion of Alec .F. "Red" Kennedy, formerly 'of town, to the position of assistant director of personnel of Chrysler Corporation Canada Ltd. has been announced. the littron Canoe carefully Expositor asks: Is the price of beef too high? To the editor: ,Dublin Centennial issue called a .delight to read