The Huron Expositor, 1978-08-17, Page 2' SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, AUGUST 17, 1978
Who's responiible?
Huron County can be excused if its reaction to the current polio scare
is one of confusion.
Immunize, no matter what, we hear on the one hand. Polio vaccine
isn't necessary for those over 30, we're told the next day. And anyway,
there's no need for all this fuss...the p9I-o cases are in Oxford County,
which is not exactly on our doorstep.
There seems to be province wide confusion about the extent of the
polio risk and the precautions, if any, all of us should take. There is-
little co-ordination in the statements from public health people at
province, county and lodal
Is It logical to have special advertised polio clinics in the northern
part of Perth County while south Huron people, geographically much
closer to affected Oxford County get the shots only if they call the
health unit or their doctor?
An emergency like the polio scare in Oxford shows that Ontario lacks
a united voice, consensus on an issue that's crucial to everyone's
health.
,We think that's something to be concerned abqpt.
The polio outbreak is a complicated subject and v.terrealize that out of
necessity the media or those who talk to them over-simplify in the
interests of being understood.
But the multitude of conflicting instructions the public has been
getting hasn't helped anyone.
We need public health authorities at all levels saying approximately
the same thing.
They've got time, we hope, before the next communicable disease
outbreak to get together and do just that.
Meanwhile, we the public have to take some of the blame for the
current confusion. Public health people have been hammering away
for years telling us to keep our immunization levels up.
6 But hardly anyone, unless they're travelling to Europe or have just
stepped on a rusty nail, bothers. Parents have even been lax about
making sure babies get their firSt vital polio, .diptheria, tetanus etc.
shots.
How many family doctors include ,a round of booster shots in
patients occasional health check ups? Would it be feasible to d%so?
For tiler Huron MOH Dr. Frank Mills has been quoted in the Glqbe
and Mail as saying the province ought to make immunization
compulsory. But is legislation the answer rather than individual
responsibility?
Certainly we need to understand that communicable diseases like
polio don't disappear just because there aren't any cases .for a few
years. They are held in check only by a high level of immunization
among the population.
Some people object to immunization on religious grounds and they
have every right to their beliefs. But do they put the rest of us 'at risk?
Some of us are lazy or forgetful about keeping our immunities up.
°Polio will happen to the other guy, never, to us.
Perhaps both the confusion about what to do about polio shots and
our laxness in keeping our booster shots up to date stem partly from
the same source.
We're looking for someone to tell us what to do, to spoon feed us the
absolutely correct answer. We don't want to' inform ourselves and take
personal responsibility for informed decisions.
We don't really want to have to make choices, to know details, even
about something as important as our own health.
Is that it?
What does it cost?
It is refreshing to see that the town council has decided to go along
with Heritage Renfrew suggestions and not make any major changes in
the old bell tower of the fire hall.
I,n this case council discovered that the repairs can be done at little or
no cost, but in other cases this might not work out nearly so*well.
Then the council has to make a decision. What price do you put on
Heritage?
There is the one viewpointL:that bur Heritage is an irreplaceable
asset, and should be retained at all 'costs. Once it is lost it can never be.
regained.
On the other hand are the economics of the situation. A town council
must decide if the building is worth saving, and if the town can afford
to save it.
In some cates there will be buildings that have historical
sighificance to the town, but can't be kept merely because repairs and
maintenance costs could bankrupt the town.
In the case of the fire hall, the decision was easy. When our
heritage can be retained at little or no cost all agree that it should be
saved.
But there will be other times in the future when the decision won't
be so easy to make. One case that will come up is the town hall, which
will probably be replaced by a new municipal building in a few years
time.
In this case, does the town keep the old building for its heritage
value, or do they take the economical way out and allow it to be torn
. down or otherwise destroyed?
It won't be an easy decision to make, but we feel that unless the
town financial iltuation changes, one that will have to be made the'
more economical- way.
(The Renfrew Mercury)
Where are the parents,?
For the past live months the g•'.1s, on the
"B" Soccer Team haw e conic out for one
practice a week. There w ere only a few tines
that I didn't have a full team- rain or shine.
Oyer the past 12 w eeks these girls hme
played one tournament game a week. The
• furthest they had to IV:IVO V1 as'
. Although they w On their first and last
games, tied three more. and lost ten games,
I never heard them complain. They neser
lost interest and kept on playing their best.
All but nue valor was lost by 1 goal.
Foi the g. shill -sport s
girliship"-dir° the):` shared i rualik them,
\it of this ir as done w ith a 11111p1111.1111 of
support, Where were the parents to c_hecr
them on? The parent interest in the way
their ow n daughters played is amazing. The
same three on four parents showed up each
week. At times I felt'that they were parents
to a lot of girls.
Could not the parents make a little
sacrifice next year and conic out. Who
knows' With the exti•a "cheers" they could
do greater things. Thanks again Jr. "13".
Brain Ginty
R.11.2, Seaforth
xpositor asks:
.What do you t
By Debbie Ranney
With the recent birth of the world's first
test-tube baby Expositor Asks this week
thought it would be interesting to find out
local people's reaction to the event.
Mrs. Bruce Coleman of R.R.4, Seaforth
said. "I don't see anything wrong with it.
For some childless couple. probably it's a
mil accomplishment.
Ron Hansen of 23 Snarling Street in
Seaforth said, "I'm rather neutral about it,
Nothing's either good or bad: It's' what you
do with it that makes it so."
When asked if she thought the test-tube
baby was a good idea Mary-Lynn Pryde, of
R, R.1, Hensall said, "Not really, it's not
nature."
Mrs. Donald Diegel of R.R.4. Walton said,
"I don't like the idea of it at all. I think it
should be natural rather than in a lab. To
me, they'll try and make it an all-nerfeet
pink about test-tube 'babies?
society and I don't think that's the way God
intended it to be," she said.
Kenneth Curry of R.R.1, Dublin said.
"No, why change nature?"
fohn Chappel of R.R.2. Staffa said, "I
,think maybe it's a good out fit. Sonic people
whocan'thave -it any other way can have a
baby of their own."
Mrs. Raymond Coombs of Egmondville
said, No, I don't. !think if yott were meant to
have a baby you'd have it. You wouldn't
need to have it like that."
"it's better left in the hands of God
really," she said.
Mrs. RobertWalters of R.R.3, Kippen said
"Basically it just ends up the same 4or the
Mother who receives it."
She thought it was okay for someone who ,
didn't have children,
"I don't think there's anything morally
wrong with it," she said. •
The last post
In the years agone
New combine was
ehind. the scenes
By Keith Roulston
' Where has all the summer gone.
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
and Audit Bureau of Circulation
A
the talk in 1928
reasons for my own particular slow start on
the summer work. There were revisions to
be written for a play and rehearsals to go to
and work generally associated with gettinwa
production on stage. That helped cook May
and June but the play went on stage July 11
so I've got to come up with some other
excuse for thp .rest of the summer. I can't
oven use the garden, fat instance, because
by now I've abandoned the garden to the
Weeds anyway. So there's nothing left but to
.get at the work.
I'm one of those people who like old
houses. I know it doesn't make much sense.
It's much smarter to choose a nice new
house but then people have been telling me
for years I'm stupid. When it comes time for
work around the house I'm inclined to
believe them. Old houses somehow don't
look quite so' beautiful when there's miles of
old woodwork to be scraped and painted,
When the -old gingerbread on the , sagging
porch is broken and had to be repaired it
,doesn't seem quite so precicius. And when it
comes to climbing to the end of a 30-foot
ladder to paint the eaves, the tall statelinesS
of the old 'house isn't at all to, be loved
anymore. I'm a chicken at heart. when it
collies to height.
The thing that really makes one' have
second thoughts about the old house,.
however. is whop one tackles what appears
to be tt Simple repair job, and three days
Ira LT has prefessional help. To solve.
one little thing sometimes means uncovering
five big things. Even the simplest of th ngs
takes an enormous amount of time. Scraping
the paint of ono window can take as long as
painting five. Fitting in one new window
pane can take as long as building a whole set
of steps front scratch. You work for about 10
minutes. then have the overwhelming urge
to sneak into the house and lie down for a
while. Only the thought of a raging winter
wind tor a raging wife) keeps you going.
Alt well, you say as the paint goes on ever
so slowly, at least you won't have to .do this
next year.. Yell, youritmer voice says, but
there'll be 10,000 other little things to. do.:
And they talk about a womr's work never_
being done! '
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AUGUST I6j878 '
Th.& contract for painting. the new church'
at Zurich was let to Henry Weseloh for $118.
• 'A spirited .bidding brought it down from -
what was considered a lbw figure-4l60.
One day while engaged in* threshing, D..
Shanohan of Hullett received a. severe kick in
the breast from one of the horses..
The fine imported carriage. stallion
"Pride''. .of England, the property of
Jonathan Carter of Tuckermsith. passed`,
away latt week.
A few days ago. a young lad. 8 years old,
son of Theo. Holland, met with a very ,
painful accident.' He was riding on the horse
'power 'used for pumping water into . the
, street watering tank when his foot slipped-
and one of the cogs passed over it crushing it
badly. •
For several days paSt, the bill boards and
various walls in town have been decorated
with showy_ bills .announeing the coming of
Hillard's 'Circus Company.
It is rumored, new building, now in course
of erection, and will open a banking and
• broking office.
Thos. Vine of Stanley township botind 2 1/2
acres of heavy wheat on the second
concession in half a day. •
• AUGUST 21, 190
A' large number otpeople left the station
on Tuesday morning on a harvester's
excursion. The following were ticketed by
Greg and Stewart CPR agents: Maggie V.
and .Minnie R. .Martin; Joseph Mordin;
tea ry Macintosh; Thomas and Henry
Thomspon; J.W. Grieve: all of` Seaford).
Miss Minnie. Pearson and MisS Stoddard of
Egmoridville, Hugh McDonald, Albert H.
Yee. Duncan Macamald, Thomas Connolly,
W. Davis. of. Staffa; :m. Dennison
Leadbury, H.D. Cameron and Miss Anna
Cameron. Kippen," MrS., William Simpson, •
Brucefield, Jerry O'Hara, Beachwood. Scott
Mdaren. Cromartv. Miss M. and Campbell
and W, and A. Taylor. Harlock. Thomas.
Stephenson. Varna, W.A. Johnson.
Winthrop and Leo Flannery of, Walton.
The, Beavers put it all over St. Marys
Playet'S in the locross game here last week,
The score was 4-1 in fan our of Seaforth hot
that is by no means a fair indication of the
play as. had it not been for the St. Marys
goalkeeper Who played an extroordinan
Please extend my congratulations to those
participants that came to \Vest Branch for
the First International Games betw een
Sealorth and West Branch. It is my feeling
that both Our _parents that housed y on'
youngsters and • your youngsters really
enjoyed their weekend together. ti is this
kind of interaction that w forth-6- de\ clop
the Sister ('i6 Program.
1 was impressed mit h the sport sm n sh i p
by both teams. While planing hard. it was
never forgotten that friendship was also
game. the score' would have been very much
larger. •
As' . a well • drilling machine ' was being
driven on Goderich Street, opposite Steven.
Lamb's lumber yard, one of the • axles of the
wagon broke and the machine Was .upset: the
driver, Rube Saunders • of , Mitchell was
thrown off and his foot severely injured.
b. McCaren of Hibbert was in town
delivering a very fine four year old. gelding.
Weli he had sold to Mr. Hill of 'Sitmmerbill,..
Goderich Township. He got $175 for the
horse. • •
Thomas Ward of 'Egniondville has quite a
—euriosity in' his garden. In the spring he
planted some beets for seed and one of them
has now reached the unusual height of 8
feet,. and is still growing.
R.N. Hayes of Chieago,,'is spending his
holidays here. Mr. Hayes is now manager of
a large wholesale and book publishing
business."
25 tickets wcrc'' Seaforth to the
Hamilton Summer Carnival this week.
John Habkirk who had his leg fractured
couple of weeks ago'. is_ getting on nicely and .
we hope Ire recovers soon. •
The SeafordiMilling Coppany is having a
well drilled at their 01111. . .
George Chesney and John Galbraith 'have
returned from Manitoba.. They had been out.
with a carload of horses each.
There were 95 tickets sold at Seaforth for
the special excusion to Brantford to witness
the. Locresse 'match there.
Isaac Madeland and family have returned
horn London andMr. Modeland wilt take his'
.old place as engineer at the oatmeal mill.
8 carloads of cattle were shipped from
Seaforth station for the old country market.
The shipper WCI'e Robert. Winter, W.
Devereaux,,told T. Dixon. W. Dunlop.
Scalort In. .
The regular pay sheets of the Bell Engine
Works now amount to $3,000. a month.
• John Crosby has sold his farm in Hulled to
John Wyatt of MeKillop for $4.000, an
nitcndti.coming to Seaford.' to reside,
The farmers in the vicinity of Farquhar
have started plowing for fall wheat. A good
shower would do a lot of good'.
The-rthreshing machines are all doing good
works, the grain being well filled and in good
condition The whistle on the outfit of ,Tohn
„important,
The dates for next year's games have been
set. On July 28, 29, and 30, West Branch will • "
ll'a 'el to Sed fOrt h . i hope that our teams Will
,,,,Ai duc i 1h4 41 se a1s yout tc airs'
did here.
Sincerely.
Jim Gray
Director.
Community Education,
West Branch Michigan
two year old Exeter boy admitted to War
Memorial•Children's Hospital at London in, a
coma. Not believed to have polio, two year
Danny Laing, son of Mr. and Mrs.. Hilton
Laing was reported -1)-y hospital attendants
Sunday to be much better.
Donald Joint, a young Hensall_business-
man,. was released from South Huron
' Hospital at Exeter following treatment for
minor injuries suffered in a car accident on
the Zurich Rood. 'The car skidded on loose
gravel, ran into the north ditch and rolleil
over landing on its wheel's on the center of
the road. A passing motorist, S. Greb,
Exeter,, foun'd him -unconscious in the back
seat of-the-car where the was apparently
thrown by the impact.
Production began this week in the boiler
division of Robert Bell industries on a new
type of domestic furnace .capable of
providing hcat for the home through
combustion of oil, coke or wood.. -The
versatile fornaceS arc being manufactured
by the Seaforth firm for a large English
Construction company which is erecting .
housing units in suburban Toronto.
Milling, soft wheat to production, to the
tune *of 700 barrels of flour per day, the
Seaforth branch of Topnotch FeedS Limited,
are purchasing wheat from the , Huron
Farmers through ,
tine
Clinton,, Exeter,
Hensall and Lucan areas, according to Lee
Graves the local manager. The Mill was
formerly owned by' Excellence Flour. Mills
Limited and, was purchased earlier this
summer by the present occupants.
A benefit night featuring a review
,program is being held in the Goderich arena
for Harold Carroll ftirmerly of Seaforth who
was painfully injured last month when a
power shovel cable broke and struck him
across the head and face.
New teachers at the Seaforth District High
School include: W. Alvin Harding, Petrolia;
Angus Pegg. Bolton:- George Allison:
Toronto; J.L. Greene of Newhamburg, and
Miss Nan Taylor of Armprior. The teachers
leaving arc; F.A. Litt, ,R.H.MeLeod, R.V.
Rudd, and Miss Mary Page. Miss R. Fennell
is on a year's leave of absence.
Howard Scanc, ,an employee in
Thompson's grain Mill in Hensall had the
thumb of his left hand amputated in South
Huron Hospital in Exeter following an
accident as he-was moving box cars when
this thumb caught between the post and
fender ora truck.
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SUSAN WHITE. Editor
.1 don't know about you, but about this
'time every year panic starts to set in around
our place. Where has all the summer gone?
Back in the bright early days of spring I
made up an optomistic list of things that
would be done around this rambling antique
we call home before the winter winds bleN\
Well I can hear chose winds just around the
corner and that tif,t is jest about as long as it
Was the day it was drawn up.
If it hadn't been for the bitter experience
of last year. 1 wouldn't be so, worried these
days, I had a'lot,of work I figured on getting'
done in.. the warm days of September last
year - but there were no. warm days. In fact
there wasn't much yen could do outside last
September unless it was to fill a newly-dug
farni pond with water. That was easy since
everything else got tilled with water too
including bean fields and basements.
1 spent.that month trying to find a few dry
moments to take, an old roof off and put a
liCW one on. It was finally accomplished one
cold and blustery day in late September or
early October when it was alNine could do to
stand tip on the roof. Only an idiot would be
taking on such a job on such a day but that
atter those weeks of wet weather and
knowing how much work had to be done
before winter there were a lot of u s idiots
doing things we should have left alone.,
This colt work was of course followed by a
'ease of near-pneumonia _and of cout•se was
also followed by a week of beautiful warm
•fall weather.-
Now a logical person remembering all this
front last year would get an early start this
year. but then not a logical person.
There are So many good reasons in May.
June, and July not to ' get out the paint
scraper and start taking the old paint off the
window sills. ;Just about anything seems.
more important than building the new porch
steps. Afterall. nobody's broken his leg yet .
on the old steps: twisted an .ankle maybe but
not broken anything.
Besides, it's hard enough to keep up with
the.' garden with all those weeds that are
glowing 30 times faster than the plants that
are supprised to be there.
Of course there are also sonic good solid
•
Holdan so closely resembeles the fire whistle
at Seaforth in its tone, that the people
sometimes rush out and declare that there is
a big fire at Seaforth.
AUGUST 17, 1928
-A wonderful crowd greeted the Lions Club •
in its community effort last Thursday
evening at the Lions Park. Ihe sight of so
many young. people taking part in the
swimming events was favourably com-
mented on, especially the fact that all these
youngsters. residents in Seaforth, were
priviledged in. haVing, the opportunity to
swim and of having.the.Lions Club provide
such a 'lovely spot for their enjoyment.
Miss Pearl Douglas, of .Bt•tieetield, arid a
few other girlfriends at Blake arc spending a
week hi-Baylieldr7
The township of McKillop sustained a loss
through the death of -Reeve Francis James
Me-OD-aid on -August•1 t which .wiltbe felt for ••
a long time to come ; . . For 22 years he sat
on the township board and for the past eight
years time had ,been Reeve.
The oat' harvest is now in: full swing and
threshing fall wheat commence's this week.
Death removed one of Tuekermsniith's
oldest residents on Thursday of last week,
when Peter McKay passed away in his home
inTuekesmith in his 80th year. He. came,to.
Canada with his parents from Scotland and
settled On Concession 8 in Tuckersmith.
A number of the farmers in the community
of Kipper have thrashed their fall wheat and
report the yield is very good. •
• Quite a large number of the villagers of
Hensall motored out to one of the farms of
George W.W. Rcnn of Hibbcrt about five
miles cast of Hensall, to see the working of
the new combine machine, that -both cuts
and threshes standing grain. It was the first
of its kind to be used 'in this locality.
• Flax pulling is now the order of the day
and Messrs. Owen Geiger have a large froce
of Indians and others busily engaged.
The council of Hensall are deserving much
credit for getting the park fitted up - with
h‘dro' wiring at very little expense.
About 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the
harn at the residence of Albert Edlar, East
William Stt•cet, was discovered to be on fire.
T.G. Scott has been awarded the contract
of painting the outside of the Post Office and
redecorating the interior-
AUGUST 21, 1953
• Doctors were puzzled over the case of th
To the editor:
West Branch says congratulations