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The Huron Expositor, 1978-08-17, Page 4UAW says it'll prosecute Bob White, Canadian director of the United Arne Workers. Union. said the union will continue with its plans to prosecute Huron-Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell despite the end of the Fleck Manufacturing plant strike, The strike ciiat settled Twertday night after employees Were out on strike for 161 days. Monday UAW Lawyer Len MacLean said that certain terms of the tentative settlement "indicate that the parties will, to their best endeavour. try to solve the current problems heforellie courts." Mr. MacLean made the comment fol- lowing a provincial court session on Monday morning in Goderich at which Judge W.G. *Cochrane remanded until September 11 a hearing into the charges laid by the UAW against Mr. Riddell. Fleck Manufacturing. and Fleck vice-president Grant Turnet. The charges relate to a section of the labor relations act which prohibits interference with the formation, selection or ad- ministration of a union. Also charged under the same section is Exeter OPP Constable Bill McIntyre, His case was remanded by Judy Cochrdne unti October 16. Council looies at (Continued from Page I .) annexed Harpurhey and Egmondville," quipped councillor Gerald Groothuis. Agreeing with councillor Wayne Ellis that the subject needed more investigation. council pasSed his motion sending the proposed rule to each committee for discussion then.back to council next month. The clerk typist will be hired, presumably not under a residency rule. Thunder's crashing leads to stop light's flashing The traffic lights at the main intersection of Seaforth malfunctioned sometime during Tuesday afternoon's electrical store), The Sealetth police put the lights on the clasnLi s)stetti, and they rein:enter that way until Wednesday morning when the Ministry of Transportation and Communication from Stratford came tap and repaired the problem. Something to by Susan White Baseball, and Joe Clark HURON EXPOSITOR, /41.100T 17, 1070 TH eaforth Amen by Karl Schuesslet A burning barn A This year's Huron County plowing .match will be held near Seaforth. Plans have been finalized for the 51st Huron County plowing match to be held on the Ken Campbell farm Lot 14 Con 6 McKillop Township. 'On Friday. September 1 coaching for the plow boys and girls will start at 9:30. Ray Montague, the chief judge of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, and his assistant, will be on hand to give advice on the fine points of match plowing for young people learning to plow especially. Anyone who plows would be well advised totake Friday, September 1 off to attend the coaching in the morning and the Junior match in the afternoon, to see first hand the proper way to adjust a plow, to turn the best furrow. The Huron Plowmen's Association are sponsoring two Sod Busters 4-H Clubs, in 1978--one in the north with. leaders Johri Oark and W. J. Leeming, and one in the 51st Huron match will be near Seafort Sugar and, Spice by, Bill Smiley Read Canadian South, with Allan Walper and Allan Turnbull as leaders. On Saturday, September 2 the regular match will get under way at 9:30 a.m. with 10 classes in competition including the Queen of the furrow class for prizes in cash, goods, and trophies of approximately $3,500. Special contests include: a Horse Shoe Pitching contest with two classes; one for Huron players, and one for all corners; Nail Driving Conteste•one for the ladies and one for men; Log Sawing contests with two dasses using cross cut saws, one class with contestants using their own saw and a class using the same saw. The Huron Plowmen's Association hope that this "Mini" match will prepire Huron , • Plowman to compete more successfully at the big International, Match at the Armstrong Farms near Wingham September 26 to September 30. In the account of the swimming and , games involving Seaforth kids and those in sister city, West Branch, Michigan, the names of two winners were tran spieled . Cathy Lyn Vander Velden won the freestyle swimming event for girls aged 13. and 14, while Christine Knetsch SORRY, UT WE'RE ALL oUT — Marlene 4., Price, the B Public Health nurse- working out of the Huron County Health Unit office at the Seaforth Hospital, with some of the empty vials of polio vaccine. People tied to be turned away at Friday morning's clinic when the office ran out of vaccine.• (Expositor Photo) • Correction Sunday, August 20 7 p.m'. Turf vs. Teachers 8:30 Queens vs. Village An Expositor Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Lost minute IBL schedule Monday, August 2i 7 p.m. --- • Mainetreet vs. Travellers 8:30 p.m. Texaco vs. Fireman Mainstreet umpire Sunday. Teachers umpire Monday. Please excuse us if this ' newspaper has been looking . a littleeike the Theatre Times recently, We've had stories from all three theatresin our area, Grand; Bend. Stratford and quite a bit of behind the scenes stuff from our closest and most accessible summer theatre in Blyth. We're the first to admit that there's a heck of a . lot more than theatre going on here this summer, For a start. there's baseball six nights a week, all night long, k many ball diamonds in and around Seaforth. We get excellent, hit by hit coverage 'of, some of those games, •thanks to volunteers like Bob Dinsmore of Seaforth's Industrial league. But we don't get enough baseball stories by half. If you're a member of a local ball team, please send us a game report each week, Don't worry about your - writing style as long as you get teammates names in, the runs they hit Sidi the total scores. I know it's late in the year for a lot of baseball action but if your team is in playoffs, let your friends and 'relatives read how yore're doing. If your ball team is ending• play for the year, send us a recap of how your team did in regular play, and who team members are. This goes for soccer and all the other team sports too„ We're into playoffs .now 'and The Expositor is glad to get request to come and take photos of winning teams. We like to take action shots of baseball games all summer long too though . If you call and let us know the time and place of any special or important game,_ try-to, be there to get some shots. Now it's back to theatre, Stratford's Shakespearian Festival to be precise, where poker face Joe.jecioni t know if he doesrlt really like soap operas, even those ' with a Shakespearian tinge, or if he was just very tired, like my mother beside me. But, to my eagle eye at least, Joe conspicuously avoided joining the knee slapping, grinning, loudly applauding actions all around him. Watching Ilelt for the guy. Here he was on a hectic pre-election swing through Western Ontario and even a so-called night off had to be spent watching a play he didn't like. Not only that biil he had to put up with other play- goers'like glee dividing their time between eying him and the stage. Maggie Smith is as good as all the adnfiring press she gets says, but my appreci- ation of her was dulled a bit because I saw Shakespeare for Fun and Profit by Theatre Passe Muraille last year. That was the one set • in Seaforth and put 'together last summer by actors who rehearsed at our curling club. One of its characters exaggerated Maggie Smith's nasal drawl and sometimes mannered acting style so well that many times Tuesday night I saw that comic character rather than the one Miss Smith was meant to be playing. But that's quibkling. The Stratford actors are masters. Brian Bedford, who you'll recognize if you're a TV watcherfrom way back, steal- the show. Funnier But as for poor Joe Clark, I think he might have had a' funnier and more relaxing evening if 'he'd managed to get to The School Show in Blyth or Oklahoma in Grand Bend. Tour oreartizers . , Seaforth's new 10 cent parking meters will be, installed some time during the next two weeks and Monday night council passed a new by-law to regulate their use. It also suggested stricter ticketing of meter violationS" would help solve Seaforth's parking, problem. Among other things, the four page• by-law says that motorists will have to put money in the meters on Wednesdays, once they're in place. Planning student Bob Maniago, who's ' been working in the clerk's office for the summer, told council earlier in the meeting • that a detailed survey he's done shows that Seaforth has adequate parking for shoppers, employees and tenants downtown but that irregular styles of parking and the use of. public spaces by all day parkers makes space seem scarce. Painting lines or paving alley parking space would make it better used, he said. 34 more parking spaces could be provided some time in the fu ture if Victoria St. property By. Wilma Oke , Fire call's at Vanastra's industrial park will be attended by the volunteer firemen from Clinton, effective Monday, August 21, Tuckersmith council'learned"at a meeting in. Brucefield Tuesday night. ClintonFire Chief Clarence' Neilans in- formed council that the other municipalitites with a fire protection agreement with the Clinton fire area .board,• had approved the revised agreemedts calling for Tuckersmith to pay a larger, share' of the costs for the increased coverage. Brucefield firemen have beereeeproviding fire protection at Vanastra until now and will continue in the residential area. For 1978, council has received $40,000 for the Ontario home renewal plan. To date there are four applications for a loan from the fund by residents wanting to update their homes by adding insulation, storm windows, new foundations, siding, new steps among other improvements allowed. The Bayfield Road in Egmondville • has been paved with 200 tons of asphalt. Eldon O'Brien, A. Coombs and Robert Lawson attended the council session to discuss the engineer's preliminary report on the improvements to' the O'Brien drain--E section which is 1,900 feet, in length. The report estimated the cost about $9,000. The next step is foe the engineer. Henry Understadt of Orangeville, to prepare a full report on.the work which will be discussed at a later meeting. • The question of doing the A section ofthe drain was considered. Mr. Coombs said he could see no point in putting in more water in this section until it was cleaned out farther down the drain iii Stanley. Township. Clerk Jack McLachlan said he would be reporting this information back to the engineer who had asked for a copy of the report of Stanley Township's engineer on the drain, Applications for building, permits were granted to Ha Y'Arts Of Lot 6, cencession.1, Huron Road Survey, .addition to the barn; and George Romanilc, Lot 6, concession 4, 1-MS, mobile home. A few years ago, I picked up a paperback novel entitled, I think, The Last of the Crazy People, written by one'Timpthy Findley. As usual, I turned to the back cover to find out something about the author. 'There was nothing. and I, a voracious reader and a teacher of literature, had never heard of him. I began reading, the novel, and soon thought, "Oh boy, this is an excellent writer.- Who the heck is he?" And that was the end of -my curiosity. This year, I read in the paper that one Timothy Findley had won the Governor- General's. Award for a novel called', The Wars. Thal 'suggested- he must be e Canadian writer. Never heard. of him, but remembered the name and the other novel I'd thought so good. Since. I've read the Wars. It is powerful, sensitive, beautifully structured. Probably the best novel that has won the, G-G's Aee- Some of the other winners were sleaze.' Recently. Findley wrote a.' newspaper article in which he pointed out the appalling lack of ability among Canadian -critice I don't -blame hineele was right on. With a few. exception~. I find our critics to .be narrow-minded, nit-picking people who approach 'anything new, with preeconceived prejudices only exceeded by their desire .to reveal how clever and witty they themselves. are: But the point• that interested me most in his articlovas its concluding one. He stated, unequivocally, that we arc in the midst of Canada's golden age of writing, and Suggested it was apity that no one would say this until fifty or a hundred years from now. Well, 'he's wrong. This one small voice in the desert of Canadian critics agrees with him about 94 per cent. Not quite golden, there's sonic dross among the glitter.' But absolutely high-grade ore,. with the occasiifn al •di a mond popping up, and a lot-of silver threads among the gold. Fair enough? What is e golden age? In writing, it's ei . time when a rich' vein of talent is discovered, and mined, and turned into vessels and shapes and pieces that will; delight and enhance, lire for many years. England had.ope in the late 16th century,. when Marlowe and Bert Johnson and Will Shakespeare served as' lucid, brilliant witnesses to the vagaries. foibles, sand magnificence of the human species. Russia had one in the 19th century. with Tolstoi; Chekhey...Dostoievsky and a dozen others. America had its golden years in this century, With Willa Cether, Steinbeck, Dreiser. Hemingway, Sandberg. Frost and a host of smaller fish cruising alone in their wake. A golden age in writing is not something planned. It cannot even be foreseen. It can only be backseen. It's a seemingly spontaneous outburst of literary fireworks, for which there seems no provocation. O.K. End of thesis But, as I so seldom do anything useful in this column except expose the darker side of our national psyche — crazy wives, rotten kids, bewildered'" politiicceians — perhaps today I can render a ",,v . - A little digression. I teach a Grade 13 course in contemporary literature First term, All Canadian; second term, all American; third term, all British. At the end of this year, I had the kids write an assessment of the course; no names, no pack drill. About 80 per cent of them said 'the Canadian section was the best, that they'd become acquainted for the first time with great Canadian writing, and that it should be extended for the full year. This was after meeting perhaps 20 Canadian writes in print. • What does that tell you? First, our children don't know our own writers Second, their parents don't have any Canadian books tribe libuse. Third, Canadian publishers are lousy promoters. End of digression. It's summertime, time, for reeding. Time for my public "Service bit. If You can take your eyes for amoment off the golden shoulders of all those golden girls, check this list, when next you decide to pick a' "paperback novel. If the store doesn't have it, demand why, hotly. If' you like Western, read anything by: Jack Hodgins, 'Paul St. Pierre, W.O. Mitchell, Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe, Margaret Laurence. 'Every one is a genuine artist, and I've missed others. If your taste is with the effete Edst (Ont. and cue.) read anything by Morley, CAllAgheyeHugh Maclenan, Alice Munroe, Margaret Atwood, And three dozen others, including Marian, Engel (Bear). Not -fro mention, all 'from Quebec, Moredechai Richter. Marie-Claire Blais and Roch Carrier. And forty-four other like Yves Therriault. Way down east, Ernest BuCkler, Nowlan, Ray Guy; and 14 more. The book will cost you a little more than that porno U.S novel with the cover of a girl being raped and whipped while she's stuffing pities down her loyely..throat. That's becarise our publishers have a small market, because people like you,- don't buy their books', and have ,to charge more. But you'll be doing our writers, our country, and more importantly. yourself, a service that will make the Canadian Golden Age of Writing a fact, not a footnote in the future. part of farming. Mrs. A. Pepper read. a poem and spoke on the motto "Life's Ladder is full of splinters which we do not feel till we begin to slide". Program was prepared by Mrs. A. Pepper and Mrs. K. Campbell with. Mrs. Pepper chairing it. President Mrs. N. Reilil opened the ee meeting 'with a poem and presided for the business. Roll call proved most interesting with many past industries in the area being recalled such as Salt Works. Sproat's t' yards. Hudson's egg grading st ion. Bashart's Furniture Factory, Box and Broadfoot Furniture Factory and others. leaders for the 4-H Homemaking project 'Essential Edibles" will be contacted to attend training schools in their area -in September. A letter from Town and Country Hemernakers was read asking members to save Kraft labels from salad dressing and Miracle White and put in a box that will be available in grocery stores.' Mrs. 'G. Papple -will convene the courtesy booth the day before the Seaforth Fall Fair. Members are kecetteireVe tie is On. quilt sold and bring weds to~tiliptember meeting. 'McKee-tie gave the courtesy remarks and a delicious lunch was served by Mrs. G. Papple, Mts. E. Papple. Mrs. J. E. MacLean. Mrs. R. Gordon and the hostess. I spent last Tuesday' night with some' very illustrious company. There was Maggie, Smith up on stage. my ' 'Mother beside me, and two friends in front of us who'd kindly let us have tickets at the. last minute. But the celebrity I found myself watching again and again was Joe Clark, sitting plunk in the centre of the theatre one row behind the front one. The leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative party and some (though not very many) saje our next prime minister, sat beside- Perth MP Bill Jarvis, who looked very dapper in a dark tart and pale blue suit. Soap Opera The play was As You Like It, a situation comedy by Shakespeare which reminded me of an afternoon soap opera more than anything, in that it took an awfully long time to come to the point (11:30 p.m. is an hour too late for me on a work night). . The boy meet girl, girl dresses as boy girl falls in lovewith girl dressed as boy. true-love-trib mphs-in -the- end story line was soap opera probable too. Which just• goes to show you that Shakespeare knew which stories were crowd pleasers long before As the• World Turns was a gleam in some ad mares eye. I mean, As you Like It's been packieg them in for 300 years. But back to Joe. There wasn't an empty seat in the theatre Tuesday night. (Picture the' whole town of Seaforth and then some, seated in a semi-circle with Joe Clark in the middle and Maggie Smith et al on stage . in front) • Just about all of 'those 3,000 or so people laughed a lot and clapped quite a bit throughout the play. Not owners could be persuaded to give up 20 Feet at the back of their lots along the alley behind the, east side of Main St., he said. Several cou ncillors complained that metered parking now is occupied all day long by merchants and their employees. When the factories let out' and people want to spend money here, it's very annoying not to be able to park downtown, said councillor Bill Bennett. "I'd suggest. more ticketing, especially when' the streets are full." A burning barn is a terrifying sight:. It's a fury that consume and leaves nothing untouched. It's a pinging that wipes out every spot and speck: It's a rampage that doesn't burn itself out until it reduced a lifetime of work and ambition to ashes. A burning barn is a spectacular sight. Cecil B. De. Mille in all of his bigger than life movies couldn't come near a barn fire. There's .no imitation. No reproduction. It's too big. It's too awesome. It's too unbelieveable. But there it is. Right in front of you. The flames leap into the sky. The:smoke seeps out of the metal seams that finally crack and belch out even more smoke clouds. For a while, the metal siding holds in the' fire—like a eiant cauldron it's kept the old barn boards underneath cooking and fired, But the heat's too much for the metal. The long strips finally fold and fall to the ground. The towering barn beams stand out in the blazing heat. They stand defiant to the end. But finally they give way. They crack and snap and plunge to the floor. They send up sprays of hot cinders and ashes -- fireworks -- against a night , sky. Victoria Day spectaculars were never like this. The firemen hurry around with their helpless hoses. The sea ,of fire drown out their water sprays. They can't begin to hose down the fire demons let loose in the barn,' So they turn their water on less fiery things--the milk house, the shed, the wagons standing in the field. Maybe there's some hope there. To stop the fire from spreading. But they know. Their water can't stop this • raging barn fury. That has to burn itself out--all by itself: Their water can't stop that fire. It can only prevent more fire. • A burning barn is an excitin event. It calls out the whole .countryside. its smoke sends out signals for miles around. It spreads the word: this is a big one. The town's fire chasers hop in their cars and follow the racing fire trucks out into the country. Women don't bother to untie their aprons or comb their hair. The idle backyard talkers pack into a pick-up truck. They 'throw in a few lawn chairs and bring their beer an sandwiches. They catch up to the procession headed out into the back roads. Word has it, this fire is going'to be a long one. perhaps felt he wouldn't have seen as many voters at 'those theatres but I bet half the seats, at least, at Stratford' had American occupants. ** * * ** Speaking of Blyth, most people in Seaforth likely know that The • Huron Expositor is a ticket outlet for the Blyth Summer Festival. We also often sell tickets for local dances and other evenings Out. The last few weeks in fact we've been thinking' seriously of gett ing out of the newspaper business and into the entertainment field full time, Some afternoons every second call wants to know if there are tickets left for Huron Tiger next Friday. The intense interest may even justify the heavy i coverage we've been giving to plays and the people who make them. With Blyth ticket prices a bargain $3.75, the front office reports •trouble at times keeping quarters in the till for change. This summer it's become essential that everybody who works around here just about any capacity know how to sell theatre tickets, just like they used to have to know how to take ads over the phone. Grand Bend and Stratford both report, full houses regularly. I hate like heck to say this but the summer theatre season is drawing to a close. If you've planned all year' to attend one .or all of the area theatres in the area, ya better get going. Grand Bend and' Blyth have only three weeks or so left to their summer seasons. If you're interested in one of Stratford's many plays quite a few of them run until October. Clerk Jim Crocker commented Tuesday that after a walk up Main St. he estimated that 80 per cent of parked cars had no money ' in their meters. • . Other charts and studies Mr. Maniago has completed this summer include one that shows •absentee ownership of all types of land in Seaforth, "quite high for a small town", a map showing connections through- cut town to the 1976 sewers and a chart which shows 'the growth in building permits from 1969 to the present. A calf betters' from inside the burn* rage.. The joke you just heard about roast beef doesn't seem funny anymore. You wince. You know a calf is suffering inside, You knoW animals arc dying. But no, look! Out from the milk house, by the side of the barn. Out tumbles some calves, Count them. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Seven of them made it. To the outside. Whining and bawling. But they got out. Somehow. Somehow they got out from their pens. And the men 'chase them away from 'the barn. The firemen turn their hoses on the calves. To keep them moving out and away from the bate. For anyone used to barn fires knows thee animals want 'to return. To go back in. They only know .the barn as the place of safety and security. They don't realize it's all death inside now. A barn fire is a horrifying experience. It reins up a farm family and brings them to hard halt. In those barn burning hours their whole life is changing. And they can't do a thing about it, They, can only watch. See an old tractor sittiringin the barn bank--too close to the , barn to ;et near it. They watch the big;liack tires burn black and slow. They watch part . of the barn roof collapse on the milk house. They see the coolers and themilkers expire. They see this year's crop of hay and straw become the fire's fuel. They see the days of cutting and baling and stooking all in smoke. All those hot sweaty days of harvest ,turned to ashes. They. watch this spectacular fire--this $80,000 barn fire. It happens. It happens every summer in the country. The reasons are all there. The hay's too wet.ePacked in too tight: Moisture too high. The sun's too hot. The weather's too dry. Spontaneous combustion. That's the ward for it. But even after all the explanations, the devastation is still there. The tally reads: one dairy farther is out of business. The bank barn--one 'of the countryside's 'vanishing landmarks-es no longer. Cattle are dead. Equipment's destroyed. Life is turned round. A barn fire doesn't make sense--despite all the reasons. It seems as if no man can afford to spend that much—and lose _that • much--on a fire. But he does. placed second. The Expositor regrets the error. Egmondville Mrs. Gery Fraiser, Jon arid' Colleen have returned from a holiday in Victoria B.C. where they visited friends. Clinton will handle industrial fires Mrs. Carol Armstrong of Wingham was the guest speaker at the Agriculture and Canadia,n Industries meeting of the Seaforth Women's Institute when they met last Tuesday evening at the home of MrseEldon• Kerr, Mrs. Armstrong. chairperson for the ladies Program Committee for the Inter- national Ploughing Match being held on the Armstrong farm near Wingham spoke of the many activities, displays, competitions. cooking demonstrations and exhibits that will be of interest to everyone attending the ploughing match and especially the ladies. Activity has already started in the Tented City Area, she said, with hydro workers ,putting hydro in the area and exhibitors' building being put up. She showed slides of other ploughing matches since 1972 which were enjoyed, and souvenirs fot ploughing match were on display. Mrs. Arrestrong was introduced by Mrs. A. Pepper ah thanked by Mrs. G. MacKenzie and presente with a gift. Mrs. .Mary Haugh gave a • talk on "Agriculture", 'the oldest and most essential industry in the world. She recalled the implements used down through the years for tilling the soil, a very necessary Alden Seaforth WI hears from plowing match hostess has enough parking, council hears