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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-09-07, Page 2Juroti' (fxp ()sitar In Ste years agorae Farmer fined for using profane language , A government task force has -recently reported facts that many already know - Canada's tourism industry is in serious trouble. In the first half of 1978, Canada• suffered a national tourism trade deficit of $1,4 'billion, money that might have helped solve at least some "of trie our nation's growing unemployment. The reasons forourdeclining tourism are obvious. Hotels and motels in Canada often charge higher rates than those in other countries, Even the declining' Canadian dollar hasn't brought the influx of American tourists into the country that manygovernment expertg predicted it would. • In Europe, perhaps the part of the world most experienced in catering to tourists, bed and. breakfast accomodations and pensions in private homes provide accomodation for people travelling on a limited budget. They don't offer fancy dining rooms, elaborate bars or entertainment, but they do offer clean, comfortable accomodation, breakfast, and ususally a bath with hot running water. , in Canada, Vancouver has already started an alternate -accomodation program of housing_ tourists in private homes and this year the city reported a record year for American tourists, one of the few parts of Canada to experience a tourist boom. Another problem is that we Canadians still tend to view the tourist as someone We 'can rip off. After all, a tourist must have money if he's travelling in another country, so some of us overcharge him all along the line, often refuse to allow him the proper exchange on his currency and sometimes we forget there's such a custom as friendliness. Our own Canadian tourists are alsd often choosing to spend their hard earned goners outside the country. Despite our falling dollar, Canadians still find their money stretches further in the United States, or overseas. It's still cheaper to fly to Europe than it is within our own country.. Many of the .special charter flight prices- available in Canada are honored only by Air Canada..This means the tourist is stranded with a worthless ticket when the national airline shuts down, as is happening with startling frequency lately. Canadians' ban find'alternate forms of transportation, but the time involved in travelling by train or bus often takes a sizeable chunk out of their vacation. We need, cheaper air flights within Canada, on more airlines, and a revamping of tourist accomodations offered across the country. Let's start making an effort to be more hospitable hosts. We'll feel friendlier, our economoy will get a much needed boost and if we do a good job, maybe the misitors will come back next year. After all, Canada has some of .the most beautiful scenery in the world to offer. N Tourism industry is in serious trouble Since 1860. Serving the Community First Published at SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, every Thursday morning by McLEAN BROS. PUBLISHERS LTD. ANDREW Y. McLEAN, Publisher SUSAN WHITE, Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association arid Audit Bureau of Circulation SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1978 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0696 Telephone 527-0240 Sdbscription Rate' Capada (in advance) $12.00 a Year Outside Canada tin advance) $20.00 a Year SINGLE COPIES — 25 CENTS EACH Expositor asks: Should there be more Canadian TV? t The last swim run into a car, wrecking it to the extent of being beyond repair. The pea crop at Cliiselhurst is not turning , so well. Growers report returns are running about 12 bushels to the acre. Thomas Purcell of Welts; is moving to Midland with, the King Cottstruction Company who has" a two month contract paving. John Murray of Manley has been putting cement floors in his stable, William Rapien did the work. Miss Margaret Finlayson of Tuckersmith has taken up her duties as schoolteacher at No. 9 School. Miss Jean Woods of Bayfield left for Galt having secured a position on the teaching staff. The fine display of flower beds at the CNR • railway yards at Hensall are much admired James Atkinson of St. Columban met with and are most creditable to Thomas Shaddock a painful accident while attempting to stop a section foreman and his men. , runaway team. He was knocked down and The farmers near Varna are busy pulling run over... beans and sowing fall wheat. W,G. Broadfoot of Tuckersmith recently A happy event took place when the disposed of three car loads-of export cattle. members of St, Janies choir gathered at the Fah. wheat seeding is now the order of home of Mr. and Mrs. Gratton Flanigan and the day and a large amount is being sown.; presented them with a silver cake basket. The address was read by Mrs. F. Devereaux , and the presentation made by, William Faulkner. Clarence Kiauskoph of Dublin had his hand caught in a pulley and, some of his fingers had to be amputated. • William Knox of Londesboro had the misfortune to •have ,his hand caught in a windmill on his farm' Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Read of Staffa returned home after attending a Great West Life Convention in Michigan. SEPTEMBER 11,1953 Despite oppressive heat the sale of pure-bred Scotch shorthorn cattle at Gerrmar farms, Tuckersmith, owned. by Dr. M. W, Stapleton, S.eaforth, was well attended and buying was brisk. Last spring some 295 Seaforth children left the old public school for .the last time. This week nearly 350 children enrolled in Seaforth's new public school for the first time. Enrollment figures at the Public School this'week show that the largest proportion of the students are in kindergarden and primary grades. Robert McFarlane of Almont met with an unfortunate accident when he was planing lumber at his father's mill. In some manner his left hand was caught by the plane and his thumb and forefingers were severed. His hand was badly magled and it was necessarey to amputate it at the wrist. Mr. McFarlane is the nephew of R.K. McFarlane'. of Winthrop and the son of Mr.' and Mrs. David McFarlane of Winthrop, former residents of the North Road. SEPTEMBER 13,1878 A Stephen twp. farther was heavily fined ,by Squire Gedley of Bitter TOT pi:Ohne language in a bar room ip that town. Alex Davidson of the Commercial Hotel in Seaforth and Thomas Lee returned home --from- tire ' 01 d country. The harvest is finished and the farmers are busy getting in their fall wheat. A young boy. 9 years of age, son of James Donalson of the Bronson line, was injured by 'a' kick from a horse. The man was working with the horses, when the little fellow came up behind 'and commenced poking the horse with, a stick. - SEPTEMBER 11,1903 Charles Reid, cattle buyer near Brucefield has purchased from Charles Avery. 50 acres of.. land in Tuckersmith for which he paid $2,375. this year on Tuckersmith. The marriage of James Shea. McKillop and Miss Minnie Prendergest St. Columban, was solemnized by •Rev. Albeit McKeon in the presence of many relatives and friends. Bert VanEgmond of this town has won fame for his drawings at the Toronto Industrial Fair having carried off four firsts and one second.. ' William Hay who has been assistant in AlexWilson's drug store left for Toronto where he will attend the school of Pharmacy. The hotel stable yards On Sunday afternoon were as crowded with vehicles as on a show day, as man Y came in froni the country to attend thc Crossley and Hunter revival 'meeting inCardno's Hall. Misses Fenella and Maud Kidd of town left for New York city where they'will resume their duties as Kindergarden teachers. The lawn social sponsored by Roxboro. Mission Band held at the home of Mr. and Mrs, James Aitcheson was a great success. Robert Deveraux of the Huron Road had the misfortune to lose a sheep having had it worried by dogs, , John Boehler the new proprietor of the Dominion Hotelhere, is comfortably settled in his new home. The new proprietors of the American Hotel Messrs. McLennon and Broadfoot of Seaforth have taken possession. SEPTEMBER 14,1928 Angus MtKineon of Chiselhurst recently received severe injuries from a fall caused by the breaking of a trip rope. P. Smith of Hensall had tile misfortune to i• To the editor: Enjoyed Dublin Centenniitl coverage TO The Editor: I'm sorry I am so late in writing to thank you for being so prompt hi sending me the Expositor with the "Dublin Centennial" coverage. It was most in- teresting and so well done I really enjoyed it very much. If you have the constitution of a bull moose. the alimentary ability of an earth worm, the faculty of sleeping anytime. anywhere, like a cat. a cast iron stomach. and a very friendly. bank manager. by all means take a trip to Europe. If, on the Other hand. you have fallen arches, constipation, hemmorhoids, a tricky stomach, insomnia, an aver sion to heights Or public toilets or foreigners. and less than twice as much money as you think you'll need, by all means don't. You start ,off eagerly to Europe to look at ancient ruins, and come home looking like one. They tell me there are 50 million little old ladies tearing around Europe taking notes and pictures, missing none of the sights, eating the most incredible food, and slugging down the vino when they wouldn't even take a sherry at Christmas, back home. I believe it. I've seen them. But there's one -less now. I set off in pretty gOod shape., in my prime. I came home feeling like a little old lady. If you have a loathing for wines, don't go. -4You'll-probabfy come back one yourself. If you aren't greagaricius, don't like people, feel some kind of phobia in mobs, don't go. You'd miserable, If you tend to get sick on buses, I forwarded the paper on to my two daughters who live in Edmonton so you may be getting a new sul,scriber. Again I thank you. Sincerely yours Mrs. John F. Murphy airplan es. trains and boats, better stay home. You'd be sick all the time, If you are going with' a spouse or companion. you'll end your trip either full of deepest hatred., or with a- new tolerance: love, whatever. After these preliminary alarming notes. I'm forced to admit we had a trip that was merveilleuse, bellissima. fantastic and wtmderbar. See how travel broadens one? It's not the only way travel is kroadening. I can eat and drink anything and never gain an ounce. But I watch with growing horror as some of the ladies in our group, who began the trip fa irly svelte, went up like balloons under a steady barrage of French pastries, Italian pasta. Dutch du lings. Swiss chocolate, and a five-course dinner every night. I mentioned. our "group:' Yes, we were bourgeois enough to take a guided tour, Many people, particularly the young sneer at this. 7 '"That's no way to see the real Europe," they pontificate. To some extent. I agree. The best way to do it is with a baelipa.tk, a year to spend, and a sucker of a father back home, ready to ail you ouf. Bill middle-aged couples who can hardly carry the garbage out aren't fit to slug around all day with a siitty-pound pack on the back., To the editor: To The Editor; Just recently I returned from holidays arid received your reply to my letter enquiring about Kenney or Kinney families. Thank you very much for answering and especially for publishing my letter. It did bring results --a letter from Mrs. Schade of Walton, who is a grandaughter of my Most young couples with three weeks holidays haven't the time. And' many other people, who have both the time and the strength „just don't want the grubbiness of hostels aiitu hitch-hiking -suspect water, filthy toilets and the ever-present danger of being ripped off or winding up in the local clink for some unknown reason. • Un less you are filthy rich, have a good working know-ledge of several languages, and hae plenty of tinib. take my word. Take a planned tour. • We were lucky, lucky. We were a mixed bag of about 42: Americans. Australians arid Canadians. There wasn't one sour apple in the barrel. Everybody was concerned when someone was lost. or sick, _or a bag was missing. We 'Shared picnic lunches op a train, bottles of wine on a boat, hair-dryers and irons, kisses and -hugs and jokes and worries. Everybody kept an eye on the ubiquitous Larry. 8, and game Granny, 75, both ,of whom came through with flying colors. became a large family. Two sprightly ladies from Texas insisted (and they weren't kidding) that we all have a reunion in that sovereign state at Christmas. When we had our farewell party in Paris, it was a combination of New Year's Eve and the Mardi Gras. I was kissed and hugged said she Would like to see more Canadian shows, bill she thought some- of the Canadian programs currently on the air were. "crap." "Ifthey"come upwith something a little mbre interesting to watch, I think. there. sOuld 'definitely; ; be more Canadian *grams," Mrs. Miller said. Terry Craig of Egniondville said, "Personally speaking, I don't think I'm so interested in Canadian television as quality of television." "If Canadians can improve it, as well as anybody else, then' I'll Watch it," he said. Mrs. Robert McKercher'of RR I Dublin said, "It depends on whether its good or bad Canadian programming. I think we need more Canadian programming. It's really nice to see some of our Canadian people getting • some . recognitidn," she said. Mrs. Roy Patrick of RR A. Walton said, "Yes, I do. We have good entertainment ity Canada. We should use our own talent." grandfather's sister. lam delighted with the information she was able to give me. I wish to thank you very much for your co-operation. (Miss) M.C. Wallace Ste. 8-1616-Pembina Hwy. Winnipeg, Man. R3T 2G2 and wept upon by so mangy iddies of various ages. shapes and accents that I was wishing the tririvas stilling ail over again. Perhers that n,.•, the greatest thing we learned on the trip-. Although tile whole thing was tree.,:iidous education experienee in art and history — that almost all. people have a warmth and decency and plain goodness in, them, once the evci 'clay facade is broken through. .There was another way in which we were extremely fortunate, as well. We had — arid I say it without qualification, the best bus driver in all of Europe, Annette and Giovanni. For the first couple of days. I thought Annette, a blonde Dutch girl, was a relic of the Gestapo, as she bullied. pushed, pulled, urged, and rounded up stragglers like a sheep dog. I thought Giovanni was a rather surly Italian. How wrong one can be! By day three, we all knew that Annette knew her way through Europe as we know our way around our own houses, that she knew how to get uS., ahead of the iR JS, to' the best place to eat, to shop. te go to the toilet. By the time Giovanni had taken us through the hair-pin roads 61 the first Alps, and' had helped every lady of the but, at every stop, with a smile, we knew he was prima. More later. . By Debbie Ranney With the recent cut-back in funds for increased Canadian .programming oft,CBC TV, Expositor Asks decided to find Out if, local people thought there, should be more N'- Canadian programming on' television-. Mrs. Lorne Dale' of '72 James St Seaforth salad, '`Definitely. Because the other programs are poor--nothing but trash." Beth Grieve of RR, 3, Seaforth said, "Yes, I do. We ought to know all that we can about our own country. So. many programs don't seem to have ,any particular educational value in the enter- tainment." She wanted to see a better type of programming.and she thought it wo'uld be nice if "our own Canadian people could , take part in the programming." Mrs. George Ingram of 87 Oxford Street, liensall. said "yes", although she added such a busy person that I don't indulge in television too much." Mrs. James D. Miller of RR 2, Staffa Hears from Kenney relations Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley I'm back Behind the scenes by Keith Abulston Back to School Usually it's only the mother that feels this • great relief since father is off at work or out in the fields most of the summer and Only sees the kids in short spurts during the holidays. Around our place, with our office Mom. home, both parents have to try to deal with the boredom of the kids in late summer and still try to get their regular jobs done. It's no easy taks. I think most kids are secretly glad to get back to school in September, even though they make a big noise about hating school. 1 - know I did and so did most of my friends back in those days long past. Our kids are different. They missed school they day after it stopped in June. They make no bones about the fact that they like going to school and hate to miss it. In the winter when a snow storm used to block our road, we kids used to send up a cheer. My kids send up a wail of disappointment. It's a refreshing atttitude, but it's no easier to live with than the usual reluctance about school. It's nice to see the kids get up on...a September morning eager for new adventures at school, brit it's'frightening to see them bored in their first day of holidays in June. . While I liked school once I got used to it• back in the dark ages it took me some getting used to. First off, I was a shy kid who clung to the hem of his mother's dress at the first sight of a stranger, even in our own back yard. - It was extreme tot-tune fdr me to go off to school for the first time, not knowing what fate was about to befall me. H eck I didn't even knoiiir if I'd ever see y mother, father and dog again. They mi k me in a cage and keep me there. Luckily, we had a marvellous grade one teacher. In fact I think all grade one teachers are marvellous. They have such in important job, those teachers of the early grades. They can often influence for life the attitudes that youngsters wil Ihave toward school. If they are kind and understanding, then kids will think all teacher are kind and understanding. If they aren't, then every teacher the student Meets for the rest of his life will have to break down that feeling of distrust. L=uckily, I've Met very few grade one teachers who fell into the latter group. But besides being nice,tne grade one - I don't know about your house, but in ours there was a,gigantic sigh 'of relief when Tuesday morning rallied around this week. The kids are back to school. Mom and pop are back to sanity. teacher hag to instill in her „children the sense of wonder at lea g new things. If .the teacher can pu across that joy of discovery that comes from learning things about the world, then the battle of educating a person is half over. If a child once gets 'that thirst for knowledge, then he'll spend the rest of his life trying to quench that thirst.' That's why I often think we've somehow gotten our whole education system turned upside down. We give our highest respect (not to mention financial security) to our university professors. Next in order come the secondary school teachers and at the bottom of the line both in terms of prestige and rem uneration" UMW the'"'elementary school teachers. Yet who is more important in the system than those teachers , who first handle our young people? What skill can be more important than the delicate skill of encouraging those shy, eager youngsters to learn more about themselves and their world? University professors, must, know a lot surely, but they are teaching to the converted. They are teaching things to students who already have 13 years of schooling behind them and are only there because they want to learn. These are students who would learn eve if there wase 't any university to go to by reading all the available books, often that how students at university are left to learn anyway. • High-school-teachers-have it a little harder because some of the students just can't wait to get old enough to get out of school.' Teaching people who don't want to learn is one of the most difficult and frustrating tasks known to man. Yet the difficulty the high school teacher encounters in •this area can be greatly lessened, or added to by the ability of the elementary school teacher. If the teacher of young children has failed to make them enthusiastic students, then by high school it's too late to do much more than babysit them until they're old enough to quit. If the elementary teacher has succeeded, then the enjoyable challenge for secondary school teachers is to give those entlidsiastic students the knowledge they crave. . Teaching then is a joy, not a gruelling .endurance race. So as the kids go down the Ilene o the bus this Morning; a little silent prayer of thanks goes up from our household along With another prayer that the teachers waiting for them can have the special talent and enthusiasm te,give th em the sense of joy -Vey' iree-d'i6 want to learn more.