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WinterAdoes have it's beauty
Probably beeektse the amendments to the Ontario Munic4pal Act :
aren'tour favourite bedside reacting, ,We were surprised at council this
Week at theappearance of a detailed list of who on courtil was. paid what
IA the line of duty last year. '
For the first tithe this year, the information must be tabled in each
municipality in the province, and by February 28. if the figures haven't
been released in Year town or tot/Olt-hip 'yet, asst; Alley rnuitte: -
While a -few ,none-of-yOur-business diehards would argue just that,
Most of the Seeforthcouncil Members we quizzed felt the disclosure was
a ,good thing.
From the figures it's obvidus that no one is becoming a millionaire'
through ,service on council.. But' every dollar is public money and we ,
should know Who on council- gets what share of it.
• And in municipalities where there has been abuse, expensive spending
at unnecessary conventions, inadequately supported expense claims or
whatever, the mandatory release of the *figures gives voters the
ammunition they , need to get ,rid of any freeloading councillors.
The table that gives the figures in black and white takes the important
issue of council pay and expenses out of the, realm of gossip and
guessing. We now know exactly what our represen-tatim=„:paid and
for what.
The province took the lead in letting this little.bit of light, into municipal'
business. Now perhaps Seaforth and area townships could take it further.
Our local councils need-public policies on conventions. Who goes and"
to which ones? What- expenses can they claim? What 'are -the:limits on
hotel, meal and mileage-claims? What sort of reports does council as a
whole hear when the convention goers return?
We haven't see arty abuse on the, part of area councils documented'.
Butth,e time to consider limits and policies is now, before abuse or even a '
little mild fiddling here and there creeps in,
An eye on bur dollars
the environment over the years., battles he
truely believed in. He generally only spoke
on the issues he believed in.
He may not have -neon a great. big-time - ••
politiciiiiiS -but he-wore the respect of jUSE.
about everyone he Met, includine
government 'members. And he "won the
overwhelming respect of the thousands of
people he helped back-home as-witnessed-by-
the incredible support -he received at' the
polls.
If there were more Murray Gaunts and
fewer attention getting. political-actors in
politics. I 'think politicians would have a
better name.
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FEBRUARY 11, /01
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ingpburedupoe the:flael'es. From the firs,t PgrsoOs, who, would 'raid a panting office ' relict of the rate. L.O. 'Yap tiottuotitl.'ili'erl lo • hidty drifted' and filled in all -aleng, the, ,
the fire was eompletely*ihhin control of tile routes.
htigutie lio. although a brisk wind was.. : :(eel-. 'end bits. 11,S, Hays of $eaforth
blowing at the time: not only the sue-
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attended the 'Huron Old' Boys at gimme in
rounding, buildings Were prevented even
Toronto on Thursday of last week:
iron-Chang scorched but the greater pile of -
. ''' - Mabel Whiteman and Mrs. Ailienhead of
inflammable, material embraced in this
Kippen are attending the Horticultural —
building waS‘saverl comparatively uninjured Convention in Toronto.,
and what undoubtedly, could ha%,- been a
FEBRUARY 10-, 1956
terrible conflagration was prevented by the
• Tuckersmith Council. at its meeting in
e fficient Working of the waterworks and the
=7 Seaforth Tuesday afternoon, named Reeve
fir:e. brieade, If --tlarvsy celeman of Stanley to be a member
'of the r—truinviera--6.)caciniatr".)-)i-x--v _mg er,s i n. .
Brothers. It will 'be fitted 'up for a printing'
office.
D., D. Wilson has had stored in his new
balding this 'season over 700 tons of ice. It
all taken from the Egmondville
pond. . •
Mr. Cull has had a neat and comfortable
School.
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Fires like misfortunes seldoni•eame singly: The firsfearnivalin the now Palace rink in expecting to get Money must have, some-
On Thursday morning afttn.1)417414.thircp, Seaforth. is held on Friday evening last and thing wrong id their Upper story. Fortunately
the Seaforth iphaltit ere ronvee was in every respect a complete success. they did not disturb anything else in the
-,=?aessrs. Sohn and. William Wive-
tit I at.tiing;the. Ice was itihe best Of ctinditign an4 despite ao office, b7' the' drea rul , • . •
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in the years agone
Egmondville on Sunday last t at the
residence of Mrs. C. Van Egmond.
FEBRUARY 1.34.1931
,A tok4ue every and one which -but few in
Okada have ever livcd to participate in- was.
k 04 -at the heTe-01-Mr., anti, mgs, , wary,
&Air. qi'uokerisoit4tvittthboKito
office fitted up in Kidd's block for this
telegraph 'and express business.
Alexander• Kerr of McKillop. has pur-
. chased the farm of Mr. Flood on the 12th
Concession of McKillop for 52000. The farm
contains SO acres: Iv is a splendid farm with
aboet 40 acres cleaned. Mr. Kerr intends
using it for grazing purposes. We congratu-
late eur good friend upon his purchase.
. , FIEBRUARY'9, 1906
Peter McKay of Tuckersmith recently sold
a very pretty eight months old Shorthorn bull
calf to Messrs; Wm. Chaprnan and pus. of
`the second concession near Brucefield. This
calf, was Marquis of Zenda:. the imported
sire now at the head of the herd of Senator
Edwards. a.
.
'D. McGregor has disposed of his brick Seaforth Putilinibtarylkiald „
building on Main street tolvlessrs. McLean k- annual meetingivIOncl" a'Y'lnight.'reappo,inted '
Miss Greta Thompson librarian. In
September of last year. Miss Thompson
completed 48 years. af_servieu-asAibrariare.
and in:making the appointment, the board
took notice of that.-fact-and comp1intented
heron her years of service-
compete in old-fashioned spelling bees.
according to an announcement by G.G.
Gardiner, lespeeteLof *Public -Schools- in-
Huron District 2. The contest sponsored by
the Ontario Educational Association and
financed by a Toronto newspaper gets
turtedz,tisntr;he itScoafoAlsarth districtelootisno)K).01,c
Torn Butters .of Dublin is attending the
Retail Hardware Convention at the Royal
York in Toronto.
Mayor E.A. McMaster, M.R. Sauvage
and W.E. Southgate of Seaforth were in New „,--
Hamburg WecinelIalalleang a meeting
of the proposed Upper grand River.
Regional Development Association.
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' by Keith Roulston
Election:woes and tha-nk you
' A little note:in_ the arena Committee's report to council this week
indicated a sizeable jump in revenue at our community centre over last
year. "
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Just what we needed eh? A March ' big city press took little notice of the „
election? . '- retirement of Murray Gaunt last week. ,
too busy helping people to make the kind of
dynamic impact that attracts attention from
the big-cite press'. ,
Probably he also was unlikely to become a
big-time politician because he, was just too,
darned nice. He never sounded convincing if
he railed against the gevernment, which he
did surprisingly seldiim over the years.
Theme is a certain knack to being able to
sound outraged over the most trivial thing
that successful -.politicians have. Murray
Gaunt wasn't an actor. He only sounded
convincing when he featly cared about
something. •
He fought a lot of 'battles for farmers, for -
Lots (too mueh?) in a name
Sugar and , spice
It's not as good as it looks, arena ,chairman Bill, Bennett cautioned;
some 1980 bills were paid this. year.
Even sO there's been a huge increase in activities at our arena in recent
yeers and the place is certainly the community centre it was meant to be.
• Anyone whO got pear the place on .the weekend saw the invasion of
broomball players from all over the province. Seaforth's arena is"the area
capital that sport. Then there's our very active minor hockey teams
(see Herb'Shoveller's column next week); We've got industrial hockey
.. and our Junior D team the Centenaires. Figure skating, public skating,
recep-tions, dances," dinners and meetings 'upstairs; fairs, exhibits and
more dances downstairs.
The arena is used by almost all ages, it's" going night and day and
offers activities that interest .many, many people in-the community..
Credit should go to all the- arena staff, to manager Jack Price, rec
diredtor Bryan Peter, to the arena committee and the deputy-reeve Bill
Bennett. Bill is Mr. Arena in Seaforth. He's guided the building through
essential renovations, staff' changes, and greatly increased use of the
,place, Smoothly and with a sense of humour too.
Thanks, all of you who keep the arena jumping for - the rest of us.
A benefit, in droppin
out
Dropping out is frowned on. This is mostly because there's always the
fear that you may never drop back in. But now there's an establishment
study — done at Harvard — alleging not, only that dropping out is not
fatal, but'that it is a good thing, especially if it carries no obligation to do
something worthwhile. Hooray, Truth at- last.
Nancy Silver Lindsay, author of the study, reports that most of the
Harvard dropouts returned to complete their degrees of their own free
witi, that 82 percent ot them took jobs, but that "the best hours of leave
were spent . in ,leisure." Shopping sprees, housecleaning and piano
playing figured in the enterprises of one Radcliffe junior. "Trivia that,
taken es a whole," she Said, "put texture and quality back into my life."
today the kid who lies in the haymeadow, making castles out oi the
clouds groWs up to be -a profesSional person who will likely drop dead
before. he puts a sign on his door simply saying he's gone fishing. And
business concerns that grandly Maintain they are: up with the times by
granting ern.ployee sabaticali comtrionly indicate to the escapee that this
does not Mean slacking off. ' ,
"Sure you canlfrop out. Good idea. And; while you. have the time, why'
not tun for President, save- the poor,. or write a book on the past and
future of the Federal ,income tax?" says the boa• as•he-finds you your
hat. Weil, the idea for a great-book like "War and Peace" `chid not come
from Sitting eta' desk. Nor, we suspect, 'do most of the world's -great
-ihventions Write from 'sticking to a job on the assembly line.
Work has its place. Putting one foot infrontot4he-other will get you to
the grave in-the end. And method may be the opposite ot madness. but it
is through change that the unexpected likeness of unlike experiences is
revealed. The dreatiVe- connection is often. made when one's back is
turned. And it 'may, 'Well. be thrOugh idleness and frivolity that the
:Wholehearted potion, who best can carry on with the world's -work, IS
reborn, If dropping Out oh the production line means dropping, in on the
human race, are for it — and no strings attached.
The•Boston Glebe
Perhaps it's the government'S idea of
giving a :boost to the economy to have a
winter election. Maybe Mr: Davis' planners
figure we might havea raging blizzard here '
in the snow belt on March 19'and nobody will
be able to get to -the polls. -Since the
government picks its own party inenibers,to
man the polls it might then be able to win ,
back the western Ontario ridings since only
the party workers would get out to vote,
Kidding aside it does seem like a strange
time for an election. Normally politicians
don't like to have winter elections. Voters
don't like wading through snow. to get to the
polls and can sometimes take it out on the
government that calls the election. Voters
have .been turning against governments
quite regularly in recent years voting out
Jimmy Carter to get Ronald Reagan. voting
out Pierre Trinleau to get Joe Cfark. then
voting Clark out again to get Trudeau. It
would seem that Mr. Davis is taking a big
Chance but then politicians will believe polls
more than gut reactions anymore.
Mr. Davis 'is probably sight. 1 have this
feeling that we're never going to see the end
of the reign of the Conservatives le Ontario.
Federally we can talk about how horrible it is
to have one party in power for II years 'but
-nobody seems to bat an eyelash at nearly 40
years in Ontario. There could be an upset
but upsets seem' to be things that happen .
elsewhere, riot in Oriterio.
One of the issues ill the eleciinii will
undoubtedly be the economy. The oppositiOn
parties will be pointing to all the plant
closings and the industry moving west-ward
and the talking about government
mismanagement. As one who bas a rather
sceptical view of the ability 4, government
(particularly provincial governments) to i
Manage the e nomy in these days of global
economics. I ould normally have a certain
sympathy for Mr, Davis insthis bout. :But he
who- lives by the sword, dies by the sword
and it would be ironic justice if Mr. Davis
got in electoral trouble this time because of
the supposed ill-health of the provincial
economy and , his government's
"Mismanagement". Mr. Davis and John
Roberts and Leslie Frost before him, claimed
all the good things in-Ontario came from
their government, hot from the abundant
natural resources we just happened to. have
in the north, not from therferm belt that had
most of Canada's top farmland or from the
that put the industrial belt ot Vntarto on a
peninsula jutting Own into the U.S. making
it close to American Markets and thus giving
Ontario a natural industrial advantage to the
rest of Canada. No. it wasn't these natural,
ungovernment factors that , made Ontario so
prosperous but the• magic of the
Conservative goVernment, So if you take
credit for the good times that you don't
deserve, Mr. Davis, don't ask me to feel
sorry,for you when you get blame for the bad
times that you don't deserve.
Aside from the irony that the ,Liberal party
environment Mlle announced he would not
be running,fOrtekelection on the same day as
the Environment( Minister Harry-Parrott, the
For some reason. and I've no idea what
it is,' this column is.going to be about girls'
names."There are several piissible reasons,
any of which might, be the right one.
First, it might' be just an' unconscious
reaction to the work cold' -spell I can
remember. The names of girls, exotic or
otherwise. -seem to help fight those
Jan:/Feb. winter blues or blahs.
Secondly,' I might simply be getting
senile. This was my wife's suggestion when I
told her my subject. Who knows? A couple of
years from now at playgrounds with nothing,.
on but a raincoat.
And thirdly, the more I thought about it,
the more I thought about it. I 'don't know
whether this happens to you, but every so
often I get some silly old song in my head.
and I whistle and sing it, inaudibly, of
course, because I don't want to be Put away;
for perhaps fifteen hour's.
, It could be Colonel Bogey, and I play it,
with variations, through my head all day. No
other tune interferes. Just a few days ago, I
got one into my skull that mint 'date back to
the twenties, and it went on all day.;_ through
teaching, conversation, eating, shaving. It
was:
You can bring RoSe, with• the turned-pp
nose,
don"t 'bring Lula.
You can bring Kate with the partial Plate.
But don't bring Lula.
Some old timers might remember it. I'm
surelt goes back to the days of-vaudeville, or
the gramophone. as.we used to call. it. But
I've no idea where it came from, where I
heard it, why I remembered the tune, or
what was wrong with Lula.
, -Anyway, I began to contemplate the
names of girls. 'and whence they 'derived.
We chose the name Kim for our daughter,
because we didn't know whether she was
going to be a daughter or another son, and
the name ,fitted either sex. There wasn't a
Kim on the horizon then. Now you Can find
one on every street tomer.
In Airborne form, I ,have two Kilns, two
Karats, and a'Card, and until I knew which
vatic which; I'd ask a question and start
. By Bill Smiley
sounding like the old song "K-k-k-Katk."
Girls' names seem -to go in cycles. One
year I had five Debbies in one class. Hardly
ever hear a Debbie anymore.......
Aside from- the fads, when' everythird gal
has the same name, there seem to be some
basic roots from which beleaguered mothers
and fathers label their offspring. (I've known.
a Robin Bird and a Pete Moss-, 'but those
were exceptions). ,
'Some girls are named after jewels, but
there aren't many Pearls, Rubies, Opals.
Sapphires and such around -these days.
They're as old-fashioned as Elmer and
Gordon for boys.
Strangely, I've never heard a girl called
Diamond, though I've- met a few hard
enough to live up to. such "a sobriquet.
Girls are named after sonic months, but
not Others. We can label a,girl May, April or
June, but you don't hear too many
Februaries or Novembers floating around. I
think Febbie would cute for a short
girl born in that short month:
Then there is the practice of naming girls
after flowers. We have Iris and ivy and
Pansy and baisy and Marigold and Rose,
and evert, on the occasional' farout encount-
er, Tulip or Virginia (if her last- name
happens to be Creeper)-.- But they, too, have
pretty well gone by the board. I don't know
why. A girl is just as pretty as a flower, and
often smells even nicer.
:Why .don't ivt-7go-Lhaurio that and call
girls Petunia, Begonia, Phlox, Crocus,
Daffodil? Think of the sweet little abbrevia-
tions they'd acquife. Pet, Reggie, Flay,
Crockey and Daffy. _
Ooce in a whilethere is a flare-up of
old-fashioned--or fdeign names. Then we
have a rash of Samanthas, Matthas, logrids,
Fleurs, Leslies. The trouble is, with out
fondness for-nicknames, even these august
names become Sam. Marty. Ingy the dingy,
Flour and-Les:—g?Y4n<p----co----o).-----A,P<oo,cx°<>Poso,,:o
Thank goodness there is a solid element of
parents in our society who stick with the
good old Biblical and fundamentally
Saxon tags: Ruth, Mary, Rebecca, Marga-
ret, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Susan, Jane, Sophia
and• such.
Not for them the 1, exotic and subtly
suggeStive stuff like Syliva, Sonya, Rol!erta,
Giselle, Judeita. Those are the sort of names
-$that can get a girl into trouble. How about
Carlotta? Or Viyiee? Trouble,...trouble.—:„.„.„—
. Personally, if I had six daughters, Lord
forbid, I'd try to get one into each category,
animal& for jewellery. 'September for a
month. How doeS'Septeililier'Stidreji ged-hirr—
SweetTea for flowers. Sweet-pea Smiley?
Ursula for an old-timer. Once bad-a slight
fling with a girlby that name. Mary,fge the
solid virtues and the religious tonnottlibn&..
And Diana, gooddess of love,, for the .
dangerous
• if I istiddenlY and unexpectedly Ilia a
seventh, name her for one of the great '
women in -myth or literature. Perhaps Circe,
Or Cot-della. EverybOy happy with- those?
Thank goodnesS..00,daughter- -has---two
hors, one Nikov, after a character in a
Russian novel, the other Blind, a name she
made up. She'd drive ut crazy if she had a
batch of girls.
Murray wasn 't the kind of politician, ...vho
becomes nhero with the urban press. He's
not a firebrand in the House' 'or man. who
gives the press great lines it can quote. '
There are two. kinds of politicians: leaders
elf the people. and Servants' of the people.
Murray Gaunt was a prime example of the
latter. I knew him both as a constituent and
later as a man encountered many times as a
journalist to a politician. As a constituent
he digit "meonce, back in riny schobl days.
teelioa_oucitedt.eutting-threttgli of red tape
that he did for so many of his-constituents
over the long years he served. Often he was
iv
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