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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-05-13, Page 2O M MA ME 0 3 U o R M 0 MUD OGG o a BM 00 M o M p OMB Mil GM MEM O AS I MMIU R A M 0 FA DOM NM RI©o. 3Aiii 3MR A Answers', to last week's pitizle ci EDITOR'S NOTE: Crossword puzzle fans may have been extra puzzled with last week's Mother's Day crossword, as a result of some gremlins at the Expositor. Dashes were not Set as spaces between ^ words and one clue (2. Downy read Street crossing marker when it should have said Street crossing ,Market. Puzzle author Norman Hubley likes to localize his clues and we apologize to him, and to crossword fans for the errors. Below is the solution to last,week's puzzle, Got an opinion? Write a letter to the editor today! the Iluronfxpositor . Since 1860, Serving the Community first st ables cost $79 000 12 Ivlain St. 527-0240 MAY 13. 1881 James Weir has purcii4.ed Carmiehael's Hotel. For the hotel and stables. without OtOr stores. he pays 5 7 .000 Mr. Weir i a gentlemanly. obliging man and a very Spring foals ehind the scenes by Keith Roulston. A slave to the automobile 41 Man has ipvented few things that have been more helpful to him than the automobile but one Wonders if sometimes it isn't man who was created to serve the automobile,not the other way around. Slowly but surely, like the camel easing his way into the tent, the. automobile has changed our lives to the point that like the camel that took over the whole tent, the automobile runs us today as much a5 We run it. Things aren't too bad yet in rural Huron County, but look at the country as a whole and see what the automobile does. North America is in a recession today basically caused by one thing: the higher price of oil due to the OPEC price increases has made people''think twice about driving the gas- guzzling monsters that ruled North Ameri- can roads for the last quarter century. People turned instead to smaller. fuel-effi- cient cars made mostly in Germany and Japan. In Detroit, Windsor and other cities dependent on auto production across North America, thousands found themselves with- out jobs. Many cities that had no idea they' were dependent on the auto industry saw their unemployment lines lengthen too. The auto industry reaches fay, deeper into the country than Windsor and- Oshawa and Oakville. It hits Stratford and London and so many cities where plants depend on making brake pads or door mouldings or hub caps for the autoindustry. When these people are laid off, the money they aren't spending ceases to grease the wheels of local commerce. Store clerks get laid off, real estate values drop, people don't have extra money for new purchases and soon all industries are in trouble, even those" not directly related to auto production. Being in the city for a fe,w days. as I was recently, you gdt another perspective of how the car runs our lives today. The car boom of the fifties and sixties sent people scurrying farther and farther out from the centre of the cities. To serve these people who still had to get downtown to work, super highways were built in the centre of the cities but today the "pan boom shas been so large that the Don ' Valley Parkway, for instance, is now more policing lot than parkway during,nish hours. Once you get your car downtown, (if you get your car downtown), cost:you-at-least- The Town of'Seaforth has a new dog catcher, but we don't know Who is. Council doesn't want to tell his name. To a point they may be erititl d to keep it quiet. They'are after all, the employer. But, then, they too are employees of a.sort and are answerable to their bosses, the taxpayers., None of us spends without knowing what we're buying. As the financier of the dogcatcher's fee, the taxpayer is entitled to know. Now no dogcatcher, ever, is going to win a popularity contest. But Still that's the name of the game: • Want the name -Of-the -dogcatcher? -Tough. • But wait awhile. Small town life being what it is, we suSpect that classified information will eventually leak out. We're entitled to know/ A newspaper addict just back from evacation in our great eighbour to the south (you know, 'the one that'S just launched ,a_gr at ,military spending binge, while at the same ,time cutting back oh services to people) is immediately struck by inequities in the Ontario w y of doing -thingS. Take nursing hornes. Following recent inquests, and' tragi. fires, in this 'province's homes for older people Who need care, the p blic and the opposition in the Ontario legislature, have• quite hatura ly become OonCerned .about the quality of care that residents get. No problem, the,, Tory government assures the concerned, all of Ontario'snursind borne are inspected. Fine then, replies th couple who is looking for a good home for her father, we'll read hrough the inspection reports, tour a feW places and find the best plat for Our pa. Melia. The Ontario government won't make those -reports pPtibtie; says Gordon Walker, the . minister in charge.. People don't need them and 'instead should go to a few, nursing homes and just look around. We contrast that attitude with_the situation south of the border where a Detroit' newspaper this weekend carried a page one story4., xamining problems at area nursing homes, with names, addresses arid information like "food must be kept refrigerated to avoid rodents". Information came from the reports of government inspectors which are available to the public. 'As it stands now, people in Detroit who have to make that very .important deaisforyaboUt whickhursing...home ie hest for AA ed.. parent are infinitely better' equipped than those of us in Ontario. Ontario coroner Eli Cass thinks the reports of our inspectors should be pUblic too, because they are trained observers, who we are, paying to make sure our institutions give good care. As it stands, now, people in Detroit who have to make that Wry" • important decision about which nursing hOme is best foren aged' parent are infinitely better equipped than those of us in Ontario, But Mr. Walker says all really -need to do to find a good nursing home is ta wander in and. ipok around. If that's thkcase wtly\do we\ need nursing home inspectors at lall? , Wh, y not trust in the good will of alt nursing'home operators toeep. their standards of care high and save what we now spend on nursing home inspections? We could emulate the good old USA and build a missile with the extra dollars. S3 to park it for the dayftven at that price space had become so precious that they're building multitstorey parking garages that are big enough to hold one of our Huron county villages. Looking at it objectively, it's all absurd: For every week of work most Toroatarians put in,, they spend the equivalent of one day's work fuming and cursing behind the wheels of their cars in traffic jams. For solution. others, public transportation is the others, of course, think there's something subversive about the subway, a plot against the all-American way of life of driving your car slowly through jammed streets morning.and night. Even for these transit users, however, the automobile has its effect. For one thing the automobile spread the city out So widely that urban transit becomes inefficient. Subways need high-density population so they can run only downtown. Buses have to travel too far to pick up too few passengers to make them as efficient as they could be. Then of course there's the fact that there are so many cars clogging the roads that buses and street cars are caught in the same traffic jams the cars are. Cities would be a lot more human if people stuck to riding the subway. or walking, or riding bicycles." Pollution would be eased, (both air and noise), there would be much more space for the people without having to give over huge amounts of land for roads and parking lots. In short, things might almost be liveable in the cities. But there comes the rub. If it happened what would happen to the country's econ- omy. If people didn't use their cars to get around the streets of Toronto or Montreal or ,.New York then a lot of people wouldn't buy cars at all. If they didn't buy cars at all then the whole vicious circle of economic stagna- tion would take place again. People would lose jobs which would Mean less money was being spent Which would mean more people would lose jobs. The question to be asked then is will we, ever get off this merry- go round with the automobile? Will we ever get to the point where once again the automobile serves us '"and not we the automobile? Ydu have to ask P cognomen. The track is now in splendid condition to drive on and we have no doubt it will be well patroniied by the owners of "good stock' in town.. , Roderick Grey of the second concession of McKillop, has the best field of fall wheat in this section of the country. It looks about as well as the best pieces last year. , Robert Winters of Seaforth, our noted . eAtt14.4e4e5obiteottt fishing on the 8th i41:s succeeded Inc: 'catikkiriligArikkiktt*Tim • NOtiT14#4. a toms* tt*e*hieh -*hen- . 4000 weighed' • three pounds and three • 11#41tOW • .,• :. :1..4., :ENtvo. • late of 41.144, Craig, .has QjitprO out a b*ecy -4nit.Ce0000/101**tbm in ouctianata. btoek 'in tiOtsill. ' , . „ . . • MAI.618,1004 • ' . • Messrs. Ketifiedy'Brothers of Seaforth have sold their team of pOnies to Thomai. Rands. who was *king for a fancy pair and got just what he wanted. The price paid was -S210. Robert GarrOw's sale of stock steers on Wednesday of last week was largely attended and all were sold. The 58 head realized nearly $3,500 or an average of S60 each. They were pretty widely distributed. MAY 18,1906 Thomas E. Hays has. seventy-three head of cattle on hislarmin-McKillop-They were all bought for the grass. This is quite a bunch of cattle, but Mr. Hays will be able to handle them aU and profitably too. - . .8 Thomas Townsend of Tuckersmith, while in Seaforth on Saturilay dropped his pocket- book containing about $30. A young lad name& Fred Dickson found it near the stdckyardi at the station .and reported his find to his,sister.,She,Seeing a 'notice about. --it Wine post office, at once left the wallet at the Expositor office, and Mr. Townsend was made glad by receiving his lost. treasure intact on Monday. The honesty of young Dickson is to be commended, and the promptitude. with Which- Miss Dickson .,. restored the money is equally commendable. Fred C. Broadfoot Seaforth left on (j7f ' Thursday for Cuba wh re he will be engaged . professionally by e ew York syndicate of capitalists. , MAY 15, 1931 Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Bonthron of Hengall are getting their grounds very hastily Arranged arourtd their dwelling property on -the corner of King and Nelson Streets, and are having what is termed a rock garden, which Will make a nice 'Variety among the \\,,csorroundling neatgardens and premises as I spetit the, entire weekend talking to these people, feeding them, and driVing them tn a• ferry, half an hour away, where they could embark and spread the faith on, an, Indian reservation. They can talk like gurus, sleep like a , bomb, and eat like-.horses. My son arrived- on a Thursday night, and had me so befuddled by astrology and the words of the prophet, that I slank off to bed about mid-night,got up early so I wouldn't have to face him again. That afternoon a friend, `Margaret, arrived from the city, at 80 miles an hour; on' her motor-bike, They left for the island. At 7:30 that night, Lise arrived, 22, bright as a whip, endearing. giving up a weekend with' exams approaching, to take part in the teaching mission. Fed and slept her at our place, delivered her to the ferry next day. Saturday. son Hugh and Margaret arr ived back and took off for the city, back to work. Sunday morn ing I went to pick up Lise at the ferry and saw her off on the bus, ready, to resume her studies for a KA. in Statistics, of all things. O.K. An old Jewish guy can stand that. But Monday, I got a letter, courtesy of the Collingwood weekly, that reinforced my decision to fight back. It was from William J. McCormick Esq.. Chetwynd, Chetwynd Drive, Rosemont, Pennsylvania. it' was the damnedest thing, , (pardon the expression in a religious column) that I have ever seen. On the outside of the envelope wag his address, and. mine, thus: Honorable Bill Smiley, ((Teacher & Columnist). Down in the righthand corner was a fat green label stating: Preferential: Do Not Delay. Label 110, 19-72. On the back of the envelope was this: Dear letter, go, upon your way Over mountain, plain or sea. God bless all who speed your flight To where I wish yott to be. And bless all those beneath the roof Where I would bid you rest; But bless even more the one to whom This letter is addressed. Inside were the following: a letter from the Speaker's Office, House of Commons, London. 'England, thanking Mr. McCor- mick for his copy of an address given at Haverford, Penn.; a letter from Bucking- ham Palace thanking him for the copy of the "Holy Name" and an accompanying letter (the Palace letter had a grammar error); a one-inch by six-inch card, in green, blue and red, announcing "God Bless You'; ,and a twelve-thousand word copy of the address by Wm, J. McCormick to the Holy Name Society of Rosemont, Penn.. • . It was all a bit to much. Somewhere in p our ,Allage has long been noted for its well kept gardens. lawns, etc. Mr. Bender, ate merchant of Blyth. has opened u a ladi ready to wear stocItin Hensal to he p noises in past years occupie by the late Alex Murdock on the south si e of-King Street, and is displaying quite an autructive assortment. • Retell 9._WItitsilsOtt. of •Mr. and MrS- W,O. Williser4ettferift, b4s v*400440:4 Ch.#4041- Engineerfrom the School of Science 4Inivoolti„4. Toronto, oggng hon. put*. yin his FOPS!. ' • -. • Mrs W. Hay an t'.daughter 70.1.10.0 ,;.471. 40.1ae WelOw..Of'01001.,•04*nior011*,, at residence on Vletttril4 Street 4.K•gostka,.s-er.44,110**erinuo4 in Seaforth. • MAY .18,190 Lashing rain and tornado-like winds cut a swath across the Seaforth area over the nwaitenkaegned totallinglestvin maatrtiyaitlho4 s destructiondoivarnid. • Rain late Thursday night that raised the level of creeks to overflowing and flooded fields in a matter of minutes was followed Friday by more rain. The rains were followed by a twister coming in from the west, that levelled barns along the Mill 'Road in Tuckersmith, damaged buildings and trees in Egmondyille and wrecked more barns in McKillop. • Something new to what in the past has been accepted as Spring weather, was added on Wednesday morning, when driving snow fell for more than an hour. The snow, typical of the unusual weather which has prevailed for the past -month, was followed by bright sun in the afternoon. Announcement was made this week of the sale of the property at the northwest corner of Goderich and East William Streets. Seafortkto the Sun Oil Co. For nearly 80. years the site has been the location of a lumber yard and pla. ning mill. • .l Douglas Stewart, who .has joined the engineering staff of the Bell Telephone Company at Windier-for summer employ- ment, was a weekend visitor at the home of his parents Mr: and Mrs. James A Stewart of Seaforth. • A massive machine for the manufacture of concrete sewer tile arrived here Wednesday from Denmark. The machine was imported by Seaforth Sewer Tile Co. Liinited .and .is being installed in; the large building being erectediby the company Harp.urhey. his speech, Wm. J. had a number of aphorisms about brevity being the soul of wit. As' you may have noticed, I don't preach much in this space. That is, I don't preach religion. In the first_piate, _I am_ not lehened enough in the scriptures: whatever scrip- tures happen to turn you , on. By the way, excuse the- lite- of the capital "S" for scriptures. It merely means writings. It's not that I don't have a friendly chat with God once in a while. I do. and I'm sure he enjoys it, though he never talks back. In that respect, he is about two hundred per cent more amiable to' talk to than, my wife. In the second , place (see above), I am not pure enough or good enough to preach to others', though, by George, there are quite a few of you sinners out there who need a little touch of hellfire to frighten you. And in the third place, it's none of my business. If you want' to bang your-head on the ground in the general direction of the East, do a Holy Roll on the floor, speak in tongues. lie ona bed of"nails, or slurp wine and eat dry biscuits at Christmas and Easter, that's your problem. I am basically A Jew at heart. If you believe,that you are going to join the Great Spirit or some other form of It. Her, Him, after you conk out, and-meet all your loved ones again, and float around on that big Sugar Candy mountain in the sky, and not ever work again, bless you, and good luck. (Who, in his right, or even celestial mind, would want to see all his/her loved ones again? There'd be some right hair-pulling if some of my old girl-friends and my wife got together for a Sunday brunch at one those fly-ins in the sky; and I sure as heaven don't want to meet my children, nor my brothers and sisters, after croak. Wouldn't mind seeing the grand- boys for about severrminutes.) So. Generally I mind my own business about other people's beliefs. But this past week has made me strike back, in desperation. First of all, I got caught in a welter of Ba-ha-i's. My wife, son and daughter are adherents of this comparatively_ new faith. Its beliefs you can't fight with. They're the best of the older religions. Their purpose is to spread unity, the one-ness of man, in our world. To battle that would be like condemning Motherhood. They have no wild or bizarre ceremonies.' They have simple meetings, variously called Feasts, Fasts, Deepenings. They harm nobody. except old-guys like me who are dragooned into driving people to such events. Then he took off for another ten thousand words. Enough religion. I'm going to look up a rabbi tomorrow, Publisht,id at SEApORTH, ONTARIO every Thursday morning by McLean Bros. Publishers Ltd Andrew Y McLean. Publisher Sosan White, Editor A Member Canadian Cominimity-Nevispoper-Associaon: Ontario Weekly Nevissuiper .Assivietion 000 Audit Bureau aterouienon • - • ' SUpsOirettop fates. gailatiaS1S a yeat tin aovance) • outtt)001 0A0440403 a Yeal. -t•in.41144.9991. inF1094Rie% cer0. each ' • . • • $04O11,11411110 Algi4tra Oh ki.rnitier0.696,', SEAFORTil, ONTAIII0, MAY 13. 1981 What s in a name? Fopular landlord and will do well in this fihe hotel. Thomas Lapslie has now completed his new driving, park. He has, named it 'Fairview". which is a very appropriate '44,7. s,. -a Or and spice icy gill Smiley Wrangle with religion t