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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-05-20, Page 2I liked Community Day I liked May 8th because the boys and girls could go out into the community and learn things about the Community of'Seaforth and Huron County. Learn how they make the Huron Expositer and they sort the mail. By:Andrew Kennedy Grade 2 S.P.S. Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association. Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Pureau of Circulation 5uhserietio.n rates Canat10.$14 a roar putstcis csascls-03, Y,-r. On agvari eel giontSeaeri Senen# claS.S rttftil roglik0.0 17.01.4i4.$0 PO' • • • • : SEAF0Fri,..11, cormita, MAY go, tool Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO every Thursday morning by McLean Bros Publishers Ltd. Andrew V McLean, Publisher Susan White. Editor A Tonne or Mr. and Mrs. Ross Broadfoot of Tuckersmith. Carrie Krauskopf and Louise Krauskopf, of Detroit. are visiting at the home of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Krauskopf of , Dublin. MAY 25,1956 Farmers in the Central Huron area were able to get out on the land this week for the first time in nearly a month. Almost daily rain and snow as late, as the middle of May had turned ftelds which, ordinarily w9Olti belie been in food eoluligon. into mud Bats-: Annual" scholarships Ot0000tiog Per' haps SSW wilt be,-payable to 4,941.S- students,Ss result erf beiptesteptitalied the tile' late t/lrs. .gliashoh:5gott, it was revealed tlik we* At' theNatoo the oil ,pa v , 4 •' to • the l'IrSt'XrStlYtengY ylgrCh,:*TIRCO1: ktarY. Gibson has returned, to Briteefield affe haying spent the,: winter with Mr. and Mrs. Mcfvfurtrie, Hensall; Mrs. Nelson Marks and Sharon of Walton spent the weekend in Seaforth with T. Hulley. Spring magnolias urn (fxpositor Since 1860, Serving the Cominehitylarst 12 Main St. 527-0240 Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley Don't hold your breath In the years agone fvfeKillop the other day retused $120 for a colt which was two Yearg old. A very good offer, but Mr. Hugill did not care to break .the-tcam, as they are well matched. On Wednesday of last week, Hugh Gilmour. Jas. AickenheacL 7 Jr., and Ralph English' of Stanley; E. callus of Sallied. and Ooo ftO0,0 Toc.korstoigh started for a- 1#1vity0411.14;#1#9.17*. ,They We*:' by the Great Wo;exa,4144,r1 from .PTuge.fts4. rit4T24i 'I11e: dire, s of the .1900 m. FAMs.1500i3:- fifek':co*Suy- ;4esfoith:'1)sve.,-4.)!It.444:11.10 imnitac!tOrOliio#44,0.:04400;.4. Ahort!axt gat*4,:had to.i4-co ore** parlor V014.1104:04 newly.Wed o that..ite Thas one of the prettiest rooms in this .part at the Province. • At a recent Meeting.of the directors of the Robert Bell Engine and Threshing Company Wm. Pickard was appointed Vice-President as. successor to the late Andrew Young. Geo. Holland. merchant, of Beechwood, has been appointed treasurer of the township of McKillop. Mr. Brown of theCollegiate Institute, who is an enthusiastic horticulturalist, has at his residence on Goderich St., Seaforth the most The formula scandal Those of you who belong to church groups, and other women's clubs . will know about the tragedy that the over-zealous promotion of infant formula causes in the Third World. The formula is sold aggressively, as estatus symbol almost, to new mothers, who may not have the good fresh water necessary to mix •with it and who may dilute the formula because it's expensive. As the mother attempts to feed her, new baby exclusive ly on formula,, her breast milk dries up. The baby becomes malnourished, the baby becomes ill, because it's being fed insufficient formula rather than the mother's own-milk. That quick run down is an over-simplification. But so is the United States' position on a code to control formula marketing that the world Health Organization hopes to adopt this week_ The code, fairly mild and non-binding, comes after discussions with manufacturers of the infant forMula and aims at making the bottle a complement to. rather than substitute for breast-feeding. The code notes i that improper marketing of breast milk substitutes "can contribute" to mproper feeding, manlnutrition and death in the third world. It looks now, like the US will be the only One of 156 WHO niamber countries who will not accept even this limit on the power •,of manufacturers to contribute to infant mortality. An official says the Reagan administration "feels that it is inappropriate for an agency of the united Nations to move in the direction of regulating economic activity." Two senior American Agency for International Development (AID) officials have resigned, critical of their country's failure to endorse the code. Good for them MY 20,1881 Andrew Calder has left with us a mammoth egg which measures 61/2 inches one way and 81/2 inches the other way and weigha.41/4 ounces. This egg was laid-by a well bred Spanish hen purchased from McMillan"of Galt and is the first which her ladyship pzesented her new owner. We wouldAgain remind our readers of the spotts and amusements 1.4 be held on, the Fair grounds, in this town on the Queen ;a Birthday under the ss,Solccs...Of the LactOSSe cloh• lotho'foroom them will .,ho fooy -F0-00$ and *er aiNgtle-Nmrmotvntions kinds for, which liberal prizes 1,4117,bss given 414:11411.e. 't*O. interesting • :1 ,i4P4*.inatoh -,b:OtwoOo:*ho OlOPS*.'liaotO0 ro04. 'WO* :041a10i0o boon -- 04;0i, at very 4ato of IS cents for either the tol*Or alkofo?on and 25 c;ents,for, the whole div. The Walton cheese factory' is now completed and ready for use and to say the least it has a commanding appearance and the people of the village may well feel proud of the addition. We are pleased to be able to inform the general public that the contrac- tor. J.H..Whitmarsh has made a complete job of it and has given the committee perfect satisfactiOn as well as all the various shareholders. Wm. Hugill on the boundary west. If you lived in Toronto 10 years ago and came back to it now you would be amazed at the changes. If you lived there 30 years ago and come back to it now your heart may not stand the.shock. It isn't the physical changes that have made Toronto so different from the city I left to return to Huron County 12 years ago. The odd trip back to Toronto keeps you in touch with the new buildings. the push of the suburbs ever farther out, the rediscovery of the lake front in the old harbour area, the bank buildings reaching higher than the latest interest rates. the luxury condomin- iums selling for as much a square foot as Huron farmland sells foran acre. The most startling change in Toronto is the people. Living in Small town Ontario you' -have this image of Toronto as a huge-scale version of your own town or the town nearby; more stores, more offices, more homes. higher buildings and more and more. People? Well they dress more expensively but 'they're just like us. Well they, aren't. The change in ToiOnto's' people iniiture just since I left the city' astonished me when l returned. In the building I stayed in, a trip down in the elevator to buy a newspaper:'took on the feeling of visiting the United Nations. People from the Caribbean. People from India or beautiful, display of plants and flowers. In fact his garden is a bower of beauty and has attracted many delighted admirers, MAY 22,1931 R.S. frIcKetcher, son of Mr., anal birs.• firi41:Mcicgrchpt of .)401ciii9p;114. success-. 1,41y. vokopletc0.,his.-torgil:mork an 0.1,,,f4.4 year at t.!!..0,firorto. Agricultural Guelphs AvIllbt witted to; the de . Bachelor of Sicienc .on Agricultt re, h. -..$0444141,1*10.‘4404410*.t.iio ti.040010.to(..00t.***.:J.0.04,1*00r 301-4 4. tit,o, %PR* Willow -.1101 'farm London R44, joS)t4 tiftio•:10rfir -110assill. - • - and the Iniek work will' soon go. on in full 'swing by Chas. Wolf and his staff: The Hensalt Manufacturing Co. under the able management of G.W. Davis and W.O. Goodwin. is kept very busy now with all the machines in use and are turning out garments that meet with good demand, as they are well made up and their patronage is increasing from year to year. Mr. and Mrs. W. MacDonald and daugh- ter Margaret-of Kipper spent Sunday at the Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Hatton of Sarnia; Mr. and Mrs. J.D. McRae. Parkhill; James Conne rs Sr. and 'James Conkers. Jr. Of Wyoming visited with Mr. and Mrs. Don McRae of Dublin. came together. We are basically, I suppose. English. Irish and Scots with the later influence of Dutch. The basic ingredients are the same but the quantities. like the quantities in a recipe. make a different end product in each town. A lot of new ingredients have been added to 'the Toronto cultural recipe lately and the face of the city is bound to change. Some predict dire. things: race troubles. a decline into the kind of problems in Britain or the U.S. It's possible. I suppose. Certainly there • have already been some problems and charges of discrimination by police. Looking at the immensity of the change in the past decade, however, I find it surprising everything has gone so smoothly. Certainly there is some resentment on. the part of the native Torontonians, some undercurrent of fear and uncertainty on both sides but that there has been so little trouble says something good. Canadian immigration policy has tended to skim off the best educated, most skilled of the potential immigrants. In a way It's putting greater hardships on the poorer countries who need these people bit it's doiig a lot to ward off problems in Canada. These Chinese and Pakistanis and Gieeks are mostly just middle class. upwardly:, mobile people, just like old-stock Toronto- nians. Pakistan. Chinese. Canadian 'Indian. Span- ish-American. A trip downtown to visit a bank takes you further. One teller has a little sign in front of here. I speak Portugese. Another has a heav Spanish accent. Walk-down the street and you see Portugese garages, Portugese restaurants. in the midst of what has been traditionally the China Town of Toronto. 1-China Town is still there, but it's also moving to the west, to the north. You walk through blocks of Chinese stores then on the corner is a Hungarian church. Turn ,the corner and you , come to a Greek restaurant. East Indian and West Indian immigration has received most of the ,attention in Toronto. What racial' problems there have been have usually been upon thOseAroini- grant groin's.- The group that seemed most prevalent all over the city in general however seemed to be Chinese; young. attractive, v,cry western in dress and make-up; ,a much different group than the traditional idea of old China Town. Beautiful Chinese women 13ehind the scenes by Keith Roulston in the restaurants, at the ssalercounters of ' the most expensive clothing stores, serving drinks in the lounge of the most expensive hotel in the city. Toronto in the last couple of`decades has become the unofficial capital of Canada. The economic clout has been there. The trend- setting media has been there. The popula- tion has been there. Yet, more and more the Toronto that is leading-our country is a' lot different from the country it is leading. It isn't so different. I suppose. from the other large cities which are Also taking on the same kind of eccentric ethnic mix. )ut very different from the smaller centres 'Which remain populated by. the more traditional European Willie stockk. The great wave of immigration in the past decade has almost totally-by-passed the smaller centres\ ' going to lie-faiebtati4-to see what is going to happen in a city like Toronto in the coming years. E ackeew nationality brings a bit of ,itself to a ,community. The temper- ments of our own Huron county towns vary according to the mix of the cultures that My how Toronto has changed To the editor: Dress up and enjoy Pyjamas in downtown Seaforth? You've got to be kidding. We're not. • That' dressed up having a good time flavour is a big part of Friday night's. Midnight Madness. Local• merchants have put a lot of time and effort into making the event a whizz-bang celebrations. They've got prizes, special events, mayhem and madness. Do your part. Come downtown, in your nightclothes _please, look around and let yourself be reminded Of the great things..-. in service, in products, in price... that. Seaforth has to offer. The Ministry laid the charge in what they have termed a test case and unfortunately they lost. While we all pride ourselves on the ability to farm and do with our land as we see fit we often neglect to imagine or consider the impact to the surrounding area or' the future. Our thoughts are only for the present or for our own circumstances: While we are not indicating that Mr. Moss should have been fined or even sent to.jail, it is an appropriate time to review the situation from the educational point of view, 'The Ministry of Natural Resources-is not an adversary but a tool of the government citizens can use and learn from. While permits are needed to work in the creeks, it is only as a precaution against those who doh't know what they are doing and may cause more damage than good in the !Ong run. Take for example the farmer who drains 200 acres of land at one point into a small creek. At' the first flooding of spring his neighbour's 'new barn downstream is flooded out and he loses a dozen soWs. Who is responsible? The first farmer for merely finding an Outlet for his drain or the second farmer for locating so-close to the creek? If the ministry had been called in, the matter could have been easily solved with a bit of planning:and thought. The key is compromise and th"oughl for the future. The worst thing that could happen' from the verdict In the Moss case is an impasse between the farming. Community and the Ministry of 'Natural Resources. The Ministry is here to stay just as long as the farmers are and the two must learn to work together for the betterment of our farming future. So before'you call in the back-hosti or bulldozers give the ministry a call. It may save you dollars In the encl.°. The Blyth Standard A reader, W -Ross Carrothers of Waterloo, Ontario, takes me to task for a recent column in which I expressed my unhappiness, and that of thousands of others. I'm sure, with The Bell's ubiquitous reqUests for rate increases, He says, in part: "irony article certainly showed you didn't do your homeWork on that one. Perhaps you'll be good enough to write an article on the Hydro rates next. They seem to slip by you with nary a sigh." That's what you may think, sir. I don't sigh; I groan. But it's the only game in tom', ,and it's controlled by the politicians. My Only available response is to cut back on my use of electricity. Mr. Carrothers, P. Eng., goes on. His figures are based on Stats-Can.: Price Increases In per cent Increases 19/1-1980 Electricity 124; Fruit and vegetables 178; Gasoline 140; Rail 138; etc., etc., etc., Telephone' services (Canada) 34.6 O.K. Let's take them one at a time, though it seems my correspondent is using the argument that two wrongs make a right, or two blacks a white. Electricity increases are the' result of the, usual'bungling when s utility is controlled by govirOment. During the ten yeart men- tioned, Hydro spent millions of &liars in adVerliting, trying to persuade us to use "cheap" electricity for everything from heating homes to buying new appliances to using . an electric toothbrush. They were practically flogging this cheap energy. Bum guesses and faulty prognostications tell us one minute that electricity is practically free, it's so plentiful, and the next that we might start having "brownouts" because of shortages. And all the ,while. jacking Up the rates to cover the boo the, of previotis prophets on everything from nuclear power plants to projected usage of power, often away out of whack. But man, it's a comfortable way to operate, with no competition, and always the government shoulder to cry on, taxpayers' money to subsidize, if necessary, and politicians to cover up 'and explain away. ' We -could go backtcrtheoil lamp, the wood stove, and a chunk of ice in the ice-box. But with the price of oil and wood, and the inavailability of coal: and ice (because hytIro practically foamed their purveyors .but of business) thert,doesn't seem much point. We are hooked Into an electrical circuit that heats us, lights us, cooks fOr u$, and entertains us, audielly and visually. It's our own fault. But, even accounting for Inflation, hydro prices have risen ridiculously, and really hurt people on fixed incomes and those „in rural areas. I'd guess that half of thet10-year increase is due to bUngling and botching. . Once again, I must be fair, as I was with Bell. Our hydro is.remarkably efficient: still cheap according to world standards, but 'expensive, considering our resources. Next, fruit and vegetables. That's easy. We had them at -bargain ,rates for years '‘ because their Producers used the nearest thing to slave labour; foreign workers, migrants, the very poor. Now these people, with some organization and help from genuine liberals, are making something. approaching a decent wage. We pay the difference. But I can still buy a qUart of strawberries for 50 cents, if I pick them myself. Gaioline? We are hogs, burning though it were going out of style. Which it is. • We've been warned by experts, that it is a non-renewable form of energy, then told by , politicians that there was no foreseeable shortage', then panicked by other politicians. But don't try to tie me and the Arabs and Ma Bell into one neat package. Rail? Sure. Mcire government bungling and botching and patching over the years, and now a desperate attempt to recoup some of the' billions of our money used as subsidies for the CN. CP was Smart enough to get into other things and make money. But don't forget where they got' all that free land in the first place. As for the etc.s, they.could be anything. I know for dam-sure that my salary hasn't gone up 120 or 140 per cent in 10 years. Nor has the income of the farmer, merchant, pensioner. It's easy to use a few statistics out of Context, to prove a point. Beef prices have niore,than doubled in those 10 years. And beef farmers are going broke. Car prices have doubled, and automobile firsts are going broke. Postal rates have more than 'doubled, and the post ofice requires huge subsidies. Income taxes have doubled, and the country is going broke. Not a pretty picture, but I didn't start out. in that other column, to analyze the economyi tmerelypohitcd out thetas I good corporate Citizen which has a near-monopoly Bell could show a little restraint, and no be running to the Transport Commission every °Duple of years for an increase, which It was doing long before inflation became a household word. Mr. Carrothers is waiting to read my apology to the !telephone -companies of Canada. Don't hold your breath, sir. .._ Plan ahead In the case of Moss versus the Ministryof Natural Resources cheers from the ranks of farmers could be heard for, quite a distance. The verdict of not guilty in the ministry's battle to charge Mr. Moss with destroying a fish habitat, could be seen by some as saying farmers have the God given right to farm even if that means abusing the water system without thought or planning.