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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-11-11, Page 2rick' 0005.0•IWIPPI•4•111,..00•111PIPPRIP 111 fiurou Sint MB. WW1 the community first ter ia Main St. 527-0240 Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon by McLean Gres. Publishers Ltd Andrew Y McLean. Publisher Susan White, editor Welber Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation Subecriet ten rates - Canada-$t ? a year (in advance) autsielegeperla $34 a year (in advance) Single Consols - 50 cents each Wondolasernall registration number 0698 SkAFORTH:, ONTARIO, NOVEMBER 11, 1'981 osilE7z40• It's bone &king time Are you perfectly happy with the way the town of Seaforth's affairs haVe been handled over the last year? Or do you have a bone to pick, an ax to grind or a quiet complaint to register? Either way, ybur chancel° speak your mind, with bouquets, brickbats or a combination of both, is close at hand. It's the town's annual ratepayers' meeting Thursday night, Nov. 12 at the local town hail. In recent years there's been quite a bit of action, and good crowds at these annual "speak your mind" meetings. That's held true even in years like this, non-election years. It's to council's credit.thata night to report to voters has been arranaed even though there's no official accounting (we mean an election) this year. There are about as many important issues coming before Seaforth council now as there are opinions about them...the arena, the riww fire hall, the need for a landfill site... to name just a few. If you have opinions about these projects or others, get out to Thursday night's meeting and have`your say. The meeting is also an excellent 'chance, if you'd like to give council a pat on the back for its effort at soh/Inge mnriber of totio—probierns or just TiSten To the rep.ortS on council activities that each member will given. It would be a shame if nobody at all showed up. That would quite rightly lead council to assume that everyone in town is happy with absolutely everything that's happening. No "right" to drive beclinin enrollment in driver education courses has been noted in many W st Virginia communities, including some in the,Parkersburg area. Many persons will not look with alarm upon the decease in nUrnber of young people seeking enough driving hours to earn a license. There has been a. growing• feeling in t,,,this state that the fewer 16-17-year-old motorists" are on the highway, the- safer the roads Obviously, all drivers of these ages do not offer danger to the law-abiding motorist. Records show "that about Six out of 10 young drivers handle their vehicles 4ehigh speeds, recklessly and with little cohsideratiOn for other road users. Little dispute is offered that teenagers kill and injure themselves and others on American roads at rates farrhigher than other drivers. Andlhe Insurance institute for Highway Safety, notes that research in both the United States and Great- Britain during the past five years- "has strongly indicated that school-sponsored driver education is contributing importantly to the national motor vehicle prash injury problem, because the availability of these courses serves 'to increase the number of 16-17-year-olds who become licensed and drive." Driver education costs an estimated $300,-900 a year in West Virginia with the federal government paying about 10 perbent. The premise is that high school driver education courses promote higher levels of highway safety. However, research fails to support this presumption. In 1976, Connecticut, eliminated state funding for driver education courses. This caused many local school' systems to drop the courses. Studies show that in those communities the licensing of 16 and 17-year-olds decreased by 67 percent. Significantly, in those• same communities the reported crashes for the same age group declined by 63 percent. 'As the Indurance institute comments, "These findings point strongly to the conclusion that the, eliminaton of high school driver education would save both young lives and taxpayers dollars, largely because fewer 16-17-year-olds become licensed and drive when driver education is left up to parents and commercial driving schools." The institute also notes that "since their -fatal crash involvemehts are predominantly at night," some states have restricted 16- and 17-year-olds to daytime-only driving. The driving age is an arbitrary thing established by the various states. Teenagers, like everyone else, have no "right"' to drive. That's a privilege which the state grants, and which the State can take away. The obvious solution to the problem of high accident rates amoenagers is to raise the ago at which drivers are licensed. That may bung time in coming. In the meantiire, the elimination Of driver education courses might save a few Jives and a few dollars. (The Parkersburg West Virginia NeWs) Fall photos de In the yedis agorae Queen's Hotel Seaforth were concluded Saturday night when Jack Chereos, entered into a lease for a portion of the building. The After 50 years of wrangling over the consitution Canadians would have accepted nearly any mess last week to get the argument over with. That it seems to have been a fairly good compromise was a bonus. Few Canadians really expected progress last week with Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers of all ten provinces sat-down in. Ottawa to give consititutionai reform one more try before the federal government went ahead with its pledge to act alone if it couldn't get agreement. Everybody said they were willing to compromise but it seemed like one more case of setting the other guy- up as the culprit when things didn't work out. Everyone seemed to be saying: "I'll be flexible but he's got to give in first." So hen the word leaked out that a compromise had been worked out between the Prime Minister and nine of the premiers "it seemed too good to be true. Some of the things that resulted from the compromise seemed a little too good to be true too. One' major improvement in the plans over the Federal proposal was the new amending formula. Under the old proposal Ontario-end Quebec would have had a veto over any constitutional change. Even if the federal government and all eight other provinces had agreed, one of those provinces cotfld have scuttled the change. Now all provinces are treated the same. The change is approved if any seven- prbviniet represent- ing 50 per cent of the tearmlation of the country approve it. The weakness on the other hand is that provinces have the right to opt out of some of the fundamental rights in the charter of rights by a vote of their legislature. The fact however, that the Prime Minister insisted that this vote must be renewed every five years will make provincial politicians much more hesitant about playing With the rights . of their citizens. , WON SUPPORT While some people-claim-Prime-Minister Trudeau capitulated to the provinces on the amending formula, he won their support for -his beloved charter of rights -including the provision.' of minority education rights in all -provinces. something many never thought they would see. It means that if someone from Quebec or New Brunswick 'who speaks French moves to-some area of the country where there is a large French-speaking population he can expect to be able to have his children educated in their mother tongue. Likewise, people from the rest of Canada moving to Quebec can expect English schooling for their children again. Well maybe. The dark cloud in front of our silver !inn* last week was—thlit Quebec didn't go along. One. could hardly expect that it would, given the fact that Rene Levesque has vowed to separate Quebec NOVEMPER.11, ffin John Carter of Winthrop has finished the burning of his last kiln of brick and tile for this season. The work was only completed last Saturday. This is his third and largest burn this season and he estimates that there will be in this kiln upwards of 60,000 'bricks. besides a large quantity of tile, which he expects will net him upwards of $500. A few days agelohn Murray threshed on the farm df Robert McLetM, Mill Read, Tuckersmith, with his steam thresher 300 bushels of oats,. in . one hoe ;04 „ thirty minutes. Thegrain.wii.s fed by A,Medeland. another well known and eXpetienced tilecale Thie is petting Min thlbOulthre0Y.7 fast tugrd did not .1.eekt 000;019"v/ere *tending .the machine muele time for goSsiping, At eleven o'clock en FrtriSy'hight. the, harness shop of . Geer e Diesel of Vublin . ' roof before it, was extinguished. His Worthy next door neighbour slept soundly during the whole confution. Our little village has long been noted as a great salt emporium but now by the energy and activity of John F. McLaren Esq., Dublin is rapidly becoming x great grain centre. Messrs. Laidlaw and Farley have purchas- ed the old Expositor building on John Street and intend fitting it up for a storehouse. NOVEMBER 16,1906 Harry Stewart of the firm of Stewart Bros.. Seaforth left last week on the Ticket Agents' excursion to Mobile, Alabama. Thomas Ferguson has purchased the grass farm of Robert Hanna on the 8th concession of Tuckersmitih paying for it 32,000. The farm contains 50 acres and- is considered a good bargain at that price. Geo. C. Barrows has sold his farm on the 14th concession, McKillote a little west of Walton to Robert J. Holmes of Leadbury, The farm contains 127% acres, is in good shape and has first class buildings and the price paid was $7,000 which is coinsidered a bargain. W.I. Wilson, merchant of Hensel' arrived Is your life a cultural wasteland? Do you do th'e same old things, talk to the same old people on the same old subjects all the tints? Are you scared to take a risk, smile at someone you've never semi before, de something the neighbours will mutter about? Do yon want a decent tombstone. not flashy , but dignified. Of course you do. You're a good Canadian. You believe in personal decorum, censorship, the family as a unit, and capital punishment. On the other hand. Do you go for a svtim at midnight; sing a song at dawn, smoke marijuana, drink fairly heavily, march in protest parades. live in sin, abhor censorship and capital punishment, and contrive to do soniithing that will offend friends and neighbours? Of course you do. You're a good Canadian. You believe in individual liberty. acid rain, dirty movies and sexual irresponsibility. If doesn't matter which group you belong to. or whether you're somewhere In between, -you all have much in common. You despise the government, but won't elect an alternative, since you despise it even more. You are caught by inflation and high interest rates. whether you are a 60-year-old farmer trying to keep the place going. or a 20 year-old punk trying to maintain his habit. You are basically ariti.American. thonih if you were asked why, you could not give an answer that was ardent**. You feel frestyated,ein this land of wood and water, not to mention nuclear power, because, if you are getting on in years, you see everything eroding around you and if you home the first of this week with his bride, formerly well and favourabley known as Miss RoOd of WOOdbMtk and they are now comfortably settled in their new home on the corner of Nelson and Oxford streets and we unite with theirranyfriencis in wishing them )0o11--4014 continued happiness MeNatrOston of Varna h&$ moped his family and will- reside in $eaforth.. Mr, and Mrs.-.0uter have moiled into the reeideeee vacated by Mr.` Mel,blefihtee, will be ;Oneorder* for Mr. ,Choter as his chopping milt Ottd,ShOP:are bandy by., - • NO*40,013,1931 weekend at his home-in Tuckersmith. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carnochan, Denver Biggs and Mts. Myrtle. Carnochan of Eloise. Michigan are visiting friends in Seaforth and vicinity.... Margaret Holland of Dublin spent a tew days with her' grandmother. M-... Carbert. Seaforth. _— Margaret McQueen of Brucefield celebrated her ninth birthday last Saturday by inviting 17 of her young friends to her home Mr. and Mrs. Lyall Jordan and, children of Toronto spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan. NOVEIKBER 16,1956 Seaforth and district paid tribute to its war dead in an impressive service here Sunday. Veterans paraded to First Presbyterian Church Sunday ndrrning to take part in a special Rememberance Day Service, conduc ted by Rev. D. Glenn Campbell. A long-time member of the Seaforth Branch of the Canadian. Legion, George McAdam was honoured Sunday when he was presented with a life membership certificate in the branch. Plans to operate a restaurant in the Perfect peace in life is an illusion that some people pursue with an almost obsessive passion, turning now to drugs, and then to religion or to alternate lifestyles that hold out the promise of Shangri-la, Life, for most of us. is a matter of slugging it out, day by day, weathering the storms and cherishing those fleeting- p eaceful—inter- ludes. By trial and error and with a lot of-help from others, we learn a few things and we begin to put them into-practice. And one of the things most people get around to learning- some sooner and some later- is that extending a hand to others when the winds of change are tossing their souls is a sure way of brightening our own dark days' and ofmaking those intermittent periods of calm last longer than the time before. But we are surrounded by false prophets who would tell us the road to happiness lies in pursuing self-centered goals and it is to these messengers that we learn in time to turn a deaf ear. It is tempting, when another down day comes along, to let otheri carry our load just as we sometimes feel the urge to completely assume our neighbour's troubles when we see him struggling. Either course is danger- ous. If a child will walk, he will first fall and fall again and no doubt he will feel pain. But to protect him from those first failures is to rob him of the joy he'll know when finally he toddles across the living-room. - To flee. from pain is to flee from life and what begins to stop living starts dying. Besides, the quickest 'way° jot yourself locked up is to smile all therfime. People will think you are crazy. And you probably are. are short in years, you see nothing but a stone wall between you and your aspirations. You wonder vaguely, if you're old-etrthigh, what became of the Canadian dream: "The twentieth ten-idly belongs to Canada." And if you read the papers and analyze the news, you realize that, while Canada still has a high standard of living, we are very low on the totem pole when it comes to production, strikes, economic stability, peace, happiness- and goodwill toward men. If you're very young, you' don't give a diddle. There's lots to eat, warn. clothes.and the old man will kick in a decent allowance so you can feed the slot machines with their war gamei. ' But if you're a young adult, just about ready to launch into "real"• life, you're so bewildered about Unemployment, and esca- lating university fees, and the increasing shadow of the computer, and the wealth of choices of a future (all lacking in security) that you can become sq depressed you drop out, or dive into a stream and fight against the current. This isn't a doom and gloom column. It's merely a look at our nation today. It'is so rife with suspicion, fear of nothing much. anger over nothing much, that we are becoming paranoid. . From the Prime Minister, through the bead of the Bank of Canada, right down to your local alderman, you have lost trust wind feel that the ship is beading for the reef with nobody at the helm. This is nonsense, of course. Canada has Please turn to page 3 hotel his been closed for some months. Mr. and Mrs. C.A.Wallage Handote. Manitoba are spending several weeks with the latter's Uncle and aunt, Mr. end Mrs. Jas. Hay of Egmondville. Mr. and Mrs. Don MacRae and family of Dublin were in Parkhill with James D. McRae. from the rest of the country. Even though he once said _ he would guarantee English schooling in Quebec when the other nine provinces guaranteed French schooling in their provinces, he now can't live with this. Quebec has been betrayed, he says, It's left alone again. His ragingS sent shudders through a lot of Canadians who were just beginning to relax abit after the defeat of his first referendum. New, tired as we were from 20 years to wrory about the future of l uebec in confederation, here was the man trying to break up the country with a whole lot of new ammunition. Well if the country can be broken up over the harmless articles of the new constitution there isn't much that can hold it together anyway. The new constitution is a victory for Prime-, Minister .Trudeau's concept that Canada should be open to all Canadians, to move where they wish, to feel comfortable in all parts of the country. While Quebec nationalists like Mr. Levesque and even Qaude Ryan see. Quebec as the sole homeland of French-Canadians and there- fore demand special status for it, the Prime lefinisterieelaYrenth-Canadians can't shut themselves away behind language walls in Quebec but must be able to go anywhere in the country and to take their lentils-age and culture with them. A country cannot be built on giving special status to this or that province. It can only be built on giving all people equal rights. by treating all provinces, equally. Special status to Quebec or Ontario only feeds,--pretty regional bigotries until they become beyond control. If the people of Quebec cannot accept the concept of being French- Canadian able to live in New Brunswick or Northern Ontario or Manitoba where there are enough' other people of French language and culture, if they think that they must be different from the rest-of the country, cut off by the boundaries of their province from both English and othettrench-Canedians Weiiitie-nobWcan-fook after them but their provincial government then perhaps. it's time to call off the charade being a country. Most people don't think Quebec feels that way. Most don'tthink Mr. Levesque will get that far in. his battle to use the new constitution to sew the seeds of separatism., After all, Mr. Trudeau and Jean Chritien and. Other Liberalt from Quebec had the support of nearly two voters- for every- one. Mr. Levesque got in his last mandate. When it comes to arguing the cause the federal politicians are well loved and represented in their own province. Still, if there, comes a time of decision whether this country is going to stand together or come apart, then there-could be no better principle to stand on than the one in the new constitution: equality for all Canadians. Have you ever seen an ocean, a lake or a river that was perfectly calm all the time? I haven't either. Storms come and when they do, they. whip — the water relentlessly. All is chaos for a titne but we are all aware that sooner or later, the black clouds will disappear and a beautiful -eulm will-descend-once again. ' • And just as we know for certain that the storm won't last forever! we learn from experience that the calm after the storm every hit as much a fleeting thing. Everything in nature has a purpose and while it may seem to us that the world could do quite well without storms, we are forced to admit that they too must have their role to play.andthat if isprobably an invaluable one. Human beings, it seeliii to me, are constructed in much the same way. They have days when they are placid and serene and practically unflappable and they also have days- when-all is turmoil and when the simplest frustration can whip them into a frenzy. And those "bad" days, while they are hard to take, are probably essential if we are to become and remain complete human beings. If the sun shone all the time, without stop, it wouldn't be long before everything drigitep and died. Rain stimulates growth andin the life of man, it is pain that very often pushes us to new levels of maturity. Of course, if we do not confront life and assume tome of its challenget blot instead turn our backs and run for cover, we, can minimize some of the pain and stress for a time. But that kind of reaction brings with it the sorriest type of torment- the agony of knowing we have given up. Chesney, ..,Ur the school' of Practical caught fire on they Iasi e. it' penetrated Sgtekge..,. University of Toronto spentAtie. One day at a lime • by Jim Hagerty Life's calm, storms Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley Tighten up Canada Behind the sce,pes by Keith Roulston Equality for all More on car seats It looks like the Ontario government plans to bring in legislation requiring car seats or some Sort of restraints for children under five in tars some time next year. • AS we said last week, we, .think that's a terrific idea._ And, a reader called to tell us, if-any local group is interested in mounting a "Buckle Up Your -Kids" cAmpaign,'-she has it ifurrnation tsrt WOW • 10 go abaiit Janis Bisback of Hensail, who's involved in the. La Leche League in Huron County, says she'd be glad to pass- on 'the information to any group. in addition she has material on car seat rental programs that a number ofgroups across Canada have sponsored with a great deal of success. And helped save kids' lives. Interested? Give her a call.