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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-11-18, Page 2n /tomw • "0420P • Slam two, S", nq th0.comtttunity firs t 12 Main St. 527-0240 ,,001 e ds Published at SEAFORTH. ONTARIO every Wednesday afternoon -0 7rNOVEMBER 18,1881 NOYEMBF823,14Si by McLean Bros. Publishers Ltd. Jean Hillen in Grade VI and Margaret Dublin needs street lamps badly. On In t h t a i� rs n one Hillen in . V piano were awarded silver Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher " " account of the' dense darkness Saturday y � �a� P , , ` night Phil Ken and Chas. Belt who were medals on the occasion of the recent music Susan White, Editor g Y feet in depth andbottom not reached, thus stay with us will be a prolonged one. convocation at University of Western running rapidly in opposite directions, came were our most sanguine hopes more than William McDougall, the old reliable fur Ontario, London. Pupils of Louis Thomp- into violent collision. Mr. Keny's upper lip realized was split and it had to be sewn u Master and hide dealer has again taken his stand on son, Brussels, they are daughters of Mr. MgmberCanadian Community NewspaperAssociation. Ontario P p' John Ward of $eaforth has removed his She Seaforth Market: and c be found at and.Mrs. Stanley Hillen, McKillop. .. Beit was knocked senseless. When, he of an Y F Weekly Newspaper Assoc/anon and Audit Bureau of Circulation g harness shop into the centre store of Cadv's A.W. $toble's roduce store when it is too on . those who are Awaitin orders to up, he thought he had been struck on the block He has now very handsome and cold of wet to. be on 'the street: proceed as a art of Canada's �ptribution wind i P P P"pe P n to the fJnited, Natttins Police Fou are 13fm, The dogs of . Messrs, Rooney and pipe - commodious remises. J°.F.W,, Paterson, of the Hensall: planing, rc9 Subscrlption rates: t� Fitz erald of U Olin were shot fort woe Johns Beattie of Seaforth has, shipped an milt, had the misfortune. to get; his finger Jac1t McC'linchey +inti A,B, ,,Seaman Grant. Canada517 ayear (in advance) ) g• r u ° immense, lot Of #tAx see¢ this week. Mr, colo ht: in the cos of a machine e was b4zoinche , sans of . r, and Mrs, arnet �,, the sheep of several of the adlttining Beiiftie hid a Very large creno: Qf flax this ti ,tin h Y M G . . #� outside Canada $35. a year {an ad?�ance) farmers. rY, . fi:. pe g tnflictipg p, ainful but fortunately MfCtinchey,, Sesforttt, ` SingleC.opies.-50centseach - season'andas, rices are hewillmakea not sorlous in u Jack McPlinch is a member of the. • ,___ ;� Satft; Salt,! Salt!! Salt has-been the all P i t7+• y good profit out of it, } absorbing •topic of .conversation in Hegsgll NOY IIIHER 20,1931 queen's Own Regiment, now in Halifax Sapond clasamail registration numberO69Fi ,for bhe'Past few days and it is Itttte wonder NOVEMBER 23.19% Messrs. ,John Bcoadfoot and Frank awaiting sailing. orders; while- Grant Me- Q.F. Golling, of the Seaforth Collegiate Archibald of Seaforth are spending the Cltnchey is it ttietnber of rice crew of, that tt is so, for wee most assuredly hava,a Institute staff, was recently ' offered a week at the Royal Winter Fair. H.M.C,S. Magnificent, SEAFOFTH NOVEMBER, bedo>; salt well worth talking about, and .one 113, 1981 we venture_Xo" say that is unequalled inthe. Position in the Jarvis Street Institute in Mrs W. Edmunds of Seaforth is Orville Cooper is building.a fine henhouse j dominion: VVe presume it is well known to Toronto at a salary of $1200 a year, with a spending a few days withttersister, Mrs. T. on his farm on the Ith concession of • the readers of the Expositor that the -work of Yearly increase of $50 a.year until the salary Wheeler in. Brucefield. Tuctersmith Dimensions are 210 feet by 35 �edowntown sinking a salt well has been going on in our reached , $1400. But he declined the 1 Thelma Hudson, accompanied by a feet wide. He hopes to have it completed, village for -the past few months and that tempting offer $s he had made an friend, otiti3ndon, spent thew ekend with soon. bright hopes have all along been cherished engagement for the year here. her parents, Mr. and Mrc. C.S. Hudson of Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Hugh of finding a good bed of salt, but on Friday H.W. Strasser, successor to .conn tater- Hensall. McLachlan of Egmondvillq were: Mr. and Many downtowns in , rural Ontario are ata crossroads. Competition evening between nine and ten o'clock and son in the Kandy Kitchen is now located Frank Johnston of Winthrop wears a Mrs. Dop McKenzie and familyof Cran- from cities and from what shoppers see as more attractive towns at a depth of 1,092 feet our best wishes E he a and looks like business. Seaforthites broad smite these days. It's a boy. brook. Mr. and Mrs. Urban Ducharme of is hurting. And with the high costs of credit, equally high unemployment became a realization and on Wednesday at are always pleased to welcome newcomers Helen Dough ofBrucefield visited friends Hensall, and Mr. and Mrs.,1:•Iloward Currie and financial problems in our key industry, farming, the hurt is getting noon we had struck a bed of clear salt 116 of the right sort, and we hope Mr. Strasser's in London last week. of Clinton. worse. - Many towns, and Seaf�th is one, have business people banding ' o together in Business imp emeAreas and Other schemes with one a re CoMa nation of slobs main aim: to keep small town cee ntres from dying a.slvw death. �r It's being recognized that small towns must offer shoppers a great deal. .'.good prices, setection and service but also a pleasant There has been a tremendous change in the Sugar and S ice gatmos here an interestin lace to shy , a lace where sho in can bej7 failed, or he wanted to show how tough he P 9 P P P shopping manners and mores of Canada in the past l_ a family outing,'an event. I three"decades. This brilliaptthought came to By BfII Smiley w coda [t has front into our educational system, , me as I drove home from work We ver watched with interest activities in Hensall where a downtown Y and saw where teachers drink and swear and tell dirty revitalization proposal was resented recent) to the BIA that's being a sign, ma typical Canadian -small town: { P P P y 9 old sa m an �-• jokes and use language in front of wa men "Steakhouse and Tavern." First, the Steakhouse and Tavern. As a kid Y 8• d came out with: "Work is the formed there. And the rp,4dtio(1•to that proposal.. Some of the best came in. working a of the drtnkin class," a neat that t, a product of a more well-mannered, or i Now this didn't exactly knock me out, g oil the boats on the Upper Lakes, 1 , g inhibited, your choice, era, could not bring to i 9 y Advocate editor Bill Batten. alarm me, or discombobulate me in any way. l was excited and a little scared when Isaw that conversion of Marx's(?) "Drink is the curse of an myself. a column b Exeter Times were am a pact of all that is in this country, at this sign in American ports: Duluth, Detroit. the working classes," Amon- his cornmerrts' And the language of today's stud'ents,from One suspectsthat the planners will have all raduu ed from the same time. But id did give me a tiny twinge. Hence Chicago. If you called on someone in, those mist 9 _ Y Y Grade one to Grade whatever, would curl the - my opening remarks. I came from the genteel poverty of Ontario days, you were offered a cuppa and school, where the instructor was heavy on using Interlocking bricks for hair of a sailor,a nd make your maiden aunt sidewalks, building small projections Out Onto�the roadway, planting sme I am no Carrie Nation, who stormed into in the Thirties, and 1' was slightly appalled, something to eat. Today; the host would be grab for the smelling salts. Words from the some trees and installing P some decorative lighting. y 9 saloons with her lady friends, armed with and deeply attracted by these signs: the very harder humilito offer ted if he didn't have something low,estslumsandslummiestbacnyardscreate 9 9 9 • hatchets, smashed open ("at a waste) the thought that drink could be publicly advertis- Y There'$ little doubt that the results are certainly attractive, particularly barrels of beer and kegs of. whiskey. ed. Likeanynormal. curious kid. I wetitinto a Now, every hamlet seems to have its rarely a blush on the cheek of your teenage 1 am no Joan of Ars- 1 don't revile couple, ordered a two-bit whisker and found steakhouse. complete with .tavern. It's rather daughter. when compared to the present condition of some core areas. But is there Y• Agraduateof the depression, when people ' blasphemers or hear 'voices. 1 am no Pope nobody eating steaks, but a great many ridiculous. Nobody, today can afford a steak. nothing unique that ren be included In the plans.? Bu t liio'wi'n the living world can these same had some reason to use bad language, in hay a suspicion that when all the towns in Ontario John Paul ll, who tells people what to do people getting sleazily drunk on the same. 8 advant ger of the rovtneial government's attractive I have taken Not the steaks. people le afford drinks, at current prices? sheer frustration and anger, and of a war in about their sex lives: 1 am not even a Joe P which the most common four-letter word was ag p � g n plan- .for Clark. in those days, in Canada, there was no such used as frequently, and absentmindedly, as downtown restoration, that we'll end up having every Community In I am merely an observer of the human a'ea�re• The very ,useofthe word ".tavern" These steakhouses and taverns are usually salt .and pepper, have.not inured me to what ' Ontario beautified, but with the questionable result that they're all going scene, in a country that used to be one thing, indicated iniquity. It was an evil place. We pretty sleazy joints, on a par with the old our kids today consider normal. and has become another. But that doesn't did have beer " arlours;' later exchanged beverage room, which was the epitome of to look the same. P g g P GiriswearT-shirts that are not evenfunn , It's -not unlike driving through a modern subdivision where all the mean I don't have opinions. i have nothing for the euphemism "beverage rooms." But sleaze. It's not all.the fault of the owners, merely obscene. As do boys. Siiw one the but scorn for the modern "objective' that was all right. Only the lower element though they make nothing on the steak and other day on an otherwise nice lad' Message: homes take on similar appearance. After people' have seen the first journalistswhotell it as it is. They are hyenas went there, and they closed from 6 p.m. tot's1Q0 per cent on the drinks (minimum). I"Thanks, all you virgins -for nothing." p y i als, who fatten on the leavings of the ':30, or some such, sothat-a family man could just-athat Canadians, tend to be noisy and - _ couple of residences, they've seen it all."' •� and -ark "tions" of our society, fol• the most t.._ -et The -Queen is a crump. God is a joke. The ' '-- i�ecOntrnves; arguiri�that-a revttaltzsiCtOn, q#:downtown Hensail should y. part. " g fiome to his dinner.,Pot a bad idea. crude end profane drinkers. Let's get back on topic. as 1 tell my In their homes, of course, the middle and And the crudity isn't only in the pubs. It coo s roblems are somebody else's play on something that's unique to that town . . . for example, its status - probl ms, as long as I get mine. ° as the bean capital Of Canada, students. The Canadian society has roughcj►- upper, class .drank' liquor, Beer was the has crept into Parliament, that august P' --• etc and coarsened to aWastonishing degree i working -man's drink, and to be shunned. It institution, with a prime minister who used I don't deplore. I don't That's an excellent point and one Seaforth should keep i'n mind if the the last 30 years. 'I as around then that some wit reversed .the streetlanguagewhenhisim ccable fish abhor. I don't implore:' I merely observe. W rn8 Sadly. We are turning intoaa natiomof slobs. fledgling BIA here makes any plans to transform .our downtown into something more attractive. .What's unique to Seaforth you say? Well, we could nominate ourselves the corn capital of Canada. (Or perhaps Mitchell has that one sewed upo wan.- s to. a, oluticlan to a with their Cornfest.)_ What would, be wrong with stressing-Seaforth's ..beautiful parkland? Many- people who drive through remark on�e, The story to the newspa,�per described government intervention in the economy we attractive Lions Park and we're all interested in increasingthe use of the abuse the daughter of Xibinet minister BehinJthe scenes had high inflation, high unemployment, downtown Victoria Park, was taking at school because the other wars;famines,floods, andpestilence.People We're sure readers have .othpr ideas. Let's hear them and let's stress children were picking, up on their parents' by Keith Roulston 3 - have this crazy -idea that we just' have what's unique and what's best about our town when we're talking and the press' criticism of her father's for 're -armament, the Russians are still in the press -and the public is attacking the man perfect politicians the world will be perfect; downtown revitalization. policies. The answering letter to the, editor' • Afghanistan still knocking 'on the door in for selling.out this or that portion of the the weather will be perfect; Everybody will be from the cabinet minister's friend pointed opt Poland. And the polls show that little by little charter of rights. The very people who were able to own a house, two cars,' a cottage, all that perhaps this kind of thing was why so the great optimism about Reagan has been willing to see the charter of rights left out of the gimicky, appliances they could. want, many good people chose not to go into politics fading. the constitutional changes a month ago are vacations in Europe and the Caribbean every anThere was a point there. Would you want to We don''t P ant po1�GIns today, we people throuigh the deletion of the aboriginal mosquitoesr will stopebiting.and allt will beT - e kids seatTHEIR now seen and p . . •- be a politician today? Would you want to be want gods. We want,people who can snap rights clause. The blame. of course, goes not perfectly fair. What to do about Seaforth-'sr arena is on everyone's mind right now. the brunt of people's unrealistic expectations their'fingers and make everything the way it to the premiers who fou iced the change but to To get even ,near this state, of course, what of you? It's not just here in Canada it's should be, even if we the voters can't agree the prime minister who accepted .it at the cost we .need is not only perfect politicians but Ot may not come first with a farmer who's trying to get his corn off, a happening. We're' seeing the old pattern on how things should. be. of getting agreement. perfect people, people without greed, lust, f ` ami ly who may lose -their house because of doublingmortgage costs, but develop.south of the border again. Just,a year. We've seen in our own country recently the Likewise when; he contemplated earlier bad temper and all those other faults. Even it's important.) ago the American people were undergoing a -.-- impossibility of. pleasing -everyone, When taking unilateral action because of the then,•of course, the world would be far from Instead of the weighty editorial we planned to write on the arena rebirth of confidence. They had worn out Pierre Trudeau was trying to get 'his. impossibility of getting all of the premiers to perfect. What is fair about one person in ten t ` Jimmy Carter and thrown- him away like an constitutional changes through the mine- agree he was urged to try to get a concensus million'being struck by lightning? What is old pair of ,question this week we've turned over a good deal of space on the that majority,tives in Ofthe ur Expositor's editorial page to. some people who have a veryTdirect interest was wrong ins.the count for inflor ation, -par amenield of t, the eight prem erIswhowon from the aantedto 'thatn eoftenagreetitisnt enough be an more h. Now les brokenout ybeing runaway bicycle?to hat is li - g rY g 8 Y legs broken by a runaway bicycle? What is in What we do about the arena. They are kids, some Of the Grade 7 unemployment, the sagging economy', the stop him, the press across the country and for many of the critics. fair about a'flood? students in Dave Kemp's ,class at- Seaforth Pulic School. Russians in Afghanistan,, the hostages' in many of the people who oppose anything the ART -OP -THE -POSSIBLE. The world is not perfect and never will be. 'su Obviously it's abject dto their Hearts. Just as obviously, you'll Iran, the whole decline in the American man does just because it's him doing it, he "Politics � someoneonce,said, it is the Were going to be miserable forever and t_ ear dream: _ But al n note, they've done a lot of .discussing and �reasonin • about this thorn o t3 came.. R9nald Reagan, was rola again and again that he .must be art of the possible. The problem is people make our leaders miserable forever if we issue. 9, y promising 8 P g p t co be the art: of linptissible', the expect the to deliver 'fins 'per%ct world. romism to rebuild the American dream, wtllin to tom romise, that he must et the ex eft i building up those expectations again, smd- support of the premiers or the country would perfeo.A, While decrying. too much govern- Yes, somet r es they blow it and we should let Hats off to a teacher who's educating the taxpayers of tomorrow to be ing, looking confident and making Americans perish. ment. intervention in society we expect the them know when they do, but before we get concerned about local problems. Hats off to the kids who wrote, about the feel condifident with him. So Trudeau went back to the bargaining politicians., jq come up with the solution top too critical we should look at what we're arena and about the non-functioning post office wheel chair ramp. One Year later Ronald Reagan's smile still table and against the odds got agreement whatever is wrong with the country. We had demanding. We should ask if what. we want is brings a certain confidence but it hasn't done with nine of the ten premiers and'managed to smaller government in the 1930s. We also ` possible. Could we do anything differentifwe By reading their letters you'll get an excellent idea pt What Our kids are thinking. Their letters are examples of _. _;3i responsbile type of anything to stop inflation which is higher than get his charter of -rights up included, even if all had a Depression greater than any in History. lucre in their shoes2 if we can't answer that ever, unemployment which is climbing or the the provisions he wanted weren't included. Not many of the advocates of smaller question then maybe we" should shut and citizenship that we adults would do weld t0 imitate. economy which is falling.. Despite plenty of He compromised some of his high ideals in government will bring that into their let -them get on with• rice job. It's tough threats about nuclear retaliation and billions order to get agreement. Now the opposition,, arguments. Long before we had massive enough as it is. , To. the 'longeditor. It wont tale for a n.ew commnnit y centre The arena is heeded Mom and dad went to a meeting today of McKillop Township Council representing volunteers from each Municipality. Seaforth arena, but they wanted the country If everyone works toward the same goal, it i would like to say a few words on -the topic arena is needed. the tax payers in McKillop township. About in this.way the count people to help pay for it. won't take long until we have a new of the new arena. It would be a good idea to All the young people of Seaforth and area 25 other people also attended. Y country people would be I would like to see a new arena, so I can community centre: build a whole new arena. if the front lialf of dePend ' on it for roller skating, skating, it was decided at this meeting that an Area . informed of what is going on, and hopefully continue my hockey and- other sports in the 8 there will be more cooperation between town years to come. Yours'sincerely, the arena was left on it would have to be dances and so on. i also think that it would Board would be formed which would consist and country p6ple. We have to work Ron Pryce. rebuilt in a few years anyway. be a good idea to get a committee together of a council member from eae6' %lcil and a together. We all have some ideas of what it would made up of the concerned citizens of taxpayer from each Municipality. Also a Before this meeting was held the town was Seaforth cost then. people realize it or not theSue Hickson.1p, tt would be twice as Seaforth and area. Yours truly,much. Whetherher pfund-raising committee woul$ be formed of doing the planning and they wanted to call it tee) ]'j � ' er .' Ramp money was - wasted • • The Government has done it again. They one it can be"fixed by rounding the corners � Let s d► the ob hale• wasted the tax payers' money by not and maybe our overnment workers willg praisedmotorist planning the Post .Office ramp carefully pian and design more slowly and carefully. I think that, it was a good idea to. build a for dances. i think it would be good if we enough. Fortunately it can be repaired but it This has been a very expensive lesson and i i am writing on behalf of the young people Chesney if he could be of assistance. He g a he to waste more o one This is hype it won't happen again. Michael Ball of today. If one of your young people is a spoke to his boss and returned with me to my new arena. I know thabit takes a -lot of money. start working together and start dying the another example .of their foolish mistakes, typical Seaforthite, i would- like to congratu- car. of build the arena but it will be worth .it job. It is doubtful that a wheelchair will be able I am writing to you about the ramp that was late your town. i was amazed at the dexterity he used for a afterwards. t think when you get the arena Sincerely. to get up the ramp in the winter time anyway. done we will have more people and childraii Debbie Carter. Y Y recently built at the Seaforth Post Office. i Last Thursday, ! Young fellow of 17 years, He told me he had using it for rollerskating and iceskatin and The only way they can fixe without wee ld on feel that it is unfortuhate that it cost $12, Y had oxcart B s. be in changed tires since he, was 13,- He, ,had g g g Grade 7 SPS the ramp is to cut the corlters ort and weld on ' atid' didn't work. The men who built it should Seaforth.) like to shop in Stewart Bros, as you changed his uncle's tiro at that a e a d h d rounded pieces for the forners and cement will d round corners on the cement forms. If they would have planned better in -the first place ,Mcv wouldn't have had to build it twice. CraigHackwel 1. 1 think that the Post Office ramp was an excellent idea even though it didn''t work out. However we can't give up yetl Even though the first mistake was a bad have taken the time to make sure the measurements were correct so,d„wheelchair could maneuver up it. it seems that they just made it as fast as possible without thinking. It has been an expensive.mistake. I hope something is soon done to alter it for the use of wheelchairs. Yours sincerely, Peter Vanst ke n snore obliging persons than Dave Stewart and hit, staff. I had made a call on Goderich Street and started'for home. I got two blocks south of the Presbyterian Church wheml felt a couple of bumps.1 stopped, got out and found to my concern that I had a flat tiro. I walked to the garage on Gtodetich Street and asked a young fellow there named Steve received $10.00 for it. He even apologized for having had me walk so fast back to the earl I taught school for 42 years, so I think of myself as being a fairly gond judge of character. I feel that Steve Chesney is one of the finest teenagers that could be found atiyYVherC. Your3 truliy,, Rose Marion McLean Exeter.