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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-12-30, Page 10trOi 4 1*,1114100 ST • jobs ranging .from reporters to printers. , %Iwo Bunn grodo- • tiled from ntlo 1.3 in 1932. •11,4111 ENIPL t e tXpositor fc esent publish T e two stand it e fl IN a * a THE HURON EXPOSITOR Your service to the community is greatly appreciated and necessary. ittves Wallpaper 4 Paint Serving Seaforth & Areas Since 1897 Man St.,„ I ' Seatorth 527-0650 Congratulations to The Huron Expositor and' the\ McLean, ftimiiy who for 120 yetws have served this community faithfully 7 FRANK<M>KUKit„... General Cufttractin,g • Washed & Crushed Aggregates * Material Hatilling • Plumbing, Heating & ElectriCal • C.G.E. Electrical Appliance., J. 527-132.0 Main St., Seaforth ly A record to be proud of. R . S.. BOX LTD. Seaforth Most furniture and appliances 5 27-0 •80 Our Congratulations to , The Huron Expositor To the oldest and longest continually owned business - on Main. St. Our Best Wishr for many many more years to come to LARONE-SPITTAL 527-1960 Seaforth An Honorable°Past Canada has a fine tradition of good weekly newspapers and historically The Huron Expositot ,has been a respected leader among the community press of Canada, During the past 50 years The Expositor has been a regular winner' of newspaper com- petition with community papers of comparable size. We congratulate the McLean family on their leadership tradition. Their wisdom, knowledge and,,skill built on the past will be a valuable asset in leading Seaforth and its rural community into_ an aggressive, competitive future. Congratulations to The Huron Expokior and all those associated with it for the contribution it has made to the - Seaforth community for more than a century Watch the Expostior for Auction Dates Furniture to consign??? Call Best of L k to e. Hu-ron Ex ositor May your tutu e nity involvement a d successes enduring as you past ,WARM UP WIT A BEAM KEROSEN HEATER! I corn AMA EfSTORE B.C.WiNSOR HOLDINGS LTD. Seaforth, Ontario 527-1350 [Annuli:in TIRE Ilh this day of combines, conglomerates and corporations, The Huron Expositor stands as a beacon for indepeRstent _business men. 'Far 120 years the Huron Expositor has been run by the McLean Pamilyand has served this community well. OUR JANUARY SALE ON NOW years at r e read The ESpositor With. Hy every weeb it Seaforth's broil. When he noticed a *hien was open at the --t end Leo been'emPliVeCa. ExPdOter for e* fig,003fears, in a paper he applied, and that was the start of his 44-year career at The Expositor. He's worked for three generations of McLeans. At the time Leo started. Alex Lowery. the foreman. and John Maloney were oper- ating the lino-type which set the type for the pages. The machine set up each line of a story in small metal letters. backwards. All the lines and stories were then composed., into a page,-, held together in a chase, which was set Cm the press ready for-printing four pages at a time. When he first started at 'the Expositor Leo Hagan helped out where needed. "1 had no formal training and just cattle in and learned by watching" he says. From 1941 to 194'. Leo worked at the Daily Nugget in North Bay as an ad composi- tor. When he returned to Seaforth in 194"1, he began reporting sports for the Ex- positor, and was also Seiforth correspondent for CKNX Radio. Wingham. the Beacon Herald in Stratford and the London Free Press. The Ex- pusher's weekly sports column "Town Whisper- ings" was written under his pseudonym "Lee-Hee". • Doing so many jobs kept him on his toes. "Every time that fire whistle blew I'd be out the door in my car so' fasts" he says One evening he noticed a lumber budding on Seaforth's Huron Street was on flee, so contacted the London Free Press, The Bea- con Herald and CKNX im- mediately. They got reporters here right away "I got a, nice little bonus for that tip". he says. Now semi-retired Leo is still at The Expostor a few days a week running the lino-type. He says he has enjoyed the newspaper busi- ness and would do it all over age]. Tom Haley is also used to the lino-type. He arrived at The Huron Expositor 24 years ago. Before then he ran the local theatre for five years. Tom is interested in all types of woik at the ,news- paper and began. TM the press.'which at that time was located on the Premises. The press in these days, could run as late** one or two clicietek in the morning. "Some of the neighbours would be down at the windows and doors coin- plaining that we were making the whole building shake" he laughs. ' Later Tom switched to For all but three of the 114 years the Huron Expositor has been in Seaforth. McLean Brothers have been owners and publishers of the paper. The newspaper industry was first introduced to Sea- forth in the 1860's when the "Express". later to be known as the "Huron Expositor", was established. Records of newspapers iTi the commu- nity in the early 60's are scarce but it is thought that C.H. Cull started the "Ex- press" in 1860. According to Belden's Perth Atlas, Alex- ander Campbell, son of Rev. James Campbell, Baptist mi- nister of Logan Township, in 1862 issued the "Huron Ex- operating the lino-type for fiVeT:or six years. then sold advertising and took photo,. His reporting assignments brought him to Seaforth's town council meetings. Since then, he has learned off-set ,press techniques and is now the shop supervisor press" in Seatorth. In 1863 C.H. Cull was me publisher of the Huron Express and J.W. Graham was the fore- man. Culls printing office was in the building where the Kitchen Centre is now locat- ed. In November 186". Pentor and Colborne, editors and proprietors of the newspaper reorganized and re-named the paper. the Seaforth Ex- positor. They also moved the office to the third floor of what is now Becker's. William F. Luxton and George W. Ross purchased the paper in 1869 with Murdo Young McLean as manager. Ross later be- came Sir George W. Ross, The Expositor has had many employees who been on staff for a 'number of years in the past. When Ales Lowery died in 1949. he had completed 60 years on stair John Maloney operated the lino-tyr ,for more than 4Q years when he retired in 1966. Premier of Ontario and Lux- ton became the founder of the Winnipeg Free Preis Murdo Y. McLean and his brother. Alan McLeanur- chased the paper in 1.870 p and the name was again changed to The Hurc 'Expositor.-In 1872 the Expositor was mov- ed to John St. and then to its present location in 1881. Alan was forced to resign because of ill-health, and M.Y. McLean continued as editor till his death in 1916, Mr. McLean represented . Huron in the Provincial Legislature and the House of Commons for several terms. Keith M. McLean became the editor following his Mrs. R.K. McFarlette, the -former M.P. 'Patterson served for 34 years before she retiredin 1954 to be married A.Y. McLean. the present publisher, began his asso- elation with the Expositor 50 years ago in June 1931. father's death. In 1948, after the death of Keith M. Mc- Lean, his son Andrew Y. McLean became the editor and publisher. Like his grandfather, he is a former member of the federal House of Commons where he represented Huron- Perth. He is also a life member and past president of the Canadian Community Newspaper, Association; In Itruary, 1974, A.Y .. McLean s daughter. Susan White, a graduate of Glendon College—of York University became the Expositor's edi- tor. Mr. McLean continues as publisher.. PEES Leo liaan (le > ) and T Haley have been at 44 and 24 years *peal ly. Bes es A.Y. McLean, the r, they are the Eposito 's longe present employees. front of the old lino-type achine Expositor Seaforth's poor since 1867 Conorati4tio s to Hadar E p 4 $itor or' mire than q. 120 ears you have bee thii, corn unit informed. I , • ur hviporty thanks. eatorth-' to anc Broker .Ltd. Don Eat 3 M in St S Ken Cardno 527-1610 • 527-1616 COMO. Line General InsUrance & IngestmentS ngrandations to E EXPOSITOR who y ar in and year out has served Seaforth d, community' faithfully. ur, oldest organizat es a ape ial thank e forth me ilardw re P umbing-Electrical-Heating 527-1620 ikon* Aware • i one of it s dese -TOM PAPPLE Auctioneer we••••4•40Tangema.•*•Orm.dommidevkIa.i* Totn & Dawn Papple Seaforth 527.0940 •••••'• ••1. ••••••• •