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Sponsor Entertainment
Need Promotion Program
To Develop Tourist Trade
Grand Bend should 'revive its
Chamber of Commerce in order to
more fully exploit the opportunities
which this famous summer resort of
fers.
While the natural facilities and
the amusements of the resort attract
large weekend crowds, little has been
done in a community way to promote
the tourist centre or to improve its
relations with the public.
Several years ago, the Chamber
of Commerce launched an entertain
ment program, along with a publicity
campaign, which ended with an un
fortunate financial loss. Despite this
failure, the program accomplished
considerable in establishing good will
with Grand Bend patrons and in pub
licizing the resort.
Because this ambitious program
did not succeed materially in its first
year, it should not be concluded this
type of thing cannot be operated suc
cessfully. The mistakes which have
occurred in the past can be avoided
in a future program.
A special day for the children,
band concerts and variety shows on
the beach—these and other promo
tional ideas were popular with Grand
Bend tourists and. can be organized
again to the benefit of the resort. This
type of activity helps to establish a
more friendly atmosphere and creates
good will towards the resort generally,.
Excellent examples of such pro
grams can be taken from, resorts in
Florida which make extensive plans,
most of them organized through
Chambers of Commerce, to make
visitors welcome and to make their
Farm Help
This newspaper has said it be
fore but, in light of the report given
to Huron County Council by G. W.
Montgomery last week, it bears re
peating: Huron’s two agricultural rep
resentatives are among the two most
overworked civil servants . in the
county and they should have a third-
man to help them;
Mr. Montgomery’s plea to county
council for assistance in securing an
other man is justified as the “figures
he produced reveal,
Huron is the largest agricultural
county in the province and has the
most active 4-H program in operation.
This 4-H program alone is a tremend
ous task and its success will have a
significant bearing on the future of
agriculture in. Huron.
But this is only one of the varied
activities which are conducted through
the Agriculture office. There’s the
crop-and soil program, which includes
the seed fair; the numerous livestock
organizations, fruit and vegetable
grower organizations, Junior Farmer
program, farm management courses,
assistance at district fairs, and the
more basic task of providing technical
advice and assistance to individual
farmers,
Mr.'Montgomery told county
council that between he and his as
sistant, they put in 40,000 miles on
the road last year, received 4,000
visitors at the office, conducted 144
meetings in Clinton and many more
in other county'centres and sent out
3,000 letters and 20,000 circulars.
Realizing the enormity of the
task, county council appealed to the
Department of Agriculture last year
for a third man but the delegation
was turned down. However, the work
increases year by year and the import
ance of having expert leadership in
Huron becomes greater in the light
of falling farm fortunes in relation
to the industrial boom in other ears
Of the province, t
County council would be acting in
tlie interests, not only of the farmers
in the county, but of the entire popula
tion of Huron, if it pursued its cam
paign for a third agricultural repre
sentative. Nothing can be lost, and
there is much to gain, from interview
ing the department again.
stay more enjoyable.
Many people consider Grand
Bend is just out to make a fast buck
the easiest way possible, providing as
little as possible in return. This, of
course, is not fair—especially in view
of council’s attempt to improve the
resort—but it will take a community-
sponsored public relations program to
wipe out this attitude.
Red Tape
Government red tape is creating
major problems for communities in
this area.
Delay in negotiations with the
provincial government has seriously
handicapped a number of important
projects in this district. These delays
are costing the municipalities con
cerned thousands of dollars and con
siderable inconvenience.
Major example of this is the Morri
son Dam in Usborne township. On
several occasions, municipal officials
have been given wrong advice from
various departments in the govern
ment which has held up plans for
some time. Not all of the blame for
this can be placed on the government
but certainly its departments have
contributed to the embarrassing posi
tion the municipalities involved and
the authority have found themselves.
The dam is a good illustration
of the cost of these delays. At least
a part of the $30,000 increase in the
estimates of the dam have resulted
from postponement of the project.
Construction costs have risen rapidly
in recent months and contractors,
loaded with work, are putting in high
bids for late jobs.
The five-room addition to South
Huron High School is another project
which has met with serious delays. It
will be fortunate, indeed, if - any part
of the addition is completed 'by the
time school starts. The accomodation
problem at the school ‘will be serious
in September.. »
It'is evident-that the government
must find more efficient methods of
clearing municipal projects and that
local authorities will have to start
/making -their plans earlier in order to
get projects completed on time.
No Hustle?
(Wingham Advance-Times)
People in the big city have been
wont to picture life in the small town
as a peaceful, somnolent existence
width no hustle and bustle, no excite
ment, nowhere to go and nothing to
do but stay home and tend the garden
or mow the lawn. Most of them seem
to figure that small town life has
none of the attributes of city Hying
which cause jangled nerves, frayed
tempers and nervous disorders
Everything’s relative, and per
haps they’re right. Perhaps the ave
rage small town dweller doesn’t shout
quite so loud at his wife, or belabor
his children quite so often as his city
cousin, who must face the roaring
traffic’s boom twice a day five times
a week.'Perhaps the pressure of town
life isn’t quite as great as that of the
big metropolis.
Things are changing, however.
During the next few days it may be
that small town life will be just as
hectic as the city variety; give and
take a few ulcers.
Right now there are a few people
of our acquaintance who never seem
to be able to spend1 an evening at
home. What with lodge, church, work,
golf and service clubs, they never
seem to make it. More and more
people are getting into the position
where supper is just a momentary
pause in a round which goes from
early morning to late at night.
Life everywhere is going at a
faster clip than it was 25 years ago.
Email towns are apt to be somewhat
behind the times in this matter, as
they..may be in some others, but
they’re catching up fast.
After attending the Masonic
service in Caven. Presbyterian
Church Sunday morning, the serv
ice being‘from 10 to 11 o’clock.
J drove out to Thames Road
thinking possibly 1 might be in
time to hear Rev. A. W. Gardi
ner, the speaker at the morning
service in connection with the
75th anniversary of that church.
As I approached the church
there was a long string of cars
on either side of the. road. The
church is situated at an inter
section and the cars lined either
side of the road in all directions.
A number of young people filled,
the doorway indicating that seat
ing capacity was at a premium.
I learned afterwards that a loud
speaker had been installed in the
schoolroom and that it too was
filled.
As I sat In my car waiting
for Mrs. Southcott who had gone
to the church earlier with friends
I reflected on the changes that
have taken place in this wonder
ful section of country which I
am fully convinced cannot be
excelled as an agricultural cen
tre any place in the world.
Highway 83 which passes the
church and which was formerly
known as the Thames Road has
been widened, graded and sur
faced with oil to lay the dust.
The road in due time will be hard
surfaced. The portion east from
Farquhar is now being graded,
and improved to make the con
necting link between* Exeter and
Russeldale.
Once A Forest
The road is lined with fine
maple trees and is a reminder
that this section of the Huron
Tract was once a forest and a
little over 100 years ago survey
ors mapped out roads and con
cessions and one can hardly im
agine a more perfect job than
was done in those early days
of the settlement of the township.
At one time two churches stood
at these crossroads. Thames Road
church was then Presbyterian
and across the intersection was
a Methodist church called Beth
any.
On Sunday last not a horse or
buggy was in evidence, so dif
ferent to the days when as a
young man I was asked to deliv
er an address at a convention
in the Bethany church. Having
had little or nothing to do with
horses I was more or less timid
around them and I soon found
out that horses became obvious
ly aware of that fact.
On the occasion of my visit
to Bethany I hired a livery.
Someone assisted me in taking
the' hdrse from the buggy ’ and
putting it in the stable adjoin
ing the church as the convOn-
tion was practically an all-day
affair.
When I came to get the horse
someone accosted me with:
“'Where are you going with my
horse?” I had- exchanged his
horse for the one I was driving
and while in the act of putting
it in the buggy I was advised
that I was hitching the horse
to the wrong buggy.
That was one of the few ex
periences I have had with a
horse and buggy and as I sit
here waiting for the congrega
tion to come out of the church
this little episode comes
vividly to my memory.
Irked The Minister
I recall another occasion
I think 1 irked the Rev. __
Fletcher, minister of Thames
Road, a strict Presbyterian. The
Routh Huron Sunday School As
sociation had planned a boys’
parliament to be held in James
| News Of Your Library |
I By MRS, J.M.S. I
We mentioned last week that
Mrs. Hilton Laing our librarian,
was attending the Canadian Li-
rary Association Conference in
Niagara Falls, She has written
for us an account of her meeting
there.
"Last week from June 11-14
I had the privilege of attending
the Eleventh. Annual Conference
of the Canadian Library Associa
tion held at the Sheraton-Brock
Hotel iri Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Although I have previously .at
tended an Ontario Conference
this is the first year since I have
been librarian here that the •
C. L. A. has been held in On
tario. Some 500 delegates made
up of librarians and trustees
from all the provinces in the
Dominion, attended.
Although Monday was Library-
Publisher day in Toronto I went
directly to Niagara Falls. After
lunch and registration, those pf
us at Niagara were treated to
a historic tour of Niagara-on-the-
Lake. We spent two 'very enjoy
able hours at historic Fort
George where there are fourteen
points of interest. Among these,
the Entrance, the Guardhduse-
a small building consisting of a
guard room and eight log cells,
also a reproduction of stocks in
general use a century ago as
well as the Fort whipping post.
Next came the Officers’ Quar
ters inside which is the mess
room. Following these are the
/
back
when
. Dr.
Street Itoited Church. Exeter,
with two representatives elected
from each Sunday School in the
district. I visited 'the Thames
Road Sunday School and outlin
ed the proposed selection of can
didates. It was something new
and novel being introduced On
a Sunday and as I learned after
wards. did not altogether meet
with the approval of Dr. Fletch
er.
What I recall most of Thames
Road Church is not the preach
ing services but those grand old
fowl suppers in the fall and
strawberry suppers in the spring
where there was always too
many appetizing things to eat
and not -enough boy and as one
party remarked at the SHDHS
barbeque: “There’s Melve South-
cott. They say you’ll always find,
him around when there is some
thing good to eat and by golly
I guess its the truth.”
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,MERRY MENAGERIE’
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15 YEARS AGO
Sugar beet seed was sown for
the first time in Usborne Town
ship last week.
A successful strawberry festi
val was held on the. farm of Mr.
and Mrs: Chester Rowe put on
by the people of S.S. No. 2, Hay
as a Red Cross effort.
The home of Mr. John Apple
ton, 75, of Crediton was totally
destroyed by fire.
Misses Lalirerie Beavers, Dor
othy Traquair, Betty Hogarth
and Janet Taylor, nurses-iri-trairi-
ing at Victoria Hospital, London,
spent Friday at their homes
here.
Miss Merna Sims of the Glad
man and Stanbury law office is
Vacationing in Windsor.
10 YEARS AGO
Rev. D< McTavish who for the
past nine years has been min*
ister of Calvary United Church,
London, preached his farewell
sermon Sunday prior going to
St Catharines,
Mr. Simrin Sweitzer exhibited
a number of antiques at the
100th anniversary of Wyoming
Agricultural Society,
Sixteen cadets from the local
High School corps loft Monday
by transport for Ippcrwash where
they will receive further train
ing.
On Thursday afternoon county
council approved the plans of
the new court house presented
by L. G, Bridgman, architect of
London.
At the? Hensall Continuation
School picnic at Jowott’s Grove,
Bayfield Jon Friday, Morley San
ders principal and. George Cow
an, assistant, were presented
with fable lamps.
"TIMES"
fly
50 YEARS AGO
The verdict of the large and
representative meeting of tax
payers in the Town Hall on Fri
day evening was that the coun
cil should submit a by-law to
the people to loan, tlie sum, of
810,000 to the Exeter Canning
Co. for a term of fifteen years
to erect a factory and instal
machinery,
Rev. R, J. M. Perkins M.A.
who has accepted a call to In
gersoll preached *hisf farewell
sermon oil Sunday evening in
Trivitt Memorial church,
On Monday evening the cere
mony of laying the corner stone
of Crediton’s new School house
took place.,
After teaching at S.S. No. 5
U shorn e for fifteen years Mr.
Peter Gowans is Joaving the
teaching profession. A strawberry
picnic and entertainment
held in the school to honor
and Mrs. Gowans.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Kenneth C, Stanbury
was
Mr.
Mr. Kenneth C, Stanbury has
passed his first year at Law
School, Toronto, „ w
Messrs. Jewell and Cutbush
returned from Bayfield Saturday
having completed the brick wont
of the aw Presbyterian church
there.Milk is a quart, 44 a pint.
The pew pavement has been
opened to traffic. Highway No.
4 is,now complete from London
to Clinton. t
A large crowd altenued Dee-
oration Day service Oil Sunday.
Rev. Vivian,and Bev» Moorhouse
delivered addresses. The Dash
wood Band was in attendance,
Wesley Ryekman suffered a
badly crushed ankle on Saturday
while he and his brother were
in the act of tolling the lawn.
kitchen, with huge, kettles hang
ing at the fireplaces, the Arti
ficers Shop, and the Powder
Magazine,
This is the only building in
Fort George which survived the
War of 1812 and has remained
intact to the present day. Next
in order are the South Redan,
the Sawpit, Blockhouses 3, 2 and
1, the Flag Bastion, and Museum
Building which houses a collec-
k lion of buttons, regimental bad
ges, bayonets, musket parts and
many other articles which were
excavated from the ruins of the
Fort during the restoration.^
The final point of interest is
Brock’s Bastion, here Sir Isaac
Brock, hero of Upper Canada,
and his friend and aide-de-
camp, Colonel McDonnell, who
lost Their lives at the Battle of
Queenston Heights, October 13,
1812, were buried from. 1812 to
1824. Jn 1824 their bodies were
disinterred and laid in their
present resting place, a vault
beneath the imposing national
memorial to Brock at Queens-
torf Heights. This monument we
-also visited. We passed by the
"spot where the First Parliament
of Upper Canada, composed of
seven men, was held.
We visited St. Andrew’s Pres
byterian Church and adjoining
'burial grounds. Here the first
congregation was founded in
1791, the first Meeting Hqusg
built before or during 1792, and
the first church erected in
1794, only io be burned during
the war in 1813. The present
church, a quaint edifice, was
built on the original site in 1831.
Our next visit was at St. Mark’s
Anglican Church, built in 1792
and similarly destroyed. ' This
was rebuilt in 1804. Traces of
the trenches and earthwork used
during the war of 18J2 may be
found in the graveyard at St.
Mark’s, * • ■ ’
-.This cemetery held a special
interest for me as it is here my
maternal grandfather, who was
an Anglican clergyman, was
laid to rest in the early 1800’s.
Once again we boarded our bus
and on to Navy Hall, originally
used by the British Navy arid
. now a museum of particular in
terest.
In the evening, His Excell
ency, the Lieutenant Governor
and Mrs. 'Simcoe wdre hosts to
the Association at a reception
held in the ball room at the
Sheraton Brock. Tuesday morn
ing the first general session arid
annual general meeting was held
in the ballroom with the presi
dential address by Willard E.
Ireland, president of the C.L.A.
After a general luncheon we
attended a meeting of the Can
adian Association of Children’s
Librarians. Here we viewed
sound films in colour from "Pic-
4 ture Book Parade’’. This was
followed by a panel discussion,
the subject for this b.eing "Pro
moting Library Service for Boys
and Girls.” Tea was then served
in the .Rainbow Dining Room,
the hosts being World Book
• Childcraft Ltd.
After dinner and visiting the
exhibits among which were
Americana and. Grolier Society
Encyclopaedias, Library Book
binding, Library Supplies, phono
graph records, charging ma
chines etc., we attended a micro
film meeting. Here we had the
privilege of hearing Mason
Wade, director of Canadian
Studies Program, University of
Rochester, and author of "The
French Canadian, 1760-1945,” also
Ralph Carruthers, Chief of
Photographic Services Division,
New York Public Library.
Wednesday morning at 9, we
boarded our buses and left
Niagara Falls by way of the
Rainbow Bridge for a tour of
Buffalo and Erie County Lib
raries. Among these Were the
Kenilworth arid Crane Branch
Libraries, two very modern. lib
rary buildings. A tour of a Bank-
mobile was also included in this
itinerary.
After luncheon, which was
held ill the Dafayette Hotel, we
visited the Main Buffalo and
Erie County Public Library, a
huge building in the heart of the
Buffalo business section. From
here we returned to Niagara
Falls via the Peace Bridge at
Fort Erie.
At 7.00 p.m. the second gene
ral session and banquet was
held in the ballroom. Here the
Government of Ontario were our
hosts arid Our speaker was the
Honourable William J. Dunlop,
Minister of Education. This Was
a fitting finish to Otir activities
ac C.L.A. as we returned home
Thursday morning. Next year
the Conference meets in Vic
toria, B.C., but we shall be
content to attend the Ontario
Conference wherever it may be.
There arc. now 871,<Wff horses-
oil Canadian farm*, about two-
thirds the number at the tittle
of the 1951 census. In 1421 the
number of horses on farms was
3,415,800.
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