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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-03-02, Page 4Page 4 —Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 2, 1994 The Sentinel Memoirs Iarg Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. at 619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Ont. P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822: Fax (519) 528-3529 Established 1873 'Thomas Thompson — Advertising Manager. Pat Livingston — General Manager/Editor, Phyllis Matthews Helm — Front Office • Subscription rates advance: Local Regular $2O°° within 40 mi. radius G.S T. incl. Local Senior Si 700 within 40 mi. radius G.S.T. incl. Out -Of -Area (40 miles) - Regular $32.24 - Senior $29.24 G.S.T. incl. • Foreign + U.S.A. $9669 Publications mail registration no. 0847 held at Lucknow, Ont. Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return- postage guaranteed) are to be sent to Lucknow Sentinell at the above address. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the ,event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by' the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be cha,•ged for, but,the balance of the advertisement will be paid at'the applicable rates. A divided Canada? .There is growing evidence that Canada's 10 provinces are becoming more and more deeply divided on many issues. Take the lastest one cigarette taxes. Cigarette smuggling ,was rampant in Ontario and Quebec, particularly in the area of the Akwesasne Indian Reserve near Cornwall. The RCMP estiinates that 70 per cent.. of all illegal cigarettes pedalled in Canada were coming through Akwesasne. That figure, was disputed. by the Indians, .there; • but there is no argument that the bulk of smugglers' cigarettes coming into Canada were sold in Ontario and Quebec. Cigarette; smuggling, it seems, was less of a problem ,in the Maritimes 'and virtuallynon-existent west of the Ontario -Manitoba border.. However, when the federal government finally dealt with the problem - when Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his. Liberals pushed through their solution, among other things to cut cigarette taxes • the consequences Were felt coast to coast. Immediately the cost of cigarettes - andthe government's ability to raise tax dollars went down in every. province. But it was not enough., 'Quebec, responded by lowering its portion of the tax cigarettes and so earned a further reduction in cigarette tax from the feds. That move caused a cigarette price war between Quebec and Ontario, and Quebec and New Brunswick, with the only solution being for Ontario and New Brunswick•to drop their cigarette tax accordingly. .Which,province will be next? ' The consequences of that one. decision to lower cigarette taxes arc enormous, First there's the tax hit - not just federally, but provincially a5 well. Then there's the near certainty that the lower price on cigarettes will entice non-smokers to take up the habit while encouraging smokers to puff still rhore ..• and that; in turn, ensures that Canadian taxpayers will be burdened with the circ and treaunent of more and more Canadians with smoking-related diseases. Finally, there's the growing bitterness among purveyors of Other `•sin -taxed" items who 'say smugglers also cut into their profits, too, and ask why taxes are. removed from their products. . But in a national, sense, perhaps the most distressing thing of all is the widening gaps between Ottawa and the provinccs4 and between the provinces themselves. The removal of most of the taxes on cigarettes is just one more thing that threatens 'much nedded co-operation and . understanding among all Canadians - and this country simply can't afford to be rnorc divided than it already is. - SJK . •" Then there's daytime TV A recent sick leave gave me a great deal of time to catch up on daytime TV, where anything goes. The number of talk shows has increased since I last had the time to sit in front of the bube tube. If so inclined, one can tune them in from morning to supper time. Topics of discussion are truly varied! Some large breasted women were hot adverse to sharing . their problems on national TV. They shared with viewers the 'heartache they felt when after having their breasts reduced (at the suggestion of their male partners) the men in their lives left them. John Bobbitt and family were guests on a show where the audience wasn't very sympathetic to his recent dilemma. Try as he might, along with his parents and Rby Pat Livingston AMBLINGS brothers, the audience appeared to have more sympathy for Lorena. A show onsexual assault cases. by some Big Brothers and Scout leaders reinforced in my mind that screening of volunteers, who work with children, is a must. Then there was the case of the Outlaw Bride,.who the day she was to be arrested for some' crime, sought permission from a judge to be married. That same judge subse- quently performed the ceremony and she then made her way to the police station where she was ar- rested and sent to jail. Some people have secrets they •turn to page 5 Wingham becomes one -newspaper town 70 years ago March 6, 1924 Wingham papers amalgamate - What publishers of town newspapers have ex- pected for some time has come about over at Wingham - the two printing offices have become one, and Wingham has become a one -paper town. The past two years has seen quite a number of these amal- gamations, and we have not heard of one newoffice opening in a town or village. Mr. W.G. Colgate who had the Wingham Times, for the past two years found the going too hard, and the business went back to Mr. H.B. Elliott from whom he had bought it. But Mr. Elliott has a good and stationary business, and to handle the paper as an extra was out of the question. Last week he announced that he had disposed of the Times to Mr. John Joynt, of Lucknow, who in turn made it oyer Mr. A.G. Smith_vrtfilhas had the Ad- vance for the. past nine years. The Wingham paper will now be "The Advance - Times," and so far as politics are concerned, it will pursue an independent course. Years of scrapping between town newspapers meant years of poverty for both. Fire at Wingham High School - A fire which did about one thousand dollars damage oc- in the Wingham High School on Friday afternoon last week. Apparently the fire was due to. overheated pipes. The firemen assisted by some of the students soon got the blaze under control, but not before the building was rendered unfit for occupation. Half an hour after the fire was out, repair work was started. The students, however will have to take a few weeks holidays as . the school will be closed until repairs are completed. The loss is fully covered by insurance. 50 years ago March 2; 1944 Kinloss reeve on provincial body - Mr. Richard Elliott, reeve of Kinloss Township and chairman of the Bruce County Highways As- sociation, was elected as a member of the Ontario Good Roads Association at the annual convention of this body in Torontolast week. Reeve Elliott is one of seven directors on the board representing the entire province, and not since the late Robert Johnston was a member, has this community been represented on the Association. • Mr. Elliott attended the convention as the county delegate. Kinloss 'Township was represented by Councillor Alex MacKenzie. . School attendance has been quite low - Sick- ness during the winter has kept school atten- dance 'well below normal. In this respect Grades 3 and 4, better known as second room have been particularly hard hit. Since Christmas there have been- 10 or more continually absent out of an en- rollment of 30 pupils. Mrs. Helen Hamilton is the teacher. 25 years ago March 5, 1969 Three prizes go to Lucknow in Ontario contest - Lucknow Fall Fair entries captured three prizes in the provincial photographic competition held -at the annual convention of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies in February in Toronto. Lucknow won first and second in the division for Class "C" Fairs in Ontario. All three winning photos were from the lens of Harvey Wightman of Waterloo and Lucknow. His first place photo was of Mrs. Ron Alton of Lucknow on her riding horse. He placed second in 4-H exhibit class and second in the home department class. Duties as clerk ended last week - Howard Agnew, clerk -treasurer of the village of Luck - now for many ears and who •has been as- sociated with municipal du 'es in the village for many years, will shortly end hi work at the municipal office in the village. Howard officially retired as cl rk on November 1 of last year- and has been carrying on as acting clerk on a month-to-month basis. His original intention was to completely give up the work on January 1 but an- nounced at the inaugural meeting of the 1969 council that he would continue on until March 1 to give the new council the opportunity to secure a replacement. His duties came to an end last week and he is now acting in the position of temporary assistant to the offices of the clerk -treasurer and related duties of the Lucknow hydro and water, recreation and arena committee, tax collector and welfare officer. A new clerk -treasurer has yet to be named by council`.$ Mr. Agnew .plans to continue on as division court clerk and with his insurance and investment business. Correction: In the Sentinel Memoirs, Feb. 9 issue', the two articles "Club has total loss of 791/ lbs."and "Pass music exams". should have been under the date of 25 years ago, Feb. 12, 1969.. As pointed out by George Newbold, Who wrote from Florida, it would have been difficult for his daughter Elizabeth to have passed music exams 10. years before she was born. Our apologies. The MacMillans of the 6th concession, Kinloss Township. Back row, left to right: Dr. Clarence MacMillan, Mr. MacMillan, George MacMillan. Fropt row, Ross MacMillan and Rev. Hugh MacMillan. (courtesy Donald MacKinnon) A song for our home and native land by Marsha Boulton QUEBEC CITY, June 24, 1880 -- What great Canadian song was written in Quebec a century before it became our national anthem? The answer is "Chant National," - - the rousing cantata of contrapuntal orchestration composed by Calixa Lavallee which became "0 Canada." ` Although it was approved as our anthem in 1967.and was designated officially by the National Anthem Mt of Parliament in 1980, the song was introduced in Quebec city on June 24, 1880. It was not heard' in English Canada until the turn of the century, when lyrics by Montreal-based lawyer and author Robert Stanley Weir were adopted. • In January, 1880, Quebec city organizers began planning a daz- zling celebration to which Saint Jean -Baptiste Societies in Canada and the United States were invited. The music committee boosted en- thusiasm when it proposed the inclusion of a national song in the program. The words of a poem written for the occasion by Judge Adolphe - Basile Routhier were selected and Lavallee was commissioned to compose the music. • Calixa Lavallee was a pioneer in music, both in Canada and the U.S. He was born in Vercheres, Lower Canada in 1842 and his first musical studies were with his father. When he was barely a teenager he left Canada for the U.S. and 'toured throughout South .America, the West. Indies and Mexico. The year following his return to Vercheres, the 21 -year-old musician and teacher gave a concert in Montreal playing'piano, violin and cornet. Lavallee orchestrated a tour de force for the Saint-Jean Baptiste celebrations, which began with a huge crowd which assembled to attend ceremonial Mass on the. Plains of Abrahatn. Throughout the day, a parade moved through the main streets of Quebec City featuring a hundred or so French Canadian societies and associations, preceded by their marching bands and allegorical •turn to page 5