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The Huron Expositor, 1995-11-08, Page 44 -THE HURON EXPOSIiTOR. Movembor O, UMW Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MO - Soles PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL - Reporter JOAN MELLEN - typesetter, proofreader BARB STORY - distribution A Burgoyne Community Newspaper NAISQtIPfON RATES: LOCAL - 28.00 o year, in advance, plus 1.96 G.S.T. SE ; - 25.00 a year, in advance, plus 1.75 G.S.T. Stratford addresses: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 7.28 postage, plus 2.47 G.S.T Oyt-of Of -Area: 28.00 a year, in advance, plus 11.44 postage, plus 2.76 G.S.T : 28.00 a year in advance, plus $76.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt Signot-Slur Publishing at 100 Main Sf., Seaforth. Publication mail registration No. 0696 held of Seaforth, Ontario. 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Sox 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK IWO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Editoria Chretien makes bold promise Maybe Prime Minister Jean Chretien got carried away with himself when he spoke to a $500 -per -plate Confederation dinner in Toronto recently. Or maybe the pompous politician in Chretien took over where good judgement would have been smarter. Whatever the reason, Chretien's promise that he will deliver political stability to Canada in the midst of the most ominous national crisis since Confederation was indeed bold - and a bit foolhardy. Let's review. On October 30, 1995 a reported 90% of Quebec's eligible voters went to the polls and proclaimed with elan that very close to 50% of then) wanted to be a sovereign country. Perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that of the slightly more than 50% who opted to remain in Canada, most admitted they were expecting more - much more from their federal government in the coming months. While no one out-and-out said it, .the. inference was crystal clear that if Quebecers remain unsatisfied with_the changes offered to them by the Canadian government in the next short while, they would choose separation over the status quo in any ensuing referendum.- . • • Many Quebecers, hard-line separatists and soft nationals alike, feel that for the first time since the birth of the nation they have the upper hand - and they aren't about to relinquish it without a fight. If Jean Chretien thinks he can mollify them with more of the same old rhetoric and a bit of sentimental blather, he's wrong. But Jean Chretien is right about one thing. Canadians have a right to political stability. Problem is, Canadians now understand that none of their politicians in any of their provinces or territories have the will or the way to make that happen. Before we are beset by another Quebec referendum with its petrifying prognosis, ordinary Canadians must take action. They must assemble their best business minds and most gifted vision- aries to chart a road down which Quebecers and all Canadians will walk together. Let the politicians wrangle. The people can get the job done. - SJK Letters to the Editor Different views on spanking Dear Editor, I was amazed to read the article in the Oct. 18 Expositor discussing Sec 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code, which still permits the 'reasonable hitting of children' by parents, teachers and caregivers. Shirley Brooker says that physical punishment is not an acceptable form of discipline, and we have to protect the children from the legally sanctioned harm and humiliation of corporal punishment. She wants to sec section 43 repealed so that any parent who spanks will be considered a criminal. My parents love mc. 1 was raised in a stable home with lots of love and laughter, and we were expected to honour and obey our parents. When we did not act in the way we were expected, we were disciplined, sometimes by losing privileges, sometimes by reproof, and sometimes (especially when we were younger) by spanking. I do not resent my parents for having spanked me. in fact, I am thankful that they taught me at a young age to respect authority and to work diligently. My parents arc not and never were criminals. i never felt humiliated by a spanking, because my parents made it clear that they loved me and were correcting me so i would learn what was right and what was wrong. I love my children. 1 have been a parent for 20 years, and we have 10 children, so 1 am somewhat of an expert on child -raising. My goal is to raise my children to be people of good character who know how to work hard, be respectful of authority and be productive members of society. We use spanking - not hitting or beating - as one form of discipline. Yes, some people go too far and beat a child, but the majority of parents love their children and want the best for them. They spank, not out of anger, but out of love, desiring their children to learn that their behaviour which warranted the spanking was unacceptable. Some parents verbally abuse their children by yelling obscenities at them - docs that mean we should ban a parent from ever raising his voice to the child? What if the child were running toward the road with a truck coming? I hope that Shirley and others like her who believe that all corporal punishment is wrong would reconsider. Generations of children have been raised by parents with a Judeo-Christian heritage, who believe that they should train a child according to the Scriptures, teaching them to honour and obey their parents, and correcting them when they do wrong. One more thing: countries like Sweden, that have banned corporal punishment, have also legalized pornography, including child pornography. Do we really want to follow their example? Sincerely, Janet Billson Truth stranger than fiction in daily� My favourite hour is before don England's The Sunday dawn with my first cup of Times. coffee and the morning paper. The game is described as I am a compulsive reader, 'al- "drug -like", sort of a corn - ways clipping interesting but puterized. Rubik's Cube, useless stuff out of newspapers developed by the same fellow and magazines from all over who programmed the multi - the place. million selling game Tetris. The Internet and Web may be "A mesmerizing tribal the coming thing, my son soundtrack" accompanies this spends half his life in front of Endorfun, underneath which his computer, but it is what are 100 subliminal audio mes- you're used to and I prefer my sages, the company insists are information served on paper. all positive. Trees, thank heavens, are a You can't hear these little renewable resource. Besides, hints but they make kids feel you can't line the kitty liuer good. Subliminal advertising is with a laptop. banned on radio and television To me television is shallow but computer games fall out - and print journalism ("Just the side the legislation. facts ma'am") is far more . Some of these feel -good interesting and a higher calling messages include: "I expect than fiction. "Learn why the pleasure and satisfaction"; "It's world wags and what wags it," okay for me to have everything T.H. White once advised I want"; "I am free of depen- would-be newspapermen. For deny"; "Today I expect the as Mark Twain aptly once also best"; "I can do anything"; and put it: "I forgive myself completely". "Why shouldn't truth be Time Warner says the game stranger than fiction? Fiction, is aimed primarily at teenagers after all, has to make sense." but admits it is highly addictive Evidence we live on a most and "may have drug -like curious planet... qualities, but at least it's legal". LET'S BE POSITIVE DIRTY MONEY Sales of computer games fell So maybe you think we by 25 per cent in Europe last should all get on a soapbox to year so media giant Time save the children? But wait, he Warner is fighting back with a or she without guilt, and all new game called . Endorfun that... which puts kids in what the After a four-year court battle, company advertises as a trafficking charges were dis- "trance-like state" but has missed against a Los Angeles parents, politicians and man, arrested with $30,000 psychologists up in arms, ac- cash covered with microscopic cording to a lead story in Lon- specks of cocaine in a plastic ]Letters t I More connections to atomic bomb Dear Editor, My eyes caught the headline `Seaforth's connection with first atom bomb' above the column 'In The Years Agone' in last Wednesday's paper. Under the heading 'October 26, 1945' it told about J.F. Daly's visit to Toronto to attend a dinner to honour Gilbert Labine, famous for developing , Canada's first uranium mine. The speaker at the dinner was William L•. Laurence 9f the New York Times. I found it of interest for a couple of reasons. In my teens, for two summers, I worked for Mr. Daly helping in the shop at the front of the garage and cutting the grass at his house with an early model gas engine mower. I think it was built in the garage by his mechanic George McGavin. It's funny how things happen...many years later, in 1959, I attended an affair in New York where again the dinner speaker was William Laurence. He spoke about the `Manhattan Project' which resulted in the developing and building of the atomic bomb. He was the science editor of the New York Times and the only newspaperman to know Scuttlebutt by Gregor Campbell bag, when a U.S. federal court determined more than three- quarters of the cash circulating in the L.A. area is cocaine contaminated. "We tested 135 bills from different locations - Seattle, L.A., New York, Pittsburg, Milwaukee, Texas, Florida, even U.S. currency in London, England, and 131 of them were tainted," noted a toxicologist on the phone with The Globe and Mail. "It would be interes- ting to test Canadian currency." He said in most urban centres, more than three bills in four, most notably $20s, will test positive for cocaine. Traces of the drug pass easily from dirty bills to clean. The problem is complicating things for dogs used in drug enforcement. "Tests with 'clean' and 'di- rty' cash showed it was not the smell of cocaine that was making the dogs excited," the piece continued. "It was the smell of money." A LONG WAY BABY If computers or cocaine aren't exactly your bag, there's always the old standby nicotine that many of us are wired to... Cigar smoking by females seems a growing fad, both in Europe and the United States, reported The Sunday Times at the opening of a fashionable nightclub in London. High-profile fans of the old fashioned stogie include Whoopi Goldberg, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Veronica Webb, Linda Evangelista, Demi Moore, and new Goldeneye James Bond girl Famke Janssen. Why? "Not so much because of the anti-smoking backlash and the fact in southern California, for example, there is virtually nowhere in public you are allowed to smoke," the article theorizes. "More because of the inherent grabbiness of the average American female psyche. "Cigar smoking has always been an essentially male ac- tivity and the average female cannot bear it. She and her Continued on page 5 CELEBRITY LINE-UP - This photo taken in June, 1959 at a New York dinner affair fea- tures from left to right: William Laurence, Science Editor, New York Times; Clare Westcott, of Seaforth, Department of Energy Resources, Government of Ontario; Walter Cronkite, CBS Television News; Chet Huntley, NBC Television News. (Submitted pjloto) about the project from the beginning. He was brought in as a press adviser in 1942 to project leader General Leslie Groves with the rather odd responsibility of advising on how to keep the top secret bomb building plan out of the press. He succeeded. The picture may be of interest. Clare Westcott P.S. Mr. Daly and Bill Forest of Goderich were early shareholders and backers of Labine's prospecting ventures. 'Old Man' Forest was a character in the 30's and 40's who wore a large black stetson hat and lived on a tiny island inside Godcrich harbour and refused to pay taxes. Dafy's young nephew, Ed Devereaux, went to the Great Bear Mine in the Northwest Territories as a payroll clerk and moved to Labine's Gunnar Gold Mine when the wartime goverulment seized the Eldorado Mine. Years later when he retired,. Ed Devereaux, the payroll clerk, was Treasurer of Gunnar Mines. Buggy collisions " FROM THE PAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR NOVEMBER 15, 1895 Collisions - On Friday even- ing of last week, as Mr. J.C. Clausen, one of Hensall's most respected business men, was returning home, and after pas- sing the railway track in this town, the electric light ahead of him was shining so brightly in his face that he did not sec an approaching vehicle, and those in it were, evidently, in the same fix. As a result, the two rigs came into collision. Mr. Clausen's horse went right through the harness, and get- ting freed from the rig, drew Mr. Clausen over the dash- board on to the road. He then let go the reins, and the frightened animal made off. The occupants of the other buggy were not thrown out of the vehicle. Mr. Clausen's horse was caught about Egmondvillc, and was returned to its owner, ,when he got rigged up again and got home without further mishap, Both buggies were more or less injured, but none of the occupants were hurt. On a dark night it is particularly danger- ous driving against the light of one of these outside electric lamps, and collisions of this kind on the outskirts of the town have been frequent. In the Years Agone NOVEMBER 12, 1920 Huckleberry Finns and Tom Sawyers were plentiful in the Egmondvillc that isn't. I'm creditably informed that there are many in the Egmondville that is. The old mill dam in the days of the past was a first-rate substitute for the Mississippi River. There were two tanneries, a church and a graveyard. No Egmondvillian ever heard his funeral sermon preached, but he should have, because that's the one occasion when good things are said of a feller. Nor did ever an aggregation put it over then) with fish-hooks, a no -bladed jack knife, second hand false teeth and such like. Whitewashing fences was not in their line. Swiping Brett's English cherries and Constant Van Egmond's pears were. Sitting upon and around the platform of Bob Fulton's old house at the comer of the second line and Main Street, were many bare-footed, straw- haucd boys one summer long ago. The good boys' straw hats were as intact as they left their makers' hands, the other boys had chunks here and there out of the brim, perhaps a tuft of red or black hair sticking through the place where the crown should have been. "Gee, fellers, here comes them Seaforth bucks from the dam," the Egmondvillian General Foch said, and then the army, well led, would dig in till the Scaforth fellers dug out, fol- lowed by the young Huck Finns and Tom Sawyers. (etc) BILL POWELL NOVEMBER 16, 1945 P/0 Frank A. Casson, son of Mrs. J. Ross Murdie, of McKillop, and the late Albert J. Casson, veteran of the 71st Battalion, was officially repott- cd to have died in a Japanese interment camp on August 9th, 1945. He had been promoted to the commissioned rank of a pilot officer, the appointment being retroactive to May 14, 1945. Missing since May 15th this year, the young officer went overseas in 1944, and had Served in various theatres with the Royal Canadian Air Force, including India and the Bahamas. He went down over the Andaman islands and was interned by the Japanese. While in their hands he contracted beri-beri which proved fatal. Huron County will have an open season for deer this fall, and hunters will be allowed six days: November 19th to 24th, both days inclusive, to bag a deer in their own backyards. There has been so much misunderstanding and misrepre- sentation, however, of the regulations governing the shooting in open season. The regulations are as follows: ARTILLERY - Any gauge shotgun, with any kind of shell ammunition. Any calibre rifle, with any calibre rifle ammuni- tion. BAG - Every hunter may shoot one buck, or one doe over one year of age. No dogs allowed. LICENSE - Every hunter must have in his possession a Regulation Deer Hunting License. NOVEMBER 12, 1970 A Seaforth native who has gained Canada wide distinction will be honoured at the annual dinner meeting of the Seaforth Chamber of Commerce. Chas. B. Stewart, who recent- ly has been named President of Robert Simpson Co. Ltd., Toronto will speak. The public is invited to attend the dinner being held in the Legion on Tuesday, November 24.