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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-09-18, Page 44—THE HURON EXPOSITOR. SNot.mber 111. 1555 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager MARY MELLOR • Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds DAVE SCOTT - Editor GREG91t CAMPBELL - Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LOCAL • 32.50 a year, in odvance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS 30.00 a year, in advance, plus 2.10 G.S.T. USA & Foreign 32.50 a year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Moin St., Seaforth- Publication moil registration No. 0696 held of Seoforth, Ontario. Advertising is accepted on condition thot in the event of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reosonoble ollowance for signature, will not be charged, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicoble rate In the event of 0 typographical error, advertising goods or services of o wrong price, goods or services may not be sold Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be withdrawn at any time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes Changes of address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable copies are to be sent to The Huron Expositor. - Wednesday, September 18, 1996 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main Sheet.,Seaforth Telephone (519) 527-0240 Fax (519) 527-2858 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Seaforth, Ontario, NOK 1WO Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and the Ontario Press Council Views expressed on our opinion page(s) don't necessarily represent those of The Huron Expositor or Bowes Publishers. The Huron Expositor reserves to right to edit letters to the edi- tor or to refuse publication. It's a wonderful woof! woof! world, On a drive Mp to the Gatineaus of Quebec this summer, one of Canada's truly unspoiled splendors, I found myself being assaulted by one talk radio show after another. Nobody talks on talk radio anymore -- they spit bile at each other through the safet,' pf the phone. lines. So I reached for n)y cassette case which, of course, I'd locked safely in the trunk. I suppose I could have pulled over and retrieved it, but that would have snapped a 33 - year -consecutive non - stopping streak on long trips which is why I can never ever visit Nova Scotia without a new kidney. I like to think of myself as the Cal Ripken of car trips. So I searched beneath both seats until, sure enough, I found a home-made tape I haven't seen for years. It's just one song, repeated over and over by Louis Armstrdng entitled "What A Wonderful World." Mindlessly Ilistened to this song until somewhere around the third hour, one of the lines jumps out at me like a priest in a police line-up. It's a sweet, short and sweet ballad that goes:: I see trees of green, Red roses too, I see them bloom For me and you, And I think to myself What a wonderful world. And I thought to myself, gee, if only I had a rhyming dictionary I could move to the States, change my name to Mitch. make my pitch, find my niche, create musical kitsch and without a hitch, be as rich as Marvin Homclich. Life's a hitch but still and all -- it's wonderful world. Especially when Louis Armstrong sings: I sec skies of blue, And clouds of white, The brightness of day, Dogs say goodnight, And I think to myself, What a wonderful world. Excuse me? Dogs say goodnight!?! I don't think so. There's no talking in the dog world. Dogs don't talk. Dogs may whine, whelp, woof, wiggle, pcc, prance, sneeze, snort, run, roll, jump, drool, pass gas, catch a hall, shed, scratch and sniff -- but dogs do not possess verbal skills beyond that of say, Don Cherry. This is the main reason dogs were never used as double agents during either world war. This is why, although he was interviewed twice for the job, Eddie, the dog on Frasier is not Rosie O'Donnell's co- host on her new talk slfow. That and he took a leak on the set, something only Robert Downey Jr. had done before. This is why you see a lot of dogs with their heads sticking out of moving vehicles but you'll never hear one say: "For crying out loud, slow down Sam! I'm tearing up over here!" No, I'm sorry, but with due respect to Louis Armstrong dogs don't say goodnight. Dogs communicate and effectively too. For instance a dog will sit nervously and stare at you while you're eating, in essence, begging for food. A dog will not, because he cannot, put his front paws on the table, look you in the eye and say: "Yeah, like you need another' pork chop and a fourth scoop of mashed potatoes! Have you looked at yourself naked in the mirror lately?" You may want to look it up but I'm sure no dog in the history of dog shows has ever been disqualified for calling one of his competitors a "8#%@ing prima -donna." And really, if dogs could talk the last thing they'd say would be "goodnight." The first thing they'd probably say is: "You go through with this Doc, and when I wake up, you better have gotten rid of the idea of ever having kids yourself!" And the second thing they'd probably say is: "Would you quit putting those blue pucks in the back of the toilet? It's like drinking Zima." If dogs talked they wouldn't chase cats they would just yell things like: "Your mother sleeps with strays!". No, dogs don't talk and in some cases it's a damn CONTINUED on page 5 Please, no NiMCIrp or Subway Cup While the country is in mass therapy for our loss to "that country" south of us (not Mexico) for the...(I can't even say. it)...that W. Cup of something, I thought I'd try to offer some observations on the series and maybe a clue as to what went wrong. Is Neale an American? Is commentator Harry Neale being paid by the American networks? Some of his pro -USA and other heli- um -induced comments on the game make you wonder where his loyalties lie. Can we trust him to call Hockey Night in Canada this season or should he check his green card at the door? In game one of the World Cup final round against U.S.A., Neale inadvertently left the word "injury" out when he stated: "Messier wouldn't play with the groin during the reg- ular season." Let's hope Messier doesn't watch a replay of the game or Harry Neale might be playing with an injury. Best Commercial Spots Doritos - Get a Life. Get Under Your Skin Ad Subway Subs Cheers and Jeers Who says there's any rules about what country you can cheer for? Don Cherry was way off base reprimanding Canadians for booing the Americans and cheering for the Russians at their game in Ottawa. Although it's unsportsman- like to boo any team, Canada is not the first place this has happened. What about World Series games in Atlanta and the obnoxious tomahawk - chop? And the crowd in Philadelphia wasn't exactly polite to our team prior to the first game of the final series. (Except for the Canadians who play on the Flyers). As far as Cherry's comment on which country would you rather have backing you if Saddam Hussein had 1,000 missiles pointed at you - well, for one thing, their Scud missiles wouldn't make it much past Saddam's back- yard. And you don't need to encourage the Americans in the war department. They're their own best supporters when it comes to dropping bombs on other countries. Most Feisty Player Then Fleury deserves the aware tor most feisty player on the ice for Canada. While he was sometimes over- looked in the all-star cast, he came through more often than the younger, much big- ger, much touted Eric Lindros who never really got much speed going, except on a few hits. Most Annoying TV Trick Please CBC, stop with the Batman -like weird angles on interviews with players and switching from black and white to colour video for no apparent reason. The focus of the interview should be the player, not all the neat things you can do with a TV camera. It just served as a distraction from the subject. One of the most annoying TV tricks was having the interviewee looking off -angle and not directly at the cam- era. I noticed CBC used that for both hockey interviews and for their "TV to call our own" promos on how excit- ing it is to be Canadian, watch Canadian shows and news about Canadians by Canadians. But rather than making me feel all warm and fuzzy about being Canadian it just made me want to shoot the cameraman. Corporate Presence Was I hallucinating again or were there Nike stripes on the. shoulders of all countries' uniforms for the World Cup tournament? I've read the sports giant is moving into hockey equip- ment now - as long as this tournament doesn't become: "The Nike Cup" - it's hard enough adjusting to the "World Cup" without think- ing about soccer. And as far as redesigning the hockey uniform, I hope this means we don't see Gretzky or Lemieux walking down fashion runways mod- eling new uniforms as part of some Nike endorsements. But I don't think the sports marketer is very welcome - if you happened to read the sign behind Don Cherry's head at the opening of the third game against the USA which stated: "Burn in Hell Nike." There's really no hid- den message there. The Driscoll Factor Scott Driscoll was only list- ed as an "Alternate" official for the final game. He should have been an "official offi- cial." We needed somebody with Seaforth hockey sense on the ice - all those positive vibes from our town could have made the difference for Canada. Well, the Americans have a war going for them. Nothing like pumping up national pride by massing your forces on the other side of the world. Maybe Canada needed to do something drastic to help our national pride, like declare war on Quebec. (Okay, how about Greenland? Iceland? Baffin Island?) Okay, how about just a Canadian team reaching the Stanley Cup final this season. (I could live with gtat). • • • Do You Remember • • Originally appeared June 7, 1935 When the 'Beaver, lacrosse team of Seaforth journeyed to New. York on the invitation of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn and defeated the Club which at that time was the chief exponent of the game in the United States. The game was played on June 3, 1905, before a crowd of more than 4,000 persons. Playing for the Beavers were Mulcahy, goal; Pinner, point; Bethune, cover point; Stewart, first defence; Crooks, second defence; Bamsley, third defence; Smith, centre; Broadfoot, third attack; T. Johnstone, second attack; W. Johnston, first attack; McKay, outside home; Jackson (Captain), inside home. The Brooklyn Eagle of that week makes the following reference to the game: "For the first time this sea- r By .Keith lllMoPhail McLean son the lacrosse team of the Crescent Athletic Club yes- terday fell before the attack of the invading twelve. The winners were the Beavers of Seaforth, Ontario, Canada, who defeated the home play- ers by a score of 7 goals to 4. They were also the victors in the first half by six goals to 2. It was an ideal day for a gamc and more than four thousand persons journeyed to Bay Ridge to witness the contest. They were well repaid, as the game, barring ' little for time on the part of the Canadians, late in the sec- ond half was as pretty as any of the season. "The Canadians turned out to ,be a big strapping lot of fellows, who though they said they were not in condi- tion, outplayed and out -gen- erated the Crescents in a most "astonishing way. The attack field was unusually fast. Smith showed up well and so did the two Johnston boys, while Captain Jackson, for a man of his weight, kept even de Casanova guessing. "Down on the defence side of centre, Stewart and • Bethune, both played well. The star of the aggregation, however, was Mulcahy, whose game before the net was in marked contrast to the poor work of Rose, the Crescent's goal. Crescent started the scoring soon after the whistle. Wall landed the first goal on a pretty shot, only to have Smith of the vis- iting team tie it up two min- - utes later. "O'Rourke was responsible for the second goal which was made after eight minutes of exciting play. Then the Seaforth team commenced to play in earnest and five goals were tallied by them before the half closed. Four of these were made in three minutes, which gives an idea of the rapidity of the Canadian game. These shots were made by McKay, T. Johnston, Jackson, Smith and McKay. In the second period, Jackson scored after three minutes•of play. From then on the Crescents took the aggressive as the visitors did nothing but kill time. This style of play proved disastrous as well. as the visitors scored twice more before the game ended." Lord and Lady Aberdeen stop by Seaforth FROM THETAGES OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR , SEPTEMBER 25, 1896 GOVERNOR GENERAL - The town council, learning that Lord and Lady Aberdeen would pass Seaforth on their way to Goderich on Wednesday, very thoughtful- ly decided to take steps to intercept them here and pre- sent them with an address, thus allowing the citizens an opportunity to show their love and respect for Her Majesty by doing honour to her representative in this country, and at thc same time affording an opportunity to sec the Governor-General and his gifted wife. Arrangements were made for the train conveying the distinguished visitors to remain here for 15 minutes. When the train stopped, Mr. and Mrs. D.D. Wilson, who had been previously 'acquainted with Lord and Lady Aberdeen, met them at their car door and escorted them to the platform where they were received by Mayor Grey and the members of town council. The town band played a welcoming air. Thc clergy- men of the town, a large number of ladies and many other citizens were also on the platform. Mayor Grey read an address of welcome and presented it to Lord Aberdeen. He made a suit- .nle reply, speaking for about In the Years Agotie�] 10 minutes. He is a pleasing s}?eaker and while thanking the people for their hearty welcome, expressed the very great pleasure it afforded himself and Lady Aberdeen to meet so many and to observe the evidences of comfort and prosperity which were manifest on all sides. * * * SEPTEMBER 23, 1921 (Sorry, there is no copy of this edition of The Huron Expositor on microfilm). SEPTEMBER 27, 1946 Increased entries in every department and a record attendance featured Scaforth Fall Fair on Thursday and Friday. The Fair was official- ly opened on Friday by J.A. Carroll, Superintendent of Fairs. J.M. Govenlock, presi- dent of thc Agricultural Society, and W. H. Golding, M.P., also spoke briefly. The ceremony which took place before the grandstand, fol- lowed a parade of school children. McKILLOP NEWS - Mr. Arthur Sullivan left last week for England where he will join his wife and family. Rev. W.A. McWilliams and Mrs. McWilliams, of Cromarty, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eggert on Sunday. Miss Audrey Kennedy left on Tuesday for Galt where she has secured employment. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Koehler visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Steinacher at Stratford. JURY ACQUITS WOMAN OF MURDER - Mrs. Ella Martha Rose was acquitted of the charge of murder at the fall assizes of the Supreme Court of Ontario at Goderich Tuesday night. The jury brought in the verdict of "not guilty" after deliberating for over two hours. Mrs. Rose was charged with the murder of her 17 - day -old baby, Sheila Rose, on or about May 25, 1946. Mr. Justice G.A. Urquhart was presiding, while Crown Attorney D.E. Holmes was special Crown prosecutor, and F.R. Darrow was counsel for Mrs. Rose. Members of the petit jury that tried the case were: Robert Purvis, farmer, RR 2 Lucknow; Harold Adams, farmer, Londesboro; Thomas Appleby, farmer, RR 2 Seaforth; Samuel Appleby, Blyth; Graham Arthur, garage operator, Exeter; W.C. Bennett, merchant, Walton; Garnet Cummings, laborer, Wingham; William Dodds, farmer, RR 1 Seaforth; Arthur Haugh, farmer. Dashwood; Harvey Hunking, farmer, RR 1 Auburn; Rod McDonald, farmer. Dungannon; Solomon Shannon, farmer. RR I Scaforth. SEPTEMBER 30, 1971 Preparation of a master plan to suggest the increased ser- vice which Seaforth Community Hospital may offer the district it serves has been approved by the Ontario Hospital Services Commission. Cost of the study is estimated at $6,00( of which the commission pays two-thirds. Thc study will include a review of recommendations contained in the role study as they affect , Seaforth Community Hospital and consider thc effects that may flow from changes in service to be offered in Clinton and Mitchell. * * * St. Columban blanked the London German Canadians 5-0 in a London and District Soccer League Ist Division game played in Scaforth on Saturday. St. Columban came up with one of their hest gamcs of the season as they controlled play throughout the game, giving thc German team little chance of mount- ing any serious offensive' threats.