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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-05-28, Page 44 -Tea MYRON altPOSITOR, M 1517 A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper tticsp TION--, imu LOCAL - 32 50 oyear, m 30.00 o year, in advance, advance, plus 2 28 G S T USA S Faaon 28.44 o plus 2 10 G S T SUBSC TPRI ION R� .4 year m fiance, plus 578 00 postage, G. S T. exempt Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing at 100 Main St , moil registration No. 0696 hold at Seotorsh Seat° is Publication o condition that in the _ Ontario. Advertising is accepted on by the erroneous iters of a typographical error, the advertising space occupied be charged, but tha e of with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not rare rn ted eventt balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable itypogrophicol error, advertising goods or services of o sell) and prce, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer b may be withdrawn at any time. The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materiels used for reproduction purposes. Changes of address, orders la subs, iptions and undeliv- erable copes ore b be sent to The Huron Expositor Wsdnssdav May 28 1997 Editorial and Business Offices - 100 Main StrsN.,Seafalh 15191527-0240 Fax 15191527.2858 Address • P.O. Box 69, Ssafodh, Ontario, NOK 1 oro Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontorio 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 the right to edit letters to the editor or to refuse publication. Editoria Seaforth links to famous d . Harold The nameGraham is likely not known by many in Seaforth - but Harold is quite familiar with the town and surrounding area. To some the murder of Lynne Harper will be remem- bered for although she was from Clinton and the court Proceedings were held in Goderich, her body was found part way between Seaforth and the RCAF radar base at Clinton. For others who were not then living in Canada or were not yet born, the name Stephen Truscott may mean little or nothing. Although the judge ruled that court pro- ceedings could not be report- eu in the press until the ver- dict was in, millions of words were written in papers and magazines from coast to coast in Canada. It was big news as well in papers in United States and around th world. And was followed by books by distinguished writ ers such as Isabel Lebourdal and William Trent. The Truscott story is now part of Canadian history. Paroled about 30 years ago from Collins Bay Penitentiary, he had been charged and convicted 10 years earlier for the murder of the 1 2 -year-old Harper girl. After the jury foreman read out the verdict, "guilty with a plea for mercy," the presiding judge, Mr. Justice Ferguson said... "The sentence of this Guest Column by Clare Westcott ur . ur er cases to rather lurid and graphic seen again. She was gone - evidence. Remember this was disappeared. Themurder still the 1950s when even the apparently took place at word 'sex' was spoken with Johnson Harbour in Brace some uneasiness and dim- County and at his trial dem' Kendall was convicted and A month before the hanging sentenced to Kingston was to take place the federal Penitentiary. cabinet reduced Truscott's sentence to life imprison_ found.e body *ever been ment. The prosecuting attorne for the Crown was Glenn Hays, a Seaforth boy - an the investigating officer i charge of the case was CI inspector Harold Graham he OPP. Graham was one of the t omicide investigators in ountry, in fact he was the rst police officer in Cana o get a murder conviction ithout a body...and this t Imagine the surprise when y the Seaforth Clinic staff saw his picture in t aper. "My d God, that's the tet we n chatted with whi e he waited B to see Dr. McMaster." of Inspector Graham's record as a police officer moved him op to the top and in the early the 1970s he was named Chief Commissioner of the Ontario da Provincial Police. Oh yes, and he kindly dis- patched the new OPP twin jet helicopter to Seaforth in 1975 for the town's centennial cel- ebration. It landed at the fair- grounds and took the mayor for a ride to view his town from the air. But there's more...Arthur Kendall was allowed out of Kingston Penitentiary on a day pass in the 1960s and he walked downtown. And he has never been seen again. He kept on walking and some say he and Beatrice are in Vancouver. There was a ve some years ago to find and bring him back but ario's Chief Crown mey decided it would too much money. d more...Fate does funny CONTINUED on page 5 SEAFORTH PAPER BOYS - This photo, submitted by Clare Westcott, shows some Seaforth paper boys in the late 1930s. Westcott first delivered the London Free Press in town in the mid -1930s. From left: Art Fraser, who was killed in W.W. II, next is Clare Westcott, then Joe Smith, who went to the U.S. during the war and later became a member of the Cleveland police force. On the right is Jack "Bub" Elliott, who is now living in a Stratford nursing home following a stroke. The four started school together and stayed together until about Grade 10. Westcott ended up going to Toronto in 1950 and • working 'at the Telegram, court upon you is that you be taken from here to the place h from whence you came and c there will be kept in close fi confinement until Tuesday the eighth day of December, W tree 9 and upon that day and h date you he taken to the place S of executi and that you e there be ed by the neck th until you re dead, and may - the Lord have mercy on your D s soul." CI It is difficult today to pic- fiv ture a 14 -year-old boy in a kn courtroom being asked to pr stand and listen while a judge mo tells him he is going to hang...until he is dead. you Although I was living in the Toronto I was a bit concerned don in the weeks before the trial • for my mother was chosen to be on the jury panel. However a decision was made not to have women jurors - apparently it was feared they would be exposed ad a slight but interesting eaforth connection. A man from Monkton by e name of Arthur Kendall as a 'sometime' patient of r. McMaster at the Seaforth Inic. He was married with e children and apparently ew the doctor when he acticed in Ethel before ving to Seaforth. arly one morning the ng Kendall children heard it mother should, "Arthur, 't," from the bedroom. Evidence later in court showed that Kendall had a him im girlfriend by the name of Ont Beatrice whose husband was Atto a sailor on the Great Lakes cost and was seldom home. Mrs. Kendall was never An Expositor on-line The Huron Expositor has entered cyberspace. For awhile, about six months, we've had electronic mail (E-mail) but now, along with all the other papers in the Bowes chain across Canada, we now have our own web page. Readers with Internet access can now visit us at: www.bowesnet.com/expositor/ Each week we post five new stories, from our regular news- paper, for web browsers to read. We also feature one digital photo for a little graphic enhancement to our site. For those who want to send us an E-mail - maybe a letter to the editor, a press release or just a note to say hello, our e-mail address is: huronexp@odyssey.on.ca (Please remember if you're sending a letter to the editor to include'your name and a day -time phone number where you can be reached. Another addition to our news -gathering equipment is a new digital camera. For those unfamiliar with these new high-tech devices, they allow you to take a picture and virtually see it on your computer screen just minutes later. There's no processing or darkroom time or messy, toxic chemicals. The image is downloaded onto your computer where alterations can be made to the photo to make it more "printable" - ie. brighten- ing faces, getting rid of shadows, etc. - some of which was possible in the "old" darkroom. (Please bear with us in these first few weeks as we work through the bugs). Presently we're using both "regular" 35 -mm cameras and the "space camera," as it's been dubbed. There, of course, are a lot computer program for the new camerare l that canures tru available y "aonlter" erth" the images taken, including the ability to move people's heads or body parts, to erase blemishes, to erase backgrounds, to dis- tort the shape of just about anything - in short, to change reali- ty. For someone with a diabolical mind, this could lead to frightening things in the publishing world. For our purposes, we will practice responsible newspaper ethics when "altering" images. All these changes could be just the first steps in a total revo- lution of the newspaper industry. There arc arguments on both sides of the question of whether newspapers as we now know them will exist in the next century. Who knows what the future will bring. One advantage of reading the Expositor on the web though, is you won't get any ink on your fingers. - DWS Letters to the Editor Editor 'almost' said something unkind about city of Sarnia Dear Editor: wouldn't want Joan Muir Watch it Dave! You almost Bissonnettc on your case, said something unkind about would you? Sarnia, a city near and dear to the hearts of many of us. You Jean Ross Porcupine reunion - ugust Dear Editor: The Golden Avenue/Broadway Public Schools Reunion '97 Committee would greatly t- appreciate former ystudentour s of thein se two schools located in South Porcupine, Ontario. These schools have been in operation since 1911 and all former students from either school who may have attend in South Porcupine. For more information, or to provide names and mailing addresses of formcr students, please contact: Will Saari, Golden Avenue/Broadway Public Schools Reunion and Committee, P.O. Box 2049, ago South Porcupine, On. PON oro 1HO. (705) 264-0811; (705) Mwo r. 267-6222 fax; internet e-mail saariw@vianet.on.ca. alw ed from 191 I to 1997 are ter our assistance in this mat- acti invited to attend, s greatly appreciated. yea Festivities are scheduled to SincereWregards t Lo take place August 1-3, 1997, Public Relations tOfficer ll Saari the with Council keeps police p p ice Investigation secret' % PAGES OF in / 2, FROM THE THE HURON EXPOSITOR JUNE 11, 1897 AN OLD RESIDENT - Mr. Edward Cash, of this tow who is one of the oldest ness men in the county, who is still hale and he and in harness, can mak boast which but few can He has lived under four m archs. He remembers d tinctly of the coronation Queen Victoria, wh Diamond Jubilee will be c cbrated in a few days; a the repeal of the corn la the abolition of slavery in t British Dominions; the Iri Disestablishment bill; t Reform bill; the Indi mutiny; the Crimcan war a other stirring events whi have long since become hi torical. There are several of crs in town also, who ar older than he and who ar till hale and hearty. Amon he number arc Mr. Joh endcrson and Mr. Fran cott. We hope to have al hese worthy men long with 5. JUNE 2, 1922 QUICK WORK - On uesday morning last Mr. E. Hays left Seaforth on the orning train, reaching ronto shortly after ten. om there he went to the ion Stock Yards where he -based a load of stockers, by noon was on the train in for home. That is quick rk for any man, and most uld think it a big day. To Hays, however, who has ays been a man of quick on, and who is only 82 rs young, it was simply an in the day's work. cal Briefs - Seaforth is only town in the county out olted streets. - r r. busi- Jack Pringle, of Milwaukee, and spent a couple of days last arty week at the home of his e a grandmother, Mrs. J.H. do. Broadfoot. - Mr. J.O. Rose, on- city treasurer of Guelph, and IS- a formcr well known - of Scaforthite, spent the week ase end at the home of Mr. and Igo Mrs. John Beattie. - Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart, of ws; Winnipeg, are visiting at the he home of Mrs. Stewart's sh mother, Mrs. S. Wallace, he Silver Creek. - The Seaforth an Highlanders Band, under the F nd leadership 6f Mr. W. S ch Freeman, gave their first con- n s- cert in th Park on Thursday m h- evening, June 1st. On Wednesday at Convocation Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton, the 1947 class of Hamilton School of Nursing took the Florence Nightingale Pledge. The class of '47 - 97 nurses - is the largest yet to graduate, and included Marguerite Westcott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Westcott, Scaforth. * * * Following an acute heart stack late Monday night, red S. Savauge, one of eaforth's prominent busi- essmen, died early Friday orning. From the time he me to Scaforth fr oronto in 1910, he too ry active part in the bu ss and church Iifc of mmunity, and his influc s felt in every circle ich he moved. His chee ile and ready jokes will ssed on Main Street whe was respected and like s H S u T T. m To Fr Un ca fC DUBLINNEWS4-'After ve n spending the past nine 'IC k months in Scotland playing co I hockey for the Fife Flyers wa and Kirkcaldy, in the Scottish wh Ice Hockey Association am League, Harry O'Connor, mi youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. he D.J. O'Connor, Hibbert all, Township, returned home on Saturday. His team won the W Airle Trophy and Harry fin- lap ished seventh in the scoring Ang schedule, winning 64 goals wen investigated by Provincial Officer J.W. Cuip. JUNE 15, 1972 Seaforth council decided Monday night not to release a report which had been received from the Ontario Police Commission. The report came as a result of a request by council to investi- gate the Seaforth Police Department. Decision to seek the inves- tigation resulted from a request advanced early in May by a group of ratepayers who originally had asked that a public enquiry be held fol- lowing the resignation of Constable Keith Ruston. Mayor Frank Sills asked the press to leave after a motion to go into committee of the om tea whole had been approved by si- council. the In the discussion before the vote was taken, Councillor nce George Hildebrand stated he to thought the press should not be excluded and that the bereport should be published in re its entirety. byy h, * * * hen a front spring co sed, a truck driven b elo Phillips, Seafort t out of control on No. 4 hway, south of Hensall, Friday and somersaulted , spilling its load of fruit the highway. Mr. Ips received bruises and ere Shaking up. imilar accident occurred mile, west of Seaforth o same day, when a owned by Haase Mill, hrop, turned over, g • load of in over and 23 assists, He states that Hig Canadian hockey rules are on used, though the Scottish twice League schedule is entirely over different to that of Canada, Phil' All teams and players took a sev part in the Etta, tttr;tr ey history, but when he twos Association came across with on th more money, they all wont truck back and played as if nothing Wint had happened, apillin ggrraa the road. The accident was * * * It was later decided that the report would not be made available to the press in whole or in part. Mayor Sills said Tuesday the report in the main dealt only with personal matters and reviewed discussions which the investigators had had with council and others involved. As a hesult he said it contained only information of which council already had knowledge. He said the only recom- mendations had to do with administrative procedures and the provision of addition- al reports.