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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1997-07-23, Page 44-TIOR HURON IMPOSITOS, Jody Si. 111107 SS185CRIPTION ism. LOCAL • 32.50 o year, in , .--tQa1 - 30 00 o r, in advance, phos 2.28 G.S T. Sl.SA d fareion year, advance, plus 2.10 G.S T. Sl18SCRIPTION R 8 4 a yew u, advance, plus 578.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt Published weekly by Signal -5)w Publishing at 100 Main St., Swtorfh moil registration No 0696 held at Seaforth, Ontario Kaon" condition that in tate event of a Adver• sing isaccepted on by the erroneous item, typographical ooreasosl error, the advefor signature, ur occupied be charged, but the 1 of with o reasonable allowanceb.pro, for 111«rill not balance the advertisement will be paid for o1 the applicable rate In the event of o typographical error, advertising goods or services of o wrl nnggd Ce, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely on offer b selmay be withdrawn at ony time The Huron Expositor is not responsible for the loss or damage of unsolicited manuscripts, photos or other materials used for reproduction purposes. Changes d address, orders for subscriptions and undeliv- erable mpves ore b be sent to The Huron Expositor WWn�adav JutY 23 1pp7 Editorial and business Offices • 100 Main SIreet.,Seaforth Telephone (5191 527-0240 Fax (5191 527-2838 Mailing Address - P.O. Box 69, Similar*, Ontario, NOK IWO 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 Expositorreserves the right to edit letters 4o the editor or to refuse publication. Share your opinion with us We know there are opinions here in Seaforth and area on almost every conceivable topic. We hear them when we're downtown shopping or talking with friends and neighbours. Don't be afraid to share your view with others. Put your thoughts down on paper and send us a letter. Likely there are many who feel the same way you do. Whether it's praise or criticism or just plain observation we'd like to hear from you. Remember, all letters to the editor must be signed and include a day -time phone number. Thanks for sharing! - DWS Letters to the Editor Station drapes closed for reasons of officer safety Dear Editor: secured day or night, most Shame shame aux have dark bullet -resistant Mingo without prejudice. glass. Did it ever occur to For over 31 years I had to your concerned citizens there refrain from replying to what are reasons for these precau- I refer to as petty complaints tions? against the police or their ser- To be honest Mr. Mayor it vice. But now that i have retired appears to me that the only concerns these citizens have my "gag orders are no more." is their vision is blocked and And I feel I must take pen to they cannot view who is in hand. the OPP office. This, in my I am referring to your Expositor July 16, 1997 issue opinion prevents the start of the gossip's tongue. under the heading "Closed drapes bother Mayor:' Mr. Mayor, if my memory Well, Mr. Mayor, why serves me correctly these would you not advise the so- concerns of the drapes being called concerned citizens, or closed were answered by the should we say nosy gossips, OPP shortly after they took that these drapes are closed over police duties of the for reasons of officer safety. town. We do not live in an arca free In conclusion leave matters of criminal elements. Drive- of police security to them. I by shootings happen in small would much rather see a front communities or have you all page heading "Closed stores forgotten what occurred and lack of employment south of town. These types of ' bothers Mayor." offences happen in daylight Thank you for your time. hours. J.R. MacLeod Police Senior Constable OPP retired offices are all Research request for Amy Dear Editor: 1 am hoping that one your readers may be able help me with the followin biographical rcscarch reques I am interested in contactin any friends or relatives o William Lacey Amy, Canadian writer and autho •active in the first half of chi century. He was born i Sydenham, _ in easter Ontario, circa 1875. in th late 1890s he attended Victoria University in Toronto, and was a wa reporter during the First World War. He was .the brother of Dr. William B. Amy, a prominent Toronto dentist, and of sisters Sadie and Jettie Amy. He was married twice; first to a woman whose name I do.not know, but whose father was a lawyer, W.L. Payne, K.C. His second wife was Mrs. Roslea Burton. Prom the early 1920* until 1954 he wrote a number of of books, many with a western to theme, and many under the g pen name "Luke Allan." At t. various time during his life g he lived in the United States f and Europe, but from 1942 a until his death he lived in r Toronto and its suburbs. He s also travelled extensively, n and spent time in St. n Petersburg, Florida, where he e met his second wife in 1951, and where he died in November 1962. r I would be most interested to hear from anyone who may have known Mr. Amy In any capacity, whether as a friend or relative, neighbour or colleague. I can be reached at (613) 235-1370, by e-mail at: ag737 ® freenet.earleton.ea, or c% P.O. Box fig,North West River, Labrador AOP 1MO. was* L mums McClaren got things done for education Before I really [ol to know Don McLaren I thought he was vain, with a tinge of arrogance. That was my impression on first meeting him. I think a lot of others thought the same...until they found what really drove him and made him an achiever. He was a brilliant sociolo- gist who joined Air Canada in 1960 and brought with him a passion t0 change the face of education in Canada. For the Canadian Flag Airline was finding out the hard way that it had to educate and re- educate employees hired from Canadian schools. Although its business was flying, Air Canada in the early 1960's found it was turning into a facility where teaching was becoming a big part of their business... and the same was happening at Bell, Northern Electric, IBM and other companies. As well as an absence of national coordination of edu- cation in Canada they saw out-of-date courses, an out - of -step curriculum and teach- ing techniques that had not changed in decades. They saw antiquated management in schools and little or no research. Simply put, many business leaders believed that Canada's largest industry and most crucial public institu- tion, education, was not ready or able to provide an educated work force to give Canadian industry the com- petitive edge that was vital, as it entered the last half of the rapidly changing 20th century. Because of this, Air Canada, in 1962, set out to change the attitude of stu- dents towards the work world they faced and what the future held for them. Someone had to tell them, and their teachers, that what they were Teaming might not be enough for the world they would be entering. To the great credit of Air Canada and its then vice- president Claude Taylor, who was Don's boss, McLaren was turned loose to lead the charge in the crusade for change. Meetings were arranged in different parts of the United States to pick up ideas, because data processing and computers were beginning to change the way things were done. Education was being court- wrcfW UED on page . ed by television and vice versa and the magic of elec- tronics and related sciences with rockets and satellites foretold of a much different future, needing a much dif- ferent work force. It was McLaren's pushing and persuading that got edu- cation officials out of their offices to pick the brains of the world looking for answers and Air Canada was always helpful with travel arrangements. With the�zeal of a crusading evangelist; McLaren stood before audiences from Montreal to Vancouver, preaching the need for change. His speeches and the papers he. produced painted a bleak picture for Canada if the technicians and the indus- trial scientists and engineers required in the decades ahead were not there. McLaren brought a number of industrial leaders together in Montreal who pressed for a national office or clearing house so there could be coor- CONTINUED on page 5 Outer space explored and explained It's a very exciting period It's very exciting period rp anetary explora what with spacecrafts Mi Pathfinder and Columbia out there researching, reconnoitering and relayin messages back to earth. However for people who are not armchair astronauts and amateur astronomists, all this stuff can be very confusing. As an expert in outer space, allow me to explain what's really going on here. And there. - Like earth, Mars is another planet and more important because it's always Capitalized. The moon, our moon, the one man has already walked on is not a planet but a companion satellite to earth. The earth and moon are commonly regarded as a double planet. A double moon on the other hand, - might be two kids up north, standing on a hill with their pants down and their backs to the Girl Guide Camp across the lake. Astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon while Mars, as you know is the birthplace of moonwalker for ince 1 tion Some years ago we began r, sending women into space all which accounts for that unfortunate car accident a couple of weeks ago involving the space station Mir. Mir is now a disabled and powerless ship floating aimlessly in a vacuum. It's Russian, hence the name Mir. If it was one of ours we'd call it the Reform Party of Canada. - Last week yet another craft was launched into space to dock with Mir and it is carrying emergency supplies to help eliminate that mysterious cloud of white flakes that has suddenly surrounded the space station. The name of this ship is Progress and its payload is the largest tube of Head and Shoulders ever sent into outer space. hal The two Russian astronauts If t William Thomas 8 Michael Jackson. At the end of the movie of Independence Day, the president of the United States climbs into a fighter jet and goes off into space to kill the aliens while in the real wort President Bill Clinton would" love to strap himself to the side of the next rocket headed for Mars so as to avoid giving testimony in the Paula Jones case. • ahead of these two astronauts, when they try to return to Russia. Having sold off their landing pad, the Russians are frantically manufacturing a really thick foam mattress that fits on the back of a flatbed truck. Now the planet Mars is way, way past the moon, and then you hang a left. The distance between the earth and Mars varies between 35 million and 63 million miles depending on orbit rotations. This distance is so great even the most sophisticated telecommunications system has an 11 -minute delay in transmission and so great only Greyhound Air is offering three flights daily with a double air mile bonus for card members. Mars is important because NASA engineers believe it ds water and ice reserves. here's water, there is likely aboard Mir will soon be required to perform a very tricky and dangerous manoeuvre in the pit of Mir in order to restore power and oxygen supplies. With the Russian space program out of money the trickiest and most dangerous manoeuvre is yet UE life and if -there is ice, Gary Bettman will likely award Mars a National League Hockey franchise. Mars already has the three basic requirements to obtain an NHL team - plenty of parking, the ultimate in sky CONTINUED on page 5 Four Murray brothers have same bi h FROM THE PAGES OF FROM THE OF THE HURON EXPOSITOR JULY 30, 1897 GOOD HEIFERS - Mr. George Murdie, of McKillop, recently sold to Mr. Elliot, of Kingston, for shipment, a car load, 20 head, of heifers, two and three years old, which are generally admitted to be as good as any that were ever shipped from Seaforth sta- tion. A heifer 2 years and 4 months old, which took first prize at the Seaforth show last fall, weighed 1,300 lbs., and the lot averaged 1,213 lbs. each. These are the. kind of cattle that our farmers should strive to raise. A WINNING STREAK - The Star baseball team have struck a winning streak. On Friday afternoon last Mitchell played the return match here on the recreation grounds when the Stars pulled out ahead by a score of 22 to 20. For the first two or three innings the score was pretty even, but with the aid of some wild guesses on the part of the umpire in the next innings or so, Mitchell obtained a good lead. After this the Stars pulled them- selves together, and by steady play turned a Mitchell lead of ten into a lead for themselves of tow, eight of them being piled up In O6e inning. In the last three innings Mitchell were shut out with,. ' out a run and not one of their men even got to third b was at the first. He's a g one and we will have to ha onto him. The prettiest hit the day was made in the fi innings, when Hayd Williams knocked the ba over the south field fence. JULY 21, 1922 Two Seaforth Old Boys - always affords pleasure t announce the return of ol Seaforth boys, especially i they have made good in for eign fields. Yesterday we ha the pleasure of renewing ol acquaintance with the, tw Crawford boys, who lived here in the early '80s. The brothers were among the firs of the wild oats crowd to come down from "the hen roost" in the old town hall on ood poker behind a lumber pile ng near the Broadfoot and Box of fumiture factory, and through rst curiosity they stopped thc en game and listened, resulting 11 in thc Crawford boys' con- version, while the other two boys continued their gam - It bling propensities and were o afterward shot in a gambling d house in Galveston, Texas. f "The wages of sin is death." JULY 25, 1947 d "It's just as if you had lost d your home," was the reaction o of Alfred Copland, Seaforth poultry farmer, as he heard of the loss this week of t t Hudson Bay supply sh Nascopic. Mr. Copland, retired from the Hudson B Company in 1942 to join t DCAF was Northern Arc perintendent of the comp and responsible for t eration of its northe sts. he sturdy Hudson's Ba mosey steamer is reporte be a total Toss and will ndoned to the treacherou rrents of the strait, but th tfty aboard are "safe and well," despite the loss of all their belongings, at a trading post at'Cape Dorset, on the barren southern tip of Baffin Island. - During his years in the Arctic he took four through trips on the doomed ship, Market Street and join the Salvation Army and have su maintained their connection ny with the good work of the op Army for over forty years. Mr. Harper (Chummy) pT Crawford is an Army Colonel . Co and resides in California and to Andrew Crawford is an aba Army Major and in charge of cu the social service work in f' Detroit. They were accompa- nied by their families, and during their stay in Seaforth were the guests of Mr. John McLennan, of the Public orks Department. As an ustration of the parting of e way between good and i1, it may be mentioned at time the Salvation fired first religious ahot in the Crawford boys, 1923. In 1937 when the Fort James suffered a similiar fate, it was Mr. Copland who organized the flow of materi- als into the north country to prevent starvation of thc per- sonnel at the Arctic outposts who depended on the sup- plies it carried. The late Lord Tweedsmuir, then Governor- General of Canada, visited the Arctic shortly after this occurrence, and when he viewed the mass of supplies lying on the beach at Tuktoyktuk, the company's coastal transshipment point, queried Mr. Copland who was accompanying him, as to how thc material would ever by sorted and moved. he Mr. Copeland recalled that i the "Nascopic" was the cast - w6 em link in the first successful ay running of thc northwest pas - he sage. On this occasion the rt rthday tic Va a - he Pli rn Na fro Th be ye s Mu is otor schooner Aklavik from ncouver transferred sup- cs which it carried to the scopic, which had come m Montreal. AUGUST 3, 1972 e most popular day in the ar as far as members of the rray family are concerned my 23rd. That is the day on which four brothers, sons of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Murray of McKillop were born. To celebrate the event, three of the four brothers, Leo Murray, St. Columban; Steve Murray, McKillop and Matt Murray gathered at the !Hop residence of Mr, Mrs. Matt Murray her with other members e family. The fourth r Joseph, also born on 23rd, died in 1945. ceptioir of a few With the ex ill errors, which can be account- ed for by lack of penetiee, the boys played good• ball. McCarney pitched the full nine ingin to :#0401NOIM ;01010-11.40 th ev the its Seaforth With tor° oh,. v* i? q % besides.count/es: short trips McK and was familiar with the ter- and ritory through which it togeit passed. It was as a pastier of th OA 010 N that he, taro weed *OW tr of tidy 3;