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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-01-07, Page 44—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January, 7, 1098 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 TERRI-LYNN DALE - General Manager & Advertising Manager CARRY DALRYMPLE - Sales PAT ARMES - Office Manager DIANNE McGRATH - Subscriptions & Classifieds )ACKIE FITTON - Editor GREGOR CAMPBELL, • Reporter BARB STOREY - distribution A Bowes Publishers Communiiy Newspaper UBSCRIPTION RATES LOCAL - 32 50 o year, in advance, plus 2.28 G.S.T. SENIORS - 30 00 a year, in advance, plus 210 G.5.T. USA & Foreign 28 44 o year in advance, plus $78.00 postage, G.S.T. exempt ,SUBSCRIPTION RATES Published weekly by Signal -Scor Publishing of 100 Main Sr, Sealorth. Publication moil registration No 0696 held of Seolerth, Ontario. 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Through the efforts of VON Canada, contracts .have been signed to provide Wellness Clinics for several stores and independant 'pharmacies across Canada. VON Perth -Huron works with local pharmacies to pro- mote healthier lifestyles. Local VON are offering. Wellness Clinics on a variety of educational health related topics. M present, a VON nurse is enrolled in the Continence Advisor Program. She assists individuals in learning about today's choices for optimal continence care and how to take an active part in their own care. VON Continence Management Services includes rehabilitative care and treatment within the home, long term care facili- ties orretirement homes. Thc related Business - Ventures compliment.the pre- sent health and support ser- vices to offer a full -.range of in-home and community ser- vices to all ages from infants to thc elderly. The Perth - Huron Branch is working with the changes in health care to provide another 'Century of Caring' for the residents of Perth and Huron Counties. Upstaging Prime Minister The intercom buzzed, it was Miss Anderson. "The Premier wants to see you"... "and he said wear a tie". In the 70's & 80's 1 seldom wore a tie in my office but one hung behind the door easy to reach on my way out...and by the time I made the ninety odd feet to the cor- ner office it was on, straight and held firm the buttoned - down collar. "I thought you should wear a tie," Mr. Davis said, as he put a match to his pipe. I was a bit puzzled for we were alone and the tie was never required when just the two of us met in his office. He stood up and continued, "You are going to have to practice a bit more formality"...and just as I thought I was about to get reprimanded for my casual dress,".I heard, "If you go to Rome next month," those few words brought on a string of events that matched the antics of the Keystone Cops. Cardinal Luciani of Venice had been chosen to succeed Pope Paul VI and the cere- mony was to be at St. Peters in Rome. He took the name John Paul I...an 1 was picked to go. Frank Drea and I had been chosen by cabinet to repre- sent Ontario on the official Canadian delegation. Ottawa requested two names from each province. There was no disputing the choice of Frank for he was Catholic. In my case 1 was never really sure. Maybe it was the sum of all my -deeds for I married a Catholic and had 9 kids. As well, I worked in Italy for a while in the early 1960's and received a medal from Pope Paul. However I was a Protestant and in the 1930's and early 1940's I played the drum in many orange lodge parades. Our protocol office began working on the details. i was told we were to fly to Rome with the Canadian delegation. The National Defense aircraft would leave Ottawa the day prior and return 2 days after the event. The first glitch came as Frank was leaving for the far north to visit courts and jails in the settle- ments along the shore of James Bay, we realized that he would not arrive back in Toronto until the afternoon of the day we were to leave. He had not arranged to get the 'j)roper clothes and protocol dictated formal attire for the affair went a bit beyond your run-of-the-mill tuxedo. Although it was a solemn religious ceremony it would have all the trappings of a Coronation or a presidential Inauguration. . Attending would be princes and princesses and other roy- alty along with prime minis- ters, presidents and the odd dictator. Not to won -y - with the help of Mrs. Drea one of Frank's Sunday suits found its way to Sid Silver and the correct measurements were taken. Aftcr factoring in his height and weight a master- piece was produced rivaling the threads of King Farouk. The second glitch was a hig one. A call from Ontario pro- tocol chief Walter Borosa told me there had been some kindof screw -up and Franlf and I failed to make the ros- ter. Although the names of others from Ontario were on the aircraftmanifest, ours was not. "Don't worry," Walter said "I'll sort it out and get back to you." He called back later to say the protocol office in Ottawa was told to delete our names from the official dele- gation. He did not know why but the list Was final and complete and we were not on it. Thcrc were still four days before we were to leave. It wouldn't he the end of the world for me for I had seen a lot of Italy over the , years...But 1 didn't appreciate being zapped from.the list by some Ottawa bureaucrat. Ivan Head was a friend and one of the Prime Minister's most trusted aides. I called him and he assured me it was likely just some minor slip- up and he would sort it out and get back to me. "Anyway Clare" he said " I'll be seeing Mr. Trudeau at Harrington Lake this evening and I'll speak to him about it". 1 felt good again for I had not been able to reach Frank to tell him we had been bounced, for he was travel- ling through remote areas in the far north. As I came in from lunch the next day my secretary said there was a telephone message on my desk from Ivan's secretary. It said simply that Mr. Head had to go to New York unex- pectedly and she was to pass his message on tome. It read "Sorry there is nothing I can do." She told my secretary that Jimmy Coutts, Trudeau's assistant was responsible for vetting the list and it was he no doubt who scrubbed us. It's fascinating to come in contact with Irish wit and humour...and Irish anger. Being born and raised close to Dublin, in that triangle of land in the middle of Western Ontario where so many Irish settled in the mid I 800's gave me an appreciation of their charm and mettle. 1 was further apprised of Irish cus- tom and practice by marriage. The ancestors of my father- in-law, Francis Daniel McNamara, in the 1860's, settled not far from the noto- rious Donnelly clan in Biddulph Township near Lucan. I mention this for i thought my background and experi- ence•might hettcr help me deal with Frank and his Irish temper when I gave him the news that we were bounced , from the delegation. I tigu'red he would be quite angry, however, i was surprised. His calm resolve for revenge rather than fighting about it I thought was a wise choice. "We arc going to Rome if we have to swim all the way" he said, adding "get us on Alitalia so we arrive 'before they do", "and call my wife to make sure my driver will have everything at the airport in plenty of time." Clearly, Ottawa's Mandarins had not heard the last of corrections minister, the honouarhle Frank Drca. , I had already talked to Tony Santamaura, head of the Ontario Government office in Milan - an office I helped set up over a decade earlier. He would meet us at the airport in Rome and arrange for hotel reservations. Tony was amused when 1 told him of our snub bywawa and that one way oi�he other we intended to be in St. Peter's Square for the crowning of John Paul I, we heard that Prime Minister Trudeau was throwing a party the night before at the home of the Canadian Ambassador which we also hoped to crash. Frank arrived at the airport from thc north - we boarded Alitalia and Tony met us in Rome. We checked into the hotel to lay out our plans for the next three days. A few hours later the Quebec dele- gation checked in having arrived with the others off the Armed Forces "official" plane. Before we left Toronto a colleague in the Premier's office gave me the name of a close friend who was first kecretary in the Embassy in Rome. That is all we had: But we parlayed it into a bonan- za. I called and he was very obliging, of course he did not know that we had been dumped from the official party. When he said, "I'II see you at the Ambassador's house tonight," I lied and said "The Minister forgot to bring our invitations," "Don't worry," he said, "Come any- way and I'll leave word at the gate to let you in." ' In the meantime resourceful Tony Santamaura had rented a hig black Fiat limo, for we had to look important. It was all shined up and reeked of class. We didn't look at all out of place driving into the Ambassador's residence. The reception was an outside , affair ion the spacious grounds. The first familiar thing I spotted was the hig , Stetson 'on top of the Minister of Agriculture, Eugene Whalen. Frank was in his glory...as was 1. Free drinks and revenge. Frank could not resist sauntering up to the Prime Minister 'with his "Glad Ta See Ya Pierre," sounding just 'like Phil Silvers. Thcrc were cabinet ministers everywhere. We left early to work out how we could crash tomorrow's gala. , The new Pope was to he installed outside on the large' landing at the top of the wide stone. steps leading up to Si. Peter's in front of the mas- sive front doors. A throne type structure was built fac- Continued on page 5. From the archives of 1870: Bodyfound at Walton Editor s Note: This follow- panes in the windows were Issued his warrant for the irs, unedited account of c broken, and the sash bloody; burial of the body in the strange death in Walton and almost at the same glance mean time. In the Years Agone appeared on page 5 of the observed a man lying along- THE POPULAR Marc!, 4, 1870 edition of The side of the church. He, THEORY OF THE CASE Huron Expositor. Witness, upon having his attention called to those facts. From the evidence adduced, gave the reins to the lad, and other circumstances, the alluded to, and went up to the theory of the case, obtaining man, whom he found to be general consent, is that the lying on his face, with his deceased got behind on the hands under him, and his hat road, and being drunk, or par - close by. Turned him over, tially so, mistook the church and found him to he dead; for a hotel, or other dwelling whereupon hc notified Mr. house, and endeavored, in his Crawford of the matter.• stupefied state, to obtain George Brooks, sworn. Was admittance by breaking the employed as ostler by Mr. windows, after having, per - Sage. On the night previous, haps, tried the door, which Mr. Carnegie, cattle drover, accounts for the broken glass, came there with a lot of cattle the blood stained windows, to stop for the night. Mr. and cut wrists. Failing in his Davies, another drover, came attempts, and exhausted by with him, but hc put his cattle his labor, he unconsciously up, and stayed himself, at the laid down, fell asleep and other tavern. Aftcr the cattle perished from the cold, and were attended to, Mr. Davies in all probability sent one of his boys over to tell Carnegie to go down the road and look for McIntosh, who had been left down about the Church. Carnegie offered him, Witness, five ccnts to go down and look for him, but hc did not go, nei- ther did Carnegie, nor any other person. Carnegie remarked that he had a good driver, (alluding to McIntosh) but he was on .the "tight." On Tuesday morning, last, about 8 o'clock, the body of a man named James McIntosh, was found Tying alongside 'of the church in the Village of Walton. , Information of th discovery having been communicated to J. Crawford Esq. J.P. the body was removed to Sage's Hotel; Dr. Holmes of Ainlelyville, Coroner. was sent for; a Jury was empan- ncllcd; and about 3 o'clock, the Coroner's Court was opened, the Jury electing Donald Scott Esq., Foreman. THE BODY In accordance with usuage, before hearing evidence, thc Jury examined the body. No external .narks of violence wcrc noticeable, save cuts about the wrists, (which will he explained hereafter). Thc clothing was respectable and warm. In either hand a glove Was firmly clutched: The face presented a rather ghastly appearance, inasmuch as the eyes wcrc wide open, and blood -shot. THE EVIDENCE Alex Lawson. sworn. deposed. that on the morning in question about 8 o'clock, he Witness. was on his road to the saw mill with a log, and when passing the church, a lad, who was riding with him noticed that a number of ADJOURNMENT As Carnegie and Davies wcrc deemed important Evidence, the Court was adjourned till Monday next at 10 o'clock. The Co%oner without;ever realizing the first pang of death. Thcrc TUCKERSMiTH - In the were some rumours, to the course of three days and a half's threshing on the farm of Mr. Robert Elgie, Tuckcrsmith, by John Garry and Joseph Leek, they threshed 101 bushels of oats in 28 minutes. The machine is of McPherson's make, Clinton. Still more big threshing - William Murray threshed on the farm of Edward Turner, third con,., W.R.S. on Saturday 6th , 212 bushels of oats in one hour and five minutes, and afterward 110 knew that he was drunk, and bushels in thirty minutes. The in view of •the very inclement same afternoon , Mr. Murray state of the weather, threshed 630 bushels in four HISTORY OF DECEASED But little is known of the history of the deceased. He was first observed in this part of the country, about seven years ago, when he was engaged driving a cart at the building of the gravel road, on the verge of which hc died. Since that time he has bccn employed as ostler at Ainlcyvillc, Wroxeter and other places on the North Road; and at times assisted in driving cattle. Thc where- abouts of his relations, if he had any, appears to be unknown. He was about 40 years of age. January 12 1872 effect, that he had been afflicted with heap disease, but everything associated with the affair tends to dis- courage the belief, that any- thing of this sort was the cause of his death. Though there is not the slightest pos- sible grounds for suspecting foul play, a good deal of indignation is entertained for Carnegie's conduct, in not looking after him, when he hours, including stop pages. The machine was manufac- tured by Lutz and Co. Galt.. Kippen - We !cam that on Monday last a young man named Robert McLean son of Mr. James McLean of the London Road, Tuckcrsmith mct with a most painful• acci- dent, which will likely dis- able him for some months to come. It seems that young McLean was engaged in threshing at the farm of Mr. James Cooper, when in step- ping over the tumbling rod which connects the horse - power with the separator, he slipped and his left foot was caught by oic of the coupling bolts of the rod. The front of his boot was torn completely open and his foot badly man- gled. Drs. Stuart and Munroe were speedily sent for, and upon their arriving it was ascertained that the second toc of thc foot would•havc to be amputated as some of the hones of the foot had hecn literally torn out by the bolt. The operation was per- formed very skillfully, an the foot properly dressed and bandaged. We are glad to learn that the patient is getting on as well as could be expected under the circumstances. January 4 1924 • STAFFA - Would make a good Reeve - Mr. F. O'Brien of the village. is this year a candidate for the Reevcship of Hibbcr! Township, and no Netter qualified man for the position could he found. Mr. O'Brien was for three years .an Alderman in Stratford and was also Chairman of the Board of Works in that city ,so that, he has a long and varied experience in munici- pal affairs, and since his resi- dence here has been in close touch with all than went on in the township. The electors could go further and farc worse than electing Mr. ()Brien as their Reeve. MCKiLLOP -School report -The following is the report of School Section No. 2 McKillop for the Christmas tests - Sr. I v -Grace Mason 79 per cent; Sr. I II -Kathleen Storey 75 per cent; Jr. I I i Harvey McClure 78 pr cent; Gladys Mason 74 per cent ;Clara Storey 69 per cent; Sr. 11- Helen Morc, 65 per cent . Jr. 11, Fred Newington 72 per cen; Arnold Scott 69 per cent Sam McClure 64 per cent Ruth Scott 60 per cent . Sr. I Margaret Storey 62 per cent. Jr. I -Jim Morc 59 per cent. Primcr, Jimmie McClure Max McFarlane, Hazel McMichael absent , Call Jackie or Gregor at 527-0240 with your news tips.