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Editorial
Seaf
stars
shine
once more
Twenty minutes or so in the life of Seaforth and
its Main Street in 1949 was discovered recently on
a reel of eight millimetre film donated to the
University of Western Ontario's archives.
Shot by a university student paying his way
through school by filming small towns and villages
and showing the results to the "stars of the town"
for a 45 cent admission, the reel from Seaforth is
one of close to 100 similar reels of 85 towns in
Southwestern Ontario.
Media specialists at UWO are particularly -
impressed by the footage from Seaforth, which they
say provides a rich slice of life from the post Second
World War era locally.
And, since the filmmaker's aim seems to have
been capturing as many of the local citizens as pos-
sible on film, a large number of Seaforth residents
from 1949 can be seen going about their business
on Main Street and inside local stores.
"A lot of people will recognize their grandparents
or parents on them," enthuses UWO media special-
ist Alan Noon.
He says the plan is to provide the towns featured
on the film with DVD copies sometime in the com-
ing spring.
What a great opportunity to celebrate Seaforth's
heritage and have some fun at the same time. We
can imagine a red carpet opening night gala - ideal-
ly at Cardno's Hall where the archivists guess the
first showing was held - when the DVD is received.
Proceeds from admission could go towards her-
itage preservation.
And, what fun for Seaforth's oldtimers to pick out
recognizable faces - maybe even themselves - from
close to 60 years ago.
This spring could be a good,opportunity to let the
stars of the town shine once more.
Susan Hundertmark
Opinion
Revealed documents from
tobacco industry are shocking
Last week I covered a
presentation at the
Mitchell High School by
international anti-smok-
ing speaker Georgina
Lovell.
Parts of her presenta-
tion were what you'd
expect - stories from those
affected by cancer, and
images of lungs and brains
tobacco abuse.
But what I wasn't expecting, and wasn't
prepared for was the excerpts from docu-
ments, major tobacco companies were forced
to hand over not too long ago.
Lovell spent four years examining the 38
million pages of secret documents tobacco
companies had in their hands since the `70s,
'80s, and `90s, that they never wanted us to
see.
Naturally, they fully understood the conse-
quences of tobacco use. They knew it was
addictive, and they hid that incriminating
evidence from the public for years.
What shocked, and offended me the most,
was the blatant disregard for our health they
openly discussed among themselves, like it
was one big game.
1-1111111111
by Jeff
Heuchert
after years of
In one document to
PhilipMorris, the United
States' largest cigarette
manufacturer, from a
study performed in 1972
by a number of doctors, it
says, "Cigarettes are
addicting and the reaction
of the inveterate cigarette
smoker is like that of any
drug addict." .
Yet, it would be over 20 years before any
major tobacco company would admit ciga-
rettes are addictive.
The comment that upset me the most came
in a public relations strategy from the
Tobacco Advisory Council in 1978.
While trying to downplay the effects of
smoking they stated, "...with a general
lengthening of the expectation of life we real-
ly need something for people to die of."
They went on to say the mortality rate from
smoking would replace that of war, poverty,
and starvation, and although their point was
valid, obviously was one they could not use
with the public.
The absurdity of this statement almost
makes it hard to write about.
See HIDDEN, Page 6
Ron & bave
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I wont to feel the
thrill of the open rood....
I WANT TO FEEL
THE WIND IN MY
HAIR!
by David Lacey
It's a figure
of speech.
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