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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MARCH 8 , 1979—PAGE 3
People in Profile: "Jimer".East on same farm for 70 years
by Shelley McPhee
Today's economic problems seem to
be exceptionally hard on the farmers.
Many, of their own choice or without
option, have sold their operations and
land in an attempt to find a more
prosperous and stable way of life.
However, there are some who stay
devoted to their homes and attached to
the rural way of life.
Such is the case with Jim East, who
for decades has been associated with
lot 21, concession 3 in Hullett Township.
Mr. East can hardly believe it, and
he's not quite sure whether it's really a
great accomplishment, but he has
made his home, earned his living and
raised a family off the same area of
land for the past 70 years.
It's not that he doesn't have any other
choice. His son Charles now looks over
most of the cash crop farming
operation. Jim and his wife Marguerite
could move to either of two other
homes they own.
"I don't like living in town," Jim
simply said.
"I always loved the dog and the
The readers write:
gun," he stressed. A pleasure that Jim
feels he can only find by having the
freedom to walk and hunt over his 100
acres, or wade through the creek that
meanders around the farm.
Habit must come into the Easts'
decision to remain on the farm and as '�'
Marguerite declared, "We'll stay here
as long as we live."
Jim came to the farm in 1908 with his
family. Although the move for Henry
and Lillian East and their children was
only a two mile soujourn, Jim, then
nine years old, remembers that it was a
beautiful sunny day but he felt that
moving away from his old home was a
strange thing.
However, on March 3, at the price of
$2,400, the farm known as the Bailey
Estate, finally became Henry East's
own. He no longer had to rent from his
brother as he did at* the old East
Homestead on Highway 4, north of
Clinton, also known as the East
Brickyard.
Jim's sister, Sadie, was 14 and Isabel
was four years old when the farrlily
moved.
• Like to guess dirty part
Dear Editor:
I would like to enter the literary
competition to guess what the dirty
part of The Diviners is about. I have not
read the book and so qualify within the
rules of the competition. My guess is
that the dirty part is about a former
Nazi who settles in Canada. He gets
religion and becomes as ardent in
religion as he formerly was in politics.
He forms the belief that swear -words
represent a defiance of authority, and
if there's one thing he can't stand - that
he is really terrified of - it is defiance of
authority whether religious authority,
political author'ity':, or parental
authority.
He organizes a , group called
Reformation Manitoba which has the
object of `:preventing people from
writing dirty words on lavatory walls.
While standing on a seat one time,
looking over the partition to . see if
there's anyone writing dirty words on
the wall of the next stall, he slips and
hits his head. When he regains con-
sciousness in the hospital he has lost
control of his mind. Now, as I un-
derstand often happens to pious people
when they lose control of their minds,
he swears such as the nurses never
heard the like of.
My guess is that the dirty part of The
Diviners is an entire chapter of nothing,
but his swearing. There is another
chapter of exactly the same length, of
his pious uttef antes. This balancing is
what gives the book its great
psychological validity.
If I win the competition I would
prefer to take the money rather than
either of the prizes offered.
Sincerely,
Sigmund Adler,
Clinton.
stuck in
the middle
Shelley
by mcphee
I sometimes wonder what the post Toronto 'cable station and it.. is
office and the garbage man would do doubtful that too many area
without us. The postman ships it out residents would be interested in the
and inevitably we pass about 70 per Spadina Expressway or TV in -
cent of it on to the local sanitation terviews with Allan Sparrow, even if
and waste man. we could get the station.
It keeps all kinds of people em- Some of the junk mail isn't bad
ployed, causes some enjoyment and though. Once by filling out a coupon
often some anger and unfortunately and sending it away we received a
contributes to the vast amounts of huge box, filled with bags of pre -
waste and pollution. That's what popped popcorn, just new on the
junk mail is all about. market.
At the News -Record office ,.. we
seem to get it all, especially an
abundance of costly correspondence
from the government. Just today,
we got a lovely 200 page, bound book
on the annual report from the
Secretary of State. Sure, it might be
an informative book but it's doubtful
that we're the only establishment to
receive one.Probably every other
newspaper did, ,as well as
municipalities and who knows who
else.
Unfortunately for the most of us, it
will only become an impressive dust
collector. Impressive because the
graphic design on the front cover is
so catchy.
Then there's the stuff that's so
irrelevant to our area you wonder
what the sender was thinking of
when he mailed it. Like the press
release and listings of the upcoming
television programs on Roger's TV
LCable. It happens that Roger's is the
Not everyone gets glass
measuring cups in the mail, but we
did. The Pyrex cup, along with
measuring spoons, oven ther-
mometer and cook book all came
neatly packaged to us, and every
other newspaper in the country as a
promotion for metric cooking,
courtesy of the government.
Then there's the blase mail, not
even worth opening. Like continuous
bribes to join book clubs, subscribe
to magazines, win dream homes ....
Or there are the other envelopes,
usually large manila ones, with lots
of postage paid, that when opened
are empty. Really, there's nothing in
them and if you want to know the
truth, they often come from some
ministry in the government.
I wonder if I.could work it so that
some of my bills could come that
way occasionally, especially my
income tax forms.
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For years and years, the old frame
house went without electricity, running
water or a telephone, when Jim was
growing up and when his children were
raised.
However, with the fresh springs
offering cold water, six children to
keep each other warm on those biting
winter nights and the assistance of
neighbours who would lend their
telephone in emergehcies, the family
survived.
Somedays, son Charles remembered,
it would be so cold during the night that
the water in the•tea kettle would freeze.
Jim. his wife and children, John,
Harold, Kathleen, Carl, Charles and
Lillian lived on the mixed farming
operation.
In the old days, Jim remembers
selling a beef at nine cents a pound and
eggs going for 12 cents a Glozen.
"We had lots of eggs and milk. We
kill.ed our own beef, had our own
vegetables and fruits," Marguerite
recalled. "We didn't have fancy
cooking, we had six children to eed."
If a special treat was called for, a
dozen eggs or s i'me homemade butter
would be taken to town and traded for
other groceries.
"We had our ups and downs," Jim
sadly remembered.
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Little Stewart East, 3, couldn't stop giggling when he saw an old photograph of
his grandfather, Jim East when he was just a boy. The picture shows Jim, his
sister and parents, Henry and Lillian East in front of the house that Jim has
lived in for 70 years. Jim and his wife Marguerite have lived on the same farm
in Hullett for decades. (News -Record photo) .
No patients to be...
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couldn't pay. He expects that some 50
per cent of chronic patients won't pay.
The ministry of health has
established a list of full and partial
exemptions to the fee.
All patients in chronic care are
exempt for the first 60 days they are
hospitalized, and this can continue until
180 days, with a doctor's approval and
can go up to a maximum of 360 days.
Days prior to February 1, 1979 are not
counted.
All patients under 18 years old, and
patients receiving Family Benefits or
General Welfare Assistance are
completely exempt.
As well, the first $45 of the monthly
income is exempt in order to allow
provision for the patient's personal
needs. For a patient who has depen-
dents living in the community, the total
family income determines whether the
patient will pay the full amount or only
a portion.
Patients will be exempt if their total
family income is: a family of two,
$15,000 per year; family of three,
$17,100 per yeair; family of four, $19,200
per year; family of five or more,
$21,000 per year.
Patients without dependents will
keep $45 of their monthly pension for
personal use and any income above
that level will be considered to meet
payments up to the maximum of $9.80 a
day.
, Patients with dependents, whose
income is above the full exemption
level, as shown in the above figures,
one-third of the family income will be
considered available to meet the
payment, up to the maximum.
It is noted that for exemption pur-
poses, spouses are not " considered
dependents if they receive Old Age
Security, Spouse's Allowance or
benefits under the Ontario Guaranteed
Income Act.
Mr. Coventry explained that the fee
isn't out of line. He noted that the daily
cost is no different than nursing homes
and one reason it is being implemented
is so families won't abandon their
relatives who are chronic patients.
They may look for alternate ac-
commodation instead.
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These still continue. Just recently,
Charles, who also lives on the farm,
lost his mobile home and almost
everything he owned in a severe fire.
He along with his wife and son have
been living in his parents' home, only a
few yards away. Charlie's been
clearing away the ruins and salvaging
anything that escaped the blaze with
plans to build a new home on the farm,
come spring. .
A chimney fire once damaged the
original house and twice it was hit by
lightning but the family has not been
discouraged.
Like many families, the East home
has been filled for Christmas and
anniversaries, with children, 24
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grandchildren and 10 great-
grandchildren.
In earlier times, hundreds of neigh-
bours and friends used to gather in the
East kitchen for almost any ap-
propriate occasion, to dance. The
kitchen floor even had to be braced to
carry the weight on these occasions.
But'times have changed.
"We used to have lots of neighbours.
There used to be someone on every
farm and now they're just here and
there," Margueritenoted.
Jim added, "Not too many stay 70
years on the farm., Some of them don't
even last a year, they lose it."
"But I'll invite you back again in
another 70 years," Jim laughed.
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