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The Huron Expositor, 1952-06-13, Page 2• THE HURON EX)~'OSITOR • )t if G: SON EXPOSITOR Established 1860 A. Y. McLean, Editor Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. PHONE 41 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa EAFORTH, Friday, June 13, 1952 common Sense Why should it be assumed by pro- vincial licensing authorities that be- cause John Doe was a capable car driver in 1940 he is equally capable in 1952? Yet that is exactly what happens. Until a driver has had an accident, or it is obvious from his age that his driving capacity may be im- _paired, he obtains each year a renew- al of his permit to drive without any _questions being asked. The Exeter Times -Advocate quite properly asks: "Why not periodical tests to determine if a person is cap- able of drive g a car," and goes on to au; "A. lot can happen to a driver's ility years after he has secured his first permit. At the present time it is only necessary for a driver to write Gaut a simple application for the re- newal of his license. It would not be illogical to suggest a systematic and rigid test every three years. Certain- ly a license obtained this way will be coveted and respected much more than are today's pieces of paper." The importance of automobile driv- ers being fully qualified is emphasiz- ed by the London Free Press when it points out the extent to which the human factor contributes to the ac- cident rate. "Various circumstances cause these tragedies," the Free Press says, "and each case has to be adjudged on its own merits. But there is one factor, common to many mishaps, which could be controlled—speed. If you are driving at any speed which pre- vents you having full control of your car you are driving too fast. It is more difficult to have control at high speed. "Here are some interesting official figures we ought to know. If a car has good brakes, and is being driven on dry surface roads, it can be stop- ped as follows: At 20 miles an hour, in 43 feet; at 30 miles an hour, in 80 • " feet; at 40 miles an hour, in 128 feet ; at 50 miles an hour in 186 feet. These -distances will be lengthened by from three to 12 times if the road is wet or slippery. "The human element is the most, variable factor because it has to be measured by the possession of judg- ment, a rare gift. There ought to be physical tests for all drivers annually but this does not take care of judg- ment. Drivers involved by their own carelessness in crashes should be re- moved from the roads for long per- iods—or altogether—if we are ser- ious when we talk about safety pro- grams on the highways." And while we are on the subject of accident causes and drivers who are not properly qualified, we should re- fer to the St. Marys Journal -Argus, which points out the hazard that is. created by blinking lights. "Despite all the safety improve- ments built into automobiles in recent years, headlights and headlight glare continue to go unimproved and take their toll as the worst enemy of the night driving motorist," the Journal - Argus says. "The headlight glare hazard has been with us for thirty years and gets more troublesome each year as headlight intensity increases and more and more vehicles are driv- ing on the highways. Night time ac- cidents form the greater percentage of all driving accidents and the ma- jority of these are caused by one fac- tor—outdriving vision as allowed by ear headlights.' • .,ping Saucers During recent years there have been increasing numbers of reports concerting strange apparitions seen in the sky. So frequent have been the reports of flying saucers that t cions thought is being given the tatter, according to the Brantford ositor, when it says: "It must h considerable satisfaction that ho received the first seeming- * c reports of flying saucers zl now find Some of in; the ..Solenti is and aeronautical fields coming around to their point of view. "In the beginning, of course, near- ly all the `experts' pooh-poohed the very notion that there could be real objects matching the description of the fast-moving saucers. The phen- omena were variously `explained' away as weather balloons, jet planes, optical or psychological illusions, or just plain fabrications by imagina- tive maginative liars. "But reports of saucers persisted and most of the accounts were in- compatible with any of the orthodox explanations. Reputable witnesses grew in number. Some serious mind- ed investigators became convinced that the saucers were real and said so in magazine articles and even books. "As for the public generally, in an age of marvels most people have been inclined to take the position that al- most anything is now possible, so why not flying saucers. The general belief is that they are super -weapons r trial, but some sort, on t a , by what great power they are being tried no- body has very ?5~m opinions. Persist- ent denials by military authorities in Western countries, particularly the United States, may lead to the con- clusion that Russia is the experi- menter. "Failing that, the saucers (accept- ing it is true that they do exist) must be from somewhere out in space. The amazing notion that interplanetary visitors are watching this world would have been dismissed as utter fiction a few years ago. Now one or two serious students of the subject cautiously conceded the possibility. The latter, of course, has been pounc- ed on with glee by writers who go in for the more sensational sort of journalism. "The subject, slightly dormant un- til a week or two ago, has sprung to new prominence with reports of saucers over North Bay and word that the Royal Canadian Air Force and leading Government scientists are investigating. "The change of direction in official thinking is quite pronounced, judging from comments made. This is the proper approach to the puzzle, and the one that should have been made from the outset. One of these days the great mystery of the flying sauc- ers will be cleared up. The adven- turously minded earnestly want the Things to turn out to be ships from Venus or Mars. Less imaginative folks are anxiously hopeful that they are not from the Soviet Union." What Other Papers Say: A Religious Ceremony (Saint John Telegraph -Journal) Queen Elizabeth's coronation in June next year will not be a form of entertainment. At least that ruling has been given by the financial secretary of the treasury in Britain so that amuse- ment tax will not be charged for seats along the route of the elabor- ate procession. Although the coronation will like- ly be a front-page news story around the world, and there will be many for- eign people in London for the cere- mony, it is essentially a dignified cus- tom of tradition; and the British Gov- ernment asks that it not be consider- ed as a technicolor film extravaganza. • Cows Fall In Line (Owen Sound Sun -Times) The cows are apparently swinging into line with the increase in general efficiency which has marked farm progress in recent years. The average production of milk per cow is report- ed to have increased from 3,794 pounds per year in 1925 to 4,626 pounds in 1951, a rise of 21.9 per cent. The increase is due, of course, to the steady improvement which has been brought about by selective breeding and by better feeding meth- ods, rather than the animals being individually inspired by the other general efficiency methods which have invaded agriculture in the past few decades. Now all that is needed is for more stables to produce more home grown animals fed from fields which pro- duce more grain and hay ... in other words a general increased produc- tion well in excess of increased over- head resulting from that increase. Big . advancement has been made AlOilg : We hne too, Lateness in walking need not show A Mild is backward. dull or slow Every child sets his own speed For undue worry there's no need. Dept of National Health and Welfare Years r Ag one Interesting Items Picked From The Huron Expositor of Twen- tyfive and Fifty Year Ago From The Huron Expositor June 17, 1927 Dr. 'Russell McKay, who recently graduated with honors at the Lon- don Medical College, carrying off a valuable scholarship, is spending a couple of weeks in Hensall with his parents before going to Hamil- ton to take a course in a large hos- pital there. Mr. C. R. Ryckmnn, of Hensall, successfully passed his final exam- ination in pharmacy. A bee was held at the Union Cemetery, Hensall, on Wednesday afternoon to put the plots and grounds in nice order and to gen- erally improve it. Leslie Scott and Rueben Frost have been awarded the contract of decorating the Presbyterian Church at Huntsville, and left this week to start the work. Messrs. R. Winter and Fred Broadfoot, of town, motored to De- troit on Tuesday. The two house properties in Eg- mondville belonging to the Sinclair estate were disposed of last week by W. N. Knechtel, the east one to Mr. A. C. Routledge and the west one to Mr. Alva Way, Tuckersmith. Mr. W. D. Bright has leased his residence on James St. to Mr. E. R. Crawford, principal of the public school. On Saturday while Miss Marjorie Brown, head bookkeeper for the United Press Co., of Toronto, was returning from the bank with the company's pay roll, amounting to $3,780, and accompanied by a guard, they were held up ' by motor ban- dits and robbed of the whole amount. Miss Brown is the daugh- ter of Rev. T. H. Brown, rector of St. Thomas' Church, Seaforth. On Wednesday Messrs. Green, of Tuckersmith, began to prepare to build a new barn to replace the one burned in January. This barn will be built by William Doig, Jr., on the same site that his grandsire erected the first barn 60 years ago. He is recognized as a framer as a worthy successor to a worthy sire and grandsire, who erected many fine buildings for many years in Tuckersmith. Mr. Wesley Nicholls and family have moved into Mrs. W. Habkirk's house on Victoria St. • From The Huron Expositor June 20, 1902 The Huron. Grey & Bruce Elec- tric Railway Co. has purchased the well-known summer hotel property, the Point Farm, Bayfield, and this year it will be run under the man- agement of Mr. J. T. Goldthorpe. Messrs. Keating, Adams, McNa- mara, Thatcher. Purcell and Spain, of Seaforth, are a few of the men now engaged in the' work of re- novating the Catholic Church in St. Columban. Wm. Harkness, scene painter and decprator, of New York, has charge of the work in his line. Mr. Ed. Papple, of the Mill Road, has had his barns raised up and stone stabling placed underneath. Mr. George Dale, Jr., of the Huron Road, has also had his barn raised up and stone stabling erected under it, Mr. James Archibald has the foundation for the handsome new residence on Victoria St. complet- ed. Dr. F. W. Tweddle, dentist, is having rooms fitted up over A. Young's grocery store and will move his office there before the end of the month. Mr. Thos, Neilans, of Harlock, in company with Mr. John Wells, took a tour through Morris recently and succeeded in purchasing a fine team of horses. Mr. Wim. Sproat, of the 3rd of Tuckersmith, while assisting at the barn raising of Mr. ,Upshall, had the misfortune to receive a painful knock on the head by the falling of a brace from the top of the build- ing, knocking him down and leav- ing him in an unconscious condi- tion. Mr. D. Donovan, Seaforth, recent- ly ecently purchased from Mr. John Mc- Grath, of Hibbert, a three-year-old gelding for the smug sum of $225. Mr. J. •14tcGavin, of Leadbury, met with a somewhat serious accident on Friday. The pony he drives when travelling with his stallion', "Sunlight," got his foot entangled in the lines while standing at Sas. McDonald's, Grey Twp., and in the scrimmage Mr. McGavin was kick, ed and rendered unconscious, but his injuries are not serious. Mi'. James Watt, of Oarlock, is building a olio this silMniier.• Article No. 14 In the Series Hibbert Township:This-That I By d'ltss tient- Campbell) (Continued from last week)`But he never did. The planing mill In April, 1869, Frank L. Hamil- `was closed in the fall of 1879. After ton, known as "Blacksmith Frank," , that the building was only used for bought a lot from George Douglas soirees and dances. After standing and built another blacksmith and idle for many years, it was torn carriage shop east of the hotel down in the early 1900's by Duncan stables. In 1877 he built a' brick McKellar. house across the road from it. In j When Sandy Park came to Crom- the blacksmith and woodwork shop 'arty in 1857, outside of his own quite early in the 70's, Frank and his brother, Johnnie, made a two - wheeled vehicle which they rode in turn from the shop as far as the church. They called the contrap- tion .a velocipede. Hugh McLachlan, who learned his trade with Bill Bell and finished with Frank Ham- bly, took this shop over in 1901. In 1902 Simon Miller bought it to make more accommodation to store his new steel and rubber -tired bug- gies, which were most popular af- ter the democrat went out of style. After S. Miller's death in 1933, this building was used very little. In 1946 Mrs. Miller sold it to Otto Walker, who tore it down that year. The Miller oodwork shop was torn down in 1935 by John Robert- son, who taought it that year. He also bought the house beside it. A private garage was built on the shop site, and the house, which had home and carpenter shop, .there were only three other buildings, namely: Leggett's frame. cottage, Leggett's tavern and John McLar- en's store. Of the four farms at the intersection, there were only buildings on two, .Leggett's and Mc- Kellar's, Sandy Park, who was a carpenter by trade, did the frame- work on several of the other build - i ings built later. The circulating library connected with the :Mechanic's Institute, while it was in use, was housed in the Park home. No sketch would be complete without mention of the tavern which held such an important place in the early days, and not only for food and shelter. Liquor was con- sidered ids d b y many one of the neces- sary commodities, and as it sold at 25 cents a gallon, any one who de- sired it could usually find a few been in the early days teen Allen's, bawbees to .kuy enough to satisfy was remodelled. his wants, although then, as now, in some cases, the wife and chil- dren were the ones who suffered. The Village Was always well sup- plied with wagon shops. *ilium F. Johnston, who had worked in one of the other carr`age shops, in 1887 built the frame house which was later steel covered and used the west part of it for his own wagon shop till he died in 1890. His wood supplies were kept upstairs, where the Literary Society met once a week. Here the rank and file sat on plank seats. Only the president and the secretary had the privilege to use a chaff. After 'her husband's death, Mrs. Johnston used the building as a private home, where she did tailoring. The only whistle that ever blew in the village was on Sandy Park's planing mill, but it wasn't for long, as it was not a success. It" was built in 1876 on a lot forty feet south of the intersection. Donald McKellar reserved this strip, think- ing his son-in-law, James Gillespie, might some day build a store there. .Before there was a village, Rob- ert Leggatt laid out a street on his farm some distance east of the Cen- tre Road, and parallel with it. East of this street and about one hun- dred yards from the concession, he built a small log building where he sold liquor, but no accommodation was given the public. When Leg- gatt took over the McLaren store, liquor was sold there till Douglas built his hotel. In 1868 a hotel was built by 'Geo. Douglas on the southwest corner of Boyle's farm. At the same time, Douglas also built a shed at the north end of the hotel for the tem- porary accommodation of the farm- ersor any others seeking shelter for their horses. The hotel stable was built by Douglas at the east side of the hotel on the concession. (Continued, Next Week) Seem in the County Papers Freak Pig Walks on Five Feet A five -footed pig was born re- cently on the farm of Gordon Rats, Stephen Twp. The animal has two feet on one of the front legs and an extra toe on one of the hind legis. Mr. Ratz says that the pig uses the extra foot as well as the natural one in walking. — Exeter Times -Advocate. Wins $600 Jackpot Winner of $600 jackpot at the bingo held Wednesday night in Ex- eter Arena by Exeter Canadian Leg- ion, was Charles Leonhardt, Mit- chell, former Hensall policeman. Mrs. A. Walsh, St. Pauls, won $75. Mrs. Herbert •Fairservice, Clinton, and Ray Smith, Exeter, each won $50.—Clinton News -Record. Reaches Ninety Years Mrs. William Mitchell celebrated her 90th birthday on Wednesday, May 28, when she received greet- ings from niany friends and rela- tives. Mrs. Mitchell has eight chil- dren, 54 grandchildren, 68 great- grandchildren and four great -great- • Seventh of Eight Articles On grandchildren. She is enjoying fair- ly good health.—,Elxeter Times -Ad- vocate. Celebrated 85th Birthday The many friendsteef Mr. Conrad Schilbe join in congratulating him on having reached the 85th mile- stone in his lifetime, as on Monday, June 2, the event was celebrated at his home in Zurich. A lovely surprise party was arranged by his immediate children of the district. A lovely meal was served, the table being centred with an appetizing birthday cake, along with liberal ice cream helpings which Mr. Schil- be appreciated very 'much. Among those present were his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Hen- ry Schilbe, of the 14th concession, who has lately returned from the hospital; his daughters, Mrs. H. Finkbeiner and Mr. and Mrs. Or- ville McClinchey, of the Goshen Line. The many friends of Mr. Schilbe wish him continued health that he may celebrate many more birthdays.—Zurich Herald. The History of Assessment And Municipal Taxation In Ontario Fortunately in Ontario, we are allowed ample recourse to appeal against errors in our assessment or what we may, consider an unjust assessment. The Assessment Act requires the assessor to make an assessment of our property each year and on the amount of this assessment is calculated the taxes which we will pay next year. The assessor has no control over the tax rate which is set by the local municipal council and their method is to divide the amount re- quired to provide the municipal ser- vices for that year into the total taxable assessment and thus is de- termined the mill rate which in turn is applied ' against each tax- able assessment as made by the local assessor. So in other words if you do not appeal against an un- just assessment you cannot appeal against the taxes set on this assess- ment. When the assessor decides on the value to place on a property he in- serts this amount in the assess,- ment roll opposite a description of the property. Then a few days prior to handing the completed assess- ment roll over to the municipal clerk he forwards to each taxpayer and ratepayer an assessment no- tice setting forth the amount of the assessment on his property. The taxpayer or ratepayer, if he feels that his assessment is too high, or that his assessment is en_ equitable compared to other assess- ments in the municipality, can ap- peal either his own assessmer4 or any other assessment in the munici- pality. The period for appealing is stated on the notice and is within fourteen days after the roll is re- turned to the municipal clerk or in some municipalities within 10 days. Appeal Procedure However, the correct procedure would be to first visit the assessor prior to entering your appeal and a,dcertain from him the reasons of your high or unjust assessment. The wise assessor welcomes these inquiries and in fact invites them and opens his appraisal cars for inspection (of which more will be said later in another article), so that you can compare the assess- ment of similar property and his method of determining values. If you are not satisfied with his explanation then you should enter your appeal to the Court of Revi- sion which is composed of local citi- zens except where County Courts of Revision have been established. The appeal must be delivered in writing either by mail or person- ally to the Assessment Commission- er (if there be one), or to the clerk of'the municipality within the time limit. The Cotirt of Revision hearings are quite informal and there is no charge to enter an appeal. However, your efforts should be considered wastedunleds you are vnequitably assessed its assess- ments today are being set at much below actual value, and you can- not honestly Gleam as a rule on over -assessment alone. FurtherAppeal Possible Now, if the Court of Revision should rule that your assess hent is fair but you are still not satis- fied, your next step is to appeal to the County or District Judge or the 'Ontario Municipal Board. How- ever, if you appeal from the court of revision's decision direct to the Ontario Municipal Board, you have lost your opportunity of a further appeal to the judge. Your appeal to the judge follows the same form as appeals to the court of revision and must be entered within ten days after the Clerk has sent you by registered' mail notification of the decision of the court of revi- sion. There is also no charge for appeals to the County Judge. If you are still not satisfied' with the decision of the .Midge or yott intend to appeal direct from the declstgn of the court of revision to the Board, you have 21 days to ap- peal to the Ontario Municipal. Board. This period dates from the time of notification by the Clerk and your notice of appeal must be sent by registered mail not only to the Board, but also a similar notice must be sent by registered mail to the municipality. A. fee of $25.00 for each property ypu appeal must accompany the notice to the Board. it is quite probable that the munici- pality will be ordered to refund you this amount. For involved or - lengthy cases :the oharge will prob. ably exceed $25, but this charge comes later. On questions of law but noton questions of fast or value; you ,may appeal to the Ontario 'Court of Am. Peal—hut instances of this are not too common. 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